Panic Attacks, Kindergarten Hennessy & a Lost Dream Job w/ Aaron Monte

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Hello and
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welcome to the latest episode of the Bad Times, Good Stories podcast.
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My name is Joe Flanders, and I have not said that
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sentence or sentences. Yes, those 2
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sentences together in over 5 years. I am very
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excited to be back with my podcast, Bad Times,
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Good Stories. Where each week I talk with somebody more
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often than not that I do not know or have never met,
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and I ask them to tell me about the shittiest times from their
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life that they are able to laugh about now.
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A lot has happened in the 5 years since I've
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been on the show, but one thing I have observed in
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all of my podcast listening is that I oftentimes skip the introduction to
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get to the heart of the podcast I'm listening to. So,
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uh, for those of you curious what the hell I've been doing for the last
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5 years, I will have my intro at
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the outro after the episode, uh, so that you can
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listen to that. So we are gonna jump right in. Uh, I have a comedian
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and, uh, former teacher himself. I am
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a teacher. I've been Teaching for 5 years now. Teach high
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school video production in South Central LA. So I
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was excited to have somebody who knows the classroom well, Aaron Monté.
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He is a really funny stand-up. His new special is called Good Morning,
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Mr. Monté. It is— I'm going to double-check that because
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I run a tight ship here. Good Morning, Mr. Monté is indeed
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the name of the special. I watched it. It's really funny.
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We talk about that a little up top, but then we dive into, I think
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the theme of the episode is sort of being in over our heads and
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how we adjust to that. So he talks about his
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first days of, as a substitute teacher working in
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a kindergarten classroom. He talks about teaching.
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He was subbing the last day before the COVID shutdown
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started. Uh, I talk about my first days,
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not as a sub, but as an actual in-classroom teacher, and how
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that led to getting carted off on an ambulance.
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Um, and then also getting fired from my dream job working with,
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uh, Danny McBride of Eastbound and Down and Righteous
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Gemstones and other things because I was a moron who
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was unaware of my job duties. So, um,
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yeah, that's the theme sort of of today's episode.
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I hope you guys enjoy it. I'm excited to be back.
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If you do enjoy it, please spread the word, get other folks listening
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to it. So without further ado, here is
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my conversation with the very funny and talented Aaron Monte.
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All right. Uh, Aaron Monte is on the show. Congrats on
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the standup special.
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Thank you.
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I was watching that, so I
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don't know if I should say congratulations or my condolences on finding out
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you're 60% white.
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You know, you seem to have the pros and cons.
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Yeah, right,
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exactly. I, you know, I try to, I try to, you know, see the best
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in every situation. Anything that happens, I try to make the most of it.
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You know, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, you know.
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Of course.
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Yes, that's a lovely white saying.
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Yeah. Right,
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right. Exactly. Exactly. Got to use them now. I got to use all of them.
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Yeah. Now I realize not everything in a standup set is truth,
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uh, but was that, did that, is that actually real?
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Um, so I've
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never actually taken a DNA test myself. Okay.
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All right. My uncle and my aunt on different sides of the family have,
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and it was like an overwhelmingly percentage white in,
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you know, with, you know, with, with, with their, with their test.
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So I just thought that was funny and just started Googling. I was like,
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well, if they are, it's probably the same for me.
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Yeah, safe bet.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. So I just thought it was so funny. I had
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all these observations about it and I was like, how does that work? So,
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um, yeah, it's surprising to like be like, oh dang, I didn't even realize how
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white I was, to, you know, that's insane.
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Yeah, what was your
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reaction? I mean, not like it's life-shattering, but it did— was it, was it kind
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of just like a whoa, what the fuck?
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Like, I guess so. I mean,
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at least like it was like 70% from my uncle or something like that,
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which was crazy because like Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but all of us are,
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we're all, uh, Louisiana Creole people. So we all are from
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Louisiana and we all are aware of our ancestors that are slaves and slave
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owners. So it wasn't like a super surprise. At the same time,
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you don't expect it to be that much. Like that percentage is crazy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. That's gotta be.
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Yeah.
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'Cause I did it and, you know, just pure
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European mutt. Um, no culture to speak
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of.
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Just, yeah. Yeah.
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Just, I was glad I was like 40%
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Irish. I was, that's what I've always felt. Connected to the most. Uh,
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but the rest of it, whatever. German, French,
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English. Yeah. Just boring mutt.
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So no real surprises there. I was
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hoping to have like 2% Native American or something,
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you know, kind of fun.
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Anything, anything, any spice, a little
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spice to it.
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Spice. The most, the blandest, most mayonnaise,
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uh, just And that does check
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out, so, uh, I couldn't say I was surprised.
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Um, but yeah, man, that's, uh, congrats on the special again. That's really cool.
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Thank you so much, man. Yeah, it was a lot of fun to make.
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I'm glad I got to do those jokes. I mean, I've been working on those
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jokes for like 10 years now, so.
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Wow.
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Um, yeah, the plan was to make
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us— was to make a special. I shot it last year, so the year before
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that I'd always planned to make it. Um, but then, you know, once things
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on the internet started getting better, I was like, oh, I can actually make it
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and people will watch it and stuff. You know what I mean? I didn't do
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this before, didn't really have a lot of subscribers. I was still gonna do it.
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I was gonna do it regardless. But, um, once things started really taking off,
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then I was like, all right, now's the perfect time. So I'm glad I get
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to do that and put it all on wax or, you know, have a project
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of some sort. All these jokes I've been doing for years now.
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So, um,
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yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah, that must, that must have felt nice, uh, for sure.
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So yeah, um, when we were talking about potential stories, it's— I noticed kind of
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a potential theme that we could talk about, which is I
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think pretty universal, but the idea of being in over our heads
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in different scenarios. So you had a couple that came to mind, and I
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certainly do too. So,
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I mean, we should just dive in. I mean, I guess you said, where should
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we start?
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I can definitely go into first day of teaching. That's a
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funny story. I remember the first assignment I had as
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a substitute teacher. Um, yeah. Or maybe not
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even the first, maybe second or very early on. So I'm not, I'm learning all
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this stuff as I go.
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I got, um, so you started as a sub?
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I started as a sub.
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Yeah.
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Right. Started as a sub, did that for 5
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years and I was in the classroom full-time for 5 years. Um, and now I'm
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at this job now. I'm thinking about going back to subbing. That is the,
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that is, I kind of miss it a little bit. Um, and I think it
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would help me out with like time management and stuff like that. It's kind of
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hard to actually be important at your job and, and pursuing another life
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outside, outside of school. So, um, that's the goal, but, uh, this This
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one time I remember I went to, I got hired at a school, um,
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that was known for having a lot of behavior issues. Like all the kids at
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the school was bad. Like these kids were bad. Um, and I
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think it was just an elementary school, not even like middle school. You would think,
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you know, middle schools usually are rough, but this is elementary school.
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Right. That's what
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I did.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So, oh, you did middle
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school?
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Yeah. 'Cause I was in my, in my, uh, credential program,
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the professors kept saying like, look, if you can sub middle school, you can do
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anything. And I was like, All right, let's do it. And then I actually
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found like, well, I only subbed at one school and it was a middle school
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and they kept bringing me back and it was close and I was like,
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well, yeah, let's keep doing it. Yeah. But anyway, yeah, we can get to my,
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my story. So, so you're, you're just starting out subbing and—
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So I'm just starting
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out subbing. I go to this classroom, um, you know, the classroom's, um, it's a
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kindergarten class, um, kindergarten classroom. I mean, it's—
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I can't imagine.
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Can't be too bad. You know, kindergarten is rough in its own ways, but Can't
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be too bad with behavior, really, right? So I show up and, um, the first
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thing I see is in the back of the classroom, there's a big, really big
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desk with just papers scattered all over it, like stacked, like just scattered.
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Not, not like, not like a neat pile, nothing like that.
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Right.
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And I'm like,
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what is all this stuff? Right? And so I walk in and whoever the lady
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was there, um, in the morning, I guess she was part of the staff.
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Um, she's there and I was like, hey, like, you know, is there a lesson
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plan? Where's the, you know, the teacher's lesson plan? Like, she goes,
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oh honey, there's no teacher here. I was like, what do you mean? She was
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like, they've been having subs all year. You're, you're just joining the— yeah,
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you're just next to the sub list.
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Yeah. And this is so early on, so like,
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you know, obviously as a sub early on, you're like, I need, I need to
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at least have a lesson plan to give me something to do. Like, you— it's
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hard, you're not good at improvising yet in the classroom, right?
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No.
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I show up
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and that's when I realized, okay, there's this pile of papers here because they,
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they've had Subs coming in and just do the,
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hey, do this, draw that. Yeah, I always write this and then just throw it
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on this desk, right? From there—
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Who's put it— wait, so sorry, who's putting these
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papers on the desk?
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I guess any other sub that was there, I'm guessing.
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Oh, okay.
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So it seemed like assignments they had been doing and they were just
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like, all right, I'll turn it in, I guess, and just put it on the
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table. It was just scattered all over, like, like this high probably,
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of just unstacked neatly papers just everywhere, right?
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Oh my God.
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Okay.
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That's when I realized, I'm like, oh dang, I'm, I'm really deep in now.
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Like, this is gonna, it's gonna be rough. Like, there's no, there's no teacher here.
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They're not used to anybody telling them what to do. They're just doing whatever.
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Whatever.
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So I'm trying to get, I'm trying to take roll and,
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uh, there's, and I'm trying to, you know, figure out who all's who.
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And there's one kid, um, I can't remember the kid's name, but I'll call him,
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I'll call him Danny for now. We're going to Danny and, uh,
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I don't know where he's at, but all the kids are like, yeah, he's here.
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He's outside though. I was like, what do you mean? And they're like, yeah,
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he's, he's bad. He's really bad. He's outside.
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So I go outside, like him, he's like, he's like hanging off of one of
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the planters or something upside down or something like that. I was like, Danny,
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come on, man. We're starting class. He's like, no. Like,
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and like, as an experienced teacher now, like, you know, like you're just kind of
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like, all right, whatever. He's going to come to class eventually. But at that time
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I'm like, all right, I got to get this kid in the classroom.
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Right.
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You know, when we were kids, like, if you're out of the classroom, you're gonna
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get in trouble.
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Like, you're gonna—
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yeah, you're not gonna be out for long.
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When we were kids and had an actual teacher.
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Yeah, exactly. So, so he's like hanging off the planter and I'm trying
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my hardest. I'm like, come on, man, come on inside. Like, let's get class started.
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And one of the other teachers from another class walks by. She's like, oh,
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don't worry about him, just leave him. I'm like, dang, man, you just
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leaving him outside? And she's like, nah, you're not gonna get him inside, just leave
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him out there. So I'll leave him, I'll leave him, I'll leave him in there,
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right? And the rest of the class, you know, is also like
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fighting and doing all kinds of stuff in class. And I'm— I, I start to
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make my own schedule. I start to figure things out. I'm there for a long
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time. I have to have been there for like at least 3 weeks or something
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like that.
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Oh wow.
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I'm making a little schedule. I'm dealing with all the fights
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in the classroom and everything that goes down. And fighting in kindergarten is crazy to
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me. I just—
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Yeah, what causes a fight in kindergarten?
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Anything.
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Literally anything. It might be worse than middle school because it could be anything at
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all.
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He's looking at me, took my crayon, took my—
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Exactly. Doesn't have
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to make sense at all. They're going to fight. And so I had made a
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schedule where like I would read them a story every day. I'd put them in
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a circle, do read them a story at least once a day, like after lunch
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or something to calm them down. One day we're, we're, uh, I had them all
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in a circle for the reading or the reading the story.
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And, um, we're in there and this is the day that Danny came inside.
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And he was finally sitting down. Like, he would make appearances every now and then
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and disrupt and then leave again. Um, and we're all
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inside, we're all sitting there, I'm trying to read the story, and out of nowhere
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Danny gets up in the middle of the class, in, in the, in the circle,
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and he starts going— he starts doing a dance. He's like,
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Hennessy, Hennessy, Hennessy, just saying that over and
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over. Just, he just kept saying that, going Hennessy, dancing.
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And immediately I'm, I'm trying not— trying my hardest
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to not laugh. And I'm like, and I'm like, why does this kid know about
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Hennessy? He has his dance put together with it. Like, this is crazy. Is he
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drinking at the crib? What's going on? And so—
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Yeah, clearly, uh, something.
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He's still
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going. And eventually I, I crack up and I just start laughing. I start dying
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laughing. It's hilarious. And then— but that was a mistake because then,
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of course, after that, every other kid in class stood up and started
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going, Hennessy, Hennessy, because they realized it made me laugh.
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So they all stood up. That was a
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class of all these 6-year-olds in a circle around me singing Hennessy
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and dancing to this song, right? And so now I'm
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like, now it's even funnier. Now it's even more funny that these 6-year-olds are
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all doing this to me. So I'm—
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Yeah.
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I'm dying laughing. And,
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uh, I finally get them to, you know, sit down and stop. But then they
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knew after that, anytime they didn't want to do some work,
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all you had to do was stand up And do the Hennessy dance.
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And so—
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Oh my God.
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And it got me
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every time. It made me laugh every time. And they kept doing it.
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It was out of control. It was out of control to the point, like,
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it was literally all the time the kids would be doing
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that in class. And,
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and I, I mean, I wanted to, I wanted to like have the right standards
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or something like, I will not you know, not dance and sing Hennessy.
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But then it's like, right, how do I have the kids being— stop.
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How do I have the kids— how do I have the kids,
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you know, get them to stop this behavior without addressing that they're talking about
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Hennessy or what it is, right? It's like, I don't know which kids know what
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the Hennessy is.
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What the hell it is. Yeah. Does Danny even know?
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Yeah, yeah, Danny. I assume Danny knows because he had
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the smooth dance to go with it.
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So I feel like, okay, I wonder
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if somebody at home has like a Hennessy dance when it's Friday night or something
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and they just start doing that.
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And then it was perfect. They kept doing it.
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I had to try to get them the right Hennessy standards. And it—
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The best state standards are the Hennessy standards.
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Yeah,
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exactly. But moral of the story is they never had me come back to sub
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that class again. That's how— that's how corrupt it was.
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I know.
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I was waiting like if the principal stopped by as everyone's going,
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Hennessy.
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Yeah, I wish. That would have been so funny.
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They would have understood.
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They would have been like, oh, we get We get it. They never found out
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about the Hennessy. I never even curbed
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the behavior. Whoever had that class next was, I'm sure,
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having the worst time with that Hennessy stuff. And that's—
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That
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was your lasting impact.
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That was my lasting impact with them. That's the last
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thing that they ever did in class is this. And then I was like,
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all right guys, see you later. That was a nice time for you.
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And that's the benefit of subbing, right? It's just like, well, not my
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problem anymore.
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Surprisingly,
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not the worst experience I've had at a school. One time there, I was in,
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I was in one school and they were fighting so much in
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class, so much in class, every 2 seconds.
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Kindergarten again? No, this is actually 5th grade. Okay,
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great class. They kept fighting every single day in
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class. It was so bad to a point where they had to call I
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guess, uh, someone in the district who's high up.
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And she came in and she was like, you need to get this class under
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control. And I was like, you need to get this class under control.
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I've been trying. You can't
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try this. Like, she was mad at me. I'm like, you go in there and
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see what they're doing in there. How about that? She gonna see what's up.
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Wow. What were they fighting about?
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There was one boy in class
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who was antagonizing them all the time. He was one of the little boys.
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He was little. He was tiny. I'm like, why are you cursing all the time?
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Everyone's gonna beat you up, man. And he just kept getting beat up in class.
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And then he continued, would continue to just keep doing stuff to him. And then
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it was kind of became like a group versus group thing where they were just
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all the friends fighting. Yeah, it was, it was insane, man. Insane.
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So what
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did you try to do to like curb that?
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To them fighting?
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Yeah.
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I didn't come back to the school. That's what I did.
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That's what I did is I didn't come back. That's what I did.
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Yeah,
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man. That is wild. Yeah. I had a couple of those. I mean, was that
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the worst that you've experienced, like as a sub or, or teaching in general?
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Probably that's the worst. The one, I mean, because the second one, the first one,
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I didn't go back to that school because I know I'd never want to go
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back to that school. No. But the second one, they, that was a week and
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I don't even think I finished that assignment. I think I did 3 days and
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then they didn't have me back. So that was definitely the worst. Like they didn't
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call me back again. You know what I mean?
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Like, they're like, yeah, yeah.
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But see, I respect the hell out of the fact that when the district person
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came down, you're like, what the hell do you want me— like, I've been here
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2 days. What do you want me to do? Because people don't
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understand when you're a sub, like, there's no, like, magic elixir to just
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create rapport and respect with the students.
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They don't give a shit. Yeah, that builds
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up over time. Either they respect you off top or not, and then it's a
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wrap after that.
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Yeah, no, exactly. I mean, I,
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yeah, when I was, well, first, like, so with the kindergarten
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stuff, like at some point it seems like you get to the,
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it's sad that it's healthy, but it is healthy realization that like, well, I,
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I'm just clocking in. Like I'm trying to make sure nobody dies.
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Right.
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Like that
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really is. But I mean, like that first day when
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you realized you had no game plan and that was one of your first teaching
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experiences, like. I mean, what'd you do that first
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day? Like, you know, when kids are showing up,
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man, that first—
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what did I do that first day? That first day, I,
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I, um, I mean, I would just go with whatever schedule that I know— I
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knew people had. Like, in the morning you do reading or then do math,
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and most of the time they didn't have their books or like, you know,
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just making stuff up, man. I was making so many things up. Story time was
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probably the best thing in the schedule to me because like after lunch they're all
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riled up and I'm like, all right, let me have them sit down and listen
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to the story. But And I didn't, I ended up being the downfall of everything,
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I guess. So definitely.
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Well, sure. Yes.
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Yeah. First day I just
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had them take out books and whatever we could try to do and get figured
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out.
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Yeah.
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It was so, that class was rough, man. That class was rough.
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Oh man. I wonder what it was. Yeah. Generally, generally I had a lesson planned
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at that middle school. Like I ended up doing a lot of subbing for the
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gym, for a gym teacher.
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Uh-huh.
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Which is funny cuz I don't
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look like a gym teacher. Uh, my sports knowledge probably rivaled the other gym
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teachers, but yeah.
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Yeah.
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There's a certain look that one expects from a gym teacher.
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Right.
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And all 5'7 of me does not fit that description.
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Um, and, and I'd never done like it.
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I'd never experienced gym, uh, uh, gym class out here where
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it's like 4 classes combined. So there's like 200 kids.
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Right.
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And each, you know, my roster, I'm looking at it the first day and
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it's like 50 kids.
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Um, what the fuck?
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Um, But most of the time I was, you know, the other gym
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teachers were there. So it was kind of like, you know, I'm just like,
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I mean, God, middle school, just like, you know,
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I kind of felt like a warden walking around with a whistle outside on the
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blacktop, you know, just like making sure nobody's getting into
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fights and stuff.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Because it's like high fences and
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everything.
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And right.
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And just being in like a middle school locker
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room, I have no desire to experience that again.
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Oh my God.
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Just a shower
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of ax.
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I can't even imagine.
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Good Lord.
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And just the awkwardness of like the kids that have developed and
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the kids that haven't, and they're all mingling. And I mean, I'm just like,
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why? I mean, those were the worst years of my life by far. Middle school.
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Man, middle school is— 7th grade specifically is the worst grade
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of all time. I don't know what it is that happens to kids that year,
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but they lose their minds in 7th grade.
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Yeah. And they
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lose all their scrutiny. Yeah. Go ahead. What?
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I said they lose all respect
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for any human.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yeah. They don't care. It's like they're truly getting pulled
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in, like the, like childhood is trying to hold onto them.
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Yeah.
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And then
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like whatever, like adolescent stuff and puberty is pulling 'em the other
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way.
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Yeah.
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And then they just explode.
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Yeah. They can't handle it. They don't know
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what to do about it.
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No, they can't handle it. Yeah.
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I, I was,
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I was subbing at a middle school. I honestly, I, it's the only middle school
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I ever subbed at 'cause I knew lots of principals at, at, you know,
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at different levels and, um, yeah. I mostly did elementary, but there was one
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school that would call me all the time in Compton, and, um, they would have
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me come and I wouldn't even have a class. They would just hire me to
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go to the problem classes that are out of control just to try to get
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them under control. And so they would literally hand me a list of all these
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classes, like, all right, first period you're gonna go to this class, second period.
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Wow.
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But the principal was— I
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don't want to call this person dumb, but they saw the solution They
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thought the solution to the problems in class would be to put all the bad
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kids in the same classes.
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Yeah.
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Yes. I have seen this theory before.
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I'm like, what do you think is gonna
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happen? What do you think is gonna happen? So these kids, these, these kids
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are terrorizing every class and the teachers are like, oh, I guess it's 3rd period.
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I got all the bad kids in the whole school coming into the classroom.
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And so they have these, all these kids are all every single class all day
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long. I'm like, y'all at least separate them into a couple groups. I don't
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know, I don't see how there's— they got more power in numbers now that
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you got them all together. It's ridiculous.
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And I don't know if this was the
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case like with you, but there's always like 3 good kids mixed
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in with those 20, and I just feel terrible for them. Oh yeah, like they're
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just like, I mean, quiet, trying to do their work.
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Yeah, yeah, there was, there was a couple classes where like It was,
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'cause honestly it was maybe like 5 or 6 boys that were really causing all
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the problems in this class. Sure.
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Yeah. Right.
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So any class that they were in
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together, no one else was learning a thing. No one else.
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Yeah. No, of course
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not.
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No one else was getting anything done.
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This theory was explained to me by
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a principal and it, and it's actually, I guess in, in theory,
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uh, it's meant to make the teacher's job less, or the day less
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shitty because instead of being marginally annoyed all day.
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By splitting them up, and then you have one of them in each class and
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you're annoyed. You just have a shitty 50 minutes, and then the rest
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of the day is pretty okay. That's how it was explained to me. And I
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was like, well, I mean, I get that.
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And in a way it is caring, I suppose, to the teacher. You do have
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them in mind, but that can be a really shitty 50 minutes.
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Yeah, right.
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Especially if whoever has them the last period of the day.
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Oh my God. Yeah.
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I, and I am gonna be honest, I didn't see a
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single kid write their name on a piece of paper to complete an assignment.
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Yeah. Not one.
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No, no. Yeah. I, I, that doesn't
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shock me. Um, but yeah, man, at that middle school there
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was, I, I, it was usually just day stuff, you know?
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Yeah.
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That's all I
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really wanted to sign up for. Uh, 'cause I was just dipping my toe into
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the teaching water.
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Yeah.
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Um, but I'd done gym enough and
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the guy was like, the gym teacher was like, hey, actually, can you sub for
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me like all next week? And I was like, all right. Yeah. Pretty straightforward.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. He, he failed to mention that the entire gym department,
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physical education department had COVID, so it was all subs.
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And let me tell you, nobody has any less res—
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there's nobody that has less respect in a school than a substitute
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gym teacher, I think. Uh, in the eyes of the students.
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Right.
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Because I had kids that were dressed in gym,
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that just were in gym class all day. Um, and didn't leave.
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I had a kid climbing a fence. Some kids broke into the weight room and
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were lifting weights. Um,
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like it was chaos. Uh,
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yeah, man. And then by the end of that week, the principal actually had to
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move her desk outside onto the blacktop.
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Uh, where your class was?
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Onto the blacktop. Yeah. She had to go to, 'cause it was all subs
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and I was kept, I was like, hey, Just so you know, there's probably a
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liability here. I don't know where all the entrances are to the
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weight room and such, but yeah, these kids are lifting way
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too much weight. And, uh,
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my give-a-shit meter is starting to run low here because this is
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chaos.
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I love that they're truly into the gym to—
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into the weight room to actually just use the weights. They're actually— we're just trying
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to get a pump in, bro.
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Yeah, I know, I know. But it's like padlocked
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and stuff. I'm like, clearly this is like, Like, you're not supposed
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to be in here. Uh,
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yeah, 'cause we weren't even in the gym. We were just outside every day,
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uh, because it's sunny California. Yeah. And we
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can do that. Um, so anyway, yeah,
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man. I mean, I, I, um, as far as like, yeah,
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getting in over our head, like, so I did all that stuff.
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I was dreading it every day. Like truly.
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Because I came from like freelance filmmaker, uh, making my
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own schedule very much. It worked as like a bachelor lifestyle.
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I was like paying my rent, doing a lot of editing and all sorts of
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other stuff, but, you know, certainly not saving anything. Yeah.
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Yeah, exactly.
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But I had gotten married and then it was COVID and my wife didn't pressure
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me, but I was like, all right, I, I've kind of gotta like, let's figure
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something out here.
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Right.
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And, uh, it was COVID, so I was able to get
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my teaching credential. I'd always thought about teaching and,
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uh, you know, Mr. Feeny played a large role in my life on
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Boy Meets World.
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Shout out Mr. Feeny.
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Um, yep.
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Uh, but the idea of actually like not
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being on my own schedule was hard to adapt to. And then,
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uh, my school that I'm still at and I love, but they
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were looking, I got a history credential and then because I didn't know
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you could get a film credential.
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Oh, wow.
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And yeah, and I've learned through
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my first year of teaching AP U.S. History, I prefer reading books about history
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and calling my dad about them and talking to my dad. I do not
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like trying to instill why this is important to—
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Even though it very much is.
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Right.
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But anyway, man, yeah, I didn't do the student teaching route because that didn't
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pay and that wasn't an option.
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Yeah.
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So I was like, um, a,
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like a, I was some kind of intern, so I was getting paid, not great,
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but I was getting paid. But that meant I wasn't sharing the room with an
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established teacher. I was totally on my own. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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And, um,
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yeah, within, uh, the first 2 weeks I had 2 panic
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attacks and was brought out on a stretcher and had to go on medical leave.
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Oh my God.
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2 and a half months of it. And it was entirely
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my doing. Like, people were like, were the students like, no. The kids were actually
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pretty good. I was so, I wasn't sleeping like the
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first day of school. I had so much anxiety. It was the second
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day. Um, I was like tossing and
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turning, sweating. I was staying up till 4:00 AM working on lesson plans
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for the second day of school.
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Yeah.
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And like worried about like,
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uh, we, I did like a, a teacher during like
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the opening year PD was like, oh, just do like the spaghetti stick challenge.
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It's a good like teamwork thing where you give 'em like, Uh,
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raw spaghetti sticks, marshmallows, and they build a tower and the tallest tower
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wins. I'm sure you have. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And even that, I was
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like, well, what happens if they just like all say no and then they won't,
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they won't do it. And I'm like tossing and turning. And of course, like they
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don't, it was all juniors and seniors and they don't, they're like, whatever.
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Sure. We'll put marshmallow towers.
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Yeah. They're like, we're done. This is over for
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us.
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Yeah, exactly. And if they don't want to do it, they just, they're not
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gonna like, they're gonna throw marshmallows at me or anything. They're just like, nah.
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And then they're just on their phones.
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You know, like it was just—
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so were
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you in a, like a district intern program with the district or like, or yeah.
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Yeah, I was a, I was a university intern was the, the term.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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It was like through Cal State LA. So I was like, I had
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to do a class and stuff like that. And, um,
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yeah, it was just every single thing. And I was just like, is this how
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it's gonna be for the rest of my life? Is this what, and I
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can't leave. I don't have a planning period. Uh, I've got 6 periods.
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It's film and it's history and it's US, it's AP US history. And like,
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I had spent the whole summer like reading the entire AP US
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history book and like, I was just like, this is a pivotal
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year in our history and the kids need to know this. And I'm stressing out
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about that and they don't give a fuck. And then I learned that like,
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it's not even possible to get through AP US history.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's insane. And like,
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yeah, man, it was both panic attacks happened like before first period.
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Man.
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And the first one, uh,
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I almost, I feel like I, in a weird way, like willed myself
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into having it. I'm like, am I having a panic attack right now? I think
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I'm, I think I'm having a panic. Am I? No, I could be.
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I think I am.
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And then I just started breathing really heavily and then just
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like, Uh, no, I, I,
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I think the worst that I had, um, well, no, I've had
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panic attacks and had, uh, panic attacks
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over, um, uh, doing IEPs.
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I had a really mean, like, AP— APIS, like,
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assistant principal we did IEPs with. And the first time we do IEP,
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no one taught me how to do anything. It's also during COVID my first year,
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um, okay, in full-time for special ed.
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Okay.
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Which is crazy.
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So yeah, to do that— for our audience, what are IEPs?
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Oh, IEPs is an individual education plan.
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Um, yes, uh, for students with, um, disabilities, for learning disabilities,
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they get a special plan for support, um, every student.
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So like, this student needs to, you know, work on it closer
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to the board, or this student needs to, um— their goals are, you know,
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to just use commas in sentences or things like that. Smaller, really small really small
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details for everyone's, um, for every student's, you know, plan to—
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for education. So, um, sometimes make it really simple, like just get kids to use
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the in sentences, you know, that's the goal. Um, my first time doing it,
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I didn't know how to do any of that. No one taught me. I,
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I'm at home. So the, the— I had a Zoom meeting with the assistant principal.
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She's all right, go ahead, complete the IEP. I go to the website for the
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IEPs and, and it says you don't need to update anything. So I was like,
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all right, guess I'm done. And if you— and the thing is,
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and the thing that scared me, because we go into the IEP with, with the
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parent And, uh, nothing's done.
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And I, and I said, now I'm seeing what she's going to. I'm like,
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oh, I had to do that. I didn't know that. I didn't know I had
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to click this button or that button. So none of it's done. And then immediately
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she's like, well, you know, officials, and you can get sued for that. Like you
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can straight up get sued for not doing your IP right. Or, you know,
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not having prepared. So like, so I'm like, so that was the first
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thing that gave me anxiety. So I get off of Zoom and I'm like,
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oh my God, let me, I'm like typing frantically on the, you know,
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on the things. And I'm like, I don't even know these kids. It's my first
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year. Yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Have you had any interaction with them?
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Like, literally very, very little, you know, teaching a couple of
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hours. And then after that, you're like, well, I guess that's that. And the kids
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are losing connection. You can't even talk to them.
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Yeah. They don't have their,
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they don't have their cameras on. Yeah.
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They don't know how to use the computer.
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The parents don't even know how to use the computer. They use, they got their
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face all on the Zoom trying to figure out what to do. And yeah,
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so that, so ever since then, like after that, I had anxiety about IEPs.
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all the time. Even when that— when I no longer had that assistant principal,
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I was still like, every time I would do an IEP, I'm like, oh God,
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I hope I'm doing this right. Oh God, like, I would just get like PTSD
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from not having done it that first time. And like, I'm gonna get sued.
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Oh my God, it's a wrap for me. But the only other worst time,
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also around COVID, was that— was that, uh, March 13th. Was it 12th,
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13th? That day the world shut down officially, or in America at least.
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Oh yeah.
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Um, I'm in class, also a class that's not mine. I don't know
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these kids.
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I'm a sub, so you're subbing at that point.
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Yeah, I've been at
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this point, right? Yeah, I started going full-time right after COVID. That was when I
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first got my full-time gig. Um, so, you know,
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uh, or right during COVID I guess. Um, so we're in— I'm in class,
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and then, uh, every now and then someone from the office comes in and is
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like, hey, um, you know, we don't know if this school's gonna shut down today,
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so we're just gonna get these packets ready. Like, all right, cool. And I go
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back to teaching. An hour or two later, they come out like, hey, it looks
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like we're possibly gonna shut down, so We need you to get this ready,
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or, you know, write down these codes and put them on the board from the
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copy down. All right, cool. And then finally they came in like, yeah, things are
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definitely shutting down. We gotta get— you gotta get all these kids, all their books,
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put them in their backpacks, make sure they write down this code to get on
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later on. And, uh, and I'm like, oh damn. All right, so, uh, so I
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start trying to get it all together. It's towards the end of the day now,
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and, uh, I'm starting to get it all together. And, um, one of the boys
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in class was being like real resistant to anything I would say to do,
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and he's like— and he's like not listening. I'm like, oh, can you write that
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down please? Show me that you wrote that down and then you can leave.
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Like, it's end of the day. And then he just wouldn't listen. He would just
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sit down and he'd come back, he's like, I don't know if I want to
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write that thing. I'm like, bro, please just write that on the board so
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we can get out of here. And I'm stressing out. I'm trying to get every
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book in these kids' backpacks.
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Yeah, because we're literally facing like the end
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of the world. Like, you know, we weren't sure, like, you know, like— okay,
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yeah, keep going.
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Sorry. Like 10 times to tell this kid to go write something
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down. And finally got to the point where I was like, Bro, I'm yelling at
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him now, and I'm— and yo, me yelling is scary. I have a really deep
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voice, so if I'm yelling, it's really scary. And I'm like, bro, just write it
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down, just write it down. I'm screaming at this kid, please just write that down.
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I'll write it down for you. I'm like, start writing it down. I'm, I'm so
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upset, and he's like scared. Like, at the end of the day, I'm like,
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just go, just get out of here, just go. He gets out,
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and I remember, I remember literally months later,
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or like a few weeks later, we're on Zoom, and I'm like Damn, I'm probably
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never gonna see that kid again. I just— Lex's last memory is me screaming at
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him, write down the code.
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I'm like, every day, I mean, I hope that kid forgives me for doing that
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because I, I feel horrible for screaming at that kid right before COVID I don't
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even know what his name was, where he's at now. I hope he's all right
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though. That's gotta be traumatizing.
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Well, that's, that's always going to be the the push and pull of,
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of teaching and students because they just don't, they don't understand that it's
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literally the job. And in this case,
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it was your only job at that point was to make sure he writes
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down the fucking code.
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Exactly. That's all. And he's just like,
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I'm like, bro, kids are leaving. They're going home now.
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You need to go home. Get outta here. Write this down. Hurry up. Yeah,
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man. I think about that all the time. I'm like, man, I hope that kid's
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all right. 'Cause I, that's the last thing that, remembers of me is screaming at
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him about writing that shit down, man.
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Oh,
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but yeah, man, I just like, so I had that first panic attack
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and then I'm talking to like, you know, our like
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problem solving coordinator and, you know, I mentioned to
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her like, I mean, I was not in a good headspace, so I'm literally just
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like, yeah, you know, like I'm driving into work and I just kind of think
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like, wonder if it would be easier to just like run into the guardrail
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and not even in a suicide way, but just in like, well, then I
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wouldn't have to come in.
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Yeah. The end of the world. Then I have an
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accident.
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But because I fucking said that, of course
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she then had to tell the principal and then we had to do the like
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questionnaire about suicidal tendencies. And I'm like, oh,
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and I feel bad that I'm wasting his time. I'm like, no, that's not— I
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mean, I get it. I did say that, but it's— I, I was more,
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it's a very dark, I have a dark sense of humor. I know you don't
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know me because you hired me a month ago and I was
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very chipper in that meeting and now it's a total shit show.
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And that's so crazy.
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And like, you know, and so then I'm like, oh,
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so he was, it was like a two, it was like the first week of
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school. It was like Wednesday or something.
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Yeah.
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Of the first week. And he
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is like, well, Christ, man, like just, take the rest of the week off,
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come back on Monday, you know? I'm like, okay, yeah, I'll do that.
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And then like, I made it Monday and then Tuesday morning I
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like have another panic attack. And I'm, it's again,
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I'm like, am I breathing heavily? No. Well,
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maybe I should be breathing heavily. Yeah, that would make me feel better.
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And so like, I knock on the door of like another first-year teacher right
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across the hall from me.
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Yeah.
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And like,
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like, I think I'm having a heart attack.
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And then the other teacher across the hall is like, you know,
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veteran. He's like, I don't give a fuck about anything. And he's
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like, dude, you gotta relax. And I'm like, just like falling on the ground.
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And I'm just like, uh, uh. And it did. I basically worked myself into
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thinking I was having a heart attack. And so she's like, do you want
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me to call 911? I'm like, I guess so. And so,
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like, you know, and so by the time, like,
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the paramedics show up and they come in with a stretcher,
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they put me on the stretcher and there's no kids in the classroom yet.
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But on the— they take me down the elevator and then they open the doors
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and all the kids are on the first floor waiting to go up. So all
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the kids are just seeing me getting carted off and I'm like, oh dear God,
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this is—
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Oh, you give the thumbs up like an NFL player.
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Yeah, exactly. And I'm
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like, oh yeah, that's so good.
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Yeah, I'll be back, kids. And they're like, who the— we hardly know you,
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dude. Like, we've been 3 days. You had us build some spaghetti
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towers and now that's fucking it. You were out half of last week.
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Now it's Tuesday. Like, what?
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And I just was seriously like not sleeping. I was— I— this
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is how But to finish that off, so like they take me to
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the nurse's office and the paramedics leave for
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a minute. And then the nurse, 'cause I was still like, you know,
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panting really heavily. And so she gave me,
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you know, you're supposed to like, I guess, use like a small paper bag to
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breathe into.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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She gave me a grocery
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store size paper bag, like a, like a Ralph's
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bag. And I'm like, even in that state of mind,
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I'm like, okay. So I'm like trying to breathe into this whole
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big ass— my head is just in the bag. And I'm like,
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then I'm like, start laughing because I can, even in my state of mind,
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I can acknowledge this is absurd and ridiculous. Yeah. And then the paramedic
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comes back and he's like, what are you doing? Like takes the bag
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off my head.
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Oh my God.
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And he's like putting a,
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Uh, I mean, he, he was like, uh, do you
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want, like, he, he, they put the things on me and I was,
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my heart rate was high enough.
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Yeah.
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That legally they were like, we should take
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you in. I'm pretty sure it's a panic attack.
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Yeah.
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Um, I now
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knowing what I know now, I would've said, fuck that. I'm, I'm dying or
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I'm gonna get better because that fucking $2,000
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ER trip.
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I can't even imagine. Just for you to calm down
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and come out. Come outta the hospital. Just for, hey man, calm down
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for a little bit.
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And that was the crazy— yeah, yeah, basically. Yeah. I basically,
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they took me to like the nearest hospital. They did the def— they put all,
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they did all the tests. I'm getting all sorts of scans and shit. And then,
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yeah, the, the person was like, yeah, I think, uh, yeah, you're good.
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You're fine. And by that point I had calmed down.
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And, but then like, I was like a mile from the school and that's where
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my car was. And I was like, Oh man. I guess I'll just walk back
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inside. So I walked back and then I
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called that problem coordinator. I was like, and she must have just thought I was
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fucking insane because I was like, yeah, I mean, I guess I feel better
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now. So, uh, I don't know. And she's like, no, like you
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gotta talk to somebody. Like, like we can't
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have this every fucking—
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Oh my God. There's, there's too few of us.
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Yeah,
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that's a good point.
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2 things about the story that are hilarious is one,
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that school nurses in— I'm assuming everywhere in the United States—
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don't get resources for shit.
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No.
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And these poor people have
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trained all their lives and probably their goal to be nurses, and they
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get to these schools and the main solution you see for anything is an ice
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pack. You send the— yes, you see a kid who has a stomachache, he's getting
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an ice pack. You see a kid, his arm is split open, yeah, he's getting
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an ice pack. It's like, it's like, bro, Give them something else.
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I had a student the other week come back with a frozen
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sponge, but we didn't have any bags.
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Oh my God.
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It's like, oh my God.
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Yeah, every, every— I'm like, damn, give these nurses something else to work
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with. Y'all just getting ice packs for every solution. Kid throws up, he's getting an
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ice pack. It doesn't matter what it is.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And then the same thing, well, then it's like, yeah, no, you see so many
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teachers like have like anxiety attacks or like breakdowns
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and shit like that. And it's, and that's, that's so common, man.
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It's so, I've been to so many schools where like you see a teacher one
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day and they have a bad class and the next day they're like, yeah,
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she's out sick. And then a couple days later you're like, I don't think she's
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coming back.
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Yeah,
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man. So like I ended up on medical leave. I like, I used,
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uh, one of those like talk therapy websites right away because I needed to get
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like somebody to diagnose me.
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Yeah.
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Or find out what the fuck is going
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on. So I basically found out, uh, and I know it's
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overprescribed and everyone says they have it, but it was an ADHD
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combined with OCD. Oh my God. And so I
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was staying up until 4 or 5 AM trying to make sure the lesson
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plan was perfect. But I was staying up until 5 AM cuz I would get
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distracted.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And so I wasn't sleeping.
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And was just going, literally just going, losing my mind.
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Uh, and, you know, so finally,
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yeah, I was like, got on medication and, you know,
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over the end, like my mom had to come out. And at the same
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time, we had just gotten like a 5-pound puppy, uh,
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a 2-pound puppy who we still have, a Maltese.
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Yeah.
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And he was
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too happy for us, so we had to like give him back for a
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while and then get— it was just like life was awful.
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And I'm submitting stuff on Schoology, on the
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platform. I'm making videos like any of the kids are going to fucking watch them.
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Like, well, you may have been wondering where I was. They're like,
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motherfucker, I don't even know who you are.
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Man, it's so rough. There's a teacher at my school
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currently. I won't give too much of his information out, but yeah, he had like
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a breakdown kind of thing. And then his school was
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like, hey man, take the week off and come back next week. And he came
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back. Um, but then he, I think he just made himself sick,
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like by just having, you know, breakdowns and stuff. So then now he's just been
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out. And I'm hearing kids in the hallways, like, you hear what happened to him?
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And he's like, yeah, I heard he lost his mind. They're all spreading whatever
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ideas. Yeah, I heard he lost it. Now he's like, I can't come back.
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And it's like, damn, man, I hope he's all right, man. It's rough.
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And that's definitely what they were saying about me. I mean, you know, the fact
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that there was the, the, the, the theatrics of being carted out in the
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stretcher. It's just like,
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so I came back in like November. I came back like a
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week, 2 weeks before Thanksgiving break, you know? And,
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and, uh, I mean, I got through that first year. Now that I,
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I'm just teaching film instead of like US history, you know,
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there's like less pressure on myself where it's like,
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I'm just trying to teach like more like life skills more than anything. 'Cause most
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of these kids aren't trying to go into movies.
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So I'm just like, yeah,
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you know, exactly.
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I'm bringing in like financial, like literacy things
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and just trying to get them to like be a person by the time
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they graduate, like know a few things. I'm doing a lot of paid internship
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opportunities and stuff like that. So like now I'm just like, look, the ones that
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want help and are trying to like, you know, improve their
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lives, I'm trying to be there for them.
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Yeah, exactly. The, the ones that would,
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would, uh, come to you for guidance, they'll, they'll show themselves and Right.
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Yeah. It's, it's so funny though. Like you literally never know who those kids are
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sometimes too. Like we had, um, the school I'm at now,
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um, we had, so I work in marketing and I also work with the football
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team. Um, and we had a big scandal at our school. We got in trouble
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for, um, our principal, our president was doing,
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um, I guess he had some people involved that were trying, we were trying to
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get really, we got really good players from all over the state. So such good
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players. And I guess the way they're recruiting was illegal and the parents were also
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falsifying information, all kinds of stuff. So we got, it was a huge news story
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in in California and in the country actually this year.
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But, um, uh, yeah, so we got in trouble. And a lot of those boys
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that were, you know, I work at a private school in Torrance, so it's like,
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okay, all these boys are coming from like Long Beach or Compton, these other places,
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and they're not private schools, so they're not used to people telling them how to
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wear, what to wear, or like how to act or behave. And they're just like,
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yo man, I'm just going to school, leave me alone type of thing. Um,
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right. But so a lot of them are always acting tough and like, like they
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were too, you know, like they were too good for everybody. And I still had
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a relationship with a lot of them, but Um, you know, sometimes you feel like
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they don't, they don't really care about me. I'll say what I need to say.
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And a lot of school— the school would always come to me and be like,
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hey, can you tell these boys they need to actually wear uniform, or they can't
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wear slides to school, or they can't— you know, all these little things. I'm like,
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damn, I gotta be a liaison for y'all. I gotta, I gotta tell them what
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to, what to do and say, like, I guess. So, um, yeah, so we
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didn't— I never, you know, a lot of those boys would always be walking around
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like they were hard, they were too tough for everybody. But, um, I saw a
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lot of them— so a lot of them left after the whole scandal happened.
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A lot of them left the school.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, yeah. And, uh, I, I went
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to our basketball game, our playoff basketball game the other day, and like so
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many of those boys were there. Just— are there all other schools now, but so
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many of them were there because they liked our school. They really liked being there.
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So they show up and all of them are coming up and dabbing me up,
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be like, man, we miss you. And I'm like, man, y'all, I would have never
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known that you'd have missed me for how I was walking around before and
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like, you know, just acting tough and all that. And you never know, like you
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have a good influence on them, which is, which is pretty cool to see.
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And they're like, man, we miss y'all. Like Miss you, Mr. Monte. Like, it'd be
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cool to come back. And I was like, I was like, y'all like y'all schools?
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They're like, no, we don't. We wanna come back here. You know? So,
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um, yeah.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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Yeah.
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I mean, yeah, there's, you know, it's, there's,
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there's plenty of, of students that make the job worthwhile for me.
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Um, so, but yeah, I mean, it's just, it's taken,
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this is year 4 for me and finally I'm like,
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okay, I know how to do this. Well, cuz I
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would treat, because I just came from like a performing background, so I basically treated
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Mentally, I had 6 performances a day.
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Right.
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You know, and it was, and like the students don't give it, it's okay
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if the presentation isn't flawless and it's not done yet.
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Like, right. They come in with no expectations.
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Yeah.
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They don't care.
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They're not forced audience.
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Yeah. We got it in here. Yeah.
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But in
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my head at the, when I started, it was just like, this has gotta
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be perfect. And it's like, it's a job that will never be perfect.
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Yeah.
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When you're trying, when perf— perfection is in the hands
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of 150 teenagers, it's not gonna happen.
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It's not, it's not
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gonna happen.
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It's based on, you know, a buy-in. But anyway.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Um, but yeah, so that was a
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situation where like I was knowingly in over my head. I was trying to think
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of one. Um, and, and I know you have another one that kind of fit
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that, that mode too, but Uh, one where I didn't know I
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was in over my head was when I first moved out here, I got my
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dream job and then I was fired.
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Damn.
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Uh, I was working for Danny McBride and his production
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company, uh, when they were doing Eastbound and Down. And like,
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they went to the same college as I did, obviously years before.
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And like, we had even like, they brought Pineapple Express to
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our school for like an advanced screening. And like, we had the Almost Famous like
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party night. Like they came to our house, like our college house that
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night.
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Oh, sure.
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And like our Christmas card was like
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them, uh, you know, uh, it was a picture of them with us
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and everything. And so like, anyway, uh,
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I just went to like a Q&A. They were screening like Eastbound and Down
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season 1 at like Arclight or something. And, uh, they recognized
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me and then they were like, hey, are you looking for like work or something?
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I was like, yes.
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And absolutely.
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So I just thought I was in,
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right? I was just like, great. And so I just was
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so fucking oblivious to the fact, cuz I wasn't even getting paid at first.
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And then they brought me on as a writer's assistant for Eastbound and Down.
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And, and, you know, it would just be shit like
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Danny would be in the office and, uh, he'd just be
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like, oh, we really should like, um, we should get that picture, that thing,
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that, that thing framed and like put it up on the wall or something that
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was already framed. Like, oh, that should go up on the wall.
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Yeah.
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And I'd
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be like, yeah, it should. Not realizing he's fucking telling me,
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like, just completely
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oblivious. Like, yeah, yeah. Like, they were just all nice guys.
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So I just was like, I'm part of the crew now. You know? Like,
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no, you fucking idiot. You're the lowest on the totem pole. Like,
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you know, like I remember we would walk, their office was in, uh,
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Hollywood and like we would walk to like an outdoor bar restaurant.
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And you could still smoke outside there. And I was smoking at the time and
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Danny would be like, yeah, I'm definitely not down with the smoking.
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I'm like, oh, I get it.
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Just so
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oblivious. Oh my God. What was happening?
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Oh my God. That is so funny.
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And it was just a
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bunch of that. And then, yeah, I think the last, and I just had
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no idea I was on the last straw where like,
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Chick-fil-A, I guess, had just opened in Los Angeles.
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So they had me like drive to the, I think it was on like the
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USC campus or something in like 2011,
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20. Yeah. So I drove there, uh,
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brought it back to the, the office. And then the next morning I
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was just like 10% under the weather, you know?
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But I was like, eh, I don't really feel like coming in today. So I
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just like told 'em I had food poisoning and then that was it. That was
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it. They were just, they were like, Well, just don't come back.
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Yeah. Yeah. Like I realized, I, I was like, I'll check in on the document,
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you know?
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Yeah.
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The Eastbound document.
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Yeah.
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And then I like didn't have access to
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it. That didn't register. I was like, hey, I realized I don't have access
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to the thing. Uh, what's going on?
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That's hilarious.
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And then finally, like the actual, like his assistant had to
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like call me the next day. Like, look, man, like I, you don't have a
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job here anymore.
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You didn't do anything you were supposed to do.
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And like, I have, I have another one.
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This, I didn't even say this one. It also relates to
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jobs. I'll stick with the job theme since we're already on that. But I,
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uh, I, I used to work at a, I used to, as a side hustle,
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I used to do security at a gay bar in West Hollywood
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that doesn't exist anymore. It was called, it was called Flaming Saddles. Flaming Saddles.
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Yeah, Flaming Saddles. Um, they often would have, uh,
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uh, male dancers there in cowboy hats on top of like the
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tables or whatever. Um, but I'm doing— I'm just doing security.
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Doing security was—
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it was cool.
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It was like $300 a night just for a
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few hours from like 8 to, I don't know, whenever the bar closed, and then
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we, you know, clean up and stuff.
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Sure.
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Um, but I worked there because a
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friend of mine was the manager at the, at the, uh, at the bar.
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And so me and my room— my roommate at the time on Boy DC.
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We were working there, so we— no paperwork, nothing. He just had us come in,
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do security. Honestly, it was super illegal, but, but we were there doing that.
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Um, yeah.
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So we're doing that, and most of
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the time nothing was ever going on, so I'd just be standing around kind of
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watching, or like, the other dudes are like dancing. The dudes— male
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dancers are hilarious to me. I don't know why. They seem more awkward than sexy
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to me, so I'm always wondering, I'm like, how do women or gay men find
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this Attractive, right? They're not doing much,
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right? Yeah.
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What do they— are they just like swinging their dicks? Like,
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what do they do?
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Yeah, one guy would do this all the time. He would
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just do this.
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Oh, okay. Kind of like a— he'd just do that,
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like shimmy with the hat.
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Yeah, I feel like you guys aren't doing anything
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special at all. Or like hump a lady's face every now and then.
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That's what they do. I, I would just say I used to be standing around,
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but like for some reason Uh, no one— not no one,
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but a lot— the management and the higher-ups of this bar did not like me
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at all. And I don't know what I did. I was never rude to anybody.
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I never like said anything. But I remember my roommate telling me one time,
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he's like, yo man, this is the first place I've ever been where no one
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likes you. He was like, he was like, I've never been in a place
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where people were just like, I don't like Aaron. And he was like, he's like,
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it's usually me that people say that about, but this is the first place I've
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ever been where they just don't like you. No, it's you. I was like,
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I don't know what I did. And they'd like, every now and then I'd be
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in, I'd be standing there and, uh, they would accuse me of like talking to
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girls all the time, which I was not doing. And like girls would come up
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to me and be like, talk to me sometimes, you know, only straight men at
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the bar or security there. So like, you know, they'd always come talk to me,
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but I wouldn't, I'd be like, I'd be like, hey, thank you, whatever. And then,
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you know, they'd walk away. And then I literally one time was standing there,
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I was there, it was a really big night and all these, and then we
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had a bunch of security there and, uh, a couple guys I had never seen
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before, like, because we were there every, like, almost every night. So there's a couple
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guys I had never seen, we're doing security, and one of the dudes literally has
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a girl and he's like dancing on her. Like, security on duty, he's dancing on
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her. And I'm standing like maybe a few feet away, I'm like, yo, he's just
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dancing on this shorty. Like, this is crazy. This is not at all— 2 seconds
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later, the manager walks up to me, he's like, hey man, Aaron, you really gotta
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stop talking to these girls. I'm like, bro, I'm not even doing nothing. He's dancing
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on a shorty right now. He's right there. What are you talking about?
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But the worst part, the worst story, and this is a story— this may have
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been the reason why they decided they didn't fuck with me like that. One day
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I'm working, um, I'm working the Saturday brunch, and they used to have a drag
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show on Saturday brunches, right? Um, I'm working the door. I usually wasn't at the
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door, at the front door, but it's me and another dude, we're on the sides
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of the door, you know, next to each other. Uh, and we're talking, and the
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drag show was fucking lit most of the time. Like, their performers were fucking awesome,
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like funny and like really talented. And, uh,
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there was one drag performer, she would do a thing
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where she would, uh, get off stage with the microphone and then run
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outside of the bar, run around the entire bar, and still singing,
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and then come back into the bar, right? That was her whole thing.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, I'm there for the drag show, me and the
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other security guard are just talking, we're just talking, you know, you know, just bullshitting,
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you know, whatever. And, um, I guess she goes to get off stage to do
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this, this gag And she starts running out and I, I'm like, I step
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in, I'm not looking. So the, the door's to my back. So I step
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in very slightly inside, you know, like where the doorway is. And she clips
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me, she clips my shoulder and falls and
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rolls,
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rolls. She falls hard as fuck. Oh. She falls hard
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as fuck, gets up, starts limping. She's now limping,
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keeping the dick going. Does the
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full lap, goes all the way around, goes inside, and I'm standing there. I feel
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like shit this whole time, like, oh fuck, I cannot believe I just did that.
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I'm feeling horrible. And then,
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uh, this honestly might be the reason why they don't fuck with me, but I
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feel horrible. I'm standing there and the whole time, like, I'm trying to have fun
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at work now, and I'm like, man, I really feel horrible. I keep saying this
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to the other security guard, and eventually security guard, he goes, he goes, hey man,
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listen. That's a grown-ass man. He gonna be all right.
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At the end of the day, that's a
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grown-ass man. He'll be all right. You're right. That's a
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good point.
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It's crazy how
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often, like, we just need to hear somebody say something like that. Yeah.
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It's just like, oh, okay. Yeah. All right. That may have tore you up the
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whole rest of the day. Right.
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This performer is like my height and weight,
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like 6'2, you know, 200. pounds. Like, this is the guy,
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same size as me, man. Oh my God.
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Yeah. And then that job, we, we ended up, uh,
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we would call off randomly because we, we weren't really hired there. They would just
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call us, right?
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You didn't even really work there.
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Yeah,
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yeah, exactly. We had done it a few times. We just called or texted,
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hey, we're not coming in. And one day we were just drinking at it on
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like during the summer or something like that, and then in the daytime. And then
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we were like, let's not go. And then they just never called us back again.
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I was like, yeah, that's how it goes. That's how it goes.
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That's kind of great. They just mutually decided like,
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we don't need to keep doing this.
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Yeah, we don't need to go back.
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Yeah. That's, what are we doing?
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Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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See, that's funny though, you mentioning
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how there was multiple security guards for that event and most of 'em you hadn't
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even seen before.
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Yeah.
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Because that's always the one thing. It's a nice, like,
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and the movie I saw today, You know, there's the thing where the, one of
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the assassins is dressed as like the bellhop or whatever at the hotel.
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Uh-huh.
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And you always just, a part of me is always just like,
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wouldn't somebody be like, what, it's your first day?
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Like, yeah, no one's suspicious.
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Like, yeah, there's just
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something kind of suspicious about it. But no,
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it said that I thought about when I worked at the grocery store, like with
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you and the security guards.
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Yeah.
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You're not asking 'em any background information. You're like,
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all right, you got the same shirt on that I have. Right. So I guess
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we're all, you know, like, what the fuck?
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Right, right, exactly. Yeah, man.
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Yeah.
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It's so funny, man.
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Yeah. I had jobs like that. Yeah. I mean,
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like, I don't know, just like working in a movie theater and,
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uh, that's where I learned, like, if you just walk confidently, you don't
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have to pay for a movie ticket.
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Oh yeah. You can go anywhere. And,
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and as long as you look like you're supposed to be there, you, no one's
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gonna ask Oh yeah, exactly.
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Because that's what—
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because I, as a worker, I would— I, I— that's when I realized
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it. I was like, oh, I didn't even stop that guy. He just walked right
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in. It's like, well, I got to start doing that, you know?
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And then, yeah, I did. Yeah.
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Yeah. Let's just see if they stop you. I mean, you got nothing to lose.
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They stop you like, oh yeah, sorry, I forgot I had to buy a ticket.
58:43.822 --> 58:44.689
Exactly.
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Crazy. One of those days.
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Exactly, man.
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Uh, but yeah,
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man. Um, yeah, just jobs.
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Uh, but, um, well, yeah, I mean, I feel like, uh,
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you feel good?
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I feel great. How do you feel?
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Well, good. I feel great too. Um,
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I'm glad that we've moved past the Overall
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feeling of being in over our heads, I guess.
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Yeah, me too, man. I mean,
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listen, I'm sure those, I'm sure they'll come. I'm sure more opportunities will come to
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feeling over my head. Yes.
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Oh yeah. It's, it never leaves,
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but at least the specific examples that came to mind.
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Yeah. Yeah.
59:24.540 --> 59:24.600
We've,
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we've passed those ones.
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Passed those.
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Right. So we'll do a follow-up in a couple
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years. Yeah. So we can talk about the crazy shit that we were in over
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our heads on in the future.
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That's true.
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But for now, I actually feel
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fairly comfortable.
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Good, good. Me too.
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God forbid tomorrow's
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going to be a disaster, of course, right?
59:43.590 --> 59:45.530
As soon as tomorrow starts. Yeah,
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no, no.
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But anyway, yeah, man, thanks so much for coming
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on. And, and where can people find you on social media and stuff?
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Yeah, man, you can find me on Instagram. And what else do I have
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on TikTok? I haven't been using as much lately, but sorry about that.
01:00:01.250 --> 01:00:05.040
Instagram @therealairnmahn. Um, my YouTube channel, Aaron Monte Comedian,
01:00:05.160 --> 01:00:07.800
just put out a special called Good Morning, Mr. Monte, if you ever want to
01:00:08.300 --> 01:00:11.240
check that out. Um, also on— what else am I on? Instagram?
01:00:11.740 --> 01:00:14.840
Twitter? Twitter? Nah, I'm not going on my Twitter. I don't be using that too
01:00:15.340 --> 01:00:17.500
much. You could use it, it's all the same.
01:00:18.260 --> 01:00:21.950
Any social media is @therealAaronMonte except for my YouTube, which is Aaron Monte Comedian.
01:00:22.180 --> 01:00:24.890
Um, check out my YouTube special. And, uh, yeah, that's pretty much it.
01:00:25.780 --> 01:00:28.500
All right, man. Well, yeah, thanks again, uh, for coming on.
01:00:28.958 --> 01:00:29.312
Yeah, of course.
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Thanks for having me, man.
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That was the episode.
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Thanks again for Aaron for coming on.
01:00:36.942 --> 01:00:40.411
Really enjoyed chatting with him. I thought it was a great first episode back.
01:00:40.911 --> 01:00:45.347
Kind of gives y'all a peek into what's
01:00:45.847 --> 01:00:49.424
been going on in my life, namely that, like I said,
01:00:49.521 --> 01:00:53.210
I am entering my 5th year of teaching high school
01:00:53.242 --> 01:00:57.293
video production in South Central, and I found something that
01:00:58.433 --> 01:01:02.030
Can be very stressful, but also very rewarding. I enjoy
01:01:02.079 --> 01:01:03.845
working with the students and,
01:01:05.806 --> 01:01:10.066
you know, helping them hopefully beyond just video production things,
01:01:10.340 --> 01:01:14.180
because honestly, most of them aren't trying to do that as a career. So helping
01:01:14.680 --> 01:01:18.175
them in other ways has been very rewarding, and it's great staying in touch with
01:01:18.675 --> 01:01:22.559
former students. Who knows, maybe a former student or two is watching
01:01:22.607 --> 01:01:25.459
right now. In which case, hello. But yeah,
01:01:25.555 --> 01:01:29.025
after the last episode of this show— oh, by the way,
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for those of you watching on YouTube or Apple Podcasts,
01:01:33.363 --> 01:01:36.913
I guess I have the video on Apple Podcasts.
01:01:37.845 --> 01:01:41.556
It's just me, by the way. So I'm not going to pretend
01:01:42.056 --> 01:01:45.347
I've got a whole team working here. So if we're not—
01:01:45.636 --> 01:01:49.074
if I'm— I'm not even going to say we're— if I'm not on
01:01:49.106 --> 01:01:53.018
Apple Podcasts video yet, It will be soon because
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it's exciting stuff, right?
01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:01.280
If you're watching and you're wondering why my
01:02:01.409 --> 01:02:05.138
background seems to be a machine
01:02:05.638 --> 01:02:09.289
of some kind and various breakfast cereals as opposed to
01:02:09.789 --> 01:02:13.364
lunch or dinner cereals, week 6 of our
01:02:13.477 --> 01:02:16.183
kitchen renovation, supposed to take 2 weeks.
01:02:18.332 --> 01:02:21.881
And the person doing it for us is a family friend. So,
01:02:22.025 --> 01:02:23.984
you know, that never can go awry.
01:02:24.674 --> 01:02:25.445
Awry? Awry.
01:02:26.441 --> 01:02:29.957
He's doing a fantastic job. He's just treating it like he's doing us a favor.
01:02:30.487 --> 01:02:34.068
So, you know, interesting. So that's
01:02:34.568 --> 01:02:38.242
why my kitchen is in my office. These are the only kitchen
01:02:38.742 --> 01:02:41.341
items I need. An ice maker that's not plugged in.
01:02:44.153 --> 01:02:47.226
Collagen, red pepper, crushed red pepper, and cereals.
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So that's, that's the explanation for that.
01:02:52.003 --> 01:02:54.715
But yeah, since, since the episode, the last episode aired,
01:02:55.540 --> 01:02:58.695
we were at the height of Black Lives Matter,
01:02:59.018 --> 01:03:02.432
and I felt like we were just truly living in bad times, and I wasn't
01:03:02.932 --> 01:03:06.199
really in the mood to find
01:03:06.393 --> 01:03:10.006
the good stories in those times. So what was
01:03:10.506 --> 01:03:14.845
supposed to just be a brief hiatus turned into soul
01:03:15.345 --> 01:03:18.904
searching and decided that I'd always liked the idea of being a teacher.
01:03:19.691 --> 01:03:24.094
What I was doing, what I'd come out here to do, I wasn't really connecting
01:03:24.110 --> 01:03:27.340
with people. I was doing a lot of lonely editing work on things I wasn't
01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:31.368
passionate about. And I was like, I want to be around people. So I got
01:03:31.645 --> 01:03:36.088
my teaching credential and Yeah,
01:03:36.489 --> 01:03:40.307
it was really bumpy at the beginning. And now
01:03:40.419 --> 01:03:43.692
finally, uh, on year 5 of teaching, I feel like I finally
01:03:43.788 --> 01:03:47.542
have a firm grasp on
01:03:47.574 --> 01:03:50.943
that. I'm gonna have another panic attack now. Now that I
01:03:51.443 --> 01:03:55.049
feel confident, oh, it's, it's all gonna go downhill. But I had time to do
01:03:55.499 --> 01:03:59.044
this show, which I love doing. And, uh, hopefully we
01:03:59.544 --> 01:04:02.906
can grow it together. That's the part that's not just me. If you
01:04:02.971 --> 01:04:07.004
are watching or listening and you enjoy the show, please get
01:04:07.504 --> 01:04:11.053
the word out. I know there are tons of podcasts. I'd like to think ours
01:04:11.166 --> 01:04:14.466
is a little different in that we are
01:04:14.966 --> 01:04:17.264
focusing on the bad times that make great stories.
01:04:18.486 --> 01:04:22.174
So if anything in today's episode resonated with you or you just want to say
01:04:22.674 --> 01:04:25.700
hello, you can always email us. I said us again.
01:04:26.072 --> 01:04:29.493
It's so funny. We always I feel like you just want to pretend like
01:04:29.541 --> 01:04:32.915
you're a bigger deal than you are. It's just me. I have no one
01:04:32.948 --> 01:04:36.572
else. If you'd like to email me,
01:04:36.654 --> 01:04:38.731
uh, it is badtimesgoodstoriespodcast@gmail.com.
01:04:42.292 --> 01:04:45.360
Would love to hear from you. Uh, if you have a story you'd like me
01:04:45.860 --> 01:04:48.509
to read on the air, go ahead. If you have a story you just want
01:04:48.525 --> 01:04:52.064
to share with me and not read on the air, make that clear. But I'm
01:04:52.115 --> 01:04:56.214
excited. We've got We, I have
01:04:56.295 --> 01:05:00.918
a number of great guests coming up and I'm
01:05:01.418 --> 01:05:05.396
excited. I'm excited. I'm excited to be back and I hope you enjoy
01:05:05.445 --> 01:05:08.798
this episode and future episodes. And if
01:05:09.298 --> 01:05:12.555
you're new, there's plenty of episodes to go back and listen to.
01:05:13.313 --> 01:05:17.477
It is truly a passion of mine and I can't wait to see where
01:05:18.235 --> 01:05:21.957
this takes us all. On this journey of embracing the
01:05:22.457 --> 01:05:26.055
bad times. So until next time, I forget what I used
01:05:26.555 --> 01:05:29.688
to say. So until next time,
01:05:29.784 --> 01:05:31.118
I'll see you next time.