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- riverside copy of jason 129030199's studio: I'm Jason Major. This is Subplots of Education, et cetera. And I read when I was doing Spotify that you should have something which says start here. So I'm making a start here episode. How this started was I'd think about been doing a podcast for a couple years now. Couldn't really figure out the voice for it. And then I just decided to record an episode with my friend Ian over the summer, just about technology in schools. After that, I put out on my LinkedIn. For people to just sign up to be interviewed. I didn't know what I wanted to be. I just wanted to start talking to people about education. So a couple of people signed up and I actually very much enjoyed the conversations. So I'm like, what do I want this to be? And then I realized that 24 years ago, I actually had a radio show in Memphis, Tennessee that later moved to St. Louis. And I really enjoyed doing that. And I kind of want to bring it back. So here's what I have in mind for this podcast. It is called Subplots of Education, et cetera. I am a public school principal. I have been for 10 years. I was previously a math teacher. I was previously a data strategist. But before all of that, I was a radio person. I sold advertising. It was the worst job I ever had. But I got to do shows on the weekend and I loved it. It was my favorite thing. It's probably the most fun thing I ever did. And I missed doing it. And I realized, well, I never really went away that I like to do that. So why don't I just make a show that's just like the 2002 one, but after 24 years of living life and going back to school to be a teacher and an educator and now a principal. So I will mix it up. So I'm calling it subplots of education, et cetera. I'm going to talk to guests about issues in education or their own schooling. And then every other week I'm going to go to the et cetera part, which is just. Pulling something out of the past or of the current or of the future and just talking about it. So, as an example of that, for the first time in years and years and years, I pulled out my first promo for my radio show from 2002. And I'm gonna play it back right now to just talk about the differences between what's happened between then and now and how I want to kind of incorporate that into this show. Here we go. This was called the Weekly Chremeleon, and this is from October of 2002. Here we go. Hey, do you like chicken? Yummy. I'm Jason Major. I'll be hosting. So I started off with hey, do you like chicken? Because I wanted to be completely random and say yummy. That's why. Here we go. I'll be hosting the weekly chromule on Sundays on Sports Plus 790 WMC from four to five. Okay, we're gonna talk about sports, but we're gonna delve into other things as well. You seen the monster squad? Great movie. They killed Fishman too quick, though. We'll talk about that. We'll also about So Back in 2002, the internet was still an odd place, and it was hard to find other people that liked the monster squad. And I also wanted to get out there and say, we're gonna talk about things like the monster squad, even though it's on a sports radio station. Also, my tell is in there too. I like to say okay a lot when I'm looking for validation from the audience. I said it a couple times there. Let's keep going. About gambling, gambling on anything. I don't care what it is. Whiffle ball, old school. I just said we'll gamble on anything. I had a whole segment of the show. Where we talked about gambling on life. And my God, think about how different that is now. You can literally gamble on life on the internet. That was such a random thing to say back then. I'm still blown away by that. Let's just move on. Dunking on a Lord Rim. Perfect height, probably be like nine feet. And beating Contra without using a code. That's hard to do. Secrets will be revealed. When we talk about here's the thing. I crammed so much crap in there right now. I talked about beating Contra without using the code, dunking on a lowered rim, all kinds of stuff out there. I probably threw out way too much information. It's also very quickly edited. I had to put this into a studio and have someone edit it for me. So that's why it's very choppy too. But I was really just trying to get out there and say, hey, listen to this for an hour and I'm going to just talk about all kinds of random stuff. But the base of it is sports. So the idea of this podcast here is the base of it is education because that's what I know more than anything. But we're gonna talk about some other things too. Let me keep going on this old promo. Talk about sports. I'm not gonna hear anything about team chemistry, class X off the field, and knowing how to win. I also feel that baths are very here's the thing about that. I'm talking about I don't want to talk about team chemistry, class X off the field when you're talking about sports, because that stuff doesn't mean anything. And I see a lot of that now when I talk about education, strip away the noise. What are you actually talking about? How does that actually work? Please show your work. And that's what a lot of things that I write about on LinkedIn and Substack and I post about and I talk to other people, like one of my first guests that you listen to. We talk about that. Like, how does this actually work? Use real language, don't fancy it up. Let's just talk about what's real. So there's a lot of similarities there in this, except now the base is education. Let me keep going. Very underrated. Think about this. It's running water, you sit in it, then after like 10 minutes, you get out. That's hilarious. We'll cheer the cardinal so I remember. My friend Ian, who was the first guest on Sublots of Education, et cetera, back in June. He's the one who wrote that little bath bit, just talking about how random it is to take a bath. I don't know if I'll talk about that much on this show, but that's where that came from. Cardinals on, playoffs are starting, and we'll complain about our fantasy teams. And that's me So people didn't really talk about their fantasy teams much. That is just hilarious to think about. On the radio, they didn't talk about fantasy sports very often in two thousand two, which just seems crazy to me since everyone was playing it. A lot of those topics, and the reason why some people listened and reached out and said, I really like listening to your show, is because those things really weren't talked about that much. They were kind of in the background. So I talked about fantasy sports. It's just crazy to go back and listen to that and hear about the things that I thought were random topics and other people did too. But Obviously, there's an entire industries based around talking about all of those things. Let's finish the promo up real quick. Me, I'm the head dork in charge, Jason Aries. And I thank my sponsors, Replays, Neils, where the Fat Man Rocks, and Clay's Audio. That's weekly chremelion this Sunday, four to five, sportsbot seven ninety. Let's get ready. Woo! Woo. Okay. That was my old promo. Here's the thing is another one of my nervous ticks, by the way. I would not call myself the head dork in charge anymore. I'm a recovering self-deprecating person, so I would not say that about myself. I was basically just trying to convey the message that yes, I fully embrace that I'm a nerd and I like talking about nerdy things. So I'll call myself the head dork in charge. I will not do that now. So that's what this podcast is gonna be about. I'm gonna put this in the about section of Spotify. And any other podcasts. Things that people listen to, maybe like Apple music. Maybe they have an about thing on there. And I just want to leave with this emo. The show was called the Weekly Cremeleon. And I was digging through the archives trying to find some stuff about my old show. And I found this email. This is dated February twenty-seventh, two thousand five. Wow. And he wrote it at two forty-three AM. Crumble, I'm no, I'm totally late to the scene, but I just ordered an iPod. While surfing the internet for iPod related articles, I discovered a media distribution format called quote podcasting. Basically, people sit around and record MP3s, most often in a radio talk show format, and deliver them via R RSS feeds so that people can quote subscribe to the show. From what I understand, you have done a radio show before and it totally kicked ass. I guess what I'm really trying to say is I really enjoy reading your website, and the selfish side of me thinks it would be awesome if your old radio show came back as a podcast. Hey, Phil, it is twenty one and a half years later, and I'm making a podcast. I did connect with someone named Phil Graff on LinkedIn, and I hope that's him, and I hope he writes me back. But that's what I want this podcast to be. Thank you for listening.