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Most Memorable Moments | The Reschool'd Podcast
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Aug 20, 2023
(College 101 Series: Chapter 22) What a fun episode to record!! A listen sent in the question “what are some of our most memorable moments from in the classroom”, and did we ever have some laughs talking about these times with each other. And the sad part is, the ones that we talk about in this episode if just the tip of the iceberg. Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/15943706?utm_source=youtube
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Welcome to the Reschooled Podcast, the show that discusses all the things that schools
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may have missed with your hosts, AJ Couttie and Jason Gordon. Hey everybody, welcome back to the show
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We are the Reschooled Podcast, the show that discusses all the things that schools may not have prepared you for
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As always, I am AJ, and sitting across from me, Jason. Jason, how are you doing today? Doing great today, AJ. It is the end of the semester. Classes are done, grades are in
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the holidays are coming in fast, so yeah, it's good. Well, when the listeners listen to this, the holidays, one holiday will at least have passed
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Yeah. So that'll be Monday, the Monday after Christmas. Yeah. So, you know, the travel plans are in place
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The kids are in their last day of school. So, yeah, it's a good day
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You know, it's one of those milestones. You're like, all right, you know, at this point in the year
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They seem to be going faster and faster these days. As the older you get, the quicker they go
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That's what I've learned. Yeah. What is that relative time versus actual time
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Sure. It sounds like something Einstein would come up with. Yeah. I mean, it seems like time is going by faster
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So in your mind, it really is. Yeah, I guess so. That's frightening to think about
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I don't know. Your semester end okay? Yeah. Yeah. Got the grades in. Everything's good
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Got my grades back from my program. So that was good. It ended well
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As my dad used to ask me about once every couple of years in college
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So you passing? I passed. I passed. Good to hear. Yep. So, you know, we're down to our last semester for coursework, and then we got our dissertation proposal to defend, and then we have the actual dissertation to defend after that
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So that'll be it. Getting down to the wire. So looking forward to it
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Well, today episode, we are getting we're going back to a listener question
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I love I love these because these are these are not the topic we're talking about today is not something that's really going to be
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you know it's not specifically helpful for a certain point in your time in college or
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listeners time in college but it's just kind of us shooting the bull and talking about some fun
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times but somebody asked us what was some of the funnest funniest or best times we've ever
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experienced in class as the professor so what you think about that oh that sounds good it'll take me
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a minute to think about some funny episodes uh but yeah yeah we can do that one hey before we
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Jump in the, got to remind everybody, hit us up on our website, Reschooled with a D, not an E-D
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All right, so we're just going to skip the quick question because that's really our quick question is what are some of the best times
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I'll go first. Yeah, you jump into the water here. Give me a minute to think
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Because, you know, it's funny because I had these listed out and then all of a sudden one just popped in my head
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And it was probably, like looking back, it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen
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But at the moment, it was one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever been through
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And just be, and it wasn't uncomfortable for me just because, you know, the situation, I mean, it was, you know, it is what it is
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But what I saw afterwards was so uncomfortable in the moment. And then looking back, I'm like, y'all idiots
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So I was teaching this class. It was a summer class. Or no, it had to have been in the winter
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It was a winter class. And so all my students were sitting in there
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and we were going through like a study day. So it was kind of like we were doing problems up on the board
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So I'd get the students come up and do problems on the board. They would do it. And this one of my students was a female
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and she came in with this knitted sweater top, nothing under it
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And I didn't, I mean, I'm not looking at this stuff at the beginning of class
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I'm not looking at the stuff all through the class. You got to turn the blinders on
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But that's the thing. I didn't even know it until it was too late
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So I said, okay, here's the problem. And I called her up
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So she stood up and she had to get in front of a class
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and do this problem and explain it to the class and turn every time to the class
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Now, at this moment, I would say there were, I would probably say it was a 60 to 40 ratio of guys to girls in the class
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And apparently it was a little cold in the classroom that day
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And so she's sitting there and I'm thinking, oh, Jesus. You realize your folly as soon as you got out of the board
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As soon as she turned around to explain the problem, I thought, oh, Jesus. And to see every guy in the class just
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they paid attention to her more than they paid attention to me ever
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of course but what they they understood that problem backwards oh god yeah they knew it well
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and they ask a lot of questions too um but the thing that made it the uncomfortable part for me
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and like i said the funny part looking back is so she sat back down everything was fine we kept
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going through class and then into class now remember this was a study session so this happened
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this was a class that happened really right before a test like i think this was a thursday class the
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test was tuesday after class when i you know class was over and i you know let everybody out
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she had seven guys around her asking questions trying to get study sessions set up you know
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giving their her giving her their numbers thought oh crap dude this is these these guys are getting
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creepy now and then i look back and go oh god this is this has been whoo and so yeah that that
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would have i like you you were doing a uh dating service i was a round table for it
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laying out the options i was like god and then you know god bless her she was eating it up too
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she she was trying to set up study study sessions and everything but um yeah well at least she was
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uh she was happy about the outcome otherwise she's like well what's going on here yeah it was one of
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things like she was you know the class was quiet quiet nature and but man that day I've never had
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more participation more interaction at least with new students with another student uh than I've ever
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seen in my life well uh I've got one that it was nowhere near that comical but I always make
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students at the beginning of semesters introduce themselves it's that first day thing just stand up
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You know this is easier when you have less than 30 people in a class And this was one of those smaller classes type size So it was I guess 30 people in a class And they don have to say much about themselves just you know who are they
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what do they want to get out of school, this class, that type of thing
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any career ambitions or anything they're just particularly proud of that they want the world to know about them
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And so normally this runs very smoothly. Usually people don't have much to say about themselves at this point
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You know, they might have some ambitions, things like that. But usually you don't have much on the accomplishment front that people are bragging about
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Well, there's one girl in the class and don't get me wrong. This girl was absolutely gorgeous
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She was a beautiful young lady. And she goes up to the front of the classroom and she tells a couple of things where she's from, blah, blah, blah
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But then she tells the thing she's proud of. And she says, I have been a Hooters waitress for two years and I hold the record company wide for the highest amount of tips in any given month in the company's history
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And that was what she was proud of. And, you know, the questions that flowed from this, you can imagine
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So otherwise the classes kind of just sit back, you know, not pay much attention
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And well, of course, I mean, what does everybody want to know? Well, how much did you bring in
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How many days did you work? Did you get any one single tip was there
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And, you know, apparently there was some celebrities that came through that dropped a huge, huge tip on the on the tab several times
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And there was, you know, all in all. But what was the demoralizing part
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Was she made more than my salary that? Holy crap. My annual salary
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that month. So, yeah, you know, it's, so for all those aspiring
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Hooters waitresses out there, apparently there are months where you can do better than 100
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Gs. Oh, yeah, Gs. That's crazy. You know, and there's so many
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deep questions that come from that. Like, what celebrities is going to Hooters
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That's a good question. I don't know. But, you know, I will say
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this, in college, I waited tables all the way through and there were like some big dogs that rolled through in some of the restaurants you know
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uh i've waited on some nfl players and and stuff like that a couple of movie actors and things like
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that you know and uh i will say this but you weren't working at hooters yeah i know and my
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tip wasn't that awesome you know they tipped like everybody else and they ordered just about like
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everybody else maybe didn't hold back on the bottle of wine or whatever but yeah so anyway uh
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that that just popped to mind that was not one of them that I had you know top of mind but similar
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scenario so what else you got so when I first started teaching one I had hair um and I didn't
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have a beard and so I I was clean shaven and I look you know I looked a whole lot younger
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and uh but i had this thing i always wanted to do when i was a student um i told myself if i ever
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got to teach this is what i was going to do so the first day of class i would get there early
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and i would sit in the back of the class and i would act like a student the first day because
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nobody knew me and it's and it helped my name so aj uh my whole name is ali john kuti um and so
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that's where the aj comes from but on their ticket for the class it just says ali kuti
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that's it or alley depending alley is a very common name down here in the south too and so
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students didn't have a clue who the professor was i thought oh this is great because i i we
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you know our our college was a or is a non-traditional college so a lot of older uh students
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were there too but i just fit right in with the students so i would dress in a pair of jeans and
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a polo or something like that something that you know students may wear in the first day and I would sit in the back and I would have my book open and all the students would come in and
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I would try to strike up conversations with the students like the first day like have you ever
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heard of this professor is it a guy or a girl do they have a thick accent because you know the name
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is has an accent and uh and then eventually I would pop up and I would get to the front of the
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class but one semester um and and let me preface this by saying too any of my students that's ever
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had me before in class, that have gone through that, they know if they go, if they take me again
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in the next semester, just play along. Just, just go with it, see what we can get. And so, um, one of
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the semesters I went in there, sat in the back and one of my former students came in. So he saw what
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I was doing and he was just, he was playing along, but there was this guy sitting in the back and he
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was just kind of had his, you know, his head in his hand. He had his book open, but he was super
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bored and didn't really, you could tell he didn't want to be there. And so I'm sitting there and I
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said yeah man not looking for this class huh he's like no he's like have you ever heard of this have
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you ever heard anything about this professor like is it a guy or a girl is it you know what do you
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know and he's like well i know it's a guy i was like yeah i said you know anything about him have
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you heard anything he's like yeah i heard he sucked i'm like interesting and soon as he said
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that the guy who had had me before just doubles over laughing like he is just cracking up and
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this guy goes what are you laughing about and he goes and the student goes you'll find out in a
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minute and the guy's like whatever and so i'm sitting there and this guy so and so when i sat
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in the back of the class i never got up right at time so if the class started at eight i usually
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got up at like 8.05. I wanted to see kind of where it would go, the talking would go
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And so 8 o'clock came around, and this guy was just antsy. He was just like
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well, he ain't here. He should be here by now. I'm like, well, we have to wait a bit longer
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And he's like, I'm not waiting very much longer. And so we kept going, and it started to get a
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little stir crazy. And I can't remember who I said it to, but one of the students around me
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they were like, this is just getting ridiculous. I said, are y'all ready to start class? And they're like yeah i'm ready to start class i said all right and i shut my book put you know put my
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book in my bag walk to the front of the class and they're like what are you doing i was like let me professor and to see the guy in the back his face just glossed over and just turned pure
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white and he was like oh and you could just see like him playing back in his head the scenario of
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everything that happened and uh you know everybody got a good laugh and everything and then at the
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end of class, he came up to me and he was like, I mean, I wasn't saying anything about you. This
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is just what I heard. And I finally told him, I was like, dude, don't worry about it. I don't
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hold grudges. It's funny to me. I don't care. I said, I'm going to actually, matter of fact
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I'm going to try to prove you wrong. But man, to see that, like you could see every emotion come
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out of his body through his face at that one singular moment because he lost it. He was just
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And then the guy who was laughing so hard came back and he pointed at him and said
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See? I was like oh good Lord this doesn help That awesome Yeah So I actually tried that one time And the reason I tried it is because I talked to you about it probably 10 years ago
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And you told me you did that. So I tried it. And the Internet spoiled it
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Oh, yeah, of course. So I go in. I sit down. I walk in
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There's a few people already in the classroom. I didn't want to walk in too early because then conversations kick up or whatever
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So I walk in, I sit down, nobody says anything, but a few people just kind of look at me
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And, you know, when I started teaching, I was relatively young looking too
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And, you know, I still have blonde hair, which is kind of, you know, makes me look a little younger than I am
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But, or at least it used to. Now I'm starting to recede back enough that gives me away
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but uh i'm sitting there and some dude looks over at me and says aren't you the professor
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did you please tell me when like crap oh you could have played that you could be like oh
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oh yeah i am i forgot my bad yeah i mean they're doing their homework yeah they're looking on the
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website they're wanting to see who they got and stuff like that and then you know that type of
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thing so anyway i tried it didn't work so that that that was a failed experiment yeah um let's
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See, I've got one that was pretty interesting. You know, it started out funny and then turned the opposite direction a little bit
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So, you know, I teach law or business law classes, and I normally don't teach a lot on criminal law just because it's a business law class
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You know, you go through all your other stuff, transactional mess, starting businesses
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But you do have this one section where you go over, OK, this is how criminal law works
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It obviously applies in the business context as well because there are business crimes. Anyway, there's this guy
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He just rolls in. He never brings a book. He never takes a note
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He never does anything except for plays on his phone and acts like he don't want to be there
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And, you know, I just leave these guys alone, you know, because honestly I'm not going to do anything to aid the process there
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Kind of a bigger dude, a little combative. So I wasn't going to address it at all unless he created a disturbance
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So he didn't want to get anything out of it. He didn't have to. But that time that we talked about criminal law, finally, this guy looks a little bit engaged
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And so I could see it. So I'm all of a sudden, you know, going down the rabbit hole of explaining this stuff about how the process works
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And then he raises his hand and asks a couple of questions. And he's like, so what happens when, you know, so say you're in Walmart and they, you know, they think you got something and then they run outside and they try to stop you there
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They try to tackle you. And, you know, you jump in your car with the other guys
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I'm like, oh, God. Uh-oh. Yeah. You jump in the car, you know, so they don't get to the car and you pull off
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and then all of a sudden the police come up. Can they arrest you
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I'm like, well, did you steal something? He's like, well, I mean, I was already gone
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And I was like, he obviously didn't answer the question, but yeah, obviously he stole something
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And he's like, but I'm off the property. I'm like, yeah. So how's that change anything
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He's like, well, I'm gone. How are they going to arrest me if I had left
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And then they stopped my car. I was like, did they follow your car out of the parking lot
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Was it like a police officer in the parking lot that obviously gets alerted to what just happened
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and they follow you out of the parking lot and then pull you over down the road
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It's like, well, I didn't even get down the road. I just got across the street
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I was like, the question still stands. did they follow you out of the parking lot because you and your buddies had stolen something
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Well, yeah, but how can they do that? Because I wasn't even in the parking lot anymore
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I'm like, I think you're missing the point here. What does it have to do with you being in the parking lot anymore
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as to whether they can arrest you for what you just stole
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He's like, it just ain't right. It ain't right that they could do that. You know, because, you know, I mean, I walked out, we got in the car and we were gone
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I mean, and the whole class is there. They start off laughing
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We all start off laughing. You know, I'm laughing kind of when I'm answering the question
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But then all of a sudden it gets real serious because this dude is really serious
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And, you know, it spills over. This is not this gentleman's first foray
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being locked up for various either theft or drug-related offenses. And like I say, I'm a little intimidated by this dude
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But he is getting furious with me because I keep going back to
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I don't understand why you think they can't arrest you once you've left the Walmart parking lot
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Like, what does that have to do with anything? He's like, man, it's just, it's wrong
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It's wrong. I just, I don't see, man, it's wrong. I don't even get it
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I'm like, again, and the whole class, like I say, they turn from laughing, like giggling in their seat
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I guess that starts to get him mad. And then all of a sudden, everybody's like, don't say a word
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Don't say a word. This is about to turn bad. And all of a sudden, I'm like, well, let's just change pages here
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You know, hopefully you don't get prosecuted over that. Well, you know, and that's the funny thing, too, because so you teach law
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So you're going to have stuff like that come up. I teach accounting. And I can tell you, there's been times where students like, I paid taxes in five years
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I'm like, don't tell me that. Let's keep that to yourself. Well, luckily, you probably don't owe any taxes because you made all your money under table
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Yeah, I mean, it's that was I've had a couple of those were like, you know, I used to the beginning of class
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I would give them a sheet and it would be like, you know, what are you hoping to get out of this class
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And I've had people say, like, I hope to be able to do my taxes so I can pay back the taxes that I owe
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And I'm thinking, well, one, this is intro to financial accounting. This is not tax. This is not going to help you anywhere with that
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But they would come up to me afterwards and they were like, I've got this and this and this
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And can you tell me what? They would ask me tax related advice. I'm like, you need to go see a tax professional
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you need to go talk to somebody legal assistance because you have broken the law yeah and and you
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know to to to most of the situations i'm like you know it's the lack of knowledge i get it
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you know there's there's they didn't they don't understand it or they're missing something
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um but yeah i was just like oh okay a little too much information on that one you could leave that And you know the craziest scenarios never come up during class Oh yeah yeah But you know they coming Oh yeah Because all of a sudden somebody who doesn pay attention at all wakes up and they paying attention hard
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They're listening to every question. And then after class, you can see a wait. Oh, yeah
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You know, there's a line. And the law stuff. Oh, my gosh. So many divorce questions
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Oh, that's fascinating. Yeah. I got stopped doing 85 and a 35
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what do you think is going to happen? I'm like, well, you already know what part of it is going to happen
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Under that super speeder, when they took you to jail and impounded your car for going that fast
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well, that was the start of things. A lot of DUIs, a lot of other stuff like that
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I always love the ones of the students that come up to you at the end of class and the first two words that they say is, hypothetically speaking
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and you're like, oh, boy. You made it real sponely. What'd you do
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Go ahead and prepare myself. So here I got another one that came up and speaking kind of, of
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of this kind of moral compass, if you will. One of the, I, so, you know
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we've all dealt with cheating before. Cheating is just kind of one of those things that happens in class
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but I've always had this thing where, you know, if I catch you cheating
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I'm going to pretty much let you know that I've caught you cheating. I'm going to take whatever
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utensil or tool you were using to cheat and let you kind of make your own decision. I tell them
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I tell them the first day class, if you cheat, you will fail the class. There's no questions about it
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You will fail the class. No, no if, ands or buts. But I remember one summer I had a transient student
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come in from another college down the road. And they would, typically it was, it was very common
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for students from this college to come to our college because they think financial accounting
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is easier, which granted taking financial accounting with 30 students is a lot easier
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than taking it with 300 students. So I get that you're, you're a little bit more comfortable. You
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can, but they would come thinking it'd be easier. So I had this one student that she was in my
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summer class and she was very very participative like like in the class i was like okay she's she's
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she knows her stuff and she took test one fine test two fine and we get to the final test three
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and she's sitting there taking the test and i don't think students realize i didn't even realize
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this until i was on the other side of the table as a professor but i don't think students realize
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that teachers and professors know when you're cheating. A lot of times we don't know how you're cheating yet
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so we're trying to figure that part out. But we know you're cheating
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And so this girl was giving me all the cues that she was cheating and I was watching
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And usually when that happens, I'm already upset when they give me the cues
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because I'm thinking, you're taking my focus now away from something else
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Now I have to watch you to see if you're cheating or how you're cheating. So she would always scoop back a little bit and look at her
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crotch while she's taking the test. I was like, okay, something's in her lap
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And she had her jacket in her, and this was a summer class
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She had her jacket in her lap. And so I finally just said, okay, I figured it out now
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So I walk over there and I said, all right, hand it to me
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And she's like, what are you talking about? I'm like, just hand me whatever you have in your lap. And after a little bit of time
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she finally handed me her phone. and it was, she had her phone, she had the notes on her phone. So I just took it, took her phone
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back up to my desk, set it on my desk, face down. And, uh, I just let it go. I didn't take her test
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up. I said, if you're going to keep taking, you know what the consequences are. If you want to
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keep taking the test, take, take this, you're going to fail the class anyway. But I wasn't going to, I wasn't going to take it from her. If she wanted to waste her time, go for it. And so I sat back
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down and she was just like, okay, I'm going to keep taking this test. Well, this was within the
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first 30 minutes and uh 10 minutes later she came to me she's like hey maggie's restroom i was like
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go ahead you're gonna fail the class anyway you can do whatever you want um so she went to the
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restroom she came back she was still giving me those cues that she was cheating again and so i'm
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like okay here we go again and she's persistent she was doing it the same freaking way she had
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in her lap again she'd scoot back a little bit and she'd look in her lap and then she'd go to
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riding whatever and finally I walked over I said all right give it to me again she's like what are
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you talking about I was like I've been watching you doing the same thing you're doing before
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she's like I don't have anything and she stands up she takes her jacket out of her out of her lap
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and plops it right on the desk to show that she didn't have anything in her lap she didn't realize
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what she had, which was an iPod, not an iPhone, an iPod, the old school iPods
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that when she went to the bathroom, I guess she pulled up her cloud that had the cheat sheet on it
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Uh-huh. And so, but she didn't realize that it was heavy enough to go through the jacket. So when she plopped
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it down, you hear, thud! I'm like, and then when you heard that
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sound, she just, her head went down. And so she handed me her iPod
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So now I had her iPhone and her iPod sitting up front of me and I was like, well. And she kept
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Taking the test. She kept taking the test to finish it. She came up to me afterwards
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She's like, well, I hope you have a great summer. And I'm like, you're going to fail
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I had a great summer. I had a wonderful one. You wasted most of your summer in your reputation
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Yeah, well, and that's the big thing is because, again, coming from a transient university
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they have more stringent cheating outcomes. And so I'm thinking, holy crap
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I mean, you went from, and again, obviously one of the reasons why we look at it from, well, you know, people could argue, okay, well, if she cheated on that test, then why not just fill her for that test
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But I don't, I have to question, was she that good in all the other tests and I just didn't, or did I just not catch it
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Yeah. So it always, that integrity is always questioned if something like that happens
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So that's why it tends to go to, you just fail the class. Yeah, absolutely
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I'm in the same boat. I agree. The whole failing the class thing is probably the better outcome there
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Because once again, it just violates every aspect of class rules and stuff
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I have one similar scenario to that. And people, particularly in classes with auditorium style seating
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and I always taught one class in an auditorium style. So I knew people were cheating in there
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And it was very difficult to keep eyes on them because it was a big class
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So 40 people, that type of thing. But during the class, you know, I'm looking around at the front of the room
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I'm standing up there watching around. And somebody's phone, their Google Assistant, just sounds off
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Oh, God. I'm sorry. I do not understand the question. During the class
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That's funny. Really? How in the world did you whisper? I assume they had an earbud in somehow
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And like, you know, like face in the palm or whatever, it whispered the question into, but the, but the phone was not outputting into the earbud
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It was outputting through the speaker. And so everybody starts to chuckle
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I'm like, I don't know who did it. And I'm not going to ask you to turn yourself in, but it better not happen again
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I knew what area of the classroom it happened in, you know, so, but I certainly wasn't going to make the mistake of going around like accusing
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people or anything like that. So that was, that was pretty, uh, pretty similar
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So you brought up a good point. This one, this one was probably my most embarrassing point that I think I've ever had teaching. So I have, you know, Apple watches and stuff. You can call
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on the voice activated assistance. I'm not going to say the name, but I was in the middle of class
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And so I, you know, I tell them, you know, don't have your phones out or anything like that. And I was talking about, I can't remember even what I was talking about. I don't think I was
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talking about this person but all of a sudden as i'm talking i'm teaching i hear the dial tone
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you know how you know when you call somebody you hear this kind of thing i hear it like like on
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speaker and i'm like somebody's phone's on who somebody's calling somebody and everybody's like
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looking around phone over here like i was like and no this was this was just in class but i was
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and i was just like somebody somebody's calling somebody and it's on speaker and everybody's
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looking around and all of a sudden I hear the voice of my brother going hey fat a and I'm like
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oh my god hey you just called somebody my watch turned on and somehow Siri heard that to call
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my brother and I'm like whoa wait a minute and I was like finally I had to go I'll call you back
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And I just turned my phone off. But man, that was so embarrassing
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Because that's, you know, my brothers and I pick on each other. And, you know, that's kind of a common way to answer the phone
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And I was like, oh, crap. That was my bad. And all I could think of was like, I put all this, you know, focus on, you know, being professional in class
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Because we're a professional business. You know, you're getting a business degree. You want to be professional. And all of a sudden, like, that happened
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Like, this is wonderful. This is a great way to have, you know, to happen in class
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That's awesome. You know, so this, I've probably got one more that was worth mentioning
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Like, you know, all these millions of little incidences, but this one wasn't really funny
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This one was just like jaw dropping because it changed my entire perspective on the new generation of students
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So I haven't described in class. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, so you probably know I create a lot of content and I use my content in class as reading, learning resources and things like that
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And I announced at the beginning of the class that you're not going to have to buy the book
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If you want to buy the book, you can. There's a recommended book by a publisher, whatever name publisher
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You can get it if you want to. But I teach from my notes and I have tons of notes and basically it little mini chapters I have tons of makeup questions I have all sorts of stuff And I say this is all you going to need for the class You not going to
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have to buy a book. It's going to be great. But there's one thing I need you to buy. And there
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are these case studies. So that's a reference that we use throughout. We'll work through these case
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studies. There'll be exercises and we'll go through them in class, that type of thing. So
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You're going to have to buy that. And I think that's about, I don't know, $30 to $40
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Okay. The textbook, though, is $250. So we're saving you a lot of money here if you don't want to buy the textbook
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And a lot of people over the years have been quite appreciative of that
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They will take my class just because they don't have to spend that extra few hundred bucks on resources
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Or at least I believe that's why they're taking my class. So anyway, they retake my class
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It's because you're such a good professor. Yeah, they just love that
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So this student at the end of class comes up to me and in front of a bunch of people and says
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I think it is dishonest and just rips me a new one
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And I'm standing there just dumbfounded that you would make us buy these case studies
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And I don't even know how to respond. I'm so just dumbfounded by what is being thrown at me
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And she was angry. And I tend to have a temper myself
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So I was very measured in this scenario as I am. I want to immediately cut her off and say something back
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But I listened to the whole thing in front of other people and I'm just taking it in
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And then at the end, I summarize. I'm like, so just so I got this straight
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I spend hundreds of hours creating content, the equivalent of an entire book for this course
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So you don't have to buy a book. I create videos. I create questions
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I create just massive amounts of content so I can teach this course without a book
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So anybody can take advantage of this, these course resources because I put them out there in the public for free
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And. You are upset because as a supplement to that, I make you buy something
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That's thirty dollars that you'll use in the course. And she said, well, here's here's one thing
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You said it would be between thirty and forty dollars. It was forty five dollars
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I said yeah I'm sorry I must have mispriced that and when I later look back in they charged an administrative
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fee of about 10 bucks so it threw it over the price point that I thought it was okay
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so anyway I was done finding it now this student I basically didn't say anything
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I said well perhaps I should have just made you buy the entire book along with it
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And that would have been that because that's what happens in most of your classes. And I you know I just lost I fail to see the connection between what I done that is dishonest except for making you buy an additional case study thing
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And I'm still not sure I picked up on where she was going with this about why I was so dishonest
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But, you know, after that, I don't know whether she came to a realization or
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But she actually liked the class and seemed to like me a lot after that
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but she just wanted to air her grievances up front about how this was such an unfair and unjust
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process. And I'm like, okay, I just, I don't know what to tell you. I was working hard to
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try to save you money, but I can't write these big case studies all, you know, at least not
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immediately. It would take me a long time to do so. And anyway
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You know, it's funny you say that because I had that on the other end, you know
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your course evaluations like i'm somebody that i do take my course evaluations very seriously i
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read all the comments and everything and the first few years i always had like i would have
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a student here a student there but they would always say he makes us write too much in class
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and i'm thinking okay well that's that's interesting because in my class i give them
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you know in the beginning i gave them notes all they had to do is fill in the blanks of the notes
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so it's like one word here one word there just to kind of follow along with the slides of the
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problem that we're doing and but i gave them all the other stuff so they didn't have to worry about
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all the fluff right but yet i made them write too much i'm thinking holy crap there was classes
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where they i had almost all my classes did that like where we had to write our own notes
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and i'm just like gracious i guarantee there's other classes going to make you write everything
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yeah you know i don't think some most of the students realize what all we see in the classroom
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and after a while it gets repetitive right you see the same thing the same same cheating the same
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overly involved student that just want to chat the whole time during class rather than learn
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anything or the students who absolutely will not talk some you know just can't stop talking the
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entire class, the ones who hate the idea of learning and, you know, your non-traditional
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students who tend to be, I want to learn everything I can possibly get out of this because this
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is costing me money, you know, type thing. It's just, I don't know, there's a full gamut of students
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I am pretty glad that I've gotten to see them all over the years. I would be willing to bet there's a listener out there that's probably thought of this
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because I know I've been asked this before, but have you ever been asked a question by
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a student that you didn't have a clue what the answer was not even a clue so
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i have i'll never forget this day i'm i'm trying to think there have been a couple of times where
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i didn't fully know the answer and i said well just let me look that up yeah type scenario it's
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always something that's uncomfortable with people like when when you're not when you're not if you're
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not a teacher, you're not a professor. The first question, like if you're going into that profession
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is, well, what am I, what would I do if somebody asked me a question? Like, and I don't know it
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And I'm like, I'll tell them, I don't know. I'll figure it out for you. Yeah. I'll look it up
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Yeah You know and yeah I had I had that a lot where they ask a very detailed question I like I don have any clue but it be pretty easy to figure out because you know you just look here here and here And that where you get the answer or at least you get the context for the answer type thing
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But, yeah, no, not, you know, undergraduate and I've primarily taught undergraduate that, yeah, I've I've rarely ever gotten that question
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And, you know, it's just students don't know enough to ask a harder question
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You would think that, but that was my experience. That was my one time that I'll never forget
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And God bless these. It was actually a married couple. They were an older couple that were coming back just to get their degree
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And they were a delight to have in class. Like they were, I wish I could have them in every semester
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But he had like 30 years of accounting experience in like gold mining in another country
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So it was international financial accounting, which is some of the toughest and some of the best experience you can have
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And we were talking about the intro to financial accounting, like the most basic thing you can do
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And he asked me a question and I was like, I don't have a clue. I don't even know what you're talking about
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I've never heard those words before in my life. Well, accounting for revenue for mental resources, that is a completely different field or set, right? Yeah
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About how you account for expenses and stuff like that. It's incredible. And especially, like I said, in IFRS, you're talking about what IFRS is international financial accounting
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When you're talking about IFRS, it's a different set because we use Gap here
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And so it could be the same. I mean, there could be some overlap, but a lot of times it's different
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And he was talking about some stuff, and I was just like, I don't – do you want to teach the class
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Because I don't have a clue what you're talking about. You're like, I'm going to need your help
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Yeah, I was like, holy crap, man. um but like again after after class we we talked about it and um you know he was he's so knowledgeable
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about his area and and he was finding it tough in class and he was like i i don't understand this
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and finally i got to the point where i realized you're so smart in your area that you have the
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experience in this is so broad that you're essentially going to have to dumb yourself down
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yeah and it was and once he realized that he was like okay i got this and we moved past it
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but it was just, I was like, man, I didn't. And my wife, my wife's always like
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well, what are you going to do if somebody asks you a question? I told that man, I don't have a clue
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I will look it up for you though. Be like, I will help you research that question
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That was a good question. Well, this has been a fun show, man
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I'm happy with this. It kind of got us, we were having a good laugh before the episode, before we started recording
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So it kind of kept us going on that. Yeah. But I've enjoyed it
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