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Learn Today. Share Tomorrow. | Episode 2 | Bob Hopkins · Learn Today. Share Tomorrow.

0:12
SPEAKER_01: Hello again, everybody.
0:13
SPEAKER_01: Welcome to yet another edition of Learn Today, Share Tomorrow, as we talk to you about the importance of education and then moving on to a philanthropic world, learning to be a go-getter, but at the same time, more importantly, being a go-giver, making a difference in the lives of those that need it most.
0:28
SPEAKER_01: And so we uh really get excited each and every week to share with you uh some of the top philanthropists, philanthropists, and educators in our world.
0:35
SPEAKER_01: My name is Scott Murray, and alongside my co-host.
0:38
SPEAKER_00: And I'm Mae Tsi Miller, and I'm very excited to be here today with our first guest, Bob Hopkins.
0:45
SPEAKER_00: He's a great friend of ours, he's a philanthropist, an educator.
0:48
SPEAKER_00: So we want to we have really good, interesting questions, and we want to know all about him today.
0:53
SPEAKER_02: Hello, my friend.
0:54
SPEAKER_02: How are you?
0:54
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
0:55
SPEAKER_02: I'm exec excited to be here, and thank you for being your first guest.
0:58
SPEAKER_02: I hope it's a great opportunity.
1:00
SPEAKER_01: Well, this is the inaugural show, and we're really excited about what lies ahead when you talk about learn today, share tomorrow.
1:06
SPEAKER_01: That's that's what it's all about, and something that you've been doing.
1:09
SPEAKER_01: I'd I'd like to, before we move on, just talk very briefly about your your background because you are an educator and the one of the most incredible philanthropists I've ever met in my life.
1:18
SPEAKER_01: So so go for it.
1:19
SPEAKER_02: Well, thank you, thank you.
1:20
SPEAKER_02: Um, I'm a philanthropist because my mother taught me how to be a giver.
1:25
SPEAKER_02: And I remember a story about delivering groceries to a trader park.
1:30
SPEAKER_02: And when we left there, the children were laughing and they were excited that we had come there to bring them food.
1:37
SPEAKER_02: And I felt this hand on my head and it said, You did good today, Bobby.
1:43
SPEAKER_02: And I knew that I had done good today, Bobby, because I wasn't necessarily a good boy.
1:49
SPEAKER_02: I was attention deficit and I was all over the place.
1:52
SPEAKER_02: But I've wanted to be a good boy ever since.
1:55
SPEAKER_02: And so when I feel like I'm not doing really well with my mind and my body, I try to find something to change and to do.
2:04
SPEAKER_02: And that's how come I know you two, because of the fact of philanthropy.
2:08
SPEAKER_02: You and I go back to neurofibromatosis days when I met you and you were the chairman of the events that we put on for many, many years.
2:19
SPEAKER_01: And so that was four decades ago.
2:21
SPEAKER_02: And that was four decades ago.
2:23
SPEAKER_02: And I brought a picture of the two of us when we were younger, and um, this is something I've I've saved, and I don't know if you can get a close-up of this picture or not, but you can know how handsome Scott and I were back in the old days.
2:37
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean were?
2:38
SPEAKER_02: I mean are back in the old days and today too.
2:42
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, and then Maitsy Miller and I have connected as well because of education, because she has a Montessori school and I care about it.
2:50
SPEAKER_01: And talk about your education, you know, you you've been an instructor at the collegiate level.
2:54
SPEAKER_01: Right.
2:55
SPEAKER_02: So I got a master's degree um many, many years ago, and have been teaching in education for the last 15 years at different universities in the Dallas area, and I teach speech and social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, which is really my favorite topic.
3:11
SPEAKER_01: Well, and just for people that everybody I think knows the word philanthropy, but in your words, with all that you have done literally for decades, how would you describe philanthropy?
3:22
SPEAKER_02: Well, Scott, when you and I met each other and I did my magazine philanthropy in Texas, I only put people on the front covers who had given tons of money to nonprofit organizations around the country.
3:34
SPEAKER_02: And somebody who didn't put lots of money into events, then I didn't use them.
3:40
SPEAKER_02: I changed that.
3:42
SPEAKER_02: I learned differently.
3:43
SPEAKER_02: I know the word philanthropy is just love of mankind.
3:46
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't have anything to do with money.
3:48
SPEAKER_02: So, therefore, what I'm teaching now, and what I've learned, is that all of us can be philanthropists if we don't even have any money.
3:55
SPEAKER_02: And it's in a wonderful experience.
3:56
SPEAKER_02: Opal Lee yesterday was featured because she turned a hundred years old, and she's a black woman who is from Houston.
4:04
SPEAKER_02: I mean, is from Fort Worth, and they honored her for her hundredth year, and she had no money, but she changed America.
4:12
SPEAKER_02: She was a giver.
4:13
SPEAKER_02: She was a giver.
4:14
SPEAKER_01: That's great.
4:16
SPEAKER_01: So anyway.
4:16
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's great.
4:17
SPEAKER_01: Well, I I tell you what, you got a couple of books here, and before we get over to to excuse me, my audsy to uh share with you a couple of questions.
4:25
SPEAKER_01: Tell us about these two books that you uh uh that you brought up.
4:28
SPEAKER_02: Well, I did a magazine for 12 years as you remember.
4:31
SPEAKER_02: I do.
4:32
SPEAKER_02: But you know what?
4:32
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I have so many stories as you do, and somebody said you need to write a book.
4:36
SPEAKER_02: And so this book is not necessarily about me, it's about the people that I'm connected with, including you.
4:42
SPEAKER_02: You're in my first book, you're also in my second book.
4:45
SPEAKER_02: Your children's faces are on this book, and yours and Carol's faces are on this book, because you continue in these 40 years to be one of the best philanthropists that I know in the world, quite frankly.
4:57
SPEAKER_02: You're very kind.
4:57
SPEAKER_02: And so, yes, I've enjoyed these books, and I'm on to a third book, which has to do with veterans.
5:03
SPEAKER_02: And obviously, I'm indebted to being safe in my country, and I want to thank those people who have served our country.
5:11
SPEAKER_02: So that's my third book that's coming out next year.
5:14
SPEAKER_01: So, this is philanthropy understood.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the second book.
5:18
SPEAKER_01: That was the first one you came out, philanthropy misunderstood.
5:21
SPEAKER_01: What's the difference between the misunderstood and understood?
5:24
SPEAKER_01: How did it change?
5:25
SPEAKER_01: Well, there's no difference.
5:26
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
5:26
SPEAKER_02: Um, it's just a different continuation of what I started here.
5:30
SPEAKER_02: But on the other hand, I wanted to make sure that everybody understands that philanthropy is not about money, and that's why we're misunderstanding it.
5:38
SPEAKER_02: So somebody said, Well, when I win the lottery, I'll be a philanthropist.
5:42
SPEAKER_02: And you don't have to win the lottery to be a philanthropist, you just have to go feed somebody, or you need to pick up a lady that fell off the chair, but you need to go and and and give some flowers to somebody or make a call to somebody and say, I just miss you today, and I want to tell you how wonderful you are.
5:59
SPEAKER_00: I have a really cute story about that.
6:01
SPEAKER_00: Go for it.
6:02
SPEAKER_00: So Bob came to our school to Cosmos, Montessori, and he gave a class to our children about philanthropy.
6:08
SPEAKER_00: Do you want to tell us a little bit about that experience that you had?
6:11
SPEAKER_02: I'm not sure exactly which one you're talking about.
6:14
SPEAKER_00: You came to the classroom with the first to third graders, uh-huh.
6:17
SPEAKER_00: And he asked the children if they knew what philanthropy meant.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: And all of them thought, okay, well, we have to get money.
6:23
SPEAKER_00: Um, and he said, No, you can be a philanthropist just by helping.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: So by the end of the conversation, everybody knew how to shake hands.
6:30
SPEAKER_00: Everybody knew how to look at other people in the eye when they shook hands.
6:34
SPEAKER_00: But most importantly, they understood that they could help without having to do something big.
6:39
SPEAKER_00: So what they came up with together with Bob was for their birthday, they're gonna come up with an organization that they're going to donate to.
6:47
SPEAKER_00: For example, one of them is gonna donate to the SBCA.
6:50
SPEAKER_00: And so they came up with the idea of everybody's gonna bring a bag of dog food or cat food, and we're all gonna go there on a field trip to donate that.
6:58
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's fantastic.
6:59
SPEAKER_01: Right.
7:00
SPEAKER_00: So it's amazing at teaching.
7:02
SPEAKER_00: I'm in his class and I've learned so much.
7:04
SPEAKER_00: In the last two months, I've learned more than I've ever learned, I think, in my entire life about philanthropy.
7:09
SPEAKER_00: But just the fact that you're ever to introduce that to children, how did you get started in encouraging children through your program?
7:16
SPEAKER_02: Okay, and that's a great question.
7:17
SPEAKER_02: Um, because who would think that children can learn?
7:23
SPEAKER_02: For some reason, we think that children can't learn certain things like how to behave, how to shake hands, how to look people in the eyes, which is part of philanthropy.
7:33
SPEAKER_01: Oh, see, and that's the name of the program.
7:34
SPEAKER_01: Learn today.
7:35
SPEAKER_01: That's the educational aspect of it.
7:37
SPEAKER_01: Sharing tomorrow is the philanthropic aspect of it.
7:40
SPEAKER_01: Right.
7:40
SPEAKER_02: And one little girl said in one of the videos that I did if you teach a child anything under the age of 12 years old, they will do that forever.
7:50
SPEAKER_02: And so that's what we're doing.
7:51
SPEAKER_02: And we're teaching children to do it.
7:53
SPEAKER_02: Because you know what?
7:53
SPEAKER_02: They don't ask the questions, why?
7:56
SPEAKER_02: When you get to be 13 to 16 years old, you start questioning everything.
8:00
SPEAKER_02: Why do we do this?
8:00
SPEAKER_02: Why do we do that?
8:01
SPEAKER_02: Children under the ages of 12 just do it.
8:04
SPEAKER_02: And they say, philanthropy, I'm a philanthropist.
8:07
SPEAKER_02: They shake hands and then look you in the eyes.
8:09
SPEAKER_02: So I think you need to start with your children, folks.
8:12
SPEAKER_02: No questions asked, huh?
8:13
SPEAKER_02: Your children, your grandchildren, whatever, your nieces and nephews.
8:17
SPEAKER_02: And I've been an example in my family, and my family has totally involved themselves now with giving.
8:23
SPEAKER_02: You know what?
8:23
SPEAKER_02: Because they feel better about who they are when they are a giver.
8:28
SPEAKER_01: Great point.
8:29
SPEAKER_01: Great point.
8:29
SPEAKER_01: And and I think it's important for the audience, since this is our first program, uh, a little history, you know, how you met Bob, or for that matter, met me as well.
8:39
SPEAKER_01: But bottom line is your history, and you're a teacher.
8:43
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you've got your master's degree.
8:45
SPEAKER_01: Um, you talk about what you do in the Montessori schools.
8:48
SPEAKER_01: Just bring us up to date so the people here know who uh who you know you do, or who you are and what you do.
8:54
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
8:55
SPEAKER_00: So I uh I was a teacher for over 20 years.
8:58
SPEAKER_00: I decided to open a school after I had my daughter who was born a Primi.
9:03
SPEAKER_00: And um, I knew that she needed something better than what was out there.
9:07
SPEAKER_00: Um, as you say, maybe Montessori is the answer.
9:10
SPEAKER_00: I think Montessori is the answer.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: And of course, bilingual education.
9:14
SPEAKER_00: So that's what we focus on at Cosmos Montessori.
9:17
SPEAKER_00: And um, Bob and I met at a Lions Fab, and he was a speaker there, and I was just very impressed with everything you had to say.
9:26
SPEAKER_00: And because I started my journey in philanthropy, I knew that I had to get to know him and learn from him, which I did.
9:32
SPEAKER_00: And then he introduced me to you, Scott.
9:35
SPEAKER_00: We met at C Suites, and the same we talked about philanthropy and education.
9:39
SPEAKER_00: So we decided that we needed to have a podcast and involve all the people that, as you say, are uh change makers.
9:45
SPEAKER_00: And so here we are.
9:47
SPEAKER_00: But last Thursday, uh, Bob came up with this great idea, and then we kind of took it on together to build from this amazing school that I already have, Cosmos Montessori.
9:57
SPEAKER_00: And we planned on expanding because we think education, bilingual Montessori education, it has to be everywhere.
10:04
SPEAKER_00: And so we decided to name a school after you.
10:08
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so it's it's kind of what we do, is why we're here, and it's why we want to bring people out like Bob so they can help other people understand why it's important to get yourself involved with some kind of philanthropy, in my case, education.
10:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, but he'll tell you everything about any kind of philanthropy that you want to do.
10:26
SPEAKER_01: Well, certainly my thanks to both of you for uh the opportunity to have for this uh Murray Academy become a part of your your Montessori school.
10:35
SPEAKER_01: So I'm I'm most honored.
10:36
SPEAKER_01: But again, uh I was studying to be a pediatrician, and so anything to do with with young people is is above and beyond uh just about anything that is going to be on my plate whatever day it might be.
10:47
SPEAKER_01: So uh been on the board of the children's hospitals here in in North Texas, uh, and just just making a difference in the life of a child uh is is really very extra special.
10:58
SPEAKER_01: It's great to be a philanthropist of adults and the elderly and whatever.
11:01
SPEAKER_01: But if it's if it's a child, I don't know.
11:03
SPEAKER_01: It just to me it's really extra special.
11:06
SPEAKER_01: Would you not agree?
11:07
SPEAKER_02: Well, I do.
11:08
SPEAKER_02: And unfortunately, educators don't necessarily know this topic.
11:13
SPEAKER_02: They don't know what philanthropy is because nobody's teaching philanthropy in high schools or even in colleges.
11:20
SPEAKER_02: Right.
11:21
SPEAKER_02: They're not teaching this topic.
11:22
SPEAKER_02: Why why is that, Bob?
11:23
SPEAKER_02: Do you have any idea why it is?
11:25
SPEAKER_02: Because we are thinking that science and math are the answers to everything.
11:30
SPEAKER_02: And if you don't have a heart and a soul, science and math don't matter.
11:34
SPEAKER_02: I don't think, and our world the way it is today needs philanthropy.
11:39
SPEAKER_02: We all need to do something to be a change maker.
11:41
SPEAKER_02: We all need to do something to find a solution to a problem.
11:45
SPEAKER_02: That's the reason for my books, that was the reason for my magazine, that's the reason for my PAVE program, which is called Philanthropy and Volunteerism in Education, teaching children about giving.
11:56
SPEAKER_02: And I do it worldwide.
11:58
SPEAKER_02: I don't do it just in the United States, but you tell me to go to Tokyo, I'm going to Tokyo because those children can learn it too.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: That's uh if if if if I was to ask you the top three, not necessarily experiences you've had or going to Tokyo or going to wherever you might have gone, uh, I just wondered what are the three things that you're proudest of that you cherish most as you think about yourself as a philanthropist, you know, whether it's the first book that you, you know, the magazine that you came out with, whether it's these books, whether it's uh being on uh our show with us, whatever, whatever it might be.
12:31
SPEAKER_01: I was kidding about that.
12:33
SPEAKER_01: But what what what are three things that will always be a part of who you are, what you're all about, and what you cherish most in the fact that you have given back the way you have, and people say the name Bob Hopkins.
12:45
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I know him, he's incredible.
12:47
SPEAKER_02: Well, in my two books, okay, is the answer to that first question.
12:51
SPEAKER_02: What is the best story that I have that I've found that I did something about?
12:56
SPEAKER_02: Um, I found a baby in the snow in a box on the back porch of a house in Kansas City.
13:04
SPEAKER_01: And listen to this story, folks.
13:05
SPEAKER_01: I know this story well.
13:06
SPEAKER_01: This is a great story and and very, very true.
13:09
SPEAKER_01: Go for it.
13:10
SPEAKER_02: In 1982, found this baby in the snow.
13:12
SPEAKER_02: So over 40 years ago.
13:14
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
13:14
SPEAKER_02: A friend of mine were actually cleaning out a driveway of snow three foot deep because the people called and said, We're trying to get out of our driveway.
13:24
SPEAKER_02: We can't do that.
13:24
SPEAKER_02: We're going to probably get out today sometime.
13:27
SPEAKER_02: So we went over and saw a baby in a box because there was something moving.
13:33
SPEAKER_02: And I we got out of my car and I went over and pulled back a blanket, and here's a little baby with a note around her neck, and it said, I can't no more take care of this baby.
13:42
SPEAKER_02: Please find it.
13:43
SPEAKER_02: I'll hold him.
13:44
SPEAKER_02: So, anyway, obviously, that's not the philanthropy part that we took the baby and gave it away and gave it away to an adoption agency that finally the child was adopted.
13:55
SPEAKER_02: But 25 years later, or 30 years later, I thought, I wonder whatever happened to that baby.
14:01
SPEAKER_02: And so, sure enough, two years ago, I get a call and it says, Is this the man who found the baby in the snow?
14:10
SPEAKER_02: Well, and I go, is this a joke?
14:13
SPEAKER_02: What is this business anyway?
14:16
SPEAKER_02: Because this story was in this book, and I said, I want to find the baby, and here's my telephone number.
14:22
SPEAKER_02: So I don't know whether the person actually saw the book, but they did see an article that I put in the to the newspaper say, I'm hunting for a baby that might have been born in such and such date and could have been six months old, who might have been found in a box in the snow in Kansas City.
14:38
SPEAKER_02: And somebody was doing research trying to find out who they were and where they came from, knowing that they had heard that they were in the box in the snow.
14:47
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, I got the call.
14:49
SPEAKER_02: In my new book, I got to meet the baby, and Scott Murray filmed it right here in this studio.
14:57
SPEAKER_02: The woman walks in, and me and the person who was with me hugged her and kissed her and screamed and we cried.
15:07
SPEAKER_02: And 42 years later, she's in the book.
15:10
SPEAKER_02: Because the Kansas City Star actually did this whole story, and then we just reprinted what the Kansas City Star actually said and did.
15:18
SPEAKER_02: So I think that's one of the greatest things, Scott, that I can remember that I did.
15:23
SPEAKER_02: Now, would not fictitious, that's not a movie.
15:26
SPEAKER_02: That's that's real life.
15:27
SPEAKER_02: This is the guy that started it.
15:29
SPEAKER_02: And would you all do that too?
15:31
SPEAKER_02: Yes, you would.
15:32
SPEAKER_02: You would do exactly what I did, probably.
15:35
SPEAKER_02: Try to find a home for the baby, and then maybe some of us, especially me, want to find out where it happened.
15:42
SPEAKER_02: Where is that child?
15:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
15:44
SPEAKER_02: So that's one of the stories that's in the books here.
15:47
SPEAKER_02: And there's many stories like that that it probably redefine what happened to me and why I do what I do.
15:54
SPEAKER_02: And it's not necessarily anything that I come up with.
15:58
SPEAKER_02: I do have a God, and I think God tells me what to do and how to do it if I listen.
16:05
SPEAKER_02: And even people change my life.
16:08
SPEAKER_02: You changed my life, Scott.
16:10
SPEAKER_02: You are really one of my mentors, as you know, and Mitzi is is trying to change my life at the moment because of the fact Montessori is nothing that I really, really know.
16:20
SPEAKER_02: But I really think Montessori is an important way to teach children, and I know your children went to Montessori, too.
16:26
SPEAKER_02: Both my son and daughter went to Montessori.
16:28
SPEAKER_02: So we have this connection, and so we're trying to build Montessori.
16:31
SPEAKER_02: And we thought Scott would be a great person because he loves education.
16:35
SPEAKER_02: He's so well known in Dallas, he's so well known in Texas that if we put his name on an academy, that would bring attention to the word Montessori, because I think it's a great way to educate children.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: I agree.
16:47
SPEAKER_00: Well, and you talk about educating children, you talk about things that you can do every single day, but you're doing something that's much bigger.
16:54
SPEAKER_00: What what is it that you're doing with your next book?
16:56
SPEAKER_00: Can you tell us a little bit about that?
16:58
SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, I feel safe in the United States of America.
17:03
SPEAKER_02: Um even though we have challenges in the United States of America, I want to thank those people that have kept us safe, and that's our armed service men and women, who are out there every day making sure that we're not being taken over by another country.
17:23
SPEAKER_02: And so um when I was thinking about this, somebody said to me, Why don't you do a book on wounded warriors?
17:30
SPEAKER_02: And I thought, that could be a great idea.
17:33
SPEAKER_02: But instead I decided to do one on service people that have done something for us and given up many years of their lives to s to defend us.
17:46
SPEAKER_02: And so I'm putting together a book called Veterans, and it'll be out Veterans Day of 2000, I hope, 27, which is next year.
17:56
SPEAKER_02: So I'm working on it right now.
17:58
SPEAKER_02: So if anybody in the audience has a veteran they'd like for me to put into this book, um give me a call, and I think my information should be put in here somewhere so how they can call me or you can do an email to me, or et cetera, et cetera.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: But um Do you want to share your link to your podcast so they can see what you're doing and how to contact people?
18:20
SPEAKER_02: Right.
18:20
SPEAKER_02: Um my b uh podcast is called Bob Cast, and you can find it on YouTube, and it talks a little bit about who I am and what I do.
18:29
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, B-O-B-C-A-S-T.
18:31
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
18:32
SPEAKER_02: B-O-B-C-A-S-T.
18:33
SPEAKER_02: And there's a kind of a funny picture of me on that deal, but you'll s recognize it when you see bodcast.
18:40
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, I can tell you in my podcast, because I talk about it every time I um actually am on the air, um, that I'm involved in all kinds of things that have to do with the word philanthropy.
18:53
SPEAKER_02: And I want to make sure that everybody does something for somebody today, and then something again tomorrow.
19:01
SPEAKER_02: Not only are you helping somebody else, you're helping yourself.
19:04
SPEAKER_02: And when you help yourself, you get higher self-esteem.
19:07
SPEAKER_02: And when you get higher self-esteem, and even children then decide to do something better with their lives as opposed to the other options.
19:17
SPEAKER_01: That's great.
19:18
SPEAKER_01: Other questions?
19:19
SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
19:20
SPEAKER_01: How it affects uh, you know, you're working with education every every single day.
19:24
SPEAKER_01: What uh any any other things that you uh would like to ask, Bob?
19:29
SPEAKER_02: Well, let me just tell you what I think about Montessori here.
19:33
SPEAKER_02: Um you know, we want kids to read and write.
19:36
SPEAKER_02: We want them to add and subtract, we want them to understand academics.
19:42
SPEAKER_02: But the thing that's lacking in the public schools, and it truly is, is the word love.
19:48
SPEAKER_02: We don't teach children how to take care of each other enough.
19:53
SPEAKER_02: We don't teach them how to present themselves into a group and to be a positive force instead of a negative line.
20:01
SPEAKER_02: And Montessori, of course, I love it because of the fact you get to move your course items along with the ability of the child to learn.
20:11
SPEAKER_02: So it's almost an individualized teaching experience for any chill child.
20:16
SPEAKER_02: And I've just learned this all from you.
20:19
SPEAKER_02: And I think that um, and we're gonna do it because I'm insisting a PAVE program in Scott Murray Academy, Murray Academy, but we're gonna start it with what we've already got, Cosmos.
20:32
SPEAKER_02: And um, I want to watch us experience children changing their behaviors and their thoughts and their body language by use the use of this course that teaches children about love and about giving.
20:48
SPEAKER_00: So, what would you say to parents at home?
20:51
SPEAKER_00: Because it seems like a very complicated concept for people to understand, even for adults.
20:57
SPEAKER_00: And so, how would you tell parents at home, uh, grandparents at home, how would you teach those children to be philanthropists at home?
21:04
SPEAKER_02: Right.
21:05
SPEAKER_02: Well, everything starts at home.
21:07
SPEAKER_02: And unfortunately, 20% of our kids go to bed hungry every night, which means they come from homes that are not.
21:15
SPEAKER_02: Um, they come from homes where there's divorce, there's alcoholism, um, there's intoxic intoxification, there's people in jail, there's all kinds of homes that people come for kids come from.
21:29
SPEAKER_02: We need to focus on those kids and make sure they get an experience that's different from the normal educational experiences.
21:37
SPEAKER_02: So I think that we need to identify children who are in trouble.
21:41
SPEAKER_02: But in addition to that, the kids in your school are not in trouble.
21:45
SPEAKER_02: But we need to tell their their parents and their grandparents.
21:48
SPEAKER_02: And what I have learned is when you teach the child how to be a giver, the parents all of a sudden change their own behaviors and say, What do you mean go out and plant um trees across the street?
22:00
SPEAKER_02: At the schoolyard, don't you want to go to your room and actually get on the computer and play some games?
22:05
SPEAKER_02: No mom, I don't anymore.
22:06
SPEAKER_02: I want to go plant flowers over there because that's good, it's something great.
22:10
SPEAKER_02: And so the whole family decides to go plant flowers.
22:13
SPEAKER_02: And I've seen whole families change because of what we teach the children.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: So something you taught me was to always be willing to receive gifts, whatever it is.
22:24
SPEAKER_00: And I know that one of your really curious gifts that you received is a horse.
22:29
SPEAKER_00: Do you want to tell us about that?
22:31
SPEAKER_02: Well, I have a horse named Philanthropy.
22:36
SPEAKER_02: And this is a strange topic because of the fact that Tracy Careuth of the Careuth Foundation passed away a couple of years ago, but before she passed away, she liked me so much she decided to give me the semen from one of her championship horses so that I could insert that semen into one of my mayors, who was a registered Arabian horse.
23:01
SPEAKER_02: And that was a gift from her, a philanthropic gift, I claim.
23:06
SPEAKER_02: So I named the horse philanthropy, the baby philanthropy, because he is wonderful.
23:12
SPEAKER_02: And he's in my book, by the way, because philanthropy is not just about a horse, it's about things that you do, and it could be involved involved with a horse.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: So and you invite children to come and take care of a horse to do through the horse.
23:26
SPEAKER_02: Well, I love to teach horseback riding because I think horses are amazing.
23:30
SPEAKER_02: And I think every child needs to have an animal, a dog, a cat, or a horse.
23:35
SPEAKER_02: And yes, it's expensive, but a child is a horse too, and I don't have any children.
23:39
SPEAKER_02: So I mean, uh a horse is expensive, but I don't have any children, so I I had that money that I can use on it.
23:45
SPEAKER_00: There you go.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: Might be cheaper than a child, actually.
23:48
SPEAKER_01: That horse.
23:49
SPEAKER_01: That's a good point.
23:51
SPEAKER_01: That's great.
23:52
SPEAKER_01: You know, as as we head down the whole stretcher with the program, uh, I just wondered, first of all, is there anything that we haven't talked about that you'd like to share with the public?
24:00
SPEAKER_01: But before you do that, I'd just like to know what your legacy will be someday.
24:06
SPEAKER_01: Um I've I've done programs in the past about uh legacies and you know what people look upon their legacy as or what they would like their legacy to be conceived as by the regular public, you know, the the the general public.
24:21
SPEAKER_01: So I just wonder, I mean, you've been doing this for decades.
24:24
SPEAKER_01: You know, 50 years from now, somebody says the name Bob Hopkins.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: I just wondered uh, you know, what what what are they gonna say about you?
24:31
SPEAKER_01: What would you like them to say, and how would you best like to be remembered?
24:35
SPEAKER_01: Well, of course, the word philanthropy.
24:38
SPEAKER_02: And when you talk about philanthropists, I don't want people any longer to think it's about money.
24:44
SPEAKER_02: I want them to think about good deeds that you did.
24:46
SPEAKER_02: About giving.
24:47
SPEAKER_02: About giving.
24:49
SPEAKER_02: And I'm a teacher and I teach students about the this gift of philanthropy, and I get calls every day or every week from students I've had in the past saying I just want to thank you for the word philanthropy.
25:02
SPEAKER_02: Even administrators are now putting courses in colleges, possibly partly because of my experience in their colleges.
25:11
SPEAKER_02: Um, I created a course at the University of uh Texas in Arlington called Social Entrepreneurship.
25:19
SPEAKER_02: Then they decided they wanted a degree in philanthropy.
25:22
SPEAKER_02: So I think it was partially because of my introducing that a long time ago.
25:27
SPEAKER_02: So yes, you're right.
25:28
SPEAKER_02: When somebody says Bob Hopkins, I want them to say, yeah, he was a philanthropist.
25:34
SPEAKER_02: All right.
25:35
SPEAKER_02: Not a very not a moneymaker and not rich, except in the heart.
25:40
SPEAKER_01: Just the ultimate difference maker that cared about making a difference in the lives of those that needed it most.
25:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
25:46
SPEAKER_02: And so you, Scott, are one of those people.
25:49
SPEAKER_02: Mighty, you're one of those people.
25:52
SPEAKER_02: And I hang out only with people who have a purpose because that's what we can talk about is our purposes and how we're going to change the world, instead of talking about the ball game or talking about the tragedies that happened to cost.
26:06
SPEAKER_02: The Cowboys last night.
26:08
SPEAKER_02: Or the Cowboys last night, or whatever.
26:11
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, I like to hear stories of of you have talking about the thanks because you two get excited about what you do for others.
26:20
SPEAKER_02: And it gets me excited about wanting to do more.
26:22
SPEAKER_01: Well, and proof positive as to why you're our uh inaugural guest, too, because we both uh have have great admiration for all that you continue to do.
26:31
SPEAKER_01: And as you've said already, all that you share, you know, certainly for her Manessuri schools and for all the organizations that you and I have helped, whether it's kids that uh have cancer, neurofibromatosis, any, any, anything like that.
26:45
SPEAKER_01: Um just people that need a helping hand, and even those that don't, that uh that that can learn what it means to be be that go-giver.
26:54
SPEAKER_01: Right.
26:55
SPEAKER_01: And uh closing thoughts for Bob.
26:57
SPEAKER_01: Anything that you have not asked him as yet that you'd like to share with the public and ask Bob.
27:04
SPEAKER_00: I'm just so proud of you and everything that you do.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: And I look forward to having you again uh once you publish your next book.
27:11
SPEAKER_00: We want to hear all about it.
27:12
SPEAKER_00: And I know that you're gonna be traveling throughout Texas, and so we want to hear those stories.
27:17
SPEAKER_00: Um, and yeah, and just continue to do the great work that you do, Bob.
27:21
SPEAKER_02: Right.
27:21
SPEAKER_02: Well, thanks.
27:22
SPEAKER_02: Well, my parting advice to everybody is just pay attention.
27:25
SPEAKER_01: Pay attention to what your surroundings are.
27:27
SPEAKER_01: Well, you jumped, you jumped ahead of me, and you must have seen my notes here in the back of my hand because I was gonna say, what's the message you're gonna share?
27:34
SPEAKER_01: What's the takeaway that people will take home from from watching this program today?
27:39
SPEAKER_01: And hey, I saw this guy named Bob Hopkins.
27:41
SPEAKER_01: What do you want them to remember most about you and the message that you want to share with them?
27:45
SPEAKER_01: Right.
27:46
SPEAKER_02: Unfortunately, we can't solve every problem that we see.
27:50
SPEAKER_02: But I pay attention to what's out there and find the things that you can change that you can help.
27:56
SPEAKER_02: I can't necessarily change a tire on the side of the road uh if somebody's a got has a car problem, but I can help a lady across the street if I'm in a space and a place that I can do that safely.
28:09
SPEAKER_02: And you too, and everybody can do something for somebody.
28:14
SPEAKER_02: Just make a little note every single day about what did you do today to help somebody else, and you'll be amazed at how philanthropic you really are.
28:22
SPEAKER_02: You just don't know it, and you're just not aware of it.
28:25
SPEAKER_02: But pat yourself on the back and say, They did good today, Bobby.
28:30
SPEAKER_01: Well, I tell you what, we are going to get you back here because I want to hear, you know, all the the the efforts and and uh organizations that I've worked with over the years in in the military, you know, from MC and the Veterans Day Parade to whatever.
28:42
SPEAKER_01: And so we really, the two of us would love to see you come back and and share with us, you know, the the next endeavor you're a part of, the book, the whatever you do with our military, those that uh put their lives on the line for all of us every single day.
28:57
SPEAKER_01: And uh we can't thank them enough for what they done, what they've done, what they continue to do, those that uh unfortunately lost their life in the process of doing that, but we thank them all.
29:06
SPEAKER_01: Veterans are the the utmost uh givers when it comes to putting their lives on the line for people they never ever met.
29:13
SPEAKER_01: And that's yeah, all of us right.
29:15
SPEAKER_02: Well, uh, thank you for letting me be here.
29:19
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, some things make things happen.
29:23
SPEAKER_02: Some people watch things happen, and others say, what happened?
29:29
SPEAKER_02: And I want you all, because all of us make things happen.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
29:36
SPEAKER_01: No, and thank you, Bob, very, very much for all you continue to do, and on behalf of us both, for your sincere, cherished friendship that uh that that we both have.
29:45
SPEAKER_01: So thank you.
29:46
SPEAKER_01: Keep it up and stay well, my friend.
29:48
SPEAKER_00: And for being our first guest.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
29:50
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
29:51
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
29:52
SPEAKER_01: Learn today, share tomorrow.
29:53
SPEAKER_01: That's the name of the program.
29:54
SPEAKER_01: This has been our inaugural program.
29:56
SPEAKER_01: So uh for uh my Etsy and uh Bob Hopkins, I'm Scott Murray.
30:01
SPEAKER_01: We say thank you, thank you, and remember, move forward in a positive, productive way with great purpose in your life, but always remember live your life as that go-giver or go get her and share your life as that goal giver.
30:13
SPEAKER_01: Till next time, stay s stay safe.
30:16
SPEAKER_00: See ya.
30:19
SPEAKER_01: All right, well, you did a great job.