1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: I listen to your podcast every morning when I'm getting ready, 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: I'm scrolling through trying to find one. I love listening 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: to it, and they inspire me because when you most 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: every person that has done something extraordinary has had a 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: story of some kind. Rarely do you hear someone who's 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: had this perfect life. And that's the normal people. You know, 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: what is normal, I guess is different too, But I 8 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: was inspired by every time. 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 2: And then also Wilson Society. 10 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: I do that as our service club here on campus, 11 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: and all of them have done something in their community 12 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: generally as well. 13 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 2: And I thought we'd be inspiring for them. 14 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: To listen to these and see rather than me just 15 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: saying pick a podcast. 16 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 2: This way they're getting something. 17 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: A lot of them are faith based, which was again 18 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: a great segue into what we learn in our class 19 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: as well. 20 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 3: Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. 21 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 3: I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, I'm a father, 22 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 3: I'm an entrepreneur, and I've been a football coach Inner City, Memphis. 23 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 3: And the last part somehow led to an oscar for 24 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 3: the film about our team. That movie is called Undefeated, y'all. 25 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 3: I believe our country's problems are never gonna be solved 26 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 3: by a bunch of fancy people in nice suits using 27 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 3: big words that nobody ever uses on CNN and Fox, 28 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 3: but rather by an army of normal folks. That's us, 29 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 3: just you and me deciding hey, I can help. Today, 30 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 3: we have an outside the box episode. Really, you're gonna 31 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 3: meet a whole bunch of high schoolers and their teacher 32 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 3: who used an army of normal folks in their class. 33 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 3: I cannot wait for you to meet this class from 34 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 3: Briarqust Christian School right after these brief messages from our 35 00:01:47,720 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 3: general sponsors. I know sitting here is a little weird, 36 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 3: and you're probably all like, this is kind of cool, 37 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 3: but kind of weird too. If you don't engage with me, 38 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 3: I'm gonna make you engage with me, which is more embarrassing. 39 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: So talk, engage, chill out, have fun, don't be geeks. 40 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 3: All right? See this is bad. See see that really 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 3: uncomfortable silence. We're not gonna have that sound. So here's 42 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 3: how this is gonna go. 43 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 2: Take your jacket off. 44 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 3: Here's how that's gonna go. We're gonna engage for about 45 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 3: ten minutes, and then we're going to talk about a 46 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 3: lot of the stuff you guys have done with your 47 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 3: assignment with the podcast. And I have some excerpts of 48 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 3: some stuff you've written. I don't know who wrote it, 49 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 3: so I'm gonna read it and say who wrote it? 50 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: And there you go, you who wrote it. 51 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 3: No, we'll have more fun this way. We'll say that, 52 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 3: and I'll say, Okay, who are you? And tell me 53 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,679 Speaker 3: what you were doing with it? And you got to 54 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 3: say your name. And this thing is going to come 55 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 3: around to you. You are either a passive or if 56 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 3: you guys are close together, you guys can pass it around. Yeah, 57 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 3: you just pass it around, but when you speak, don't 58 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 3: hold it over here while you're talking actually speaking to it, 59 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 3: so it picks it up. Because there's gonna be thousands 60 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 3: and thousands and thousands of people to hear this thing. 61 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 3: So we need Yeah, you're special, so we need we 62 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 3: need you to use your voice and speak up and 63 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,239 Speaker 3: talk with me. The other thing is, don't talk quietly 64 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 3: to me because I'm deaf in my right ear and 65 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,119 Speaker 3: I really can't hear you. Are you really? Wow? 66 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 4: I got hit baseball last year right here, and it's like. 67 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, the reason I'm deaf is because of the 68 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 3: same thing, except for football. I have nerve. I have 69 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 3: nerve damage. Actually, right now I can hear about four 70 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 3: percent of any noise, what brand whatever. My wife told 71 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: me to bout hang on what. 72 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 5: I have them too, but I don't have them in 73 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 5: right now. 74 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, So it was nerve damage, right, No coke, clear implants, 75 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 3: nothing can fix it. You're deaf for the rest of 76 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 3: your life. 77 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 4: It's either a broken cole a bone or permanent nerve. 78 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 3: So your official meat heead. Yeah, that's why it works. 79 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 3: All right. I almost heard everything he said. So you've 80 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 3: got to speak that loud or louder when you talk 81 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 3: with me. Okay, okay, okay, thank you so much. All Right, 82 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 3: you guys haven't been in a lot of these things. 83 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 3: I do need to tell you one other thing. This 84 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 3: guy's the producer. That's Alex Cortez. On some of the 85 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 3: things you've listened to. You may have heard me referred 86 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 3: to Alex before. That's who he is. He produces a show, 87 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 3: he makes it happen. Everything else. One of the things 88 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 3: you need to learn about show biz is producers are 89 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 3: complete pain in the button. They're horrible. They're not fun 90 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 3: to deal with. They're awful, So just ignore the weird 91 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 3: looking man in the corner and everything will be fine. Good. 92 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 3: I gave it to him. You see what they got. 93 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 3: I slept those things all the way here for him, 94 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 3: and I was again, you know, I out of kids, 95 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 3: and I'm sorry, just setting up pictures. I don't know 96 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 3: what you're gonna do with it. Give it your diet. 97 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 3: He can read it to you. Is that okay? 98 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: Good coach? 99 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 3: Herring can come in unbelievable. Hold on, we can't start yet. 100 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 3: Yeah that right there, y'all was a dog back in 101 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 3: the day. Y'all need to know, an absolute dog. What 102 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 3: was it twenty six, twenty seven when you got your 103 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 3: first date? Someone actually went out with a bat? Then 104 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 3: about then? I cat right there, y'all. Don't look at 105 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 3: the old gray hair. He could go. He was an athlete. 106 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 3: He was a good coache. Yeah that's right. Yeah, all right, 107 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 3: Well you are precious, all right, honey, we'll see you later. 108 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 3: Bless his heart. All right, So go ready, you're gonna 109 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 3: have fun. It be a bunch of dufuses and just 110 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 3: sit there like knots on a law. What do you 111 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 3: do to your wrist? Low cross did to your wrist. 112 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 3: You's got to speak up. My teammate hit me in 113 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 3: the wrist. Oh are you kidding? Yikes? Can you still 114 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 3: play with that thing on? That really stinks, doesn't it? Sorry? Okay, uh, 115 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 3: all right, ready, all right, here we go. Jenny Manguno 116 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 3: is weird? How are you? 117 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 2: I'm good? Thank you. 118 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 3: You're weird because you emailed Alec and then you emailed 119 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 3: me and you said something like this. I've been listening 120 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 3: to your podcasts for several months, almost every weekday morning, 121 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 3: and I'm consistently inspired by your guest and even your story. 122 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 3: My story is quite similar to yours. And you went 123 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 3: on to talk about teaching a dual enrollment oral communications 124 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 3: class at Briercrest High School in Memphis. You invited Alex 125 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 3: and me to kind of discuss with you that you 126 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 3: actually you made your students in your class listen to 127 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 3: an army of normal folks. We found that really really interesting. 128 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 3: And you're also the librarian, and you're weird because you're 129 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 3: using a podcast in your class and oral communications, and 130 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 3: Alex and I thought that's cool. So for those listening today, 131 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 3: we are at Briercrest High School in Memphis with your class, 132 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 3: with your enrollment oral communication class, and there's one, two, three, four, five, six, 133 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 3: seven eight, there's about fifteen kids in here. 134 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 2: Say hi, kids, they're happy today. 135 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,119 Speaker 3: What in the world inspired you to say? I'm teaching 136 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 3: oral communications class. I'm going to make these kids listen 137 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 3: to an old person's podcast, which had to have been 138 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 3: miserable for these kids. 139 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: I think they probably thought it was going to be 140 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: miserable to start, but then they wound up loving the 141 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: assignment they do part of the curriculum that we have. 142 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: They actually did their own podcast. We have a podcast 143 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 1: small studio here on campus, and so they each had 144 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: to record a podcasts with a partner. One group had 145 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: a group of three. But anyhow, they were doing their podcasts, 146 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: and so I was just asking who listens to podcasts 147 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: and there weren't. 148 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 2: A lot that before this time. 149 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: I said, then y'all need to listen to a good podcast, 150 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: and I love yours. And so that's how that came up, 151 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: as like, choose one of these, and being a teacher, 152 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: I made sure it was ones I had listened to, 153 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: so that I would know for sure if they had 154 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: done the assignment or not. 155 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 3: What where do you come from. What's your story? 156 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: Does that mean? 157 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 3: Oh my god? Should I answer it now? Answered? It's 158 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 3: your wife? Answer answer on air? 159 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 2: Oh yes, sweet. 160 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: This is my fortieth year in education, so I've been 161 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: teaching since nineteen eighty five was my first year to teach. 162 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: So I've been doing this a long time, between high school, 163 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: college and now back to high school. So doing doing 164 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: enrollment gets you to do a little bit of both. 165 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 3: So what brought you into teaching? Tell me how you 166 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 3: came up. Tell me a little bit about you. I'm 167 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 3: curious because you said my story is quite similar to yours. 168 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 3: I want to hear about that. How are we alike? 169 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if the students know your whole story. 170 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: I don't know if they know my whole story. So 171 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: I'll just kind of share. So I grew up and 172 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 1: I went to high school in Pearl, Mississippi, which they know. 173 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 2: All about because I asked them. 174 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: I always ask them bonus questions about my life, Like 175 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: if I say something in class and their bonus question 176 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: comes from that, like what was what was my high 177 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: school mascot? 178 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 2: Do y'all remember? 179 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 3: Now? 180 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 2: Pirates? Very good? 181 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 3: See, like they remember pirates? 182 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 2: The Pearl pirates. 183 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 3: Yes, anyhow, so we. 184 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 2: Use that in the class a lot. So I'm from Pearl. 185 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: My parents divorced when I was nine, which is unheard 186 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: of in nineteen seventy two, you know, like that just 187 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: was not something happened. And then later my dad died. 188 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: My mom was a teacher, and I thought I would 189 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: never be a teacher. She had a very unconventional life 190 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: and made a lot of poor relationship decisions that in 191 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: today's world would probably be much accepted, but in Pearl, 192 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: Mississippi in the nineteen seventies was a very difficult thing. 193 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 3: But did that put a stigma on you as a kid? 194 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely, uh And I've said this often. I have 195 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: one wonderful friend that I'm still best friends with today. 196 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: But if I invited a friend to spend the night, 197 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: it was always maybe you could come to my house instead. 198 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: No one was ever allowed to come and spend the 199 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: night at my house, which looking back, I don't blame 200 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: those parents. I mean, I'm a parent now, and I 201 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: get that. 202 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 3: Doesn't make a sixteen year old fillony better about it, though. 203 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: No, no, And by that point, by the time I 204 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: was like middle school, early high school, I had a 205 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: great friend. Her name's Diane, and my mom would say 206 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: things like, find somewhere to go this weekend, you can't 207 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: be here, and so pretty much every Friday afternoon I 208 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: would just go home with Diane, and then on Sunday 209 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: about seven o'clock, my sister would come pick me up 210 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: and we'd go back home. And so that's who really 211 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: raised me, is my friend's mind. 212 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:41,439 Speaker 3: That has to make you feel alone as a kid. 213 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: I think you know, in the seventies, there was no DHS. 214 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: There was no talking about this. These aren't things that 215 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: you talk about. They're just it just was your life, 216 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: and you do it, and dare tell someone that your 217 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: life wasn't perfect, because that's not the way life was. 218 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: But there was no protect there's no foster system, there's 219 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: no DHS or nothing like that, so you just go on. 220 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:02,079 Speaker 2: But my mom was a. 221 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: Teacher, and of course I said I would never be 222 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: a teacher, but I had a teacher in high school. 223 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: I don't think I've told them the story, Missus Robbins. 224 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: She was my speech teacher, my most favorite teacher. I 225 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: had her three years in a row, and she just 226 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: she was that teacher that called you out when you. 227 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: You know, she told everybody what they were doing right 228 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: and what they were doing wrong, and she didn't think 229 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: twice about it, and she was She made a big impact. 230 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: In fact, i'm talking with Alex I told him she's 231 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: she had three students who became speech teachers. 232 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 3: That's just like you count yourself as one communications. 233 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and all taught high school and college. 234 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: It's just been af She just made a huge impact 235 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: in my life. Went to college, didn't ever plan to 236 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: be a teacher, and got certified just in case from 237 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: one of my roommates said, I think you'd be a 238 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: good teacher. You should just get certified. And I was like, oh, 239 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: I'll get certified. And then I did my student teaching 240 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: and fell in love with teaching. Never had plans to teach, 241 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: and I've been teaching now forty years. 242 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 3: How long have you been here? 243 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,599 Speaker 2: I've been full time here ten years. 244 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 3: Got it? For those who don't know, my mother was 245 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 3: married and divorced five times. My fourth father took out 246 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 3: a thirty eight caliber pistol one night after finishing off 247 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 3: about a half gallon of US or Scotch and shot 248 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 3: at me down the hallway. I had to dive out 249 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 3: of window to save myself that night. So I was 250 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 3: surrounded with dysfunction trauma, and as a person your age 251 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 3: was kind of lost trying to figure out, you know, 252 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 3: where where do I fit in this world? And I'll 253 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 3: tell you something else that happens is when people come 254 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 3: in and out of your life consistently, and the only 255 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 3: thing that is consistent is inconsistency, you start to wonder 256 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 3: about your own value. You know, why are you not 257 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 3: valuable enough that someone is willing to invest in stay 258 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 3: in your life? And it has a profound effect. And 259 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 3: you can either come and be a victim to that 260 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 3: dysfunction or you can decide to be a rock that 261 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 3: that dysfunction breaks itself on. There's really two choices. Sure 262 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 3: to tell you that a teacher who passed away not 263 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 3: long ago, actually my football coach told me that who 264 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 3: I love, did you feel the dysfunction? 265 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: I think it's just one of those things where it's 266 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: just your life like And again, you wouldn't talk about this. 267 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 2: This was the seventies. There were no TV. Every TV 268 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 2: show was you know, the love boat or. 269 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 3: What is something fantasy island? 270 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 2: Fantasy Island that shows the cleaver road. 271 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just everything's. 272 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: Perfect break yeah, yeah, yeah, So you just thought, well, 273 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: it's just not the way I live. 274 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 2: But you wouldn't dare talk about that. 275 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: You're now People talk about the dysfunction in their family 276 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: and there's ways to deal with it. But I assure 277 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: you there were people who had it worse than I did, 278 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: much worse. 279 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 3: I coach and teach and do a lot of what 280 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 3: I do because I'm still a fifty six year old 281 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 3: fill very real about the pain ifl and I feel 282 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 3: like in teaching and coaching you have an opportunity to 283 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 3: maybe exact some measure of positive change on some people 284 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 3: who may be going through maybe not exactly what you're 285 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 3: doing too, but a similar amount of suffering, pain, questions, whatever. 286 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 3: Do you feel like that's what draws you to continue 287 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 3: to do this year after year. 288 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: I think I think you hope that you're making a 289 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: difference in some way. I mean, a teacher made a 290 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: huge difference for me, So you hope in some way 291 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: you're making If you make a difference in one person's life, 292 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: then you've done something. 293 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 3: I mean, that's so true. But then you look out 294 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 3: at the people you're trying to make a difference in life. 295 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 3: And there are a bunch of fifteen, sixteen, seventeen year old 296 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 3: meatheads like these people out here, and you actually wonder 297 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 3: if you're getting through you do sometimes Yeah, I mean 298 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 3: there's this kid over here at Tucker. I don't know 299 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 3: how you get through to that guy, this Tucker kid. Oh, 300 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 3: you're going to act right because your dad's in the room. 301 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 3: Now what you're gonna do. You're just gonna sit there. 302 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 3: We're going to take a brief intermission in the middle 303 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 3: of this. This is not a commercial break. Say what up? Coach? 304 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 3: Brandon Tucker just walked in. And Brandon Tucker is one 305 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 3: of the finest people on the face of the planet. 306 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 3: I've coached against him, I've coached with him, and I 307 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 3: love him. And his son happens to be in your class. 308 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 3: And so there's Brandon Tucker over there. Pretty good math coach, 309 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 3: pretty fair football coach, but a pretty extraordinary human beings. 310 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 3: Good to see you, brother, And now a few messages 311 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 3: from our general sponsors. But first, we're thinking about launching 312 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 3: a few local chapters of the Army this year, and 313 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 3: if you're interested in potentially leading a chapter in your community, 314 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 3: email Army at normal folks, dot us and Alex would 315 00:16:54,240 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 3: love to connect with you. We'll be right back kind 316 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 3: of give me and our listeners just a quick purpose 317 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 3: of the dual enrollment Oral Communications class. I keep having 318 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 3: to read it because I don't even know how to 319 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 3: remember all that. But what do y'all do? Well? 320 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: Because it's dual enrollment, they're getting college credit through the 321 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: University of Memphis by taking this class, so they take discounts. 322 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: They have to have a fine art to graduate from 323 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: high school, so they take my class for one semester 324 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: and then first semester they took music appreciation. My first 325 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: semester class takes theater appreciation this semester, so it just 326 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: depends on where they fall. But they're getting college credit. 327 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: The hope is that they don't have to take this 328 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: in college. Most of them, the seniors and the seniors 329 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: will see most of those have on their senior shirts today. 330 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: But we just did a what would you call what 331 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,400 Speaker 1: I did last week? A seminar I talk about college 332 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 1: and try to help them learn how to do course equivalency. 333 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: So if I took this class in high school, how's 334 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: it going to help me in college? 335 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 2: How's it going to transfer. 336 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: So we have a lot of dual enrollment classes, but 337 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: this is just one that they can take. And so 338 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: we follow the curriculum from the University of Memphis and 339 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: then I do a high school portion of that as well. 340 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: And they've learned how to do an informative speech. Yesterday 341 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: they did elevator pitches. I think that may have been 342 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: their favorite. They're like, no, no, they did the persuasive podcast. 343 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 1: Help me out what else they impromptu speeches? They're just nodding. 344 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,360 Speaker 1: There a lot of communications, all communications skills, all right. 345 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 3: So in the context of understanding the class and soon everybody, 346 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 3: we're going to talk to these kids, and I expect 347 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 3: that's going to be fun or maybe it'll be awful, 348 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 3: depending on how big a goofballs they are. We'll find 349 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 3: out there's four hundred there's four million, five hundred podcasts 350 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 3: on the face of the planet. How inside are the 351 00:18:54,680 --> 00:19:01,360 Speaker 3: construct of the class? Do you decide to I'm an 352 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 3: army of normal folks as part of the curriculum. That's weird. 353 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 1: That's why I said you were wor you said I 354 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: was weird, Well, because I listened to it. 355 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 3: Weird in the fondest sense of Okay, okay, I. 356 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: Listen to your podcast every morning when I'm getting ready, 357 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: I'm scrolling through trying to find one. I love listening 358 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: to it, and they inspire me because when you most 359 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: every person that has done something extraordinary has had a 360 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: story of some kind. Rarely do you hear someone who's 361 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: had this perfect life, and I guess that's part of them. 362 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 3: There's no such thing. 363 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the normal people. 364 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 1: You know, what is normal? I guess is different too. 365 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 1: But I was inspired by every time. And then also 366 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: Wilson Society. I do that as our service club here 367 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: on campus, and all of them have done something in 368 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: their community generally as well, and I thought I would 369 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: be inspiring for them to listen to these and see 370 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: so almost very rather than me just saying pick a podcast. 371 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 2: This way they're getting something. 372 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: A lot of them are faith based, which was again 373 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: a great segue into what we learn in our class 374 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: as well, which. 375 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 3: Is interesting, by the way, all of our listeners and 376 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 3: you guys in here, it is interesting that a lot 377 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 3: of our guests end up evoking faith during their conversations. 378 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 3: But we are not a faith based podcast. I'm a Christian, 379 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 3: but we are not a faith. I'm certainly not going 380 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 3: to tell somebody don't speak about your faith, but we 381 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,239 Speaker 3: don't ask people to speak about their faith, but it 382 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 3: is it has become very interesting d alex in me 383 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 3: that I don't know what the percentage is, but four 384 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 3: out of five probably end up evoking faith in their 385 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 3: conversation and all the time that faith is not necessarily 386 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 3: just their Christian faith. But it is interesting to me 387 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 3: that as we talk about a group of quote normal folks, 388 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 3: that the vast majority of them evoke faith when they 389 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 3: talk about the work that they do to serve their community. 390 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 3: Which it's interesting you picked up on that, and it's 391 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,479 Speaker 3: not it's not part of the context of the show, 392 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 3: but it almost invariably comes out, which I think is 393 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 3: interesting when people talk about themselves. I think it speaks 394 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 3: to the power of faith in what we do in 395 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 3: our lives. Does that have a component of what you 396 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 3: do every day? 397 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 2: Yes, so our career. 398 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: I mean all we teach is faith based here, you know, everything, 399 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 1: we want everything to come from a Christian worldview. So 400 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: hopefully when these seniors leave that they they're solid in 401 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: their faith and they know what they believe, and they 402 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: believe it because they believe it, not because their parents 403 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: believe it, and so when they get out into the world, 404 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 1: they are able to make the decisions that are going 405 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: to support their faith. 406 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 3: Okay, So the assignment was listen to pick any episode 407 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 3: off of the catalog of an army normal folks, listen 408 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 3: to it, and then do. 409 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 2: What write a essay about it. 410 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 3: Okay, So the first one, I don't know who did what. 411 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 3: I just got a bunch of students looking at me, 412 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:11,719 Speaker 3: and I have a small piece of what each of 413 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:18,640 Speaker 3: you wrote. So I like this one. This is what 414 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 3: was part of what was said. We're going to go 415 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 3: over all these, but I'm going to start with this 416 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 3: one because I think it speaks to goofy sixteen, seventeen, 417 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 3: eighteen year olds. I went into this project not wanting 418 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 3: to do it. I love that, but I came out 419 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 3: enjoying it. I've learned that podcasts do not have to 420 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 3: be strictly business. Talking about stuff that the average person 421 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 3: can relate to makes it more enjoyable for the listener. 422 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 3: I honestly did not know this is who wrote this, 423 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 3: but I guess it fits. So who went into this 424 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 3: not wanting to do it? East I love the honesty 425 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 3: admitted that they didn't want to do it. Uh, oh, 426 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 3: speak up, No, it's on, you got to speak Okay, 427 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 3: who is. 428 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:10,919 Speaker 6: Mem Hudson Tucker? 429 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 3: What Hudson Tucker? Hudson Tucker didn't want to do this? Okay, 430 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 3: so before we go on to what Hudson had to 431 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 3: write about, who else in here? Honestly raise a hands. 432 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 3: Really didn't want to do this. 433 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: The whole class, Okay, their seniors and out bloom them 434 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: and tomorrow is their last day of school. 435 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 3: They are not wanting to being a senior in high 436 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 3: school and classes ending. You're getting college fever. You're thinking 437 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 3: about where you're applying to and what's next and everything else. 438 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 3: And then you, uh, you got to listen to some 439 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 3: old dudes podcast. What were you well, you actually like 440 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 3: rolling your eyes and at your teacher, going come on, 441 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 3: it's late in the year. This is a bunch of 442 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 3: crud pretty much. 443 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,199 Speaker 1: And they're long too, just so you know, they're not 444 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: like ten minutes long. That was that was their other complaint. 445 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, we make them, we know how long they are. 446 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 3: We have to listen to these things. Yeah, so you 447 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 3: didn't want to do it? 448 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 6: Huh, I did not know, sir. 449 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 3: But tell me what you found out. What would you 450 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 3: listen to? 451 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,120 Speaker 6: And I listened to God's million dollar Company and how he. 452 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 3: Donated Alan Barnhardt fifty. 453 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 6: Of his profits. Yes, sir, and then I really enjoyed. 454 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 6: Just like at first I didn't want to listen to it, 455 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 6: and then as I started listening, it was just like 456 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 6: it wasn't like it was all business. You were just 457 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 6: having a good time, just talking about life and how 458 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 6: he kind of was able to use his platform too. 459 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 6: Everyone told him wasn't going to work, that he was 460 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 6: going to lose money in the end, but he ended 461 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 6: up just like trusting in God and having faith and 462 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 6: he was able to actually give money to a lot 463 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 6: of people to help him out. 464 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 3: Hudson, would are you a senior, No, sir, I'm a junior. 465 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 3: You got one more year left, yes, sir? All right. 466 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 3: Did listening to that podcast and that episode in any 467 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 3: way make you think more deep deeply about what you're 468 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,439 Speaker 3: gonna do in your life or how you're gonna approach 469 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:04,959 Speaker 3: your life. 470 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 6: It kind of made me just like realize that like 471 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 6: God has a plan and then like it's not gonna 472 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 6: be my plan, like he everyone was telling him that 473 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 6: it was not gonna work, not gonna work, and then 474 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 6: he kind of just had faith in God and then 475 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 6: it all worked out for his good. And so I 476 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 6: just think that going into my senior year and then 477 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 6: going into like the job search, that it's just gonna 478 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 6: work out. Just got to keep living in him and 479 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 6: the right path be made. 480 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 3: What do you think about a guy that has a 481 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 3: business that does a billion dollars a year in sales 482 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 3: and still doesn't pay himself much more than one hundred 483 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 3: and six thousand dollars a year. 484 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:52,479 Speaker 6: I think that's, uh, it's pretty impressive. Definitely, not too 485 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 6: many people that would not give themselves a lot of money. 486 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 6: And I think it speaks as him as like a man, 487 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,399 Speaker 6: mister Allen, and like how he really cares about other people, 488 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 6: and how his whole life is just revolving around other 489 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 6: people and people around him. 490 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 3: Do all you guys know the story that this guy 491 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 3: built a business from nothing, decided with his brother that 492 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 3: every year they were going to give away fifty percent 493 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 3: of their earnings, and only a couple of years ago 494 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 3: his business did a billion dollars, y'all, and he gave 495 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 3: the company away, didn't take one Dollar gave it away. 496 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so name, My name is Lance Bryant, but 497 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 4: Alan Barnhart, that name popped up. I didn't listen to 498 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 4: the episode, but my dad is in a group called 499 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 4: C twelve. It's a Christian CEO group, and Alan Barnhart 500 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 4: is actually in it. So my dad has actually told 501 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 4: me a lot about him, and so I thought that 502 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 4: was really cool that my dad is in a group 503 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 4: with a guy that you did a podcast with. 504 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 3: It's pretty cool, all right. Next one Joe and Kelly Carson. 505 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 3: I learned a lot about how easily, how easy it 506 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 3: really is to live in a sort of comfortable bubble. 507 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 3: Inspired me to look beyond my life and to see 508 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 3: what the norm is for other people who might not 509 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 3: have as much as me. I also learned that it's 510 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 3: very possible for ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things. That 511 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 3: storytelling is very powerful way to get the message across. 512 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 3: In a podcast, who wrote that, Oh my gosh, so 513 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 3: tell me about it. 514 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 4: So you know, I listened to that podcast and it 515 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 4: really stuck with me that like their son went out 516 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 4: and did something and it actually changed their mindset. So 517 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 4: like he went out and he lived on that flat 518 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 4: in Chicago for a year, and he spent that weekend homeless, 519 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 4: and you know, it was really inspiring to hear that. 520 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 5: Like his parents kind of realized that. 521 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 4: Like through him, that they were kind of living in 522 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 4: ale and their their dentistry and stuff, and they realized 523 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 4: that God did want them to sell their business and 524 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 4: go try to make some things happen, and so God 525 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 4: kind of paid the path for them, and that was 526 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 4: really inspiring me. 527 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 3: For those of you in the class, the takeaway here 528 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 3: is this guy not much older than you. Part of 529 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 3: his requirement was to go to a thrift store and 530 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 3: get some ragged clothes and with no money in his pocket, 531 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 3: go on the streets of Chicago and be homeless and 532 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 3: have to ask for his sustenance to truly experience what 533 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 3: homelessness feels like. Can you imagine doing that? 534 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 6: Now? 535 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 3: Do you remember what his experience was when when he 536 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 3: was on the street. Yeah? Yes. And remember now, this 537 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 3: is a guy who comes from a background just like 538 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 3: each of you, a fluent, nice place. 539 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: He was I believe he was a student at Baylor, 540 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: wasn't he when he took this year off? 541 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 2: You don't remember that from the that's right? 542 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 3: So what was his experience. 543 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 5: So this part actually really stuck with me. 544 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 4: So he was he was asking these people for money, 545 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 4: and this this one lady that that he had asked 546 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 4: for money, she said, uh, you know, you go get 547 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,479 Speaker 4: a job whatever. And I think she actually ended up 548 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 4: giving him to three dollars or something and she said, Oh, 549 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 4: you're probably just going to go spend this on alcohol 550 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 4: and drugs. I don't know why I'm giving you this 551 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 4: money anyway, And Kelly Carson was like, Uh. 552 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 5: She got on the call with her son at the 553 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 5: end of the week. 554 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 4: I think they get one call a week, and he 555 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 4: told her about that and she started thinking. 556 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 5: She was like, I've done something similar to that before. 557 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 3: Like and now he met me on the street that day. 558 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, she said, he met me on the street that day, 559 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 4: and so that really got her to thinking and then 560 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 4: she made some change from that. 561 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 3: It's a pretty cool story, pretty cool takeaway. It's easy, y'all, 562 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 3: coming from affluence or relative safety when you're driving around 563 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 3: in some of the more urban areas to see someone 564 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,719 Speaker 3: that is slovenly and be dragged and on the street 565 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 3: with their handout. It is pretty easy to sum up 566 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 3: based on popular narrative what that person is an alcoholic, 567 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 3: a drug addict, a loser, whatever. But it's a reminder 568 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 3: that every face has a story. And since we're in 569 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 3: a Christian school, you might remember that Christ didn't show 570 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 3: up to a place that looks like Briarcrest. He surrounded 571 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 3: himself with fishermen and hookers. So the question is, is, 572 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,239 Speaker 3: young Christian folks, who are you called to interact with 573 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 3: if you are in fact to be christ Like. I 574 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 3: think there's a big takeaway there. We'll be right back, 575 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 3: all right. What I learned is no matter what someone 576 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 3: has done to get themselves into prison, they still have 577 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 3: aspirations and they want to achieve. I just thought that 578 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 3: once you're in prison, that's it, and that you just 579 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 3: have to put your life on pause until you get out. 580 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 3: The podcast showed me that it's possible to continue to 581 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 3: live while incarcerated, and that there are people out there 582 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 3: that don't immediately need to be judged. Yes, hi name 583 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,719 Speaker 3: and loud, Hey Hannah, tell me about it. 584 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 7: I thought it was interesting how he like didn't really 585 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 7: know what he was doing it first, and then he 586 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 7: just felt called to get like a degree in ministry. 587 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 7: And then somehow I pulled into like the like jail scenery, 588 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 7: and then like he decided to actually do something with 589 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 7: it and not just like teach them like how to 590 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 7: actually be something more than like just like their time 591 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 7: like in jail, and how like that how he taught 592 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 7: other people and that there the people that he taught 593 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 7: like continue to teach others like it was like a train. 594 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 3: Don't say anything, Hannah. What's your name, Zachary? When you 595 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 3: think of the people in two oh one Poplar, I 596 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 3: want straight talk. When you think when you think of 597 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 3: the people in two oh one Poplar with a rap sheet, 598 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 3: tell me what you envision quickly. And I picked him 599 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 3: for everybody listening, I just picked Zachary out of the group. 600 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 3: He's this was not planned By'm putting you on the spot. 601 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 8: Well, I actually do know a guy that went into 602 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 8: a one popular for getting in a street fight. He 603 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 8: now is permanent brain damage and he lives with his 604 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 8: mother full time. 605 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 3: Now. 606 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 8: He's from Binghampton, but he he is a very kind 607 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 8: guy now that he learned his lesson, But going into 608 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 8: it he was angry and just probably scary interesting guy 609 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 8: to talk to. 610 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 3: I can forget him macro level, I. 611 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 5: Would say, very scary. 612 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 8: You know, well, I wouldn't want to surround myself with 613 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 8: them life losers. 614 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, you, sir, deserved what they deserved, what they earned 615 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 3: most likely, yes, sir, you break the law, you go 616 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 3: to jail, and when you're in jail, you know, to 617 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 3: a one poplar people are dying in that place. The 618 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 3: doors don't even lock. They've got six people in a 619 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 3: cell built for two because it's overcrowded. There's not good food. 620 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 3: Do you or people around you have the mentality that, well, 621 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 3: that's what they get. They don't want to deal with that, 622 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 3: don't break the law. 623 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 8: I mean, yes, sir, I think it's you know, right 624 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 8: that we separate them from society so that way they 625 00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 8: just don't harm it even more. 626 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 3: But as a group of people, is it fair to 627 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 3: say that your first instinct just kind of say too 628 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 3: bad and look down your nose? Hannah, tell us why 629 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 3: we have to from what you learned, tell us why 630 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 3: we have to be careful with that judgment. 631 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 7: I think it's because like we all were like born, 632 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 7: like we're all the same, like no matter like where 633 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,800 Speaker 7: we come from, we're all human. And like the people 634 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 7: in jail, like they didn't they weren't born a criminal, Like, yes, 635 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,399 Speaker 7: they chose to like make the decision to get in jail, 636 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,720 Speaker 7: But that doesn't like mean that they're just like forever 637 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,439 Speaker 7: a bad person. Like there is like redemption in that, 638 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 7: and like I just think that there's like like that 639 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 7: can be any of us at like any time, and 640 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 7: like you never know if like you're gonna have to 641 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 7: make a decision that's going to get you in jail, 642 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 7: and like there's like no need just to judge to. 643 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,439 Speaker 3: Judge, Hannah, where were you born? 644 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 7: Memphis? 645 00:34:52,880 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 3: Where Caryville? That's not Memphish? Do you understand what I mean? Yes, sir, Okay, 646 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 3: tell everybody who's listing that's from all over the world 647 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,640 Speaker 3: where Caryoville is like. 648 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 7: A suburb outside of Memphis suburb? 649 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,760 Speaker 3: Right? Are there shacks out there? No? What are there houses? 650 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 6: Like? 651 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 3: What kind of houses? 652 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 7: Big houses? 653 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 3: Are there? Hoopedies riding up down the road very often? 654 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 7: What kind of cars like audis like nice cars? 655 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:31,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, BMW's. Are there many households out there that refrigerators 656 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 3: are empty? No? Do most households have at least one 657 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 3: college graduate in it? Maybe two? How many households do 658 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 3: you think have non high school graduates, not a lot, 659 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 3: very few. It is the police department pretty robust and 660 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 3: doing a good job, I think. So is it safe? 661 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 7: Yeah? 662 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 3: Have you ever experienced a drive by? 663 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 7: I had a gum pulled on me one time in Caryville. 664 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:07,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, that's fird, but but in general it's. 665 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:09,919 Speaker 7: Nice, Yes, sir. 666 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 3: What if you were born in Orange Mound. 667 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 7: That's like a whole different area, that's completely different. I 668 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,239 Speaker 7: feel like I wouldn't be me if I was born 669 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 7: in Orange Mound. 670 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 3: What if you had one parent in the household who 671 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 3: did not even graduate from high school, and that is 672 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 3: what the entire block and neighborhood you lived in looked like. 673 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 7: That wouldn't be like good, I guess like it wouldn't 674 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 7: be like like. 675 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:41,839 Speaker 5: I don't know the word. 676 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 3: So my question is if you were hungry and you 677 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:50,200 Speaker 3: had no future, and you had no hope, and you 678 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:55,760 Speaker 3: were just enfranchised, you think it's possible that Hannah from Caryoville, 679 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,319 Speaker 3: in a completely different atmosphere might have ended up into 680 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 3: a one popular for sure. Would you want a second chance? 681 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,359 Speaker 7: I think everyone wants a second chance, and I think 682 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:08,960 Speaker 7: everyone deserves a second chance. 683 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 3: So when you say you learned it no matter what 684 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 3: someone has done to get themselves into prison, they still 685 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 3: have aspirations that they want to achieve. Did you ever 686 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,080 Speaker 3: win listening to that? Try to put yourself in that position. 687 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,080 Speaker 7: I don't know if I tried to like put myself 688 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 7: in like the mentality of being in jail, because like 689 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,800 Speaker 7: I don't want to go to jail, like that's scary, 690 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 7: but like I think if I was in that position, 691 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 7: like I would definitely like try my best to like 692 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,520 Speaker 7: act like like get on parole, I guess, or like 693 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 7: just get out as soon as possible. And I mean 694 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 7: there were some people in that story who didn't have 695 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,319 Speaker 7: that option. Then we're like in jail for life, but 696 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 7: they still like did something and we're like and had 697 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 7: like dreams and still achieve stuff while being in jail. 698 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 3: So jail, after all, isn't full of society throw away 699 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,280 Speaker 3: zombies that we shouldn't care about. They're still human beings. 700 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,120 Speaker 3: Next one, I learned how easy it is to make 701 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,400 Speaker 3: an impact. Monica worked hard, but she framed the story 702 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,680 Speaker 3: in a way that was encouraging to those who see 703 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,919 Speaker 3: a wrong in the world that they want to make right. 704 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 3: Who wrote that? Who wrote that? 705 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,080 Speaker 1: You know that maybe Finley and she she had to 706 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:21,319 Speaker 1: take a test today. 707 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,280 Speaker 2: Yes, okay, well she's fired next she had ap test. 708 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,840 Speaker 3: Oh whatever, she's a loser for not being here. The 709 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,520 Speaker 3: content was interesting as it gave me an insight into 710 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,080 Speaker 3: the into a life that I do not experience. I 711 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,040 Speaker 3: think the speakers were able to connect to the audience. Personally, 712 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 3: I cannot relate to what they're talking about, but there 713 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,280 Speaker 3: are people out there who did. The student also talked 714 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 3: in class about the alarming rate of students who can't 715 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,720 Speaker 3: read and cited the statistics. It made an impact. Who's that? 716 00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,400 Speaker 3: That was me? Okay, who's you? My name is Hans Solomon, 717 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 3: all right, tell me about it. So the Nanodkas Khalil 718 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 3: Sweeney klise. 719 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,000 Speaker 9: When the main podcast was the boxing gym, that were 720 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,240 Speaker 9: no one boxes, which I found found very interesting because 721 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,440 Speaker 9: he realized that there was a need for helping kids 722 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,040 Speaker 9: graduate high school. Uh he was, I believe in the 723 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 9: high school, maybe his only twenties before he learned how 724 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,239 Speaker 9: to read, and someone took him in and taught him 725 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:20,759 Speaker 9: how to read. 726 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,319 Speaker 10: His childhood growing up was very rough. 727 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,719 Speaker 9: He did not grow up with his parents, and so 728 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,640 Speaker 9: that was interesting how he realized that. I assume it 729 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 9: was mostly young men who he was focused on because 730 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,399 Speaker 9: that's what the boxing gym comes in, And so he 731 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,680 Speaker 9: talked about how he had to find something to get 732 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,400 Speaker 9: the young men in there, because if he has had 733 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,759 Speaker 9: a reading and writing center, no one would show up. 734 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,720 Speaker 10: But if he had a boxing center, He's. 735 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 9: Like, I will teach you how to box if you 736 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,239 Speaker 9: show up and do your homework first, which I found 737 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:54,800 Speaker 9: very interesting. 738 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,600 Speaker 3: He kind of had a hook, didn't he, And yes 739 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:03,720 Speaker 3: he did. Now I read your comment it said personally, 740 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,000 Speaker 3: I cannot relate to what they were talking about, but 741 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:10,279 Speaker 3: there are people out there who did. Has anybody ever 742 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:15,080 Speaker 3: heard of coaching for literacy? All right, Well, there's a 743 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,279 Speaker 3: guy in town named John Wilfong. If you were a 744 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 3: little older, you'd remember him. He was the shooting guard 745 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,560 Speaker 3: for the University of Memphis back in the day when 746 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,800 Speaker 3: the University of Memphis was always in the sweet sixteen 747 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:30,440 Speaker 3: Elite eight. He's now a financial advisor. His son was 748 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,400 Speaker 3: a pretty fair basketball player, ended up playing at SMU 749 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:38,919 Speaker 3: and coming up John coached aau basketball with his son 750 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,720 Speaker 3: and a bunch of kids, and there was a kid 751 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 3: on their team named Frank Big Frank. He ended up 752 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,960 Speaker 3: playing football and playing football at LSU. But back when 753 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:53,799 Speaker 3: they were twelve thirteen years old doing au ball, every 754 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:58,640 Speaker 3: time they'd go to a restaurant after the games, Big 755 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,080 Speaker 3: Frank would just order whatever john Son ordered. So if 756 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 3: they were at Applebee's and John said, so I want 757 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,520 Speaker 3: the chicken figures or fries and some ranch, Frank would say, 758 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,000 Speaker 3: that's what I want. They thought at first was because 759 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,600 Speaker 3: just Frank and John were tight, but what they found 760 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,719 Speaker 3: out was Frank was eleven and couldn't read. 761 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:18,240 Speaker 10: They would talk about that in the podcast. 762 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,279 Speaker 9: I'd forgot about that until you just mentioned that, but 763 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:25,120 Speaker 9: he talked about how lonely you feel when you can't 764 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 9: read them in you and you're going out and you're like, 765 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 9: oh man, let's get what you have. 766 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,120 Speaker 10: And so I'd forgot about that. But that is another 767 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:30,520 Speaker 10: part of it. 768 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,000 Speaker 3: So when John found out out his son and he 769 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,040 Speaker 3: started this thing called Coaching for Literacy. And if you 770 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:42,480 Speaker 3: ever see a coach football or basketball coach in pros 771 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,440 Speaker 3: and college wearing a little lime green ribbon kind of 772 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,000 Speaker 3: like the breast cancer ribbon, but this one's lime green. 773 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:55,759 Speaker 3: That's a coach supporting coaching for literacy. And here's the demographics. 774 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,880 Speaker 3: A kid who does not read on grade level by 775 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:05,000 Speaker 3: third grade is sixty five percent more likely by his 776 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:11,280 Speaker 3: eighteenth birthday to be incarcerated third grade. They can actually tell, 777 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,120 Speaker 3: going unto the fourth grade by the ability to read 778 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,880 Speaker 3: whether or not this child is going to have a 779 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:24,080 Speaker 3: job or be in prison. So how important is the 780 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,000 Speaker 3: work that he's doing to teach kids to read. 781 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,719 Speaker 9: Uncountable. I mean, it's truly amazing what he was doing, 782 00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:34,319 Speaker 9: what he's doing. And so they talked about in his podcast, 783 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,120 Speaker 9: but I think the age twenty one, you had like 784 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,879 Speaker 9: an eighty percent chance if you can read by grade three, 785 00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,840 Speaker 9: to be incarcerated or dead by the age of twenty one. 786 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,480 Speaker 9: And so he talked about going back to like loneliness 787 00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:50,000 Speaker 9: growing up. He was he did what he felt like doing, 788 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,279 Speaker 9: which could lead to prison. Things like that, because he 789 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,439 Speaker 9: already knew, or felt like he knew, his life was set. 790 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,239 Speaker 9: He was going to be dead or in prison by 791 00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,840 Speaker 9: twenty one. And so him getting people into the boxing gym, 792 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,759 Speaker 9: getting their homework done. It may not be like straight a's, 793 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,440 Speaker 9: but you're teaching kids how to read, which is getting 794 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,640 Speaker 9: them into the job. Field and keeping them out of 795 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 9: prison or keeping them alive. 796 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,480 Speaker 3: And that concludes Part one of my very cool conversation 797 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,520 Speaker 3: with a bunch of kids and their teacher from Briar 798 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,240 Speaker 3: Crust Christian School. And I'm telling you what, don't miss 799 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:28,600 Speaker 3: Part two. It's now available to listen to it. Together. Guys, 800 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,960 Speaker 3: we can change this country, but it starts with you. 801 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:33,960 Speaker 3: I'll see in Part two.