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Speaker 1: Why don't you point seven? Kiss secret here? Yes, Tanya?

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Speaker 1: Why the blank? Why do you stare so much? Why

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Speaker 1: are you staring? Is that your kombucha good? It's good

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Speaker 1: gut health. That's my next thing I drink that you've had.

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Speaker 1: I thought, I think stores everywhere health aid. Yeah, ginger lemon. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: between my olive oil and my kombucha, you better watch

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Speaker 1: out for this gut coming on strong. Everything starts from

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Speaker 1: the gut. Did you know that? When I was a kid,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Now I'm learning more about like

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Speaker 1: how you If your gut is clean and healthy, then

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Speaker 1: everything works in your body and your brain works too better. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be nice if I had a little

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Speaker 2: sippy or something.

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Speaker 1: It was enough for two. We can make it. We

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Speaker 1: can find a cup. But let's get to this celebration

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Speaker 1: of teachers. It's National Teacher Appreciation Week. So when you

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Speaker 1: think back to the teachers, like one, two, some stand out.

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Speaker 1: But why did they cut through for you? They became

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Speaker 1: human for me, they weren't just teachers. They became shot,

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? Shout out mister Martinez, a loss at,

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Speaker 1: missus Saunders, Miss Easterly at Barker Elementary Shout out Jason

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Speaker 1: Torris Wrangel, who's on with us now in Boil Heights

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Speaker 1: the l A and California Teacher of the Year. Do

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Speaker 1: I call you, mister Torris Wrangell, Jason jtr What do

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Speaker 1: I call you?

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Speaker 2: Whatever you like? It's an honor to be here.

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Speaker 1: Well, dude, it's an honor to talk to you. Congratulations.

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Speaker 1: What was your reaction to winning both LA and California

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Speaker 1: Teacher of the Year.

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Speaker 2: It was a huge honor. I was super humbled. You know,

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Speaker 2: there's so many great teachers in this world, and we

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Speaker 2: all work so hard, and it's just been so great

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Speaker 2: to you know, uplift and shed light on the voices

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Speaker 2: of my students, the work of the profession. It's been incredible.

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Speaker 1: So eleventh grade English at Roosevelt High School in Boil Heights.

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Speaker 1: I apologize for whatever words or subjects and predicates may

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Speaker 1: imperfectly come out of our mouths this morning.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: Not at all. But how'd you cut through? We were

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Speaker 1: just saying there are teachers that stand out, and it's

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Speaker 1: because they became really human and not just friends, not

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Speaker 1: friends per se, but like human for us. What did

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Speaker 1: you do to cut through with your students.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think I just you know, I lead with

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Speaker 2: joy and humor, and you know, teaching is like a

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Speaker 2: wonderful pression. Professionals grounded in humanity, you know, just see

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Speaker 2: the students as who they are and go from there.

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Speaker 1: And why did you get into it? Why did you

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Speaker 1: get into teaching?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. My parents are teachers. I'm

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Speaker 2: the second generation teacher. But I wasn't sure that it

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Speaker 2: was like for me. You know, you're kind of like

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Speaker 2: born to do whatever is the opposite of what your

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Speaker 2: parents do. But I had a mentor in college who

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Speaker 2: really nudged me, and he was like, you know, I

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Speaker 2: think you'd make a great teacher. And you know, I

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Speaker 2: remember I keep that in mind as I do my

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Speaker 2: work today. It's like, sometimes there's someone who sees something

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Speaker 2: in you that you might not see yet. And the

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Speaker 2: dominoes fell, and here I am. Twenty years later.

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Speaker 1: Jason Tauris ran boil Heights eleventh grade teaching English lan

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Speaker 1: and California Teacher of the Year. And dude, can you

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Speaker 1: say dude to a teacher? Yes, dude, you're the running

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Speaker 1: to be this like the whole thing when the Whole

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Speaker 1: Nation Teacher Award.

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Speaker 2: Right right, all the state teachers are recognized on a

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Speaker 2: national level. We just got back from DC. I got

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Speaker 2: to meet Kamala Harris, the Vice president. It was it

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Speaker 2: was super incredible.

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Speaker 1: Wow, how lucky your students are, and just a blessing

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Speaker 1: to all the teachers that put in so much to

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Speaker 1: shape young people and set up the world for the

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Speaker 1: next generation. Bro. So nice to meet you, Jason. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: and thanks for coming on. What's what's the lesson today?

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Speaker 2: The lesson today? We're getting ready for AP exams, so

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Speaker 2: we've got to hit the ground running and notes to

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Speaker 2: the grind, you know, talk about life.

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Speaker 1: I'm out, I am out on that sounds serious? All right,

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Speaker 1: Thanks buddy, you take care. Nice to meet you, Jason,

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Speaker 1: Bye bye. Big year lan and California Teacher of the Year.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the guy is I was just reading

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Speaker 1: about him. He's currently juggling his pursuit of a PhD

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Speaker 1: in urban leadership and he's also teaching eleventh grade English.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: How do you not get attached to the kids like

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Speaker 1: every year? You know, that would be my du that

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Speaker 1: would be my problem. I think you probably do. And

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Speaker 1: that's why when we used to check back in with

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Speaker 1: our teachers after graduation and then a lot to know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: exactly like to call missus Saunders. Don't know where she

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Speaker 1: is or I mean it's been so long, I better

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Speaker 1: just check on missus Saunders. You know it's about that

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Speaker 1: stage my post high school career. Let's see, maybe you

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Speaker 1: know my mother? Well, no, are you looking her up?

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Speaker 1: Missus Karen Saunders? How are you going to find her

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Speaker 1: on Google? Mark finds everything. Really? Yeah, it's weird, very scared,

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Speaker 1: Karen Sanders s A U N d R. So you

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Speaker 1: can work on Mark. We have time. Yeah, coming back

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Speaker 1: with some Disneyland tickets here at kiss f M hang

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