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Tim Barnes, Dolgeville Elementary School Principal · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: And good lording and welcome to the air and down
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  Speaker 1: podcast only only what a week it's been only Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, man, it.
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  Speaker 1: Has been one Friday. It's gonna be a big recap
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  Speaker 1: on this week. It has been powerful, some amazing conversations
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  Speaker 1: and connectivity. Tomorrow, Travis Payette's going to be on with
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  Speaker 1: me talking about what the Iron Order Motorcycle Club is
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: And Dan Roya from Central Vermont Cars and Coffee is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a step into the studio tomorrow. Depp
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  Speaker 2: W you with us. Good morning, Good morning, jad listen,
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  Speaker 2: I owe you an apology.
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  Speaker 1: We had some some stuff going on last Wednesday and
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  Speaker 1: didn't kitch you on the air, but welcome from the
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  Speaker 1: World newspaper was flipping through it yesterday and just love
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  Speaker 1: you guys. How are you and what's happening?
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  Speaker 3: Oh gosh.
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  Speaker 4: Always lots of good things. So it's the time of
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  Speaker 4: year for graduation in Father's Day and we have lots
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  Speaker 4: of great gift ideas, so remember to shop local. We
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  Speaker 4: are also continuing with the series America two hundred and
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  Speaker 4: through twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I was reading a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: that last night, and also reading about the Golden Wrench
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  Speaker 1: Award that was given to the Tech Department over at
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  Speaker 1: the Bury Auto Department.
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  Speaker 2: It's so cool, man.
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  Speaker 1: I just love stuff like that, reading stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: seeing what's happening in our community. As I suggested yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: it's not everywhere, but where it is is definitely with
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  Speaker 1: the world, and I love stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: So also we had something about the Mayo Healthcare Car
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  Speaker 4: Show on Friday, June nineteenth, Yes, and that's always a
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  Speaker 4: lot of fun. We have the fourth annual Worcester Arts
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  Speaker 4: Festival and that is on Saturday, June twentieth, from noon
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  Speaker 4: to six pm. So there's I mean, there's always so
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  Speaker 4: many good things going on in our area.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, And and you know, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: uh what's of Worcester, you know, look at what's happening
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  Speaker 1: for the fourth of July. We're already getting geared up
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  Speaker 1: and that's one of the big hit in towns right there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, definitely. I always look forward to that whole
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  Speaker 4: that whole time of all the Fourth of July events.
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  Speaker 1: Chris will be by today with the UH with my
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  Speaker 1: fresh copy of the World, anything else that you want
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  Speaker 1: to want to shine the shine the light on for
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  Speaker 1: this episode this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: The Shindeya Projects is having a join us for Joloff
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  Speaker 4: and Drum Circle on June twentieth at the Barry Universalist
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  Speaker 4: Church Wow on nineteen Church Street and Barry. So they
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  Speaker 4: have a traditional uh I can't say the word ghanoln
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  Speaker 4: meal from Ghana including joelof rice, chicken, plantains, and salad.
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  Speaker 4: And then they're going to have the people can need
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  Speaker 4: or drop in or.
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  Speaker 3: Take it out.
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  Speaker 4: This is a big fundraiser for them, so I hope
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people will go and enjoy this traditional meal.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to read about it, I'm going to promote it,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be sitting down. I'm going to put
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  Speaker 1: the readers on tonight and I'll be sitting down and
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  Speaker 1: I'll be thumbing through the pages and getting organized for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of this week and next week to promote
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in the world. I always enjoyed no
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  Speaker 1: surprise that it's Central from OT's favorite weekly newspaper. And
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  Speaker 1: as I posted yesterday, we're talking about twenty two thousand
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  Speaker 1: copies that are flooding.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty two thousand readers.
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  Speaker 1: Ten thousand copies, twenty two thousand. I always forget that
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people though. That's a lot of eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, people love their their good news newspaper as we
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  Speaker 4: call it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's chucked full of it. Thankstep very much.
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  Speaker 1: And listen and if there's anything else that you forget
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  Speaker 1: or that Gary says, hey, we got to get this on,
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  Speaker 1: just call me, text me whatever and we'll push it.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, thankstep. Deb Phillips right there from the World Newspaper. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was five dollars Tuesdays yesterday. FGB theaters. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the Capitol Show Place five in Montpellier,
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  Speaker 1: and there's some great movies out there. Really is Toy
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  Speaker 1: Story five coming out on the nineteenth. I'll be over
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  Speaker 1: there live streaming at the Paramount twin right here in
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  Speaker 1: Barry the other theater, and I can't wait. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be playing some music and giving you a chance
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  Speaker 1: to win some goodies, some free tickets. But the popcorn,
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  Speaker 1: the drinks, the cold drinks, the air conditioning is on
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  Speaker 1: this summer inside both theaters. It is just really it's
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  Speaker 1: a perfect way to enjoy a date night or a
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  Speaker 1: dot com check ab out. We have, as I said yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: so much going on in our community. I mean, Dev
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  Speaker 1: was just talking about the car show going on at
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  Speaker 1: Mayo Healthcare that's coming up on Friday, June nineteenth, Father's
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  Speaker 1: Day weekend. That is one of so many different events,
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  Speaker 1: so many things that are happening. And wait until you
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  Speaker 1: hear what Central Vermont Cars and Coffee is doing. They've
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  Speaker 1: got something special coming up real soon for the folks
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  Speaker 1: over at Berlin Health and Rehab. Tomorrow morning, Dan Roya
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  Speaker 1: is going to be on the air with me sharing
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  Speaker 1: that lots of good news, lots of good stuff, sweethearts
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  Speaker 1: in Heroes Day. Here on a Wednesday, I'm not wearing
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  Speaker 1: my free Hugs shirt today and wearing my Imagination Station
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  Speaker 1: shirt instead. The reason it's summertime and the free Hugs
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  Speaker 1: shirt has been worn an awful lot. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you right now. And as Sherilyn said, you need to
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  Speaker 1: watch that shirt you She didn't say it exactly like that,
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  Speaker 1: but close.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: You would not want a hug from me in my
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  Speaker 1: free Hugs shirt from Sweethearts and Heroes, So it's in
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  Speaker 1: the wash today. Tim Barnes is my guest on Sweethearts
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  Speaker 1: and Heroes Day. Good morning, sir, how are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, JD. Thanks for having me on. I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited to be here today.
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  Speaker 1: You're the Dogeville Elementary School principal. Where the heck is
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  Speaker 1: that over in New York?
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  Speaker 3: Everyone asks that we are really upstate, really central New York.
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  Speaker 3: We're in the Foo Hills of the Ironic Mountains. Small district,
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  Speaker 3: and uniquely enough, this is where I grew up and
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  Speaker 3: this is where I went to high school, elementary school, everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's not often, and I'll be honest with you that
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  Speaker 1: Tom Murphy tunes in to Aired Out when it's live.
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  Speaker 1: He always, you know, goes back and watches and listens afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: This morning, however, this is a rarity. He's tuned in,
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  Speaker 1: he's listening, he's commenting right now. Tell me about this fella.
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  Speaker 1: How did you guys, how did you guys meet. Was
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  Speaker 1: it in the cage? Were you guys fighting?
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  Speaker 3: Trust me, that would not be much of a match.
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  Speaker 3: Tom is an imposing figure. Tom is an animal, and
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  Speaker 3: Tom is an amazing individual. I really can't speak highly
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  Speaker 3: enough about Tom. Tom and I go back a little ways.
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  Speaker 3: And you also had one of my best friends on recently,
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  Speaker 3: Adam Harrit. He's a superintendent OSJA, and that is kind
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  Speaker 3: of where I ranted to Tom. Adam and I were
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  Speaker 3: good friends. I was the prince well there before I
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  Speaker 3: took this opportunity, and I remember Adam coming to me
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  Speaker 3: and saying, you know, I have this unique opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: bring somebody in. I think this is going to be
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  Speaker 3: good for the culture of our students and our faculty.
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  Speaker 3: This is my twenty fifth year in education JD. And
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  Speaker 3: like a lot of things, you have people come in,
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  Speaker 3: they do assemblies, they do programs, and you know, it
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  Speaker 3: fades away after that initial excitement. And when time came in,
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  Speaker 3: I was amazed by him and Rick's performance at the assembly.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it was like a week or two
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  Speaker 3: went by and I wasn't involved in circles at the time,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought to myself, well, this is going to
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  Speaker 3: be another thing that fades. And then my mind was
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  Speaker 3: blown open. And I say that sincerely because I had
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity to sit in a circle. And when I
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  Speaker 3: sat in the circle, that's where the magic really happens.
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  Speaker 3: In those circles, you get to learn about students, they
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  Speaker 3: get to learn about you. And the power in those
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  Speaker 3: circles is amazing because kids that think theyre have so
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  Speaker 3: many differences find out in those circles that they have
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  Speaker 3: so many coming out as well, and there's a bonding
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  Speaker 3: that occurs. And once that circle occurred for me, I
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  Speaker 3: knew that this was something I really bought into and
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  Speaker 3: believed in. And Tom and I got closer as Adam
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  Speaker 3: introduced to us and obviously working as the high school
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  Speaker 3: principal at OESJ, bringing them in using the ambassador program
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  Speaker 3: and all the team. Tom became more to me than
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  Speaker 3: just just a person that's doing the program. Tom became
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  Speaker 3: a good friend of mine. And Tom is really the
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  Speaker 3: reason I'm here in Dallswell today. I'm thankful for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how often do you speak with Tom?
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  Speaker 3: It depends that really does. Tom's a busy guy. As
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  Speaker 3: you know, Tom is very busy, but it's amazing because
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  Speaker 3: Tom does keep in contact with people. When I went
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  Speaker 3: through some difficulty this summer, i lost my sister, Tom
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  Speaker 3: was checking on me almost daily, if not, if not daily, weekly.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes they'll just send me a text message, ask me
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  Speaker 3: how things are. He'll he'll send a message check can
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  Speaker 3: get in the school. And I've even had him reach
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  Speaker 3: out to me in the past. I'm kids asking me
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  Speaker 3: about how a kid is doing, because he knows they're struggling.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, I don't know how Tom does it
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  Speaker 3: because he is not just an amazing person sweeart and heroes,
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  Speaker 3: and there's all the guys there too. He's just an
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  Speaker 3: amazing person overall.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I can't once your last day of school there.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even imagine how busy you are right now.
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  Speaker 3: Last day of school here officially for students in the
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  Speaker 3: twenty fifth staff and student teachers are the twenty six. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're in crunch moded. It's been pretty hectic with awards, promotions,
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  Speaker 3: end of the year, field days, things like that. But
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  Speaker 3: it's a blast every day I come to work. I
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  Speaker 3: truly enjoyed my job with the kids and the staff.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I want to get serious here for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: We just had recently, a couple of weeks ago, feels
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  Speaker 1: like it was yesterday, a young individual here in one
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  Speaker 1: of our local schools right down the road, take their life,
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  Speaker 1: and it rattled this community, which is still rattled. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of the U a couple of organizations have teamed up.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to have an event coming up in one
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  Speaker 1: of our local parks here really soon, and they have
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  Speaker 1: made signs promoting the various messages of you are enough
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  Speaker 1: and other sentiments that are similar to that. And these
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  Speaker 1: yard signs are all over the place. They're on front yards,
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  Speaker 1: they're on the fronts of businesses everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: How it can.
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  Speaker 1: Come into someone's mind, of any age, and of any situation,
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  Speaker 1: that they're not enough and that they're not worthy of
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  Speaker 1: continuing their time here on this crazy planet of ours
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  Speaker 1: is baffling to me. What Sweethearts and Heroes is doing
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  Speaker 1: is they're basically coming into schools and flipping a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff right upside down and injecting value and worth
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  Speaker 1: into not only the students, as you well know, but
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  Speaker 1: also your administration and giving them the tools to go
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  Speaker 1: about their day and to think of things things differently.
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  Speaker 1: The bullying drills. I mean, everything that Sweethearts and Heroes
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  Speaker 1: is doing is amazing. Have you had any similar experiences
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  Speaker 1: in your school district that we have had recently here
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  Speaker 1: in Barry.
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  Speaker 3: No. No, And that's a heavy thing. I'm so sorry because,
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  Speaker 3: like you said, that life is so precious and that's
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  Speaker 3: the one fear I think that every administrator and educator has.
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  Speaker 3: There's always mental health issues, there's always problems that we
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  Speaker 3: all deal with on a day day basis and education
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  Speaker 3: and as you said, I think that the message that
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  Speaker 3: we are in Heroes provides helps lift people up and
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  Speaker 3: gives voice to people that may not have had a
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  Speaker 3: voice before. And that's the thing that I think is
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  Speaker 3: most powerful. And I think it changes people as a whole,
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  Speaker 3: not just students when they come in. I think it
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  Speaker 3: also changes staff and the administration. I know that I've
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  Speaker 3: changed completely as a person since meeting Tom and the
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  Speaker 3: Sweetheart and hero staff, because, like I said, these issues
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  Speaker 3: that our students go through on a day day basis
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  Speaker 3: are probably even deeper than what we dealt with growing up.
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  Speaker 3: They have social media, they see this, It's in their
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  Speaker 3: face all the time, and the circles the message it
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  Speaker 3: allows kids. I think to find out that they're not alone.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what the schools that get involved
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  Speaker 3: in this early enough, they may have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: stave off some of these issues because there's that opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for other students to help and to contribute to building
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  Speaker 3: kids up instead of putting them down.
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  Speaker 2: Well said, I have several listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Who are There's a large number who have reached out
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  Speaker 1: to me, but there's a smaller number who are consistently
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  Speaker 1: asking me. As a matter of fact, I got it
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  Speaker 1: this individual's tuned in right now. Got a text from
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  Speaker 1: her just a couple of days ago asking why our
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  Speaker 1: Berry City Middle and Elementary school, why our school district
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  Speaker 1: here locally has not yet had Sweethearts and Heroes as
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  Speaker 1: part of their school. And I've chattoed with Tom about this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm being super transparent here and Tom's probably cringing right now.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever the reason is, we don't know. It's quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Could be finances, who knows, But there's ways to get
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  Speaker 1: around that. And look at these North Country Chevy dealerships
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  Speaker 1: that are writing the checks literally, Tim to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that Sweethearts and Heroes is getting into as many schools
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  Speaker 1: as possible. I'm not talking about three or four North
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  Speaker 1: Country Chevy dealerships. I'm talking about a whole hell of
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  Speaker 1: a lot. What do you say to a school? I mean, here,
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  Speaker 1: you are in elementary school principle? How many kids in
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  Speaker 1: your district?
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  Speaker 3: In our total district about eight hundred students? I have
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  Speaker 3: about four hundred and five in the elementary school.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say to the bear Unified School District here?
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  Speaker 2: What do you say?
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  Speaker 3: Listen? You can't teach a student if you can't connect here.
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  Speaker 3: And and what I've seen, and this is where I've
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  Speaker 3: been lucky. When I came here. I talked to my
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  Speaker 3: current superintendent. He's been very supportive. Joe Gilfiss has been
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  Speaker 3: amazing as far as open arms bring sweetheart and heroes
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  Speaker 3: in because the message that they give is so powerful
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  Speaker 3: and so important to our students. That and I've talked
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  Speaker 3: to my wife about this. My wife is a teacher
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  Speaker 3: at a neighboring district. I think that any school district
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't bring sweetheart and heroes in or have the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to bring them in and does it is doing
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  Speaker 3: not only their students in disservice, but I think they're
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  Speaker 3: also doing their staff at the service because and I
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  Speaker 3: can only relate to my experiences, but when I first
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  Speaker 3: came here, our staff had no knowledge of the Sweetheart
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  Speaker 3: and Heroes program whatsoever. And when we brought the Sweethearted
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  Speaker 3: Heroes in, they've taken this as their own. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not me leading this, this is not Tom even.
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  Speaker 3: They took that message to heart. And I have now pockets,
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  Speaker 3: I have advisors that have taken over. They're already working
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  Speaker 3: on anti bully drills. Kids are bought in. I mean
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  Speaker 3: they're excited when they see Rick and and Tom or
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  Speaker 3: anybody else in pats here, and you just see it
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  Speaker 3: really comes down to this, JD. And I really truly
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  Speaker 3: believe this, And I think this is why it's so
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  Speaker 3: powerful a message. It's about building those relationships. And Tom
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  Speaker 3: and Rick and all the guys they have this ability
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  Speaker 3: to build relationships with students and staff. And when you
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  Speaker 3: build relationships with people, it allows you that ability to
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  Speaker 3: see through behaviors sometimes because our behavior is always a
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  Speaker 3: reflection of what's going on at home. Everyone has trauma,
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  Speaker 3: everyone has struggles, and when we can see through that
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  Speaker 3: and we can see the kid, or we can see
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  Speaker 3: the person it's going to make your school a better place,
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  Speaker 3: and not just for the kids, but also for the staff.
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  Speaker 3: And I, like I said, I truly believe in this,
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  Speaker 3: and that was one of the things when I first
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  Speaker 3: came here, I said, whatever we have to do, can
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  Speaker 3: we make this happen? And to your point, there's money
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  Speaker 3: out there for this. We wrote a grant here in
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  Speaker 3: a small district that we're at. I wouldn't say that
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  Speaker 3: we're in a wealthy district by any means, but we
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  Speaker 3: wrote a grant and we're going to continue writing grants
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  Speaker 3: because I think now, even especially now, our entire administrative
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  Speaker 3: team sees the value in the Sweetheart Heels program and
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  Speaker 3: we want to continue this and we're looking to even
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  Speaker 3: expand beyond what we're doing this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not a one and done type deal
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  Speaker 1: where they come in, they do a presentation and they're
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  Speaker 1: out the door. They bring a program into the school
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  Speaker 1: that really sets some profoundly powerful roots and can change
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  Speaker 1: an entire school. I mean, listen, there's bullying problems everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it is what it is. But learning about
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  Speaker 1: bullying and learning how to deal with it, and learning
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  Speaker 1: what the differences between just being a kid who is
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  Speaker 1: immature and goofing around and having fun and showing off
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  Speaker 1: in front of his his or her friends or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: There's a difference between that and the goofy camaraderie that
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  Speaker 1: kids share and a power shift of dominance, subliminal dominance,
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  Speaker 1: unwelcomed comments, gestures, physical, emotional, verbal, and how kids process
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  Speaker 1: that information, whether it's on the bus before school, after school,
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  Speaker 1: at the soccer game, in the classroom, on the playground wherever,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and at home on social media, that it can get
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: under a kid's skin very easily and then create kind
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: of a cancer. We have to we have to smell
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: this stuff. We have to have in our our spidey senses,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: have to be like on.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: On high alert for this kind of stuff.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: And you know, Tom, all the sweethearts in here, it's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: not just I know, I keep saying, Tom, it's it's
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the whole team. I mean, they just they show everything,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: they explain everything, and the drills that they do, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: then and then look at this, you know, look at
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the stuff that the seeds they're planning here, Tim, with
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the student teacher Empathy program, the STEP program. That's just
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: one of several things that they're doing. They're they're literally
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: giving schools tools to carry on their mission after they
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: walk out the door.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's powerful. It is so powerful. JD. One of
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: the things that I will say that it's that I'm
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: amazed by. I've had two different SROs that I've worked with,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: one in Oppenheim and OSJ and one here. And what
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: it amazes me is that they come from a different
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: a different area, or their perspective comes from a law
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: enforcement perspective, and it's probably different than the education setting.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: And to think about how they come in and they
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: they buy in one hundred percent of the Sweetheart and
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Heroes program and they become ambassadors for us. Goes to
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: show how the message and what these what this message
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: really entails, because they are the ones that on the
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: front lines working with our students, and their mindset completely change.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: And I know that just recently Tom and the Sweetheart
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Here and Heroes worked with Montgomery County Sheriffs. They did
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: with just the adults there with our soros. Our s
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: RO on his vacation time actually went over and joined
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: in on that because he found that that powerful and
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: he came back and he said, we need to do
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: something Nextra to eat and continue this, to make this
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: more more of a structured program for our students. And
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: we went to present to our superintendent to modify our
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: grant to bring the Ambassador program to Dalswell next year.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: And that's our plan. We want to bring the Ambassador
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: program to Dallsville. We've been working with them, so it
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: looks like we're going to have Joe here next year
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: a day a week. And again, it's just that is
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: the belief that our district where I'm at right now,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: and our superintendent and our Board of Education really finds
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: value in this. And or Soro obviously, like I said,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: has just found so much value that they think that
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: this can change mindsets from students and staff. And again,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I think this can be done everywhere and anywhere. I
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: don't think this is unique to Dallsville or oesj or
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Plattsburgh or Peru or any of the schools in Vermont.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: This is something that can be done anywhere, and it's
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: so easy because the message is enabling students to have
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: a voice, to enable them to be leaders and to
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: help and support each other. And the hope is everything.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, knowing that possibilities exist, and that's the big thing,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: and we talk about suicide prevention, We talk about even
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: how we can do on academics because a kid can't
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: focus on academics if they feel that they have the
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: pressure of the world on their shoulders. And we talk
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: about this all the time. As you mentioned, you know,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: they have so much pressure from social media, from kids
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: in the hallway, from somebody that says something. They go home,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: they may put their head in a pillow, and I
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: know I did as a child. At times, you put
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: your head on the pillow and you don't even want
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: to come to school the next day. When we change
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: the culture, they want to come to school because they
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: have people here that are loving and they're supportive, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: they're there to be behind them when times get tough.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And a lot of them are going home to a
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: mess domestic stuff, divorce, drinking, whatever it is. I mean,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: they could go home to very unhealthy environment and they're already.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Terrian.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sad. It really is sad sometimes what our
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: students go through on a day day basis. And again
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: this is where we've talked about as a staff. When
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: you get to a circle and you hear the stories
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: of your students, it's powerful because it makes your perspective.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: And I know that we always talk about that with
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Sweart and heroes perspective. As an educator, sometimes you don't
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: see the whole picture until you're in those circles and
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: the student let's loose about what they're dealing with at home,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: or the feelings and the emotions that they're going through,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: or what's going on with their friends. And once their
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: friends also hear that develops that empathy that can passion.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Oh you're going through that. I'm going through that too.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I thought I was alone, And that's the difference. That's
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: the game changer.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you lock eyes with any of these kids in
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the hallway or in a classroom or whatever, you see
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: them differently, Yes, every day you wouldn't know. You wouldn't
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: have known. If it wasn't for that circle.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I would never known. The circles changed me. Like I said,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: I thought I had really good relationships. I still talk
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: to a lot of my students that I've had twenty
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: years ago. Some of them went on and followed the
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: education path and they reach out to me. I know
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: there's probably a couple lot right now watching this podcast,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: but I think that with the circles. I've learned more
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: about students in a short amount of time than I
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: did in the twenty years previous to when I started
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: working with the circles, because that emotion comes out sometimes.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I've been in circles where every single one of us bawling.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I've been in circles where we're all laughing, we're joking. Yeah,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: circles can go multiple different directions, but the one thing
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: it does build is it builds that bond in that circle.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: And the best thing is those kids come out of
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: that circle and they're not talking about the problems with
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: each other. They're not talking about what occurs in the circle.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: That's something they've shared with each other and they hold
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: it close to their heart, which which is again is
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: a powerful thing because it also teaches our students that,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: you know, there's some things that we hold close to
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: us and protect other people and their feelings.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what's happening at your school. I believe
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: rick Yarish is going to be stepping up to the plate.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And you want to talk about an absolute animal when
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: it comes to changing perspective in injecting hope into your soul.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: This guy is.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: As powerful as it gets and he's I believe he's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: coming to your school.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: What's let loose with this? Man? Tell us?
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: So let me give you a little backstory. So obviously
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: the guys came, they did their presentation. I think their
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: retire school K pre K through twelve just amazed. And
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I think the staff at the high school as well
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: as our elementary just fell in love. And the students
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: fell in love with this. And Rick, obviously it has
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: his book, his Bridge and Amos and fun fact is
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: one of my best friends and former art teacher that
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: I had at OSJ was one of that illustrated that book.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: So he he has this book and some of the
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: kids had read it, and he read it to the
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: kids and the kids were just their jaws were open.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: They loved it and they loved Rick well. Our National
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Junior Honor Society students and their advisor Ms. Smith reached
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: out to Rick and to Tom and said they would
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: like to purchase a copy of that book for every
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: kindergarten student out of their funds. And they came up
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: with this idea completely on their own. This was this
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: is student initiated that they wanted to purchase this book,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: this copy of this book for all the kindergarten students
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: at their at their awards that we're doing on Friday.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: And the powerful message that was there was just shows
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: that our students value what they see and they adore
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Rick and they wanted to give a book, a piece
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: of Rick to our kindergarten students. Now, the best part
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: of this is Rick had volunteered graciously. He's did another
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: event that same day, but he recorded a message for
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: our parents, for our students, for our staff that will
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: be played at the assembly on Friday. So our students,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: our teachers, our staff, our parents will all get this
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: message from Rick again to your point of hope, because
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: you're one hundred percent right on. And I think that's
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: why people love Rick so much. He comes into schools,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: he talks about what his struggles have been in life,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: but he doesn't present them as struggles. He presents them
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: as opportunities. And you know, you think to yourself, and
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I say it all the time, I'm blessed. My life
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: is blessed. And then you look at Rick and Rick
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: says all the time, I have a blessed life. And
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: he said the best day of my life is when
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: my accident occurred. And that's powerful because most people would say,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: can I do the best day of your life? And
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Rick is because I got the opportunity to work the
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Sweetheart and Heroes program and change lives and change kids.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: And I don't know, I don't know how that's It
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: just gives me cold shills thinking about it, because that's
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: the type of person that Rick is.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: He was, his life started over. He was literally reborn, different,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: different guy.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing. So if someone like him can say that,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: you know, that was the best day of his life
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: and I wake up with a with a sprained neck
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: or something like that, and I think I am struggling
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: in life, it gives you a perspective of you know,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of other things out there and we
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: can make a difference every day too.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Rick, he had kind of uh a portrait
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: if you will, painted of him before the accident where
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: he was literally blown up in Iraq, covered in diesel fuel,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: burning alive. Tom Morano, Tom Verano the artist behind that
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: uh emotion into art and I want you to talk
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: about that, but Rick says, that's not me.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: What do you say about that?
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess I'll go back to we we just
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: had the opportunity to see that presentation. Oh yes, Ja
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: invited us over. We did a combined assembly with Dollsville
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: and OSJ. We came over our fifth through eighth graders
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: with their fifth through eighth graders, and it was kind
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: of a really heartwarming thing because both sides, both school districts,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: you know, welcomed and accepted each other. And the message there.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: There were there were some staff members and I know
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: there's some students that I saw had some tears in
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: their eyes because the message was powerful. And and then
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: without going too many details because I think you really
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: need to see it, but Tom, Tom obviously is the artist,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: was paying things and speaking of inspirational figures. He was
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: speaking of inspirational messages, and he capped it off with
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: a portrait of Rick. And then you should hear the
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: group the students, they were erupted. They erupted because Rick
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: means a lot to them as well. And they don't
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: know Rick even as well as some other people. But
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: the story that he has and when Rick comes on
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: and he gives his message afterwards, and he again he
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: goes into more depth and the more details of his
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: experience in his life and you walk out of that
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: and I'm talking to students when they got back to school,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: they were blown away, and they were blown away because
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: the first thing that one I had a sixth grader
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: that came up to me and she said to me afterwards,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: she said, if Rick can go up there and talk
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: about these things that are going on in his life
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: that happened to him, I have no problem talking about
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: things that happened to mind. And again, it's just an
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: inspirational message. And this has been This was a really
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: unique thing, and I know this is something they're trialing,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: and I hope it continues because the art part was
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: very fun. It was engaging for students to watch him
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: start his portraits and flip them upside down, and it
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: was if they reveal. But I think more importantly the
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: message that Tom had everything that he spoke about as
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: he was painting these pictures and highlights the same messages
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: that the Sweetheart Heroes program likes to highlight about acceptance
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: and about having goals and setting expectations and driving yourself
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: and inspiration and leadership. And then having Rick cap it
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: off was just just mind blowing. And I think that
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: at the end all the administrators from both districts got
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: on stage and we took a picture together too, because
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: we think that as we move forward, we can utilize
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: each other and build partnerships not just with the administrative team,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: but also our students in different programs through the whole classroom,
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: through different activities and engagements. And I'd like to see
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: that go across the areas because there is messages that
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: the best person that can ever promote the Sweet Heroes
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: program about how impactful in it is is our students.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Wow, so true. You know, I'm listening to you talk
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: about Rick here, and I'm thinking about one of the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: most powerful things that he has said to me personally
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: a few times, you know. And he's heard this before,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: and he's been in here in the studio and he's
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: been on by video as well several times.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Is you know.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, we got a guy that most of his
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: body is covered in scar tissue, his ears burned off,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: his eyelids, his hair, his hands, I mean literally fingers
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: burned off from that horrible roadside palm in Iraq. And
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I've said to Rick, I'm like, you know, Rick, when
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you say to me, hey, JD, how you doing if
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I'm having kind of a crappy day, or my shoulder
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: is hurting me because I just had a shoulder replacement.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I feel like I can't really complain about what's going
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: on in my life. It doesn't matter what. It could
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: be physical, it could be emotional, it could be anything.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I wonder if I said, I feel like I can't
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: complain to you about anything, and he says, oh, I
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: get that.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: All the time.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: People are like, man, you know, I got a car
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: accident yesterday, my house burned out, whatever it is.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: But but we can't.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Complain to Rick because Rick's gonna gonna trump that in
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: a second. And he's like, no, no, no, your stuff.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Is real.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Please don't compare your bad times or your bad day
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: or moment to me or anything that's happened to me.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Please don't do that. Your stuff is just as bad.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: That's a big takeaway from me coming from that guy.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: He could easily easily be walking around with the pin
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: on his shirt saying, hey, hey, your stuff's not that bad.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Look at me. You know what I'm saying, tim.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Percent And that's what makes him special because he used
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: it and they talk about this all the time. So
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying anything that he hasn't said. He looked
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: at everything, and I know all the guys there do.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: They look at everything as an opportunity, and when something happens,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: it's an opportunity. And then again back to Tom, Tom told
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: me the same thing before he goes. There's opportunities that
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: you have in life, and sometimes you're led that direction
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: because of some things that have happened that have not
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: been good for you. Like I said, I was, I
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: loved where I was at and I had no intention
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: of leaving. And then when I had some struggles this
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: summer or last summer with family, Tom reached out to
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: me and I talked through it with him a lot
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: of the different things, and this opportunity reached out to
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: me and Tom said, you know, I love having you
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: here at OESJ. I don't know what's going to happen,
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: but I think that you need to go and I
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: think that you need to go back and contribute someplace else.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: And he said that to me. He said, you know,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: in your toughest times is when you have the biggest
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: decisions and when things can change. And he actually gave
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: me at this time and I still have it here
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: him and Joe gave me a brick. I know it
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: doesn't sound like much, but that brick meant the world
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: to me because I still have it here. And he said,
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: when you're ready to let go, because he knows about
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: my struggles growing up, he said, when you're ready to
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: let go of those struggles, I want you throw it
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: in the crik next to the school. So I'm holding
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: on to it right now and I'm getting close to
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: getting rid of it. But again, it's that message that
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: I think that Rick and Tom and the whole team's
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: when struggles come your way in life, you have an option.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: You can put your head down be buried by those
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: or you can make some kind of a change or
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: do something as positive. And I think that we all
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: have to take that message to heart because we can
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: always do something positive even when we have something bad
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: happened to us.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Wow, Tom Tech should be like twenty minutes ago saying,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: ask him about Joe. That must have been it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Well, that's part of it. Joe. Joe is amazing. I
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: love Joe to death. I got to work with Joe
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: hand in hand last year as the ambassador at OSJ
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: and when we were working on this whole program for
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: next year, bringing in UH the Ambassador program. The first
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: thing is I hope is Joe, and multiple reasons for Joe.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Joe is amazing. He's really good at what he does.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Kids resonate with him. But I also look at Joe
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: and I see his family, and I'd love to have
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Joe with his family as much as possible, just like
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: all of us. And they have Joe here, it's like
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: a win win for all of us. It's a win
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: win for both districts, and it's a win win for
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: him and his family. So Joe's an amazing person as well.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, I don't I don't know
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: if there's anyone that I could ever say anything negative
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: about in the Sweetheart and Heroes team because they're just
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: they're really genuine people and and what you see from
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: them on stage is really what they are outside of that,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: when you talk to them one on one, you text them,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: and they're they're all of them. Are there any time
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: that you need something, They're a phone call or text
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: message away. I've never won sent them a message and
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: had no response or you'll deal with a dude, take
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: care of it. That's not how they are. They are
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: there and there's somebody to lean on. They don't drop
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: into a district and leave the district. They're there for
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: you and for the group and for the kids, and
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: that's the most important part. They're always here for our kids.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I know you got to you're driving a
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: big bus over there, and you've got a lot of
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: stuff going on today, and we're gonna let you get
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: back to it.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: But you know, just a heads up here.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: On the seventeenth, which is a week from today, Josh
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Parker from Gosh Chevrolet will be on with me echoing
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: some of this, and then on the twenty fourth, Tom
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Ferano Motion into Art Hope through Art will be my guest.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Really really profound stuff.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: Here man, looking forward to watching them.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Tim, thank you ever so much for joining up with
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: us this morning. I know, I know you're a busy guy.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I can I can only imagine being the principle of
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: of of this of Dogeville Elementary Man. Tom says great
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: things about you guys, but thank you so much for
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: your time.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Tim, Well, thank you for having me, and I hope
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: that everyone has a great day and I hope that
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: you know at some point the school that you mentioned.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I hope they have an opportunity to bring that team
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: in because they don't know what they're missing until they
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: see them in action.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Thanks for saying that, man, absolutely, Thanks Tim, have a
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: good one, Yeah, get back to your day.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Man, what a great guy. You know. The thing is
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: with with Tom.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: And he and he keeps and Leon keeps lining me
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: up with the most amaz guests, and every time I'm like, man,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I wish I could, I wish I could meet that guy.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: There's another one right there. Oh incredible busy, busy, busy
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: people who are tapping the brakes out of their busy
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: lives to say, oh yeah, I'm getting on the air
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: to talk about this. You've hat really really awesome stuff.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: There's some absolutely crazy things going on in the news,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: and I could sit here and talk about it all day.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Not a lot of it is the most heartwarming and
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: beautiful news. Although I am going to be posting up
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: the daily dose that feel good here.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: In just a second.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: But there's some some harsh realities going on here in
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: in Vermont for sure, and beyond our borders as well
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: in our nation primaries yesterday, and a lot of people
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: freaking out about that. I know, that that we've shifted
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: gears a little bit with this war and Iran, and
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: that the activity has increased significantly just in.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Less than a day.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of really heavy stuff that's
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: that's happening everywhere. What I'm trying to do here at
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: aired Out is generally trying to find the good stuff
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: to get on to air Out, to push to make
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: sure that you are aware of And I hammered that
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: yesterday pretty hard Rex was in here talking about all
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: the great stuff that.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: He's doing for kids.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: We've got car shows, we've got thunder Road, We've got
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: concerts in the park tonight The Tones, Spalding High School's
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: student body band is going to be rocking out at
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: the park. I think five thirty or so. We've got
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: the food trucks, we've got the Farmer's Market all happening
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: at Currier Park with the Tones tonight. Price tag to
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: get in free. Bring a chair, bring a blanket, bring
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: a frisbee. If you want to bring your friends, bring
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: your family, and if you would like to just bring yourself,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: bring yourself. Enjoy unplugged for a little while, put the
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: phone down and just connect with yourself, be present, and
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: enjoy what our community has to offer. There's a ton
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: of great stuff going on. I know that there's a
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: million and one pissing matches going on in our city,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: right here in town. I could sit here and throw stones,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: stir everybody up, get the big drama pot going. Oh,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: I could easily do it. But instead I'm just trying
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: to find the good stuff. Man, trying one of those
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: good things. Actually it's not a good thing. It's a
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: great thing. Is what's going to be happening on Saturday,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: July twenty fifth, Summer Street Tavern, and Travis Payette is
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: going to be joining me tomorrow morning right at I
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: think right at nine before Dan Roya and Travis is
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: going to be talking about it, and I'll just give
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: you a quick snapshot. But what they have done the
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Iron Order Motorcycle Club is they went out and purchased
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: twenty two new bicycles and they're going to give them
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: away to kids to enjoy this summer. We all know
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: summers don't last long here in the North Country, but
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: to be able to have a bicycle as a kid,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: a good bicycle and a helmet. Travis is going to
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: tell you about what they're doing for helmets and stuff.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Kudos to the Iron Order Motorcycle Club, Rock Solid Crew Vermont.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be great on Saturday, July twenty fifth. Details
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: on how your kid can win a bicycle all coming
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. You could walk by if you're on the sidewalk,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: you walk by this studio here a take a gander
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: in and you'll see the sign on the window. Kid's
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: bicycle giveaway here.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: It is right here. Look that.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I just love stuff like this bringing our community together.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: So much happening. This weekend is jammed up with so
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: much great things. The Vermont Mountaineers. Oh my god, Saturday.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Do you know about what's happening Saturday Recreation Field in Montpelier.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: If your kid plays on a team anywhere, I don't care, hockey, soccer, baseball, softball, basketball,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: whatever it else. It is that I'm forgetting. If they
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: have a jersey, a school jersey, they're gonna get in
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: free to Saturday's game at Recreation Field in mont Pilier.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: You know where that is, right down there on Road twelve.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: They get in free. Make sure they're wearing their jersey.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: They will be recognized on the field. We got Lily
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: and her softball team and a bunch of her friends.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: We're going and we're gonna have a great time. What's
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: the weather going to be doing, don't care if it's cloudy,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: if it's if it's sunny, it might be a drop
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: of two or five of some range howers. But we're
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: going and we're gonna have a great time. And I
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: hope you come. I hope you're there.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I hope to see you. Please say hi.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Enjoy the game, enjoy the moment with your family, your friends,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: get out there, check it out. Okay, those are just
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not even scratching the surface of the
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: good things that are going on. There's gonna be a
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: big sports card and Memorabilius show that's coming up on
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: June twenty seventh at Hartford High School. We're gonna be
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: chatting with those people. They're coming on as well. Yesterday
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: we were, oh my god, we were talking about eight
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: o two meets in Ethos Racing. We had Rex in
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: here Resilient Defense Institute, talking about bringing kids together and
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: giving them opportunity to learn some mixed martial arts self
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: defense for free, with Fuji backing them up. Brooklyn Street brawlers,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: just good stuff, great stuff.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Yesterday and I posted up the grand opening coming soon
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: of the Restore in Berlin at the Plaza. There's another
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: positive right there. It's great news. And if your initial.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Default is to post up.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Something negative, well, I hope there's some flood mitigation going
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: on and that's your first reaction to something like that.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Reframe the way you're thinking. Of course, of course we
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: all know that that whole plaza was flooded out a
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: couple of times.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: We all know that.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: We don't need to be reminded of it. But there's
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: something that's positive that's coming. And I'm asking you. I mean,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: i'll be there in July. What is it the h
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I think it's the twelfth. Look at my calendar here
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: for the grand opening July July is nuts, it's just nuts. Yeah,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: July twelfth, it's a Sunday. I'll be there for the
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: for the Restore grand opening there in the Big Lots building,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. I hope that you come to enjoy the music,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: enjoy the giveaways, the free gifts, maybe some food, some interviews.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a good time. I hope you're there.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: And I hope to see you at the game with
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: the Vermont Mountaineers on Saturday six point thirty, I think
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: is the first pitch recreation field in Mont Tilier. I
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: hope you're there. It's going to be amazing, and I
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: hope you're there for the Flag Day ceremony at the
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Barry Elks on Sunday morning at eleven o'clock, and I
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: hope to see you there. I'll be live streaming it,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: and I hope to see you at the food trucks
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: up at the Berlin Mall on Sunday from noon to
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: seven as well. Okay, deep breath, We're going to get through.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: If you're having kind of a crappy week. And I
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: understand we all, my God, we all have them. Be
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: positive if you can take a deep breath, you know
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: what I do. I know it might be sad, but
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I go out and I look at my little seed
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: trays where I am desperately trying to grow some peppers
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: and some beans and some peas and asparagus, let us tomatoes.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: And I go out and I look at my little
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: seed trays and I looked as see what's is there
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: anything sprouting?
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: We got two more today. Nope, we got three more
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: and yes, like Stacy is suggesting, right here, go sit
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: in the river with a cider, very cold cider from
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Berry Tobacco and beer right across the street here from
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: the studio, which I did yesterday eighty six degrees at
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: my house. Stacy, we don't handle temperatures like that well.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: But yeah, go out and look at your little seed
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: trays and see what's growing, what's coming up. Get excited,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: be happy. A little bit of rain coming into the
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: picture here for the next couple of days, the seed trays.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: They need it.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Stay well. We'll catch you tomorrow morning. Dan Roya gonna
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: be in the studio with me, Central Vermont Cars and Coffee.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Travis Payette talking about the big bicycle giveaway twenty two
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: new bicycles going out to our community this summer. Awesome stuff.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Take good care one another. We'll see you tomorrow morning.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Right here in the aired out podcast sp