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Meet Barrett Counterman: The Story Behind Barrett’s Swaggy Life · Barrett's Swaggy Life Talks

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SPEAKER_02: Welcome to Bear Cameron's Swaggy Lake Podcast.
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SPEAKER_02: Welcome to Bear Cummins Swaggy Lake Podcast.
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SPEAKER_02: Here is me and JD Ross talk.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to another episode of the Soul Mind of Business Podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the host, JD Ross.
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SPEAKER_00: And I gotta tell you, Barrett, I'm a little bit nervous about this one, man.
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SPEAKER_00: I am interviewing a sort of a public speaker, professional public speaker, which I am not.
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SPEAKER_00: And you are.
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SPEAKER_00: So I guess more is I'm like a a professional listener, and you're the public speaker.
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SPEAKER_00: So I gotta tell you, I'm a little bit nervous right now, so let's let's go, huh?
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna let you do the introduction.
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SPEAKER_00: But what I want to say to people that are watching this, and if you notice, you can you've been on here before, you can see it on the uh YouTube channel at circlepanda.com.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you're listening to the the uh uh podcast outlets and you just hear the audio, you can also see the video on there as well as some places at the end that we're gonna mention where Barrett posts them as well.
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SPEAKER_00: So you're gonna see a nice blend of where you can find these videos.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but I will say here I am there and I've had an opportunity to chat before, and uh I because of an error that I made, we are redoing it.
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SPEAKER_00: So I have had the luxury of having a conversation already.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh and this is a conversation that I have it's been impossible for me to forget because it is an inspiration, man.
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SPEAKER_00: So I can't wait to hear that.
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SPEAKER_00: So, Barrett, I'm gonna let you introduce yourself, man, because again, you are the professional and I am the listener, so go for it.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, hi, my name is Beck Cumman.
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SPEAKER_03: Um started my public speaking business with actually voicing, voice say um they teach young high school students about politics and you know, all the politics stuff, not just what goes into it, but like how to what the media helps you um how to do all the you know, all the campaigning for running your own self and all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: And the re the reason I started my public speaking was a big part of Boy State, but it was also a big part of um Victory Junction.
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SPEAKER_03: And Victory Junction is a um, you know, a campus for people like me with disabilities.
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SPEAKER_03: And they have it on a week-to-week basis, so one week they'll have stereo palsy, which is my condition.
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SPEAKER_03: One week they might have cancer, one week they might have cole collectors, sorry about mispronounce that, but I was who have the condition are listening.
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SPEAKER_03: Um yeah, so that's where my bad spiky like came from, and that's what started my public speaking business.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so now you're president now you were just elected or a couple years ago president of something, so you gotta mention that.
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SPEAKER_00: He's also, by the way, very humble, if you've noticed.
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SPEAKER_00: He didn't even mention he's he was waiting on me, so you gotta share that.
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SPEAKER_00: You just voted president of something.
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SPEAKER_00: What was it?
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SPEAKER_03: Well, it's actually called governor of governor, excuse me, governor.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, governor of boys.
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SPEAKER_03: I was elected out of 100 and something.
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SPEAKER_03: I think 28 boys, 138 boys, but almost 200 boys, 200 men.
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SPEAKER_03: Elected me governor and like what many people don't know is um when I was elected governor, I um I can't write my nose out.
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SPEAKER_03: Obviously I'll see that I can't like move my arms like anybody else.
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SPEAKER_03: And with listening, my my right arm's like my um, you know, uh Scorpio side because it looks like a snake sometimes, but also like a scorpio, but my left side's more functional, so I can write my notes down.
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SPEAKER_03: Had to go through all of the all of the speaking things just out of my head and you know, just doing my pure heart and you know, all that stuff, so people don't realize like this was fast page too.
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SPEAKER_03: Like didn't leave or a normal uh a normal person.
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SPEAKER_03: They had 20 minutes to write down what they would say and then they would just read what what they want to tell the audience.
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SPEAKER_03: But for me, I had to spend a lot of time doing the doing the audio to make sure my voice was heard.
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SPEAKER_03: So I didn't have a lot of time to uh, you know, have somebody write down my speeches.
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SPEAKER_03: So what I mainly had to do is just go off my head and uh trust God and you know look what happened.
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SPEAKER_03: And there's actually an interesting story that goes into this and I'll go into that now.
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SPEAKER_03: W before I was a l you know, in voice state and all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: Um I was a part of the Trinity Council and I, you know, I was one of their office members.
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SPEAKER_03: If you all know part of the Trinity Council, it comes with your high school grades and you gotta have like a certain G BA and luckily I graduated with the tw uh top twenty of my class, like I was number twenty, so that was I was pretty happy with that.
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SPEAKER_03: And I got a high I got my high school diploma.
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SPEAKER_03: I don't I didn't get a certificate like most most people with disabilities or misconception misconceptions before, but um yeah, I um I didn't get any um certificate.
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SPEAKER_03: I worked hard to get my high school diploma.
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SPEAKER_03: And um but anyways, when I was part of um National Honor Society, uh they didn't include me in anything.
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SPEAKER_03: Like nothing.
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SPEAKER_03: I I was the last one to know the meetings.
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SPEAKER_03: I would rush up and go to the meetings and it would be over and I would get so mad and I would have to skip part of my lunch to go to the meetings and figure out what I'm gonna eat the another time.
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SPEAKER_03: So it was it was definitely defeating.
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SPEAKER_03: And if his proof that I talk about this, because if you type in a voice in my name, Barry Cannerman, you you will find if you type it in on Google, you will find this speech when I was elected governor, and you will find me talk about the city council and all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: So I'm not gonna go into that now, but what I'm gonna go into is the public speaking side of things.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Can I ask a question first before I forget it?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So you mentioned that when you were elected governor, pardon me for saying president.
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SPEAKER_03: Governor's bigger than president, but it is president of Boise, so I kinda I kind of see where you're going to be.
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SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: But you said you said something about giving a speech without notes.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Is that what you do?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I already said earlier that I am not a public speaker.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, if people watch the video, they're probably gonna say two things.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a little peanut butter from the sandwich of lunch on my shirt.
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SPEAKER_00: I just saw it on the video.
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SPEAKER_00: And two, I get a little bit red, I get a little bit nervous because I have to have some notes typically, but you do it without notes.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So how do you please go back to that?
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SPEAKER_00: How do you how do you stay on track?
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SPEAKER_00: How do you do your speech without notes?
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SPEAKER_03: Well, you only touch God for that reason, honestly.
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SPEAKER_03: But I now I prepare my notes.
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SPEAKER_03: Maybe when I do a speech, I'll prepare for maybe about 20%.
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SPEAKER_03: But I'll let the other 30% or whatever percentage that is, I'll let God take over.
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SPEAKER_03: Than if I wrote everything down and what I was gonna say.
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SPEAKER_03: I'll be focusing on memorizing it and not reading my audience.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's go.
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SPEAKER_00: I got you off track a little bit, but I want to be sure and pull that out because that's a gift.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a skill set to be able to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: And so you said you were gonna go into public speaking now.
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SPEAKER_00: So tell me, what's your favorite moment when you're public speaking?
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SPEAKER_03: Uh my favorite moment is talking to the fifth graders and fourth graders and third graders.
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SPEAKER_03: Basically they younger they are, besides, you know, one, two and all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: They are old enough to be cognizant and, you know, as inspir uh inspiring as questions and don't care.
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SPEAKER_03: That's my age group I like, you know, talking to 'cause a lot of people and a lot of adults especially, I have this issue with them when I issue.
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SPEAKER_03: But I can see that they wanna ask me like a pff a very important question, like how do I use the bathroom?
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SPEAKER_03: How do I, you know, deal with I don't know, being this well, not including.
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SPEAKER_03: I was trying to think of another word, but I can't think of one right now.
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SPEAKER_03: How do I deal with not being included?
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SPEAKER_03: Mis misvalued.
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SPEAKER_03: Because look, in y'all might see this on the camera as well.
11:26
SPEAKER_03: As many of y'all may notice, I'm looking up like 90% of the time.
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SPEAKER_03: And part of that is due to my cerebral pausing condition.
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SPEAKER_03: Because right now I'm in the exterior tone, which is, you know, uh, you know, flexing out.
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SPEAKER_03: Interior is flexing in.
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SPEAKER_03: So when I'm talking to somebody one-on-one, it's fine.
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SPEAKER_03: But when I'm like in public speaking mode, I'm so focused on my voice and my pred my prediction.
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SPEAKER_03: Like I my body doesn't worry about like how do I look, because I gotta think of every little detail, otherwise it's you know, it doesn't come out as clear as I want it to.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so you said that that age group's your favorite.
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SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna come back to the age group, but first I'm gonna ask you about the uh the questions that that people in that age group ask you.
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SPEAKER_00: How do you how do you deal with that?
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SPEAKER_00: How do you how do we educate people on one, excuse me for being so direct, one, don't ask dumb questions that you don't need to really know about.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean they should not ask certain questions that they should know.
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SPEAKER_00: But what about the ones?
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SPEAKER_00: How do you educate people to say, if you have a question, just ask?
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SPEAKER_00: Is that what you do?
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: And I I get it, some people ask, you know, dumb questions, but I use that word dumb qu very carefully because they might think it's dumb and not and not even ask the question because they're like, he's not gonna want to answer this.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: So I use the I use the word dumb very carefully, 'cause me the difference between me and a lot of people is because I'm an open book.
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SPEAKER_03: So it was funny when I did the speech, uh, like last week, the kids were asking the teachers before they were asking me.
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SPEAKER_03: Is this appropriate question?
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SPEAKER_03: Is this you know, and as time went along they noticed that I didn't mind answering anything.
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SPEAKER_03: Like, of course I gave the appropriate you know, answers to their age group, but like I got asked how did I use the bathroom and I just said I can carry a portable basically toilet along with me and that's how I use the bathroom.
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SPEAKER_03: I didn't go into other any other detail besides that, because at that age they you know, they can't grass it again.
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SPEAKER_03: Now when they get to middle school and stuff, then they can they can figure it out.
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SPEAKER_03: But when they're they're that age, it's like you gotta have a little bit of playing imagination along with them when they ask those type of questions.
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SPEAKER_03: Because, you know, uh if you go into X, Y, and Z then they might then their parents might be mad at you for going to X, Y, and Z instead of having the imagination that you think they might have.
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SPEAKER_00: You notice you just educated me some there, so I come out with a statement of saying, why would people ask a dumb question?
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SPEAKER_00: And really it's just a lack of education, it's a lack of understanding.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not dumb or not dumb, it's just a lack of understanding.
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SPEAKER_00: And as I heard you say, so when people ask a question, then you explain the question the most appropriate way, and then you said something about imagination with the kids.
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SPEAKER_00: Can you think of an example of how they ask you a question and then you answered?
15:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm putting you on the spot here.
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SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: But so that age group is your favorite age group.
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SPEAKER_00: So t go into and why and some examples of why it's your favorite age group.
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SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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SPEAKER_03: So one of the reasons why is favorite age group because they're not scared as the qu uh they're not scared to ask the question.
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unknown: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: I mean, you of course you get what's your favorite who do you like more, Batman or Superman?
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SPEAKER_03: Of course you get those kind of questions, but like they were asking how do you play games.
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SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_03: I didn't plan on sh uh you know sharing this in one class, but one of the teachers brought it up, so I kinda like shared it with this one group.
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SPEAKER_03: Um 'cause I did scare wins for, you know, three years or so and I did scare women not pretty typical of scaring and you know, although I love that type of uh part of it, but um somebody asked me, well, why do you choose to make up like you did why w when you did scare winds?
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SPEAKER_03: I'm like, well, cause basically uh what I try to do every night is I'm trying to put something on my face speaking of Halloween.
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SPEAKER_03: It's Halloween season, so why not bring this up?
16:53
SPEAKER_03: I put something on my face to represent something.
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SPEAKER_03: And um like I would put red to represent misrepresentation or violence.
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SPEAKER_03: I would put black for overlook and a lot of times I would do teeth under my under my lip to represent uniqueness and people that go through teeth surgery and all that stuff, and then I would put eyes on my eyelids to represent the future.
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SPEAKER_03: Because what I like about scaring with some minds was because people didn't focus on my wheelchair.
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SPEAKER_03: It took them a second glance to figure out who just scared me and like that man, that is so cool.
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SPEAKER_03: Because when you cover up your imp well your appearan appearance because you're not confident in yourself.
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SPEAKER_03: But when you realize people do care about m my condition, they do care about the way I feel, the way I you know, if I talk money, they care about what I'm saying.
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SPEAKER_03: See um me painting my face and kind of bringing out my alter ego, kinda love of the playing field that I wish society would would bring um to the world.
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SPEAKER_03: And it kind of m remind me that I am the educators I am the educator that they might be they might feel like this might be the only time I can ask this question because I try to get them before the parents you know, um have them talk where they you know, when the child has like, what's that talking about my wheelchair more time than not the parent hur hurries them along hurries them along and they they you know, they're like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
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SPEAKER_03: When really you should do the opposite of that.
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SPEAKER_03: You should go up to them, uh ask them, hey my if son is worrying about your wheelchair or if you got a question, go up to somebody with a disability.
19:21
SPEAKER_03: I know this is hard, but try not to go up to the one next to them.
19:27
SPEAKER_03: Try to talk to them directly.
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SPEAKER_03: And and if you feel like you're not getting the answer you want with them directly, then talk to no one next to them or talk to the one helping them out.
19:42
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I'm gonna come I'm gonna come back to that point.
19:45
SPEAKER_00: But first of all, you kinda left me hanging.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you like Batman or Superman?
19:50
SPEAKER_00: Who's your favorite?
19:51
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
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SPEAKER_00: You said they asked the question, but you know, is it Batman or Superman?
19:55
SPEAKER_00: I have to know.
19:56
SPEAKER_03: It's Batman for me.
19:58
SPEAKER_03: How come?
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SPEAKER_03: Well, mm because in the in the shadows and in in the darkness, that's where your light shines the most.
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SPEAKER_03: If you're vulnerable if you're vulnerable with people, people are usually vulnerable with your back.
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SPEAKER_03: And it's funny that we're balanced with being vulnerable with somebody you trust and vulnerable are vulnerable with the audience.
20:28
SPEAKER_03: Like you don't want to give too much of your problems away for them to you know for them to um live focused on what you're trying to talk about or put a point, but it's always that balance.
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SPEAKER_03: You wanna be vulnerable enough where it's relatable, but you don't want to be like a robot, meaning like do Todd and you know all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: So I always try to p be like being vulnerable and showing your personality a little bit.
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SPEAKER_03: And that's something I don't I don't mind, you know, sharing.
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SPEAKER_03: Granted, it was scary at first, but now that I got used to it, it looks like a piece of cake.
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SPEAKER_03: So yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: I know I took you on the sidetrack, but I was curious, you know, and a point you made there.
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SPEAKER_00: Because the new Batman movie's out, and I've been I've got it saved, and I'm like, I don't know if I want to watch it because Batman's kind of kind of gotten a little dark, you know, it has this darkness to it.
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SPEAKER_00: And now I'm gonna watch it because what I heard you say is in the darkness is where the light shines the brightest.
21:35
SPEAKER_00: Um did I just say it the way you did?
21:37
SPEAKER_00: I'm trying.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, say it.
21:41
SPEAKER_00: Yes, that was perfect.
21:43
SPEAKER_00: So it Batman's your favorite because in I'm repeating it because it's something we all need to hear, man.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: In the darkness, the light shines the brightest.
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SPEAKER_03: Yep.
21:55
SPEAKER_00: I know I I took you off track a bit, but I I also want to go back to where it was before.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Or ask that sideways question because you had me curious.
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SPEAKER_00: So you say that if somebody has a question, like they say they see at scare winds, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And if somebody has a question, rather than ask the person you're with, the best thing to do is rather than whether to walk around or go another direction or look, just walk right up and ask the question, not the person next to you.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
22:24
SPEAKER_03: And not everybody's gonna be like me and like be open and all that stuff, but like you don't know until you ask.
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SPEAKER_03: And I'm I deal with people asking the other person instead of asking me.
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SPEAKER_03: When they're like when obviously you can see that that I am fully capable, because more than likely I'm telling not to be rude in any separate way, but I'm telling them how to solve the problem, them what to do, and them I'm telling the person helping me what to do so they can help me get to where I need to go at a past pace sometimes.
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SPEAKER_03: And so when people see that what they go to they go to the person next to me and like I always tell people, I know it's hard, you know, 'cause you know, you talk about age and people don't look like their age sometimes.
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SPEAKER_03: Try to talk to the person with with the disability first before you talk to the one that's help helping them or their mom more times than that.
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SPEAKER_03: That's another misconception I live with.
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SPEAKER_03: A lot of times that somebody's helping me, they assume that they're my mom or my grandma, and I'm like, no, that's not the case for me.
23:53
SPEAKER_03: That may be for somebody else, but that's not the case for me.
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SPEAKER_03: Um I have a lot of people helping me out and you know, I know why a lot of people choose, you know, assume that and that's understandable. 'Cause l not a lot of them can afford the help that they that they need with you know, with the person's disability.
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SPEAKER_03: And s sometimes we do we do feel that as a disability community, I mean, I struggled with feeling like I was a burden for several years.
24:31
SPEAKER_03: I mean, like, we all go through that phase of like I'm a burden, like people have to make sacrifices because of me.
24:40
SPEAKER_03: And it's like no, the reason we have to make adaptation is because the world's not made for people with disabilities not yet.
24:52
SPEAKER_03: And it's up it's up to able-bodied people, it's up to disability people to find out the uh uh scenarios and limitations that disability face today.
25:08
SPEAKER_03: Even with the ADA, it's it's not all fixed.
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SPEAKER_03: I mean I can one quick story and I showed that I shared you'll hear me reshare my other speech video if you come and watch it.
25:24
SPEAKER_03: But one one time where my d where my dad lives, I wanted to go to this restaurant, but they had no way to get in, and my stepmom asked if they had a portable ramp.
25:43
SPEAKER_03: And they did not you know what they told me and my family?
25:46
SPEAKER_00: No.
25:47
SPEAKER_03: The city won't let us have a portable ramp so we can get in.
25:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: Uh you have to explain that.
25:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't understand okay.
25:59
SPEAKER_00: One is that a okay, I'm not gonna use the word dumb or uneduc.
26:07
SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
26:07
SPEAKER_00: Is that a is that an answer that's uneducated or is it what's it?
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SPEAKER_03: Basically people are trying to find the easy way out.
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SPEAKER_03: Instead of um you know or um the um you know and that's why people with disabilities gotta fight for these the thing because somebody tell me, yeah, we want to carry one but the city won't let us I'm like, how stupid do you think that is?
26:47
SPEAKER_03: Because, you know, and for all the business owners and all that stuff Yeah, I know you have older buildings, but you can at least, you know, have something fair uh welfare to get onto.
27:07
SPEAKER_03: And you'll find this too.
27:10
SPEAKER_03: If you have something for people with disabilities get into your stores you're gonna have more business.
27:18
SPEAKER_03: You're gonna have more business.
27:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and um I'll point to back that up.
27:24
SPEAKER_03: I was in uh we uh we were going to the beach and um same scenario, the um the restaurant that I wanted to eat at didn't have ramp.
27:37
SPEAKER_03: But the uh the other restaurant next door did.
27:41
SPEAKER_03: So I was able to I was able to use the other restaurant's, you know, ramp to get inside and eat my dinner at the time and still enjoy it with my family and that that didn't ruin the trip.
27:57
SPEAKER_03: So it's like it can't be it can be done just because somebody says, oh, the this is the community well letters.
28:06
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, um that's weird because you can uh put a lawsuit against them.
28:12
SPEAKER_03: So it's like, you know.
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SPEAKER_03: And another example I w I won't use this person's name, but a friend of mine, one of the one of her family members got wrong got wrongly fired from a a restaurant because they said he couldn't do any of the activities that a normal human being can do.
28:37
SPEAKER_03: When he was working there for over twenty-five years.
28:47
SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
28:48
SPEAKER_03: And all that stuff.
28:50
SPEAKER_03: I'm glad he's report that the community made such a rack that they hired him on Monday.
28:59
SPEAKER_03: See it takes it takes the this it takes not uh it it doesn't it it takes us advocating for ourselves, but also we need the community the community advocating for us as well.
29:17
SPEAKER_03: Cause a lot of times we are over look, um just a sneak peek.
29:24
SPEAKER_03: I'm uh doing another speaking engagement.
29:27
SPEAKER_03: By the time this might go up, it might be there, but I'm doing another speaking engagement and I'm talking about being overlooked.
29:36
SPEAKER_03: That's the title of the message.
29:38
SPEAKER_03: So I'll probably use some of the uh examples that I just used here, but you know, yeah.
29:48
SPEAKER_00: I want to come I want to come back to that one.
29:50
SPEAKER_00: I also want people that are watching or hearing us, if you if you happen to see uh Barrett and I out at ScareWins or Care Wins together.
30:00
SPEAKER_00: And uh Barrett, let me ask you this.
30:03
SPEAKER_00: So you graduated what number in your class in high school?
30:06
SPEAKER_03: 20.
30:07
SPEAKER_00: I graduated about 200 and something.
30:11
SPEAKER_00: So don't ask me the question.
30:13
SPEAKER_00: Ask Barrett.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: Any question that you're gonna ask, ask Barrett.
30:17
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, I'm putting you on the spot.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: Your best answer is gonna come from Barrett, not from me.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, so ask him that question.
30:25
SPEAKER_00: So well done then.
30:26
SPEAKER_03: Sadly, I'm not working through this year, but I will gladly answer any of those questions.
30:35
SPEAKER_03: I do have people helping me out on emails and that kind of thing.
30:39
SPEAKER_03: And trust me, when I say you're hearing from me, you're hearing you're hearing from me.
30:43
SPEAKER_03: I might not be the one typing it, but I'm the one responding to you in an email, and not somebody responding for me.
30:54
SPEAKER_03: Uh trying to be me, it's me responding to you.
30:57
SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, I I'm I will gladly answer any any of your questions you may have.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: So Okay, I almost are gonna talk about that.
31:08
SPEAKER_00: When I say soul mind of business on this podcast, it means doing business a certain way, and that is unique these days.
31:14
SPEAKER_00: If you if you I want to hang on what he said, him answering his own emails instead of having some money pass them off or have an automated response.
31:24
SPEAKER_00: I understand sometimes automated responses if it's saying, give me a little bit longer to answer because I'm on vacation or something like that.
31:32
SPEAKER_00: But listen to what he just said.
31:33
SPEAKER_00: If you email him directly, he will be the one responding to the messages.
31:38
SPEAKER_00: That's a best in class business practice.
31:41
SPEAKER_03: Even though I might not be the one typing it, because obviously y'all can see I cannot type, but I'm I'm the one dictating to the person with the send out to y'all.
31:53
SPEAKER_03: Y'all are getting me, y'all are not getting you somebody else trying to be me and trying to help me out.
32:00
SPEAKER_03: It's me responding to the emails, it's me responding to the Facebook post, the Instagram posts.
32:10
SPEAKER_03: I will as of right now my um comments on YouTube are off for a good reason because I wanted to give people a a representation of who I am, where I deal with the negative comments and all that stuff.
32:31
SPEAKER_03: I know a lot are gonna be, you know, positive, inspiring and all that stuff, but I want people to see who I am before I let them comment.
32:43
SPEAKER_03: So yes, there is gonna be the first couple of videos where comments are gonna be off.
32:48
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
32:49
SPEAKER_03: For that reason.
32:50
SPEAKER_03: Because I want you to get used to me before you comment and like, you know, say, why you know, why do you do this?
32:59
SPEAKER_03: You're faking you're faking this, you know.
33:01
SPEAKER_03: I am not, yeah, okay.
33:02
SPEAKER_03: How can you fake being in a website being strapped up, having you know, how can you fake something like this?
33:11
SPEAKER_03: That's what that's what people, you know, people accuse me of.
33:19
SPEAKER_00: Is that is people actually ask that or make that statement?
33:23
SPEAKER_00: Behind my back.
33:25
SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
33:26
SPEAKER_03: Behind my back, yeah.
33:29
SPEAKER_03: Behind my back.
33:30
SPEAKER_00: Which kind of almost almost goes in another thing I want to ask you about is some some difficulties that you believe people assume, right?
33:40
SPEAKER_00: About people, uh you know, individuals with disabilities.
33:43
SPEAKER_00: Like uh that is that an assumption?
33:46
SPEAKER_00: Is that I mean, I don't understand why someone would ask that question, but what are kind of other obstacles or issues that um that you face?
33:56
SPEAKER_03: Oh, and let me let me give you this one.
34:00
SPEAKER_03: A lot of people assume that you want to talk about your condition only, because that's all you want to talk about.
34:08
SPEAKER_03: And I had not to call anybody out in any way.
34:12
SPEAKER_03: But in one of my speeches, the person didn't even read the bio, and by bio, for those who don't know, that's the introduction you get you give to somebody to introduce you before you sp speak to the audience the audience you were there to speak to.
34:32
SPEAKER_03: So this person didn't even read my bio.
34:36
SPEAKER_03: I wasn't planning on type talking about my surface policy, and he just flat out and doesn't even read the whole bio.
34:46
SPEAKER_03: He's like, you know, bear's got super policy, I don't want to still live under.
34:53
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna let him talk about it.
34:55
SPEAKER_03: And like, didn't ask me if that was okay or nothing, or you know, it's just yeah, so now every time I gotta send my bio, I gotta say, just because it says I got cerebral palsy in my bio doesn't mean I'm gonna talk about it, because I'm like that's not what I'm here for.
35:17
SPEAKER_03: I'm here to educate people on disability and not cerebral palsy.
35:23
SPEAKER_03: Yes, cerebral policy is a disability, but not like not the entirety of my life is not gonna be about cerebral palsy.
35:33
SPEAKER_03: I mean, you know, that really made me mad and I I do forgive the person that done done that 'cause he didn't he didn't know maybe in you know it might have a busy day or something.
35:51
SPEAKER_03: I give people the benefit of that, but still it's like really I send you the bio and you don't even yeah.
36:02
SPEAKER_00: You know it's not only do you you you live what you speak, okay?
36:07
SPEAKER_00: So we're we're 30 minutes in.
36:10
SPEAKER_00: Seems to me like it's been two minutes in.
36:12
SPEAKER_00: We're 30 minutes in.
36:14
SPEAKER_00: That's the first mention, that's the first time you've mentioned anything about your disability.
36:20
SPEAKER_00: Well you that's the first time, you know that's the first time.
36:23
SPEAKER_00: It's it's to to people listening and watching, it is it has been, I'm gonna summarize and I want you to correct me, okay?
36:30
SPEAKER_00: I gave I gave Barrett the permission before we talked.
36:33
SPEAKER_00: I said if I say something that's not appropriate, call me out.
36:36
SPEAKER_00: Call me out on it, right?
36:38
SPEAKER_00: But uh your the conversation so far has been about issues that uh you have faced, but you always put it in the context of context of others.
36:50
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: And this is the first time that you mentioned your in the your your individual issue that you're facing.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: Other till that, it was about here's what a particular group faces.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: That is so not only are you saying this, you're actually living it.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right?
37:07
SPEAKER_00: And wow.
37:10
SPEAKER_00: Um okay, so I'm gonna I want to bounce back a little bit because this is cool.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: So I don't want to steal your thunder on your next speech or your presentation, but you said the next one's gonna be being be called being overlooked.
37:25
SPEAKER_00: Can you give us some high points on that one?
37:30
SPEAKER_00: If you tell me it's okay if you tell me no, you're gonna have a big rollout, that's okay.
37:34
SPEAKER_03: I'll give you a s I'll give you a sneak peek.
37:37
SPEAKER_03: So for audience context, this is from a woman's branch.
37:42
SPEAKER_03: And you know, a lot of women as well as disability get overlooked and under, especially underappreciated by men.
37:54
SPEAKER_03: What I mean by that, because I know I'm setting water when I say that.
37:58
SPEAKER_03: What I mean by that is a lot of people don't realize what women do or go through on a day to day-to-day life, and they don't realize that they're not there anymore or till the person gotta do that on their own.
38:18
SPEAKER_03: It's not just husband and husband and wife that I'm focusing on here.
38:23
SPEAKER_03: It's people in general.
38:26
SPEAKER_03: Because people in general like do do something and people get so used to it that they they they don't even consider it skill until they gotta do it themselves.
38:43
SPEAKER_03: So which is kinda grateful in some ways but also um tiring in other ways.
38:51
SPEAKER_03: And I I know I'm still in Pastor Stephen Freddy's phrase.
38:57
SPEAKER_03: But but my goal is to to do uh such a good job that people don't focus on me and the human aspect like they focus on what the Holy Spirit tells them, you know, through my through my speech, even though I can't like uh physically talk about God and talk about religion sometimes.
39:23
SPEAKER_03: That's my goal every time I go.
39:27
SPEAKER_03: Every time I go speak, that is my that's my goal.
39:31
SPEAKER_03: Like my goal is not not to harp on my disability, not to harp on my accomplish not to harp on my accomplishment.
39:40
SPEAKER_03: My obstacle, my obstacles, my goal is to inspire people and like kinda expose like Jesus and God in a lot of ways, 'cause I am a Christian and you know, I know y'all can't see the whole shirt, but it's like live strong, live live swaggy, live for uh live a swaggy life for Jesus.
40:11
SPEAKER_03: That's my first shirt that I created.
40:14
SPEAKER_03: So it's like and I will be selling it when I when I get all the paperwork done.
40:21
SPEAKER_03: But that's another conversation right now today.
40:24
SPEAKER_03: So, you know, in in this talk I'm like, what does society not think about that you know that as people, and I mean as a whole, don't preach it, and a lot of times people don't realize what women had to go through just to have the same opportunities as men.
40:49
SPEAKER_03: Guess what?
40:50
SPEAKER_03: It's the same thing for disability.
40:53
SPEAKER_03: So it's kind of like bringing that related path, like I know you're struggling, but I am struggling too.
41:00
SPEAKER_00: No, I yeah.
41:03
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I thought you were struggling about I have this look on my face, like I'm trying to sort it out.
41:09
SPEAKER_00: But you know what you said when when I'm listening to you speak, when you immediately said the things that women go through when they're by themselves and being overlooked, my first thought was, my wife's at home by herself.
41:24
SPEAKER_00: What am I overlooking that I should not be overlooking?
41:27
SPEAKER_00: See, the message, the the message goes beyond any kind of barriers.
41:32
SPEAKER_00: The message is based on truth.
41:35
SPEAKER_00: And when you said that, what are we overlooking that we should not be overlooking?
41:39
SPEAKER_00: Immediate thought was, oh no.
41:42
SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
41:44
SPEAKER_00: What am I overlooking that I should not?
41:47
SPEAKER_00: That's it went beyond any kind of yeah.
41:52
SPEAKER_00: So that if you look look at my face going, I'm st I'm starting to tick off the things in my mind, what can I be overlooking?
42:00
SPEAKER_00: What am I and I I am.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh but it's the message that's based on truth, is what you're sharing.
42:07
SPEAKER_03: And it's not for like a husband, a wife's marriage, it could be anything.
42:11
SPEAKER_03: No.
42:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
42:14
SPEAKER_03: It could be a guy, it could be a girl, it could be like a whole family.
42:19
SPEAKER_03: You know.
42:21
SPEAKER_03: During this war crisis and Ukraine and all that stuff.
42:28
SPEAKER_03: That's when people show the kindness of the of the news only in tragedy.
42:35
SPEAKER_03: More time than not.
42:37
SPEAKER_03: The way the world perceives tra tragedy is, you know, crazy, not you know, not in great not crazy 'cause the worst scenario because it that is tragedy, but a lot of times the news and the media uh consider disability tra tragedy in Hollywood.
43:01
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, no, it's not it's just you're paying the way for when people get older and have a broken hip, broken knee, you know.
43:11
SPEAKER_03: We all become I have a disability at some point.
43:15
SPEAKER_03: And a a lot of older generation use the word disabled and I'm like, you're not disabled, you just have another b ability you gotta conquer.
43:27
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
43:27
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
43:28
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
43:30
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
43:31
SPEAKER_00: I can't co I can't I can't comment on that.
43:34
SPEAKER_00: It's just too good.
43:35
SPEAKER_00: I'm just I'm I'm just gonna let that sink in.
43:40
SPEAKER_00: Can you repeat it?
43:41
SPEAKER_00: Can you say it again?
43:43
SPEAKER_03: A lot of people well, a lot of older people call disability disabled and and not really being disabled is having ability having another obstacle and another ability that you're gonna have to overcome and conquer.
44:01
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
44:03
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
44:08
SPEAKER_00: I was gonna say hope to accomplish in the future, but maybe I'll leave hope out of that.
44:12
SPEAKER_00: What is something you're gonna accomplish in the future?
44:15
SPEAKER_03: Well uh what I'm hoping to accomplish in the future is one uh share Christ and everything I do.
44:23
SPEAKER_03: That's my you know, ultimate goal, but to try to create an easier path for somebody with a disability like mine or not even like mine, just somebody with a disability and trying to make it easier easier easier for them.
44:47
SPEAKER_03: And I'll tell you what I'll do what I do almost every day is I watch disability creatives on YouTube.
44:54
SPEAKER_03: I'm a YouTuber as well, but I watch you know the whether they may be blind, have another, you know, disability, maybe in a wheelchair, maybe had a tragic accident, and I had to go through depression and all that stuff, but I that kind of motivates me that they're bringing a uh positive outlook to disability.
45:21
SPEAKER_03: And yes, a lot of times I get asked, do you still want to be old if God knows the thing?
45:27
SPEAKER_03: Yes, I would I would like to.
45:30
SPEAKER_03: But I know God has put me into this um scenario for a reason.
45:37
SPEAKER_03: And I hope I can motivate and inspire, not in the you know, oh poor me, I got a disability sense, but inspire and like okay, I d I got a disability, I'm not gonna let it stop me.
45:57
SPEAKER_00: And I know, I know we gotta wrap it up.
46:00
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
46:02
SPEAKER_00: No, you keep there measern.
46:04
SPEAKER_00: Let me explain to everyone watching and listening why if they're watching, why I moved in my chair.
46:11
SPEAKER_00: There are there are certain times that people say things that I cannot ask another question based on that.
46:20
SPEAKER_00: I cannot, that was, it's almost like when you say there's a there's a mic drop.
46:25
SPEAKER_00: You hear that in a mic drop or there's landing of the plane.
46:28
SPEAKER_00: What you said was, I'm just going, that is so um um inspirational and onto the truth that I can't.
46:40
SPEAKER_00: We just need to anything I say is gonna take away from what you just said.
46:44
SPEAKER_03: Well, I can keep going on that point.
46:47
SPEAKER_03: I know it's not really on that point, but um due to um Oli Hollywood and um all the things, a lot of people that play, you know, a person that has a disability carried in Hollywood, they are not they're not really they don't ever they don't have a disability for real, so all they gotta go off is statistics.
47:17
SPEAKER_03: And because Hollywood did not wanna not do not wanna have accommodate accommodate people with disabilities it's it's a very challenging time for disability enters that, you know, have a breakthrough in Hollywood because they have a m misinterpret misinterpretation or the um producer doesn't want to do the incombination that the uh person would be good playing the role for.
47:52
SPEAKER_03: And it's mind-boggling to me.
47:56
SPEAKER_00: If you sound um we didn't prepare this part, so just uh did you have you seen the movie The Sound of Music uh Sound of Metal?
48:05
SPEAKER_03: No, I have not.
48:06
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
48:07
SPEAKER_00: Uh next uh next time I wanna if that's a if if that's the movie you end up watching, I would love to know the uh what your take is on the ending of it.
48:17
SPEAKER_00: Because um at the very ending of it, he's he's uh has an experience, and that's one of those movies like the the first discussion I had with you that really just stuck with me, and I kept keep thinking about why I can visit you again and hope we remain pals.
48:32
SPEAKER_00: I sure hope so.
48:33
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna try to remain pals with you.
48:35
SPEAKER_00: I know you're gonna be busy.
48:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, but at the end of that movie, it's one that left me with, hmm.
48:41
SPEAKER_00: I I think I know what it's saying, but but I'm not sure.
48:45
SPEAKER_00: So anyway, sound uh sound of metal is an interesting, and it kind of goes along the lines of what you just described, which because there's almost a misinterpretation of how it do you can you think do you mind without I don't want to put you on the spot with about the movie name, but can you give us can you give us an example of maybe a part of a movie where they say maybe the intentions were to get it right, but they got it wrong?
49:10
SPEAKER_03: Well, uh I can I can't really do that because but I try not to harp on that way too much and let alone I do not watch a lot of a lot of movies with disability in them for that reason because Hollywood just uh screws it all up and like they all they go on all they go by statistics.
49:38
SPEAKER_03: But I will say, um the the show speechless, um it was on Ad.
49:49
SPEAKER_03: I think it was on CBS, yeah, I'm pretty sure.
49:54
SPEAKER_03: They had an authentic representation of somebody who had some palsy.
50:02
SPEAKER_03: They might not him they might not have a severe case as he as he was running on, but you you could see during the interview that somebody creating a creating a cast, you know, they had a connection to dis uh disbelief in the role they were playing.
50:26
SPEAKER_03: Whether if that was their sister, cousin, brother, it I gave the producer all the credit in the world because I'm like I'm like, yes please.
50:38
SPEAKER_03: Um also Audible does a great job of you know um doing that as well.
50:48
SPEAKER_03: I know um there was a audio book that I um that I listened to recently, I can't remember the name now.
50:59
SPEAKER_03: But it was it was basically what they had was the all autistic person through the autistic character, which was the main character.
51:12
SPEAKER_03: And I gave credit to the author again because she as she did the research, she asked all kinda people with the with the same condition, because not everybody's the same.
51:26
SPEAKER_03: And she took she took that in the book and kind of like put um put that disability in as a front with the tapping, the fissioning that people don't realize it was it was funny when I watched the um like the interview with the author and like the voice of voice of oppression.
51:55
SPEAKER_03: The only thing that they asked her that um to um elaborate on was when they wouldn't visit or like do something that would make them feel more comfortable when they're stressed out.
52:14
SPEAKER_03: Cause she was like, Oh yeah, forget you know, most people don't know what that is.
52:20
SPEAKER_03: And it's part of that is bridging the gap.
52:24
SPEAKER_03: Uh, you know, uh showing that people with disabilities have a valuable story.
52:32
SPEAKER_03: Another one that, you know, Audible did a great job was a person called Molly Burke, and I did watch her on YouTube.
52:40
SPEAKER_03: They let her do all audio, you know, story.
52:45
SPEAKER_03: Yes, she's fine if she does all that stuff.
52:50
SPEAKER_03: But she also did the PDF for people that, you know, can hear and you know, could read read what the story's about.
53:01
SPEAKER_03: See when you when you um when you uh being inclusive and open-minded to certain things.
53:09
SPEAKER_03: Just like they um talk about a lot of people in the community talk about open I forget what they call it now, but it's basically having open sport plan for the person when when they have issue or when they're in a wheelchair.
53:33
SPEAKER_03: And that to me is where instruction instruction needs to shift.
53:42
SPEAKER_03: Um, you know uh businesses need help on what do we need to do to hire people with disabilities because a lot of businesses get accused of being discriminatory when they don't when they don't know what to do with you know with the platform they got.
54:08
SPEAKER_03: It's all about training people and educating people.
54:12
SPEAKER_03: Back to my first point, uh you know, because when we educate and train people, I know they might be the one to change the world.
54:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you know, I keep um I'm I'm uh I keep writing.
54:32
SPEAKER_00: What's that?
54:32
SPEAKER_03: A la career day.
54:34
SPEAKER_00: I keep writing notes down here.
54:36
SPEAKER_00: I flip the page.
54:37
SPEAKER_00: I mean I know I can listen to the recording, but I keep flipping notes because you just keep encircling things.
54:45
SPEAKER_00: One one thing I heard was not everyone's the same.
54:49
SPEAKER_00: You would think that we would know that, but sometimes we make assumptions based on uh uh bridge again, and then and then here's a big one that just keeps showing up.
55:00
SPEAKER_00: And then I and then I'm gonna ask um really just a couple more questions because I want to be very um aware of your time.
55:10
SPEAKER_00: But you know one thing you keep saying is um which is a truth that's also often hidden.
55:18
SPEAKER_00: And uh because rather than hearing you so I ask you about the movies.
55:27
SPEAKER_00: And you don't you don't watch many, and you know what your answer was is just because, well, they might get the story wrong.
55:33
SPEAKER_00: So rather than watch with the attempt to be angry about something you just didn't watch with the assumption that there's a lack of understanding, and you didn't put anything that was judgmental in the way you said that.
55:46
SPEAKER_00: Then you just said something about businesses, and the only reason you let you dropped the mic on me again, you you just absolutely hit it, but I want to make sure that people are listening to this.
55:57
SPEAKER_00: You said it, and I can't repeat, I can't just say it back as well as you did.
56:01
SPEAKER_00: You're the professional speaker, I'm just the listener, right?
56:05
SPEAKER_03: But kind of remind me what I said that I can hear what I said.
56:09
SPEAKER_00: It came back with you weren't being critical, it was a matter of education.
56:14
SPEAKER_00: Businesses need help understanding what they should be doing or or the value of what they're doing.
56:22
SPEAKER_00: This is where I'm not saying it.
56:23
SPEAKER_00: Well, but your statement was the same thing that you've been saying throughout this entire episode was it's a matter of education.
56:34
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
56:35
SPEAKER_00: Not judge being judgmental, it's a matter of education.
56:39
SPEAKER_00: But what you're doing is you're hitting both sides of it.
56:41
SPEAKER_00: You you had every right to say, but yet they're they're not doing this correctly, and look what you're but you're saying, it's just a matter of education.
56:49
SPEAKER_03: And I don't know, I'm kind of defending both both sides, because it is.
56:55
SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's a job for the company or the owners to listen to somebody that's complaining, but it's also our job to be like, okay, as the as the owner of the company, I mean, like, okay, I hear you.
57:16
SPEAKER_03: Can you help me try to figure out a way to fix the issue and make it better?
57:22
SPEAKER_03: And I don't mean that like, oh, can I get a free sub?
57:27
SPEAKER_03: Can I get a free this?
57:28
SPEAKER_03: Can I get a free that?
57:29
SPEAKER_03: It's like after we complain about something, it's our job to uh help them find the better solution so we don't have to go in like this big circle of society.
57:43
SPEAKER_03: You know, people with disabilities saying they're missing they're being discriminatory, they're missing the point.
57:52
SPEAKER_03: And when not a lot of the time, but sometimes it's just they don't know what to do.
58:00
SPEAKER_03: They don't know what to do.
58:02
SPEAKER_03: They don't know how to start, and that's what we're I feel like that's what we were put on this earth as disability people to do.
58:13
SPEAKER_03: And that's just that's just me.
58:16
SPEAKER_03: But and again, a lot of people don't listen to us.
58:21
SPEAKER_03: So I bet you every time I get to do something like this or speak, I know I can die tomorrow, and I know that's a little dramatic, but it's true.
58:32
SPEAKER_03: Every day is not promised.
58:34
SPEAKER_03: But the Bible says that live every day with a purpose, live every day, live every day.
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SPEAKER_03: Thankful that you're alive, thankful that you're this, thankful that you're that because it's true.
58:46
SPEAKER_03: All gonna be thrown away tomorrow.
58:49
SPEAKER_03: So I try to live my life with intent and purpose.
58:53
SPEAKER_00: Uh I uh seems to me like this is a good time to almost wrap it up.
59:00
SPEAKER_00: I I that's um that's beautiful.
59:03
SPEAKER_00: I was so I had one more question for you.
59:07
SPEAKER_00: And I was can I ask it and then answer it, and then you tell me if I'm right.
59:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, go ahead.
59:14
SPEAKER_00: Um sorry, I gotta take a second for that last answer to see.
59:19
SPEAKER_00: Um okay.
59:21
SPEAKER_00: So my last question was what is your ideal audience?
59:26
SPEAKER_00: You know who I think your ideal audience is?
59:29
SPEAKER_00: Everybody that will listen.
59:33
SPEAKER_00: Everybody that will listen.
59:36
SPEAKER_00: Did I get is that?
59:37
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
59:38
SPEAKER_03: That won't listen.
59:40
SPEAKER_00: It just so happens.
59:41
SPEAKER_00: I was gonna when I wrote that down, I was gonna guess.
59:44
SPEAKER_00: Well, I think the ideal audiences are the kids.
59:48
SPEAKER_00: Are the kids?
59:49
SPEAKER_00: It's not necessarily, it's the people that will ask the questions with an open heart and open mind that will ask the questions.
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SPEAKER_03: And I feel like if we have more open more open minded in this world, we'll go a lot further than we are right now.
1:00:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:00:06
SPEAKER_00: So, Barrett, what is the best way for people listening and watching to get in touch with you?
1:00:11
SPEAKER_03: Um obviously by email and I'll I'll have you put this in the description box on my YouTube and I'll I'll uh you know, I'll say it and then I'll let you do what you gotta do.
1:00:27
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
1:00:27
SPEAKER_03: But it's spirit, counterman, as you might Well, no, I'm lying.
1:00:36
SPEAKER_03: Spirit dark but with one T instead of T T like it was one in Swaggy Life at gmail.com That's the best way to get in touch with me.
1:00:59
SPEAKER_03: Also Facebook and then this is when it gets really tricky because only my my business email has one T in it.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_03: Everything else is the same.
1:01:15
SPEAKER_03: So it's there it's with two T's and two R's like you like and if you type that on Facebook you'll see my logo with thing.
1:01:31
SPEAKER_03: The shirt that I have on now and I'll have you know, you can I'll I'll let you I'll send you the copy of my logo so they can find it directly, but that's another way you can reach me.
1:01:47
SPEAKER_03: Also, I do have an Instagram page.
1:01:51
SPEAKER_03: Same thing.
1:01:54
SPEAKER_03: It's uh Barrett's dot life.
1:02:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:02:01
SPEAKER_03: Barrett Barrett dot spike in life life, and then there you go.
1:02:09
SPEAKER_00: Well, I'll tell you, you just changed the direction of this podcast, my man.
1:02:14
SPEAKER_00: So you guys listen to this.
1:02:16
SPEAKER_00: So we're going to now start adding the transcription of all our shows onto the podcast.
1:02:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm listening to him speak, and I'm going, okay, you can hear him speak, you can see him speak.
1:02:27
SPEAKER_00: You need to read what he's saying as well.
1:02:29
SPEAKER_00: So what we're gonna do is in the in the where you're seeing it, on YouTube for Circle of Panda or on the website Circle of Panda, what he just described on how you get in touch with him will be links in the show notes, which I will I will make absolutely sure that the links work that direction, but there will be links in the show notes to how they get in touch with you.
1:02:48
SPEAKER_00: It's also gonna be a transcription that um that what'll have what'll what it'll force me to do is edit my own work because sometimes I'm just not too good at details, but you'll see a transcription of what we discussed in the show notes of this podcast and on YouTube as well.
1:03:05
SPEAKER_00: And in there will be the links that they can just click on and then they can get you to you.
1:03:10
SPEAKER_03: I appreciate it.
1:03:11
SPEAKER_03: Thank you very much.
1:03:13
SPEAKER_00: Barrett, I'm I'm done asking, I've riddled you with questions and all these kind of things.
1:03:18
SPEAKER_00: And is is there anything that you'd like to end on?
1:03:23
SPEAKER_03: Well, I always uh tell people this and I don't I don't end every uh public speaking engagement or anything with this except for my videos because it's true.
1:03:38
SPEAKER_03: Always live strong and live, live.
1:03:43
SPEAKER_03: And if you live with spike the confidence will be there.
1:03:47
SPEAKER_03: That's why my company name is Bear it's spiky life because I don't see that as as a simple guest race.
1:03:57
SPEAKER_03: I um I try to and I I do struggle with self-confidence, but I try to um give people what I strive to be.
1:04:10
SPEAKER_03: And what I strive to be is confident in myself and confident that God will carry me through.
1:04:17
SPEAKER_03: That's why my my business name and my logo and all that stuff is centered around God, but it's not just me talking about church.
1:04:29
SPEAKER_03: I'm hoping like you all realize today maybe you'll you will listen to somebody that you know might sound different with a higher voice or with a lower voice.
1:04:44
SPEAKER_03: And uh maybe what they have to say, because I I'm just one person and one body speaking about one scenario.
1:04:55
SPEAKER_03: You know, I can't cover all scenarios because I'm not God and I can I can't be like, boom, you got this, you deal with this every day.
1:05:05
SPEAKER_03: We all have our challenges and trust me, your wife's your life is worth living, and I hope you don't see that just because of my disability, you see that from what I'm what I've done and how humble I am and the way I live my life in general, not because of my condition.
1:05:31
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
1:05:32
SPEAKER_00: Again, I if I try to add to that ending, all I'm gonna do is run the risk of messing.
1:05:38
SPEAKER_00: I will um I'm incredibly uh grateful that you would spend the time with me and and I know it's gonna add great value, so thank you very much.
1:05:48
SPEAKER_03: Thank you for having me also.
1:05:50
SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.