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Brian McKeon - Sweethearts& Heroes · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: All right, good morning, brand new day right in front
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  Speaker 1: of us, and you can choose to spend it any
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  Speaker 1: way you want.
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  Speaker 2: You have power. You have the choice to well, be positive,
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  Speaker 2: be open minded, to push through you to day with
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  Speaker 2: a with a great attitude, or let others take the wheel.
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  Speaker 2: I say, be yourself and have some fun, enjoy the weather,
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  Speaker 2: get outside, get a breath of fresh air, and speak
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  Speaker 2: the truth, regardless of let's say others. I want to
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  Speaker 2: start out this morning by saying, good morning, Deb Phillips.
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  Speaker 2: How the heck are you over at the world?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning jd Well. The papers are here, so all
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  Speaker 3: things are good.
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  Speaker 2: We're ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: It is a ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Wednesday. The papers are going to be moving throughout,
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  Speaker 2: not just central from up but everywhere. Deb.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, off Washington County and arts of Orange County.
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  Speaker 3: Deb, We have a little bit of an early deadline
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  Speaker 2: All right, noon on Thursday. What can we expect in
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  Speaker 2: the world today, Deb.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we have a tribute to the beau Bear shoe
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  Speaker 3: then there's also tonight the Very Partnership is having their
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  Speaker 3: good health directory, and we also have holiday craft Bears.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the first week of the Christmas Tree
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  Speaker 3: trees nice and.
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  Speaker 2: Early, assuming that they like the real trees right, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Real trees, yes, real trees.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, real or fake for you, Deb.
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  Speaker 3: Actually right now, I don't put up a tree anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any kids.
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  Speaker 2: I understand, I understand totally.
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  Speaker 3: But it was always real before that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's great, Deb, Thank you ever so much. We'll
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  Speaker 2: grab our copy of the World today. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be on newsstands everywhere we're talking about what twenty thousand
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, about twenty two thousand readers per week.
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  Speaker 2: Incredible, deb We look forward to it so much. It
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  Speaker 2: is a Wednesday. I love celebrating with the world, and
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  Speaker 2: we thank you so much for hopping on this morning
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  Speaker 2: and sponsoring the podcast.
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  Speaker 4: All right, thanks Jad, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Dep don't forget also being that it is Wednesday. Wellness
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  Speaker 2: at twenty three Summer Street started a couple of years
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  Speaker 2: ago and has just exploded in popularity. The next one
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  Speaker 2: our community from Washington County Mental Health. You get to relax,
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  Speaker 2: and let her know what time is best for you
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  Speaker 2: What else is going on? Tonight Chris Powers at the
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  Speaker 2: Shaker Village at five point thirty saw that last night
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  Speaker 2: on the on the Facebook, and of course it is
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  Speaker 2: set up day today for stuff a truck in their
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourth year but Price Chopper. I'll be up there
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  Speaker 2: at some point today and over the next couple of days,
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  Speaker 2: and I look forward to it very very much. Head
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  Speaker 2: and headfirst into my old stomping grounds. Man. I have
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  Speaker 2: Brian McKeon with me this morning.
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  Speaker 4: This is.
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  Speaker 2: This is what now the third or fourth time I
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  Speaker 2: think that you've been with me.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, it's starting to lose count here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Yeah, dude, it's great to see you, brother.
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  Speaker 2: How the heck are you?
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  Speaker 4: Great to see you? JDM doing very well. How are you, man?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. We have a lot to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's dive right in head first, all right, Epstein Files,
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  Speaker 2: what do you say?
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  Speaker 4: I don't keep up with the news too well, dude.
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  Speaker 2: I just had to listen. I just had to throw
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  Speaker 2: that after this morning to make sure that Tom Murphy,
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  Speaker 2: if he's watching this morning, that we made the hair
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  Speaker 2: stand up on his back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, you gotta kick out of that one. If he's
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  Speaker 4: listening right now.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, we have to say happy birthday to
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  Speaker 2: Tom Murphy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, happy your birthday.
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  Speaker 2: There, I'm going with sixty. I'm gonna go like early sixties, sixty,
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  Speaker 2: sixty two, sixty three for Tom. What do you what say?
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  Speaker 4: You? Well, he tells me, he tells me he's aging backwards.
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  Speaker 4: He's getting younger, so it's probably going in the Even
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  Speaker 4: if he is in the sixties, he's probably going down.
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  Speaker 4: He's probably going back to.
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  Speaker 2: His you know, I just I just chatted with him
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  Speaker 2: and he admitted to me that he uses muscle implants.
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  Speaker 4: Oh really, yeah, wow, Well that makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's like you don't really see him without
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  Speaker 4: you know, his free hug shirts.
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  Speaker 2: Every always a T shirt, always the T shirt to
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  Speaker 2: show him off those in its spent a lot of
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  Speaker 2: money on those implants. We also have Erica Esteville today, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Marcy Hawkins, Tila Utton, Tabitha Lord, Diane Williams, Josh Smart,
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Neil, Michael Coda, Gloria Brooks on the birthday list today,
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  Speaker 2: Nicholas Peak, and Todd Mansfield. So where do we begin? Man? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: This is like, you know, I just had Rick on
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  Speaker 2: last Wednesday, which is always incredible. Rick Yarrish Uh he
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  Speaker 2: read his book Bridge Name as Yeah, it was really amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I helped a little bit of that project, putting the
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  Speaker 4: you know, the pictures and stuff to get like the artists.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Cannon just did an amazing job I did, yeah, dude.
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  Speaker 4: And and that was actually one of my favorite projects
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  Speaker 4: to work on. Uh. Just seeing that thing come together
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  Speaker 4: and getting it out to everybody, it's just been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And now he's you know, he's given people free free downloads.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, we got the free downloads going
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  Speaker 4: right now. Get on Facebook, get your free download. You
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  Speaker 4: get to watch the audio version as well, read by Rick. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, get on that.
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  Speaker 2: He is he is so in All of you guys
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  Speaker 2: are so inspiring. Many of you just look at what
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  Speaker 2: so many of us do in our our culture and
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  Speaker 2: in our society, negative stuff, and you guys face it
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  Speaker 2: head on and you're like, yeah, aware of it. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about it real transparently, and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: from just general negativity, bullying, what have you, depression, mental, mental, uh, wellness,
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  Speaker 2: you guys really take it on man. Everything. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we and we like to you know, we we
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  Speaker 4: do deal with all that stuff, and but we like
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  Speaker 4: to come from it from a strength based approach. You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's like those things are are there, they're real, we
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  Speaker 4: have to be aware of them, we have to work
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  Speaker 4: on them. But how do we do that?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 4: And and you can live in the deficit and you
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  Speaker 4: can say, you know, you can point at the problems
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  Speaker 4: all the time and h stuff, but you know, how
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  Speaker 4: do we start fixing these things? Yeah, and that's where
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  Speaker 4: we that's where we come in. We we focus on
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  Speaker 4: taking the strength of your community and trying to help
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  Speaker 4: everyone leverage those by just building community, understand each other, right,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, it's the it's the challenging stuff that
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  Speaker 4: you go through that becomes your strength for other people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I went back and rewatched one of the last
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  Speaker 2: podcasts that or the last podcast that you and I
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  Speaker 2: did together, and one of the conclusions that I got
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  Speaker 2: from it, one of the things that I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: when I was listening to it is what you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about right now, I think begins by yourself. It begins
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  Speaker 2: with you being alone with yourself, whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're in the car for a couple of hours
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. We all love to be listening to whatever
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  Speaker 2: we want to listen to, whether it's satellite radio, or
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  Speaker 2: whether it's music, or or whether you know, we're on
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  Speaker 2: the phone. We're constantly chatting with people and engaging. But
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  Speaker 2: to disengage from all of that and just be alone
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  Speaker 2: and quiet, shut shut everything off for a little while. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just be curious where your mind tends to wander.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I mean, you are your true self when
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  Speaker 4: you're alone, Like, you know who you really are when
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  Speaker 4: you're alone. And you know what, I think you have
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  Speaker 4: a really good point there. It's like we are constantly
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  Speaker 4: sucked into all of these things. Yeah, it's like this
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  Speaker 4: constant noise and we don't take that time to sit
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  Speaker 4: down be alone with ourselves. And sure you know, and
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  Speaker 4: it's it's hard, dude, Yeah, Like I mean I had
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  Speaker 4: struggle with it, Like I try to, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you just get on the couch at night and watch
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  Speaker 4: your TV. It's like, sure, should should you? Maybe you know,
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  Speaker 4: take an hour and just sit.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine it? Think if so many of us
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  Speaker 2: get bored with it? I mean, you know, honestly, part
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  Speaker 2: of what happened was I was listening to our podcast
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  Speaker 2: and while I was driving and lost signal and frustrated
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  Speaker 2: me and couldn't get it back. So I'm like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: it's gone, So what's my next option. I'll head over
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  Speaker 2: to satellite radio or whatever. And I was quiet, but
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  Speaker 2: something that I can't remember what it was, but it
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  Speaker 2: was something that you said on the air, and it
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  Speaker 2: cut out right right then, and that's when I lost
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  Speaker 2: the signal and it like kind of hung out and
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  Speaker 2: resonated a little bit with me. Couldn't get the couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get the signal back. So then I just started thinking,
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  Speaker 2: and I had that silence, which is really a gift, man,
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  Speaker 2: It's a gift.
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  Speaker 4: It really is, dude. Like, you know, I just really
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  Speaker 4: think that a lot of the things that you know,
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  Speaker 4: we do and consume today, I just this just is
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  Speaker 4: all very new to like the human species. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like we just too much. Yeah, it's just like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we whether you know whatever, you believe. It's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just a hundred years ago, it was entirely different, right Like,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't think our brains have been able to
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  Speaker 4: understand what we've been going through with ourselves. Yeah, and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think you need those quiet moments to probably evaluate
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  Speaker 4: where you are.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got a billion and one neurons that
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  Speaker 2: are all fireing and wire in our brains, but to
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  Speaker 2: disconnect some of them and have some quiet, some silence
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  Speaker 2: for a little while. If we can begin with that,
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  Speaker 2: I think that'll kind of maybe help set the stage
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  Speaker 2: for not only having a different perspective throughout the day,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe reflecting on yourself and how you the difference
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  Speaker 2: between responding and reacting to not only your husband, your wife,
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  Speaker 2: your boyfriend, girlfriend, your kid, but also how you respond
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  Speaker 2: and react on social media.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, social media is god big one. You know.
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  Speaker 4: Like I think we were talking earlier, like there's a
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  Speaker 4: statistic I'm not sure what it is, but it's like
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  Speaker 4: eighty ninety percent something. People will say and do things
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  Speaker 4: online that they would never ever do in person. And
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  Speaker 4: what does that do to your say things neurological structure
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  Speaker 4: in the real world, you know, I know, so I
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  Speaker 4: totally agree, And you know what, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: go to the I don't I'm not a presenter or
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  Speaker 4: a speaker or anything. But next week when you get
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  Speaker 4: your guest on, you should definitely see how check in
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  Speaker 4: on how this whole cell phone thing is going in schools,
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  Speaker 4: because I'm very interested to hear about that.
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  Speaker 2: Please do tell about the next guest.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Patcha, Oh my gosh, he's a beast. Bro.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen him in his pink his pink suit?
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen the pink suit?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I've seen the pink suit.
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  Speaker 2: God looks amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Betty looks daff yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he just got married, yes he did?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So how how can you can you kind of
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  Speaker 2: wet the whistle here? How are things going with the
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  Speaker 2: no cell phone.
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  Speaker 4: In I don't know. That's what I'm very curious. I
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  Speaker 4: mean from what I've heard, and I you know, I
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  Speaker 4: only hear it secondhand from Tom and uh, Pat or Joe.
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  Speaker 4: I don't really know, to be honest with you, that's
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  Speaker 4: I'm curious to hear. I haven't really had those conversations
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  Speaker 4: too much this year with them, but I'd be very
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  Speaker 4: fascinated to hear how kids are are are dealing with
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  Speaker 4: how the teachers doing. I think it's been a big
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  Speaker 4: uh you know, it's it's definitely not been easy. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think for I think a lot of educators too,
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  Speaker 4: in particular, because you know, there's there's this challenge where
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  Speaker 4: it's like, you know, you've adapted to a certain way
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  Speaker 4: of living and then you know you're you're an independent adult,
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  Speaker 4: but then you have to go to school and these
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  Speaker 4: kids are not allowed to have their electronics. Sure, and
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  Speaker 4: as an adult, like the hardest thing man, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure you know I'm not a parent, but behavior modeling,
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  Speaker 4: like kids are gonna do what you're doing. And so
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  Speaker 4: that that's just been a I think of challenging conversation
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  Speaker 4: this year, but it's one we need to have.
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  Speaker 2: If there's a family out there that that has a
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  Speaker 2: kid who's eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen who's not
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  Speaker 2: wanting to be on a tablet or a cell phone,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's just to pass the time or stay engaged,
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to know who they are.
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  Speaker 4: I know, well, the crazy tough man. It is very tough,
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  Speaker 4: but you know what the crazy thing is. Last not
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  Speaker 4: this Pasttember, but September of twenty four, when we did
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  Speaker 4: our summing event yes up at Killington Up in Killington,
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  Speaker 4: one of the biggest takeaways was that the kids were
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  Speaker 4: like it was like a bit of a freedom for them,
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  Speaker 4: like to just get unplugged and to be around people
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  Speaker 4: without having that interference. They loved it. They absolutely love it.
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  Speaker 2: Tom was saying that that a lot of those high
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  Speaker 2: school kids were thinking, you gosh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, I think there's a craving I really do that.
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  Speaker 4: And and Tom has said for years now, for the
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  Speaker 4: last couple of years, he's like heard more answers in circle,
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  Speaker 4: Like one of his favorite questions is where would you
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  Speaker 4: go if you had a time machine? And he said
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  Speaker 4: he can't count the number in the past couple of
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  Speaker 4: years of kids would be like, I would like to
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  Speaker 4: go back to a time when there wasn't technology. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: to see what that was like. You know, it's like
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  Speaker 4: the last of the generations that even grew up with
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  Speaker 4: that are coming to an end. Like, isn't it chy?
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  Speaker 2: What are you saying? Are you saying I'm getting old?
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  Speaker 4: We're all getting old? We're all getting old?
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  Speaker 2: My god, I remember, you know, my dad got the
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  Speaker 2: first cell phone that came out. Couldn't couldn't wait. He
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  Speaker 2: was so excited about I still have it. I should
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  Speaker 2: really something, I should bring that in. I should bring
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  Speaker 2: that in for for Pat.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, dude, bring that in and have that conversation
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  Speaker 4: because I'd love to hear what he has to say about.
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  Speaker 2: How have you ever seen one of those honkers that
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  Speaker 2: are like thirty tons, like like an old flip food
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  Speaker 2: or something. No, no, it's this big you're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: like a like the first cell phone that ever came out.
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  Speaker 4: Really really this man, I haven't had that one.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just the phone. The antenna comes off of
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  Speaker 2: it this hot Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Dude, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Radio Shock nineteen eighty He can't guess here, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: say eighty eighty three, eighty three, eighty four, twelve hundred.
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  Speaker 4: Bucks, twelve hundred bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and wo. And there was one tower where we lived. Wow, man,
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  Speaker 2: if you were lucky enough to get a bar, you
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  Speaker 2: had to pull over. Well, I mean there was snow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you just stop and you're like, yeah, you had to stop.
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  Speaker 2: And and you had the luxury of actually connecting and
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  Speaker 2: making a phone call from somewhere other than home wirelessly.
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  Speaker 2: That was the luxury.
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  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was no driving down the road continuing on
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  Speaker 2: a phone call.
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  Speaker 4: I really resonated that though, because me and Tom, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're always on the phone, Like he probably talks to
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  Speaker 4: me three, four or five times a day at least
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  Speaker 4: on the phone, and a lot of the times he's
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  Speaker 4: driving and it's going in and out and like, oh Tom,
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  Speaker 4: you didn't hear you get to repeat yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you ever hung up on you before?
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  Speaker 4: Well, like his a little trick thing. Oh yeah, a
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  Speaker 4: couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: Does that all the time? Does that to Rick too? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah. One time I was a we're him
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  Speaker 4: in a little leadership presentation he was doing, and he
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: like called Rick to ask him about something. I can't
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: remember what it was, and he did in front of
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: the kids, and yeah, they got all.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: That's uh. Let's talk about some some of the big
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: staples that sweethearts and heroes hangs their hat on. Which
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: is hope, empathy, empowerment. Which one of those three is
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: one that is nearest and dearest to you that you
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: love to bring to the table Hope, empathy, and what
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: was the other empowerment?
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Empowerment? Gosh, you know, well, I think you need. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: think hope is kind of essential, like to be honest
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: with you, It's like almost a foundational human need to
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: be honest just with the craziness that you know, not
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: just our modern world but life in general. It's like
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of challenging stuff, man, a lot of suffering.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Like so, I think hope is like a foundational thing,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: but I think the empowerment part, the action part, is
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: the part that not only perhaps is the most important
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: because we can talk about all this stuff, we can
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: maybe even have internal hope for ourselves, but if you're
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: not acting upon anything, yeah, what good is it? So
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I think action and empowering the students that we talk to,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: the teachers that we talk to, everybody that we talk to,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: empowering them to take that action, I think might be
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: the most vital piece because that's where that's where change
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I think happens.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Don't just talk the talk, walk the walk.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta walk the walk. And it's tough, man'.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: That's why, you know, for every theoretical book, like I
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: don't know, there's like forever like ten twenty theoretical books,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: is like one on practical.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Action, you know, And thirteen Pillows is a book that
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: you wrote, And I want you to tell us about
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: that because that kind of is a incredible tool, not
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: just for teachers, but for anybody that says I want
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: to take action, I want to empower myself or empower
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: others to take the right steps into making a positive
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: difference for others and myself. But I don't really know
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: how to get my hands dirty. And it starts start
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: with first gear and that book does it.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, the first pillow that yeah, Tom and I
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: recovered with the book, the first pillow is it's a marathon,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: not a sprint. And that's just like it's like the
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: one that really stands out as that starting point because
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: you know, this stuff that we do, the stuff that
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: we talk about life in general, it's a marathon, man,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: It's like you know, and it's counter to this modern
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: instant gratification. Yes, and we want that instant gratification. We
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: want those quick fixes, those quick solves, those quick dopamine hits.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it real real change, real success really comes
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: with time, I think. And you know, the the all
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: the principles in there can be applied to anybody, not
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: just that it's called thirteen Pillars for Effective Teachers, but
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: we're actually thinking of doing a new addition where we
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: might uh update some stuff in there as well. We'll
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: see how when we get to that. But there are
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: principles and axioms that anybody can look to and implement.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Last night when my head hit the pillow, one of
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the things that I was thinking about was something something
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: that presented itself to me during the day yesterday, and
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I had to make a quick decision. And after I
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: made that decision, I realized that it wasn't the best decision,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: and I had to let that. I had to allow
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: a little bit of time to process this and let
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: it kind of fester a little bit. And then I
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: realized that as uncomfortable as it was going to be,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I had an opportunity to reverse that decision and to
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: do it without anyone other than myself knowing about it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: And it was a really, uh kind of an uncomfortable
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: situation for me, but I did it, and it was
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: one of the last things that was running through my
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: head when I before I went to bed last night,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: as I said to myself, I'm glad that you went
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: back and did that. And no one on the planet knows.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: That's so, what's the significance with the pillow? Because a
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: lot of us hear, you know, thirteen pillars, Yes, so
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: what's the pillow? It's what I'm talking about.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: It's exactly what you're talking about. Is that it's that
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: pillow test at night where you lay down and you
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: ask yourself, I I'm glad I did or I wish
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: I had. It sounds like you had a great I'm
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: glad I did moment yesterday and that sounds awesome, and
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: you know, it is fascinating. It's like nobody else in
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: the world is gonna know about it, perhaps, but you
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: know that's something you're gonna carry with carry with you,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: and yeah, that's that's probably a whole discussion on what
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: what that's like, because you know, a lot of times
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: we talk about the things that we're gonna do or
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: the things that we did, and you know, it almost
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: kind of like tricks our brain into sure, you know,
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: thinking where we've already done something or that were you
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: know a little bit more. I don't know, but yeah,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I think either way, if you can say to yourself,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I wish I had or I'm glad I did. I
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: think either way, if you can, if you can honestly
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: ask and then honestly answer, and the answering.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Is that's the tricky part. That's the tricky part, being
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: honest with yourself.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, it's tough. If you can do both of
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: those just to yourself, you don't have to talk, you
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: don't have to say this stuff to your wife or anyone.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: But if you can ask both of those questions and
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: answer both of them, you're instilling personal growth.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean just the the fact
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: that you even do it is yeah, is the is
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: the act that I think, you know, you do. The
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: more you do something, it just becomes habit, right, and
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: nobody's perfect, you know, it's like it's so having those
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: I wish I had, you know, is just as vital
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: as I'm glad I did. Yeah, because yeah, like you said,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: it's growth and life is all about growth, I think.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: And yeah, the minute you stop growing, I feel like,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: is the minute you start dying.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Sure yeah, sure, you know, and if you really wow
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: that well said man, well said, and you know, if
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: you really want to take it a step further, jot
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: these things down.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, it Dan probably makes it even more powerful.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Put put it in, put it in your phone, and
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: you know, just go back and look at something from
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: a month or two earlier. Yeah like oh yeah, wow,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: yeah wow, I am I am glad I did that.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, you look back at that and you see
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: the growth trajectory that. Yeah, it's encouraging.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, this book thirteen Pillows free download.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Free download. Yet there's a I think it's out there.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know if we made a post about it lately, but.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: All right, get on Facebook.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: We'll be coming out with some holiday things like that
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: this this December.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Wow, what an incredible gift idea that would be thirteen
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: pillows for effective teachers. But let's not please limit it
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: just to teach, no man, I mean this book is yes,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: no brainer. All teachers, no matter what planet you're on,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: should read this book.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: And that's what we wrote it for originally. But yeah,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: like students started reading it and loving it, and then
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: we're like, wow, these actually really just apply to everybody.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what what is the what is the book about you?
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: You wrote it?
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's about this. Well, so we had these
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: thirteen pillars, these thirteen principles that we had, uh that
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Tom had kind of developed over the years, and we
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: were originally going to tell some more stories that actually occurred. Yeah,
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: but we just decided, like you know, people love love
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: a narrative, love a story, and rather than all these
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: disconnected you know, little stories throughout the book. We decided
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: to create one long fictional narrative, and every page in
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: that book, Tom can point to and be like, this
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: is where this happened, This is where that happened. They're
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: all based off true stories, true people. It's just we
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: we just created this different narrative about this uh, fizzed
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: teacher who just lost. The book opens with a fizzed
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: teacher just lost his uh one of his athletes to
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: their own hands, and he's just you know, he's a
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: young educator and he's just not feeling equipped to deal
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: with this kind of stuff, and so he's gonna he's
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: gonna quit. But then outsteps out of the.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: How much of that is true? How much of that story?
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Oh well, the the the Bruce, his name is Bruce
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: in the book. That's the fictional uh part. But the
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: person it's based off of his uh uh, this kid
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: named I think Evan Yarder was the the young man
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: who took his own life. And you know, Evan was
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: just one of those invisible kids. This time will tell
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: you that, like, you know, you wouldn't know he was
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: in the room until he was gone, and uh yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: and it was just very sad, very tragic thing. But
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: you know, from those from those challenges, you know, that's
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: that's where this custodian steps out and you know, helps
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Bruce understand that, you know, not only you know, do
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: we have to keep keep hope going, but you know
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: other people are dealing with similar challenges. You know, everybody's
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: you never know you know who's dealing with what, and
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: so you can't give up. You have to have that hope.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: And and that's what this custodian brings to Bruce and
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: these thirteen lessons that he helps them connect with the
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: students and connect with other teachers in school and just
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: starts that change.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: You know. And it's a custodian.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the custodian that steps out of the shadows here.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: He's an old retired educator from the inner city wherever
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: that is, and he's just he's just lost his wife
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: to cancer and he's just kind of old, but he
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: wants to get back into just helping people in the custodian.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: You know, it's like my grandfather used to say, you know,
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: when he was he had a lot of different odd
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: jobs here and there, and he used to teach and
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: he would always go to the custodian to find out
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: anything about the school, because the custodians, you know, they're
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: the ones that know every goings on, you know. So
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: they're the ones that, like you said, you know, they
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: don't nobody knows what they're doing. They probably barely get
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: appreciated the way they should be appreciated, but they can
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: be the ones that can honestly give the most hope
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: and be there for people. So yeah, it's it's a
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: it's a really cool it's a really cool story, and uh,
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: you should definitely read it.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I've I've I've got the the audio version,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: which you know, like everyone else, I'll catch one, i'll
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: catch two, and I need to go back to it
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: and it gets lost in the shuffle, but it really shouldn't.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: What I need to do is is and maybe I'll
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: do it through the Thanksgiving Yeah, listening to it? Yeah, yeah,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: narrated by Frank Gerard.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he did a great job. We found him
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: and yeah he did a fantastic job narrating and got
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: some great character voices and stuff.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, what what's another what's another pillow in there?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Of the thirteen that I think one of they might
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: resonate the most.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: You know, I think especially this, you know, as we're
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: getting into these holiday season, thing like Wilton Flowers, I
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: think is a big one. And you know, I've been
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: reading this other book, this other leadership book recently, and
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: it's talking about this when you have this what they
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: call this helpful sense. Yeah, it's almost like that instinctual.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: It's like you see something, you see somebody out there, say,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: and they dropped their groceries. You're automatic, internal human instinct
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: is to be like, oh, I should go and help
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: that person. But we often start to talk ourselves out
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: of it. The minute we had that instinct, you start
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: making excuses for you know, why I shouldn't go over there,
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: like it's not my business stuff.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Some of this is literally at lightning speech. Oh yeah,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: it happens like that.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: And I think Wilting Flowers is one of those ones
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: where people know there's something going on with somebody and
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: they choose not to do anything about it. And I
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: think that's perhaps one of the most dangerous things. Man
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Albert Einstein said, this world is in a dangerous place
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: because of the bad people. It's the dangerous place because
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: of the people that are willing that don't do anything
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: about it. And wilting flowers is about you know, if
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: you know a lot of times the wilt isn't on
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: the exterior, it's a lot of times on the interior
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: and stead whoa, but you know it's not it's about
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: not walking by those wilting flowers. Man, you gotta got
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: to check in, you gotta you see something that's off.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: You notice certain baseline behaviors changing, Like somebody's sitting by
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: themselves where they're usually a very social somebody's giving away
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: and you know, we've been working with a lot of
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: linemen lately in one of like telltale signs, like they
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: start eating by themselves, they start giving away their tools,
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: and you know, it's just something's going on. And if
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: you don't.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: They can do it with a smile on their face too.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Oh they can, absolutely. They probably most often do it
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: with the smile. You know. It's like those people that
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: hide behind that smile are sometimes the ones in the
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: most paint and Robin Williams for instance. You know, so
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: walking by wilting flowers is perhaps the most one of
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: the most dangerous things you can do, because the more
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: you do that the more you walk by those wilting flowers,
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: it probably becomes easier to walk by those wilting flowers.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: And so you have to when you have that helpful
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: sense to help other people, you got to act on
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: a man action. It's all about that act. If you
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: don't take it, you know what, what could happen if
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: you don't take it? Think about that one.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: You. You and your your brother Josiah some of the
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: most inspirational guests I've I've ever had on the air
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: that I've ever interviewed. Your parents. Tell me about your
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: mom and dad, and you're you're answering for Josiah.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Also, yeah, yeah, so we grew up I think because
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: I think they did a great job. My parents. We
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: were amazing parents. Absolutely they gave us. For me, the
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: greatest gift they gave me was the ability to, uh,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: you know, to be okay with thinking for myself and
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: not necessarily going with things just because that's like the
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: way you do it or whatever. Like. It just taught
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: me to really think for myself. And my mom has
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: been an early childhood education since college. She's a professor
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: online now for you know, pretty much as long as
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: almost I've been alive, it feels like, but she's just
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: has an amazing heart for people. She runs a homeschool
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: co op community. She teaches multiple colleges online. My dad
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: was also a teacher. He graduated with gosh, it was
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: something to do with biology. Microbiology, that was kind of
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: his main thing. But he's taught. He's like the smartest
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: person I know in terms of like he can teach
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: himself anything. Like the dude would used to teach classes
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: that the school would be like, we don't have a
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: teacher for this. Here, you go figure out how to
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: teach this thing. He taught himself. One of the craziest
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: ones was he went into he's not trained in medicine,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: but he went into pharmacology and teaching pharmacology. But he
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: had to teach a class pharmacology too. So over the
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: summer he decides to teach himself pharmacology one. And he
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: knows all the science and like how the things work
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: in the body, but he doesn't know all the medical
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: terms and the names and like the different uh prescriptions
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: or whatever. Like. He teaches himself pharmacology one, and then
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: as he's teaching pharmacology too, he's teaching himself during the
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: semester freaking nuts. Man. I don't know, he's brilliant, but
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: both of them were just.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Nobody died, No, nobody died. Wow.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's He's taught a lot of different weird classes,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Like he talked one I remember this one year he
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: taught like this. It's like some kind of like office ergonomics,
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: like designing your office like spaces in a certain way
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: to make it. I don't know, it's weird.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: But how were they raising you and Josiah?
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so I got there's Joe, and then I
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: got two other younger brothers as well, and uh so
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: we were uh yeah, we were all homeschooled. So that
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: that definitely set us on a different path, I think,
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: And you know, they we we were raised in a
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: religious household, and I think those things. There's a lot
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: of morals and foundational stuff there that I've just that
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: will never leave me, Like it's ingrained in my life
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: no matter where I go. But they were they were
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: always exceptional in terms of how they chose to parent us,
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: and they were always involved in our lives man like,
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: and that that's one of the things I appreciate the
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: most is they were always there for the sporting events.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: They were always there for whatever it was. And and
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: my grandparents too. And I've always had a supportive family
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: and they've always accepted me for who I am, which
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: is probably the greatest gift that the amazed me.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I love to hear that. I love similar with with
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: my parents. But what did they say to you when
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: and I think I've asked you this in the past,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: when you said, I actually, I don't think I'm gonna
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: keep going with paralegal studies. I think I'm gonna get
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: involved with this organization called Sweethearts and Heroes.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Yea, dude, I've made some I've made some interesting decisions
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: over my life, but every single one of them, they've
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: they've supported me, and that's just been been great. Like
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: the paralegal thing is fascinating. My dad also took classes
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: at the college he taught at UH, and yeah, he
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: took classes. He was a I didn't know what the
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: heck I wanted to do after high school, so I
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: actually went to general into a general studies UH degree
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: and then decided after that, I'm like, eh, I'm going
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: to take a year off and go bartend at a
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: restaurant and h and then my dad was taking paralegal classes.
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: He's like, oh, you like to read and write. There's
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: a lot of reading and writing here. You should do that. Yeah, okay,
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: so that's I did. And you know, college for me
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: was I I learned how to learn, Like I learned
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: how I learned, and uh, that was probably what I
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: most took away, Like I don't remember a single thing
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: about my classes, like what I the content. But dude,
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: I'm a voracious note taker. Like that's why I'm so
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: effective with what I do right now is because yeah,
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: I just I am a note taker, man, And uh
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: that's what I picked that skill up in college.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, do you do you have any anxiety
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: if you don't have a piece of paper and a
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: pen close by?
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: Well, I my phone my go to. I don't do
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: too too much pen and paper much anymore, but.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: I get papers surrounded.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Well, my my digital world is just as chaotic in
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: that notes I got necessarily. Oh yeah, yeah, then I'm
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: in trouble and I'm in trouble or maybe okay, because.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Drive my wife. Absolutely you should see my kitchen table.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: But you know what I know where every single piece
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: of paper. Hey, yeah, that's what matters, mane. But but
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: you know, so here's here's mom and dad supporting you
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: no matter what it is, what path you want to
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: go down. But now you're you're you know, you're doing
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of the administrative stuff for Sweethearts and Heroes. Tom,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: should have you more, Tom, if you're listening right now,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: should have you more.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: With people with the kids. Well that's that's my decision. Actually,
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: I love what I do. Man, Like, I'm just I'm
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: not a you know, it's not that you know, I
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: couldn't probably put myself in that kind of a role,
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: but I just I love to I like to think
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: about the these kind of things all day and I
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: just doing research writing things, and I like to I'm
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: a very uh I don't. I don't want to say
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: I'm O c D because I know there's like but
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: like I'm a little bit like of a specific way
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: type free. So I'm just really good at spreadsheets, emails
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: and so it's just my strengths.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I understand, and Tom knows how to how
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: to tap into that, well.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: It absolutely does.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: How How did how did you get involved with Sweethearts
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: and Heroes? How did this? What was the fruition of.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: This, well, Tom was a I was in my younger years.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: I was kind of like an aspirational author, and so
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: he knew I like to write, and what he wanted
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: to do was he wanted to take this message and
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: he wanted to turn it into a stage play. And
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: I still got the original as terrible. I think it's
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: like my personal writing at that time was not at
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: the level it is now. Not that the content or
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: the story or whatever is terrible, but like my level
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: of writing I feel like is proved so much. But
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: that's kind of where it started. And then we got
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: into the Thirteen Pillows. That was kind of my first
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: big real project that came together with them, and then
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: it just kind of snowballed me. And like, to be
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: honest with you, I was like I was in college.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: After I got out, I traveled in Ireland for a
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: little bit, came back and just worked some little jobs
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: like waiting tables, working outside, and then started doing this
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: kind of stuff like in addition to that kind of stuff,
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: and it just snowballed me. It's just like, hey can
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: you do this? Hey can you do that? Hey?
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Can you?
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: And before I know it, like I'm basically helping him
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: run this thing. And now it's just like yeah, twenty
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: four to seven when I think about what I do,
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: and yeah, just it became it's like I feel like
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: we are in this new era of philosophy and psychology
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: and all this stuff like the ancient Greeks like trying
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: to go out and get these people to you know,
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: see this, this these new things in a different the
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: same things and like modern wording, modern like whatever.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: So I love it, man, and a whole different conduit
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: to everything. Man, everything is connected now.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, very much so. And that's one of the
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: things I actually work a lot on is, Uh. We
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: just partnered with this group, this online platform, Thrively, which
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: is a great strength based learning platform. Uh, and we're
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: getting all of our content on there so we can
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: actually start getting this out to people. Like our stuff
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: isn't about online. Our stuff is entirely about in person stuff.
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: But how do you get this stuff out? Like we
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: just are limited in our you know, manpower. It's getting
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: this stuff out. So the vehicle of the online platform
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: is is where we're going with it. And I write
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: all the curriculum for it and everything. So yeah, I
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: just love it is that.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Can we can we see that? Can we can you.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: Bring it up?
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Like right now, not right now, but maybe I can.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, in the future I can certainly. Yeah. Send you
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: some stuff on like we got gosh, I think twelve
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: standalone courses right now, from our foundational Message for middle
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: and high school and elementary school to some what we
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: call our Daily Dose of Hope with Rick, which are
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: just some great lessons with quick lessons with Rick on
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: empathy awareness action. We got our Circle series. We got
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: a set of three master classes that kind of all
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: come together. We start with the you know how you
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: do circle, we call it our Weaver series. Then we
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: move into our Wonder of Circle, which reveals the science
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: behind it. And then I'm actually finishing up our what
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: we call our Wardrobe of Circle, where there's these foundational
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: pieces we call the swordshield and Armor of Circle, which
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: there's a lot to get into, but it's these, uh,
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: these things on generational awareness, on autonomy, basic psychological needs, autonomy,
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: competence relatedness. It's just I love writing this content, man,
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: and I just think it's so valuable. I I just
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: I hope it's really starts to spread uh, in the
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: digital realm to to education you stuff, because it's all
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: the stuff we've been teaching. Person, it's just like, how
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: do we get it to more people?
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you guys are are so engaged with
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: with kids, with with students, but your your this message
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: of hope of of just being a good person, being resilient,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: but but being a good person is really working its
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: way beyond just the student and the and the the
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: kid and into the administration into the minds of adults,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: which has gotta be a little trying to penetrate that
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: because man, adults are stubborn. Man, we're setting our ways.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: We know, we know right.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: Right, And it was fascinating because I was like when
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: we started in the summer doing these circles with Linemen,
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: I was curious, like how Tom is going to take
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: these circles that we do with students like which work
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: brilliantly every time.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Circle is the art of sitting in a circle and
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: communicating and community going going around the circle speaking yes
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: or not or not.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: It's actually, you know, as just as much as it's
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: about the sharing, it's probably more about the listening. It's
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: about the listening, and that's that that's that space where
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: we take out the distractions. You know, one of our
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: primary rules, not rules, one of our primary guidelines or
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: needs is a private location, like where we're away from
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: the distractions and we're sitting and buy face to face
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: with each other and we're all on an equal plane.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: It's a circle. Nobody's in charge of the circle. The
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: circle moderates itself it And.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: No, it's very true. I mean it has it. There's
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: there's no uh necessary direction with it. I mean everyone
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: speaks everyone, not everyone, but most people speak most but
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: everyone has to listen.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just and that's the tough part man. But
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: by the time we've gone around to the to the
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: beginning of that circle where it started, the topic or
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: the question that will be posed by by Tom or
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: or anyone who's who's leading the circle, uh, we might
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: be onto a whole different topic.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's what I was gonna say. So I
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: was wondering how he's gonna do it with these linemen.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: I'm like, did you do it any differently? Is it? No?
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: I did it just the way with kids, and it
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: works man. And he said, like the circle I think
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: he had Yesterday's like he can't. You know, we try
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: to come in with a bit of a structure with
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: our circle to kind of lead people down a unified direction.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: But you have to listen to the circle, man, and
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: you have to pivot with the way people are answering
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: with what the circle where it wants to go. And
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: he came in with a plan yesterday and it completely derailed.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: They spent like an hour on the first question. And
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: that's that's where that master weaver we call comes in.
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: It's like, well, you gotta be able to pivot with
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: the same you know, kind of maybe intention but going
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: with the circle.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: When these when these students or these linemen or anyone
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: for that matter, walk into a room and see a
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: circle of chairs, is this therapy? God? Do I have
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: to be here? Do I have to do this to?
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm gonna be so vulnerable? That ship
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: gets like that mindset gets destroyed almost immediately it does.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: That conversation starts. It's you're not thinking that.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: Way because it starts before the conversation. We start with
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: our activators, which is all about fun, man. That's what
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: people love to have fun. That's how we learn, yes,
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: and so we we always it's the number one thing.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: If you don't even get to a circle question, r
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: play your activator. Number one brain rule is motion. That's
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: from the great John Medina and his twelve Brain Rules.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: It's a great book. But motion is the number one
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: brain roman and everybody loves that fun and that's that's
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: that's why when you sit down in the circle, and
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: you know most people are like this when they start,
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: we get up, we play our activator. Yeah, your your
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: motion creates your emotion.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so that that's why our circles are different,
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: man like, and and there's a lot of other reasons why.
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: But you know, activation is just primary, primary.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: And while you're while you're listening, you're you're thinking, and
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: you're you're regulating the way you're thinking.
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, you're connecting with people, you're.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: You're without without realizing it.
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: Without realizing it, very very often. And uh, that's kind
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: of part of the job of the weavers to try
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: and you know, draw out some of those connections to
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: those similarities that you know, you might have recognized on
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: a subconscious plane, but you might have not you know, understood.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: It's amazing that you've you've brought this to so many schools,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know how.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: Many, over one thousand at least at least in New York,
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: and you know, and we've you know, Montreal, Hawaii, We've
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: been in Kentucky, Colorado, Texas. They've been all over And
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: this started on you in Vermont. They started in Vermont. Yeah, yeah,
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: it's amazing. Yeah it didn't.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: It didn't start in Vermont thirty forty years ago. It's
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: not that.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: Only about seven, I think sixteen seventeen years now talk
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: been doing it. It's exploded, man, Yeah, it really has.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Isn't that something? What's I tell you about our society?
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: Well, exactly it. We need it, That's what I think
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: people need it. I mean we need to learn in
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: school too. We need to learn absolutely the core stuff,
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: but we need to we need a lot more than
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: just learning about math. Right now, with this incredible world
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: that we live in, which is so dysfunctional in so
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: many different ways, what we've got going on outside of
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: the classroom at home, in real life, we need this
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: stuff now more than ever. Yeah. Man, the human skills
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: have just we've just lost them due to you know,
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: whatever reasons. And it's not that they.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: Could sit in point fingers all day technology. The list
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: goes on.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the list goes on, and you know again that
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: curriculum stuff is important. But dude, I got my phone
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: in my pocket right now. Yeah, I just anytime I
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: need to do math, I do a lot of math stuff,
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: like our finances or whatever. Like, I just pull out
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: the calculator, man Like, I just asked chatchpt, Hey, how
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: do I do this? Hey? How do I do that?
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: I figure how to code this or code that just
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: using chat cheept so the content, you know, I just,
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: in my personal opinion, I feel like it's secondary to
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: these human skills that we have just lost the ability
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: to do. Everybody, not just kids, adults have too. Sure
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: I have. Everybody has sure And so I think you're dead,
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: right Like, That's that's what I think we need to
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: start figuring out. How do we transition from this age
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: where you had to remember things because you didn't have
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: instant access to any information that you wanted, And how
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: do we transition now to pairing that with uh, developing empathy,
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: developing awareness, teaching kids how to operate in this world.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: Man Like. It's just it's getting wilder by the day,
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: and we got to start catching up. On how we
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: teach kids to do things in life.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: It's powerful stuff and what your what you're as I'm
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: sitting here listening to you. You know I'm listening to you,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: but I asked to have some thoughts in my mind
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: about relating what you're saying to things going on in
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: my life. Situations, stories, yeah, people, relationships. It's very powerful stuff. Yeah, dude,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: it's incredible. You know, we should would be remiss if
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: we didn't throw some some love at some of the dealerships,
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: the car dealerships, the Chevy dealerships specifically that have stepped up,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: not just one or two, but several and have said, Yo,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: we want to be part of this movement that Sweethearts
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: and Heroes is on. We want to be part of
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: their brand. We want to make help make what they
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: do possible in more schools so this can spread further.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: And there are so many Chevy dealerships. Cody Chevrolet, Wels
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: River Chevrolet are just two, Alderman Chevrolet down in Rutland.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: Many Chevrolet, Champlain, Chevrolet, Gosh Chevrolet. Yeah, man, like the
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: I think there's about fourteen of them totale. And you
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: know what, they just care about their communities man, And
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: that's what we have to get back to. It's like
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: we're in this globalization thing where it's like we're worried
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: about what's going on in China, We're worried about what's
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: going on and you know the Middle East. Like, but
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: where the change is going to happen, man, is in
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: your local communities. Like if everybody just took care of
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: each other in their local communities, things would change. And
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: that's what these dealers have brought. You know. We were
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: just in Danville with Littleton Chevy last Monday weekend before
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: the Friday Thursday before, we were in South Burlington area. Yeah,
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: just had some great, great days there, they said. And
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: and some we've been Rick's been doing some meet and
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: greets afterwards at the dealerships with handing out a bridge
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: named Damis and they've just been going spectacular. But yeah,
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: these dealers just they really care about their communities and
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: uh that they're they're showing up for them.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It was some Kia over in Burlington.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: I think it's where you guys were on Friday.
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're in a I think it was Chamberlain School
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: a couple of Fridays ago yeah, a couple of Fridays ago.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: And then I think it was I think it was
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: Veterans Day that Rick was at Alderman Chevrolet.
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: Yes, I think it was all yeah, yeah.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: And Dan Phil speaking of the damn Ville you know.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: And I asked Tom, you know, I still haven't had
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: a I still haven't had an infight to attend one
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: of the programs at one of the schools.
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: Still still, well, I'll get you there.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: I mean I spoke to listen. Can the guy that
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: that gets gets me T shirts get me a pass
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: into one of these schools, go and see one of
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: these programs.
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I'll get you the schedule as soon as they
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: get back today. But oh, absolutely, dude, do I need
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: like what do I need?
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Clearance?
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: Now? You just got to show up. I'm pretty sure
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: you'll be good.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: She's going to keep asking Tom. I'm like, Tom, when
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: when do I get to come here?
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I'll send you the dates that we're kind
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: of around here. Uh all right, yeah, yeah.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: I think Tom's nervous.
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe JD's gonna steal the show.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: I think I don't think he wants me to to
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: come into these schools. And and and you know, make
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: a scene and talk about the muscle implants. Maybe I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fairly why.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's exactly what it is. Yeah, man, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I hope to to be at one of them soon.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are absolutely killing it. You're crushing it. You're
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  Speaker 2: doing amazing, amazing work in schools, amazing work in communities
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  Speaker 2: with adults, with children, everyone, and you're you're not missing
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  Speaker 2: a beat man, every single one of you, even the
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes guys like Leon. When the hell's he
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  Speaker 2: gonna come on the man? Man, he's busy.
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  Speaker 4: He's busy. I don't know, you get.
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  Speaker 2: Dude.
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  Speaker 4: Crank's had so many emails in my inbox.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm sure he does. I'm sure he's always working. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are really doing unbelievable work. It's so powerful,
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  Speaker 2: it's so uplifting, it so positive. Every Wednesday, I told
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  Speaker 2: Tom the other night, Wednesdays are one of my favorite
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  Speaker 2: days of the week because of what you guys bring. You,
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  Speaker 2: the message that you guys bring to my airwaves, for
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  Speaker 2: my followers, my listeners, we need more of it. Man.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we just appreciate you Ja d and that we're
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  Speaker 4: allowed to be here every Wednesday. I tune in every Wednesday, man,
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  Speaker 4: and just hear the conversations and they're always great and
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  Speaker 4: it's amazing stuff. We love being here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so I always feel positive, I always feel inspired
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  Speaker 2: to be better, do more, think differently, and carry on
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  Speaker 2: through the rest of my day with a different mindset.
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  Speaker 4: Well Wednesday, yeah, man, and listen.
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  Speaker 2: Sweetheartsinhrooes dot com. Yes, please get on there, folks listening
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  Speaker 2: this morning and support this organ and they should learn more,
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  Speaker 2: see what they're doing, share their website, get on their
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  Speaker 2: You guys are just you're turning into a bunch of monsters.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are huge now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's getting wild, man, it's getting wild. Our schedule
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  Speaker 4: is pretty much packed through the rest of the school year.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy amazing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And if your school is not yet involved, sweet sweetheart
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  Speaker 2: sind heroes dot com. That's that's where we should go
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  Speaker 2: start right there. Reach out info.
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  Speaker 4: At Sweethearts inhears dot com. Send us an email. We'll
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  Speaker 4: get back to you. Get get on the list of
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  Speaker 4: schools that are waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're starting to look towards next year. At this
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  Speaker 4: point get on the train.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Thank you so much, brother, I appreciate you so much. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: what Sweethearts and Heroes is doing. I'll be up at
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  Speaker 2: Stuff a Truck in a little bit here and I
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  Speaker 2: am so much looking forward to showing you the setup
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  Speaker 2: day for the big event, year number twenty four, which
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: is kicking off tomorrow Price Chopper in Berlin. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be huge and the need has never been great.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about the power of one a lot over the
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  Speaker 2: next couple of days as we team up and partner
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  Speaker 2: up with Stuff a Truck, the pack the pantry event
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  Speaker 2: again at Price Chopper in Berlin. Have a marvelous rest
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: of your day. The sun is shining, the eras crisp
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: and cool, and you know what, it smells great. Get
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