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Sweethearts & Heroes - changing the world one child at a time · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: The man's.
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  Speaker 2: Man a names Mann don't know, Sam, a man's.
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  Speaker 3: Name Sand the Master as the fathers ad.
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  Speaker 1: Alright here we so welcome to the aired out podcast
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: few after nine nine oh five. To be exact, was
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  Speaker 1: thinking briefly about riding the motorcycle in this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: then I was just I don't know. I was having
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  Speaker 1: some second guesses on that this morning, little Chili. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was like thirty eight at my house. It's
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  Speaker 1: got to be in the forties before I get in
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  Speaker 1: the bike. I'm getting older. Deb Phillips with us this
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  Speaker 1: morning from the world. Deb, good morning, Good morning JD.
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  Speaker 1: How the heck are you top of the morning to you?
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  Speaker 4: Good? Little cooler today than yesterday, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, Yeah, a big, big difference and maybe even some
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  Speaker 1: some thunderstorms pushing back in this afternoon. But Deb, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: What can we expect from the world which comes out today?
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  Speaker 1: Of course?
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  Speaker 4: Oh well, we have the advertiser of the week, the
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  Speaker 4: Business of the week, and this week it is more
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  Speaker 4: puliar agway and with you know, planting season getting started,
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  Speaker 4: that's a great place to go visit. Also, Mother's Day
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  Speaker 4: is May eleventh, and we have a lot of local
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  Speaker 4: advertisers with unique gifts for your mom. Plus green Up
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  Speaker 4: is this weekend and Mayfest and Montpillier and then we
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  Speaker 4: don't want you to miss the grocery specials at Pump
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  Speaker 4: and Pantry and Williamstown and Granite City Market in downtown Bear.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. If someone wants to advertise with the world,
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  Speaker 1: what they what do they do? How complicated?
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  Speaker 5: Is it not complicated at all? Just give us a
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  Speaker 5: call and we'll be there.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Uh and so what's the I want to ask you,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm still getting asked so much about this. When
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  Speaker 1: can folks start expecting the World in in their mailboxes?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Right now, that's in the households in five six oh two.
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  Speaker 5: We are hoping in the next month to have it
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  Speaker 5: in five six four one.
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  Speaker 6: God.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, we're just still working on that.
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  Speaker 7: And hope to have that soon.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful. Looking forward to to flipping through the pages today.
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  Speaker 1: I know Chris will be by here at some point
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  Speaker 1: soon with my World paper and I always look forward
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  Speaker 1: to it. Depp, thank you so much, Thank you JD.
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  Speaker 4: You have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: You got it will be in touch new week, a
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  Speaker 1: new world. Be on the lookout for it today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: partly cloudy is the word today. Starting out just beautiful
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  Speaker 1: this morning, sun is shining. We're looking at fifty five
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  Speaker 1: degrees later today. It's a big change up from yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight partly cloudy, get around thirty two. I know, still listen.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that my grass seed's going to grow with
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  Speaker 1: temperatures like this Tomorrow, sun and clouds and sixty seven
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  Speaker 1: Friday rebounding just a bit, thunderstorms, still some clouds, some
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  Speaker 1: sun and around seventy degrees, and then the weekend clouds, sun,
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  Speaker 1: rain and a little cooler either side of sixty for
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  Speaker 1: both Saturday and Sunday. I want to thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for tuning in, for joining us this morning. We
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  Speaker 1: have a lot to unpack, a lot to get to.
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  Speaker 1: As you may have seen in the press release that
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  Speaker 1: we had just put out, we have partnered up with
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  Speaker 1: Sweethearts and Heroes and this was kind of something that
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  Speaker 1: has been in the making here for maybe a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks is my guess, but I was you know,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Murphy is with us with Louden this morning. Loud
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  Speaker 1: and Granger from Sweethearts and Heroes and Tom uh I.
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  Speaker 1: It was really simple. I mean I'm listen. You and
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  Speaker 1: I both are creatures that really shift into gear with
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  Speaker 1: our brain capacity while we're driving. And that's what happened
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  Speaker 1: to me. I was driving down the road and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: why are these guys not on the air with me
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  Speaker 1: once a week? It's got to happen. Is that a
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  Speaker 1: question that? Well, no, that's a comment.
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  Speaker 6: Well hold on, first of all, slow down there, speedy.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I've only had half a cup.
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  Speaker 6: I know, but what's this motorcycle stuff? I got a motorcycle, dude,
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  Speaker 6: that's dangerous? What dangerous? He's a Harley driver, loud, He's
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  Speaker 6: a Harley driver Triumph, Triumph, no disrespect to the to
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  Speaker 6: the Harley stile. Because I talked him out of it.
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  Speaker 6: I said, it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Really, you're you're on you're on that. Yeah, are you
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  Speaker 1: going to try to get me to un motorcycle?
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna say, well, because you know that beautiful daughter
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  Speaker 6: of yours, I'll.
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  Speaker 1: See here we go. He's going for the juggular alrighty
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  Speaker 1: right now, right there? Yeah, he could have built up
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  Speaker 1: to me. No, no, no, no, yeah, I go right
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  Speaker 1: for the daughter and the wife. And well, here's the
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  Speaker 1: scary thing. Serious now, when I hit the midlife crisis,
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  Speaker 1: which Loudon doesn't know about yet because you're so young.
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  Speaker 1: But when I hit the midlife crisis, I was I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, the late thirties, early forties, maybe mid forties
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  Speaker 1: now that I'm thinking about it, I was like, gotta
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  Speaker 1: get a motorcycle. And it started out with the dirt bike,
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  Speaker 1: and then it went to the road bike. And there
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  Speaker 1: is just something about that's can I say the S
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  Speaker 1: word speed? If there's something about it? Man, Tom, it's listen.
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  Speaker 1: You're a man of adrenaline. You understand You've got to
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  Speaker 1: have you ever been on a motorcycle?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, when I was on the d I've driven
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  Speaker 6: a motorcycle.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Oh I didn't have one, all right, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 6: afford that JD. Right, I don't have the big bucks
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  Speaker 6: like you. No, No, it's just you know, it's not
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  Speaker 6: the motorcycle. It's the other people out there that I
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  Speaker 6: worry about.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to back me up here?
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  Speaker 6: A loud he's tried for.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I'm a fan of motorcycle. I went out
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  Speaker 7: to the dentist one when I turned eighteen, I went
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  Speaker 7: to the dentist and I came back with my first
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  Speaker 7: motorcycle and I just found something on Craigslist and picked
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  Speaker 7: it up, rode home, and I fell in love with
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  Speaker 7: it for sure. Uh but uh but and yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: so I went for the speed at first. But the
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  Speaker 7: speed's scary after a while. Man, the speed gets scary.
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  Speaker 1: Like, well, there's that one moment where you're coming into
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  Speaker 1: it and you're you're yeah, I'm not sure if I
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  Speaker 1: can get out of this hole. Yeah, And usually we
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  Speaker 1: all need that, we all need that. And then usually
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  Speaker 1: usually that does the trick.
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  Speaker 6: All let's move on stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get you out of it. We'll get you You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna work on it, buddy. I'm so glad to see you,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm so glad to meet Loudon. I've heard so
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  Speaker 1: much about this guy. I've heard so much about Leon,
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  Speaker 1: who I haven't yet met. And I'm meeting your daughter today,
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  Speaker 1: Abby for the first time. I am so blessed an
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  Speaker 1: honor to be included in your family. You guys have
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  Speaker 1: created an empire.
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  Speaker 6: Empire. Well, it's been it's been an interesting journey. You know,
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  Speaker 6: when you talk about scale, we estimate we've probably been
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  Speaker 6: in front of about two million students, parents, teachers, educators, administrators,
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  Speaker 6: community members. It's been a sixteen year ride.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say sixteen. I was going to ask
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  Speaker 1: you how many years it's been that. That's not that
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  Speaker 1: long when you're talking about numbers like that. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are not sitting around doing you know, one event
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  Speaker 1: a week.
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  Speaker 6: No, usually it's every single day. I think I think
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  Speaker 6: one year we topped out at one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 6: schools in the school year. And that's not to mention
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  Speaker 6: the summer work that we do. But it's been a
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  Speaker 6: roller coaster. Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 1: What was the And I know that I've had you
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  Speaker 1: and Rick on before. By the way, my daughter Lily
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  Speaker 1: said to me this morning. I said to her, you
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  Speaker 1: know who I've got on the air this morning, right,
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, oh yeah, And I said who and
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  Speaker 1: she said Rick?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, oh gosh.
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  Speaker 1: And I said and Tom And she's like, who's Tom
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  Speaker 1: Ah And I said the Free Hugs guy, Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: oh that guy.
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  Speaker 6: He was the wrestler right. Anyway, I hope Rick isn't listening.
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  Speaker 6: I hope we were. I was just looking at my phone.
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  Speaker 6: Don't think I was addicted, but I am like everyone
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  Speaker 6: and I was trying to make sure this gets streamed
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  Speaker 6: to our platform as well, because I think some of
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  Speaker 6: the stuff we're going to talk about here today is
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  Speaker 6: really really important. But just going back to the whole
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  Speaker 6: Rick thing, it's an inside joke with Rick and I.
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  Speaker 6: It's more of a competition because when I can say
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  Speaker 6: it before him, Yes, after assemblies at the elementary level,
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  Speaker 6: we say who's better? Was I better than Rick? And
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  Speaker 6: ninety nine point nine percent of kids no, Rick. But
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  Speaker 6: the interesting thing is this, when they first meet Rick
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  Speaker 6: at the elementary level, they're scared of him. And after
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  Speaker 6: he does his bit and they hear his voice and
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  Speaker 6: you know, I think his favorite compliment over the years,
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  Speaker 6: and man, we've heard everything. They Actually, we were at
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  Speaker 6: school yesterday. The principal came out and she's like, she's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: we had to reprimand one little kindergartener because it's something
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  Speaker 6: they said to Rick. But we've heard everything. Here's a
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  Speaker 6: guy sixty percent of his body was burned away, no ears,
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  Speaker 6: no nose, one leg, hands are melted together. And you're
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  Speaker 6: a kindergartener, sure do you say? Yeah? And the first
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  Speaker 6: time it happened we were outside. This little kid walks
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  Speaker 6: up to him and he goes, you look like Freddy Krueger.
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  Speaker 6: And Rick looks at me and he goes, how do
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  Speaker 6: you know who Freddy Krueger is?
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  Speaker 1: Kid?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, yeah?
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  Speaker 6: But they say the darnedest thing and the greatest compliment
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  Speaker 6: he ever got. It'll just it warms your heart. A
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  Speaker 6: little kid looked at him after the assembly. He goes,
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  Speaker 6: you're just a man. Oh, and Rick says that was
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  Speaker 6: the best compliment he ever got. Wow, because he looks
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  Speaker 6: like the monster that's supposed to live under your bed.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Rick is tuned in this morning has already.
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  Speaker 1: He says, if this is an empire, is Tom Darth
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  Speaker 1: Vader or charr Well.
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  Speaker 6: Now let me tell you that since he's listen, I
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  Speaker 6: gotta get this. I gotta get this. So man's there's
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  Speaker 6: a team Rick here. I think you should block him?
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  Speaker 6: Block him?
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  Speaker 1: Should I block him?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Ban him?
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  Speaker 1: You ban him?
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  Speaker 6: But I gotta tell you this. I gotta tell you this.
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  Speaker 6: I wish you could do something. I throw some b
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  Speaker 6: roll in here. So his wife, Amy is you know,
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  Speaker 6: an amazing human being. They met after his injury. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: we did talk. You shared this story on there unbelieved,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm gonna tell you a better one. So anyway,
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  Speaker 6: his wife Amy, I think she likes me better than
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  Speaker 6: Rick probably you know she likes to push rix buttons. Yeah. Anyway,
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  Speaker 6: So everybody as a as a grandparent, there's a couple
• 14:04
  Speaker 6: of ways you get your grandparent name. Right. You can
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  Speaker 6: just go with the standard and just I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 6: grandpa or grandma. Sometimes it's a Rick Rick. He had
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  Speaker 6: a Jaji and you know it's Polish, I believe, and
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  Speaker 6: so sometimes you go with the cultural grandparent name. But
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  Speaker 6: the greatest names are when the kid named you. Yes, right,
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  Speaker 6: like when the kid names you, and that's a whole
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  Speaker 6: nother thing. But anyway, so I will be preparing for
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  Speaker 6: my name and all my buddies that have kids now
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  Speaker 6: that my kids are older, when they introduce me, I
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  Speaker 6: actually slip one by the goalie, and I've named myself
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  Speaker 6: King Tom King Tom King Tom so and and listen,
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  Speaker 6: there's no narcissism when it's a kindergartener or a first grader. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: if you do it with adults, that's a problem. But anyway,
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  Speaker 6: so Grace Rick got Grace when she was ten days old,
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  Speaker 6: eleven days old, unbelievable story and Grace is five today
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  Speaker 6: and it's it's uh, probably the outside of Amy. It's
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  Speaker 6: probably the greatest joy of his life. It is un
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  Speaker 6: I got goosebumps just thinking about the stories over the
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  Speaker 6: last five years. But she only knows me as King
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  Speaker 6: Tom Tom. Really so yeah, so it's not really an emperor,
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  Speaker 6: it's more of a King Tom.
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  Speaker 1: I understand. Man, Please introduce this guy next to you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear from Louden and I want to
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  Speaker 1: know how we got the name Louden.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I'll introduce him.
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  Speaker 1: Is that from Louden written? Speedway racing family?
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  Speaker 7: NASCAR family?
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  Speaker 1: Are we joking here? Really?
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  Speaker 6: The left hand turned guy?
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  Speaker 7: Tell me hang out handed and left handed turns?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's left handed.
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  Speaker 1: You were born this way?
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  Speaker 6: I was, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: My parents were huge NASCAR race fans, and I went
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  Speaker 7: to two ever since I was ever since I was born.
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  Speaker 7: I was actually in the New Hampshire International Speedway. They're
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  Speaker 7: kind of like track newspaper with my name and everything
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  Speaker 7: kind of being yeah yeah, and to two races a
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  Speaker 7: year basically for like my whole life going over there
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  Speaker 7: at least, and then we'd go to obviously like Charlotte,
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  Speaker 7: we go to Daytona and stuff.
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  Speaker 6: In September every September. I know, I know this family show,
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  Speaker 6: but you should probably do the math. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Now we've done the math my whole life because as
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  Speaker 7: everyone goes there for I was born on Christmas, so
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  Speaker 7: there's no race in February, so that's kind of I know.
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  Speaker 7: That's why I'm down to kind of share a little
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  Speaker 7: bit more.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going through some withdrawal during during the winter, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you're still obviously very much still a huge No.
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  Speaker 7: I don't watch much NASCAR anymore. I don't I don't
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  Speaker 7: actually as much anymore. But we want to go see
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  Speaker 7: a NASCAR race. Abby's never been to a NASCAR race,
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  Speaker 7: so we'd love to go there. And plus we have
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  Speaker 7: a you on a NASCAR team for a while, we're
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  Speaker 7: not NASCAR.
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  Speaker 1: Both on the road road.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I got I got one of the hoods in
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  Speaker 6: my gym from the crash. The guy gave me the hood.
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  Speaker 7: Did you go to that race?
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  Speaker 6: Can we get off the motor sports stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Let's storing let's dive into too. Uh Rick is saying
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  Speaker 1: that's extra narcissism.
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  Speaker 6: I could see this we gotta have this. This really weird.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing though, We're having fun though, yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: we you know, I was thinking about you guys when
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  Speaker 1: I woke up this morning, and I'm like, these are
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  Speaker 1: this is a team of guys who are literally and
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I kind of said this to you, alluded to this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit last time. I had John there, that
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  Speaker 1: that is literally attempting to chip away at change in
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  Speaker 1: the world for the better. And you're you're going, you're
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  Speaker 1: going for the youth, which is the growth. And man,
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  Speaker 1: it's and I also said this last time, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: say it again. I Am going to sound many times
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  Speaker 1: on the air on Wednesdays like an old man because
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about the old days when I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: was a kid and how different the war, the world
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  Speaker 1: was different, how school was different, how the teachers were
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  Speaker 1: you know, It's just it was just so much simpler,
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  Speaker 1: at least it seemed that way. Look at the headlines
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  Speaker 1: in the in the Yeah, turn your phone on in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. It's just cram packed with bad news and
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  Speaker 1: just stuff. And the kids are carrying this to to school.
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  Speaker 1: They're walking around with the weight of the world let alone,
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  Speaker 1: just you know, maybe what's going on in their families
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  Speaker 1: and the dynamics in their families. They're carrying a lot
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  Speaker 1: of weight. Man, you know what I was carrying around
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  Speaker 1: when I was in third fourth grade? What I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna do afterwards? Who's I was going to be riding
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  Speaker 1: my bicycle around the neighborhood with who, climbing trees, digging holes,
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  Speaker 1: playing with my g I Joe. That's all I was
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  Speaker 1: worried about, you know. And now it's like, man, it's
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  Speaker 1: like kids are worried about you know, how they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: if they're gonna get food, and you know who's who's
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  Speaker 1: bullying them on social media? And damn, it's a heavy,
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  Speaker 1: heavy time. And you guys are you guys? And I
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  Speaker 1: said this when Rick was here. You know, I envision
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  Speaker 1: you guys on a river, paddling upstream. But you're you're
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: hitting some some some jetties and making some real progress.
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  Speaker 1: It's really impressive.
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  Speaker 7: It's interesting actually, because like where I'm coming from.
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  Speaker 6: I was born in.
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  Speaker 7: Nineteen ninety five, so I had like a touch of
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  Speaker 7: what you just were kind of talking about. Were kind
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  Speaker 7: of growing up playing. I mean, I'm only child, so
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  Speaker 7: and I lived my closest neighbors a mile away, essentially
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  Speaker 7: my closest friends. So we'd play a little bit. But
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  Speaker 7: I was also kind of into the social media realm too,
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  Speaker 7: like Facebook and stuff like that, MySpace, Facebook, Aol, Instant Messenger.
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  Speaker 7: I was fifth grade kind of doing that, so I
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  Speaker 7: was also kind of had one foot in that realm too.
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  Speaker 7: But so when you're sharing kind of your youth, part
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  Speaker 7: of me is curious about that. But I've noticed even
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  Speaker 7: more kids nowadays, the more students that we talked to,
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  Speaker 7: when I'm interviewing them talking to them, they are extremely
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: curious to find out what that was like because that's
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: foreign to them, Whereas with me, I kind of have
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: a touch a touch of it, you know, I can
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: kind of recall a little bit, but it's just interesting.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: So they they they really do want to know. And
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: we had an opportunity last September where we did the
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: summit and we removed all Instagram or all cell phones
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: from them, and they really they really had a great
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: time with that. They love that because that was like
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: a mandatory, if you want to participate in this, you're
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: gonna leave that baggage at the door, because it is
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: baggage like you're saying, they're lugging it around and stuff,
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: and they're so curious about who's liking their stuff, who's
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: seen their stories, who's scene. It's a currency, you know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: and it's heavy on them for sure, because that's their
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: worth and their hallways and they and they were extremely
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: stoked to just not have to almost kind of keep
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: up with the Jones in the cyber world for that
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: event we did, and it was really it was actually
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: kind of neat to see.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you know, we'll talk number one, let's let's
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: let me take one little step back. And I have
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: so many comments on what loud And just said, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: it's a deep dive and we could spend hours and
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: days talking about this stuff. But number one, JD, thanks
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: for letting us be here. I know that we put
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: some stuff out kind of like in a press release,
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: but the goal is to bring sweethearts and heroes on
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: every Wednesday a member of our team. I hope eventually
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: a principle or two, maybe even a parent can get on.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: And just as importantly, and I think you need to
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: know this because you're here in Vermont, we have a
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: group of dealers, Chevy dealers from northern New York right
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: through New Hampshire, and Man, I could not be more
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: proud of this group of dealers. You know, it's easy
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: to talk about what needs to change in this world,
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: you know the challenges that are going on in this world.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: It's really easy for everyone to grab their phone to
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: be this keyboard warrior and talk about these issues. But
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: these dealers every year for the last six or seven years,
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: have put a tremendous amount of resources, in particular money
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: into getting us into these schools because they've seen the
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: impact that this work has had. Now we've gone from
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Houston to Hawaii to Montreal, and I don't think there's
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: been another group that has done what these dealers have done.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: So I'm gonna really push you to make sure because
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: this is your home state and these dealers are doing
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: There's only about eighty six thousand students in the state
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: of Vermont. We can get to every single one of
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: them because of these dealers, and it's just a beautiful thing.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: I was in school yesterday that was sponsored by Benson,
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: and Man, I just had a couple of moments and
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: circle with these kids and I'll kind of land on
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: this because I'm sure You've got a ton of thoughts,
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: and I do want to go back to kind of
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: the beginning here, not really the origin of sweethearts and heroes.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: But I think that when we do these, the people
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: that are going to listen and that are going to
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: ask other people to listen, it's because they're going to
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: get some value. I'm a story to I love telling stories.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: I could sit here for hours and tell stories because
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: I got thousands of them. But I think the goal
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: here is to and correct me if you want to
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: steer it differently, because this is your show, not mine,
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: King Tom. But no, seriously, man, I really want to
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: give any listeners today or anyone in the wants to
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: listen to this later, some real value that's going to
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: help them, especially as a parent in this brave new
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: world as Huxley would have called it, that we're involved
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: in here because we can hit every student in the
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: state of Vermont and we can help them because it's
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: never been harder to be a young person than in
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: the world today.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Never been harder.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: There's nobody listening that would say, oh, man, I wish
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: I could be a kid today, like not me, And
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: just kind of wrap up what Louden was saying, you know,
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: I do this crazy circle stuff in seven or eight
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: years now, and it's all I ever want to talk
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: about is being in circle with young people. And I
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: can't count the number of young people. I got some
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: famous questions, and one of my famous ones is where
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: would you go if you had a time machine. I
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: can't count the number of young people that say to me,
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: I'd like to go back before social media. And I'm
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: going to tell you what. There's an awakening happening right now,
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: and most people aren't seeing it. But I'm in school
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: every single day with young people, and I see them
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: waking up. I see some of them putting the phones down,
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: and you know, it's very hard to describe what's happening,
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: but they're figuring it out. As destructive as it is,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: and the challenges that it's causing. I see it with
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: my own eyes. And you watch you play this back
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: in five years, and you're gonna have a new breed
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: of human being that's waking up to this.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Look at the schools that you guys have been to
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: just recently here in Central from Brookside Elementary, Lakeview Elementary,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Woodburry Elementary, Newberry Ludlow, Washington Village School, Orange Center School,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Waits River. These are just off the top of my head.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And that's just right here in our immediate central from
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: hot area. I mean, you guys are just you're doing it, man,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and no.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Offense, no offense. The greatest schools in America. And what
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: I mean by that is we we go to Long Island,
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: We've been to you know, down to Houston and huge,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: huge schools. But man, I just fall in love with
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: these little K twelve schools. You know, I don't know,
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: and I don't want to sound old or nostalgic, but
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: that's just the way education should be. It should be
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: a community.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: You have a team that is so powerful that's behind you,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and I think you would you would say that if
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you didn't, this wouldn't have nearly the traction and impact
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that tat without people like Cloud and sitting next to you.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: How did you guys meet how did you get him
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: involved with this?
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: How did we meet.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: This?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Uh, maybe that's a whole different.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, well it is. But I don't
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: want to call him say it chubby. You can say, Okay,
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: I didn't want to hurt his feelings. He was a
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: sixteen year old kid that wandered into sixteen. Yeah, how
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: are you today? I forget No, twenty nine, I do
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: forget that though, Are you seriously? Yeah?
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: I had the restaurant and in Saint Aubans, and he
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: wandered in was looking for a dish washing job, and
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: so he started washing dishes for us. And you know,
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: I didn't see much. I just saw someone that could
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: fill a hole. And he filled it and didn't complain
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: too much and never complained, always had a good attitude.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: No, you can't complain when you have free food coming back.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Wow, you know, like suret he's talking about eating off
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: the plates as he's washing the food that comes back.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Oh hell, yes, that's what I'm saying. That's what I
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: would do.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: And he described me as chubby, so it was right
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: where it needed to be.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: He and I would be fighting for this craft.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and so just accelerate every He went to Plattsburgh
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: State got a two degrees right, and so that meant
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: he was a little bit smart, so probably should keep
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: him around. And so he he'd come back every summer
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: like a dog trying to get some food. And so
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: he worked for us for every summer, and he did
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: a bunch of stuff from watering, the bartending, and eventually
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: COVID hit. And actually before that, I came up with
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: an idea. I said, hey, I got a great idea.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: I said, I got this new this space that's attached
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: to the restaurant, probably two thousand square feet. I said, hey,
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: I got this idea. I was reading this book by
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Malcolm Godwell and I said, I think we should open
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: a speakeasy. And so I pretty much just had the
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: initial idea, but then handed it to Louden and he
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: built the entire thing. And if you go to the
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Saint Aubus today, it's called the Clothier. Seriously, Yeah, it
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: is outrageous because Twigs was a men and boys' clothing
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: store one hundred years ago and that's the restaurant Twigs.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: And so we attached this Speakeas you go into a
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: changing room, there's a candlestick. It moves. It is unbelievable
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: what he did inside, but from the drink menu.
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: And then COVID hit and it crashed the whole thing,
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: which is ironic though, because in the nineteen twenties the
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: government banned going to bars no alcohol prohibition. Yeah, the
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: twenty twenties, the government banned people going to bars because
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: of the pandemic. So there was this echo throughout the century.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: And it was actually pretty like perfect to be honest.
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: It really was a speakeasy. You had to sneak in
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: and get in there and wow.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: So the spirit of what it stood for was there
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: the whole time.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Don't ask if we kept it open during COVID.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: No, don't ask. I'm not going to ask.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: No we didn't.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I wasn't even thinking of that question.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: No we didn't. But the coolest thing was, and this
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: is twenty five episodes here, we made an unbelievable video.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: Or this kid was in town. Filmmaker was in town
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: when COVID hit, and he said, hey, do you mind
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: if I run my camera? And he did this really
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: cool documentary I'll send to you called the Bull Weavil Boll.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: It was an agricultural pest that decimated Enterprise, Alabama nineteen
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: fifteen and just destroyed the cotton crop. And then they
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: started making planting peanuts after that, and Enterprise became one
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: of the greatest producers of peanuts in the world. But
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: no one could see it when the bull weavil wiped
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: out the cotton crop and decimated their community. And so
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: we took that theme when COVID hit the restaurant and
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: we shut down, and we just said we stole this
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: from Ricky Yarish because rick getting blown up, said it
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: was the best thing that ever happened to him, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna tie it out and back into this. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: so when the Vermont Health Department called me and said
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: shut it down, I walked into the restaurant that day
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: and I kicked the kitchen doors open. I said, this
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: is going to be the best thing that ever happened
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: to this restaurant, and hands down the best thing that
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: ever happened. Yeah, I gotta be careful when I say
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: this was COVID. And what I mean by that is
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: the way that we gave to the community, only because
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: I thought we were going to go out of business,
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: so I had to give all this stuff away. But
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: the way the community responded, Man Twigs just flew off
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: the charts. After the pandemic had subsided and the community
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: gave back to us. But Louden was probably out of
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: two people, he probably was the most instrumental person in
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: the restaurant. Because he took over the kitchen. That was
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: just we had tickets that would come out every night,
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: seven days a week, and spiral like a snake on
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: the floor because of all the you know, to go
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: orders and the takeout, which we had never done before.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: So we had no idea how to handle this kind
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: of stuff. You couldn't even keep up. But Louden and
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: one other person just orchestrated it because the clothinger shut
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: down and I said, well, we can get rid of
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: him or keep him, and so he just took over
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: the kitchen and just it was just a masterpiece. I
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: don't think he knew what he was doing, but he's
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: left handed, so he figured it out. I guess.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: So how did you get involved with sweethearts and heroes?
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Though?
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: So?
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: It was always kind of interested in filming, filming different sports, snowboarding,
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: skateboarding stuff growing up. Always had my hands on like
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: a camquarder of some sort of photography. And I had
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: known Tom through the restaurant, and I think he invited
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: me to come check out a presentation. I remember watching
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: some presentations maybe in Middleburg or something, New York or something,
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: and kind of getting my hands to the camera and
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: then in Essex, I filmed a few and then I
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: think that's how I kind of started going in there,
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: maybe a couple animation graphics. I just kind of cutting
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: my teeth on that a little bit, and then really
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: kind of went all in with helping with the course
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: work probably the last year or two, i'd say, and
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: just filming it and going and that's kind of I think.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: And you speak at schools too, No, I do not.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: Speak at school yet not Yeah.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well spoken guy though, I mean, thank you,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: well yeah, insightful, I mean, well a little bit.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: He just started a little podcast for us, thank you,
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: just about a fifteen minute thing called love your Lawn.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: Okay lawn it's an acronym, but he just does a
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: fifteen minute little here's the universe of sweethearts and heroes
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: he just started. It's very clever, very creative, and I
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: think that that's why I kind of really asked him
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: between the clothier. I saw what he did in the
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: changing a lot of the procedures in the restaurant, just
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: innovating things, making it, looking at it from a different lens,
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: and so when you know he could get behind the
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: lens of a camera, I knew he was going to
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: shoot it from a different angle and just take a
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: different perspective, a millennial perspective, a gen x perspective, and
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: something like, we put a bunch of old people behind
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: the mics and behind the cameras, but young people want
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: to see it differently. They want to see it through
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: those eyes and not these eyes.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, where do we find Love Your Lawn?
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: Where Love Your Lawn is on YouTube primarily, but we
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: also are on Spotify as well, which try we drop
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: one a week basically just kind of like you said,
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: encompassing everything that's happened in the Sweethearts and Heroes universe.
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: You know, it's a Sweethearts and Heroes a lot of
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: comic book theme, so it's kind of just like the Hub,
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: the news desk essentially of what's going on. And we
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: even give try to give some tips for different people
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: who are trying to conduct some of our work in
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: the field, essentially just kind of give them little doses
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: throughout the week. And then another thing is, you know,
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: not to dwell on the negativity from the news that
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: you know, it just kind of that's what sells, that's
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: kind of what's been promoted. We try to take the
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: stance up, and we do take the stance up. We're
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: giving the positive side of stuff. We're trying to plant
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: a seed of maybe light in your week, something that
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: will kind of help you throughout the week. And there's
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: so many things that tie in with the lawn and
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: community and everything that we sense needs to happen. We're
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: just trying to start somewhere with this as well, just
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: another avenue where people can tune into it.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: So how long have you been connected with Sweethearts and Heroes?
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: I would say probably, well like maybe four years.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, how has changed your life?
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: This has changed my life well so many ways actually,
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: And it didn't start when I started Sweearts and Heroes.
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: It started when we were in the restaurant and kind
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: of in that time of COVID that he had highlighted.
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: Because around that time even a little bit before then,
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: were you kind of like implementing or kind of beta
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: testing kind of some of like the circle work. How
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: would you kind of describe that in the restaurant.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: That's interesting you bring that up. You know, I woke
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: up one day I don't know, six seven years ago
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: and I used to do mandatory staff meetings. Tom, and
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: we had upwards of seventy employees when we finished our
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: tenure at the restaurant in twenty twenty two, so it
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: went from about fifteen to about seventy or eighty people.
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: And I would have these mandatory staff meetings and I
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: wasn't you know, but it wasn't the real King Tom.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: But anyway, but you know, it's just important you got
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: to get your team together. They were positive, but it
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: was me getting up there and you know, running my
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: mouth like I'm good at and you know, it was
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: good stuff. But one day I woke up and I
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: got involved in Circle about seven years ago, which is
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: a whole different discussion and just changed my life. I
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: mean absolutely every part of my life. My kids, my
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: wife would say, I don't really know that guy today,
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: And one hundred percent of it's because of circle.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Circle is an ancient helped me out here.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: It's just everybody listening. Your ancestors Satin circle for thousands
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: and thousands of years. Four we can trace circle back
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: to almost four hundred thousand years. People just sit in
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: a circle and they commune.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and oxytocin flows, right, we can all see each other. Yeah,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: total transparency and hear each other and each other. That's
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the most important point really. I mean, site is a
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: number one it's the number one sense for human beings.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: But when you look at logic and reason, it's built
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: through the eargate. And that's something we struggle with today
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: because we don't listen to each other. And circles about listening.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: And I can go very nerdy and deep on the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: science of empathy, and I talk a lot about it
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: with in professional development, But the foundational root of empathy,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: and the only reason we're here is a species is
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: because of empathy. We've wanted to share resources with one another. Right,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: we help people when they're in distress, so that when
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: we're in distress.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: People help us. That's empathy, right. The foundational rout and
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: there's a ton of science around this is perspective taking.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: It's listening to someone else's perspective. That's the foundational roots
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: of empathy. And that's what you do in circle. You
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: just listen to people, and you listen to different generations
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: and you get to commune with one another and you
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: bring this to the schools. Oh yeah, it's the most
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: important work that we do, most important work.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Everyone can see each other.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, h wow. Circle. I love circle. I did, sir.
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, I did circle yesterday and
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: I got U. Sometimes kids, I have talking pieces. You've
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: seen my little box before and something else that we did.
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: But I didn't really plan on bringing this. I keep
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: one on my wallet I got from a young lady.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: But I got this from a young man yesterday. And
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: after the circle, third grader gave this to me.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl super Bowl and.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: His uncle was murdered, stabbed to death, real important person
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: in his life. And he got to share that in
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: the circle yesterday, not because I asked him to, but
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: that was what was on his heart. And it was
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: so funny because I took old picture with him because
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: I keep pictures with kids, and just dropped my ball.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I'll get it.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: But and maybe that was a universe saying, don't say anymore, tom,
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: let it go, Let it go, let it go. But
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: that's for me, and I don't share his picture, but
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: but he it was.
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: It was.
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: It was the cutest thing, and it was really special
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: because after the circle, all the other kids left the
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: room and he out with me, and you know, he
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: talked about his uncle and what happened, and he told
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: me a little bit more, and it was like a
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: movie man. He gets to the door and he leaves
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: all the other kids on the playground, so he didn't
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: have a little playground time because he wanted to talk
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: to me after the circle. And and but he gets
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: that door and he looks back over his short he goes,
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: I think you should come back here again. I said, well,
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: I will see buddy. But that was a really special
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: moment for me. So I'll keep that in my circle box.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: And you know, it don't mean a lot to me
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: over the years, and at the right moment, some other
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: kid will pick that up and he'll say, let's use
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: this for the talking piece, and and the universe will
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: someone else in that circle will need to hear that story.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: And I could, I could. I could blow your mind
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: right now with things that have been pulled out of
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: that box. And I had one a couple of weeks
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: ago that just I still can't process it. I can't
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: process it. How do you universe knew that one circle
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: that that teacher was in that needed to hear what
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: that kid happened to pick out that box?
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you never know, you know, Listen, I'll be the
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: first to say understand the importance of curriculum, and there's
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: a reason why we go to school. It is to
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: learn the things that we need to learn in life
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: and have those tools. And when I was in elementary school,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: it was it was just you know, you sat down,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: you listened, you learned or you tried to learn. You
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: did your work, You had recess for like an hour plus,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: no matter what the weather was doing, and then you
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: went back in the classroom and you learned some more.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: And yeah, well there was a few of us that
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: kufed off, but sometimes me. But the purpose of going
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: to school was to learn. You guys are bringing something
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: into the school that is not necessarily the math, the science,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and the social studies in the English, but it's the
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: other stuff that we need to learn, respect, empathy, compassion.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Bullying is something that is so huge now. And yeah,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: of course it was a little bit of bullying when
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: when I was in school, and it's just seemed like
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: things got settled kind of organically. But now bullying has
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: gone to a next level. Parents aren't parenting, they're not
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: keeping their kids in check and holding them accountable for
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: their behavior. A lot of parents are not a lot
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: are But you guys are parenting almost you're teaching kids.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Look at the residual effects of your behavior toward other students.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Look at what can happen, Look at what accumulates in
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: another student's soul if you're continually, even if you think
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: it's harmless battering them or picking on them, and do
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the right thing. Think and rethink about what might come
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: out of your mouth before it comes out of your mouth,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: and that words can be really powerful and can hurt,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: but can also be so good and give birth to
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: a whole new feeling. And you can turn this around.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: You don't just because you're bullying or whatever it is
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: that you're doing, doesn't mean that you have to do
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: that every day. And not only hold yourself accountable, but
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: hold your other your other fellow students accountable. Watch what
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: other kids are doing, and don't look away from it,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: don't ignore it, get involved with it, and say, hey,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: in your indirect kind of way, you can be better,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: we can be better. And man, it's like a testimony here.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Within a week after you guys were at my daughter school,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: she did what you guys have taught her on the
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: playground and came home and told me, and I think
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I texted you right away. Man.
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: There's so much your stuff, man, and I don't want
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: to dominate this conversation, but I do thank you for
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: bringing up the B word, because I you know, when
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: I talk about the origin story of sweethearts and heroes,
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: that's where it begins. And I'm not going to rehash
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: the actual origin of it. But you know, Rick and
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: I were known as the bully guys, and that's how
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: that's the horse that we ride in on. Is this bullying?
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: And I think it's very important for your your listeners,
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: And this is kind of the nugget of wisdom, if
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: you will, the learning portion, because I have a lot
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: of parents that have come up to me over the
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: years of the thousands in my personal life and said,
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: my daughter's getting bullied. And I'm like, oh, tell me
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: the story, and while she's in kindergarten and I'm like, yeah,
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: and listen. Then you know, I'm not saying it doesn't happen, sure,
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: but I like to say the mean switch gets turned
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: on about the fifth grade, that's when it happens. But
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: before that, maybe there's something, Maybe there's some bullying behavior,
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: not bullying but you know, mommy hits daddy. Daddy calls
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: mommy stupid, and kids come to school they call people
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: stupid and they hit each other. And maybe they're just
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: replicating behavior that they've seen. But I think it's very
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: important right now that I just give you a little
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: understanding because any parent that's struggling with bullying, because Word's
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: a powerful man, they cut like a two edged sword.
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: They heal, they help, but they're very destructive. Anyone that
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: says sticks and stones don't break my bones, that's not true.
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: You know, I got a poem that I wrote years ago.
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: Names and words could call me caused me to kill myself.
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: That's one of the lines in the poem. Two kids.
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: Last night, I was going to bed. At ten o'clock,
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: I get a Google alert. Two kids in Virginia, two
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: different articles. Seventeen year old and a ten year old
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: ended their own lives. Two in Virginia. And you know,
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: middle school suicides of middle schooler since two thousand and
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: seven crippled. Thirty percent of young women post pandemic have
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: considered ending their own lives in this country. And that's
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: not a bullying discussion, right, that's a hopelessness discussion. That's
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: a separate one.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: But what I want to do, umbrella, isn't it. That's
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the big umbrella, that's that encompasses mental health and everything else.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: That's that's that's another day. But I do want to
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: give your listeners a little knowledge on bullying because when
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: parents come to me, the first thing or administrator or
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: a teacher at every level from kindergarten to twelfth grade,
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: when we leave, everyone knows what bullying is. Because the
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: first thing I teach young people in a very animated, fun,
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: sticky way, is what bullying is. Right here, here's the definite.
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: It's a bustering qarl, some overbring person who bigitally intention
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: bad just smaller weaker people. You got to say, that's
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: slower one more time for us. I do that on purpose.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: But bullyings made up of four things. So if a
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: parent comes to me, because most of the time parents
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: will confuse conflict in bullying, and conflict is great. Man
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: Loud and I have had a ton of conflict the problem.
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: That's how you make things better in business. You have
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: conflict with people and it can be heated. Conflict the
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: problem is unresolved. Conflict is the problem, and that's what
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: you're probably talking about. And someone got their feelings hurt,
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: someone lost the argument. There's nothing wrong with conflict. And
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: that's another big discussion on building one stress response system properly,
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: and that's something we've you know, decimated in young people.
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: But four things that make something bullying. Number one, it
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: has to be habitual, has to happen over and over again.
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: Let me back up. I'd say number one is the
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: signature bullying. It's fear. It's intimidation. Number one thing I
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: tell ask a parent, is your kid afraid to go
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: to school? Do they not want to be there? And
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: some people are going to disagree with this, but that's okay.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: I've just bought or even not maybe not necessarily afraid
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: to go to school, but feeling anxious when they're in
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the presence of someone.
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: Right, But I just usually start with the are they
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: afraid to go to school? But no, you're right. It
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: might be afraid to go to the bus stop, Sure,
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: walk down a certain hallway because they have to see
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: a kid. But it's fear, it's intimidation. That's the signature bullying.
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: It's not two kids not getting along, one student getting upset,
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: one young person getting upset. It's fear, right, that's the
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: real danger here. So is there an element of fear intimidation?
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: Does it happen over and over again? Right? That's very important.
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: That's the programming of the young person to believe something
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: about themselves, or their family or their condition.
• 49:41
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: They're programmed like a computer. Now that's a big discussion too,
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: because the cyber world changes that a bit. But number three,
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: the person that gets targeted has to feel it's a
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: very important word smaller or weaker And what does that mean?
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: It means anything, right, And that's one We're just good
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: at our age of picking up the big things raised
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: gender poverty. But what I've learned after all these years
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: is it could be anything. It's that girl, that young
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: woman that's prettier than everyone else. That's a tough thing
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: for a young lady when she becomes that girl, you know,
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: and she's got to wear that label through middle school
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: and high school. That's a tough thing. Most people won't
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: ever know how that feels. Right. And then, of course
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: the last part in that it happens on purpose. It's
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: an intentional act. And this one parents and teachers really
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: need to grasp because I give this one to teachers.
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: I say, teachers, this one's almost exclusively for you, right,
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: because you ever do something hurtful to someone because you
• 50:51
  Speaker 6: were having a bad day, Yeah, of course you have,
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: and we just label things bullying When a kid, it
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: looks intentional because they did it intentionally, But there's a
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: pretty good chance that they're having a really crummy day.
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: Their parents are going through a divorce, their dog died.
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: I don't know what the issue is, but they made
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: a mistake, and I'll kind of land on this. I've
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: got this new thing that I almost think adults should
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: be prosecuted. You can clip that one. When we crucify
• 51:25
  Speaker 6: a kid, you know, online in front of other adults
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: for a behavior that they did in school, I think
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: it should be illegal. You wanna block something on social media,
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: Elon Musker, whoever, Zuckerberg or whatever, that's what you should
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: block because you know what, man, I did a lot
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: of hurtful things when I was a kid because life
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: was just crappy and I was just having to fight
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: with my parents or my sister, and I took it
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: out on someone else. Now I would call that bullying behavior,
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: but it doesn't mean the kid bullied a single person,
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: it means, you know, he's operating on his feelings because
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: that's what kids operate on their feelings, right, Right, So
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: I just think it's very important at the beginning of
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: this whole thing, because that's how Sweethearts in Hero started
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: he asked to do in two thousand and nine. I
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: think kind of putation on bullying and the anti bullying,
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: that's right, and so we've always kind of kept that
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: theme because that's been around for thousands and thousands of years, right,
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: People mistreating people and it's going to continue to be
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: around and you're not going to eradicate it.
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And it seems that's where it starts, and that's
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: what we think of. We're trying to end bullying like this,
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: but really it seems as if we're trying to unify the.
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: The community of within.
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: The school so it's less likely they would bully. You know,
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: we're strengthening their internal relationships, different groups, different clicks. I
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: know that person, we have something in common. I'm not
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: gonna blame them. They're all cool now, they're chilling now,
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: like do you know what I'm saying? Kind of like,
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: so it's not like bullying bad, you're in trouble now,
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: It's like he is less likely to bully someone else
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: because we're all cool. We're all friends with each other,
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: and even if we don't have a ton in common,
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: we still treat each other with dignity because that's what
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: we've trained ourselves to do through other practices like circle
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: and different stuff like that. So it's really kind of cool,
• 53:22
  Speaker 7: and I think it's way more And the students say this.
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: I'm just saying what the students say when I interviewed them.
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: They say that these are the skills that are helping
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: them in life with like you know, job or applying
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: for colleges or all these things, or just you know,
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: kind of building who they are as a person, as
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: a character. They didn't know how to do that before.
• 53:42
  Speaker 7: So it's just it just transcends bullying. Bullying is kind
• 53:46
  Speaker 7: of I feel like the foot in the door, but
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: then like it's just unifying the whole entire school. Beyond that,
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: it just seems like that is actually stopping bullying.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: You know, so well, I think it's one thing for
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: you guys to bring this this this message and this
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: presentation to schools, a whole other thing to incorporate your
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: train the Trainer program, if you will, for lack of
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: a better term, where now you guys are talking about
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: some serious residual effect here where when you leave, whether
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: you come back to that school or not. When you
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: when you leave, you've planned a seed that hopefully is
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: is really going to sprout. And when you when you
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: training the trainers, that's next level.
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah. But here's the cool thing about our
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: Train the Trainer. You say that and people are listening.
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: You think about us training adults to train students in
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: this work, and I know people are gonna say, well,
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: what kind of work? What do you train them?
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: In?
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: Big long, ten year discussion. We have a full the
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: classes in schools. But our true train the Trainer we
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: are training students get a program called Step step, the
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: Student Teacher Empathy Program, and we actually train high school students.
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: We don't train adults. I mean, we do train adults
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: and we have a lot of professional development. But our
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: real work, and this is where we will sweep America.
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: This is our goal is we train high school students.
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: We had seven schools this year that the high schoolers
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: learned the message of sweethearts and heroes at the K
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: two and the three to five level, and now we
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: have high school students presented to the elementary schools just
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: like we did for a decade, and that's where we
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: exponentially change the game.
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, because not only not only are you
• 55:54
  Speaker 7: multiplying the boots on the ground in terms of you
• 55:57
  Speaker 7: have all these people who can who know the lesson,
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: who can convey it, but also the way that these
• 56:03
  Speaker 7: younger students see these high school students are presenting, it's
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: so much more impactful than seeing Tom and Rick. Not
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: to take anything from Tom and the Rickshaw, but it's
• 56:13
  Speaker 7: so insane. Even when we were building these classes, we
• 56:17
  Speaker 7: incorporated a toolbox into these lessons, some things that give
• 56:21
  Speaker 7: these people, these these high school students, some some tricks
• 56:24
  Speaker 7: of the trade to present, and one of them was
• 56:27
  Speaker 7: give them some time, remind them, hey, I'm almost done here,
• 56:30
  Speaker 7: Hey I'm talking. Hey, we accounted for the loss of attention.
• 56:34
  Speaker 7: I have seen so many STEP presentations where high schoolers
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: are presenting. There is no loss of attention at all
• 56:41
  Speaker 7: because because the students just are looking up at these
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: high schoo students like they're like they're celebrities of so
• 56:49
  Speaker 7: so it's just so bizarre to see. And uh, and
• 56:52
  Speaker 7: of course there's there are new presenters. It's not even
• 56:54
  Speaker 7: as polished. So it's not the element. Oh, they just
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: have the presentation down. It's not the element.
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: Is this what do you call it?
• 57:01
  Speaker 7: It's a what is that?
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: Well? What he's talking about? And we kind of stumbled
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: on this. You know, we would do these programs, our
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: Brave program, where we go in to school for six
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: weeks and we take a group of older students, you know,
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: mostly the gatekeepers, influencers and not just the high flyers,
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: the ones that have some influence in the hallways. And
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: we take those whether they're eighth graders or eleven, the
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: twelfth graders, and we take those students, we train them
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: for a full day and then we come back once
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: a week. And we invented something called a bully drill,
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: like a fire drill. Yeah right, I've seen, yeah, you've
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: seen it. So fun. But it's about age mixed play.
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: And if there's one thing I can talk about, it's
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: the science of play. I've just spent a decade learning
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: about it, reading, devouring everything I can get on. And
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: what he's talking on another podcast talking about Yeah, so
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: what we kind of stumbled on was I play old
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: mister incredible, and I tear my shirt off and every
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: kid loves me. And when I walk the hallways like
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: mister incredible, mister I can come back the next year,
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: and the kids like it's incredible, like they'll just know.
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: But but so that's what kind of built my ego around,
• 58:12
  Speaker 6: you know, King Tom and stuff. But anyway, but no,
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: but let me let me take this point because it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: So because it's happened to me, this is where my
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: head goes psh and pops. Right. Yeah, So it happened
• 58:23
  Speaker 6: to me a couple of times where I go train
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: these older students, these older mammals, and I'm like, all right,
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: now we're gonna go down to the second grade classroom
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: and do bully drills. Now, if I see those second
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: graders in the hallway, they're like, yeah, mister credible, mister incredible.
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: And but I bring these high school middle school students down.
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: The little kids don't even.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Look at me.
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: They look at the high school and the middle schoolers
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: and they're like and all they want to do is
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: connect with them, because when you look at you know
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: how mammals truly learn. Baby Bear tries to play with
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: Mama Bear. She entertains for a few minutes, and then
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: she's like, I got Mama bear stuff to do. Baby
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: Bear then goes down to the river watches the teenage bears.
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: This is so deeply rooted in our brain stem. And
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: every mammal has a play cycle. Rats started four weeks,
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: they ended fourteen weeks. But humans have the longest play
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: cycles of all the mammals, and we are just the
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: most neotonous creatures on Planet Earth. Planet Earth, we've retained
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: those juvenile tendencies the longest. I mean I talked to
• 59:31
  Speaker 6: your wife, she'd tell me you still act like a
• 59:34
  Speaker 6: little kid most of the time. But the point is,
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: what Loudon gets to see that I have been watching
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: for over a decade, is that he gets to see
• 59:46
  Speaker 6: through a lens these high school students, these older mammals
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: automatically teaching. The worst thing compulsory education ever did was
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: segregate kids by age, hands down the worst thing, because
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: that that's how mammals learn. And that's why I like
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: these little Vermont schools, yeah right, because they still integrate
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 6: so many of the kids on the playground yesterday on
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: the playground. They had their sixth graders out there with
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: the first and second graders. If you take the science
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: is incredible. If you take an entire elementary Beatrice Whiting
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: some other folks did the science on this. If you
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: release an entire elementary school into a gym a playground,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: half of those kids will pair up with kids two
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: years older than themselves, the little kids, and a quarter
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: of them will pair up with kids within four years older.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: You're thinking right now about your daughter and how old
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: is she ten? Right?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: She loves being around.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: Two year olds, three year olds, four year olds. She
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: loves it because she's programmed to love it.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big sister mentality.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah wow, and that's our and that's one of the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: roots of our work. And he gets to watch it
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: through lens now and say wow, because they fract because
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: look what happened subconsciously with a kid in the classroom.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: They're listening to material from a teacher, and even if
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 6: it's a great teacher and they love the teacher, and
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 6: it's still recurds to take. Yeah, but they just their
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: their attention is so fractured today it's still like at
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 6: some point you gloss over and now subconsciously, you're saying
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 6: adults are kind of boring where kids are boring.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, yeah, beautiful stuff. I'm guessing both of you.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Uh I already know about Tom, but loud and uh,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing you're you're you're similar to Tom, and that
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: when you have left some schools and seen what you've
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: seen through your lens, that by the time you've made
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: it out to your car and you're putting it in gear,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: you're so consumed with what you've just witnessed an experience
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: that you don't even remember the drive.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 7: No, that's one hundred percent. And a lot of the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 7: times too, like while I'm filming this stuff or asking
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 7: these questions, I in my head already know where that
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 7: thing's going, but the students totally totally like, yeah, just
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 7: remind me, Hey, no, this is you know, and I
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 7: think that I don't know what that, I don't know
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 7: what the name for that is. But but eventually yes
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 7: to kind of what you're saying is like I'm almost
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 7: I think I'm starting this day, I know exactly how
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 7: it's going to go, and I'm essentially blindsided, blindsided throughout
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 7: the day with stuff I hadn't even thought of. And
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 7: then yeah, it does consume my ride home because it's
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: like this this Tom will call, hey, how to go?
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 6: You would believe the stuff we got.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 7: I didn't even know that was that that was even
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 7: a component of what they're dealing with. So it's just
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 7: it's just interesting. There's always surprise, it feels like with
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 7: something new that arises, and and yeah, it definitely it's
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 7: definitely makes me think a lot about it. For sure.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: What he's talking about I told him I was not
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: going to talk about this where he's like, you should
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 6: talk about that today. But what he's talking about is
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: something called wonder, and I won't. I could go on
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 6: a crazy, sick cosmological diatribe about wonder right now and
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: the wonderbeam that we all ride. And what he's seeing
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: is what Feineman, you know, the physicist, you know, they
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 6: called him the Great Explainer and he was brilliant, Richard Feynman,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: Nobel Prize winner, And you know what he talked about
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 6: was fluid intelligence. You know, you have crystallized intelligence, you'll
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: learn things your whole life, but young people have this
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 6: thing called fluid intelligence. And it's what Einstein said, right
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: that imagination and creativity is more important than knowledge. We
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 6: just wrote an article and we read about this and
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 6: we quoted this. But this guy turns to true story,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 6: it turns to Einstein, says, hey, what's your phone number?
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 6: And Einstein hands him a phone book and the guy's like, dude,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 6: you'r Einstein, what's your phone He's like, it's in a book.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 6: Why do I have to know it? And So what
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: Loudin is seeing through a lens, he's seeing fluid intelligence working,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: and we're annihilating that in young people. You know, we
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 6: put them in front of a phone, which I'm not
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 6: antiphone for kids. There's a lot to say about it,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: a lot of challenges, but largely one of the things
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 6: they're doing, though, is they're using someone else's intelligence, their
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 6: fluid intelligence, their creativity, their imagination, and to carbon copy
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: of Yeah, and it does spark new things, and it's
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 6: going to take us into a brand new realm. So
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 6: we can't dismiss this. You've become smarter, better, faster by
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: looking at content. But when the kid is in that
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: for seven to nine hours a day and they're not
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: bored anymore, yeah, that's a problem.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: That's a problem.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 7: Because is the boredom is that what kind of stimulates
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 7: the wonder in a sense, the essence of boredom.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: I would say that that boredom. Boredom is the second
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: most suppressed emotion in humans. We have an unbelievable human
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 6: that works with us. Kid saw us present in middle school.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: He's a man now and I think he's about Loudon's age,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: and he has a degree in industrial psychology. His name
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 6: is Pat Fish. He wrote a wonderful book of poetry
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: called Boredom School, because school is I see that boring.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 6: And I don't say that to disschool. I believe in education,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 6: but we've annihilated boredom and young people and a lot
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 6: of imagination and creativity comes out of boredom. You're bored,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 6: you go outside, you figure something out. You go to
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: your room and you figure something cool out. That's fun.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: This is what Pat Fish wrote, Boredom School. Yeah, it's great.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 6: Man. And the great thing about Pat in that book
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 6: it makes me smile, is a teacher head faked him.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 6: His dad was a superintendent, a principal of the year
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 6: in New York State. Mom was a thirty year educator.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 6: He wasn't crazy about school. Very intelligent. It probably got
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 6: himself in a little trouble being as smart as he was.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 6: But a teacher, but Pat loved rap music. He's a sick.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: You have to get him on here. He's a sick.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 6: He can just freestyle. I try and make him do
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 6: it in front of kids. It's great. He ask you
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: a few questions and he'll just start breaking it into
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 6: a freestyle. But a teacher had faked him in middle
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 6: school or early high school and said, hey, Patrick, we're
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 6: doing a poetry unit. Maybe you can bring some of
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 6: that little Wayne to the poetry unit. And he was like, what,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 6: I can bring rap music to the poetry unit. And
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: so ever since, he's been writing poetry and he's got
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 6: a sick book called Boredom School. It's about a new
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 6: kid to a school. It's a sequential set of poems
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 6: and it's hard to be a new kid to a school. Yeah,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 6: that's one of the things. That's a kid that can
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 6: easily become targeted, and sometimes that makes some young people
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 6: feel smaller or weaker on the inside. How many times
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 6: you just if you look at social penetration theory, that's
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 6: a it's a really really interesting how we create relationships.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 6: You know, you always start out very reserved and orientation first,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 6: like you know this, yeah, you know the person that
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 6: just jumps in and you're like, who is this weirdo?
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: So most of us we take it easy when we
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 6: get into a new environment. We don't just jump in
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 6: and say, look at a loss of I am. So
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 6: it's hard to be a new kid, especially when you
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 6: get to those middle levels, that middle school level, high
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: school level. So Patrit a wonderful book called Boredom School
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 6: right now on social media. He's on day one seventy
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: or one eighty or something like that that she's giving
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 6: me the sign here I can't read but four hundred
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: and something, no one, but he's doing a poem a day.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 6: He brings a Boredom School to school, and he finds
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: a young person to read a poem he gets don't
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 6: pick anyone that they want that means something to them.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: So I can't help. But as you're saying this, I'm
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: I'm you know, Sherilyn and Lily were just on a
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: road trip and a lot of it was Lily spent
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: you know, on a tablet and watching things during the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: road trip, and you know, I'm trying to explain to her,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: just speaking about boredom, that when I was her age,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: we didn't have tablets, we didn't have cell phones, and
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: we just had to look out the window and imagine,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: imagine things. What am I going to do when we
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: get there? What am I going to do when I
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: get home? I'm imagining myself climbing that tree or walking
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: up that field or whatever, riding my bicycle somewhere. I mean,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: it's like, wow, how did I freaking survive? You know,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: I think of the the song Counting Blue Cars, but
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: it's like, my god, man, It's like trying to explain
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: to her, you're lucky that that you can have that
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: that distraction. But mom also makes her shut it off. Yeah,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: that's cool for for a while. Okay, it's been long enough.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: It's time to unplug for a little while.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a giant discussion, bro.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a discussion because now we've got
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: to snap back.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, because it's almost like looking out the window is
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 7: like very he's very minuscule, but you never know it
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 7: comes back because didn't Einstein come up with the theory
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 7: of relativity by looking out like a train window and
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 7: seeing like poles or something past I could have swore
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 7: I heard something about like he was on a train
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 7: seeing the Poles pass, and it's just like it's just
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 7: a very small little moment, you know, and had he
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 7: have a tablet in his hands and he wasn't present, right,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 7: you never know what. So it's kind of interesting because.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: We just drove true not long ago, through Brooklyn and
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: you know, we're getting off off that off the highway
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: and we're coming to the city and I'm just getting
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: ready to say to Lily, tablet off, and Shriylyn beat
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: me to it, and I was like, that's awesome. Not off,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: but like power off. We're driving through Brooklyn. You are
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: going to be looking around. I want you to see everything.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: I want you to see the buildings. I want you
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: to see some poverty. I want you to see some graffiti.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about graffiti.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: Why do people do that?
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 6: You know?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: All of these things. I want you to see it.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 6: I'll give you something deeper to think about. On this level,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 6: I can get very philosophical. I get way too philosophical
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: about things. That's a beautiful thing of mine. Went to
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 6: Hawaii with him, did twenty schools in Hawaii once and
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: we went there and he's a film guy, and you know,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 6: world class film guy who actually wanted Sundance, really brilliant filmmaker.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 6: And I was like, take this picture, take that picture.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 6: And at one point he just put his hand on
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 6: me and he goes, Tom, some things aren't meant to
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: be captured. He said, why don't you just enjoy it?
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 6: And I'll never forget that lesson. But there's something different,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 6: though about our kids and their neurology that we have
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 6: ushered in this sense of hyper reality. And there's a
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 6: lot to be said about this, and this is very,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 6: very deep, that we have constructed a different reality for
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 6: them in their brains and they've attached to this you know,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 6: cosmological or this universal consciousness. And I don't want to
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 6: get too weird on you, because I can get very
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 6: weird with this kind of stuff, because most of my
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: recreational reading is around this kind of stuff. But because
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 6: we've propelled them into this world, this hyper real world,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 6: the real world isn't real to them. If you if
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 6: a dinosaur was outside right now, you and I might
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 6: be in awe for them. They'd probably be disappointed because
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 6: of the world that they live in, because the Tyrannosaurus
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 6: is supposed to act like it is on Jurassic Park.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 6: It's not supposed to run around the side of the
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 6: building and hide. So yeah, I appreciate what you say,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 6: but at some level it confuses me because this regular
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 6: world is boring and that's pretty scary, to be honest
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 6: with you, For me, that reality is boring to them,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: and you want her to experience the graffiti. And I'm
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 6: not trying to push back on you to experience that, like,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 6: because your reality was tied to those things when you
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 6: were a little boy from Vermont or wherever, and you
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 6: went to the big city and Chary I had the
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: reverse of that. I was born and raised in Philadelphia.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: I remember moving and sitting in my classroom in third
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 6: or fourth grade and looking at these kids and being like,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 6: I literally thought this, and can remember this thought. Sure,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 6: these acs had no idea what life is really like.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 6: But when I saw my first cow, when I got
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: to pull up this fish out of the stream, I
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 6: was like, oh my god, what is this. So it's
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 6: really interesting, man, the collision and and and the scary
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 6: part is, dude, when your generation and my generation are gone.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 6: We got one generation. How we started this podcast. Who
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 6: has seen a glimpse of it? What happens when that
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 6: generation's gone? Yeah, but you know who talked about this.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: This is fascinating, This is mind blowing. I'll make this short.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 6: This is what Huxley talked about in Brave New World.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 6: I don't know if you ever read it. So in
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 6: the future, it's this hype. You wrote this in the thirties, bro, Like,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 6: this is mind blowing. Like he must add a time
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 6: machine him, him and orwell must have had some kind
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 6: of time machine. I could go off on Fahrenheit but
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 6: but think about this in Brave New World. If you
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 6: don't know the book, it's increa dude. You should read
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 6: it or listen to it. It'll blow your fricking mind.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 6: In the future, they go to reservations to watch the
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 6: natives because they live in this hyper realized world where
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 6: they live on soma, which is a drug. I think
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 6: it's basically THHC today, but they live on this stuff
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 6: to deal with their anxiety every time, and you get
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 6: paid I think in soma. But they desensitize themselves to death.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 6: They let little kids go in and crawl on people
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 6: that are dying, and so yeah, it's death is death
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 6: is is a sense of awe, it's a sense of wonder,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 6: like what's next after that? But what happens, though, is
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 6: they go to this reservation. They bring this guy John
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: back into their world from the reservation. By the end
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 6: of the book, John's living in this world and he
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 6: can't handle this hyper realized world. And you know how
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 6: the book ends, he hangs himself. Wow wow, because he
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 6: can't live in this hyper realized world. Think about that.
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  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And that was written in the thirties.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 6: Thirties or thirty two or something. That was his story writer.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 6: Oh no, actually, don't want to go down that rabbit hole.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 6: Goose bumps, man, goose bumps, dude, goose bumps.
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  Speaker 7: Inversely, I bet the hyper realized people couldn't live in
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 7: the natives the world either.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 6: Though they wanted to. Though, it's like kids today, like
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 6: they want to, they want to feel that, but they're
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 6: kind of some of them are just disappointed with it
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 6: the real world. Can you imagine being disappointed with the
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 6: real world and the senses you were designed. You were
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 6: you were built for your senses to interact with the
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 6: real world. Yeah, and now like they're not and now
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 6: you're putting on VR and other things like that.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Man, video video games. Man, we could go down a
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: couple of rapps.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 6: Video game one is another very very easy discussion.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: To wrap this morning. Yeah, tell us what's tell our
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: listeners what to expect on Wednesdays going forward here, Well,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: and we're going to change it up.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're not gonna get to listen to
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 6: Tom and his philosophy.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: I would like to come to one of these schools too.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 6: Oh dude, you should. It'll blow It'll blow your mind.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 6: Our K two we have to do that. Our K
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 6: two are three to five. The most important work that
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 6: we do, hands down our middle high school level. You
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: won't even know what hits you when you leave the auditorium.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 6: Thirty forty year educators have said for a decade, I've
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 6: never seen anything like this. Most important work we do
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 6: is the elementary work. I'd say the most important work
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 6: we do now is training students to present this message.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah right, this elementary message. Because you know things like
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 6: fire drills, stop, drop and roll. You'd never teach it
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 6: to a high school kid. Yeah, you teach those skills
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: or that skill set to younger kids. So we we
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 6: train young kids in real actionable skills that they can
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 6: use on the playground, and then we practice them. And
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 6: that's really what has separated us from everyone else is
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 6: we roll play with socio dramatic play is what it is,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 6: and that codes in the brain differently than There's a
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 6: lot to say about that. But what do you expect
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 6: from this? Number one? I expect every time to give
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 6: credit to these dealers that have brought us to your
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 6: wonderful state. Nothing more important there because it would happen
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 6: without them, with these little rural schools in Vermont. But
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 6: number two, we hope that bring a different team member.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 6: We'll bring Pat fish on. We'll bring the great rick
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 6: yarish On, the great one, the world's hope expert.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: Will that be pay per view?
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 6: Pay per view? Geez, you've got to buy some popcorn
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 6: for that one. Actually, I went to the movie theaters
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 6: with him once. You won't believe what movie I went
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: to the movie theater. I spend more time with Rick
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 6: than my wife, more anniversaries with him than my wife,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 6: that's a true story. Two hundred and twenty days in
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 6: the year with him for ten years, almost went to
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 6: the movie theaters with him once he brought a service dog.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 6: It was a disaster. You know what movie we went
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 6: and saw. I'll give you one hundred dollars if you
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 6: can tell.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: Me Harry Potter. No, uh, Saving Private Rynd.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: No, that wasn't in the theaters.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: Titanic. Oh god, I have no idea three D tic dude,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: it was crazy.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 6: I don't really go to the movies. I'm not a
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 6: movie watcher.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 7: It.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 6: He looks like he came out of it. Now. I'm
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 6: not saying that to be disrespectful. Rick has no PTSD,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 6: greatest sense of humor ever. But can you imagine coming
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 6: into the movie late and Rick is so funny because
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 6: he's on his phone because he doesn't want to sit
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 6: in here anyone because he's got his dog there. Yeah,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 6: and he's so funny to watch because his hands are
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 6: kind of his hands are melted together. Yeah, but he's
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 6: got a little pincher. He's not still listening, is he?
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: I think he is.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, we'll find out. But anyway, he's got one hand.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 6: He's got a little pincher. Said that before. He's gonna
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 6: be so upset with me, but he'll grab one kernel
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: at a time. When the lights go off, it's like
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 6: popcorns flying. It's great. But can you imagine coming in
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 6: late and you walk there, and you walk over and
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 6: and you you sit down and you don't realize so
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 6: you sit next to and you're like whoa and you're.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: An it like it's like, oh man, anyway, only these
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: guys can can do this. I mean I could never
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: take a swing at Rick, dude.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 6: And that's not true, dude, chemistry.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: Listen, man, we're being asked, will you guys make it
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: to Burry City Elementary and Middle School?
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 6: I sure hope we will. That We just re upped
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 6: with our friends, the Chevy group, so they're going to
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 6: do another year with us, and I would love for
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 6: them just to send me a note because what we
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 6: what we what we did yesterday? Benson brought three elementaries together,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 6: Benson Chevrolet. Yeah, like we were in Ludlow where we
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 6: were you know, dude, this was crazy. We were in
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 6: Ludlow in like twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they brought a couple of schools in.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but we were there in twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 6: just for Ludlow, but this time we went back to
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 6: the elementary and they brought two other schools there. So
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 6: what we're doing with the Chevy group, which is kind
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 6: of new, is we're hitting elementaries and we're going to
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 6: bring the elementary more elementary schools together under one roof,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 6: so we can just hit more schools. So I would
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 6: ask this person, this individual, just to send us to
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 6: go to Sweethearts and Heroes dot com and direct that too. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 6: get it to us, and I'll make sure we put
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 6: them on the list. Because here's one of the craziest things,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 6: though I'll leave it unmentioned, but we were in another
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 6: Vermont school not too far from here, one of the
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 6: best schools ever, and I know the principal, and I said, dude,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 6: you get two days with this dealership. Call your middle school,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 6: your high school. They said, no, thanks, completely paid for
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: by the dealership. So we just went to the elementary.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: So I'd love to think we're going to go to
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 6: that school, but if the administration doesn't want us, and
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 6: I guarantee you we'll be back at that middle and
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 6: high school that said no thanks next year. Because when
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 6: you hear what we've never advertised one day, because when
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 6: we go to an area and one person sees it,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 6: they're like, like, the Ledlowe police chief was there yesterday,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 6: He's brand new. He was mind was blown, a former
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 6: marine police chief. Yeah, there was an organization there that
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 6: a substance abuse organization. The lady was like, what just happened?
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 6: So just tell him to send a note to us
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 6: and I'll make sure. I asked the dealer if that
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 6: could be one of the schools. Next year, we pulled together.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: Orange Center School just up the road here, I mean
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: Washington Village School. I mean, you've Knewberry was just not
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, I think, right.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 6: If you go to our website at the bottom, there's
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 6: a map. Unfortunately, I don't think I started until twenty fifteen.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 6: And you can see probably five hundred schools that we've
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 6: been in on that map.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, But just to go back to what we
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: were saying here, we hope to have a different team
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 6: member give you a different angle, different glimpse. Won't be
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 6: this long. We'll have ones where maybe we can come
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 6: back down here. Most of them will be remote, but
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 6: we'll get rick on here and really what I'm most
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 6: excited about Leon, a guy that spent time like you
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 6: and the press for twenty five years in Vermont. And
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 6: it's the other thing too about Vermont. You know, we
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 6: could legislatively really make an impact. And I've reached out
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 6: to several legislators. And this is not a diss I
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 6: just saw Senator who's going to call him Congressman Senator
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 6: Welch because.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: I know him.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: I did a face off with him once you did,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 6: yeah yeah, in front of a restaurant. I got a
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 6: picture of it. But I just saw him in the airport,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 6: uh last week and we were going to Miami, UH
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 6: to do a film shoot and UH and I sat down,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 6: I got a chance to talk to him about this issue.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: And and this isn't anything that I would criticize him on,
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 6: but when I gave him some of the stats on
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 6: you know, especially the destructive decisions young people are making
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 6: in America today, he was just like and and and
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 6: again this isn't to criticize, but I'm just thinking, you know,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: there's nothing more important than our young people in the
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 6: world today. You can always judge a society by how
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 6: it treats the young people. I mean, for all of
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 6: human history and for him to not know that, or
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 6: for someone on his team not to bring this to
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 6: his attention. Yeah, two kids yesterday and Ginia or this
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 6: week in Virginia. I mean sweeping the country. Sure, and
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 6: it's not just Rick and I are going to des Moines,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 6: Iowa and made it present alignment. You know what the
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 6: I know you want to wrap this up, but the
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 6: general suicide rate in America is anywhere between ten and
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 6: fourteen per hundred thousand. We've been to Camp Pendleton the
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 6: last two years. Marines are at thirty four point nine
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 6: per one hundred thousand, thirty four point nine per hundred thousand.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 6: Our children are reaching the general suicide rate, which it
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 6: doesn't make any sense.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: It's it's pretty much when I was a kid, if
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: somebody took their their life late teens twenties, that was
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: considered extremely young.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and you probably only heard about one time
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 6: your whole life. Yeah, there's not a kid today that
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 6: doesn't know someone that's attempted. But there's between a half
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 6: a million and a million attempts in children now it's ten.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even woudn't even know how to take my life.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's crazy.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 6: I'm talking to I've been talking to Sam Tooys in
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 6: Indiana right now, and his nine year old took his
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 6: own life and it's very public's it's getting some press legislatively,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 6: but Alignment Reck and I are going to talk to
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 6: some Alignment. I was going to turn it down last year,
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 6: but when I looked at the data, electrical contractors are
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 6: somewhere between fifty two to sixty eight per one hundred thousand,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 6: and that means the lignemen that work in the state
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 6: of Vermont. So this is not an issue that's just
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 6: about young people. We have a we have a true epidemic, pandemic,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 6: whatever you want to call it, of hopelessness and despair
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 6: in this country and we're not talking about it. So
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 6: I would just say that legislatively it would be great.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 6: You know, maybe we could even get you know, your
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 6: local rep on here, but we really want to take
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 6: to get a few parents on here. Yeah, they have
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 6: seen our work, that have felt our work. My number
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 6: one compliment is when a parent calls me. I have
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 6: hundreds of these emails, hundreds. My kid and I never talked.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 6: They came home. They wouldn't stop talking about what happened today.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 6: Those stories need to be told. We should ask a
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 6: couple of things. Number One, thank a Chevy dealer for
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 6: backing you guys up, no matter who they are.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: Reach out to them and say post on their social
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: media thank you for supporting the mission behind sweetheartscen hearrooes. Also,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: we should say, take this episode and send it to
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: someone who can use it productively, whether it's at a school,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: whether it's in the legislature. Share this episode and every Wednesday.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'd love to see I would love to
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: see you, guys Garner some more attention under the Golden
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: Dome be great. I'd love to get involved with that
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: in some way, either on the air, off the air,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't matter. But there's a lot of
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: you under you understand. And I've said to you before,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: Tom Man, you guys have done some great things and
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: you're like, dude, we have so much more work in
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: front of us. This is your legacy, this really is.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: This is who you are, and you've you've teamed up
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: with people who share that yeah passion with you. And
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: if it just embrace that that mission. This guy sitting
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: right next to you is one of several.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 6: I just said it, but you saw my face get
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 6: a little. I don't want this to be my legacy,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 6: really me, I don't want my name to be at
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 6: the end of the day. I want the I want
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 6: the words sweethearts and heroes because that's the solution. That's
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 6: a whole episode in itself. What sweethearts and heroes are?
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 6: Like what a weird word?
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 6: What is that? Let's close out with what why don't
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 6: you know what a.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: Sweethearts and heroes?
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah? Well that's the thing. I mean, I I for
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 6: years people have said, you got to change the name.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 6: You gotta change the name. It doesn't make sense. I
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 6: was just in the school last week. They're like, this
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 6: is like you're them the hugs or hearts and heroes people,
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 6: And I was like, no, sweethearts and heroes. And so
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 6: when I asked to do that initial bullying, this part
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 6: of the origin story, and once I tell people this, like, oh,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 6: you can't change the name, I'm like, I know, but
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 6: I got asked to do this thing on bullying. It
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 6: was never a bully, never really bullied, just on the outside.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 6: It was a bystander, and you know, and that's what
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 6: the message has been about. From day one, empowering young
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 6: people to be the change within their peer network, and
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 6: and and that didn't come initially. What came initially was
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 6: I was a horrible student, so I had to have
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 6: a dictionary in college to learn rudimentary, simple things.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, still have it.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 6: Every time I look a word up, i'd put a
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 6: checkmark next to it. When it got three or four,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 6: five check marks next to one, I'm like, man, I
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 6: really am not that smart. But anyway, my buddy called me, said,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 6: can you do something on bullying. I was already doing
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 6: some stuff on leadership motivation kind of stuff. Open the
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 6: dictionary the word bully, word origin, sweetheart.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: Interesting, I know. And I was like, what is this?
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 6: And I'm always trying to look at things from a
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 6: different angle. I'd like to shock people sometimes, like that's
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 6: how we start this whole That's how we started this
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 6: whole thing. Yeah, I was going to play. I competed
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 6: professionally in mixed martial arts a little bit, and I
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 6: was gonna I was gonna be in front of nine
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 6: hundred savages. And when I say savages, I mean savage
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 6: is yeah, middle schoolers. Nobody harder to present in front
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 6: of them. High schoolers will tune you out. Little kids,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 6: you can do whatever you want, they'll love it. Middle schoolers,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 6: you ain't got them hooked, they'll ruin you. So I
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 6: would played a minute of me competing in a cage,
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 6: run out on stage, tell them how much I hate fighting.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 6: They're like, what, that doesn't make any sense. But that
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 6: was my hook got him interested. Trusted messenger kind of thing.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 6: Scare them, so if they fool around, I'm gonna smash them,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 6: crash them, of course. But just the kids are like, well,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 6: we can watch this kind of stuff in school, and
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 6: just before they all had cell phones in school and anyway.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 6: So but then I was going to say, the only
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 6: reason I could get into that cage was because of
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 6: your gym teacher, because I wrestled with him in college.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 6: He was bigger than me, stronger than me, shoved me
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 6: around the room, he bullied me, because that's what a
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 6: sixteenth century bully did. The word origin. You bullied someone
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 6: to make them better, stronger, faster, smart. But what the
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 6: person was really giving you was hope when you needed it,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 6: when you didn't think you could do something. They saw
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 6: your potential and they pushed you, and you know about
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 6: one hundred years ago later, the word was literally perverted
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 6: pimps with bully John's for their sweethearts or their girls,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 6: and that's where we get the modern definition harassmer of
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  Speaker 6: the week. But the original origin of the word was sweetheart.
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  Speaker 6: And so what we did from day one was understood
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  Speaker 6: that young people all carry hope. Rick got hope from
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  Speaker 6: a five year old little girl saved his life probably
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  Speaker 6: and gave it to him beautiful story. And what we
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  Speaker 6: realized was all the kids in that auditorium are the
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  Speaker 6: solution because they carry hope through the hallways, but they
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  Speaker 6: have to make the choice to give that hope. So
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  Speaker 6: when you tell someone about a sweetheart, like oh no,
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  Speaker 6: you can't change it. So that's why it's sweethearts and heroes.
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  Speaker 1: It's incredible. Hopefully we're gonna get some more schools outed
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  Speaker 1: to the list here. I am so excited about our
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  Speaker 1: partnership together, taking what you've what you've already done, and
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  Speaker 1: just bringing it to the airt out audience and helping
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  Speaker 1: to spread the greatness that you guys are doing.
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  Speaker 6: Well. I'm thankful for you man, And someday we're going
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  Speaker 6: to have our conversation on air about one of the
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  Speaker 6: most beautiful things I ever saw, and I won't mention it, okay,
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  Speaker 6: But out back in this parking lot the last time
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  Speaker 6: I came to the studio. Wow, and we're going to
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  Speaker 6: have a conversation. And that's honestly, JD. It's the only
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  Speaker 6: reason I'm here. And I know you're even struggling a
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  Speaker 6: little bit, but the reason that I'm here today is
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  Speaker 6: because of what I saw when I pulled in last
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  Speaker 6: time I was here with you in the parking lot. Wow,
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  Speaker 6: we're gonna talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Man, I'm ready, all right, Thank you boys, you
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  Speaker 1: so much. I don't know who's coming in next next Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember, but I'm looking forward to whoever it is,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Leon or whoever. I'm just so excited. Sweethearts
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  Speaker 1: and heroes, you guys are. You're crushing it.
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  Speaker 6: Man, you're crushing one student at a time.
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  Speaker 1: Doing an outstanding job. Love you both, and I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to next Wednesday already. Thanks guys.
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  Speaker 2: Uh about that happened?
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