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Hey, everybody. I'm Doug. That's Connor and this.

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Is the Bethel School District presents podcast. We

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are talking summer school today. Connor is gonna

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pack up the recording gear and head on

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over to Span Way lake High school to

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talk to a teacher and a student About

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an amazing trip. They just took as a

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class to the museum of Popular, culture in

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Seattle, Connor, have you ever been up to

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the museum previously known as the experienced music

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project. Sharp.

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I have not. Even though I lived in

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Seattle for a long time. 1 of those

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things I never got to. Always wanted to

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go. You actually would probably really enjoy. In

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my favorite part they actually have a a

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science fiction museum that's tacked onto it kind

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of, but they have what I've heard is

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a pretty incredible nirvana exhibit. And you are

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quite the fan. A I am quite the

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fan. I actually

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mentioned this on the show before, but I

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was looking enough to see Nirvana live,

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19 93,

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I believe,

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what a show what experience love that band.

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So that's 1 more reason to get up

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there, and it could be argued.

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Nay, it should be argued

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that Kurt cob is the voice of his

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generation. I have heard this argument.

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So many times. I'm sorry. I'm gonna keep

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making it. I come in talking about it.

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I leave talking about it. It's a bit

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of an obsession of mine. So

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let's see here, Doug. We come from different

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generations. You'll give me that once you. I

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will not... Really 4 years apart. But they're

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very important for you. So in your eyes,

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who is the

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cultural

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voice, of your generation. What do you got

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through

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Buster Keaton?

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Foster Keaton. That's a really good pull. And

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for our younger listeners, Buster Keaton is a

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fantastic silent film star right alongside Charlie Chaplin.

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Go check it out. That's your homework. For

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everybody else, the voice of my

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generation I think this question is pretty tough

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actually because it's not who my favorite artists

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are. We're talking about millions of people in

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my generation. So I'm gonna... My bets here,

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and I'm gonna give you 3 with no

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explanation because I think they speak for themselves.

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Whitney Houston.

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Prince

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for me, we're at all yank quebec. Wow.

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That's a diverse

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list and bizarre

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I have no arguments against any of those

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pigs. I love it. Fantastic. Didn't think I'd

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sneak weird a by, but he did just

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have a new song come out. So... Still

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relevant. Well, I'm gonna head over to Span

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High school right now where I will ask

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our teacher and student who they view, as

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the cultural voice of their generations.

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Joining us today is Span Lake, High school,

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summer school teacher, Chris Williams, and Chris during

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the regular school year, you teach a host

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of Ct courses here especially the High school.

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Tell us what you teach in the summer.

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Social media mark. And part of that summer

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class, we're in our second session of that

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right now. But part of that in your

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first session, you guys are all able to

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head over to the mop opted a museum

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of pop culture in Seattle. Can you tell

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us how that came to be? We try

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to find field trips that actually

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help students

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the experience something that they haven't experienced before

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and expose them to career opportunities that they

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maybe have ever been exposed to. And so

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what we did is we reached out directly

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to the director of marketing for the mop

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pop and and just asked if we could

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create a program where we

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had them speak to our students, and then

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give our students a challenge.

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Our students created some social media content for

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them. They judge those,

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awarded prizes for winners, and then we got

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to go on a field trip there. And

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Alexis is also joining us. She is an

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incoming freshman at Span Way lake High school,

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and you are actually in both of these

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courses you were in the first session that

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got to go to Mop pop and you're

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in this current second session right now. What

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was Mop pop like for you? Had you

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been there before? I've never been to mop

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pop before. And

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it was a fun experience because I'm younger,

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and it was just cool to see things

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that are, like, as old as me or

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older than me, and I was able recognize

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them. And 1 of the cool things about

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it is cutting edge, You know, and that...

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That's across the board. They... I mean, it's

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a it's a beautiful facility,

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a lot of really talented people work there,

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and I assume that carries over into their

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social media department.

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What were some of the things it's that

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your students were able to learn, because I

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understand you actually got to spend some time

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with their social media team. What was some

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of the things that your students were able

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to learn from their social media team. Yeah.

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That's a great question. So 1 of the

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big things that kind of stood out to

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a lot of our students was how their

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social media directors and and some of their

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employees got their their start because they walked

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through their...

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and how they ended up with mop. And

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and they give them some great advice. 1

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of them was just their go out create

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content for free for local businesses,

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and that's what led

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into

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getting networking into and getting her job. It

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it really is something you could start as

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a high school and get that experience. Is

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this something that has any interest to you

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at all? Entering the world of social media

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or marketing? At first know, but then when

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she started talking about how she got started

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with her career and started making money, it

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wasn't at first, Like, she wasn't making money,

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and it was kinda inspiring to me because

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usually, kids my age and including myself. We...

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money, like, right away. But seeing that, like,

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she was starting out, like, differently on a

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different path, and she worked her way it

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was really cool. So Chris and I we

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come from a generation where I assume we're

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roughly the same age where... We grew up

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there wasn't

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Twitter. There wasn't Facebook. There wasn't social media.

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Whereas Alexis, your generation, this is all innate.

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can remember there were these social media things.

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So I imagine you're already pretty good at

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this. What were some of the things you

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learned in your social media marketing class that

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you can use in your personal? Wife. Probably

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just being intentional with your content that you're

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making.

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I always thought that it was just to

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make a video and then hope for the

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best. That it will go viral, but there

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was, like, a lot more thinking

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behind it? Like, what's your target audience? And

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what's your intent with it? Like, are you

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making an impact on the world or not.

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And it kind of reflects something, like, my

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life, like, am I making an impact with

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the things that I say or not.

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to look at it. I think, a healthy

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way to look at social media. So, Chris,

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a lot of these students, I'm sure are

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expert. In their own right, probably some of

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them have thriving social media channels. Were there

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things that you learn from students that you're

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like, oh, in that wasn't in my, kind

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of repertoire and maybe I'll add it into

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another session. Yeah. Not so much in this

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session, but in the past, I've had a

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student that right now has a half million

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subscribers on Youtube, and it just opened my

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mind up to, like, there's this whole niche

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that she's targeted

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that is a huge and it's exploding and

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it's relevant to teenagers in our in our

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school system right now. And so it's There's

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been a lot of those that happen over

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time. Let's take it back a little bit

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because this is a really interesting field to

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get into as a teacher. What made you

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wanna be a teacher in the first place

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and what led you into the Ct. Field.

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Yeah. That's a good question. So my background

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I had 0 interest in being a teacher

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when I graduated high school, degree was an

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economics

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went off, ran hospitals,

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started a company sold the company, did a

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bunch of investing,

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got into profit work, ended up in the

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Philippines, because I I lived there for a

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couple years, and there was a big typhoon

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that went through there.

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while I was there, we we re helped

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rebuild after the typhoon, and

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their livelihood recovery plan. And part of that

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because the coconut trees had all been leveled

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by the... The tsunami that came through at

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the storm,

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they don't reg grow for 10 years. And

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so half of the population on Island had

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no career for no work for 10 years.

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is to build a computer science. Island program

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kids could go through and learn it an

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early age and then start working for companies

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abroad.

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colleges and school districts, and I... This was

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1 of the school. I was advising.

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was really exciting and really interesting to me.

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9 years, I think now. And and I

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love. And I get to I've had a

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lot of latitude to help bring programs to

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the district. And so a lot of the

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computer science programs I brought to the district

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and the social media, project management course, those

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that I thought. We've created those all ourselves,

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and and they've had some really awesome impact

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with those. That's 1 of the best teacher

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origin stories. Because... We asked that question a

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lot on the podcast, and we get a

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lot of, oh, I wanted to be a

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teacher since I was in second grades. And

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so it's it's always nice to see people

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come from the private sector and have kind

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of a different route, but it's the same.

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We all get the same place. So, Alexis...

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regular school, and you're in an interesting position

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because you have not been to a regular

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high school yet. So how would you compare

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the summer school course to your regular school

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last year at Span way middle.

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I think it's a lot more different because

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at Span away middle. I was... Going to

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different classes, and it wasn't even for a

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full hour, and I really got to focus

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on, like, a bunch of things, but that's

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summer school, I can focus on 1 class

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brainstorm ideas that will just keep coming coming

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space. The whole time. You're young. You got

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they have plans for post

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graduation. If you have some ideas for what

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out in the world. Honestly, I have no

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school. In the media, at least, summer school

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the bad kid the kid that screwed up,

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worthwhile for your students and not punishment. Yeah.

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experience for them. So they're making content, they're

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testing different strategies out, and then it's

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tying what they're about to learn to their

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relevance of it so that as they...

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where there's lots of opportunities. So social media,

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there's millions of things they can do. They

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be consultants, all sorts of stuff. So it's

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a fun class to teach. Yeah. I'm sure

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there there are probably some classes that are

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at a disadvantage math class, things like that.

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here because I'm sure the kids are interested

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from the beginning. So let's take it back

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to Mop pop. 1 of most popular areas

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at the mop pop is the Nirvana exhibit

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and it could be argued that Kirk Bean

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was the most culturally significant musician of his

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generation. My c host, Doug and I've been

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arguing about this all morning,

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Question is, who do you think the most

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culturally significant musician of your generation and wine,

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Alexis, I'm gonna start with you. Goodness.

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I don't know. There's just a lot and

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like Beyonce or something.

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Gaga is, like, pretty impactful because she didn't

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have style like other people and it wasn't

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playing based. Big.

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touching many different genres. She's a musician. She's

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acting just fashion. Know this So hard to

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argue. I mean, that's a that's a good

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argument. So Kris, what about you? So who

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do you think is the most culturally impactful

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musician of your? I'm gonna put that between

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hendrix?

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And Bob Marley. But I think I'd go

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with Bob Marley. Okay. Now defend yourself. Why

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Bob Marley. I think he made a movement

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that was really significant

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for a whole

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population,

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and brought to light and educated on... Something

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that's really important to a whole generation,

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in a in a positive and uplifting way.

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Now, let's do a little experiment here with

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a younger generation. Do you know who bob

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Marley is? Yeah. What about Jimmy Hendrix? Yeah.

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Okay. So they both passed the test in

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that they have filtered down to the younger

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generations? Well, thank you both so much for

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being with us today. Really appreciate your answering

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these questions and telling us about your awesome

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experience at Mop. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.

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Well, great interview, Connor, and fantastic Picks Bob

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Marley and Lady. Gaga. You know weird out

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does a fantastic parody born this way it's

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called perform this way. Of course, she is

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highly recommended. And Bob Marley 3 little birds

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1 of my favorite songs all time. Absolutely

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2 great picks and thank you again to

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Alexis and Chris for chatting with us today.

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We will see you next week.