WEBVTT 1 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:38.560 All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the 2 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:39.840 JPod Bonecasts. 3 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:41.840 Episode of season eight, episode nine. 4 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.159 We're back with reoccurring guest Leah, who's gonna tell us 5 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:46.960 all about her book today, which is awesome. 6 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:48.679 She's actually going to be a published author. 7 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:51.000 And if you guys remember Leah, she's been a couple 8 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.799 episodes of our seasons. She's the teacher, the high school teacher. Leah, 9 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:55.759 what grade do you teach you in? 10 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:57.159 Ninth and tenth grade? 11 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:59.079 That's right, that's right. The teenagers. 12 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:02.840 Oh man, what is the most rewarding part about teaching teenagers? 13 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:03.799 Because I feel like. 14 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:09.000 I mean, watching them develop and grow, that's obviously a plus. 15 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:12.920 But in today's world there's obviously a bunch of unruly teenagers, 16 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:13.959 like we've talked about. 17 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:14.239 In the past. 18 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:18.120 Yeah, it's definitely tough, especially now with AI, so like 19 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:20.920 correcting essays and stuff is brutal. But I think my 20 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.159 favorite part about working with teenagers, especially at high school, 21 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.519 is like I can see them grow from ninth graders 22 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:29.000 all the way to I'm seniors, and I can see 23 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:30.959 them walk across the stage and get their diploma. So 24 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:33.040 it's nice to see like those kids who struggle in 25 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:37.719 my class actually accomplish a goal. But AI is also 26 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.000 like the worst thing in the whole world. 27 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:43.000 Oh, I fucking those of you that have It's cool 28 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.120 that you're actually talking about this because that wasn't even 29 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:45.840 one of my questions. 30 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:48.200 But I should have totally asked about AI. Wasn't even thinking, 31 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:49.000 to be honest with you. 32 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:55.480 Previous guests we had in three episodes ago, episode six, 33 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.519 we just had Miles on the Toymaker and one of 34 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:01.480 the things I'd asked him was in a marketing world 35 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:04.640 where it's so hard because he does these bootleg toys 36 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.239 with memes and things like that. I'm like, how does 37 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.319 AI affect your job? You know, because I'm like, dude, 38 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:10.919 it must run that, you know, And he's like, dude, 39 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:11.599 it's good and bad. 40 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:12.879 It has its pros and cons. 41 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:15.680 But you know, I'm always like, I'm blown away obviously 42 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:16.520 by technology. 43 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:18.560 But you know, I've seen firsthand. 44 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:21.039 I've tried out like chat GBT and that shit, and 45 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:22.360 I've even seen like errors. 46 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.159 You know, I'm like, dude, this isn't at all what's 47 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:24.599 going on? 48 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:28.319 Like right now, if you go to chat GBT, right 49 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.599 I do a bunch of these mini series in October, 50 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:34.639 and they're like, literally about like any type of horror 51 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:38.879 TV show, So it's American horror story, Dexter, Hannibal, things 52 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:42.360 like that. At one point I got it was Chucky 53 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:45.000 was the season I got so lazy and AI was 54 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:48.400 brand new, and okay, obviously it might be better now. 55 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.240 I haven't tried. I haven't even given it a try 56 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.039 since this, but literally, I pointed out, I was like, yo, 57 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:56.120 tell me about like season three, episode one, just so 58 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:57.759 I could get the summary down I could talk about 59 00:02:57.759 --> 00:02:59.400 it on the podcast because I didn't want to rewatch 60 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.400 all this shit. Chucky was wicked boring to me. I 61 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:02.719 was like, dude, why am I even doing this as 62 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:05.280 a podcast? You know, that's strict number one. I should 63 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.479 be talking about something I like. But anyways, I ended 64 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:10.159 up reading the summary and I was like, dude, I 65 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:12.919 don't remember all fucking seeing this. And I went back 66 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.520 and actually rewatched the episode and none of that shit happened. 67 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.199 They had fucking season two mixed up with season three, 68 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:20.319 and I was like, yo, dude, if I talked about 69 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:22.280 this like a bonehead without doing my research, I would 70 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:23.240 have looked a fucking idiot. 71 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:23.439 You know. 72 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:26.919 Yeah, it's not always accurate either, Like it's not my 73 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:29.879 kids will come send me an essay and it has 74 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.319 like all these fluffy words or words they don't even 75 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:34.680 know how to pronounce, and you can tell right from 76 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:38.080 the get go. There are parts that make it easier, 77 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.759 Like it gives us good ideas for as teachers, like 78 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.199 you know, to you know, make our lessons a little 79 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.319 more fun. But in the end, like technology seems to 80 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:50.199 be you know, crushing our students. So I'm hoping that 81 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:52.879 as we move forward, we stray a tiny bit away 82 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:54.639 from the laptops and stuff. 83 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.080 Yeah, Like I literally was just gonna ask too, you know, 84 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.560 like how are you in a world like where a 85 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.680 students are so engaged with social media and technology, Like, 86 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:04.080 you know, how do you even keep up with that? 87 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.240 It's hard to because with TikTok and other stuff. Yeah, 88 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:10.960 they're so used to seeing things so fast, so like 89 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.520 it's like a thirty second video and next, next, And 90 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:15.719 if I have to show like a movie or like 91 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.759 a ten minute clip of like something we're reading, they 92 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.680 lose their attention span after like two minutes. And it's 93 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:26.120 so brutal. And I actually, uh just voice recorded myself 94 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:30.519 teaching one day and within five minutes of just reading 95 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:34.519 I think we're reading the Odyssey, I got interrupted six 96 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:37.560 times and I couldn't even it was five minutes and 97 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:39.439 they were just like, I need to go to the bathroom. 98 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:43.199 I don't like this or whatever. And it's rough. 99 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:44.279 Yeah, it is rough. 100 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.920 It's like, I mean, I don't even want to use 101 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:49.600 this terminology when we're talking about students, but the students 102 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:52.199 say have a lot more balls than the students of 103 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:52.879 my day head. 104 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:53.360 I feel like. 105 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.079 Too, that is a percent. 106 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:57.680 It's crazy, dude, like the shit that like I see 107 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:59.720 online and that's only what I see, you know, like 108 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.680 you're experience this, so I mean you see it firsthand, 109 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:04.959 you know, like, yeah, how do you possibly even go 110 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.160 back to a parent and say, Yo, your fucking kid 111 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:09.199 is being like the biggest brad in my class And 112 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:10.759 they're just like, what are you talking about? Like my 113 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.920 son's like a you know, really well mannered son at 114 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:14.439 home and all that. 115 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:18.000 Yeah, yeah, it's hard. I've actually called home once or 116 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:21.160 twice in goodness, they have said the parent has said 117 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:22.920 to me, like, I know, they give you attitude, what 118 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:24.720 do you want me to do? So I'm like Okay, 119 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:25.879 what am I supposed to do with that? 120 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:26.360 Exactly? 121 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:29.519 And you can only go so far because if they 122 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:32.160 their parents don't care, then it doesn't even matter what 123 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.160 the fuck. So it is brutal. 124 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.000 That Yeah, that sounds very brutal. 125 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:39.839 Yeah, and it cuts into like our learning time. 126 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:42.639 And stuff too, so oh yeah, yeah, I can imagine 127 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:45.680 you know, interruptions with the class and all that shit too, 128 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.120 you know, and all that ends up like you're saying, yeah, 129 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:49.279 so yeah. 130 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:51.160 How like throw out all this? 131 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:53.600 How do you possibly have time to you know, become 132 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:55.160 a published author? Yeah? 133 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.959 So I'm like I gathered like tons of writings, like 134 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.000 and I've started writing when I was like seventeen or 135 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.800 so when I worked at a summer camp. My boss 136 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.079 at the time inspired me to write. So I started 137 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.399 writing poems and then it just kept like snowballing from there. 138 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:14.279 And then actually recently, maybe a year ago, I just 139 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.720 got the idea like what am I waiting for? Like 140 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:18.160 what does it matter? Like? 141 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:19.240 Why? Wait? 142 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.000 So I, you know, put my stuff out there, got 143 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.800 a publisher and so it's a compilation of things that 144 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.399 I wrote when I was younger and then obviously refined 145 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.399 to who I am is read now and then suffer 146 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.240 from today. So yeah, it covers I'm adopted from China, 147 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:39.399 so it covers like adoption and like you know that 148 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:42.120 loss or that like missing piece that goes with it 149 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.720 on top of just like being a functioning person in 150 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:49.439 this world, like you know, battling anxiety and depression and 151 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:52.639 everything else, like we all can relate. Yeah, one hundred percent, 152 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:56.519 like racism. Stuff that is relatable to the people that 153 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:58.839 will either read it or hear about it or something 154 00:06:58.879 --> 00:06:59.279 like that. 155 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:02.800 Well, really that's all. Does this have a name the book? 156 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:06.480 Yeah, so it's called Pieces of You, So it's Pieces 157 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.000 of You with it's called the Yu because my middle 158 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.600 name is you nice. Yeah, yeah, so play on words. 159 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:15.560 But a chapter is just like a little piece of 160 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.560 like who I am or like the light the things 161 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:19.480 that happen in my life. 162 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.600 Yeah, you talked about a camp counselor do you still 163 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:23.360 do the summer camp? 164 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:24.120 I remember you used to. 165 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:25.839 Oh no, I don't do that. I did that for 166 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:29.000 twelve years. I worked my way up from like junior 167 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.279 counselor counselor all the way to director for two years 168 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:37.079 and after working full time teaching, I just need a 169 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:39.800 break all right, so, and. 170 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:40.800 You probably remember this too. 171 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.240 When we were kids, Melia and my sister Danielle, we 172 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.079 always used to hang out and play school and shit 173 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:47.959 like that. Like I used to love being a teacher 174 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.000 and stuff like that. You know, Like I always wanted 175 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:53.600 to do the summer camp shit. I'm telling you right now, Like, 176 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.399 I don't know if it's because I loved like hard 177 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.040 movies and Jason and that aspect of like cabins and 178 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.120 in the woods and all that good stuff, but there 179 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.680 was something I always wanted to be a summer camp consulor. 180 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:04.519 And I always wanted to go to summer camp. Never 181 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.160 went to either, never did either. 182 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:07.560 Of that stuff, and I was pissed, you know. I'm like, 183 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:08.720 I don't know why my parents didn't send me a 184 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:11.199 summer camp. They send me a baseball camp and I 185 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:12.199 ended up getting bullied. 186 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.399 I had to eat some watermelon with some fucking sunflower 187 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:15.199 seeds in the dirt. 188 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:16.240 Oh I'll never forget that. 189 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:18.519 But yeah, it was a good time. It was a 190 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:20.360 good Yeah, it was a good time a baseball camp. 191 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.040 But wow, it's just like, damn dude, summer camp would 192 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:25.199 have been so lit and like, you know, my buddy Brad. 193 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.360 He went to this place in New Hampshire and he 194 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:30.279 was like a camp counselor, like all these years. 195 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:31.920 And stuff like that. I'll never forget. I thought he 196 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:33.360 was like the ship, you know, just like, dude, he 197 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:34.399 probably runs this place. 198 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:38.039 But yeah, you make new friends from you, like like 199 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:42.559 my friends from summer camp. Yeah, at school, this guy 200 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:44.600 like knows this cool girl or whatever. 201 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.799 I did go dog all right, So I didn't go 202 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:51.440 to PCC. 203 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:53.919 Here we are And when I went to Spelman, Dude, 204 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:55.440 it was kind of like, Yo, who the fuck is 205 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:55.759 this kid? 206 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:57.600 You didn't go to PCZ, you know, like why is 207 00:08:57.639 --> 00:08:58.279 he in the group? 208 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.799 And I was like yeah everyone, Yeah. 209 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:02.679 It was so clicky. I'm like, damn, dude, I don't 210 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:04.000 know why the fuck I didn't go to PCC. 211 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.600 My dad calls it a cult. It definitely it is. 212 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:12.159 Unfortunately they don't have it anymore. I don't know. My 213 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:15.159 friend I actually who I used to teach with. She 214 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.080 was the head person. And after COVID and everything, like 215 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.960 the numbers are well, they couldn't afford it so and 216 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.240 it sucks because it was really great for kids who 217 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.639 just needed to make friends who didn't really fit in and. 218 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.279 Like you could just get that experience and like. 219 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:32.320 To live in a college dorm, like you got to 220 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:34.440 decorate it and stuff and have a roommate. It was 221 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:37.519 really cool. But the day we all had to move out, 222 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:40.200 I cried and my dad was like, everyone's crying. What 223 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:42.519 if the ship is this? He was like, this thing 224 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:44.840 is a cult, like you guys, because we would we 225 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:49.399 did dances to certain songs, we would like cry it was. 226 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.759 My friend told me about this ship and I was like, 227 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:53.039 I felt so out of place. 228 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.399 That's how I felt when you first hear about it. 229 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:58.200 At first, I was like, OK, it sounds so dumb. 230 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:00.639 Nerves. 231 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.360 Yeah, you guys, are you want to go to class 232 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.960 in school like during the summer. But I freaking went 233 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:07.200 and I loved it. 234 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:08.840 Yeah, I don't know what I thought, Like. 235 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:10.879 We played four square all day. It just made me 236 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:13.600 feel like a little kid when I was sixteen, you know, yeah. 237 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:14.759 I really I don't. 238 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:16.159 I think I have to have a tug with my 239 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:19.320 parents now because I think they generally fucked up. Not 240 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:21.559 sending me to PCC that place sounded with for a 241 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:22.039 little while. 242 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:23.919 I mean, I also didn't go to summer camp either. 243 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.480 I just worked at once. Yeah that's still I mean 244 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:28.919 there was like fun stuff. Obviously we did like color 245 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.799 wars with the kids and water balloon fights. But then 246 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:33.799 we have the kids who cried every time they leave, 247 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:36.919 so you have to deal with that. And then when 248 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.000 you know, a boy comes out of the bathroom stall 249 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.399 and says, Missle, can you tie my shoe? And I 250 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:44.320 go okay, And then I say, Ryan, why is it wet? 251 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.840 And he says, oh, I just pee. I'm like cool, 252 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:52.440 just touching your pee, Like, oh dude, full of pissa. 253 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.360 These kids here, but what they. 254 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.039 Were great and I love them. And actually there are 255 00:10:57.080 --> 00:10:58.480 a lot of the kids that I had a camp 256 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:02.039 are graduating and now in college. So it's freaking terrifying. 257 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:04.440 So when I like see their I'm like friends with 258 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:06.879 their parents on Facebook, or like I see them at 259 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:10.320 you know, our hometown is tiny, they're like, oh mis Leah. 260 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:13.639 I'm like, holy crap, You're like eighty Oh oh my god, 261 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:19.399 don't even Yeah, that's a way up. It's so crazy. 262 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:25.159 That is crazy. How to teaching influence your writing? If 263 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:26.600 it did it all, I. 264 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.960 Feel like just meeting like new students with different backgrounds, 265 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.600 especially when I taught English and Cambodia, like they are 266 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:37.120 literally living in shacks and sleeping on like slabs of 267 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:40.559 wood or whatever. Like, I think it influenced the way 268 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:44.759 I saw myself too, because if I didn't get adopted, 269 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:47.200 I'd be growing up in like the farmland of China. 270 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.960 So I kind of related to like what they did too, 271 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.279 So I definitely think it sparked my imagination of how 272 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:56.559 that would be, because I do write a lot about, like, 273 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.240 you know, like what my biological mother would be like 274 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:02.000 and shit like that, like why she gave me up 275 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:05.480 and stuff. So it's always like being adopted is like 276 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.200 awesome and I'm so grateful, but there's also like this 277 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:10.799 void of like the unknown that will come with it. 278 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:15.200 And my aunt's adopted. She never wanted to find her 279 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:18.399 like bioparents, but I've always wanted to, And I belonged 280 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:21.279 to some Facebook groups that this woman actually just posted 281 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:25.360 today she did find her biological father, yeah, through DNA, 282 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:29.279 and I've done I've done DNA too, Yeah, But it's 283 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:31.600 really hard when you think about it, especially in an 284 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.120 international like it's China's. Yeah, it's so big, and the 285 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:38.559 one child policy was so crazy back in the eighties 286 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:40.879 and nineties, so tons of us got pushed out, and 287 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:46.960 actually all the males that are of like what late twenties, thirties, 288 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:50.360 early forties, they have no women to marry because they 289 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.480 all adopted them out, So they are actually like seeking women. 290 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:57.240 They're trying to like pay women to marry them because 291 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:59.799 they don't have They need the women in their culture 292 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:01.759 to take care of them. And you have stuff and 293 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:03.279 have babies and stuff, and they don't have that. 294 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:06.759 No Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's crazy. 295 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:07.519 It is crazy. 296 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.080 That is Oh my god. So obviously this like did 297 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.200 was this hard? Like writing it all? Like did it 298 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:14.000 bring up anything? 299 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.919 When I write? It's kind of funny, like I could 300 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:19.960 write a poem in twenty minutes and like I feel 301 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:23.279 like it's good. Like so like Taylor Swift recently wrote 302 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:26.679 a story for five and she said that she wrote 303 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:29.120 in eight minutes, and I was like, Okay, I was like, 304 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:30.600 I can write a poem in like eight minutes, but 305 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:34.639 I really ti hard. Yeah, living the dream. But anyway 306 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:39.399 it did, I think my imagination kind of like emotion 307 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:41.799 comes up like what if I did live that way? 308 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:43.840 Or I write a lot about like what my mother 309 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:47.000 looks like my biological mother, because I don't know what 310 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:48.600 she looks like. So I could look at myself in 311 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:50.440 the mirror and be like, oh I have this nose 312 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.120 and this whatever, but what does what did she give me? 313 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:57.559 So it definitely provokes emotion for sure. 314 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:02.000 Definitely, No, that's totally understand Yeah, any coffee or tea, 315 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:03.799 old writing or he got a preference. 316 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.960 Funny, I didn't drink coffee forever, and then I became 317 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:08.440 a teacher. 318 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.159 No ship, no way, that's what made you drink. 319 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.679 Cof Yes, I was like I can't. My first few 320 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:15.159 months being a full time teacher, I was like, I 321 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.200 cannot do this without caffeine. 322 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:20.799 Caffeine. Yeah, you're probably like, how did they even do that? 323 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:21.120 Yeah? 324 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.000 Right, I don't know how. I like went to school 325 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.159 for it. I went to camp like I ran summer camp. 326 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.320 One before school was get a coffee. 327 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.919 Yeah, it's crazy. So now I have to hit up 328 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.159 Mary Louise. Yeah, oh yeah, all the time. They know 329 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:34.679 my order. 330 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:36.559 Oh man, you have to go to the new one 331 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:37.480 in Rockland now. 332 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:41.080 Yeah, I went once. I go the other way to 333 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:43.480 go to work, so ibviously for one office drive there. 334 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:49.240 So it's like easier, but honestly, without coffee, I don't. 335 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:50.200 Know coffee the best. 336 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:52.919 Yeah it is, and it gets me through. 337 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.039 It is shut Out holding one Donuts in Rockland. They're 338 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.039 going to be providing the treats for this year's Kicks 339 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:00.720 and Tricks. It's going to take place on July twenty 340 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:05.720 fifth at was it twelve twelve to six pm? 341 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:06.919 So you guys can come out. 342 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:09.000 We're gonna do a live finale at Kicks and Tricks. 343 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.879 Come check us out and yeah, I'll have donuts and 344 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:13.759 coffee from home in on. 345 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:15.039 So that was a cool little plug. 346 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:18.279 Right, if you weren't a teacher or writer, what do 347 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.120 you think you'd be doing. 348 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:20.519 With your career? 349 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:23.639 So sounds like really hard. So I work at a 350 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:25.919 tech school. So all my kids are like visibly like 351 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:28.039 if you if you went here, what shop. 352 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:28.759 Would you pick? Yeah? 353 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.519 Right, And part of me is like, oh, nursing, like 354 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:34.159 that seems fit. I went to school for nursing on first, 355 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:37.279 but then I'm like plumbing, Like I just feel like 356 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:39.720 females and plumbing, like I could have my own business. 357 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:43.279 Oh yeah, once you get in you go from there. 358 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:48.080 One of my students, Maddie, is a junior. She's in plumbing, 359 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:49.480 and I'm just so proud of her because she's like 360 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:51.679 one of the only girls and her dad owns a 361 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.639 plumbing business. Yeah, and she's like, I'm taking over, Like 362 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.159 I don't care if I'm not like the male like whatever, 363 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.000 my dad wants me to do it. So she's awesome. 364 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.759 I'm in a powerhouse and I feel like I do 365 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:06.080 something like that. I'm also a super visual learner, hands on, 366 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:09.000 which is funny because I read all the time too, 367 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.759 But I just like I suck a math Like if 368 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.720 I can't figure, if I can't like literally hold on 369 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:19.879 to something, speah, So I'd rather do something I can 370 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.399 actually like build or some shit like that. 371 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.000 Yeah. Yeah, the plumbing, like you said, that's insane because 372 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:26.679 I've seen, like, you know, I follow a lot of 373 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:28.919 h VAC accounts and stuff like that, and a lot 374 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:30.840 of the women are really coming up in the workforce. 375 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:36.279 It's amazing. But there's such a huge demand for any type. 376 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:39.320 Of that trade, whether it's plumbing, electrical, you know, h 377 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:41.799 fact things like that, because so many people are retiring 378 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:43.840 right now and all these young people they're not doing 379 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:46.159 any of that. They're literally all going to the computers 380 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:48.600 and things like that, and these people are going to 381 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:49.559 the computers and like it. 382 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:50.799 Is going to take over the job. 383 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:51.440 It's crazy. 384 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:51.639 Same. 385 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:55.960 Yeah, So we need more people in the trade automotive. 386 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.360 It's going down like there's not many. It's like rough 387 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:00.639 to find that. 388 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:04.279 Dude. Don't even get me started about the automotive police 389 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:06.799 because again, if anyone wants to help me out on 390 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:10.079 the podcast too, looking for a diesel mechanic just in 391 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:12.279 case anything happens to the one I've had now because 392 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:14.160 the guy is getting up there in age and like 393 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:16.759 it's only a matter of time until he retires and 394 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.359 he's not giving it up to his kid or anything 395 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:21.720 like that. So it's something I need to definitely think 396 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:22.519 about in the future. 397 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:24.680 And like I'll tell you. 398 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:28.680 I never really yeah, I mean I respected those people obviously, 399 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:32.319 but in like the craziest jams I've ever gotten, they've. 400 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:33.759 Gotten me out of, like the craziest ones. 401 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:36.480