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Speaker 1: Well, before we bag on teachers too much, let's talk

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Speaker 1: to Alison. She's not like that at all. No, Alie

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Speaker 1: is not a teacher at alis Are you a teacher? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not You're not a teacher, because we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: to the teacher just a second. But Alison, let's learn

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Speaker 1: about you. Um, who are you? And who are we

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Speaker 1: about to talk to? Go on? What is the meaning

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Speaker 1: of life? Um? Let's see. I am I live in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: and I have an incredible boyfriend who has been a

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Speaker 1: teacher for almost eighteen years. Wow. Wow, And he teaches

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Speaker 1: seventh grade world history world history in New Lennox. He

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Speaker 1: makes the drive every day all the way out there

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Speaker 1: to this great middle school, and um, he truly loves

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Speaker 1: his job. He is just a rock star. He brings

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Speaker 1: so much energy to that class. And it's amazing now

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Speaker 1: that she has been working from home and then back

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Speaker 1: to in person and then back to home to watch

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Speaker 1: him do it is a sight to see. He is

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Speaker 1: pretty incredible. I feel like Allison, you know right, and

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Speaker 1: I let's bring Brandon. We'll bring Brandon in. Uh, Brandon Kilstrom,

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Speaker 1: We got to bring hey, Brandon, mister kay, mister k. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Rufi was in charge of the buttons today. He managed

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Speaker 1: to hang up on your girlfriend and she was telling

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Speaker 1: this really sweet story and it was very emotional. So

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Speaker 1: why do you hate women? I know, honestly, if we

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Speaker 1: could get her back, because it was really like getting

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Speaker 1: to that part where she's gonna start crying, we were

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Speaker 1: all gonna start crying and then hey, uh, mister K,

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Speaker 1: do you have any idea what's going on? By the way, Uh, No,

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Speaker 1: I thought I would be nominated by a student, not

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Speaker 1: from my my amazing girlfriend. Well, I'm sure that many

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Speaker 1: students did nominate you too. We just happened to see

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Speaker 1: the one from your from your girlfriend and worry about

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Speaker 1: By the way, you see like in another room in

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Speaker 1: the same house, and you guys are doing this from

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Speaker 1: like two separate rooms. No. I actually, even though we've

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Speaker 1: I've been teaching remotely. The students are at home. I've

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Speaker 1: been driving into school every day just because I feel

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Speaker 1: comfortable at school, Like eighteen years of teaching. I feel

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Speaker 1: in the zone. Even though I'm in my in my

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Speaker 1: classroom it's empty, I still feel like when I'm teaching

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Speaker 1: the kids through zoom, I still feel like they're sitting

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Speaker 1: do it that way, any sense. Yeah, yeah, No, I'm

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Speaker 1: staying with us, coming to the studio every day and

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Speaker 1: doing the show from here. It's like it you get,

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Speaker 1: lot of people are happy to be able to do it.

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Speaker 1: But let me just set this up here so that

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Speaker 1: everyone knows what's going on. We're here, we are talking

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Speaker 1: to a wonderful girlfriend and mister Kay the most amazing teacher.

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Speaker 1: But we teamed up with the Chicagoland Toyota Dealers. We

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Speaker 1: wanted to recognize amazing teachers throughout Chicagoland, and we got

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Speaker 1: so many nominations and I think, right, you know, look,

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Speaker 1: the words of teachers do throughout Chicagoland community throughout the

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Speaker 1: country is incredible. You guys, you fulfill so many different

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Speaker 1: roles beyond just educating the youth. I know that oftentimes

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Speaker 1: you're probably a counselor, and you know, maybe in some

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Speaker 1: ways you're a second parent and a mentor, you know.

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Speaker 1: And so in this case, we got this note about you,

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Speaker 1: and this is what Alice and your girlfriend wrote. Mister

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Speaker 1: Kay is the most kind, fun and patient teacher. Ever,

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Speaker 1: he works hard to balance both in person and virtual

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Speaker 1: teaching with the wacky sense of humor. As a seventh

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Speaker 1: grade history teacher, he shares his passion for the world,

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Speaker 1: especially his love of Japan, whether he's making a funny

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Speaker 1: video to send his students or awarding Japanese kid kat

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Speaker 1: that in the second. He obviously loves what he does.

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Speaker 1: His dedication and energy shines through in his role as

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Speaker 1: basketball and track coach. Also, so there you go, talking

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Speaker 1: about another role. So many students comment that mister Kay

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Speaker 1: is their favorite teacher, and it's easy to see why. So,

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Speaker 1: mister Kay, two hundred and fifty bucks for you from

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Speaker 1: our friends at the Chicagoland Toyota Dealers, and I wish

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Speaker 1: different flavors of Japanese kitcat there are like fifty of them.

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Speaker 1: Apple apple, That's what it was. Yeah. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 1: they they deserve a little something. So wow, wow, well,

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Speaker 1: I I can just hear, I can hear in your

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Speaker 1: But now that I got to know these students in

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Speaker 1: mister Kay, if these kids, if they're not focusing, it's

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Speaker 1: your fault. You're the one giving them the sugar, mister Kay.

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Speaker 1: Alex Smartino Junior High School, Lex thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being amazing. You're girlfriend, Alice, I wanted us to

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Speaker 1: know about you. Enjoy your two hundred and fifty bucks

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Speaker 1: from our friends at the Chicago Land Toyota Dealers, and

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Speaker 1: thanks for being an incredible example and member of our community.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you so much. All Right, thanks a lot, guys.

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