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Eric J. Buzzetto - JFK Elementary · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: here in Central Vermont, but all over the region. And
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  Speaker 1: Sweethearts and Heroes has just the wave of positivity from
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  Speaker 1: Sweethearts and Heroes that has swept into so many schools
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  Speaker 1: and changed things drastically. Eric Bizetto is the physical education
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  Speaker 1: teacher over at the JFK Elementary School. Do I have
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  Speaker 1: that right, my friend?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you do.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about you a little bit. I was doing
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  Speaker 1: some homework on you last night and the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: was popping out in a Google search was crazy. There
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  Speaker 1: was so much of it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh boy. So I've been a.
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  Speaker 3: Fin's that teacher for twenty three years now in bruce To,
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  Speaker 3: New York. It's It's something I've always wanted to do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very passionate about it. I absolutely love my job.
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  Speaker 3: I teach a K through five. Right now, I've been teaching.
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  Speaker 3: I taught middle.
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  Speaker 4: School, I got high school, so I bought at every
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  Speaker 4: single level.
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  Speaker 3: Now the elementary school is definitely my passion. I coached
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  Speaker 3: basketball for twenty years. Soccer I love the coach, but
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  Speaker 3: once I had my kids.
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  Speaker 4: I have three wonderful kids.
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  Speaker 3: I have a daughter and two sons, and I asked
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  Speaker 3: them every season to mind his dad coaches.
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  Speaker 4: They always said yes.
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  Speaker 3: One year they said no, and that's the year I
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  Speaker 3: stopped coaching.
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  Speaker 4: To me, your family comes first.
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  Speaker 3: So once they said no, they want to go at home,
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  Speaker 3: then the dad's gonna be home.
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  Speaker 1: More so, how many kids in your school? About?
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  Speaker 3: If you had to guess, in the K two building
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  Speaker 3: was probably a middle over six hundred.
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  Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Man. You know, I was thinking last night
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  Speaker 1: how old I am and at fifty five, I remember
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  Speaker 1: my gym teacher so well from elementary school. Little did
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  Speaker 1: I know, you know, being that age that I would
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  Speaker 1: be going through the next forty plus years of my
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  Speaker 1: life and never forgetting my gym teacher and the impact
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  Speaker 1: that he had on me. And I was sitting there
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  Speaker 1: last night and I was reading up on you, and
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  Speaker 1: I was just reflecting on my own life, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that huge track and field event. It was
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  Speaker 1: we were going for state championship, and I was my
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  Speaker 1: ankle caught that second from last hurdle I think it was,
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  Speaker 1: and I went down and I was devastated. Man. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I want to guess I was probably maybe twelve, thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen years old, and if it wasn't for that gym
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  Speaker 1: teacher and what he said to me afterwards, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I would have been anywhere near as okay
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  Speaker 1: as I was. That guy had a real, real, prolonged
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  Speaker 1: impact on me. What do you think when you're you're
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  Speaker 1: one guy and you got six hundred people in your
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  Speaker 1: audience that most of which are probably going to remember
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  Speaker 1: you for a very very long time. You are in
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  Speaker 1: a very bright spotlight, my friend, as in as all
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  Speaker 1: administrators are, I think, but especially the gym teacher. Man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, it's been a pretty pretty weird career
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  Speaker 3: for me. I mean, as when I started, I was
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  Speaker 3: twenty two years old and I was teaching high school kids,
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  Speaker 3: so I was teaching eighteen year olds.
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  Speaker 4: So now later in my career, I'm teaching the K two.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the one of the cool things for
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  Speaker 3: me is now I'm teaching children of student that first had.
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  Speaker 4: First couple of years of teaching.
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  Speaker 3: So that's been a really cool full circle for me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in terms of you know, sort of the
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  Speaker 3: impact that I might have on you know, my students' lives.
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  Speaker 3: It you know, it definitely.
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  Speaker 4: Goes both ways.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they they have a huge impact on me,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I definitely feed off their energy as well.
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  Speaker 3: I Mean, one of the biggest things for me too
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  Speaker 3: is you know, I've been blessed with you know, amazing coworkers.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my you know, I have you know, I've
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  Speaker 3: had one colleague gen for the past I think eleven
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  Speaker 3: or twelve years, and then we have a we have
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  Speaker 3: a brand new teacher in now and and he's been amazing.
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  Speaker 3: So having amazing coworkers really keeps your energy up. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's about today and you know, and the kids see
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  Speaker 3: it too. But you know that when the kids come
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  Speaker 3: into class and they see all the equipment out and
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  Speaker 3: you know, and their eyes are you know, wide open,
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  Speaker 3: you know you can't help it but just be you know,
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  Speaker 3: super excited to hang out with them.
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  Speaker 4: And teach them and trying to move into the future
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. How old are you, Eric, I'm forty five.
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  Speaker 1: So when you're you know, when you're way up there
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  Speaker 1: in age, let's say, you know, eighty eighty five whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you're realistically probably going to remember maybe a handful of
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  Speaker 1: the six hundred students, maybe a little bit more, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a little bit less. You might even remember one or
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  Speaker 1: two and that's it. But of those six hundred students,
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing, and this would be just an assumption, I'm
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  Speaker 1: guessing probably eighty percent of those students, maybe more, are
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  Speaker 1: going to remember their gym teacher.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty amazing and it's it's you know it do.
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  Speaker 1: You do you ever think about do you ever think
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  Speaker 1: about that?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Not until you just brought it up, To be honest
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  Speaker 4: with you, it is.
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  Speaker 3: It is pretty amazing to think about that. And now
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  Speaker 3: that you're you know, now that you brought it up,
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  Speaker 3: it's like it's it's one of those it's actually one
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  Speaker 3: of the reasons why I became a you know, fidead
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  Speaker 3: teacher as well. It's because I've had you know that,
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  Speaker 3: that's you know, I had great people, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: you know, I still talk to, you know, one.
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  Speaker 4: Or two of them. The couple have you know, unfortunately
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  Speaker 4: passed on.
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  Speaker 3: But they've they've had a huge they've had a huge
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  Speaker 3: impact in my life.
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  Speaker 4: And it's the reason why, you know, I also went
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  Speaker 4: to this field.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, you're absolutely right, you know, it is you know,
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  Speaker 3: it is a humbling thing to hear. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: definitely a lot of responsibility, but it's you know, but
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  Speaker 3: it's fun, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I you know, it is my job per se, but
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, it's something I just absolutely love to do, so.
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  Speaker 4: I don't need to think of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's so much more than just physical education. It's
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  Speaker 1: so much more than getting kids active and getting them
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  Speaker 1: to move around and get in shape and learn about
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  Speaker 1: healthy eating habits and making healthy choices. There's so much
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  Speaker 1: more involved here. Yesterday, we took a very deep dive
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  Speaker 1: into the subject of bullying on the air, and I
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  Speaker 1: had some folks locally that share the microphone with me
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  Speaker 1: on the couch, and we're very very transparent about some
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  Speaker 1: local issues that we're having, and you know, it just
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  Speaker 1: got me thinking. I mean, it's like it seems like
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  Speaker 1: bullying is everywhere and at some level, there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be bullying. I don't think that there's a school anywhere
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  Speaker 1: in the world that is one hundred percent bully free,
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  Speaker 1: even schools that Sweethearts and Heroes has gone into. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said yesterday, I used the words flipped upside
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  Speaker 1: out and made things drastically better. But I think to
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  Speaker 1: some level, there's always going to be some form of
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  Speaker 1: bullying somewhere. We're not always going to see it. We're
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  Speaker 1: not always going to smell it as administrators, but it's happening,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it's happening right in front of us, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't even realize it. What do you do as
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  Speaker 1: a gym teacher to have your eyes wide open to
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  Speaker 1: this and to have the message that Sweethearts and Heroes
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  Speaker 1: brings UH in your pocket as a gym teacher all
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  Speaker 1: the time? What do you do to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: that's being echoed all the time, even while there's while
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  Speaker 1: there's play, while there's well, there's activities going on in
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  Speaker 1: the gym.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean we you know, we have these,
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  Speaker 3: you know, certain times throughout the day, you know, little
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  Speaker 3: little half hour forty five minute blocks where I actually
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  Speaker 3: go into the classroom and I talked about empathy, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and the sweethearts, you know, and here of message.
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  Speaker 3: So they're we're getting it almost every day from us
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  Speaker 3: as well. And then you know, throughout the class in
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  Speaker 3: the gym, you know, if you know, I always have
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  Speaker 3: groups and stuff, and I do allow them, even at
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  Speaker 3: the young.
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  Speaker 4: Age, to make their own groups.
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  Speaker 3: And the more I go into the classroom and the
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  Speaker 3: more I am talking about empathy and you know, helping
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  Speaker 3: students out. If you know, if there's one kid left out,
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  Speaker 3: it's only for a short amount of time now because
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  Speaker 3: other kids are saying, hey, why do we come join
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  Speaker 3: our group? You know, yo, hey guys, why don't we
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  Speaker 3: go you know, go with that kid today or something
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 4: So it's been you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's been pretty cool to see, even at the kindergarten level,
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  Speaker 3: which is tough at that age, but we are, we
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  Speaker 3: are seeing it, and it's been pretty amazing to say.
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  Speaker 1: And you realize, as well as other administrators that the
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  Speaker 1: responsibility of teaching, whether it's physical education, whether it's math, science,
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  Speaker 1: social studies, English, whatever, that you're you're teaching things far
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  Speaker 1: beyond that. You're teaching, as you said, empathy you're teaching sharing,
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  Speaker 1: you're teaching things frankly that mom and dad may not
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  Speaker 1: be teaching at home, and that responsibility is falling on
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  Speaker 1: your shoulders.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's when you I mean looking at
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  Speaker 3: you know, my own children and stuff. When you know,
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  Speaker 3: when I leave at you know, eight o'clock in the
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  Speaker 3: morning or something like that, and they're gone from the
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  Speaker 3: eight to four, so you know, the majority of their
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  Speaker 3: day is not with me and my wife. So it's
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, I am trusting you know, their school
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  Speaker 3: two to guide them in the right direction. So I
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  Speaker 3: mean as a parent who does that as well, I
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  Speaker 3: am definitely trusting them.
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  Speaker 4: So I definitely understand, you know, when there's the six.
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  Speaker 3: Hundred pairs of parents who are strucking their kids off
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  Speaker 3: every day at my school, you know, I'm definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 3: one of the people that you know they're going to
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  Speaker 3: come to if they have a.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you have the problem or an issue.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean definitely one of the biggest things at
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  Speaker 3: the elementary level is every issue that they come to
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  Speaker 3: is definitely a small issue in my mind, but it
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  Speaker 3: could be a huge issue in their world right now.
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  Speaker 3: So if someone you know, you stole their your favorite toy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, then go in a different toy.
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  Speaker 3: But to them, that's their whole world. So we got
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  Speaker 3: to talk about you know, you can't take things and
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  Speaker 3: you got to take the turn and all that stuff. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's definitely.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to.
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  Speaker 3: You'll teach the kids that you know it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you may not think it's a huge issue, but you
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  Speaker 3: know that person at that moment, it is a big deal,
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  Speaker 3: and just how to deal.
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  Speaker 4: With it properly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, what perspective. How how did you hear about
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  Speaker 1: the Sweethearts and Heroes program? How did you get introduced
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  Speaker 1: to Tom Murphy and Ricky Irish and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the team.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, there was another guy, Jason, who I met first,
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  Speaker 3: and it was that a it was that it It
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  Speaker 3: was called the Southeastern Zone Conference. It's a huge bis
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  Speaker 3: head conference that we hold on election day down here
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  Speaker 3: in New York.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, there was this big guy. He was
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  Speaker 4: up in the front.
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  Speaker 3: He was a keynote speaker, and every Ginot speaker we
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  Speaker 3: have is kind of like all right, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of boring at times, and he kind of gets
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  Speaker 3: up there the relas a daisical and you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: wearing a pink shirt and like, all right whatever and
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  Speaker 3: makes you know, he unbuttons the pick shirt. He's wearing
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  Speaker 3: a dark black shirt.
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  Speaker 4: It says three hugs underneath it, and I'm like, what
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  Speaker 4: is going on right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he starts and then he starts juggling standing up
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  Speaker 3: in the seat. Were like, what is this about? Like,
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  Speaker 3: no idea, and he goes, so do I have your attention?
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, like h and he just starts talking
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  Speaker 3: about things. And so at that point, I've heard many
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  Speaker 3: you know, quote unquote anti bullying you know, programs, and
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  Speaker 3: and you know, they're they're all great, and they're all great.
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  Speaker 3: But when he was talking about three arts and heroes,
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  Speaker 3: I love the action based part of it. It's it's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I love the I love the idea of
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  Speaker 3: the bully drill, and that was something that really caught
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  Speaker 3: my eye. So yeah, yeah, it's you know, it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's absolutely unbelievable. And so that day I could choose
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  Speaker 3: four different, four different, four different seminars to go do,
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  Speaker 3: and that day I went to.
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  Speaker 4: All four.
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  Speaker 3: I went to the same same one. I went to
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  Speaker 3: the I went to the Sweethearts and Heroes four times
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  Speaker 3: in a row. I did the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: And that night I was thinking about my life.
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  Speaker 3: How when I grew up I was bullied as well,
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  Speaker 3: but I did have some great friends and I you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought of them as friends at the time,
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  Speaker 3: and and uh, looking back, and I'm like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: those kids, they were my superheroes and you know, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, like that that didn't really change how
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to teach and everything, and you don't go
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  Speaker 3: about this. So I emailed them that night and I said,
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  Speaker 3: I want to get you guys in my school as
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: soon as I can. And it was probably that.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: It was that spring when.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Uh, where we were gonna get him in and then yeah,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: and you know, and we got him in and you know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: and the rest is history. Now it's been absolutely amazing.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: That's that's incredible, man. So so this has been going
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: on for how long.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Now, I believe since about twenty eighteen is when we
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: started it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And how of the kids responded so far, So.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: It's been amazing. They they know when I come.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Into their flashom in the afternoon for about a half
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: hour that I'm doing something with you know, sweet arch
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: and heroes. They they absolutely love doing the bully drills.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: They've they've loved it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: You know, it's gotten to the point now where they
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: don't want me to be the bully that you know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: they want to be the bully and they want to
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: see me via superhero this time. So they're really they're
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: taken into the different roles. And what I've noticed too,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: when we first started out and I said, okay, you know,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: make a group and everything, and they all go with
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: their friends. Now and I say, hey, make a group,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: they're going with people that they never really hang out
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: with on the playground.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Or something like that. And they're going with different.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: People just to get a whole, a whole different perspective,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: which is a big word with us.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: And you know, and it's been really really amazing to me.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Wow, I love hearing this. You know, it seems like
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of vulnerabilities can be exposed, whether you're you're
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: doing some some circle training, uh, you're you're all sitting there,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you're all listening, you can all see each other, or
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the bully drills, you know, And and here's the thing,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: you know, it's in what I love about Tom and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Rick the whole team is it's a really really serious thing,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: but they make it fun and it can be really entertaining,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: as you well know, I'm sure you've you've seen a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: lot of laughter going on.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it is.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, the bully drills have been they've been amazing,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: and those are those have been great. And I've been
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: doing the circles now for about two years. Just to
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: the training this past fall up in.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: The Rutlands Vermont, and that was that was unbelievable. That
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: was great.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: And so now doing those as well, you really get
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: to know a lot more about the students that you
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: wouldn't know just in the bully grill. And and one
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: thing I do is I actually share with them as well.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: So when I asked them, you know, who's your favorite superhero?
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: You know, you know, I'll tell them.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Mine as well. So it's it's it's really cool.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: And I think it's important for teachers who kind of
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: just let down their guarded a little bit every now
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: and then, you know, and make themselves vulnerable as well,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: because you know, if we're gonna ask kids to do it,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: you know, we have to do it as well as anything.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so true, have you had any any uh, special moments, memories,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: anything particular that will last in your memory of any
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: kind of experience that you've had doing anything with with
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: sweethearts and heroes, uh and seeing and experiencing the direct
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: impacts that it's had on students.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, two really stand out the uh. The first one
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: was actually the first time that Tom and Rick came
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: to my school. And and I will never forget that.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I was. I was, I was so excited.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: We had a we had a voluntary morning faculty meeting
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: just so the retire step to meet Tom and Rick,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and and as they all walked out, they were just
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: hearing you know, Rick's story, you know the time to say.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: There wasn't a dry eye in the room. They were like, Eric,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: we are so excited for this to that. So when
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I made the schedule at the time, there were no breaks.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: There were no bunch of breaks, nothing at all. We
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: went from nine to fifteen, straight to three point thirty,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: and so it was an amazing day. I filmed every
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: single one. I was taking videos the entire time. Everything
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: was going perfect. On the last session, I'm like, you
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: know what, I'm not going to film this one. I'm
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: just still tired now. So there was one girl. She
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: was a first grader at the time, and when Rick
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: walked out, she immediately just shelled up. She was absolutely
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: petrified of Rick. She saw Rick and she started crying
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: and her friends were around her and Tom's talking, and
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: that introduces Rick.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Rick starts talking.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Tom comes to me and goes Eric, when I talk
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: about bee for buddy, I'm going to call that girl up.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I goes, Tom, what are you doing?
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: She's petrified her Rick. She's not going to help him out,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: like We've had such a good day, you know, I
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: am my superintendents here. Why are you going to ruin
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: the last session like this?
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Tom? What are you doing to it?
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: So it came time for that and Tom called her
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: up and she she was a little rebucked in, but
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: she did get up. And so if Tom does this
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: whole thing, you know, you'll put this bully hat on everything.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: You know, he goes over, he bullies Rick, he walks away,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: and you know, Rick's standing there, goes man. You know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: he bullies me every day, and you know, no what
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: ever helps me out, and it's just you know, I
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: you know, I just don't like this anymore. But no
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: one wants to be my friend. And Rick kind of
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: crosses his hands across his body and she looked over,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: and Tom goes, you know, I think you could help
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: him out, and she shakes her head no, So I'm like,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: here we go.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: So then, you know, Rick just.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Says, well, I guess I'll never have any friends. And
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: she looks up at Rick and you know, it kind
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: of pauses for a second, and then she walks over.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, now at this point, no one even
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: touched Rick's hands all day. No one touched Rick's hands.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Every woman just grab him from the wrist. So she
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: walks over.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my god, she's gonna grab his hands,
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: and she does it.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: She grabs his wrist, uncrosses his arms and hugs him.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Now I was like, everyone starts crying at that point.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: And at that moment, I could probably say that was
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: the best moment in my entire teaching career to see
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: a kid overcome so much fear to go over and
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: hug an individual that is so different from anyone she's
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: ever met in her entire life. That was probably the
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: number one moment in my teaching career so far.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: To bring some context, in it. And for folks that
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: are watching and or listening right now who are not
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: familiar yere with with Rick. I've explained Rick many times.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I've had him on the air with me several times.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I think he's going to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: be on with me again real soon, possibly next. I
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: got to look at the calendar here next Wednesday, I'm
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: not sure, but I will promote the crap out of it,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of course, but bring some context into this. For folks
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that are not familiar with with Rick, why this, why
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: this this girl? And and and let's be honest, so
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: many other kids at so many other schools when they
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: see Rick are like, whoa.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, Yeah, So you know Rick was in You know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Rick was in the army. And you know that's why
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I tell the kid, you know, I might you know Rick.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Was in the army.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: He's a very very very bad accident and now he
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: has no years, he has no nose, but he has
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: a pretty awesome robot leg and and he has burnt
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: over over his entire body. So he definitely looks very
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: very very different. But you know, one of the things
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: of the Rick is he he has a knack just
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: to connect with people like no one I've ever met
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: in my life. He's absolutely, absolutely amazing, you know, and
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: you know, like, you know, he him and Tom came
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: out with my family to dinner one night, and you know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: my kids still talk about that night. You know, they
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: actually joked, They're like, oh, yeah, I've never Rick and
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: that other guy. I mean, I've never saw Tom that well.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, now he's gonna know that. But because you
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: go to hear this probably.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: But but but I mean, Rick just has an absolute
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: knack just to connect to people.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: But you know, one of the things that you know
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: that Tom and Rick what we say is, you know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: and they actually told our staff is when Rick walks out,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: kids might say ill disgusting grows let them have them
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: actually action their children.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: They have to get that out and just let Rick talk.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: By the by the first minute of Rick talking, all
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: the kids are fully engaged.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: They didn't even notice it anymore.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: And the way Rick talked about being different and how
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: everyone's different and how yes he is a little more
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: different than everyone else, but you know what, so is everyone.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: So it's you know, he's absolutely amazing at just conveying
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: that message.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: He's he's different, on the on the exterior, and maybe
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: even on the interior. For compared to most of us.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy who has, honestly, he
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: has embraced a tragedy. He was blown up in a
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: roadside bomb in Iraq, covered in diesel fuel and was
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: earning alive, had his leg he amputated. I mean, how
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: he survived this after months and months and months, skin grafts,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: so on and so forth, burned beyond recognition by his
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: own parents. How this guy has taken this tragedy and
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: at one point very much you know, not wanting to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: live and asking his soldier comrade to put him out
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: of his misery if you know, you know it it
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and for him to and I I and I understand
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: that there's different messaging here that he brings to an
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: older audience, a more your audience. But to bring his
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: message of hope and positivity and resiliency into the hearts
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: of children is amazing. But to also bring in his
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: messaging of hey, people will bully someone because of their
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: their skin color, but what about me? I you know,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I really don't have a lot of skin, and the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: skin that I have is burned. I mean, it's there's
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: no way that he can hide any of that. And
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I mean someone that's subjected to harassment, bullying, stereotyping. The
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: list goes on man Rick's kind of the poster child
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: of that, and he's he's flipped it around and he
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: understands that being different is something that you should embrace
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and allow others to discover the person that's behind that skin,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: no matter what that skin is, what color it is,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: or whatever that is.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Rick Yarish, well, you know, one of the things I
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: talked to all my students about.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Is the word perspective. That's a big word for you know,
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: younger kids.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: But you know, you know, I always, you know, tell
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: the story and you know I've heard Rick say it,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: and I've seen the different interviews with Ric say it too.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Is you know, Rick, if you can go back to
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: that one day, you know, change anything, what would it be?
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: And he says nothing, because I wouldn't be where I
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: am today if that actually didn't happen. And to hear
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: that is like, Rick, you know, you got blown up, right,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Like come on, but it's absolutely amazing. Just I mean,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: he took a extreme negative in his life and turned
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: it into the most positive thing I've never seen anyone do.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Same here, Same here. I've interviewed thousands of people over
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the course of my career, Rick stands out as one that.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, if I was interviewed tomorrow by someone and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: they asked me that question, who do you remember the most,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Rick would be right up there, top three probably. I mean,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: he is, It's just and Tom too, man. I mean
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: these guys. Tom Is is like the brainchild of this
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: and is like he's unstoppable, and Tom Murphy is like
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the goal is to change as many lives as possible ultimately, ultimately,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and I was saying this yesterday, to prevent a kid
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: from going through with taking their own life and giving
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: up on hope and the rest of their life ahead
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: of themselves, that's the goal, I think ultimately for sweethearts
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: and heroes, be a better be a better kid, a
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: better student, a better human being, help others, but ultimately
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: stay grounded and connected enough in your life where you
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: know what the priorities are of what's most important, work
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: through it and survive this crazy world that we live
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: in and flourish.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean just to just to go back on
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Tom real quick.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: I mean it's every time I meet with.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Tom at a seminar or he comes to the school
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I need. When I went up to Rutland, you know,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: in the fall, you know, I was having a pretty
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: rough fall. There's a lot of changes in my school
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: and you know, things, things weren't.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Going real well.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: And you know, and I drove up there, you know,
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: it was about you know, all the under four hours from.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Me, you know, tired. I get there and I leave.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: You can't help but leave so excited to get back
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: to the classroom right away. Yeah. With Tom, he just
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: has this infectious energy that you know, if you're not
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: excited about education when you're done with Tom, then you
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: shouldn't be in education.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, it's just it's unbelievable.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: I just getting you energized to take this message and
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: go right back and just tell everyone about it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so so so true. You know, what's what's next
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: for the Brewster School District? What do you what are
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: you hoping to do? Are you are you hoping to well,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I'll let you answer that.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah. No.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: So we had a absolutely amazing program going for like
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: the past two or three years.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: It was go.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: So Tom and Rick came to the elementary school and
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: and then I had him go to an intermediate school,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: which is a three four five building, and then they
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: did uh and then do it at the high school too,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: And they've now done two the two with the high school,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: which has been amazing. And what we do at the
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: high school is we do it's a an hour and
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: a half a program in the auditorium and then we
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: think about eighteen to twenty kids, you know, and then
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: you know, and we put them uh do some training
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: and then those kids would come over to the elementary
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: school and they would do bully jokes with all the kids,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: and it was and it was amazing, and it was
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: great for for about two years. In the past year
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: or two, my high school contacts have kind of moved
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: around a bit, so that programs kind of lost touch.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: So I'm hoping to get that back up off the
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: ground and get those kids back in the element into
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: the elementary school, because I mean, I could talk to
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: them all day, but to have high school kids, I mean, one,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: they're so much cooler than I am in the kid's eyes.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: So I mean, to have a high school kid walk
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: into your walk into your first grade classroom, I talk
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: to you.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: And sit down on the floor with you. It's like,
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: that is the coolest thing that ever happened in their
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: little lives right now.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: It's you know, it's a lot better than Nate. So
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: you know that would be my next step is to
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: get that you know, back up off the ground. And
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: that's here a booster. I mean, I've you know, I've
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: done preventations at my kids own school, which I love.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: That that was the for fun.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: And now my wife is going to have them go
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: to their school I think in the spring. Wow, I
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: just want to get them in. And I mean people
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: ask me, you know, what's the best thing you do.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I'm like, your hero, Like what's that. I'm like, I'm
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: a time you guy, because I could talk about it
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: for hours.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: It is. It's been an amazing program at Brewster.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: It's changed my you know, change how I teach, you know,
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: change how I you know.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Talk to students. You know.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: I just can't say enough about the program.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you you know. Tom's pretty physically fit still. Yeah,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: former u f C fighter talks a lot of it.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Talks a big talk about how he's always doing push
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: ups and setups and and cal stenex and and how
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: he runs ten miles every morning at four a m.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: And we've all heard the details of it, the the
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the abs everything. Have you have you ever
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: seen him actually do a single yes or no? A
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: single push up? Yes? How was? How was the form?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: How was the form of the posture? Was it was? It?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Was it correct?
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Well, time's a lot bigger than me, so I'm gonna
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: say it was absolutely perfect, perfect form?
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: All right? Did he did he do more than than
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: than one? I mean I've seen him do one, possibly
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: two in a in a hotel room. But did he
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: do how many? Did he do?
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: So?
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: There is actually proof it was during It was during
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: COVID and he had like a like a zoom for
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: a bunch of people, and and I went on and
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: it was in April, which is we still do it
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: here at our school. It's the fifty thousand push up challenge.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Our entire school has to do fifty thousand push ups
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: and then they get to pour a bucket of rice
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: water on me, which is great. But Tom had me
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: on the zoom. I was in my living room. It
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: was like, you know, ten o'clock at night and he goes, hey, Eric,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: why do we bag out some push ups quick. I said,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: all right, fine, I'm thinking we'll do like five or ten.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: We both did fifty, So there is proof that Tom
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: could do fifty in a row.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Damn.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: And I did it and I was curtin and I'm
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: sure Tom was absolutely fine after him.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I was going to ask you how much
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: air he was sucking after that?
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: But Tom, he was good.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: So so has has Tom uh wanted to to get
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: back to this fifty thousand push up challenge with with
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: you in your school?
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Well? He he usually makes a video cour use every
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: year and he sends it in you know, you know,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: you know when the kids go you know crazy for him.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: You know. One you know, one of the things that
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: that I love is that when when he.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: Does it, he usually has you know, Rick on the
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: video too, and you know Rick just is like.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Oh no, Tom, you know, you didn't go low enough.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: You know it's gonna come up high enough. And so
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: it's so it's kind of cool. They'll see in there,
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: you're seeing their friendly banter go on. But oh yeah,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Tom always sends.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: A video every year.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: I usually making videos, send it to you know, the
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: entire team, which has grown so much over the years.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: I mean with the addition of you know, Pat has
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: been like, oh my god, Pat's amazing, you know, and
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: you know, and everyone now you know, you know, behind
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: the scenes, Leon is just you know, he's emailing me
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: every day about something.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: It's you know, I got so much information from him.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: It's you It's that entire team is just unreal right now.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean we're gonna be doing it again,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: you know, this April, which is a lot of fun
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: and uh yeah, I'm sure Tom and Rick will you
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: send a nice video over to us again and you know,
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: and the.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Kids will love it.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that Tom stopped with or or didn't allow
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: for more of a challenge here in not so much
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: in the fifty thousand, but just a simple bucket of
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: ice water over the head. I'm surprised that Tom hasn't
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: upped the ante on that. Do you think that he might?
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: Well, the the bucket was actually my idea, just to
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: do as something for the kids. You know, we do
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: different things, you know, almost every other month here which
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: I get pied in the face or something like that.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I saw that last night.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's fun. But you know, you know you've
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: done the bucket every year.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: If anyone has.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: A better idea, I am open for you know, new
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: and inventive ideas.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: So send them my way.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: I'm you know, I'm I'll definitely off of something new.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe a little uh ice bath for four minutes, just
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: just an idea.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: I'll do it. That's why would me?
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: So do they have to so the students have to
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: record their their push ups? They have to do this
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: in front of you. Is there proof of the of
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: these push ups?
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: So what they do is when they came in for class.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: So about say forty two kids in the gym at once,
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: So we'll do yeah, so we'll do you know, ten
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: push ups. You know, so there's you know, the four
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: hundred and twenty push ups right there, and then and
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: then I put it up on a board, on a
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: whole sheet, and it adds it up. And then every
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: day when they come in, I have a total for
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: the entire school. And then you just takes about your
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: three weeks and they get to you know, fifty thousand,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: and then I say, okay, if you get to the
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: sixty you know, you know, maybe two bucks of ice
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: water on he or something like.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: That, yeah, finally this morning. Man, I love hearing this.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: This stuff, this is is such great, it's positive, it's fun.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: What's what's the future looking like for the Brewster School
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: District and and your school specifically with sweethearts and heroes, I.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: Mean moving forward? I would definitely one.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: I try to have every group for every great see
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Tom and Rick at least once, so I would probably
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: like I would like to have them back next year.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: And we have a lot of new staff we.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: Have We're going to have an entire new admin as well,
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: so you know, just to have them really experienced them,
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: you know, at least once is is absolutely amazing. I
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: would love to, you know, train some more high school students,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: have them come over. You know, having that was was
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: really really good, and you know, I would love to
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: do a I would love to do a circle training
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: here here in Booster. I mean that to me is yeah,
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: I mean those are unbelievable and if you ever get
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: a chance to be a part of that, it is
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: you know, you walk in and you know, the first
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: couple of questions you're kind of like, you know, I mean,
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: I don't want to share too much, and then you
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: hear what other people are saying. You're like, oh, yeah,
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: that's happened to me as well, and you just start
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: talking about it and next you know, they're sharing things
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: that were I mean, I was in Rutland telling you know,
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: complete stranger things I've never told my best friends. And
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: it's just these circles have a way of just you
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: feel so open and comfortable.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just sharing. It really makes you feel better.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: And to hear other people is hear what other people
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: are going through, and you know, you know when the
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: pros and cons in their life is is really good.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: So I mean I would love to, you know, put
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: our staff through that as well, just to have them
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: experience one circle, like, wow, this something that you can
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: really bring it to the classrooms, you know, just a
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: little fifteen minute break. Hey guys, let's they'll make a
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: circle and you know, let's talk about the things real quick.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: What do you say to any school? And usually I
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: kind of close out with this when I have someone
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: on from Sweethearts and Heroes, any school, any teacher, any principal,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: any superintendent, any parent who's listening in, any student who
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: might be listening right now that hasn't yet discovered Sweethearts
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: and heroes. Hasn't yet given them an opportunity to come
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: into their school and at the very least do an assembly.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: What do you say?
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: In my twenty three years of education, I've been through
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: many different programs, many different bullying you know programs, initiative
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. This is the best thing that ever
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: happened to me as a teacher. And I'm saying that
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: not because of the anti bullying and empathy, just it
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: made me a better teacher as well. And get this
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: in your school if you are a parent, right to
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: your admin, write to your board of education. Get them
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: to come into your school, whether it be Tom Rick
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: or Pat or all three to be the best obviously,
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: but just hearing their message and how they have how
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: they deal with bullying.
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: And hopelessness and empathy.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: It is so important to have your children learn this.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: And I think the most important thing is that it
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: is action based. A lot of programs tell you how to,
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: you know, be nice and be kind and don't bully.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: But then, like I always tell my students, like, well,
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: why do we have fire drills we practice what to.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: Do in case of an actual fire? Well, what if
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: we didn't practice that, we wouldn't know what to do.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: So that's why we have bully drives, just to tell
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: kids to go into an awkward situation with no training
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: at all. It's not fair for us to do that.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: So I mean, having those bully bills, having those having
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: those skills at a younger age, and then working throughout
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: the circles, you know, in the intermediate and middle school,
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: especially high school levels as well. I think it's very important.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: So this program has really change culture of my building,
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: and I've seen it change the culture of you know,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: many schools. I mean, I mean I love seeing I
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: mean all the things that that Tom post about.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: You know, he's at this school. The kids are now
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: doing bullied drills and different school and stuff like that,
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: and it's amazing.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: But I mean, just do whatever you can as a parent,
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: as an you know, as a teacher, as an admin.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: Get them in your school as soon as you can,
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: because you will never regret them.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great stuff, man. I listen, I can't thank you
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: enough for your time this morning.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: Much.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: I know that I know you need to get back
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: to it. You've you've got to dive in here, uh
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: to the day. But everything you have said on the
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: air this morning was so profound and memorable. And just
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: keep on doing what you're doing. Man. I mean, you're,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: you and the rest of your team, along with sweethearts
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: and heroes, are making some real change happen. You guys
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: really are man, You're you're you're on the edge of it.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, man.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: I got to give all the credit goes to Tom,
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: Tom and Rick pat and the entire team there. You know,
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: doubt out their hard work. You know that you know
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: this would never happen, and they are absolutely amazing.
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: At what they do.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, man, thank you so much.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: Eric, Yes, thanks, thank you as well.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Eric bizzetto JFK Elementary School, part of the Brewster School
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: District over in New York. What an absolute pleasure. And
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: you know, listen, I want to say this, especially with
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: regard to yesterday's podcast, keep the comments coming in about bullying.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Yesterday's episode was was and today backed up by Today
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: was really a powerful. A lot of stuff uncovered, and
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: so much of this is subjective in nature. Everybody has
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: got a different story, a different experience. There are no
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: two situations that are exactly alike. I know there's a
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: lot of work to be done and I'm going to
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: reach out to the Barrytown School and see if they're
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: they're willing to come on and talk about this in
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Berry City as well. And in the end, it's it's
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: not about pointing fingers, it's not about blaming. It's about
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: trying to get things going in the right direction. And
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: that that is a tall order, man, that's a big
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: hill to climb. But every Wednesday we climb that hill
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: a little bit higher every time, especially with Sweethearts and
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Heroes behind us pushing us up, and we're going to
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: keep chipping away at it. We are here locally and
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: across the region with a team like Sweethearts and Heroes.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: How can you not great stuff this morning? Man? Already
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: looking forward to next Wednesday. We got a question here
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: about the roads this morning. From what I understand, from
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: what I'm gathering, the roads are pretty good traveling between
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Barry and Montpellier. Nothing that is out of the ordinary.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: They're wet roads, they're slushy, they're messy, but they're not treacherous.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: They're not dangerous at least from what I've heard and
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: from what I can see outside my window here right
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: on the sidewalk on North Main Street and Berry. If
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: there's anything that is particular that is that that is
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: noteworthy to let us all know about, please do tell,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: please do share, post comment right now and we'll get
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: that information on. But things seem to be moving pretty
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: well out there, despite the snowfall that we've had last night,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: which I think kind of moved its way out just
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: about the right time for a morning commute that was
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: significantly better than the evening commute last night. The tractor
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: trailer on the interstate last night, I'm not sure what
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: time that was was pretty late, I think, but I
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: hope everybody was okay as a result of that. Recovery
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Day Today, on this eleventh day of February, at the
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Supreme Courthouse Auditorium, things going on until three o'clock, absolutely
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: free and open to the public. Every single year, Ver
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Honors gather at the State House and celebrate recovery, an
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: advocate for change and bring awareness, and they do a
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: great job. I hope that you're part of it, whether
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: you are battling recovery or not, show your support to
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: the those that are fighting the good fight every single
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: day of their lives. Recovery Day we shared it up
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: on the aired out page early this morning. Being that
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: it is Wednesday, I want to make sure that everybody knows.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: And I talked about this a little bit at the
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: front of this morning's episode. Today is a great day
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: to take a deep breath, to relax, to unwind, and
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: take advantage of Wellness Wednesday. It is something that Washington
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: County Mental Health has been putting on for a long
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: time years and it is so popular. The word is
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: out on Wellness Wednesday. It is free. It is a
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: free service for our community. It doesn't matter who you are,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what town you live in. You can
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: leave the wallet in the car. Come on indoors twenty
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: three Summer Street right here in the Granite City and
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: treat yourself to maybe some acupressure, acupuncture, mindfulness meditation. They're
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: doing yoga, they're serving up hot tea. You can get
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: a chair massage, a table massage. They do sound healing, reiki,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: mile facial body release. And I'm just barely scratching the
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: surface here. If you would like to reserve a time
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: for one of the chair or table massages, or the
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: reiki or the mile facial body release, call Robin right
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: now and let her know It starts at four point
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: thirty coast till seven o'clock. Here's the phone number and
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: I'll put it in the in the comments here eight
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: pot two of course four seven nine four zero five
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: to five. Tell her that aired out censure and that
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: that's where you heard about it. Nine four zero five
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: to five, twenty three Summer Street right here in Barry,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Washington County Mental Health. I can't say enough good things
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: about them, what they do and have been doing for
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: over sixty years, person centered care right here in our community. Amazing.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Ten thousand for honors and this is just a rough
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: estimate in just the last year have benefited directly or
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: indirectly from Washington County Mental Health ten thousand for honors. Incredible.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: What else is happening? Wing Wednesday over at the VFW
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Post seven ninety in Barry that starts at five o'clock tonight.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: You can go over to Wellness Wednesday first, get your massage,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: then go over to the Post seven ninety and reb
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: some wings. Ron Tolman and company cooking them up and
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: they do a great job. Let's see Thursday tomorrow bingo
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: at the Canadian Club. Something to note here looking ahead
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: on the calendar February twenty sixth. The All Veterans Dinner
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: is at the American Legion Post ten, February twenty sixth.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: On the menu Shepherd's Pie free for all Veterans. When
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: I hear the words Shepherd's Pie, something happens to me
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: this weekend day after Tomorrow, Friday, and I know, I know,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: it's Friday the thirteenth. Everyone's freaking out about that. Whatever.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about Friday the thirteenth from that standpoint.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Friday the thirteenth because it's the night
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: to Shine at the Barry Oaks Lodge. I'm thinking about
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: the fact that we've got a hundred honored guests that
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: are going to be under one roof having the night
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: of their lives. That's what I'm thinking about. That's a record,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: by the way, one hundred and just about two hundred
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: volunteers that are making this happen behind the scenes and
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: right there on the stage, almost two hundred people. The hair,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: the make up, the shoeshine, the karaoke, the card games,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: the entertainment, the DJ, the food, the paparazzi, the photographers,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: all the people that are doing medical stuff in security
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: and check in, and I mean there is a lot.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: There are so many moving parts that go to this.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: And tip the hat to the faith community Church from
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: making this happen again. I think this is year number four.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: It's Friday night at the American Legion, I'm sorry at
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: the Bury Oaks Lodge and it's gonna be amazing. I
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: just cannot wait. I can't wait to show my shoes
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: that I'm going to be wearing anyway. And I want
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: to give a shout out this morning to Amy Anderson
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: and Amy's Armoir. They've been doing this pay it Forward
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: program for Night to Shine guests to cover the costs
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: of their formal wear. They will not let anyone say
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: I can't go because I can't afford formal wear. They
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: won't let it happen. So just a big thank you
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: to Amy's Armoir, Amy Anderson, Robin Kates and the rest
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: of the team over there for doing just good things,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: great things for our community. I love it. Also, this
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: weekend is the Barry figure skating event, but there is
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: so much going on. There is so much going on.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: The Winter co Ed Softball tournament is going to be
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: here real soon, freezing fun for Families February twenty seventh
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: through March First. Big Deal, the oldest and the largest
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: fundraiser in Vermont period, started in nineteen ninety nine as
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: a way to raise money for the Central Vermont co
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Ed Softball League and has now again turned in to
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: the largest non professional sports gatherings in New England, making
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: the Guinness Book of World Records right here, Burytown Reckfields.
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  Speaker 1: It's where it's going to be Friday, February twenty seventh
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  Speaker 1: through March first. If you haven't been on Freezing Fun
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  Speaker 1: for Families on their Facebook page, highly encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: check that out, register your team if you haven't done so,
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  Speaker 1: and be part of that experience that weekend. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be incredible tomorrow. Yes, we're going to be on
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  Speaker 1: the air. Yes, we're going to have some fun. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what to expect most of the
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  Speaker 1: time because Rex is going to be in here and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about some of the headlines that
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  Speaker 1: are trending right now, not just in Fremont, but in
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  Speaker 1: the nation and things that are going on this week
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  Speaker 1: crazy stuff, the whole Nancy Guthrie thing, the the the
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  Speaker 1: the the the snapshots of the video of this guy
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  Speaker 1: with the ring doorbell camera and why it's taken so
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  Speaker 1: long for that picture to show itself. I'm just as
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  Speaker 1: baffled as you are the guy that was pulled over
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  Speaker 1: in a traffic stop and detained and then released last
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  Speaker 1: night as as a suspect. There's a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of really weird stuff that's going on,
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  Speaker 1: not just with the whole Nancy Guthrie story. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people scratching their heads, and there's also a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that feel that this whole story might
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  Speaker 1: be kind of come into a head and we could
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  Speaker 1: have some real information here in the near future. What
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  Speaker 1: say you about that? We're gonna get into some of
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  Speaker 1: the world headlines that have been trending this week and
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  Speaker 1: some of the Vermont headlines as well tomorrow. What's going
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  Speaker 1: on in Williston with the ice protests, arrests have been made. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's no question, there's no doubt that there's some really
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  Speaker 1: funky things going on here in Vermont and across our nation, really,
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  Speaker 1: and there is in a day that goes by, frankly
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  Speaker 1: that I don't scratch my head and say, what world
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  Speaker 1: are we living in? Man, Honestly, what the hell's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Find the good, go back, re listen to this morning's episode.
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  Speaker 1: If you need some positivity in your life. Eric pizzetto
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  Speaker 1: Amazing JFK Elementary School Sweethearts and Heroes. Love it. Get
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  Speaker 1: yourself out of the house. Tempts are warming up. We're
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  Speaker 1: what now twenty seven degrees this morning. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was when I got here in Perry. This is a
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  Speaker 1: heat wave. Get out of the house if you can
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  Speaker 1: handle it. Maybe push a shuffle for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Help out your neighbor, make sure that they're okay. Get
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  Speaker 1: on the snow machine, do some snowshoeing, some cross country skiing,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. Maybe just stumble out into the driveway
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  Speaker 1: and just take a breath of fresh air for a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes. It's not ten below, Okay, do that today.
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  Speaker 1: Roll the windows down in the car for five minutes
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  Speaker 1: and just get some fresh air. Please believe me, it'll
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  Speaker 1: do you some good. We'll see it tomorrow morning. Be good,
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  Speaker 1: be kind, be aware. We'll see it tomorrow morning. Right
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  Speaker 1: here on the Aired Out podcast.
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