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His Time Machine Is The Dog House Henry The Star Spangled Spaniel From Amanda Martin · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: I really do laugh when people say you talk to everybody?
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  Speaker 1: Is there somebody that you haven't included on that list?
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  Speaker 1: And the reason why I do this is because isn't
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  Speaker 1: that how we live our lifestyle? There are so many choices.
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  Speaker 1: Watch what you do at night with Netflix, Hulu and
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  Speaker 1: a R r oe dot net enjoy your exploration. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic. I was hoping that your voice was going
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  Speaker 1: to be super positive and uprising. Oh my god, listen
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  Speaker 1: to it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a morning person.
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  Speaker 1: That's the best thing. When did you realize that you
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  Speaker 1: were a morning person? Because a lot of radio people
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  Speaker 1: that's the reason why we do what we do this
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning, because it's like, you know, Lil
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  Speaker 1: Wayne will get up at two o'clock in the morning
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  Speaker 1: to do a song. We get up to do radio.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was, you know, as a high schooler,
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed sleeping in. I think it was moment I
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  Speaker 2: realize that no one bothers me early in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: People will bother me. It might have been college because
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  Speaker 2: people would bother me all day long and then becoming
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  Speaker 2: a mom, and it's like if I got up before
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  Speaker 2: everybody else got up, that's when I had peace. And
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is where it's at.
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  Speaker 1: Is that your writing discipline then, because nothing happens in
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  Speaker 1: my day until I have ink stains all over my fingers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I gotta get up and you know,
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  Speaker 2: get my coffee, make my bed and then we can go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you said that, because I mean, when
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna do a story like Henry the Star Spangled
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  Speaker 1: Spaniel and you talk about making the bed. We are
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  Speaker 1: trained as martial artists. That is the one positive thing
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  Speaker 1: that starts off every single day. Is that the reason
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  Speaker 1: why you do it? Because it's positive?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe so. I think it's because I can't think
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  Speaker 2: if you know, I haven't done, you know, my tasks
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  Speaker 2: for the day, I can't. I can't like if there
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  Speaker 2: are dishes in think because the bed's unmade, if there's
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  Speaker 2: a mess, like I've got to do all this stuff
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  Speaker 2: and clear all the clutters so I can think.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna turn Henry into a beanie baby? Because
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  Speaker 1: I want one so badly. I know, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not alone, am I? No?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, So we I just approved a custom flush
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, I need this sample right now.
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  Speaker 2: He looks like him, but I need to feel him
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  Speaker 2: and make sure he's soft enough and he see it
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  Speaker 2: all the things. So I don't know how much, like
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  Speaker 2: how difficult it is to get one one sample of
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  Speaker 2: a custom plush, but I'm doing it just to make
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  Speaker 2: sure he's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, because that that that feeling of it,
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  Speaker 1: and to hold it close to you. That's not just
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  Speaker 1: a child thing. We adults are, our gray haired adults
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  Speaker 1: sit here and we love those things too, and they've
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  Speaker 1: got to feel.
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  Speaker 2: Right, absolutely absolutely, they got to be soft and squeak, squishy.
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  Speaker 1: When did you realize that you and Henry were speaking partners?
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  Speaker 1: Because I mean, I mean, because it's because my little
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  Speaker 1: girl's in here with me right now, Jazzy, who I
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  Speaker 1: call my disaster artists. But the thing about it is, though,
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  Speaker 1: is that she's my Daryl Hall to my John Oates.
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  Speaker 2: So Henry, Henry is a real dog. So was my dog,
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  Speaker 2: and he does things that cavaliers do. Cavaliers are very
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  Speaker 2: funny animals. They're perpetual puppies. Even when they're twelve years old,
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  Speaker 2: they still have that puppy hood. And Henry is incredibly imaginative.
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  Speaker 2: So he's got some invisible friends in the backyard and
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  Speaker 2: you'll just watch them. And he goes on like he's
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  Speaker 2: going to the bushes. His tails are wagging, he's sniffing
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  Speaker 2: like he is. He sees things that we do not
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  Speaker 2: see in his little animal world. So it wasn't hard
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  Speaker 2: to give him the imagination to give him a time
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  Speaker 2: machine dog house where he goes and has adventures in
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  Speaker 2: American history, because who knows you might actually do that. Well.
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  Speaker 1: See, I love the fact that you're that you're allowing
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  Speaker 1: Henry to to discover history. And the reason why is
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  Speaker 1: because I was told ages ago when we when we
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  Speaker 1: adopted Jazzy, that a dog is getting its daily history
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  Speaker 1: lesson when you take them out there, and that they
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  Speaker 1: are supposed to sniff. They smell things that could be
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years old, and we as human beings, are
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  Speaker 1: missing it. And then you have this book and I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, she talked to the same person I did.
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  Speaker 2: Just observation of a precious animal who you know is
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  Speaker 2: living in his own world. You know, where's he going today?
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  Speaker 2: Where's Henry going today? Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: And you know.
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  Speaker 2: And another thing about cavaliers in particular, someone told me
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  Speaker 2: they are not loyal. They will go anywhere they like.
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  Speaker 2: You have a treat Henry as your dog dogs you know,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, attached themselves to their owners. Henry will
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  Speaker 2: go home with anybody literally, So you know the fact
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  Speaker 2: that he gets to go and make new friends is
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  Speaker 2: totally a part of the cavalier personality.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I am totally jealous of Henry. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: why is because I swear to you that that I've
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  Speaker 1: been with more astronauts than I told them. When I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, I would turn my doghouse around and
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  Speaker 1: it became my spaceship. Well, Henry has a doghouse that
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  Speaker 1: goes through time. I'm jealous. I never even thought about that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, why wouldn't it, you know, of course a dog house.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, a doghouse is a time machine.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine what that does to a child's imagination,
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  Speaker 1: especially with you hooked up with Studyville and everything like that,
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  Speaker 1: because you're right there at that level of learning and
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  Speaker 1: expressing through imagination and to really kind of play with
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  Speaker 1: the theater of the mind. I just love what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing with your stories and everything that you're doing beyond
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  Speaker 1: the book.
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  Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's important what you do because my wife is a
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  Speaker 1: tutoring expert and a teacher. I mean, I totally understand
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  Speaker 1: the world you live in, right, and so.
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  Speaker 2: Tutoring it has literally been around since Socrates. So when
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  Speaker 2: I created Study Bill, I wanted to take the stigma
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  Speaker 2: away from tutoring, like you weren't smart enough, you weren't
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  Speaker 2: good enough, so therefore you have to go to tutoring.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the case. I don't care what level you're on.
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  Speaker 2: You can always learn more. I'm a business owner. I
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  Speaker 2: have people I seek out to help me in my business, consultants,
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  Speaker 2: business coaches, people who know more than I know. And
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  Speaker 2: so to teach our kids like you're good, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just learn this and that's all you need and not
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  Speaker 2: inspire learning for the sake of learning more is where
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  Speaker 2: we're really going wrong in education. We need if we
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  Speaker 2: can teach kids to be curious about the world around them,
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  Speaker 2: learn how things work, why things are the way they are,
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  Speaker 2: what happened in history that made us who we are today.
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  Speaker 2: Why these laws were created. What happened that is, that's.
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  Speaker 1: What we need.
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  Speaker 2: The end goal of education to be curiosity.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There is more with Amanda Martin
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  Speaker 1: coming up next. The name of the book Henry the
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  Speaker 1: Star Spangled Spaniel. You gotta love it. We are back
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  Speaker 1: with Amanda Martin. I would love to know how many
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  Speaker 1: parents are actually shaking their heads up and down right
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  Speaker 1: now but thinking that, Man, I wish I would have
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  Speaker 1: had that. And I do remember getting tutoring when when
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  Speaker 1: I was younger for reading, but it wasn't because I
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  Speaker 1: had problems with reading. I just wanted to be with
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  Speaker 1: somebody who understood the pictures that I see in my
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  Speaker 1: head while I'm reading. I love that and to be
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  Speaker 1: with people that understand story sharing. That was a brilliant
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  Speaker 1: gift and I didn't want anything like that to let
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  Speaker 1: it go.
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  Speaker 2: No. No, there's from the student who really struggles to
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  Speaker 2: the student who is advanced and can be all the
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  Speaker 2: more advanced. I mean, imagine if someone told a lawn musk,
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  Speaker 2: that's all you need to know. It's in the textbook,
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  Speaker 2: that's what's going to be on the act, so you
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  Speaker 2: don't you worry about anything else. So can you imagine.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I can't, And I know how important
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  Speaker 1: you guys are, because I mean, you get the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to sit with those students and even though it can
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  Speaker 1: be a very hard day at school and they've got
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  Speaker 1: to come see you next, but you are that positive
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  Speaker 1: point for them, that place of safety and security.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know. I tell my tutors in our locations
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  Speaker 2: like you may be the first positive person in this
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  Speaker 2: child's life today. You may be the first person who
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  Speaker 2: smiled at them. You may be the first person who
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  Speaker 2: talked to them and ask them about their day. And
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  Speaker 2: children get lost in the shuffle at school, teenagers get lost,
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  Speaker 2: and even all of them, I don't care which you
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  Speaker 2: know social group you're a part of. They all struggle socially,
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  Speaker 2: and so our tutors are not only there to help
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  Speaker 2: them with chemistry and calculus. They are there to mentor
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  Speaker 2: them and to watch it to inspire what is already
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  Speaker 2: inside the child. I have never ever come across a child,
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  Speaker 2: a student who is incapable of learning. They don't exist.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to tell you what my wife said
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  Speaker 1: about your book and Membo. She's the tutor, so therefore
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  Speaker 1: she goes. She goes that Henry is as big as
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  Speaker 1: Clifford and is as lovable as Snoopy, and I went, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, I need that on my website.
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  Speaker 2: Please that. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing because you're you're you're taking Henry into areas
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  Speaker 1: that really do expose where we would like to travel.
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  Speaker 1: But if we don't have a friend or a teacher
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  Speaker 1: to walk with us, what do we have books? We
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  Speaker 1: have Henry to take us into those levels of learning
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to our history for this country.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, so, and you know it's open content
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  Speaker 2: to where he like, the stories are infinite of where
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  Speaker 2: he can go, what he can do. I have a
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  Speaker 2: friend who lives in London half of the year and
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  Speaker 2: she was like, Henry is crossing the pond, I'm telling
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  Speaker 2: you now. And I was like, okay, well he starts spangled,
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  Speaker 2: so we're gonna have to, you know, work that storyline out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they do it in professional wrestling in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: they can do it with Henry. Come on, now, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know I literally can't write them fast enough. I've got
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  Speaker 2: the next one in the works, and publishing, the world
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  Speaker 2: of publishing is slow, but we already have so many
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  Speaker 2: adventures for Henry because he actually came from our literacy
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  Speaker 2: tutoring curriculum that we wrote based on the science of
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  Speaker 2: reading for K through five grade. So we've been sharing
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  Speaker 2: the stories of Henry. I mean, he launched his story
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  Speaker 2: launched June ninth with Barnes and Noble and Amazon and
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  Speaker 2: the press world. But he's been with Studyville Children for
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  Speaker 2: over a year.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a.
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  Speaker 2: Whole series of comprehension books called Finding a Founding Father.
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  Speaker 2: So a try he finds a tri corn hat and
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  Speaker 2: goes into his doghouse and he meets George Washington, and
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  Speaker 2: then it takes them to meet other Founding fathers and
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  Speaker 2: so that series, and there's so many Founding fathers that
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  Speaker 2: you know, we don't know a whole lot about, and
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  Speaker 2: so we're going to start exploring all all of them.
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  Speaker 2: And that he visits the National Monuments and we call
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  Speaker 2: those monumental moments. He goes to the National Parks. So
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  Speaker 2: how fun would it be to for him to travel.
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  Speaker 2: He goes on vacation and he's thees geysers and all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of things that are in this amazing country. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I remember I was hiking somewhere maybe in Arizona, and
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  Speaker 2: ran across this couple from Germany, and I know very
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  Speaker 2: little German, but I wanted to say hi to them
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  Speaker 2: and ask them where they were from. So I did,
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  Speaker 2: and I told them that I love Germany. It was
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful country. And they said, why do you leave America?
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  Speaker 2: It is so beautiful here. You have everything. We are
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  Speaker 2: amazed by the national parks here in America, and that's
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  Speaker 2: just not something that every kid gets to experience, and
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  Speaker 2: the ones who do, they may not know how special
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  Speaker 2: they are. So Henry's going to go.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about
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  Speaker 1: everything that you're doing, especially with study Ville and everything
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  Speaker 1: like that, because you're a nationwide with this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so studyville dot Com and we are franchising. If
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  Speaker 2: anybody wants to help us and the literacy and crisis
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  Speaker 2: that we're experiencing in America, we'd love partners. And then
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  Speaker 2: star spangled Henry dot com. So Studyville dot Com, Star
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  Speaker 2: Spangled Henry dot Com, you.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta come back to the show anytime in the future.
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  Speaker 1: We have an entire YA channel on iHeartRadio, and I
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  Speaker 1: want you to be a part of that. Growing forward
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  Speaker 1: to extend your story and every bit the reason why
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  Speaker 1: you're doing what you're doing. It's not just a hobby.
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  Speaker 1: You are changing people's lives.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. That is a privilege I wake up
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  Speaker 2: to every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks all, Will you be brilliant today?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, thank you so much for having me. It
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  Speaker 2: was so fun talking to you.