Faculty Off The Clock - Featuring Josette Pelzer

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We welcome you to this episode of Faculty Off the Clock, a podcast series hosted by the College of Charleston's Office of the Provost that highlights the personal and lighter sides of our campus's professors.
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I'm Mark Del Mastro.
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And I'm Chris Corey, Associate Provosts, and your hosts of Faculty Off the Clock.
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For this episode, we welcome Dr.
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Joseph Pelzer of the Department of Accounting and Business Law.
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Welcome.
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Hello.
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Hello, hello.
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So we like to talk about things that you're not doing on campus, but we always start to get a a sense of how you got to the college.
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What brought you here?
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All right.
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So I am actually one of the few faculty members, I think, from Charleston.
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So I grew up here.
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I'm born and raised James Island.
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And so I went, well, I guess to give a beat brief background, I went to USC for undergrad and masters in accounting, started working in Charlotte, and I was kind of like, eh, I don't know if I really like this public accounting thing.
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And I started Was it the public accounting thing or was it Charlotte?
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It was the public accounting thing.
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Okay.
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Charlotte.
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No offense to Charlotte.
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Charlotte is great.
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No, it was the public accounting thing.
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And I was getting married and kind of like, I gotta figure something else out to do that I feel is more impactful.
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Um, at least the way I wanted to be impactful.
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And so I talked to a lot of my accounting professors, and I was like, How do you get into this that you all are doing?
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And they were like, You need to go, you need to get a PhD.
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And I was like, Oh, okay.
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So quit my job in public accounting, went back to graduate school at Florida State in Tallahassee, spent five great years there, a couple of national championships while I was there.
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That was awesome.
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Um, and then you know, uh as PhD graduates do, they start looking for jobs.
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And I saw that there was an opening here at the college.
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And interestingly enough, being from here, when I graduated high school, the college was like so far on my down on my list, it was off like not even on the list.
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Like I was like, I I'm definitely not going there.
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How far away can I get from where I live?
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Like, no way.
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And then when I was as an adult looking for jobs and seeing this come across for the college, I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing.
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I would love, I would love to work there.
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I would love to be back home.
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So that's sort of how I made it full circle back to Charleston.
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Wow.
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That's great.
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So you're originally from James Island?
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Mm-hmm.
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What part of James Island?
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So I grew up on James Island.
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There it used to be called Sunshine House.
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Now I think it's some other kind of daycare.
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But as soon as you hit Folly Road, there's a gas station, there's a Bojangles at the neighborhood right behind the Bojangles is where I grew up and where my parents still live now.
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Yeah.
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So what were your interests and activities growing up?
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Back then.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, uh growing up, it was interesting.
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My parents were very involved in community stuff.
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My mom's super involved in the church.
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So I like to say I was at church like eight days a week.
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Oh my.
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Yeah.
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There's a lot of church in there.
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Um, but outside of that, I uh did violin, viola, so very much into music, singing church choir.
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I'm not a singer.
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I don't I don't want anyone to confuse that.
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I was just on the choir as one of the many members.
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Um but yeah, very much into music stuff and and mainly just hanging out being a kid.
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So I have two older siblings that are like 13 and 15 years older than me.
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So I kind of grew up as an only child, but with much older siblings.
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And so a lot of just entertaining myself and being creative and doing random stuff to not get in my very tired parents' way.
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Do you still play the violin?
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I do not.
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I actually, so I have two kids, one seven and one ten.
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The ten-year-old did a very brief stint with violin.
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You were hopeful.
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Yes, I was hopeful.
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The interest would be passed along.
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And I even like picked it back up because she had it in the house.
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And I would play and I would like demonstrate to her, like, oh, let's do this, let's play a little bit.
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Too much enthusiasm, mom.
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Oh, I messed it up.
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Mom wants me to have it.
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Where where were you six months ago, Mom?
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And she was just like into it a little bit, and then over the summer, I kept having to beg her to practice, and she was like, Ah, actually, I don't want to do this.
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I was like, okay, I'll back off.
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No big deal.
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We'll find something else for you to do.
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So I picked it up for a minute, but yeah, that was very brief.
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You still have the violin in the house?
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No, no, we sent it back.
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It's over, it's gone.
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It's all right.
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So, did you have a favorite vacation spot growing up?
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I wouldn't say a spot.
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So I would actually say a vacation style.
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So my dad, his biggest retirement dream was to get an RV, and he did.
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But prior to that, he had a like a luxury van.
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I don't even know what those things are called, where they're not RVs, but they're like vans that have like some some drapes.
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They have drapes, they have draps my in-laws had one of those.
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Oh my gosh, they have to be.
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Yes, they have beds, a bed in the back.
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So as a kid, we would go all.
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I mean, we would go to New Jersey, the Grand Canyon, we went to Vegas in this thing.
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Like we went all around.
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So that was my favorite thing to do.
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It wasn't really a place, it was just the idea of all of us in this van.
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How many of how many of there were you?
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Oh, so so mainly because my siblings were older at the time, one in the military and one in college, they were not a part of the van shenanigans, and they're still jealous now, I think, that they didn't have that childhood.
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But that's okay.
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Um so who was there is a host of aunts, uncles, cousins, and then I had an aunt and an uncle who had similar vans, and so it was like a caravan of vans.
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So going cross country and and stopping and rest stops and random hotels and the whole thing just gave me an excitement for travel in general, and the idea that it really wasn't about where we were going.
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It's just that we were all together and you know, I got to sit in the swivel chairs and swivel the captain's chairs, yeah.
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All these things.
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It was just so not a spot, but just like a a style of travel that's you know, this is Dr.
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Corey's dream retirement plan, is the whole art.
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Well, we have we just bought a camper.
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He's already front road here.
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Really?
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I'm so excited.
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Super excited.
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You're gonna love uh so is everyone else buying into this idea, or is this just your dream?
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No, no, my wife grew up similar to what you you did, but her her parents had uh like a a toe behind, and then um they did some travel and then they just parked it at like a full-time campground, so she camped her whole life.
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So it's really her dream, and then I got into it.
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I see.
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Okay, well, it's gonna be fantastic.
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Very typical in U.S.
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culture, and um far majority of us have summer jobs.
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I trust you had a summer job as well, and if so, um tell us what your worst one was, and maybe your most memorable in a positive way.
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Okay.
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I I would say I had a a few summer jobs.
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I I feel like the worst one was um one summer, I think it was after I graduated high school, actually, I worked on base on the Air Force base as a camp counselor.
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And that made me realize that I really didn't like small children as much as I thought I'd that career.
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Small children, other other people's small kids.
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Um, so that that was interesting, and really they weren't the actually the worst part of the job.
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I think I wasn't prepared for the extra duties.
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Like I had to wash dishes, and like you know, I grew up in a household where there was no dishwasher, so that was my first experience, like learning how to use the dishwasher.
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Not sure if I was doing it correctly or not.
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Um, but anyway, it was just the stuff around um the kids, the extra stuff.
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I was like, uh actually that K through 12 um education dream that I had probably is not where I need to be.
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So it was not so great because it wasn't what I expected, but really actually turned out to be great as far as my career path because I figured out pretty early on where I didn't feel like I had the best skills for and I could pivot to something else before I got where I got to college.
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So that was good.
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Um one memorable job actually was at Blockbuster.
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I'm sure people remember.
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Oh, remember Blockbuster.
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I just like that job.
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That was probably my favorite sort of part-time summer job.
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Are you like a real film uh not necessarily a real film box?
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I think what I liked about it was the people coming in and their excitement.
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Oh, about getting a particular copies are checked out, right?
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Yeah, or like or the the thrill of okay, we don't have it on the shelf, but I'm gonna dig through the return bin and help you find it.
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Oh well.
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Guess what?
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Here it is.
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Yeah, yes, yes.
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The the the the joy I was able to provide working at Blockbuster, I think that was fun.
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So I myself am not a movie buff per se.
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I just it was just a fun environment for the colour.
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It was always fun as a customer, you know, because you because you you you knew there was a chance.
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I mean, that was part of the suspense and excitement.
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You knew there was a chance you weren't gonna get the film that you really wanted.
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And then you would you were hopeful that you would get someone who was a helpful employee there that would say, you know, if you like this film, I think you really like this one.
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Yeah.
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And you it wasn't on your radar, and you'd be like, oh, okay, I'll try it.
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You'd be like, huh, and then it kind of opened up your your horizons on the on the on film, right?
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That's right.
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And it was really truly a joyful place.
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I mean, a lot of part-time summer jobs are kind of like but you know, this was actually I I really enjoyed it.
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It was my first time being truly customer-facing, so I think I got what were the perks as a blockbuster employee?
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I think we might have gotten like some free rentals, and and the the dangerous perk was you got some percentage off all the candy and junk that they had on the pretty disciplined.
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I forgot about that.
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Yeah, they used to have kind of like a like a movie theater, right?
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Yeah.
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That was one of the main parts.
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Yeah, you wait in line and and buy all the candy and pump.
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Yeah.
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How many people didn't return it rewound?
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Oh, I would say by the time I was towards a good memory, I forgot all that.
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To the to the tail of Blockbuster, I think people were pretty disciplined.
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Was there a a penalty fee?
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Oh, yeah, they got mad at you.
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And then you had because you didn't want to rewind it in your VCR because that could age it.
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So you got this other thing a device.
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You could get one shaped like a car, you put it in there.
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That's right.
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I remember all this.
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Yes, or you bring it back to me and let me rewind it for you and be aggravated because I can't just put it on the shelf.
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It consumes valuable consulting time with other customers.
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But by the time I worked there, there were mostly DVDs and not rewinding videos.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, this thing started moving up.
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That's right.
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Um did you have a pet growing up?
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So I had all my parents.
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Fish don't count, by the way.
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Oh, they don't.
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I wasn't.
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I'm like it, I'll kid, I'll like it.
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I was gonna say the only thing my parents let me have was a goldfish.
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So they were uh like I said, I have older siblings.
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I was a surprise baby.
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Oh as in a mom had her tubes tied, had no intent of having any kids.
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That is a surprise.
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And then here I come.
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And so by the time they got to me, they were like a pet.
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You weren't even supposed to be.
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What?
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No, take this goldfish.
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So I had uh several iterations of a goldfish named Jasmine until you know her her final untime.
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Did that did that adequately fill the need for having a pet?
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No, definitely not.
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No, it was no substitution for the dog that I demanded and never got.
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No.
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Do you have a dog now?
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No, because uh now as a parent, I see exactly what my parents were talking about.
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This would be insane to add this to the craziness of my life.
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Why would I do that?
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Yeah, but they the kids have had goldfish, and that was a traumatic experience because I think I was more attached to it than they were.
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Yeah and a couple of them had very slow um demise.
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Oh, yeah, putting on their side.
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You're supposed to technically, you know, clean their water daily, and that always ends daily a oh yes.
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Where were again where were you six months ago, a year ago?
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Oh, you know, I was a fish hobbyist for a while and the hard way.
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So I'm very sensitive to the the clean water process in the fish tank.
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Oh man, no, that's definitely where we went wrong.
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Well, I'm sorry.
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Well, let's maybe go a little something something a little happier.
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Did you have a favorite board game growing up?
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So I my favorite board game, if we're being strict about it being a board game, would be Monopoly.
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And I got, you know, all the family members involved.
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I think even though I didn't know that I was an accountant in the making, they probably saw by the way I play Monopoly that there was something, you know, financial related.
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You're always the banker?
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Yes.
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Absolutely.
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I demanded to be the banker every game.
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Was it an enjoyable experience for you?
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For me, yeah.
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I don't know.
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Good clarification character?
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Like she's a good thing.
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I always wanted to be the car.
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The car.
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I don't know what that means about the person.
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Don't worry, we don't judge here.
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It's okay.
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Um let's talk about your grammar school years.
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Is there a fun fact you'd like to share with your listeners that you think might amuse them?
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Um I grammar school itself was pretty, you know, chill.
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Chill, cookie cutter, not much going on there.
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I think outside of grammar school, an interesting fact about those years is that I actually met my future husband in in church during the elementary school years, and he always tells people that um so my mom, my mom and aunt were in charge of children's church, and so that's kind of where we really met each other.
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And he always says, I hated her.
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She knew all the answers.
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She was probably cheating because her her mother Love takes time.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But eventually, you know, he came around.
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So that was much later in college, he came around.
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So that was in an interesting time of life where I met a person that would end up being very important in my story that I wouldn't have thought was that significant back then.
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So that's kind of the only thing I think.
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That's a great story.
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It is a good story.
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Same uh fun fact question from your high school years.
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Oh, so high school, I was, you know, a pretty decent student, but not all that popular.
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How did you go to high school?
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James Island James Island High School before it became James Island Charter High School.
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Is it when there were two, like Fort Johnson and James Island?
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No, no, no.
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I'm not that old.
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No, no.
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It was after that, but before the charter then.
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Um so I was a decent student, not like super popular or anything, but my senior year I got the bright idea to run for student body president, and I actually won.
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It was like yeah, it was uh not something I thought would happen because again, I was not like the most popular person, but it's a time in life where I remember thinking, hey, just because you don't think that you should do like don't doubt yourself, you know, try to um expand your horizons about what you think you can do, and I've kind of carried that throughout life.
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So that was I don't know how interesting of a fact it is, but it was a pivotal point, I think, in in high school.
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Okay.
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Did you what did you run on?
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Like better, better concessions, uh, good good question.
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Better better park.
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Better what?
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Better parking.
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Parking.
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That was a big thing.
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There were many, many more drivers than parking spaces.
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So figuring figuring that out, I think was a hot button issue.
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And there was something else about the lunch times people didn't like.
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I don't think we ever got any traction on changing it, but you know, that was part of the platform.
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Yeah, open lunch.
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Did you have open lunch?
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Could you leave campus or yes, yes.
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We could already do that.
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Yes, yes.
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If you were a junior or above or something like that, yeah, we didn't.
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Lots of little Caesars.
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Oh yeah.
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Five dollars a pizza, I think it's a little bit more, yeah.
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Yeah.
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So you moved on to to USC.
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Some fun fact about your your time as an undergraduate fan.
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Yes.
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During undergrad, I eventually connected with my elementary school nemesis from children's church.
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So that's where we started dating.
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But in addition to So he came around.
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It took it took him a long time, but it took him a college year.
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He said, Hey, you know what?
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She's not so bad after all.
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Yeah, it took about a a decade, but he finally finally got there.
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Um, but also I was an RA and that was a pretty cool experience.
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Yeah, I I really loved that job.
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Um not because I was like authority hungry or anything like that, but I just like getting to know the other residents and you know being a resource for them and somebody they could come and talk to.
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Um you enjoyed that role.
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I did.
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It was not fun when you had to bust people for like alcohol parties and stuff like that.
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But uh outside of that, just getting to know people, it was a great job.
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Cheap housing, cheap food.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um so I guess your graduate school years are split in two.
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You were uh partly at USC and then at Florida State.
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I d yes, I was.
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I did a year's master's program in accounting at USC, and that was really just like a fifth year program kind of thing, and then started working in Charlotte for about four and a half-ish years and went back to Tallahassee to Florida State for the PhD program.
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And and that was a really interesting Tallahassee.
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I I I was gonna say it was interesting.
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I coming from Charleston, I was like, you know, nothing's nothing's gonna be about hometown.
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Like there's there's no way.
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Um, but uh it has its charm.
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I actually kind of miss it from time to time.
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There's certain things about there's a lot of nature-related stuff that is very popular there, lots of open spaces which I love.
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The the academic communities are really thriving.
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There's the government aspect, so there's a a lot of different types of people there because of the there are a lot of different things attracting them.
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So it's a nice mix of different types of people.
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So I I love Tel Had.
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And and um, are you a seminal football fan?
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I am, unfortunately.
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Yeah, that hasn't been a very good patch here recently, but yeah.
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Well, you know, that comes and goes.
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Yeah, this is a go.
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It's gotta it's gotta be a great environment.
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I'd love to go see the game.
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Oh, yeah, nothing beats it.
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Nothing beats it.
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Uh you might have been engaged into your time at uh Tallahassee?
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Uh the not particularly.
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The the main interesting fact is that I know some people in graduate school live in graduate student housing, but by this point, me and Dante, my husband, are now married.
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He's fully converted at this point by the time we get to graduate school.
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So we're there together, and he actually is a student affairs person and worked um in housing.
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So when we moved there, his job was in housing, and we lived in the residence halls at Florida State.
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So we were in and amongst, I mean, we had a little apartment, but we were in and amongst the student population, which was amazing because again, I I think that's why I love working here now.
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It just sort of keeps you engaged in what's going on.
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And so we were like in the mix of everything.
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We were steps away from the stadium, like wake up, walk across the street, go to a game.
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Like you couldn't be there.
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Yeah.
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Correct.
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Well, we're gonna refocus a little bit on the title of this podcast, which is Faculty Off the Clock, and ask you about a current pastime or hobby of activity that you enjoy regularly, and maybe give us some insight into how that first started.
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So I would say a couple of things.
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I I actually had to ask Dante, what do you think my hobbies are?
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Because I feel like I spend a lot of time doing stuff, but nothing, no defined hobby.
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And he was like, You like community service.
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I was like, is that a hobby?
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And he was like, Sure.
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So I think that's one element of what I would say.
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Like I love just getting out there.
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I work with a youth program now.
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Well, actually two youth programs.
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I'm treasurer for the city.
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So you've come around to like other people's kids.
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Well, look when I have very limited responses.
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I gotcha, mentorship is good.
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Uh day-to-day not so much.
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Gotcha.
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Okay.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So youth programs, being treasurer for some community organizations, uh, I really just enjoy finding ways that I could use the skills that the professional skills I have to help people out in the community.
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So that's that's great.
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And and beyond that, audiobooks, podcasts, um, and trash TV probably is because are the hobbies I would define.
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Yeah, you would what are you watching right now?
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Yeah.
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So actually, now I have moved a little bit away from the pure trash and kind of have been I didn't know they were different middle groups of trash shows.
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So now I've sort of redirected to to old shows.
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So now I'm re-watching stuff like The Golden Girls, The Office.
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Living Single.
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I don't know.
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Oh, yeah, sure.
00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:45.519
That's a good one too.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So I'm I've been trying to wean myself off, you know, the pure just debauchery and and move on to nostalgic.
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Yeah, I gotcha.
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Not so much Love Island or No, no, no.
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No.
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Golden Bachelor, isn't that another one?
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Yeah, that's all.
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Yeah, right.
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Um is there a a a particular perspective off-the-clock activity that you would like to tackle in the future that you haven't managed?
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This one was, yeah, definitely.
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So I have been telling people for the last year, or probably two years, that by the time I turn 50, I want to own a boat of some kind and learn how to drive a boat or navigate through a motorized boat.
00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:32.160
Oh, yeah.
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Okay, not a sailboat.
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No, no, no.
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Yeah, a motorized boat and no learn how to navigate through open waters.
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I feel like I grew up here surrounded by water.
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Sure.
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And I am not as proficient as I should be in that area.
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And so that is one of my my perspective hobbies.
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If anybody out there has any tips, let me know.
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And would that also involve the backing of the boat trailer into the water?
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The backing of the into parking spaces, anything, yeah, it's hard.
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With the trailer, no.
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Yeah.
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See, my boating, I've been here for in Charleston 33 years, and so my satisfying this ongoing obligation, as I guess now I'm a I'm a Charlestonian to a certain degree, to get on the water was kayaks.
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No motors.
00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:24.160
So much easier to get some physical activity, and you say, yeah, I can boating.
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Kayak.
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Yeah, I'm looking for something a little more leisurely.
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I gotcha.
00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:29.680
Okay, I gotcha.
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Well, to me, the stress of backing up the boat into the Oh yeah.
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Yeah, one of my favorite videos is like these bunch of kids who like sit in lawn chairs near a boat ramp and just like watch and comment and jeer and clap.
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Oh, awful, awful, awful.
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It's hot and sweaty, it's hard.
00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:51.599
Uh so uh our our last question in this round is if you weren't a faculty member right now, what would you be?
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Yeah.
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Okay, so thinking back, I had to pull one.
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Not a preschool teacher.
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No, definitely not.
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No, no, no, no.
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I actually, when I was younger, had dreams of being a news anchor.
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I was obsessed with them.
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Really?
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Obsessed.
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I would get the little like highlights magazine and put it on my violin stand and open it up like a teleprompter and pretend I was on the news.
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So I feel like if I was news.
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And you would recite them like aloud?
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Oh, yeah.
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And I would put on a news anchor voice.
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Like I was all in.
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Who's your favorite newscaster?
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So growing up here, you've got Bill Sharp, Debbie Charles, Car Carolyn Murray, you know, all those people were like, I would sit and watch in amazement, like, how are they able to do this?
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And I would practice, and my mom would just find me reading random like newspapers.
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In this news voice.
00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:46.480
Oh, absolutely.
00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:46.880
Yes.
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See, I this intrigu I see I did the same thing in the 70s.
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Mine was William Concrete, and I would take the I would take the newspaper and I take certain sections, and all by myself, I just recite it.
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Recite it aloud in this news voice.
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Yes.
00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:03.839
And that was my fascination for a couple of years and things pivoted.
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:05.200
That's interesting.
00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:07.359
I don't know what happened to that dream.
00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:15.359
Eventually I just I think I I started to believe like I needed to be walking around with a briefcase, so I needed to go to business school.
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:16.799
I don't know where that came from.
00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:21.440
So I I switched gears, but I feel like that was a a second dream.
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And and third to that was a voiceover actor.
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:28.640
I also wanted to do I don't I don't even know how to do voices or anything.
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:29.759
Like for animated movies?
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:36.559
But I wanted to do either not not even animated movies, but like commercials and advertisements.
00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:39.440
I think it was the news anchory voice thing.
00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:40.079
Yeah.
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:52.559
Well, we're gonna move to our lightning round now, and this always concludes our faculty off the clock installments where we ask each guest some important standard questions.
00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:55.200
Again, about your life off the clock.
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We also want to clarify that we do know the difference between thunder and lightning.
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But since this is an audio podcast, we had to settle on the thunder sound effect to cue this portion of the interview.
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First question: what's your favorite meal?
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Omelets.
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Omelets?
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You make them yourself?
00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:14.799
Yes, probably three, four times a week.
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What do you like to put in it?
00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:17.519
Yes.
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So I love pepper jack cheese, spinach, any any other vegetable.
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Does Mr.
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:24.240
Dante also like your omelets?
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:26.480
He's not a big of a fan of omelets.
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:27.920
So you're making them for yourself.
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:28.640
Oh, yeah.
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:30.319
I just introduced him to eggs.
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:31.759
Like growing up, he hated eggs.
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So we're it's a slow process.
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Okay.
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:34.720
Wow.
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Uh a favorite dessert?
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:37.759
Cheesecake.
00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:38.160
Oh.
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:40.319
I make a mean cheesecake.
00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:40.880
You do?
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:42.160
Those are difficult to do.
00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:42.880
Yeah.
00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:45.039
How do you like the cheesecake?
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Because there's a consistency.
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:48.960
See, I grew up outside the New York metropolitan area.
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So I I consider myself a real cheesecake snob.
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:53.839
Oh boy.
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Do you like it light and fluffy?
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Or do you like it so it's cracking and dense and you're really having to push that fork into the street?
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I want something in the middle.
00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:06.640
I don't, I don't like it too dense, but definitely not light and fluffy.
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I don't want flour.
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No flour in it.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Interesting.
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Because you gotta, you gotta you cook it and then it's gotta cool.
00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:14.000
That's right.
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There's a whole process.
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You gotta do a water bath and all of that.
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Yes.
00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:19.039
Oh, yours sounds pretty good.
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:22.640
Do you like to put like uh like zest in it?
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Like a there is, there's lemon involved.
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:25.920
Absolutely.
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:27.759
Lemon juice, a little zest.
00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:32.079
Well, if you ever make one, very tricky slices.
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Okay.
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:35.839
Um pancakes or waffles?
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:40.480
Hmm, I'd say waffles, specifically waffle house waffles.
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:43.200
But you gotta take a big nap after that.
00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:46.400
I mean, because there's not I mean, it just slows you at least it does me.
00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:47.279
I'm like fun.
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:49.119
No, I had it I had it today.
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:49.759
I went to waffle.
00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:50.720
You did I didn't.
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:51.759
And you could function after?
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:52.559
Absolutely.
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:53.759
You don't eat the whole waffle.
00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:55.279
Oh no, I gotta eat the whole thing.
00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:58.160
I like the waffle, but man, afterwards I'm not feeling that great.
00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:00.400
Are you a coffee or tea person?
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:00.960
Both?
00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:04.400
I am a cappuccino specifically person.
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:04.960
Yes.
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:05.920
Regular coffee.
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:06.880
Do you make it in your house?
00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:07.839
Cappuccino?
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:08.559
I don't.
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:11.039
I keep saying I need to get a legit machine.
00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:11.200
Yeah.
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:14.480
Um, but I don't, but so I don't have it that often.
00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:14.640
Okay.
00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:16.640
But I am a cappuccino girl.
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:17.279
Oh, okay.
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:18.799
Favorite snack food?
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:20.640
Snacks, probably popcorn.
00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:21.440
Popcorn.
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:22.559
Oh, we'll talk about that.
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:24.720
Maybe it's a we'll talk a little bit more about that later.
00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:27.279
It's the blockbuster influence, I think maybe.
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:28.079
Yeah.
00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:32.480
Uh do you do you like a sub sandwich, a favorite kind of sub sandwich?
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:34.799
So I don't like sandwiches that much.
00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:36.079
You don't like a good sandwich?
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:37.920
I don't, I'm not a huge fan.
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:39.519
I don't like a lot of bread.
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:40.799
I think it's too much.
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:42.400
I do eat them.
00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:44.960
Like I wouldn't pass it up if someone gave me a big thing.
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:46.400
But that's not you're not going to be able to do it.
00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:48.000
You're not stopping on a road trip.
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:49.279
Yeah, you're doing your van.
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:49.920
You're not stopping.
00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:52.079
No, no, no, no.
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:54.799
So what do you I mean you what are you serving on a picnic?
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:58.240
I mean, I'm coming on your picnic, no sandwich.
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:00.960
No, no, no, no, no.
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:02.000
Dromettes.
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:08.079
So I this is this is a childhood specific thing.
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:08.480
Yeah.
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:16.000
So there's my my family, like you go on trips, you go on like the the the back to school bash or whatever.
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:19.359
You pack and foil like dromettes of chicken.
00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:20.960
That's yeah, that's what you do.
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:21.440
Okay.
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:22.880
Well, I like I like this a lot.
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:23.680
I like this, yeah.
00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:23.920
Yeah.
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:25.519
What's your favorite soft drink?
00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:28.480
I don't normally drink soda.
00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:29.119
You don't?
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:32.400
But if I do, it'll be a nice strong coke.
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:33.039
Okay.
00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:34.880
You don't like sweet tea or unsweet tea?
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:36.880
You'd consider that a soft drink.
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:37.839
Yeah, I would.
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.880
Oh, okay.
00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:39.599
Would you, Dr.
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:39.839
Corn?
00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:40.960
No, I would not.
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:43.680
I would.
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:44.799
Wrong answer.
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:45.359
Okay.
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:47.839
I I love I love sweet tea.
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.279
I love a good Arnold Palmer, but did not consider that a soft drink.
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:55.519
So if you go soda um in a can or off the fountain.
00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:56.160
Okay.
00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:57.279
Oh, yeah, good question.
00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:58.880
We've been having this discussion in your office.
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.200
I actually prefer a bottle.
00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:03.279
So I like a bottle.
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:04.319
I like a glass bottle.
00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:05.759
A glass bottle.
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:07.200
I'll take a plastic bottle.
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:08.960
The fountain, it's too inconsistent.
00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:09.440
The fountain.
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:10.079
Yeah, this is true.
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:11.119
It depends on the place.
00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:12.319
This is true.
00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:13.519
Yeah, you gotta find your place.
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.039
Yeah, it's good.
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:19.359
Uh and the off-the-clock activity you like to do by yourself.
00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:21.200
Oh, sleep, probably.
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:22.480
Oh, that's a good one.
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:23.680
We haven't had that answer yet, I don't think.
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:24.480
A big napper?
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:25.519
I love naps.
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:26.720
I love a power nap.
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:27.359
Yes.
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:28.400
A secret.
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:35.279
If if I am in my office and the lights are off, but you saw me go in there, I'm probably had my head on my desk for like 10 minutes.
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:36.240
Power nap.
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:36.799
No, power nap.
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:39.839
Some of my favorite offices on campus were ones without any glass.
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:44.160
So I could just or I'd have to turn my chair away and just for a few minutes.
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:46.160
It's better than coffee.
00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:47.839
It gives me so much energy.
00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:49.359
Go for the coffee.
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.799
What's your uh you have a current favorite music group?
00:33:53.119 --> 00:34:00.480
Hmm, I I don't, but I will say because I have a 10 and 7 year old, the K-pop demon hunters.
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:00.799
Oh, yes.
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:04.240
I'm I'm fully engaged with with them.
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:04.720
Yes.
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:06.319
Have you not heard of this mark?
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:07.039
No.
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:09.280
There's a lot of things I'm still learning.
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:12.400
My wife works with kids, so I've heard of the K-pop demon hunters.
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:13.760
Oh no, wait, K-pop, yeah, I have.
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:14.800
From my my daughters, I have.
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:15.199
Yeah, yeah.
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:15.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:17.679
They're they're very happening now.
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:20.320
And actually, I love the songs.
00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:21.360
How about from your youth?
00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:24.320
Do you have a favorite uh musical group from your youth?
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:28.960
I would have to say probably like a new edition.
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:32.480
Yeah, I like them.
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:33.840
I like them.
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:34.159
Yeah.
00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:35.440
Um edition.
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:36.480
Yeah.
00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:36.880
Okay.
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:39.199
Um, I was a big Mariah Carey fan.
00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:41.360
Yeah, Mariah Carey liked to.
00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:42.079
Yeah.
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:42.800
Okay.
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:46.000
Um, do you have a favorite kind of barbecue?
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:47.039
Texas, Southern?
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:48.159
Anything like that?
00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:49.039
Not barbecue?
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:49.440
Yeah.
00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.719
You better you better be fair faithful to you to South Charlestonians here with this answer.
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:59.360
I I am biased and I love a good southern barbecue.
00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:10.559
The reason why I have not been eating as much barbecue as probably I would like is because I'm find di find it difficult to find places that have good sides.
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:13.119
So barbecue will be good.
00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:14.239
Glad to hear you say that.
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.320
Sides are very important.
00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:25.760
Yes, I love a mac and cheese, but I also love like a nice um crispy Brussels sprout.
00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:33.679
I mean, yeah, which have become very in vogue and kind of ubiquitous ubiquitous, but not always as great.
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.360
Yeah, they're not again the consistency I can't find.
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:42.079
So still on food, is there uh what's the most memorable restaurant of your lifetime?
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:43.199
Of my lifetime.
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:45.519
Of your lifetime that used to go, you know.
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:48.400
And it could be in existence still, maybe not.
00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:52.159
Um there was one, the Western Sizzler.
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:53.920
Does anybody was know this?
00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:55.840
Different than the regular Sizzler?
00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:57.920
I didn't know there was an alternative.
00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:00.159
You like the Western memory?
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:02.800
Is this like a youthful memory?
00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:04.480
Yes, that's a youthful memory.
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:09.920
And there was a similar restaurant here called Grandy's that had the best biscuits of all time.
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:12.559
Was it a chain or like a local place?
00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:14.880
No, it was a chain and the the logo.
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:20.239
I think I remember it being an older lady as like a silhouette of her and the logo.
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:24.079
Currently, my absolute favorite restaurant is Waffle House.
00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:27.039
I do like Waffle House, but again, Waffle House.
00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:30.079
It puts me into a food coma and I just can't function after.
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:31.599
You're not doing it right.
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.079
See, I like to get the what is it, the the super bird.
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:34.719
All star.
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:36.079
Yeah, the all-star.
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:37.760
It's the best brand for your body.
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:40.320
Yeah, you get because I like to sample a little bit of everything.
00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:42.639
And while I'm eating it, I feel great.
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:45.599
And then like half hour later, I'm like, I don't know if I should have done that.
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:46.480
Yeah.
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:47.440
No, no, no.
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:49.039
I'm only I'm only sampling.
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:51.280
I'm only eating a bit and pieces of each thing.
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:51.599
Yeah.
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:54.159
Uh walk, bike, or drive?
00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:55.840
Walk.
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:57.920
I like you like to walk, huh?
00:36:58.159 --> 00:36:59.440
I love walking.
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:02.079
Um that's why this campus is so amazing.
00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:04.400
You can just, oh, I need a 10-minute break.
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:05.760
I'll get out on the walk.
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:06.400
That's great.
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:07.039
Yeah.
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:14.719
Um can you tell us uh in detail how you dispense toothpaste out of the tube?
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:18.400
Oh, I love this question because I have strong feelings about it.
00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:19.280
Oh, we do too.
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.480
So I do.
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:23.920
Just only one of us.
00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:29.440
You have to squeeze from the bottom.
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:30.480
Of course you do.
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:32.239
Pushing up from the bottom.
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:32.639
Thank you.
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:34.000
There's no middle squeeze.
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:34.880
No, there is not.
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.320
Between that and the cheesecake answer, I'm really impressed with you right now.
00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:41.440
Thank you.
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:42.480
Thank you.
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:43.119
Yes.
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:45.599
It it ha there has to be a process to it.
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:46.639
Yeah, there sure does.
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:53.199
How about when you get to the end of the tube and you know it's hard to squeeze, but you know there's a couple more brushes left.
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:55.599
Today, today, I'm there.
00:37:55.760 --> 00:38:01.519
I am there today with my current toothbrush toothpaste tube, and I am milking it for all it is worth.
00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:02.239
Good for you.
00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:05.760
Do you ever resort to cutting the top off to get a couple more?
00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:06.960
No, I haven't gone that far.
00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:07.760
I'm a little bit more.
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:08.800
We just discussed this last night.
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:13.360
My wife brought in the toothpaste, and she's like, what would Mark do right now?
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:14.480
He would cut it open.
00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:14.800
Yes.
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:20.079
You get two to three more brushes out of that and multiply that by every tube.
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.239
I mean, that's a substantial amount of toothpaste.
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:25.039
Where I have done that though for is lotion.
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:27.840
I cut the bottle open and scoop the lotion out.
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:28.320
You know?
00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:29.119
There's lots left.
00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:30.719
You have inspired me.
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:32.960
I am ashamed to say that I can't.
00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:34.480
You're throwing the bottles away?
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:37.760
I yeah, uh, and I'm I'm ashamed to admit that.
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:39.440
Why this had never occurred to me.
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:45.119
For the toothpaste, you're only getting two or three more brushes I'm getting a week's more worth of potatoes.
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:45.920
Oh my gosh.
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:49.280
The information that you're sharing with me today is invaluable.
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:50.320
It's changing my life.
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:51.679
Yeah, yeah, it is.
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:53.920
So we're back to your popcorn.
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:54.719
How do you like it?
00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:03.119
Oh, I like light salt, not very heavily salted, but tons of butter, which probably is not great.
00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:04.400
But if it's dry, I can't.
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:05.679
How do you make it at home?
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:06.559
What do you use?
00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:09.920
Okay, so I buy I bought a specific machine.
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:14.400
So I am not into the uh microwave popcorn.
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:15.119
I don't like that.
00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:16.639
What kind of machine you got?
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:19.039
It's uh Pop O Matic or something like that.
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:20.000
You heard of the Popomic?
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:20.480
No, I have not.
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:21.679
What explain this to us?
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:23.440
So it I y'all don't know this.
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:25.440
No, we're listening a lot with you.
00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:28.800
Oh, I mean, I it's not a big deal.
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:31.199
You just I now don't quote me on the name.
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:32.480
I'll I'd have to look it up.
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:41.440
But you just put in your kernels in this thing in the center, and then you plug it in and it heats up so it's all air pop.
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:47.840
Yeah, okay, and then it pops all the kernels and it has a lid on it, and you just flip it over and the lid becomes your bowl.
00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:48.400
Does Mr.
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:49.599
Dante like popcorn too?
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:50.159
He loves it.
00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:51.599
Oh, good, good, good, good.
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:52.559
Yeah, we do too.
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:58.559
So you are at a it's your signature celebrity event.
00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:01.599
I mean, um, you have been preparing for this for weeks.
00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:09.199
Everybody is looking forward to seeing you and hearing you, and you are about to walk out on the stage.
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:10.559
What is your entrance song?
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:12.480
Oh, wow.
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:19.920
I'd probably say I'm coming out, I guess.
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:21.760
Maybe something a little sassy.
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:22.159
Yeah.
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:22.639
I don't know.
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:23.599
Like sassy?
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:24.000
Okay.
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:24.800
Maybe.
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.920
Or maybe something from K-pop again.
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:28.639
I don't know.
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:29.119
Okay.
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:30.400
I'd have to think more about it.
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:33.199
Yeah, no, it's it's it's a pr it's a it's a it's a big question.
00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:35.360
I mean, we don't give folks a lot of time to think about it.
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:36.480
Okay.
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:38.079
That was a tough one.
00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:47.039
Uh Professor Belzer, thanks so much for sharing today about your time off the clock and for giving listeners an alternative glimpse into your life outside the classroom.
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:48.079
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