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The Silent Struggle Against Bias in Academic Settings

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The Silent Struggle Against Bias in Academic Settings

Saturday, 30th March 2024
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a father , a brother , an

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is Endeavor Empire . Thank you

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, we'll be right back

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. Yes , yes , yes . How we doing

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out there y'all . You

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know I gotta let it groove for a little bit . Y'all know how

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to do it . Get these tracks

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a little bit . We almost there , y'all , almost

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there . All right , how

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we doing out there y'all . It is

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all good . Such a beautiful day

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, a fun day . Hope everybody had

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a great day . Hope you're having a great week or

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whatever it is that you're having . It's

4:41

all good , not

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too much going on . The work world didn't

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win , you know no lottery

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, which I'm sure we all hoping to win someday

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. You know weird

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, but you know dreaming about winning that every

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day . Oh

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, in any event

5:01

, like I said , I hope

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everybody's enjoying their day . Hope you guys had

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a fun week or whatever that you're having . Hopefully

5:07

life's not too bad . Give me just a second . Looks

5:09

like my watch is going

5:12

off . Need to put that thing on vibrate . In

5:16

any event , my name is Derek . I am

5:18

Endeavor Empire . I want to welcome you all to the show

5:21

. We

5:23

got something here that came in to

5:25

me that it's

5:27

a bit shocking , a bit surprising

5:30

, but hey , hopefully

5:33

I go through it and you

5:35

guys give me your feedback on it . You know

5:37

, oftentimes

5:39

we think about the

5:42

co-workers we work with , the people we work

5:44

with or the company

5:47

that we may work for , if

5:50

they're actually doing the right thing , or

5:53

the person that you're working with is

5:55

often doing the right thing , and

5:59

then sometimes , when

6:03

we try or want to correct

6:05

the right things , it seems like the

6:07

person that reports it is

6:10

always the one getting hurt

6:12

or getting fired

6:14

Versus

6:17

when we all have a job to do and

6:20

we want to make sure everybody's doing their part to

6:22

be fair and

6:25

to be to

6:28

be fair and be honest , because , let's

6:30

be honest , sometimes that doesn't always happen . You

6:33

know , and I guess

6:35

that's bringing me to my letter

6:37

that was emailed to me

6:39

um

6:42

, in reference to just that , this

6:50

letter is entitled the Power of Wrong

6:52

. So

6:54

we'll let that marinate . Let the title speak for itself

6:56

, but we're

6:59

going to go through this letter . I'm

7:01

going to share some personal experiences and

7:04

then we're just going to dive into it . I first

7:06

would like to say thank you to the listeners

7:09

. Thank you for your emails , thank

7:11

you for your support . Keep them coming in . You

7:13

know , like I said , I do this because

7:15

I enjoy it . I don't do this for money , I

7:18

don't do this for clout , I don't do this for likes

7:20

or follows . If there's

7:23

somebody out there I can reach , hey , I appreciate

7:25

it . Just keep it coming

7:27

. In

7:29

any event , let

7:31

us dive right into

7:33

it . Hang on , I got to get my screen

7:35

running here , okay

7:38

. So , as

7:42

I said before , this letter is entitled

7:44

the Power of Wrong , mr

7:48

Saunders . For you guys who don't know , my last

7:50

name is Saunders , by the way . Hello

7:53

, how are you doing ? I'm faced with a problem

7:56

that I never thought I would witness . I'd

7:59

first

8:02

like to start by saying that I know you , or

8:04

I know of you . This is interesting . I

8:07

have to say that I understand . I want you to know

8:09

that I'm a teacher in the district

8:12

that your kids attend . I won't disclose that kind

8:14

of information , but we'll just go with

8:16

that , though I won't

8:18

mention the school in question for fear of backlash

8:20

and repercussions . My purpose of this email

8:22

is to provide somewhat problematic

8:25

issue that I'm sure that

8:27

will . I'm sure

8:30

that we'll never see the light

8:32

of day , and the sad thing is

8:34

it will probably have no impact because it would

8:36

be swept under the rug as

8:38

long as it doesn't get out , but I want to make sure

8:40

that it does . It

8:43

seems that there is favoritism along the lines of

8:45

student as far as school teachers

8:47

administration is concerned . I

8:50

can't speak to all administrators , but there are some

8:52

, and it's just

8:54

downright wrong and ridiculous . I've heard

8:56

your podcast about the issues you face with

8:59

certain administrators . I have to and I have to

9:01

say I understand and

9:04

I do feel like there's a secret society of group

9:07

among teachers about students who are placed

9:09

in categories that is kept

9:11

between them . I

9:14

was not aware of this until I overheard some

9:17

of those teachers and administrators talking about

9:19

it . Now I want to let you know that

9:21

it was only a handful handful of them

9:23

, so it's hard to say who was involved

9:25

, but I do know for sure and

9:28

what persons or persons play a role in this

9:30

. I cried

9:32

because I thought we , as educators are

9:34

supposed to be doing the right thing and help

9:36

students , no matter the color of their skin , but

9:38

it seems just that Some

9:44

are watched by those looking to

9:46

have control over them or entrap them in a situation

9:48

that would suggest that they have three strikes

9:50

. And well , you know the rest , even

9:53

though the students are not , are not

9:55

trouble students . It's the school they come from

9:57

before they were enrolled in

9:59

our school . To be clear , I'm talking about

10:01

black students . It seems that administrators

10:05

know where they are transferred

10:08

from and some minds are already made up on

10:11

how the student will fail or become a problem

10:13

at our school . I

10:15

thought I would never see something like this , but

10:18

I could not believe it . A student got

10:20

disciplined for something that was minor , but

10:22

I received a harsh punishment , even though

10:24

the punishment did not fit the offense . I

10:26

do not want to say crime , because it was nothing like

10:28

that , but

10:31

after I overheard an assistant principal

10:33

and teachers talking about it , it seemed like they were poking

10:36

fun because the school the student attended before

10:39

he or she arrived . I

10:41

thought it was just nonsense . Until the student confirmed

10:44

the actions of the assistant principal

10:46

, the student was so upset and

10:48

was threatened , or sort

10:51

of you be the judge . What

10:55

was said by the AP or assistant

10:57

principal was that if you get into trouble again

11:00

then I will send you to an alternative school , because I

11:02

know the school you come from and you already have not

11:04

been doing good here . It's

11:06

something like that . The student

11:08

did not do anything wrong . Student got into an argument

11:10

with another student . There was not a fight , but

11:12

just some loud yelling . I was

11:14

surprised at two things . One , the student

11:16

that started it did not get , didn't receive any punishment

11:19

, but the other student received

11:22

. The other student involved

11:24

in the argument received five

11:27

days of in-school suspension . Mr

11:30

Sars , I want to be clear that the student was

11:32

white . The other student was black . I

11:35

will also let you put two and two together . What

11:37

I don't understand is that race or a student's background

11:40

should not play a part in decision making

11:42

or threatening of removing a student . But it did

11:44

. I

11:51

see those in Paris have some kind of hidden racist agenda and it's

11:53

sad . The minute I run to

11:55

report it , I know what will happen . So I'm asking you to talk about it because I understand

11:57

that . You know what I'm talking about . I have even went on my social

11:59

media and posted on the subject and a lot of teaching

12:01

administrators and parents and friends were shocked , but

12:04

not surprised because they have seen the

12:06

same thing , but nothing ever happens

12:08

. I want something to happen

12:10

. I want people parents , teachers

12:12

and other schools in the district to get involved

12:14

and acknowledge that this should

12:16

never happen and they should

12:18

review who they employ . I'm

12:21

not looking for trouble , but a solution to a

12:23

problem that should not happen in our schools . The

12:26

world is divided enough . I love , love all students

12:28

and teachers . I just want them to be best . I

12:30

just want the best and brightest future for

12:32

all students that I teach and that I

12:34

come across signed anonymous

12:37

. Well

12:40

, that's

12:43

kind of a lot to take in . I

12:47

do want to make mention and make clear that this letter

12:49

that I did receive was anonymous . I

12:51

will not disclose the district or

12:53

the school that my kids attend , because

12:57

I don't know what school this is

12:59

and I don't know what teacher

13:02

this is , but

13:05

somebody felt the need to write out to me because of my podcast

13:08

and I will do just that . I

13:11

first want to thank whoever wrote this and

13:15

I do understand how upset

13:17

that you are because you witnessed such

13:19

a thing . I'm

13:22

not an educator . I'm not , as

13:25

I said before in a previous podcast , I do have

13:27

an issue with a certain administrator . I'm not saying

13:29

that it's this person because

13:31

I'm not looking for that . I'm only looking for , like

13:35

this teacher said , a solution to the problem

13:37

. And the problem

13:39

is that it

13:43

seems like if you witness something like this

13:45

in a school , you think that

13:47

the school would be held to a higher standard

13:50

than maybe

13:54

somewhat as the rest of the world , because we

13:56

send our kids to school to be taught

13:58

, to be educated , to

14:01

learn about the world , not

14:03

specifically physically

14:05

experience it right then

14:08

and there . And let's be clear , there's

14:10

going to be racism everywhere . It really is

14:13

. But it probably

14:15

hurts the most when there is somewhat

14:17

of a secret society within school systems

14:20

that either teachers

14:22

or administrators have , because

14:25

they can judge a student on where they come from

14:27

. Now , that should

14:30

not matter from where a student

14:32

school come from . Yes , some school districts

14:34

are a lot more advanced than

14:36

others , but who are we to judge ? You

14:40

know , as I said before , I

14:44

lived in a district that my

14:46

son had gotten suspended because

14:48

of the color of his hair . It was blue and

14:50

I chose to move away from that district because I thought it was

14:52

petty . Now , my son was not

14:54

a troubled student , got good grades

14:57

, he did good . But

15:00

when we came to this new district , everything

15:02

was great and everything is still good . It's

15:04

still good , let's be clear . It's still good , let's let's let's be clear . It's

15:06

still good , so it's not bad . So

15:09

it saddens me to think that

15:12

administrators and teachers

15:14

would do something like this to a student . And let's be

15:16

clear , I'm not blaming the

15:19

whole district for something like this

15:21

. I'm not , because there is only

15:23

she said , I'm sorry , he or she

15:25

said , or the teacher said that it

15:27

is only a handful . So

15:29

a handful to me is only five . That's

15:32

not really much compared to a district . Now

15:35

, we know

15:37

we will probably never hear anything

15:39

from this unless something becomes

15:42

of it , because I'm not the kind of person that's going to put

15:44

a district on blast and then

15:46

try to get some kind

15:48

of mess started . But

15:50

I hope , after

15:52

listening , after doing this show

15:54

, that this teacher takes

15:57

this podcast and either

15:59

listen to

16:01

it among teachers and kind of go

16:03

from there , and then they can probably

16:05

figure out who or what should

16:07

not be teaching . Listen , let me explain something

16:09

. If you are an

16:11

educator and

16:14

you've been in this game for Lord knows how

16:16

long you're

16:18

in this game because you love what you do , you

16:21

love students , you love teaching . But

16:25

if you're fresh out and

16:27

your first judgment is that one

16:30

race is superior than the other , you

16:33

shouldn't be teaching . You really shouldn't

16:36

. You know . The problem

16:38

is that I had was that this

16:41

certain administrator would always come

16:44

down on my children and

16:48

it seems like they would always be

16:50

singled out . And

16:52

my kids aren't trouble kids because we don't do that

16:54

. I'd like to teach my kids right and wrong with me

16:57

, my wife or parents . We

16:59

taught our kids right from wrong . Now , I

17:02

don't think race plays an issue in

17:05

my kids . Well , I'm sorry , race

17:08

sometimes does play an issue in

17:10

my kids punishment . I just can't prove

17:12

it . I can't . I

17:15

have talked to the district , I've talked to the admin

17:17

, the head administrator , and it kind

17:19

of feels like it's falling on deaf ears . But

17:22

I know everybody has a part to play . Now

17:24

, getting back

17:26

to this letter , and

17:30

the sad thing is that there are some teachers

17:32

who do single out race , a race of kids

17:34

because they think that it's

17:38

always that race . It's always that race

17:40

that makes trouble and forget

17:43

about what you're seeing in

17:45

school . It's what you're seeing in the world . So you

17:48

take what you see in the world and you automatically

17:50

assume that that

17:52

one race is trouble . As

17:55

I said before , we are not animals

17:57

, we are not a herd

17:59

, we're not a pack of wild dogs

18:02

. We are people . We

18:04

are people that are trying to do better in

18:06

this world , or at least I'm trying to do better

18:08

in this world , and that's all I want to see . I

18:11

can't speak for the whole race . I

18:13

can only speak to the effect of my kids . And

18:15

if you're an administrator or a teacher and if you

18:18

go to school every day and your day is to

18:20

think about how you could screw up this , the

18:22

student's life , because of where they came from

18:24

, clearly you should

18:26

not be an educator . Clearly

18:28

a day of reckoning will come

18:30

for you and when

18:32

that day comes , you're

18:34

going to wish you stepped away a lot sooner . Now

18:38

I don't know if I mean

18:40

okay . So yes , we have seen this before

18:42

. Give me just a second . Y'all . Y'all know I got to hit this vape

18:44

. We

18:49

have seen this before . We've seen students

18:54

and black students in athletic

18:57

programs where the one kid had to get his hair

18:59

cut because he was

19:01

competing and I thought that was kind of racist

19:03

. I mean , what does your hair have to do with

19:06

wrestling ? You can't really pull it in wrestling . I mean

19:08

, forget what you see on the TV . Damn

19:10

that , damn that . So

19:13

again

19:16

, no-transcript

19:21

. Sorry

19:33

about that . I have to take a phone call with my daughter , but

19:37

you

19:39

clearly shouldn't be an educator If

19:42

this is the way you do things . Now to

19:45

this teacher

19:47

that witnessed . This is sad , because

19:50

we want to send our kids to school to learn . We

19:53

want to send our kids to school to feel safe

19:55

and that they can go to school

19:57

, have a good time and not

19:59

be threatened by the color of their skin

20:02

or from where they come from threatened

20:06

by the color of their skin or from where they come

20:08

from . Now , like I said before , all

20:11

districts are not advanced as some of these others , these

20:13

other districts , and every city and state has them . Does it make

20:15

them a bad district ? No , it doesn't . It doesn't

20:17

. So I think parents want the best for their children

20:19

. Some parents are literally

20:22

deal with the circumstance or the hand that they are dealt

20:24

. That's not a problem . I

20:27

moved to a district because I

20:30

didn't want my kids to be defined

20:33

by one race . I wanted my kids

20:35

to grow up in a district where

20:37

there was multicultural kids and

20:40

we just not be defined as a race

20:42

, of just that race

20:44

. I

20:50

wanted them with whites , blacks , mexican Asians , whoever . That's the way I

20:52

wanted it , and I know everybody doesn't have

20:54

that option . That doesn't make

20:56

you a bad parent . That

21:01

doesn't make you a bad person . We

21:05

, as parents , are doing the best that we can

21:07

and we will continue to do the best that we can

21:09

. But

21:14

what I say to educators are that if you feel that you're threatened by a specific race because of

21:16

what you see on TV or social media , clearly you should not be working

21:19

in this field . I don't

21:21

know if some of you guys have kids

21:23

or if you don't have kids , and

21:25

that's probably the other thing that kind of gets me is

21:28

that I understand

21:30

that there are some teachers that don't have kids

21:32

and that's your choosing not to have kids , and

21:35

I understand that there are some who just can't have

21:37

kids . This is for those

21:39

who choose not to have kids

21:42

. Me personally , I

21:44

don't think you could be , and

21:47

this is probably a fine line I'm walking , but

21:49

I don't give a shit . I

21:52

don't think you could

21:54

be in a school teaching

21:56

if you don't have kids

21:59

, and the only reason why I say

22:01

that is because your life is

22:03

your life and how you live your life

22:05

is totally up to you . But I think

22:07

if you are a parent

22:09

and you are a teacher

22:12

, then you can understand that . But

22:14

if you are not a parent and

22:16

you come into , let's

22:19

say you want to start teaching , then

22:22

OK , maybe try

22:24

daycare first , maybe

22:27

work at a you know daycare

22:29

or try kindergarten

22:31

. But from

22:33

there it gets a lot harder because the

22:35

kids get bigger . Now this

22:38

is not to say that the kids are horrible or kids

22:40

are bad . It's you

22:42

as a teacher and what you put

22:44

out there . Now we've all seen on videos

22:46

time and time again where teachers

22:49

are being disrespected and this , that and the other . Well , yeah

22:51

, they are . That's because this is a different breed of children

22:53

. These kids today have no

22:55

damn respect Versus . Back

22:57

in my day you know

22:59

we had got swatted or paddled for

23:02

disrespecting a teacher , so

23:06

, and then when we got home it would be a lot worse . But

23:09

I think if

23:11

you're going to become a teacher and

23:14

if you can't have kids , this is not for you , because

23:16

I understand . But I think you

23:18

should try something simpler first . Maybe teach

23:20

preschool or something

23:23

, maybe for a couple of years to see how you can get acclimated

23:25

to it . Because there's so many teachers you know

23:27

, when I was running transportation

23:30

there were so many teachers that I seen that were coming , that

23:32

were new and they were like fresh out and they would

23:34

come in on a contract . It's like oh yeah

23:36

, teaching is my thing and this and

23:38

the other . But when the school years are with , they never return . They're

23:40

like no , this ain't for me , this ain me , and

23:42

there's nothing wrong with that . But

23:44

I think if you're going to be a teacher , you have to learn to

23:46

accept people for who they are and

23:49

what they are . You can't

23:51

come in and judge based on a race . You can't

23:53

come in and judge based on the school that

23:56

they come from . Because you're looking at a school district and

23:58

you're thinking , oh yeah , well , that's a bad district . Yeah , you

24:00

know they come from there , so we know they're going to screw up . No

24:02

, how in the hell can you pass

24:04

judgment on a student that you don't even

24:07

know ? Why

24:09

not do the the righteous thing welcome

24:11

the student in , make them feel right at home

24:13

? The problem is that when these students

24:16

come to these schools or transfer to these schools

24:18

and they don't feel welcome

24:20

. You know it's automatically a rift in

24:22

the air . You

24:25

know why in the hell would you threaten a student

24:27

over something ? I don't care what

24:29

the I don't care what it was . Why

24:33

would you threaten this student but yet the other

24:35

student got no punishment does

24:37

sound like favoritism . It does sound like a white and

24:39

black issue , and I'm not even the one

24:42

to like really get down on race

24:44

, because I like to give people a fair chance and a fair

24:46

shot at anything

24:48

. But when you come in and you judge a student

24:51

based on their

24:53

color in the district that they came

24:55

from , why the hell are you even there

24:57

for

25:00

the teacher who wrote this

25:02

letter ? I hope

25:04

you go to your district

25:06

or central office or whatever and report this . I

25:09

really do . And if you have to do it anonymously

25:11

, do it anonymously Because

25:14

, like she said she's in fear

25:16

, or I keep saying she , like he or she , he

25:19

or she said they're in fear because

25:21

because that shit does happen , it happens . You

25:24

know you could be the right person just trying to

25:26

do the right thing and when

25:28

sometimes doing the right thing is not doing the right

25:30

thing , and

25:33

this person could be a stand-up teacher

25:35

. This person could be , you know the best

25:37

of what they do . But what the fear

25:40

is that if you

25:42

go and say something to the

25:44

head boss or the head central office , then it's going

25:46

to spread around through the dish . Well , as well as it

25:48

should , it should , it should

25:50

, and then they have this bullshit

25:52

thing . What's an open door policy ? You can remain

25:54

anonymous . Bull , shit , bullshit

25:58

. Now , I'm

26:01

not saying that that happens everywhere . That's

26:03

happened to me a

26:06

few times and I will

26:08

give you that as

26:10

soon as I get some of this nice red diamond

26:12

tea . That

26:15

, goody , goodness , god

26:21

, it's like the best tea ever . Where

26:24

has this tea been all my life ? But

26:28

I don't want to stray . I'm

26:36

sorry , hold on . I

26:39

don't want to stray too far off this letter , but

26:41

I'm going to give you my experience . So

26:50

I was working for a company and

26:53

the owner the

26:57

owner had a nephew and

27:01

the nephew was a complete drunk . Now , this

27:03

was for a transportation company . Mind you , it was a complete

27:05

drunk . Now , this was for a transportation

27:07

company . Mind you , it was a school bus company . They

27:10

made him the terminal

27:13

manager and I was the operations manager

27:15

. Now , for

27:18

the most part , we got along , but

27:20

there were times that he would come in and

27:23

he would be hungover . But there

27:25

were times

27:27

that he would come in and he would be hung over . And

27:29

I try to do the co-worker thing he wasn't really my friend

27:31

but I try to do the co-worker thing and say , hey

27:33

, man , you know , we do work for a transportation

27:36

company , a school bus company . You know , if any of the drivers came

27:38

in like this , you know they'd be shit can

27:40

in a minute . You

27:45

know it'd be no questions asked . You know , know . But you can't come in here like this

27:47

and like , oh , you know , don't worry about me , I'll get it together . And I

27:49

didn't know that this guy , I

27:52

don't think he had a serious drinking problem

27:54

, but

27:58

I don't know . I guess he partied hard

28:00

on the weekends . So

28:04

my thing was what

28:08

I was telling him If the driver's coming here like this , we'd

28:10

send him home and we fire him . But how is that

28:12

guy's name ? That you can come in here like this , completely

28:15

plastered and hammered and hung over

28:17

, and have the audacity to come work at a transportation

28:20

company ? Well , the owner

28:22

was his uncle . Owner was his uncle

28:24

. Now , I

28:26

didn't have no issue with this guy , I didn't . I

28:29

, I mean I didn't , I just didn't . I didn't want his job

28:31

. I didn't too much . I just wanted to work with him

28:33

and you know , make sure everything ran

28:36

smooth and copacetic . So

28:41

I thought

28:44

and this is where the open door

28:46

thing comes into play Okay

28:48

, because I did not complain

28:51

or report him to

28:53

his uncle , I went to HR

28:56

, cause you know , every time I'm

28:58

like , oh yeah , well , we got an open door policy , you know

29:00

, you know there's no , there's no retaliation , nothing

29:03

like that . I simply gave a concern

29:05

that said that he is a terminal manager

29:07

. He should not come in here hung over , go

29:10

to his office and sleep most of the day when

29:12

we have business at hand . You

29:15

know you don't come , go to your office , close the door

29:17

and then sleep . Then I have to come in there , either knock

29:19

on your door or bang on your door , because you're

29:21

on your desk , sleep and you can't take a phone

29:23

call from either a school

29:26

or district or whoever . That we need

29:28

to keep this business going . Now I

29:31

just simply told him hey , look , I

29:33

don't think it's right , because if this was the driver , he

29:35

would be fired because we would not send him out there on

29:37

a route in a bus with students . So

29:40

I reported

29:43

that and I kid you not . So I reported that and I kid you not

29:45

, I think within a week or two weeks time

29:47

, my boss came down

29:49

and gave me my

29:53

paycheck , gave

30:02

me a paycheck , two paychecks , my vacation and a severance . I did

30:04

not see this shit coming at all . I

30:07

didn't , because I had

30:09

put in dedication . I

30:15

didn't miss work . Routes were complete , routes were taken care of and I thought I

30:17

was doing the right thing by saying hey , you know you have a business to run . You know

30:19

he shouldn't be here like this . What if somebody from the district

30:22

comes in and wants to talk to us and

30:24

he's slouched over his desk drooling all

30:26

over paperwork ? Now what

30:30

was told to me and this is

30:32

the crazy thing is because they find they

30:35

find the fucked up skews , they

30:40

find any excuse that's not actually

30:43

real to try to fire you on

30:45

. So this is what was told to me

30:47

. It

30:50

was told to me that there was a school that didn't want to work with

30:52

me because I was too difficult to work with , which was crazy

30:54

, because my

30:57

personality is off the

30:59

chain . You know , I like to get along with everybody and

31:01

even if I'm having a bad day , you'll

31:03

never know I'm having a bad day . So

31:08

they told me that that that nobody wanted to , that this just didn't want to work for you and they

31:11

wanted you replaced . I'm like , well , excuse me , this is news to me

31:13

because in all my years of working I've

31:15

never not had one complaint . I've

31:17

only been fired twice

31:19

once from minute mart

31:21

, which the new owner well , hold on three times . Once

31:25

from McDonald's , cause this new guy came in

31:27

couldn't stand him . So you know he's

31:29

like well , we want to part ways because this ain't going to work . And

31:31

that was an amicable split . Uh

31:34

, the second one was the Minute Mart and

31:36

new owner came in and thought

31:38

she was King , shit , thought about she's going to turn around and

31:40

turn this place around , even though the store wasn't

31:42

bad , it was turning a nice profit . And

31:45

then the third one would have been this company that I work for . That's

31:47

the only time In my

31:50

46 years of being on this earth , or

31:53

, I'm sorry , in the time that I've

31:55

been working , I'm sorry , I'm not good with those numbers . I started working

31:57

since I was 15 . I would

31:59

volunteer at the hospitals or whatever . I've

32:05

never had one single negative complaint . So

32:07

I guess what I'm saying is

32:09

saying that to this , to

32:17

this teacher . Is that I understand that you are fear of retaliation , because some companies

32:19

find a way to retaliate

32:21

and even though they say it's an open door policy , but

32:24

they still have to let the boss know

32:26

who made the report

32:28

so

32:30

they can say well , it's an open door policy , you

32:33

can come here and talk to me anytime . But , yeah , when we

32:35

talk to you , we're not expecting

32:37

to get fired . I wasn't expecting to

32:39

get fired , I was expecting to be like well , this

32:42

is what we're going to do , we're going to talk to him . And

32:45

we're going to talk

32:47

to him , we're going to see if we can turn things around . No

32:49

, I got my walking papers . No , that's what I

32:51

got . So

32:54

, but I would hope that they wouldn't do this to this teacher

32:56

, because this teacher , if you see something wrong

32:58

, that's not right , then

33:00

you should report it . But how can you

33:02

report something if you fear that you're going to

33:04

be retaliated against ? And

33:07

I don't know what sure what possible way that you can be

33:09

retaliated against if you see something that is not right

33:11

? And the crazy thing is when you report

33:13

it and then they investigate it when they come back . Well , we didn't

33:15

hear any of that . You know why ? Because

33:18

, damn it . We live in a small town where everybody

33:20

knows somebody , so of

33:22

course everybody's going to band together . So

33:25

how can you weed this out ? How can you find

33:27

it ? I don't know ? Maybe

33:31

get with a student that this happened to and maybe they can talk to them and kind of go from

33:33

there . Because I got to be honest with you . I've called my

33:35

kid's principal out on tons

33:37

of bullshit . Tons of bullshit that

33:39

didn't even make any sense to me . And

33:43

the crazy thing is my youngest son . He's

33:45

so hypertensive that when

33:47

you talk to him he likes to

33:49

flip flop back and forth to subjects so he

33:51

doesn't stick on one subject for too long . It's like

33:54

he'll talk about this intense escalator

33:56

and something different , but then this principal would come

33:58

in , or assistant principal would come in and

34:00

try to get him to admit something , because he's trying

34:02

to talk circles around him and confuse my

34:04

son . So , yeah

34:06

, I think that what

34:08

you witnessed was bad . I think you're

34:11

going about it . I think you should report it . Maybe

34:13

report it anonymously

34:15

, because this

34:18

is what I've also done as well . I'm

34:20

not sure if this is going to work in today's era

34:22

, but when I

34:24

got hired at a company , I

34:28

did an anonymous survey and the anonymous

34:30

surveys was we were grading the

34:33

staff and I was a new person coming

34:35

in . I wanted everybody to be graded . I got

34:37

the okay from the higher ups . They

34:39

said , yes , you can do this , because we think that this

34:41

would be good and we could actually

34:44

use the input to see where we need to improve

34:46

. I did . I drafted up a

34:48

survey . It's

34:51

probably about maybe five or six

34:53

questions and it was

34:55

to remain anonymous . Everybody

34:57

was to fill it out . You stick it in a box

34:59

. We wouldn't know who

35:02

did what like . We wouldn't know

35:04

the person who filled it out . Now you can put

35:06

the office tab down there and say what you

35:08

did or didn't like or what you would like to see change

35:10

, and then it kind of went from there . So

35:13

I did that . It

35:15

had a positive effect on my end

35:18

, but a negative effect on the

35:21

other end , oh , and the results did not

35:23

go to that location . The

35:25

results went to the

35:28

higher ups . So I

35:30

was not allowed to see the results because

35:32

we were all being graded on our performance

35:35

and , like I said , I was a new guy . I

35:38

think I waited a month until we

35:40

did this survey and

35:43

or grading our staff . I don't know what I called

35:45

it , but anyway I did it , and

35:48

it got so many positive

35:50

reviews that when

35:53

the higher-ups found out about it and then

35:55

they kind of got wind of it , well , they

35:57

came in a clean house . They did came

35:59

in a clean house because they had put

36:02

somebody in there that we didn't even know was

36:04

coming , and then that's

36:06

how they found out what they needed to found out , and

36:08

that's who they let the people go that shouldn't have been working

36:10

there . So I

36:13

think maybe something

36:15

like this would work if

36:17

you report it , um

36:19

, because everybody can

36:21

remain anonymous , and the only

36:23

people that would get the results would be the higher

36:26

ups , and then they would bring in the

36:29

administrators and say , hey , well , this is what we

36:31

found out . Now , keep in mind , we did

36:33

not do this . These are the

36:35

people you work with , or the coworkers that you

36:37

have , and it

36:39

yields good results . Now

36:42

, I

36:45

think what happened is unfortunate , I

36:47

think it is sad and I think if something like

36:49

this was to get out , yeah

36:51

, it's going to be devastating , but I

36:54

think it needs to get out , and

36:57

I don't want to put the student on blast

36:59

or want them to say anything , because I think they should keep all

37:01

that down on a down low . I

37:03

think that student should be talked to , uh

37:06

, maybe by uh personnel

37:08

in the central office and

37:10

then kind of get their take on it , because

37:13

you shouldn't be treated like that as a student . This

37:16

world is so divided enough over the stupid

37:18

ass , dumb ass politicians that don't

37:21

dump shit on a single damn

37:23

day . But they get to keep their jobs . They

37:25

get to keep on doing stupid shit and stay in the media

37:28

. Media , yeah , media . But

37:31

meanwhile we

37:33

have an administrator as

37:36

well as a handful of students , um

37:39

, basically taking bets on what student's

37:41

going to screw up or what race is going to screw

37:43

up , because you think this

37:46

race is superior to the others and

37:48

it doesn't work that way . I thought

37:50

segregation was over . I mean , last time I checked it was over

37:52

. But then again , some

37:54

people have hidden agendas and this

37:57

does not discredit those good teachers , because those

37:59

good teachers who are actually trying

38:01

to do something , who actually like making things work

38:03

and don't care where the student comes from

38:05

, they just want to see their students succeed , those

38:08

are the ones I give praise to . So

38:11

my , my kids administrator or

38:13

assistant principal , I don't hate

38:15

him , I just don't like his ways . I

38:18

think he's cold , I think he doesn't

38:20

care . I think once you say something to him

38:22

and it's over , there's no explaining

38:24

, it's like his mind's already made up . And I told

38:26

him plenty of times you should not be in

38:28

the position that you are in , because if

38:30

you're not hearing students on what they're saying , it's

38:33

like you've already made your mind up From the minute you've seen

38:35

it happen . That's it , there's nothing else

38:37

, there's no justification , there's

38:39

no jury , there's no guilty , there's no not guilty

38:42

. It's automatically guilty . And

38:44

that's sad . And

38:47

I've been in this district for a while and I've seen

38:50

administrators , I've seen a lot of minutes

38:52

. This is the only administrator I've come to that

38:54

does not act this way . Most

38:57

of the ones that I've been in contact with or talked to are

38:59

completely , completely

39:01

sympathetic . They're caring of the students

39:03

and they want to see him do better . But

39:05

this one guy , this one damn

39:08

guy who I will not mention his name , I

39:11

can't break bread with him at all . I

39:15

can't . So

39:17

if something

39:19

like this is going on in school , you best believe

39:21

somebody gonna get a copy of this podcast

39:24

. I I mean the letter can't really

39:26

do anything because it's coming from an

39:28

email or it's coming from an anonymous

39:30

source , whatever , what have

39:32

you . So I don't know who that person is

39:34

, but I think that if they're

39:37

listening to the show , I think there should be

39:39

some talks within you

39:41

know the schools to say

39:43

, hey , we need to have a sit down with the teachers

39:45

and kind of figure out where things are going

39:47

. Maybe not , maybe not together

39:50

, maybe a one-on-one , because

39:52

if you get a group of us in there , I'm sorry I keep saying

39:54

that's like I'm educated If you get a group of them in there where

39:56

somebody is going to know something and then somebody

39:58

is going to drop down and somebody is going to go back to that person

40:00

, hey , man , this was going on . We , they found out something

40:03

. So

40:05

hang on y'all . Y'all know I gotta hit

40:07

this wave . Hold on god

40:14

. I love this vape and this tea . Uh

40:17

, in any event it

40:22

is . It was sad when I read this letter and

40:25

I wasn't even sure if I was going to read it , but I

40:27

felt that to the

40:29

person that wrote it , it should be read again

40:32

. I'm not here to stir the pot , I'm not here

40:34

to cause trouble again

40:36

. I say , if you are an educator and you

40:38

are frustrated with

40:40

the group of kids that you teach or

40:43

that you think your race is better than the

40:45

other . You should not be a teacher . Your

40:48

job as an educator is to teach

40:50

these children , help them become all that they can

40:53

be so when they enter a world , they don't have to

40:55

deal with people like this . But the sad

40:57

, unfortunate thing is they do have to deal

40:59

with people like this . I've dealt with

41:01

people like this before you know what I do

41:03

. I pay no attention . I've dealt with people like this before you know

41:05

what I do . I pay it no attention . I've been faced with a

41:07

grand wizard of the KKK , stood

41:09

toe to toe with them , did

41:12

not engage , because

41:14

some , when you do engage , that's

41:17

what I was talking about . See , that's what these people do

41:19

not all people , all

41:21

not . Okay

41:24

, let me clarify not everybody in the black race

41:26

is violent , okay , so

41:28

I know that there are some people that think when they see

41:30

a black person , they're automatically violent . No , they're

41:32

not . They're not . You

41:34

know there is no race that's better

41:36

than the other . There are violent people in this world

41:39

. There are sick people in this world . You

41:46

can't hold one race responsible for all the bad shit that's

41:48

happening in the world , because it's

41:51

not that and it shouldn't be that . So

41:53

I have you know I was thinking about this too , because

41:56

I often think about this . I thought about

41:58

it wouldn't

42:00

make a damn bit of difference if there was only

42:03

white people left in this world , because you know why

42:05

Some will still find something to

42:07

complain about . Some will always find something

42:09

negative to complain about . You

42:11

know they'll find bad shit here . Or I

42:14

mean , for Christ's sake , the rich and the poor

42:16

back in the day were like

42:18

I

42:21

can't really say going at it . But the rich treated

42:23

the poor like shit , and it was

42:25

. Most of them were white people

42:27

. Now , I'm not getting out the history books , y'all know

42:29

what I'm trying to say . So even

42:32

if it was just one single race in this

42:34

world let's say white people

42:36

some people would still find something to complain

42:38

about , and it still . It still wouldn't

42:40

matter . So stop

42:43

comparing the

42:45

black race to a violent race , because

42:47

not every black person on this planet is violent

42:49

. I'm damn sure not violent . Now I may

42:52

get upset because I'm trying to

42:54

talk to you , but violence

42:56

doesn't solve anything to me . It doesn't

42:58

. I want to talk . If you don't

43:00

want to talk and you don't want to listen to

43:02

me , then don't bring it up to my attention

43:04

, but you're going to hear

43:06

everything I have to say . So

43:08

I

43:11

want to say this to these educators or this

43:13

administrator , and I hope this podcast finds

43:15

you well , I really do . A

43:18

day of reckoning , as I said before , is coming . If

43:21

you think that this is going to go unnoticed

43:24

, think again , because it won't . I

43:27

think you should either not

43:29

teach or maybe you should go take

43:32

some classes on how to be a better

43:34

teacher , but you should never engage in

43:37

such stupid and heinous activity

43:39

as far as judging a student

43:41

from where they come from and the color of their damn

43:43

skin . You should not do that . What

43:47

is that going to prove ? What is

43:49

that going to prove ? It

43:55

proves nothing but your hatred and that you are racist and that you shouldn't be teaching

43:57

or doing anything that's related

43:59

to kids . You

44:02

should seriously sit back and evaluate and try

44:05

to figure out what you should do in life , because

44:07

teaching ain't it . It ain't

44:09

Maybe

44:12

go I don't , hell , I don't know , but

44:20

you really shouldn't . And it's crazy because people that are racist

44:22

. You know , this world is full , filled with so many people , so many diverse

44:24

cultures that to me it's just beautiful . I love

44:27

seeing different people . Now I'm

44:29

not racist racist towards anybody , I have no

44:31

reason to be . But

44:34

if you're a bad person , you're a bad person . I

44:37

don't . I don't hate you . I mean depending on

44:39

what you do because you know some , some of these people are

44:41

using some diabolical shit . You know I'm saying some

44:44

real diabolical shit , but at

44:47

the same token I can't't hate anybody . Now

44:50

I can

44:53

pray for you , but we're

44:55

not going to be friends . I

44:59

can keep you at an arm's length distance , maybe

45:01

maybe a few arms length . I'm just saying

45:03

I don't really know you . I don't know you like that , you know . But

45:08

you know what I'm trying to say . You know it just

45:10

hurts my heart to think that we'd have people

45:12

in our education system

45:14

that would do that . And then what

45:16

even hurts even more is that it's close

45:18

to home and I mean this is shit we

45:21

see on social media and we see on the news . But

45:23

you never thought it would hit home this close

45:25

and we don't want it to

45:27

be like that . You know . I

45:31

think people

45:33

are trying to do the best that they can , you

45:36

know . But I think

45:38

where it comes in is that I'll

45:41

say my kids look forward to going

45:43

to school every day because of the teachers that they interact

45:46

with , who they love , and

45:48

I love talking to those teachers and I think they

45:50

are some of the best teachers in

45:52

this district that I have seen and

45:55

my hats go off to them because they have a hard job

45:57

. And I'm

46:00

sorry for the other districts and all the

46:02

rift

46:04

and the trouble that's going on

46:06

, but I know they're trying to find a way to

46:08

make it better and

46:10

I know they're trying to find a way to , you

46:13

know , eliminate this problem , but

46:15

doing it the correct way . So

46:20

if you're going

46:22

to punish somebody , it should

46:24

be fair all the way around , because here's the thing

46:26

. There's

46:28

another thing about this letter that really touched

46:31

base for me , because my son had gotten suspended

46:33

for a fight he didn't even

46:35

start . The student came

46:40

up to him , slammed his head into the

46:42

wall or the door two

46:46

or three times . My

46:49

son got suspended . Then

46:52

asked the head administrator

46:54

that doesn't make sense . He's

46:57

like well , even though he didn't start the fight , then he

46:59

, he

47:04

was in the fight . So they both got suspended . Okay , that's ass backwards , but it's in their

47:06

handbook , which is stupid , because back in my day if

47:09

a student started a fight with another student

47:12

, they were the aggressor , they would get either

47:14

arrested or disciplined . This is high school

47:16

we're talking . We're not talking about middle school or elementary . But

47:19

they would get arrested and be charged

47:21

or had to work or work it off

47:23

Nine times out of 10 , they would work it off

47:25

because they wouldn't want it to go on the

47:27

student's background , because that could hurt their chances of college

47:30

or whatever else that they would

47:32

be involved in . So that

47:36

kind of hurt me because

47:38

my son wasn't there . He didn't even start it

47:40

. Student just walked up to him and just blatantly

47:44

didn't like him and just slammed his head into

47:46

the door two or three times and

47:49

I was like wow , into

47:55

the door two or three times and I was like wow . And then the crazy thing is

47:58

was that instead of let me get this right , I wanted to press charges

48:00

on the student that did that . But

48:03

the school declined to

48:05

press charges because

48:07

again I said and I know I said this before

48:09

in a podcast they told me that they

48:12

didn't want this on his background . But why not ? He's

48:14

the one that started this shit . You

48:17

have it on video . It's clear . Present

48:19

and day . I want my son to have his

48:21

day in court . No , they didn't do that

48:23

again . I still think

48:26

either they know somebody in the district which

48:28

I give zero dams

48:30

about . Right is right , wrong

48:32

is wrong . So

48:34

to this teacher , I understand and I appreciate

48:36

this letter because I know if

48:39

you know me , or I'm not sure if I know who

48:41

you are , but maybe heard of me , wouldn't

48:43

be surprised if you heard of me , because this

48:45

year ain't it's been a good year for me

48:48

? Probably not a good year for the administrator , because I'm

48:50

pretty sure that person's like oh , I got

48:52

this parent who's just , he's on

48:54

it . Yeah you damn right , I'm on it because I love

48:56

my kids and I don't want to see nothing

48:58

happen to them and I want you to step

49:00

up , boss up and do your damn job

49:02

. That's all I want . Hold on

49:04

y'all tea time , hold on , hold on . Oh

49:13

my God , that's good tea , damn

49:15

it . You know you're

49:18

not to get out . So do you ever get so mad

49:20

because something is so good ? Oh , my God

49:22

, it's like . Oh

49:25

, you're like oh man , why is it

49:27

so good ? That's me , that's

49:32

me , damn it , hold on , hold on . So

49:38

I'm

49:41

sorry , this tea is good . But

49:44

in any event , I

49:49

hope this letter finds the person

49:51

that it needs to find . I

49:54

hope that the central

49:56

office gets involved . I hope that there

49:58

is a way that they can find out who this person

50:01

is . I hope there is a

50:03

way that they could get this person out

50:06

of the school , because they clearly should

50:08

not be there . I don't know what measures

50:10

should be taken or will be taken

50:12

, but I ultimately think something

50:14

needs to happen . And

50:18

if the person reporting

50:20

it is like sort of a whistleblower , then

50:23

I don't think no kind of repercussions should come

50:25

to that . But then again , I can't speak to that effect because

50:27

I'm not

50:29

employed by these people , but it sounds like this teacher is really concerned

50:31

. And again , I can't speak to that effect because I'm not employed by these people , but it sounds

50:33

like this teacher is really concerned . It sounds like this teacher has been in this

50:36

job for a very long time . That's

50:38

what it sounds like to me . It sounds like this teacher really

50:41

takes their job seriously and they

50:43

are really trying to do the right thing , or

50:45

they have been doing the right thing and

50:51

they want to do the right thing , but not sure how the consequences

50:54

are going to affect her or him . I keep saying

50:56

her , her , him . So I

50:59

honestly think that this

51:02

is a call that should be made . I honestly

51:05

think that this is something that needs to be taken

51:07

a look at , because it's enough . It's going on in the world

51:09

. It really is something that needs to be taken a look at , because it's enough that's

51:11

going on in the world . It really is . You know , this is how bullying gets started , or

51:13

this is how people don't feel safe , or

51:15

kids , students , don't feel safe in the school because

51:17

we're being looked at

51:19

or being judged by where we come

51:21

from or who we are , and that shouldn't be

51:24

that way . Everybody should feel safe going

51:26

to the school . Everybody should

51:28

be able to feel like they can come talk to somebody . Now , this

51:30

district that I am . They do some really good work

51:33

and , like I said , I don't hold all

51:35

of them responsible . I don't . I know

51:37

it's probably maybe 1% of them , but

51:40

I don't know who they are . And if I did

51:42

know who they are , I wouldn't put them on blast because their

51:44

karma is coming for them . But

51:48

I hope that they hear this podcast . I really

51:50

do . I hope that they hear this podcast . They're like , oh

51:52

, okay , well , something ain't right . We , we

51:55

may have a problem . I

51:57

don't think you're going to have a problem

51:59

. I'm sorry you

52:01

, that's it . That all

52:04

has backwards . They say they may

52:06

have a problem . Yeah , you damn right You're going to have a problem

52:08

. Yeah , you're damn right , you're going to have a problem . But I don't

52:10

want the person that reported to have a problem , because

52:12

this person is just trying to do the right thing by

52:15

making sure that they

52:17

, as educators , are doing the right thing , because

52:19

we teach students to do the right thing . We teach students

52:21

to be kind to each other . We want to express

52:23

that in them and instill that in them so when they go into the real

52:25

world they know how to deal with it . Yes , there's

52:35

going to be racism . There's no doubt about that . Racism ain't going away . It's how you deal with it

52:37

. But it's worse when it's in your schools and you hear about it and you're kind of in the middle

52:39

of what should you do . This is exactly what you should do

52:41

and I hope you do it . I really

52:43

do . So . I

52:47

can't really say never mind the repercussions , because

52:49

this person , this teacher I'm pretty sure he loved

52:51

a job , but

52:53

I think if it wants to remain

52:55

anonymous and if you post it on your social media

52:57

account , which I'm assuming is separate

52:59

from your work account or whatever

53:01

, then that's fine too . And if you've gotten so much good

53:04

feedback from other districts

53:06

or administrators who say that they've

53:08

seen it and nothing's

53:10

happened , well that's fine . But that don't

53:13

stop you from reporting it . I'm

53:15

not saying once you report it you're going to feel better , but

53:17

you would probably try to keep pushing the issue

53:20

for equality and

53:22

better learning situations

53:25

and better understanding with the teachers

53:27

and the staff and the administrator . So

53:29

think about that . Think about that's something that you can

53:31

do . That's going to have a positive

53:34

outcome . Either way I go , it's going to be positive

53:36

. I don't think this is going to be something that blows

53:38

up on the media unless something

53:40

happens or , you

53:42

know , it gets wind or the

53:45

student decides to come forward and say , well , this is what

53:47

happened to me and this is the person that did it

53:49

. But even with that in mind , if

53:52

something like that did happen , I

53:54

wouldn't discredit all the other teachers

53:56

who are doing the right thing and who

53:58

want to make students feel better

54:00

and safe in their schools . So

54:04

you continue to do the right thing

54:06

, and I know you're not looking for any

54:09

kind of recognition , nothing like that . That's probably

54:12

why the letter is anonymous , and that's fine with

54:14

me If you wrote your name on , I wasn't

54:16

going to say your name anyways , not

54:18

even going to say the district . So if

54:22

the district gets wind for this or central office

54:24

, then they have some work to do . So I

54:27

hope this letter finds you well . I

54:31

hope that you don't

54:33

have to experience nothing like this again . But

54:35

I think if you tell somebody , let the

54:37

process start , let it

54:39

start , let

54:42

nature take its course , let

54:45

the chips I'm

54:48

sorry , let

54:50

the chips fall where they may . So

54:53

I'm not laughing at that , I'm just saying because I'm throwing

54:55

out here all these uh quotes and things . But whatever

54:57

, but let them fall , let

55:00

them fall at least . If you do

55:03

this , then you know that the

55:05

people or persons responsible

55:07

, you know they weren't meant to

55:09

be in this job anyways , and I really hope that they find

55:12

whoever this person is or persons

55:14

, and I really hope that they find another

55:16

career choice or a career path , because they

55:18

shouldn't be teaching , uh

55:21

, any students . If you're , if you're , if

55:23

you're thinking is is just that . So

55:26

, as we get ready

55:28

to wrap this show up , guys , I want to say say thank you

55:30

, thank you for the downloads

55:32

, thank you for listening to my podcast . Thank you for

55:34

the feedback , thank you for

55:36

the letters , thank you for just the overwhelming

55:39

support and the love that you

55:41

guys show for the endeavor empire

55:43

. I appreciate it , appreciate

55:46

everything . Keep the letters

55:48

coming . We got some more to discuss

55:50

. I'm trying to get myself on a schedule

55:52

so I can release these in a timely

55:55

fashion manner , because I'm kind of been slacking lately

55:57

. But I'm busy . I'm trying to get ready for

55:59

this trip . I'm going on , I'm

56:01

trying to get my vacation

56:04

, get my kids taken care of , but it's fine , I'm

56:06

back on it , we're

56:08

going to be back on it . So

56:10

just keep them coming . You know , like I

56:12

said , I see

56:15

about maybe 10 to 15

56:17

letters a week To me . That's huge

56:19

. To me , that's huge . I love it . Oh my God , I love

56:21

it and I try to get to the

56:24

ones that I can try to get to . Now , just

56:26

because you write me doesn't mean your letter is not important

56:28

or we're not going to read it or we're going to discuss it . Now

56:31

, just because you write me doesn't mean your letter is not

56:33

important , or we're not going to read it or we're going to discuss

56:35

it . I'd like to get to all of them . So I don't have

56:37

a backlog , nothing like that . We're going to get to it . You know

56:40

we're going to do it . So , as

56:43

you get ready to close the show , I don't want to say thank you . You

56:45

know guys appreciate everything you

56:47

guys do . My

56:49

links and everything are listed on my

56:51

page . If you want to follow me on

56:53

IG , facebook , whatever

56:56

, hey feel free to do so . My name

56:58

is Derek . I am Endeavor Empire . Want

57:02

to thank you for listening to today's show . Till next time , my friends , take

57:04

care of yourself and each other . No-transcript

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