Life Lessons from a Local Legend with Randy Bloom

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[00:00:13] Joining me on the podcast is lovely. Afternoon is none other than local educator, Randy Bloom. Randy Bloom has been a favorite of students for many, many years. He was a teacher of mine. He was a teacher of my kids. He's a teacher of my wife. He's, you know, taught a lot of us in this community Randy's one of those teachers who manages to make a personal connection with every student, and I really think it's been a key to his success.

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[00:00:51] Not gonna waste a lot of time just babbling up here at the beginning of the show. After quick message from our sponsor, we'll get right to it.

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[00:03:30] Randy Bloom: say.

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[00:03:33] Randy Bloom: um, I'm gonna grab a beer.

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[00:03:37] Jeff Nesbitt: You got an eternal beacon.

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[00:03:43] Jeff Nesbitt: those. Yeah. Actually I'm not a huge pilsner guy.

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[00:03:47] Randy Bloom: go. Is that an ipa? I don't know. I don't think I've had that one. I'm about to

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[00:03:57] here we go. That sounds good. Thank you for coming. You're welcome. I appreciate it. It's been a long time coming. We've been planning on this one for a while. Yes, we have. I took a long break where I wasn't recording anything, and then I, I've just been recording it for like two weeks.

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[00:04:37] It reminds me of coming back to seventh grade after Christmas break, my locker partner Forest had spilled a grape juice on all my textbooks, so it was just a stack, like five mm-hmm. Textbooks covered with purple mold. Mm-hmm. It smelled perfect. Very fermented. Mm-hmm. And, uh, yeah, it hits me every time. I'll see if this jogs your memories at all. You stand on the Astoria mega bridge overlooking the Columbia River, and you can't help but feel a sense of excitement wash over you. The sun's shining. The wind is blowing, and you cannot wait to get to Costco to grab a hotdog and a soda for a dollar 50.

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[00:05:32] Can you catch the thief and save the day, or will you be too late? Your story should be five pages and should feature a protagonist and a thief who is wreaking havoc on the town.

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[00:05:45] Jeff Nesbitt: I freaking loved your short story prompts, and I believe it was eighth grade.

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[00:06:08] Mm-hmm. But see, I didn't even remember the vocabulary word part of it, but I remember the Costco hotdog part of it, it always included a Costco hotdog reference. And who would've thought like, I don't know how long it's been since then. Was that 2001? Yep. About, uh, 20 years later it's still a dollar 50. Yep.

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[00:06:27] Randy Bloom: Minnesota. You know what's kind of funny, some of my kids still up to me and go, like, Jackie Smith says, Hey, I remember the story about your trustee Husky 61. That was my first story I ever wrote. She said, I love doing that. And I was like, well good. I'm glad you still remember that from my class.

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[00:07:02] And um, yeah, she said, Questions for Bloom. How is he able to make a connection with every kid? Like everyone that I know that had him had a nickname and multiple stories mm-hmm. He always made us feel loved and supported. Not many junior high teachers have that

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[00:07:25] And I said, I would never, never let that happen. And uh, since that point, I mean, greet 'em at the door, you give 'em a nickname. And I still give nicknames this day. I've given so many, I couldn't tell you how many nicknames I've given. Um, some I can't use anymore that I used in the past, cuz they're probably inappropriate.

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[00:07:59] If they don't respect you and have fun in your class, there's no point in teaching. Cause I love, I believe having a lot of is the most important thing in the world. I agree.

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[00:08:13] It really is. It really is. But yeah, that is something I have noticed is that you, you do tend to make a connection with all of the kids. Mm-hmm. And see, I didn't notice that when I was a student because everyone wanted to make a connection with me. Obviously I was so cool. But now looking at it from an adult perspective, I see.

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[00:08:36] Randy Bloom: teachers. Yeah. I guess throw 'em back in the day when you were playing junior high football, when you've been doing the best hits on the one yard line, that saved the game for us. So that's a memory I always have this day.

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[00:08:47] Jeff Nesbitt: know, I think it might've been my brother. No, it was you. I hope so. It was so hope so.

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[00:09:03] Jeff Nesbitt: I had a few, I had a few. Mm-hmm. But yeah, that was, uh, some of the best times of my football career was middle school. Mm-hmm. I, I really, Highschool was awesome too. I had a lot of fun, but we didn't win nearly as many games. Oh, we are kicking ass in middle school. Oh, I, I mean, it was junior high then, but mm-hmm.

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[00:09:24] Randy Bloom: anything. Well, you know, the, the teams we play at junior high level and you go into the league and Highschool, they're so much more, uh, better quality teams. It's hard to stay, especially at our side of school, competitive with those other teams.

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[00:09:40] Jeff Nesbitt: as they are. Yeah. We were playing like in Highschool LA or Oh, castle Rock. Yeah. Caama, those places that just, they were. Double digits higher than us. Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it

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[00:09:58] So

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[00:10:02] here?

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[00:10:16] You take the best athletes from two schools, play a school that has one bunch of girls I can pick from. Yeah. Is that fair?

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[00:10:33] I just

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[00:10:40] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah, we, I mean we could have just do that with Naselle. I think probably got four or five people over there help us out.

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[00:10:50] Oh

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[00:10:59] Randy Bloom: choice? Honestly, cutting wood. Beat, beat out in the woods. I love being out in the woods. I love cutting wood. Um, it's very cathartic for me. It's very relaxing. I love splitting wood.

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[00:11:19] Jeff Nesbitt: kind of wood

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[00:11:24] fireplace

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[00:11:27] I like to split cedar. I mean, I know that's like a, that cop out. Cause that's almost not even

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[00:11:35] Jeff Nesbitt: so, God, it smells so good. It does. And that little ping sound it makes when you're chopping the kindling or when

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[00:11:41] Jeff Nesbitt: stronger.

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[00:11:54] Randy Bloom: watch that. Yeah. I would too. And it's funny, the old growth splits so much better than the, the stuff, the new growth stuff, that tight grain.

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[00:12:04] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. It's a lot better stuff. We had a bunch of old roofing, uh, cedar shingles from when they redid this house. Mm-hmm. Uh, probably 10 years ago or so. And yeah, they were tight. That's primo. It was good stuff. Mm-hmm. We finally went through it, and now we're down to like old fence posts and stuff, but mm-hmm.

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[00:12:38] Was like insane. That was a whole day's work. Mm-hmm. And, uh, eventually we just h hired this guy named Hippie Dan. He would do the bundles and split the cash with us, and we got the wood for free. So we ended up having a nice little profit with doing zero work. Mm-hmm. That was just towards the tail end of it once we got things figured out.

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[00:12:59] Randy Bloom: My first job before Sids was actually bagging ice at Dave's Shell in Oaco. I got 10 cents a bag, which,

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[00:13:08] Randy Bloom: It's where the. Uh, what's the bar that's there? We used to be in Oaco, not Reds, but the other one. Uh, sea Hag. Sea Hag Next to the Sea Hag there.

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[00:13:29] Jeff Nesbitt: Um, and so you worked there and then you went to sids?

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[00:13:40] You know, you'll don't count when I was going to college, but 38 years I worked there. Wow. Yeah.

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[00:13:49] Randy Bloom: always said that when Chuck left, I was leaving too. And the way the store looks now, to be perfectly honest, it's not what it used to be.

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[00:14:11] Mm-hmm. Back then. Mm-hmm. Did you know Sid? Oh, I knew Sid quite well. Yeah. He used to take us to, uh, he was, he was funny. Eric saying was, uh, Randy's dandy, but liquors quicker. And he'd say, it's a great day to be in the Long Beach, but some days they're better than others. He used to take us to, uh, Seattle to watch the football games.

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[00:14:41] Jeff Nesbitt: then. Sid Snyder a Chucky cheese, huh?

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[00:14:47] Randy Bloom: nice. He got mad. Bad temper. Oh, he had a, he had a bit of a temper one time. A, a fellow worker that was working there. He, he brought the first can crusher. Sid brought the first can crusher. He could do the hand held, can crusher the kind That's like a lever you pull.

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[00:15:15] And I'd be fine. But you didn't see it very often though.

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[00:15:20] Randy Bloom: Something he put up by himself. Yeah. Gingerly. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this kid couldn't

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[00:15:30] Um, that's an inside joke for my daughter. Okay. Because she has strength. Like I, I, I don't get it. It's like, you know, uh, chimpanzees how they're just born with superhuman strength. That's Elsa. Mm-hmm. She, she's got a grip. She can hang just dead, hang off of stuff forever. You should be proud of her

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[00:15:48] She's good kid. Oh, I'm very proud. All the kids too.

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[00:15:53] Randy Bloom: you, they're, they're raised. Right. That's what

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[00:15:58] Mm-hmm. It's a, it's a, it's a good partnership. Yeah. It's great to hear. Uh, I would just gush about the kids all day, but people don't want to hear that. No. Um, let's see. What are some of the nicknames You couldn't say anymore?

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[00:16:20] You can't, you can't sit in the line. When I was a little girl, I used to do this. Oh yeah. That was a Ray Provo line from when I had him in school. There's, there's a few, there's quite a few more. I can't, I won't be over, over the thing, but, um, well, let's be honest. Sometimes, you know, you see a certain kid and you go, think of a good one here.

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[00:16:42] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. Ra anything racial now people will be like, even though it's very much a part of who we are mm-hmm. It's, it's, and it's not always malicious, but um,

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[00:16:53] I did.

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[00:17:14] I called him James The Cabbage. How would've done the same thing too. It just rolled off the tongue. But I feel

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[00:17:24] Jeff Nesbitt: Classic book. Mm-hmm. I like Roll Doll. He's good. Mm-hmm. Um, let's read the rest of Michelle's like, here we go.

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[00:17:37] oh, that was actually her last one, but I got more, um, let's see. Madeline. Okay. Madeline Mattson, formerly Madeline Dickerson. Matt Madeline. Yes. Yes. Um, she started talking in our, we have a little group chat with her and Matt Bellinger and Hannah Bolden Chalker and, um, Tom Hickman used to be in there. I don't see him a lot in the group chat anymore.

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[00:18:24] And that some of the, like the legal stuff from the Swedes. Yep. Yeah. The Swedes and the Greeks. Mm-hmm. And Norwegians. Matt Bellinger specifically asked me to ask you how you feel about the Greeks. I'm, I don't know where that's coming

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[00:18:42] I like Greek salad. I like Greek dressings, so I'm fine with them.

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[00:18:48] Randy Bloom: true. They've got some good stuff. The philosopher king's always one of my favorite things in the

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[00:18:57] Yes. Uh, are you, like, I know you're a, you're a bit of a historian. Yes. History buff. Yeah. A little bit. So I imagine the finished stuff is probably right in there with that, right? Yes, it is. So what's some cool thin stories from this area? Okay. I'll tell you,

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[00:19:17] Let's be honest, that was no angel. Um, My grandma used to always call me Baja Boyk and bosca. Baja Boyk means bad boy and bosca means shit pants.

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[00:19:32] Randy Bloom: And I grew up with those. And it's funny, um, some of my favorite stories of fact, there's red fins and there's a white fins back.

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[00:20:04] Um, they had their own, own places where they stayed at. There was a guy named 10 Ho Hark who went by sl. He used to do the books here at the Foot for basketball, many, many years. Cursive. Beautiful. Well, he told a story that his family was the redfins. Well, when, when the, when the Communist took over the Soviet Union, of course, uh, they asked people to come back to the country, the old country.

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[00:20:48] And wired home to Ilwaco and, uh, got safe packages back. And there's a lot of fins still living in Russia now Russia that are from Oaco. Oh, wow. Mm-hmm.

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[00:21:06] Randy Bloom: Ruble hat. Hit this ruble.

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[00:21:09] Randy Bloom: been to Russia?

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[00:21:27] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. I don't start

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[00:21:36] Jeff Nesbitt: person. I remember you slinging some Japanese words. Yes, I did. Um, so you, you must have studied abroad.

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[00:21:42] Randy Bloom: abroad. Took two years of it. No, actually I did. I took two years of it in college and then I went over to Japan. I was dating a Japanese group at the time and her father wanted to meet me and I taught, uh, two summers to, uh, at a all girls

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[00:21:57] Randy Bloom: know, you, you see what we have in the United States.

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[00:22:15] Jeff Nesbitt: Was the dad a

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[00:22:17] I loved the dad. The dad was great, but it was when you went different places and they, they think you're a soldier. I had a very short, I swam and swim team at college and they thought I was, I was, was a soldier. They don't really care for the American soldiers too much.

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[00:22:48] Mm-hmm. And that kind of ended at the end of World War ii it seems like. And then it's from then on out, it's like, hello Kitty. It's all cutesy stuff. What's it really

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[00:23:06] She said, so leave it here. We walked around the entire tassle, the castle for about two hours, came back still there, very clean. Um, the food that they serve, true Japanese food is much different than we get here. Yeah, I bet. For example, I was, I was thinking about this, I was watching people eating sushi with chopsticks.

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[00:23:30] Jeff Nesbitt: Wait, so we, Americans are forcing themselves to learn how to do something that's, that they made up, or

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[00:23:39] Jeff Nesbitt: Uh, they use chopsticks though, right? They do like eat a bowl of rice and you put it right

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[00:23:51] Jeff Nesbitt: trouble when I was a kid. Yeah, me too. I mean, still it'd be kind of embarrassing.

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[00:24:01] Randy Bloom: do that, Nate. The rice right next to their face too. Right. Really?

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[00:24:11] Mm-hmm. It's, it's, uh, and I don't care. It's all over in my beard. I, I have sauces just everywhere. It's no problem.

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[00:24:24] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. That's why you gotta hide when you do your binge eats. That's right. That's what I do.

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[00:24:31] Randy Bloom: you eat a lot of sushi? A lot of different things over there? I, well, I eat some, I mean, it's just, it's, it's not an everyday meal. A lot of rice, um, food like that. Um, soy. Just a lot of soy. I tried, I tried puffer fish when I was over there. I did. Oh, see when over there, when you eat food, you don't, you go to your friends, you order a dish and you share it with your friends.

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[00:25:11] But yeah, I'm happy where I'm at right now. Very much

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[00:25:17] Randy Bloom: bit? Mm-hmm. I can, I I, it's funny, I remember a lot of the things, like I said, I'd say Beto Is Beto Mosk? Do you want a cold beer? Nice. I mean, I can remember my students asked me, I teach some of my students later in the year how to, you know, I'll get a few weeks, um, how to say a while Cause I, which means good, you know, good morning.

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[00:25:46] Jeff Nesbitt: Oh yeah. That's a good rule. Mm-hmm. Immersion. Mm-hmm.

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[00:26:02] Hmm. And in Hawaii, Japanese is, is like Spanish here. Oh yeah. Cuz that's the closest. Yeah. And so after the first day, we'd never spoke English again.

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[00:26:14] Randy Bloom: Oh, it does eventually. And, and a good tutor usually helps too. Yeah.

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[00:26:21] Exactly. That didn't have those. Oh no, that's just, I mean, where, that seems like that'll change the world. I haven't felt that change yet, but they've, and they've been around for a while, but mm-hmm. That's pretty cool. Direct translation like that. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I can't, uh, imagine trying to survive in a country without being able to speak the language.

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[00:27:04] Blocks my ability to do so. Like I have no idea what they're saying and they're speaking English and I can tell it's English, but I don't know what it is. And so, and then I can, like, I feel my face turn red and I'm just like, I can't ask what again? I can't, I can't make 'em repeat themselves again.

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[00:27:30] Randy Bloom: that's kind of funny cuz one time, uh, we went to this, uh, temple and you can't take pictures of the temple cause the artwork's so old and I, I was walking around and all of a sudden I hear this, you a.

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[00:28:05] Get rid of this crazy lady here, the gum. She goes, oh, Reagan, Papasan Reagan. I said, he's not my papa son. Ronald Reagan's not my papasan, but thank you.

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[00:28:14] Randy Bloom: your grandpa? No, it means papa. It means like he's my leader. My, oh yeah. Ronald Reagan she was referring to, yeah. Yeah. Then I met a translator on, on a train one time, and he translated in World War ii.

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[00:28:31] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. So you saying, you, you in Mexico, yeah. It's, it's just a, it just takes more time. Mm-hmm. It's processing time. Oops. Hold on. That, uh, what did you have, uh, in mind to talk about when you,

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[00:28:48] Jeff Nesbitt: I, uh, I got a lot of stuff I've just been kind of grabbing randomly.

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[00:29:19] Randy Bloom: few times.

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[00:29:34] Jeff Nesbitt: some words in for Yeah, you should. I I'll take care of you.

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[00:29:51] Mm-hmm. And like after a game and he actually remembered me and said hello. And I was really like, kind of touched by that. Cause it was five years later. I looked way different.

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[00:30:02] Jeff Nesbitt: little more gray hair now, but I bet. Yeah. He was cool. Well, one time we were, uh, I mean there was a pretty rambunctious class.

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[00:30:28] The, uh, so he was, Johnson was yelling at Paul Gibson, uh, because Paul was constantly doing stuff in the classroom to make a disruption. And he was, it was a particularly bad one. So everyone in the room is just silent. It's like you could hear a pin drop, and he's like wiping down the whiteboard. He's got a big rag.

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[00:31:09] And so he basically maced himself in front of the

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[00:31:19] Jeff Nesbitt: I bet he was a cool guy. Mm-hmm. Yeah. His brother, I assume it's his older brother?

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[00:31:24] Randy Bloom: younger brother. Younger brother. Tony. Tony's younger. Yes. Tony's younger. Tony's a speaks a very interesting man. He speaks fluent Chinook language, not Chinook jargon. I, he's one of the most unique people I've ever met. Uh, and I love talking to him since intentionally get a chance

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[00:31:46] This was where we're sitting right now. Yep.

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[00:31:56] Jeff Nesbitt: It's pretty damn close. Do you believe in, uh, ghosts? I do. Okay. I don't, but I have been having some weird things happen to me, so I'm gonna share, um, in this room right here.

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[00:32:36] Mm-hmm. On the recording loud enough that my transcriber picked it up, and it's in the transcript for the recording. And it's me just like, hello, welcome to Ramble by the River. And then I pause, and in the pause you hear a, a very clearly a female's voice, say, this person. Mm-hmm. And that's it. And I'm like, okay, that's, and it creeped me out really bad.

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[00:33:20] Mm-hmm. So I had to like, put up there. And so I've got a wall on both sides of me and ceiling above me. There's like, I'm very much just there and all of the room is behind me and I kept feeling like there was somebody in the room. Mm-hmm. Like just a, a feeling of presence. And like, I kept thinking, I was hearing somebody talking outside the building.

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[00:33:56] And that light, which you see is very well strapped up. Yep. Was just swinging like this.

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[00:34:07] Jeff Nesbitt: That wouldn't, and it came and tapped me in the back

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[00:34:17] Dad's here and his ashes were in our house for too many years. And then, um, my, my wife, my beautiful wife Terry lost her mother this last year. And there's certain things that will happen on the house or something will happen that will go, huh? Kathy? She's here. She's here. Mary's here somewhere. I got, she's just have a feeling her necklace will, will come apart.

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[00:35:04] And, uh, all of a sudden we says bright light between sand island. I thought that's, that's, that's probably a, you know, a helicopter Coast Guard. He training at night and it, but all of a sudden it turned almost egg shape and we watched the farm, we ducked down, and I think this went back in the, back in the space.

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[00:35:28] Jeff Nesbitt: as day. The fact that you were with somebody else though, probably helped so much to not make you feel crazy. Mm-hmm. Uh, it's even if you see something very clearly, if you're the only one who sees it mm-hmm.

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[00:35:41] Randy Bloom: And I funny, I called, he passed away and I say, Hey Tommy, my wife doesn't believe me. Do you remember when we saw the you, you're talking about the ufo aren't your, and, and I said, yeah, he am. So

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[00:35:55] I've seen lots of videos of that. I actually saw what I have to describe as a U F O because I couldn't identify what it was when I was in Palm Springs. Mm-hmm. And um, it didn't even freak me out cuz I'm so used to seeing these videos, but I'm like, it could have just been like a really, really fast plane.

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[00:36:33] Yeah.

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[00:36:40] Jeff Nesbitt: No. It's just fun to think about. Mm-hmm. That's the thing, the experts are the only ones who mm-hmm. Can't talk about it. Mm-hmm. So all of us dummies are just trying to speculate.

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[00:37:04] Randy Bloom: There's not too many scientists that are, sorry, major.

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[00:37:13] Jeff Nesbitt: that's why there's such a big problem with people, like the whole phrase, like, trust the science. Mm-hmm. That's a really loaded thing to say. Yeah. Because the science is not very well communicated.

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[00:37:33] Randy Bloom: the issue of covid you. That's a pretty example. There's some people that did, some people that did. I'm not to say whether I did or

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[00:37:47] Mm-hmm. You wouldn't have got that vaccine. No. Or

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[00:37:54] Jeff Nesbitt: those, that's the thing. Trust the science was like the catchphrase of the side of the people. There, there, there was no sides on it. It was the catchphrase of the people who didn't do any research of their own.

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[00:38:08] Randy Bloom: scary to me. I agree. And some of the reasons for why they didn't want to get this shot were so, am I ludicrous that I was just shaking my head. The,

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[00:38:30] Mm-hmm. We, we just got tired of it. Mm-hmm. Worn down. We got, we got covid burnout. There's been developments since then. Yeah, exactly. Like things are continuing to come out. It's with Pfizer and Moderna and all these things and it's not good. No, it's, and no one cares anymore. It's like any, any

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[00:38:46] You get the measles shot, you never even get the measles. You get this, the theory or whatever it may be. People forget about once there's a shot out there. Yeah. You know, and I, I can say honestly, that was the worst couple years I've ever taught in my entire life. Oh my God. I know your wife experienced it too.

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[00:39:01] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. I mean, education has changed probably forever, since, since then. Mm-hmm. But yeah, that was really rough. I did not envy teachers at all. Mm-hmm. Having to do stuff online in general is, is rough, uh, for kids. Yeah. Like, just having to sit still that long is hard, but mm-hmm. Man. Yeah, that was really hard.

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[00:39:42] Mm-hmm. And you have an unlimited budget and you can hire whoever you want. What are your top priorities?

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[00:40:02] That'd be number one. So you think like

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[00:40:04] Randy Bloom: media? No, that's no teaching kids how to communicate with each other. They've, that's not communicating. Sorry. That's i's I'm being Yeah, I know you are. That's my, uh, publicity number one at school basically. Yeah. And these kids do everything on the phone now texting instead of talking face to face.

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[00:40:25] Jeff Nesbitt: notes. Yeah. Well, I mean, not me personally, but I'm sure you did. People would, I would try to get other people's notes and try to get a little glance on 'em. Mm-hmm. Read a little bit. And

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[00:40:39] I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm addicted to it too. There's a lot in there. We're all addicted to it. Yeah. I wanna look something up. Boom. There it is. You know, in the old days you want to see someone, you went out, you played in the yard, you went outside. You know, when the lights came on, it was time to come in.

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[00:40:54] Jeff Nesbitt: Nowaday, what a lot of people forget is it wasn't just like when you wanted to go do something, you go outside. There was a lot of time where you were. Bored outta your mind. And that is good. Mm-hmm. Because that forces you into a creative state. Yep. Where you have to come up with something to do.

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[00:41:17] Randy Bloom: him with, with the seaweed. Lock

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[00:41:22] Randy Bloom: Oh God. I took cocaine balls at him. Cocaine balls.

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[00:41:35] Jeff Nesbitt: then it went, yeah. I did that with beach sand one time. Oh. Um, my dad got me and held me down and put beach sand in my mouth for it. But, um, yeah. I was not a nice boy.

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[00:41:47] wrong.

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[00:41:47] kid.

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[00:42:01] Randy Bloom: of them.

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[00:42:06] Jeff Nesbitt: line. Yeah. We, it's weird how we can, we can say that without having any fear of like, uh, social repercussions. Like you're allowed to, to be prejudiced against everybody outside your family. Mm-hmm. That's like one of the last few places where you can still have a preference.

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[00:42:25] Jeff Nesbitt: we still, well now we're talking like a big shit. No, that there was only two of 'em though. Uh, you're not getting any of my seats, Randy. Well, not for your college

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[00:42:34] Jeff Nesbitt: Let's shut the door quick.

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[00:42:56] Mm-hmm. It makes you think a lot about like, whoa, it, like, this could be real. The, the premise of the film, this, uh, expert in, you know, astrology, right. Astrology or astronomy? I can never remember which one's. Astronomy. Real planets. Yeah. The planets. Yeah. Okay. The, the real one, the scientist, they find a meteors on its way to earth.

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[00:43:38] Like, he goes on the news show and they're like, just like sugar coated. Mm-hmm. Candy fake people. And they can't. They can't make sense of this information and like convey it to the audience. And so like Leo DiCaprio fucking loses his shit on TV and it's a great movie, but what's it rated? It's r but um, yeah, it's, it's pretty good.

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[00:44:02] Randy Bloom: Well I teach a history through a film class and they really,

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[00:44:16] Mm-hmm. Like, people care a lot more about immediate comforts Oh. Than long term the survival microwave age. Yeah. Quick and easy. It really is. I mean, imagine if, if we had a solar flare that knocked out the power grid and we didn't have digital anything and we didn't have, I mean, really we'd have nothing.

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[00:44:40] Randy Bloom: bad. No gas, no power, no electricity, everything. Yeah, no communication. You,

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[00:44:54] Mm-hmm. It has like, oh, Navy gap, all these different signs mm-hmm. On the one big sign. Mm-hmm. And out here they're a little different. Like just the way things are designed. It was like, it's made out of like, you know, galvanized steel and stuff. Mm-hmm. And out there it was like concrete, it was like a big monolith in the desert with signs on it.

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[00:45:28] And they're gonna be like, how did they even build this? They didn't even know how to do basic geometry because all the books got, you know, washed away in the floods and all the digital records are gone. It's gonna look like we were never

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[00:45:49] And you start us 127 miles to wall drug, a hundred miles to wall drug, and it goes all the way down to you're in Wall Drugg Bank. Right. I'm like, dude,

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[00:46:02] Randy Bloom: Okay. And it's, but it's, but things are cheap. You still can get a 10 cent cup of coffee. It's kind of a touristy town.

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[00:46:27] You don't wanna look twice at Yeah.

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[00:46:46] Yep. Um, these are some boomers on a budget, like on a budgeted trip. They're like cost sharing here. It's a fun trip for on their rented Harley's.

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[00:47:03] This is the real Byer gang here. Don't mess with these guys. These are the gypsy jokers. You didn't leave those ones alone. Yeah.

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[00:47:14] Randy Bloom: It's amazing. You know, I I, I spent a couple summers there at the, at the Naselle Youth camp teaching.

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[00:47:36] They had 'em all there. And you see a different side kind of opens their eyes like, yeah, I live this kid's here and I lived in a small little circle of the world and they're. Bigger

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[00:47:52] Of course you would. But it wouldn't mean you're on the cowboys. No,

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[00:47:57] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. It's just, it's a whole nother level. And also there's no gangs out here to kill you for throwing the wrong signs. Exactly. Which is really

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[00:48:07] Jeff Nesbitt: drive-bys, nothing like that.

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[00:48:13] Randy Bloom: Oh, this is a great place to live. I, that's why I came back. I really, actually,

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[00:48:22] And the food, I mean, that's everywhere. Yeah. If you, you know, shop at a grocery store Yeah. Or eat at restaurants. Yeah. Yeah.

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[00:48:33] I mean, you've traveled

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[00:48:36] Jeff Nesbitt: not so much. Asia. Well, Asia too. Why do you think they're poisoning the food here? Why is the food so shitty here?

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[00:48:45] Um, it is cheap. It's cheap, but it's bastardized. It's, it's not, it's not food. It's, it's, yeah. You know, at least not for poor people. No. It's like, for example, we go to McDonald's maybe once a month, and that's not eating food. That's just, that's just fill in the belly, entertainment, fill in the belly. And of course my, you know, it's funny cause my wife.

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[00:49:11] Jeff Nesbitt: you. Way better. It tastes

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[00:49:17] It's,

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[00:49:21] Randy Bloom: So do I. You garden. We have do garden. Not as big as probably what you do. We do a smaller garden. My wife likes, you know, certain things with peas and the, the radishes and the spinach. And I

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[00:49:35] So you probably would not want a garden most of

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[00:49:50] Um, he, they came down, they started that and the, and the, the produce managers from both the stores in Portland and Seattle had come down and they took us off for dinner. $700 dinner. Wow. And unlimited drinks, unlimited food. Whatever you want, you want filet on, you want two of them. So we started that, doing that.

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[00:50:26] I was having fun. That's cool. Life is about having

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[00:50:32] Randy Bloom: some I didn't tell, I didn't tell Chuck or Sid that so

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[00:50:41] Mm-hmm. But a lot of places there, we like try to bust you all the time. Oh yeah. I don't wanna work for those people. I don't. No.

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[00:50:55] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah, that's, I mean, those are pretty good places to work.

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[00:51:00] Randy Bloom: SIDS anymore. Trust me.

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[00:51:07] Randy Bloom: I don't know where they came from that. Not locals. A lot of aren't locals, I don't know where they came from.

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[00:51:14] Randy Bloom: characters. Exactly. But you know, it just doesn't have the feel. He used to have, they, they have no carryout boys. You know, one of the things that Sid prided himself on was if lady had more one bag of groceries, you had to ask, do you want to help with taking this out? And you come with the lines and you, one of my favorite couple lines were, I need the exercise, I'll take this out for you.

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[00:51:43] Jeff Nesbitt: inside the story. Let 'em know that you're not Yeah. Going outta your way. Yeah. And they,

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[00:51:52] But still, when you're 16, 10 bucks tip, like, woohoo bonus.

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[00:52:05] Randy Bloom: Exactly. Yeah. Now this lady was driving to a DeLorean, a brand new Delore.

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[00:52:20] Yeah,

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[00:52:27] Seems like they're not going to, they're supposed to be done by the end of 2021. Mm-hmm.

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[00:52:33] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. Yeah. That's Elon Musk's

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[00:52:40] Jeff Nesbitt: That was promised kid. Every generation when I was a kid. Yeah.

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[00:52:46] Randy Bloom: The future was, that was the bomb. The

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[00:53:05] That makes sense. That's where they're living. Mm-hmm. And, uh, the, the Flinstones are still down post apocalypse. Yeah. Because that's why they have stuff that is like replicates mm-hmm. Contemporary equipment. Mm-hmm. Like a phone, but it's made out of a, some kind of a dinosaur bird. Yeah. Or like, you know what I mean?

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[00:53:20] Randy Bloom: Having a car you run with your feet. Yeah,

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[00:53:35] It was probably made in the nineties. Yeah, that's probably why. Late, maybe early, early nineties. Late eighties. But, uh, yeah, interest. Things have changed a lot since then in cartoons. Oh

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[00:54:01] How do you know that? What's that from? That's, that is, uh, the Wonder Pets. I don't even know the name of that show. Yeah. There's a bunch of, I'll do different things then I'll answer the phone in Japanese and they'll freak out. And like, I'll, I'll, and I'll say things to them in Japanese. Like, I, you know, one of my de deescalation techniques is to say something in Japanese and then look at me like, what the hell are you talking about?

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[00:54:23] Jeff Nesbitt: say. Yeah. That's, that's great technique. Actually. I have to deescalate sometimes at work. People just Oh, sure. Mad for no reason. And that's exactly what I do. Mm-hmm. I smile. Mm-hmm. And I, and I convince myself that that's my friend.

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[00:54:49] Randy Bloom: remember a time ago where I wanted to throw one of my colleagues through the window, the second floor window.

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[00:55:00] Jeff Nesbitt: you. That's different. That's, I mean, I feel like I would know that you wanted to throw me out there.

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[00:55:07] Jeff Nesbitt: to be honest with you.

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[00:55:23] Randy Bloom: can, I, I have very few enemies, but there are a few that, that I know that will forever be just set me off and I'll be like, you know what?

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[00:55:32] Jeff Nesbitt: you can really dislike a person without hating them. Mm-hmm. Guess I hate is an action. It's like something you do. Mm-hmm. Okay. It's not just something you carry. Okay.

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[00:55:43] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. I mean, definitely some people are just awful.

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[00:55:49] Randy Bloom: yeah. My job is to be what's best for kids, let's be honest. Yeah. And some things they bring up sometimes, you know, I think to myself, Hmm. Is this best for kids? Yeah. That's, that's why I teach what's best for kids.

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[00:56:08] Mm-hmm. In my opinion. Mm-hmm. I was, uh, on TikTok earlier today, and there's this guy who's a therapist and he's got like red hair and mm-hmm. He's dyed hair and, um, every video he makes is about people hitting their kids. Mm-hmm. And like, he's bringing the science of like, this is what is actually happening when you're hitting your child, even if it's culturally okay.

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[00:56:47] Oh,

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[00:57:01] Now I understand the hood thing because we have cameras, we wanna see who, who's in our school. Yeah. If you, if they're covered up with the hood, you can't see their face all the way. But a hat, you know, I've even compromised is not, the kids wear their hat backwards now. When I first started teaching 'em, I was like, you wear a hat but don't wear it

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[00:57:17] Well cuz then that's gonna tell like the older people mm-hmm. Who this kid's trouble. Mm-hmm. And that's kind of what

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[00:57:23] Randy Bloom: for. Yeah. But now, nowadays this is cultural norm. No, the hat's been worn

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[00:57:34] Yeah. Yeah. No problem.

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[00:57:37] Jeff Nesbitt: someday. I, I was born old.

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[00:57:42] Jeff Nesbitt: older. I've always hurt. Everything hurts. That's when playing sports.

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[00:57:50] No, yeah. Don yourself

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[00:57:59] Randy Bloom: I've had two hips replaced and a knee, so Oh, that's hereditary. And working at sids, that technology

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[00:58:08] You don't have to wear those, by the way, if you don't feel like it. Okay.

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[00:58:22] Jeff Nesbitt: That's so is the rest of the inside of you.

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[00:58:26] Randy Bloom: And, uh,

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[00:58:40] Randy Bloom: I mean, the day I had that one surgery, COVID, I was there, I had surgery for my hip. I was released that same day.

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[00:58:56] Jeff Nesbitt: man. Imagine that even a hundred years ago when they were, you know, cutting off appendages in the dentist office. Hmm. In the barber, it was all the same place.

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[00:59:06] Randy Bloom: exactly. Especially in the west. Yeah.

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[00:59:11] Randy Bloom: shit. It was, yeah. Horrifying. No, it wasn't until basically, you know, the Civil War with Clara Barton and that stuff. There's actually thinking, anesthesia, think, you know how to clean the wounds, have fresh clothes, you know, you can't give someone someone's blood on their wound with blood already on it.

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[00:59:30] Jeff Nesbitt: that. Yeah. That kind of thing. Danging reusing needles. Oh yeah. You know, I mean, putting a pig heart in a man. Yeah.

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[00:59:38] Jeff Nesbitt: valve. So they do the valves. They do the valves. That's that. What seems to work pretty good. Mm-hmm.

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[00:59:46] He's a great guy though.

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[01:00:06] Uh, but they did tell him it was from a woman and he said he could tell it was from an Asian woman and he like, had some of the woman's memories. Really? Yeah. Like, ah, God, I wish I remembered the exact details of this. That's fascinating. That's, I'll, I'll look it up and I'll put in a ding right here. Okay.

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[01:00:27] Randy Bloom: pretty cool. Yeah. Do you wanna start again? Remember? Yeah,

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[01:00:41] And into your gut that are in direct communication with your body. Oh, yeah. So like when people say things like, you know, go with your heart. Trust your heart, trust your gut. Those together are very literal things. Mm-hmm. It actually really does work together in mm-hmm. Your thoughts. That's crazy bizarre.

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[01:01:13] Yeah. It was exciting actually. It was like, mm-hmm. Do you hunt?

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[01:01:34] They were biggest cats. That's about all they, they were truly as biggest cats, and they're not

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[01:01:54] Hefty, I bet. And it, I couldn't believe how heavy it was in my hand. It felt like I was carrying around a little dog like it, like, uh, Chihuahua or something. It was so crazy. And it was like fat. It had been. Mm-hmm. We, uh, when we renovated our kitchen, we put all of our food mm-hmm. Like long-term storage, food, pastas and beans and stuff mm-hmm.

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[01:02:30] We should, yeah. We really

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[01:02:48] Jeff Nesbitt: garage, which was added later, right?

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[01:02:56] Randy Bloom: here. Yeah. Well, Chinooks, I mean, let's be honest, we get Chinook and Right. String Town has some of the best weather on this entire, entire thing. How do you think that is? I always believe there's a banana belt here.

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[01:03:12] Jeff Nesbitt: and it really is just like a chunk from Fort Columbia to the, the bridge. Yep. Um, and to some extent all the way out to, like that, that one last hill that, that you go over, like by the, where all those propane tanks, the empty propane tanks are sitting mm-hmm.

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[01:03:27] Randy Bloom: right before they used to call that, uh, deley Hill, right before Deley Hill. That little,

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[01:03:34] Randy Bloom: socked in, there's just solid fog. Yeah.

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[01:03:42] Mm-hmm. Um, yeah. Changed her a bit though. I bet you ever had a dog launch out on you.

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[01:03:55] Jeff Nesbitt: that's her name. But all

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[01:04:07] Mm-hmm. So we settled for Honey Staubach. She's the most mellish rescue dog. Most mellow dog I've ever had in my life. What'd you say? The mix was, uh, she, let's see, she is, uh, Pitt lab and Siberian hu. And she seriously. Oh, that sounds amazing. She only barks to my uncle and, and cows.

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[01:04:28] Mm-hmm. Because they, you get flashes of each breed. Oh, you do. You do. It's cool. And hopefully the, the good parts. Oh

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[01:04:40] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. Do you get emotional with your dogs? Like real, like, treated like family? Oh,

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[01:04:47] She sleeps in the house and then she goes outside and there's a bed out there on our porch so she can choose where she sleeps at. She eats a lot of hu, I don't know, it's bad for them, but eats a lot of human food too. Yeah. And, um, I can't leave the house unless I'm going to school without her jumping in the back of my backseat of my truck to go for a ride.

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[01:05:05] Jeff Nesbitt: You strap her in or you let her just fly? Her head

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[01:05:09] Jeff Nesbitt: can train 'em then it's no problem. Right? No, she,

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[01:05:23] She's Oh yeah. She's, she's one of a kind. I've been, I mean, like I said, Terry and I, I mean, I've probably taken more pictures of her on my phone than even my wife, which is pretty sad to say.

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[01:05:37] My wife's dogs don't

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[01:05:41] Jeff Nesbitt: I have so many pictures of my pets and babies too. Babies don't care either. No, they don't. Um, but really after age, like three mm-hmm. They're like, get that camera

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[01:06:03] So this is what you look like there. She didn't wanna see pictures of her as a baby. No. Cause she was, she's now she's pretty teenage,

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[01:06:22] Mm-hmm. So we, like, I have memorized the picture collection I have of Oh, that's funny. It's great too, cuz that was a very hard, but also like mm-hmm. Good memory time. So looking back on those all the time, I feel like looking over those pictures every day for a year and a half mm-hmm. Has, uh, like secured those memories for me.

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[01:06:44] Randy Bloom: say honestly that, uh, I never wanted kids really, because I, I started teaching and I thought my energy is spent so much with the kids that what would I have when I got

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[01:06:57] Randy Bloom: and personal experience from the wifey, but now that I have grandkids and spend time with them, it's different.

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[01:07:22] Jeff Nesbitt: It's fun. Oh, it is. Being the, the grownup, uh, in a kid's life is really fun.

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[01:07:36] Randy Bloom: Exactly. It's really fun. And just watching them grow, I mean, our oldest is 26 now until 11. There's eight of them. And watching our different personalities and, and having to say, I love you papa.

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[01:07:52] Jeff Nesbitt: I know. I was thinking about that yesterday because, um, I don't even wanna talk about this cuz I'll jinx it so I'm gonna knock on wood ahead of time and again after Sawyer still says I love you. Mm-hmm. Like when he gets out of the truck, um, even if his friends are around.

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[01:08:23] Mm-hmm. Um, Yeah. It just, it really means a lot more to me than I would've expected. Oh yeah.

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[01:08:39] Yeah. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's small things in life. He's super smart. Oh. Beyond, he's, he's one of those kids that can get, I've watched him in class. He can get people going. Yeah. Cause he's so smart. Or they get in trouble where he sits back and goes, I'm gonna lean back and watch everything happen.

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[01:08:58] Jeff Nesbitt: that's management material. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He doesn't want his value as a, an identity to be his intelligence. So that's not where he tries to get attention. But it will change. You watch, it'll change it. No, I think so too. Um, but yeah, he's super smart.

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[01:09:15] Randy Bloom: something in the water in Chinook that makes kids smart. Let's be honest. Uh,

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[01:09:20] Randy Bloom: great place. You know, I was actually my. I actually lived in Chinook for about three years when I was growing, when I was a little kid.

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[01:09:29] Jeff Nesbitt: loved being out here. Yeah. String town too. I, I count when I was in Ocean Parker String Town was a Chinook to me. No.

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[01:09:37] Jeff Nesbitt: Okay. Yeah. Oh, I know. They, they had it, their own thing when

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[01:09:41] But we also had our own group called the String Town Mafia Uhhuh. And I've actually had students make me, I gotta see now, this house protected by String Town Mafia. Just made up for the fun of it. Uhhuh and I have had shirts made and it's a fun, it's

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[01:09:58] Well, I'll tell you, it was

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[01:10:22] I go to go through the gate, push the code, I had it, and they pops outta the car. Who are you and why are you here? Why do you have gang things on your truck? And I was like, uh, I'm subbing up here. My little brother, Carrie Bloom works here. Oh, okay. Come on. I was like, okay. I was, I was gonna get accosted there.

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[01:10:37] Jeff Nesbitt: That's funny. Um, yeah, people probably don't like that in,

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[01:10:47] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. I like Lisa

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[01:10:58] And she's always trying to get me to go to Naselle, but yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm a walk boy.

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[01:11:06] Randy Bloom: I don't, I don't wanna be any place else. I haven't got great colleagues. Great. Also, they pay great here. Yeah. They're much better than Naselle.

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[01:11:14] Randy Bloom: than most schools.

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[01:11:21] Jeff Nesbitt: I remember those bargaining calls when Melissa was on them. Mm-hmm. The Zooms when they were like, trying to get the pay adjusted and everything. That sounded so stressful. Oh, I can't, I, I can't do that stuff very well.

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[01:11:47] Randy Bloom: It's, you know, I can say I'm, I'm, I'm not a, a person who's just, who stepped up in the union.

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[01:12:05] Jeff Nesbitt: are so many jobs like that, that's just like, God, I'm glad somebody's doing that because fuck, I don't wanna do it.

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[01:12:23] Jeff Nesbitt: that a few times.

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[01:12:25] Yep. I did. And I, you know, I make a bigger, I, I mean I a bigger impact in the classroom than you'll being a disciplinarian in the, in the office or,

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[01:12:38] Randy Bloom: kids. Exactly. And that's not me. I know people go into to administration, but I have no des I had no desire.

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[01:12:46] Jeff Nesbitt: sucks. That's why they pay them better. Yeah. It's not fun. No, you're right. Um, I have realized that working just in small government, the higher you go up the chain, the less fun the work is. Mm-hmm. They do pay you more and you do get more freedom and more perks and all that, but you have to do a lot of just stuff that is, for me, not worth it, like sitting on the phone.

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[01:13:19] Randy Bloom: My roommate from college is second com second in command for Fish and Wildlife in the state of Washington, and he tells me some stuff that he deals with.

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[01:13:30] Jeff Nesbitt: it up. Mm-hmm.

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[01:13:34] Jeff Nesbitt: Oh, you're starting to protect him already, huh? He's a good

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[01:13:40] Jeff Nesbitt: So, no, I, I like fish and wildlife.

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[01:13:46] Randy Bloom: he's dealing with these things. He knows what's, you know, I mentioned, I'll tell him, you know, you know this person, you know this person down the beach. Oh, this guy, this, this Fish Wildlife. Fishman's a great guy, another guy. Oh, he's a pain of my ass.

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[01:14:01] Jeff Nesbitt: job. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Fish Wildlife doesn't do great at everything. Yep. But they, they definitely doing

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[01:14:17] Oh, yeah. Yeah.

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[01:14:20] Randy Bloom: fun. I don't hunt 'em, but they're fun to watch, watch the kids go out there

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[01:14:29] Randy Bloom: Glock.

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[01:14:32] Jeff Nesbitt: No, I don't, I believe you do that. No, I, uh, we have never shot a pheasant with a Glock, but, um, well much left

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[01:14:41] Jeff Nesbitt: yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, we've never done that.

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[01:14:43] Not that you're, tell me that at least.

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[01:14:51] Randy Bloom: can't do that. I don't think there's a Chinook boy. It's not a good, avid hunter. He has

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[01:14:56] Yeah. It's, it's

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[01:14:58] Jeff Nesbitt: I'm sure it is. Yeah. It's Horton. Yeah.

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[01:15:06] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. He's a really great guy to have as a father-in-law. Mm-hmm. I've, I've really enjoyed it.

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[01:15:16] Uhhuh we used to be Yes. All the time. And he'd tell me stories about what he did in, in military and stuff.

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[01:15:34] Thoughtful, caring

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[01:15:36] Jeff Nesbitt: years. Yeah. I guess in his younger years maybe he was, he was more of a Wild man. But, um, he's great. He's just such a fun guy to talk to. I love talking about food with him. He's really, he's into talking about food. And it's funny too cuz Melissa, when we first met, she's like, my dad's probably gonna tell you everything he ate today.

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[01:15:57] Randy Bloom: talk about. I can, I've been to Vegas with a few times when he is been down there and gotta find the best buffet in town. That's what, that's Horton's thing. Yeah. Best buffet.

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[01:16:11] Oh my. We went back to no Izzy's, no, no old country buffets. They went out business. But

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[01:16:24] Jeff Nesbitt: the steak you can eat. I don't like all you can eat anything unless it's bottom was

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[01:16:27] And they were happy. They were happy. And I was like, okay, I won't go back there again. Yeah,

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[01:16:46] Randy Bloom: window of my,

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[01:16:47] I was a kid. I couldn't my, like I was trying to run to get out to, to puke somewhere and my mom was like grabbing the back of my shirt cuz we were in Vancouver and she's like, no, you'll definitely get scooped up by a pedophile. So, you know, I couldn't be mm-hmm. Just let to run off. Most of

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[01:17:03] Oh. I puked a

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[01:17:05] Randy Bloom: Yeah. We either, are you a good puer? I'm very good. Oh, me too. Mm-hmm. I can hold until I find a, a spot where I can not make a mess at myself. What about

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[01:17:16] Randy Bloom: eyes water. Yeah. I don't cry my eyes water. Um, I haven't puked in a long time.

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[01:17:44] My smallest was two, counting myself. Wow.

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[01:17:50] Randy Bloom: Yeah. That's probably why it was.

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[01:17:59] Randy Bloom: yeah. I kicked some butt. My, you good? Good at some table tennis, huh?

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[01:18:25] Was that intermural?

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[01:18:29] Randy Bloom: time we, uh, well Mick and Mick and Kelly and I and two other guys, we had a lip syncing contest and uh, we finished second the entire university. Um, they put me to the side cause I couldn't, I had no, I have no rhythm, so I had to do side stuff and they were doing all the fancy news, lip sync.

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[01:18:46] Jeff Nesbitt: rhythm. Yeah.

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[01:18:55] Jeff Nesbitt: College is fun. Yeah. I,

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[01:19:01] And you look, look what you got. You got a wife, kids. Well, that's

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[01:19:20] The fact that no matter what you do, no matter how you spend your time, you just get a hundred years if everything goes perfect. Mm-hmm. And that's just not enough time to do everything. You

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[01:19:37] And I feel blessed to have, you know, a great job, a house over my, a house that I love, a wife who puts up with me, which says a lot. And K and grandkids, when they're not being moody, love me to death. And the kids, I mean, I have stepchildren and they call me papa and they always tell me I love you. Yeah. And I mean, I was pe I didn't even number one for a long time cause I was the stepfather.

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[01:20:05] Randy Bloom: they were freshmen in Highschool.

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[01:20:10] Randy Bloom: you know, it was. And uh, but you know what, I guess two love wins out.

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[01:20:20] That's, that makes a huge difference. I think we did. Yeah. If there's a bunch of drama right at the beginning, it, it's a little more difficult. Mm-hmm.

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[01:20:35] Jeff Nesbitt: . That's, I think that's a goal for most people. Mm-hmm. It doesn't always work out that

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[01:20:50] She's sub the school. She's the most popular sub. She talks to the kids. She loves the kids. Yeah.

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[01:20:58] Randy Bloom: friendly. Oh, she's, and, and, and she relates to the kids. And, and anybody, I always tell you, she can make, make a friend in the cemetery mm-hmm. At that person. And that's something that I admire.

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[01:21:28] Yep. And I was like, I think, I mean, I didn't say this to her. I was like, I think Terry's just really nice. Yeah. As long as people, Amelia's not charismatic. Oh, I know. You know. Terry's very nice. Yeah, I got lucky. Yeah, she's great. So what's next for you guys? You going out on any trips

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[01:21:47] Minnesota. What's going on there? Yes, sure. You betcha. My, in her parents, her dad and her and her twin sister. Don't get me on twins. Um, and live there. And some of her nieces and nephews and stuff. Identical twins? Yes.

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[01:22:04] Randy Bloom: I can tell 'em apart, but if they're on the phone, I can't tell 'em apart.

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[01:22:18] Jeff Nesbitt: what is it? Spooky Um, spooky action at a distance. Yes. Quantum entanglement. Oh,

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[01:22:26] Fridge goes out. I mean, and we're gonna actually go into a place, I'll tell you a funny story. Uh, if you're ever, uh, watching TV and, and see a commercial for preparation. H I'm familiar. Okay. Not that I've used it much, but I know the commercials.

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[01:22:41] Randy Bloom: it. You know, it's always the point in life.

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[01:22:55] Jeff Nesbitt: some terrible names out there for the cities. Yeah. There are like, boring. Boring. Oregon. Oregon. I know.

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[01:23:08] Jeff Nesbitt: I like travel, like traveling and driving through small towns. Mm-hmm. Just for that reason of like, how the hell did this happen? , cuz there's so much variation and every single one of those places has a story of how it was founded, how the people got there,

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[01:23:26] Randy Bloom: a, it's kind of fun. Like a couple, three summers ago we traveled to Minnesota again. Of course. And we stopped at in Huntley, Minnesota. So I had to take a picture and send to my superintendent, Hey, we're in your town.

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[01:23:42] Randy Bloom: to travel more.

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[01:23:51] Jeff Nesbitt: ways?

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[01:24:02] And seeing the site where William Clark signs has signatures on a Pompey's peak, seeing the Signature Rock. You teachers

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[01:24:10] Randy Bloom: Clark. We did. You know what? But there become a point in your career where you realize, Like anything. I'm tired of Lewis and Clarke and I've, I bet I've pushed back when I had to teach Lewis and Clarke studies for two years before the big, big, big bicentennial.

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[01:24:26] Jeff Nesbitt: Well, why do the kids hate Lewis and Clarke so much? Because I don't hate it anymore. But I hated it when I was a kid. Well, back then it was

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[01:24:32] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. It's like it's local kill and drill. Yep. You don't, you don't realize the scope of what that actually was.

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[01:24:39] Randy Bloom: I gotta asked my, uh, first year from my principal if I got hired. What do you thinks the greatest adventure in US history? And I said, well, Lewis and Clark. And of course he was being the, you know, the protagonist. He says, what? The man on the moon? I said, well, that was a great one too.

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[01:25:10] Jeff Nesbitt: And there was, it was just brush backing

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[01:25:14] Oh. I mean, the things they ran into was incredible. I mean, think about it. It was just, I think

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[01:25:25] Randy Bloom: I

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[01:25:27] Yeah, I bet you did. That, uh, that adventure had to be kind of, I mean, there was a lot of people doing it. The guys going through the Amazon mm-hmm. Guy's in Antarctica. Like there was, that was just a whole.

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[01:25:59] Petersburg At the time, St. Petersburg, when he started on the West, he changed his mind. He went to from, he went from Philadelphia to across the Atlantic to Europe, and he got as far as, uh, St. Petersburg. And they thought he was a spy. Says, sent him back. He probably was. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Some guy speaking a funny

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[01:26:20] If you're, if you're traveling to a foreign country and you're, you're taking pictures mm-hmm. And you're bringing back information and you don't necessarily know that that information is sensitive and you give it to somebody, you're a spy.

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[01:26:34] Jeff Nesbitt: spy. Oh. That, that's exactly what I mean.

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[01:26:39] Randy Bloom: happened recently in, in, in Russia. I mean, some of these guys, you know,

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[01:26:52] Randy Bloom: there.

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[01:27:16] I couldn't imagine being over there. Yeah. I, I mean it's, it's like what I'm seeing. I'm, I'm basically seeing Stalin in Putin. That's my vision. The same idea of, of creating the u s Sr. Again,

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[01:27:33] Mm-hmm. Enough to know if that's what he's trying to do or if he's like, he's made claims to that. Yeah, I know. And he's also like, people think he's sick and maybe he's just trying, this is like a last ditch effort mm-hmm. To try to grab powder pow, uh, power before he's gone, or who knows? Mm-hmm. Who

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[01:27:49] I just hope, I mean, I just, I mean, I'm an optimist in life and I see what's happening now with China and they're beefing up their army and Taiwan and Yeah. The Ukraine. And it's a scary, I mean, I I,

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[01:28:06] Randy Bloom: our, our full lab power. Are we, are we the next Roman Empire?

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[01:28:18] Jeff Nesbitt: I mean, for their size. They're still fairly powerful. Oh, yeah. But, and their influence is still large. You're right. They're not, they're not the colonial, imperial, no imperial force that they were.

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[01:28:50] Uh, I would say, uh, renovations would be good. Um, I think the whole reason that our system is set up education-wise, set up the way it was, is like to serve, uh, the industrial revolution and, and, and farming years after farming. Yeah. And, um, we don't really get to do those jobs anymore. So now we have a system that's trying to force kids who really just wanna stare at their hand.

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[01:29:19] Randy Bloom: two-way street there. I see that point too. But we put so much emphasis on, I'll be, I'm guilty as charged on going to college. Yeah. And there's so many jobs out there. That are hands on. Like some, a lot of our students aren't made for college.

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[01:29:51] Yeah. You're just having those hands on skills, be able to fix something. Yeah.

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[01:30:01] Randy Bloom: know how to fix shit. It's, you know, it's common sense. They have, yeah. I have book smarts. They have common sense problem

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[01:30:07] They just, they're good problem solvers. Mm-hmm. Are, do you like working on engines and stuff? I'm terrible. I hate it. Oh, it's so

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[01:30:26] It's this and, oh, you gotta change. This is so and so wrong with this here. And yeah. I'm like, okay. Thank God. It's your first husband. Was a, was a, was a mechanic. Like he was, I'm Terry,

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[01:30:38] Randy Bloom: Well, even things around the house, I mean, I always. Book Smart common sense, not so much fixing things, like putting a new sink in and putting all the hoses and stuff and you know, figuring that stuff.

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[01:30:54] Jeff Nesbitt: you do it? Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't that hard, huh? No. Once you figure out what to do. Yeah. What'd

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[01:31:00] I just, I had, well, the biggest argument wife and I had was one of the, one of, one of the tubes is, what do you call it? Was she wanted to be male to female. And I said, no, it's gotta be male to male. And so I, and I put it in there and I was right for a change and that. Never, she's, I mean, she, for common sense wise, she's got, I don't,

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[01:31:21] I did the plumbing for our kitchen. When we rated our kitchen, we moved our sink and put in a fridge with water in the door and a dishwasher. And, uh, I thought it was gonna be hard. I was stressed out about it. But then I, like, right. When I started doing it, I realized like, I built spray systems. Mm-hmm. I, I know how to move.

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[01:31:52] Randy Bloom: it.

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[01:32:02] Jeff Nesbitt: some people just know implicitly, like when you're gonna get shocked and when you're not. No, I, I really don't. No, I don't either. Like, if it's a live wire like this, if you're wearing rubber sold shoes or you're standing on one foot Yeah.

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[01:32:21] Randy Bloom: house. Mm-hmm. I've learned from, but I always, uh, Terry, what are you thinking?

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[01:32:42] Jeff Nesbitt: you a kind of a natural devil's

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[01:32:44] Yes, I am. And not just that, but I think I know the solution when I really don't know the solution, but she knows the solution and I don't Yeah. And, and she gets mad at me for arguing with her and rightfully so. Yeah. Why you questioning me? I'm like, well, this is all I see it. Do

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[01:33:06] Right

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[01:33:25] That's, I can beat that girl. No, I swim in college. So I, and, and, uh, you really were thinking that. And, and she goes, wanna race mister? She goes, I'll give you a headstart. I'm no, I'll give you a headstart. Girl, you asked the wrong runner and boom, am I just looking at me? He goes, you just beat a seven year old in the pool.

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[01:33:55] Jeff Nesbitt: You guys do jeopardy every day, every night, every, like you watch a lot.

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[01:34:01] Randy Bloom: has the host. I like her. I like it. She's good. She's, both of 'em are good. You know, there, there's only one original. Let's be honest. Al Alex

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[01:34:09] Randy Bloom: But at the same time, this controversy is about those two, what they do and Yeah.

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[01:34:14] Jeff Nesbitt: mean, I've mourned his mustache for 10 years already. Mm-hmm. It was like practice. So when he finally went, it was, most of 'em was already gone. Mm-hmm.

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[01:34:34] Yeah. I'm like, forget about it.

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[01:34:48] They're sticking out their, I look at those things. There's ones in there you were saying, but who's,

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[01:34:55] Jeff Nesbitt: house? Oh, definitely me. Mm-hmm. But, um, still, I, when I went to college, I was watching Jeopardy with my crew team. Mm-hmm. And so I'm like, oh, I'm about to show off. Really? Uh, show these people how smart I am.

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[01:35:22] Randy Bloom: There's levels. You know, I don't, I don't even go to the trivia night there.

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[01:35:30] Jeff Nesbitt: Jetty. Yep. We're drinking your beer right now.

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[01:35:41] Jeff Nesbitt: Jet often?

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[01:35:46] Jeff Nesbitt: When they opened, were you one of the people who was like a founder? No. No. I, I never was. Um, are you not a out and about type of guy? I'm not. That's why. I don't know.

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[01:35:58] Jeff Nesbitt: she, yeah, she is. Have an awesome wife.

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[01:36:02] Randy Bloom: And you know, if we don't like to eat out, we don't like to going, like we said, we used to go, that's where we part ways. I love eating out. And we used to go to a lot of breweries, you know, on our trips and we've slowed back now that we have an rv, but, you know, probably save a lot

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[01:36:15] Randy Bloom: Yeah. And no, I like a good beer. I won't lie, but it's not that thing in my life. Did I need to go to every single brewery? I mean, I've been to more breweries than you could probably. You couldn't imagine how many all the way from here to Philadelphia. Wow.

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[01:36:31] Actually, not Patty's Pub. It's a fake pub. I don't even think it exists. It's one. I don't remember that one. There's always Sunny Philadelphia tv. That's a great movie. Movie. That's

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[01:36:46] I went with a guy who never drank before. I won't say who his name is because I'm not happy with the guy. Um, but he had his first beer ever with me and this some of my age, and he drank about half it. He said, this tastes gross. I said, well, I'll finish it for you. That's.

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[01:37:10] Jeff Nesbitt: do. Um, let's, I was just gonna let there be silence. So you would say who it was? Uh,

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[01:37:16] Jeff Nesbitt: newspaper for a while. No, I don't want, I don't, I think I know who you're talking about. Mm-hmm. There's a couple guys, uh, that you used to be friends with or

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[01:37:23] All friends mentors

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[01:37:34] Randy Bloom: you can ask him how I feel about it. Okay. I'll be honest with you. Yeah, go ahead. Um, people that were, I, I've respected loves they, one person sang at my mom's funeral.

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[01:37:46] Jeff Nesbitt: They remember

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[01:38:07] I guess. I don't know what they were doing on there, cuz I mean, I, I want, well the one, I drove by his house about four, five times in one week and had, maybe I had a few beers. Cause I, I'm honestly, I was between, I drank a lot that when that first, the second one happened. And cuz this guy was a teacher of mine, he was my mentor teacher.

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[01:38:48] That's just wrong,

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[01:39:00] Randy Bloom: so, I'm still angry. I now, me too. I'm, I'm sad about it. I'm not sad. I'm sad. I'm not sad. I'm angry. I can say, honestly, I am just angry because these are people I loved people I cared about and important people in life.

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[01:39:15] Jeff Nesbitt: they are like people with a lot to offer. Mm-hmm. So it sucks that it's a waste.

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[01:39:29] I'm like, it's

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[01:39:34] Randy Bloom: not the same. But I don't condone that either though. I

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[01:39:41] Randy Bloom: You're right. You are totally

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[01:39:44] A ninth grade boy, 24 year old's, six foot tall, and you know, with a 24 year old teacher, Nobody feels bad for that kid. No. They might, maybe should, but I don't know. It's

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[01:39:57] Jeff Nesbitt: feel there's still a power dynamic though. Yeah. So it's still wrong, but no, it is different.

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[01:40:03] Randy Bloom: my, my heart hurts, Lev, my, I'm angry and my heart hurts. Cause the people I cared about.

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[01:40:10] Randy Bloom: I mean, you judge people by who they are, not what you are. Yeah. That's how I look at things. I always have. And you know, these kids need you and that's not how they need, they need you as a teacher, as a mentor, as someone who cares about them, but not in that. Yeah, that just drives me crazy. It's a black eye on

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[01:40:30] Yeah, it is. It really is. And it just fucking sucks. It does. Really does. But you can't let bad apples spoil the bunch. No, you can't. The truth have, move on. Like we gotta educate our kids and, and there's so we need to people to

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[01:40:48] I can, I can go through all my career, watch who I've taught and students that have come back and, I mean there's a bunch of back here now that I've taught as students now teachers. They are great eggs. Those people that, you know, these kids are from oaco, need to see these, these people are coming back to walk cause they want to like me cuz they're good eggs.

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[01:41:07] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. Yeah. I, I think it's cool when teachers come back and teach in the district that they graduated from. There's something really special about that. And it's

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[01:41:29] If you want to come back like I did great and enjoy you, enjoy what you have here. I like a kid like, like you, like Matt Les now love Matt Les. Now Madeline, you know your wife, they've come back here for a purpose and they're contributing to the peninsula not being bums. Yeah. They're contributing to

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[01:41:47] They're not weighed down by the rain clouds and like that happens. Some people, they just never leave and they're just. Enmeshed in that shitty beach, whatever that dark energy is. But if you leave and come back, you can shed that. Yeah. And actually build yourself a whole mm-hmm. New thing. But I do think you have to leave and come back.

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[01:42:11] Randy Bloom: came back. You know what? My mom, when I was a kid, used to just give me all the, she'd buy the local history books, and I never read 'em. I didn't wanna, I didn't wanna come back here.

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[01:42:25] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. It's, I, I had the same experience. I didn't know, I mean, I knew I took Lewis and Clark classes, I knew what happened here. Mm-hmm. I like my dad's shop.

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[01:42:42] Randy Bloom: Yeah. I didn't, when I was in Highschool, you

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[01:42:47] Randy Bloom: wrote. Oh yeah. Oh yes. Always for oyster easterville and Amazing.

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[01:42:56] Jeff Nesbitt: I, I really think she's a special lady. Mm-hmm. She writes some cool books. Mm-hmm. I remember her subbing when I was in elementary school, and she was really nice.

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[01:43:04] Randy Bloom: She was cool. And then her husband Nile subbed a lot too later on. I don't know him. Nice guy too. And they had the, the bookstore there in Long Beach at one time. I don't remember that one. You know where the light, where that, uh, new, uh, restaurant's at, uh, on the left side of the main light, there's a restaurant there now that used to be a bookstore when I was a kid.

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[01:43:31] Jeff Nesbitt: Oh, you know what, you'd probably really enjoy that same group chat I was talking about earlier. Matt Bellinger sent a thing to it.

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[01:43:57] Mm-hmm. It, it was such a trip to watch. You bet. Because eight years before I was born. Mm-hmm. And I, there's some buildings that look exactly the same, but there are few and far between. Most of it is empty, lots with brush and, and then a, like a scattered buildings. It looks nothing like that does now.

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[01:44:21] When I was a kid, there was a terrible old beat up building there. And I, I asked my grandpa one day, so what was there? And he says, well, you know why there's Bullfrogs here, why is that? And he goes, this guy brought, started a bullfrog farm. Right. And he was gonna sell the frog legs. It went bust. I said, let the frogs go free.

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[01:44:45] Jeff Nesbitt: that. So that's the kind of local history I'm talking about. Mm-hmm. That stuff is just gonna get lost. Mm-hmm. I didn't even know there was a building there. Yeah, there

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[01:44:53] Really? Like, like on the corner right there, um, before you turn on 1 0 1 and alternate there, there used to be a grocery store there. Really?

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[01:45:04] Randy Bloom: on the left hand side, on other side. Oh. It's all, it's all got willows and, uh, bushes. There, there used to be grocery store.

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[01:45:15] Jeff Nesbitt: a lot there that,

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[01:45:22] He played football in, in Canada. Uh, the cfl. But he had a, the family had a grocery store there. Really? Yeah. He buy comic books when I was a kid. That was a grocery store. Yeah. One time. But they remodeled, tore the building down. Yeah.

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[01:45:40] Randy Bloom: Looks, looks like it. Like this. This is a store down here in a walk in Chinook here. Not Chinook Country store, but just other side of the, uh, the Lutheran church that used to be a store when I was a kid too. It's that big tall building apartments down up above and Oh yeah. They're turn down towards, uh, Chinook Packing company.

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[01:46:00] Jeff Nesbitt: grocery store. I was a kid too. I can see that one. It's gotta like display windows in the bottom there. It was cool. So you think we really landed on the moon?

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[01:46:12] Jeff Nesbitt: Why do you think Buzz Aldrin keeps saying we didn't?

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[01:46:19] He's pretty old. We'll see. Now, you know, people, your perception of things change as you get older. It sure does. And some things you thought were true back then, you say I'm not true

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[01:46:34] Until the last maybe 12 months. Mm-hmm. And some of the stuff I just can't argue with. Yeah.

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[01:46:59] This was wrong.

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[01:47:19] Randy Bloom: true story probably is.

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[01:47:48] And Mr. Carpenter was the principal at the time. I looked at him and said, the world's never gonna be the same again. And it's, it's true. It hasn't been No, it hasn't been, no, really, it changed forever. Oh. Look at how you take events in their lives. This covid have changed our lives. That's another one. Yeah.

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[01:48:02] Jeff Nesbitt: Truly. They have. That's also another one that has so many different players. Oh, yeah. That no one really knows exactly what the details are. Mm-hmm. Um, and we may never, no, but there's some stuff that, that we might know later, like the Warren Commission report Yeah.

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[01:48:20] Randy Bloom: Um, yeah. That, you know, I think they wanna stop him from lots to do with Cuba and his response to Cuba. Oh, yeah.

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[01:48:29] You're not supposed to. No.

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[01:48:33] Jeff Nesbitt: against string town mafia. Exactly. Exactly. Um, but yeah, I like to investigate conspiracies because I find it intellectually stimulating.

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[01:48:45] Let's be honest. I tell the kids. Yeah. You have to see both sides. Do you like Howard

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[01:49:04] Go for it.

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[01:49:09] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. Be careful. Oh yeah.

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[01:49:19] Jeff Nesbitt: Anything you want, you know, anything about the, uh, Scarborough Hill treasure? Yeah.

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[01:49:39] Really?

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[01:49:45] Randy Bloom: I probably, it's probably been pilfer by now. I imagine. What, what was the story about how that would've got there? Okay, so how it happened originally was, was, um, Scarborough was there, he was English right, and he didn't like the Bostons.

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[01:50:10] Jeff Nesbitt: Okay. So, I mean, the same way all the treasure gets Yeah. Buried. Makes sense. That's interesting. Mm-hmm. I think it's real.

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[01:50:19] Randy Bloom: about it. I would, I do too.

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[01:50:42] I didn't even remember liking to read before that, but I just started reading and I couldn't put it down and I just devoured this book. Mm-hmm. And then it ignited something in me where I just couldn't consume enough literature. And I was walking around with my nose in a book and I was reading everything and I was finding bookless and reading things on the book list.

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[01:51:06] Randy Bloom: very complimentary. I, I, I, I saw something in her, to be honest with you. I've seen what she was reading some this day and I said, Hey, Wally Lamb, this much I know is true. It's another great book by the way, by you should read too.

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[01:51:32] Jeff Nesbitt: A love of reading is something that is not a skill, a gift. Mm-hmm. Because a lot of people, even people who do read, don't love it like that.

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[01:51:40] Randy Bloom: And it's different books. You know, like right now I'm going through a to a detective mystery type of style. Then I'll go through the history of style. It depends on what mood I'm in. Uhhuh. I remember when I was in the seventh grade, Mrs. Vanover Uhhuh left Mrs. Vanover, I love her to death.

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[01:52:13] Yeah. But then I got into more deep, more in-depth books and I still try to find books. I can give her a whole, I can give your wife a whole list of books that she should read that are worth reading. Yeah.

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[01:52:25] Randy Bloom: I, well actually I used to, like I say, I, I, I put a aside two days a week for my students to read.

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[01:52:47] I'm

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[01:53:03] And my mom would read us like bible stories and mm-hmm. Um, that was about it. My dad would read us history, all kinds of crazy stuff. And, uh, it gave me a really good base for language. Mm-hmm. Like you, like you said, with the vocabulary, when I started learning how to write, I just knew how to write. Mm-hmm.

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[01:53:22] Randy Bloom: And it's look like, my wife will ask me, how do you spell this? And I'll go, computer, brain, you know, synopsis going. I said, this is how you spell this, because I've seen the word before multiple times.

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[01:53:40] That's probably why, probably makes some

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[01:53:46] Jeff Nesbitt: we listen. But you remember that effect when you're young, when you, you read a word in like 10 different books. You've never heard someone say it in your real life.

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[01:54:02] Randy Bloom: When I was working at the youth camp, a guy gave a book and had term, I wanna say this right, was Rockham eight, uh, razor. Oh. AUMs Razor. CCAs Razor. I'd never heard that before. Uhhuh. And I was like, this is cool. He's right.

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[01:54:22] Jeff Nesbitt: That's one of those ones. That is very true. Like mm-hmm. It, it almost certainly is usually the right answer. Kind of similar to like Murphy's Law. Mm-hmm.

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[01:54:50] Hmm. You're not overtly aware of it.

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[01:54:56] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. Or just, or on the other end of that positive reinforcement is like, you know, how good it feels to do good. Mm-hmm. Exactly. And so you want to do more of it.

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[01:55:04] Randy Bloom: my wife's taught me to, in that sense, there she is. Probably like, once again, I brag my wife, I got lucky. Um, sheep has taught me karma. You know, just say I did something wrong. That's why karma's going bad on me. Yeah. Or I did something great. This is why this is happening. So I, as I got older, I believe much more in karma than I used to.

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[01:55:39] Randy Bloom: What, what, what rise can I get? Yeah. What, what kind of, you know, how can I use these

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[01:55:58] Randy Bloom: It does and it does at times.

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[01:56:14] Something's going on. Anybody, you know, my grandchildren, I feel that, you know, one of my grand daughters of the day walked by and I said, how you doing today? I'm fine. Come on, walk. And I said, oh, that's, she's having a bad day. So I just sit down and say, let's talk about this. Yeah.

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[01:56:28] Especially

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[01:56:39] Jeff Nesbitt: yeah. All you have to do is remember being that age. Mm-hmm. It was like, oh yeah, I hated everybody.

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[01:56:57] Um, like last night, I, uh, we had, we bought one of those pizza kits from Costco, like comes with crust and sauce. You put the tacos and stuff on. They're really good. Mm-hmm. And I made myself one, uh, with, but I put like blue cheese and onions all over it. So that's a good pizza. Blue cheese is good. Yeah. It was great.

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[01:57:31] And, uh, I'll let you just make a plain cheese one for yourself and maybe for Amelia too. And usually that's great because Elsa is very independent. Mm-hmm. She's like, she wants to do her own thing. And it was all good. And then the pizza was in the oven and I had it in the back of my mind. I was upstairs eating mine.

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[01:58:05] And, um, there's cheese and sauce all over the inside of the oven and there's a, a cheese list, pizza crust sitting on the counter. I was just like, oh man, I screwed up. I Yeah, exactly. I was like, I messed up. I, she wasn't at a place to just leave her on her own at this time. Mm-hmm. And, um, yeah, and I, so I was just like, and she was like scraping it off the inside of the oven and I was just like, Elsa, like, eat your pizza.

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[01:58:53] For the most part. No, she's really easygoing and, uh, yeah. It's, I like, I love being a dad. I don't even remember why I was telling that story, but, um, oh yeah. Just the knowing how to deal with the different ages mm-hmm. And knowing what they need at the time. Mm-hmm. Right now, my biggest job as a dad is mitigating the needs of each kid.

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[01:59:32] Everything that goes in there is becoming truth. Mm-hmm. And you can't just fill 'em up with mean shit. No, you can't. And, uh, and at the same time, I have to tell the five year old look, your sister's 12, she does not wanna be bugged by you all day long.

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[01:59:48] Jeff Nesbitt: Yep. Yeah.

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[02:00:09] It's, it's really good. I don't want another kid.

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[02:00:26] I was like, you know, that's, that's love. You know, that's, that's, that's remember probably true feeling of what love is. You know, you can't get mad at him.

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[02:00:43] Randy Bloom: it's, yeah, you can't tell.

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[02:01:02] I bet that worked good. It did for me. They had to put boards up so I wouldn't fall out. Yeah. But then I take it

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[02:01:11] Randy Bloom: so nice. Or driving and then as soon as I stopped driving, I'd be like, huh, I'm awake now. Yeah.

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[02:01:17] Mm-hmm. Oh man. On a school bus, put your head against the window. You get that little tickle in the ear. Mm-hmm. I loved that. Um, and the smell diesel, I'll put you in sleep. Yeah. Yeah. School buses put me right out. Mm-hmm. Like, especially if you get one of those seats where the, with the wheel well, so you have a footrest.

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[02:01:37] Randy Bloom: there. Mm-hmm. I understand. Yeah. That was like we always said, when I, we go on trips to, you know, we had to go across the Astoria Bridge and say we're playing KLAS or something like that.

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[02:01:55] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. Everything on that bus stinks. Mm-hmm. That is one of the smelliest places on the planet is a Highschool sports bus. Or when they

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[02:02:03] Oh yeah. Oh course. Oh yeah. And then course you wanna throw up too, cuz it's smell so bad. Yeah.

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[02:02:15] Mm-hmm. Then I won't get sick if I don't do that. Probably as it

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[02:02:27] Jeff Nesbitt: time. Yep. I sometimes it feels good to get a good puke. It's not always horrible.

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[02:02:36] Randy Bloom: Sometimes when your stomach's upset and just Yeah. Go call it. Good.

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[02:02:53] Thank you for being, uh, such a positive impact in my life, in the life of my kids, in the life of my wife, in the life of many, many, many of my

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[02:03:10] I found the job. That was my, my niche. My wife has and I were talking and she said, well, you realize you've taught for approximately 5,500 days total and you've taught about 3000 and some odd students. And I said, I got lucky. I, I love my job and just stay. That's a lot of nicknames. Yeah. I'm still coming up with every, every time.

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[02:03:37] Jeff Nesbitt: device. It is

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[02:03:45] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. You say the name and it comes up a retrieval cue.

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[02:04:04] Um, and if I don't know anyone else who has that name, I have no way of remembering

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[02:04:24] I said, no, damnit. I don't. Yeah. And that's, that's, that's when I get upset at myself. But at the same time, you know, 3000 some odd kids, I'm gonna forget a name. I mean, 30 some odd years, you're gonna forget a name every now and then. Yeah. Doesn't happen often. Do you remember a nickname? Boom.

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[02:04:44] Mm-hmm. But it's happened to me so much that I, it doesn't feel bad when you get

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[02:04:54] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. I. I I, it feels way worse to call somebody the wrong name than it does to have someone call you the wrong name.

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[02:05:17] Well, I'll

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[02:05:34] And, and he goes, I used to move by Monica, and now I go by Monique.

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[02:05:40] Randy Bloom: And I was like, oh, that was a difficult one for me to remember. I was like, okay, not Troy for a loop. And I, I looked at him, I said, you know, your without the hair, your face is very familiar and well, it was the same face without the hair.

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[02:05:53] Jeff Nesbitt: say a name. I'll cut it out. I, I wanna know, and this is all we're done, I'll tell you. Okay. Um, yeah. I find that really interesting. That's been a crazy development that's changed a lot since, since, uh, I was in school. And I'll be

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[02:06:10] It's hard for me to, I want this goal. Say I wanna be recognized by this name and I'll do it. It's like, well, I already got a nickname for you. Yeah. But I, but yeah, I usually call that nickname, but beside the point. But I'll. Casey will slip Bella, call him by the, call her by the wrong name. And I'm like, oh, bloom, what are you doing?

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[02:06:28] Jeff Nesbitt: that's, I think all people want is, is effort. Yeah. Like you're gonna make mistakes. No one's perfect. But I think what really upsets people and for good reason really, is when somebody knows the name that you wanna be called and they don't call you that well.

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[02:06:45] Part of my ADHD is I talk fast. I tell the kids if I talk fast, just say, Mr. Bloom, slow down. That doesn't hurt my feelings. Yeah. I'll slow down. It's the same thing here at the names. I mean,

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[02:07:09] Mm-hmm. Just for the hell of it. Because I'm learning novelty. Like, oh shit, this is kind of fun. I can just pick a word and people have to call me this. It was Rupert or Rufuss. It was something ridiculous. And I remember it actually ended at, um, sis. Mm-hmm. Because I like tried to pull that on one of the counselors who were like, cool high schoolers.

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[02:07:36] Randy Bloom: weird one for me, kids are weird. The weird one for me is they won't be known by this, but you have a parent teacher conference, you can't. Use Yeah. What their real name is. And I respect the kids, and I respect, and I'll call 'em whenever they want.

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[02:08:01] Jeff Nesbitt: know, you know what I realize the other day that really helped me with that thing? These are only third person pronouns, right?

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[02:08:24] Mm-hmm. Pronouns. Mm-hmm. So really, if you don't talk shit about people and you're not gossiping and you're not doing a lot of talking about people behind their back, this doesn't even really come up that much. No. So you have to almost work hard to, to come up against this problem where it's actually

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[02:08:39] Yeah. You are right. But you, you've called a kid a name for the first six months and now all of a sudden they wanna be something with somebody else. It's like, but you shouldn't feel bad

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[02:08:57] But so should they, they should realize that, oh, this thing I'm, I'm asking everyone around me to do is not always easy. And they should have a little bit of consideration as

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[02:09:17] Yeah. And I, you know, when it's time. And I, I volunteered to help coach softball this year. I, I love Mooch and the rest of the team, but Oh, mooch also wrote, wrote

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[02:09:33] Randy Bloom: Why? With the practice? No,

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[02:09:40] Oh, he said Ask Bloom about his lucky wrench during softball season. Oh,

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[02:10:07] And that became our tradition every time she got on base I'd here with the ranch and the helmet. Yeah, of course the helmet wasn't, yeah. Yeah. It's like I said, everything to the knee out kidney shot, everything runs its course in life. It really does. Uhhuh and, you know, teaching coaching, I, I love coaching with Mooch.

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[02:10:28] Jeff Nesbitt: after the Lucky Ranch thing. He followed up with, uh, to tell you that he could not have done the coaching thing without you and that you were a fantastic person to coach with.

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[02:10:39] Jeff Nesbitt: he agrees.

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[02:10:41] Randy Bloom: I couldn't have no him. I couldn't have, I wouldn't have coached him without you either though. Both ways. Yeah. But as you get older you realize that your family's more important. That time you miss, you know, my wife had a few sicknesses minor. Um, you want that time with your family getting home at six o'clock, seven o'clock at night, you'd lose that time.

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[02:11:24] Yeah. And that's more, and see my grandkids. That's more important to me now at this point in my life than coaching. And like I said, teaching, when I get a certain age soon, my priorities are gonna change. And that's not gonna be about teaching anymore. It's about focusing not on students, colleagues, but my wife, my grandchildren, my children.

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[02:11:44] Jeff Nesbitt: connections. Yeah. That's,

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[02:11:54] Jeff Nesbitt: still fairly young. Oh, I am. You're gonna have a long retirement. I'll be 60 when I retire.

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[02:12:01] Randy Bloom: that to retire early? Uh, the biggest issue there is insurance. Uhhuh. They won't pay me as much as I would home in 65. Yeah. I can live with that. The one I'm gonna make is really good, but good. I would say really good, but insurance wise.

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[02:12:23] Jeff Nesbitt: Oh, you get to cash out your sick leave. Yeah. That's at the end. Or any time

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[02:12:29] Like I tell teachers it's not worth as, as an old teacher, don't do it every ask every year. If you wanna sell back your sick leave. Yeah. Never do it till you retire. Cause I'll pay for your, you know, help pay for insurance and like I said, I talk to and if you ever get sick. Yeah. Like the hip surgeries.

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[02:12:53] Jeff Nesbitt: big dream? And that's Department of Defense Department to teach English?

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[02:13:01] Jeff Nesbitt: at the bases. Oh, okay.

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[02:13:06] Randy Bloom: Their kids, their kids. The military kids. They're kids. They're kids. They're military kids. And that's, well, that would be cool. That'd be really cool. Or I could find something else just to pay for my insurance. Like I said, I might be at Funland being an official greeter for a couple years.

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[02:13:16] Jeff Nesbitt: They slinging Benny's at Funland. Yeah. Nice.

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[02:13:31] Jeff Nesbitt: good bunch of kids.

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[02:13:38] Randy Bloom: Just wait until this group of seventh

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[02:13:46] Yeah, they have, they're like the only basketball team in baseball. I mean, this, this year, seventh and eighth graders, um, boys, they practiced through Covid. Yeah. None of the other teams

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[02:14:09] And Ron was a stud basketball player too. That's what I heard. So you see these, the, the effort that this, I mean, not just sports, but you look at the, the, the whole, you know, down there at the Dylan Center, you look at Dylan Bakery, how much they they give to the school. Yeah. You can't ask. They have a huge impact on the community.

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[02:14:38] Jeff Nesbitt: There's not a bad one in the bunch. Yeah, I like them. I will say that they need to get some, uh, some better plastic silverware at the bakery.

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[02:14:47] Randy Bloom: Oh, I was mad last night cause I went to Chicos and the crust was not the same. Really? Yeah. I, I mean the toppings, everything with cheese was perfect, was perfect. I was like, okay. But the crust was like a pita crust. Really? And I'm old. I mean, I can remember Chico's crust is Chico's crust.

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[02:15:17] Jeff Nesbitt: here's my question. Are they serving free water? Yes. Right on. And a salad bar. Salad bar's back?

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[02:15:40] Oh yeah. That,

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[02:15:43] Jeff Nesbitt: that's another family that has had a Oh yeah, I agree too. Positive way. Created so many jobs. And once again, back to the

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[02:15:52] Jeff Nesbitt: example. Yeah. That's a really important thing that doesn't happen all that often in small towns, is people.

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[02:16:03] Randy Bloom: come back. It's like when I saw you that one day on string town, uh, string Town Road, spring SCOs Broom. Oh yeah. I some this today. I dunno why it sticks on my head. I said, another one comes back and do something great.

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[02:16:14] Jeff Nesbitt: yeah, that was 10 years ago, Uhhuh. I still remember that. Yeah. That was right when I started this job. I actually lived on Springtown then. Uh, yeah. Gal's Ghetto. Um, I, is that what that place is called that the camp? Yeah, the, the first house, um, when you turn off, uh, string town onto, into Vandellia.

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[02:16:33] Randy Bloom: house, the guy has a plane, used to have a plane there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm

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[02:16:40] Randy Bloom: about the, uh, the one that has all the trailer.

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[02:16:51] Jeff Nesbitt: I tried to get a place in there once, and they rejected me. I was very hurt to the

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[02:16:59] Jeff Nesbitt: was, I don't how you're taking care of you.

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[02:17:02] Randy Bloom: key talk, this sdm our Home Protection Service. Best World. The, the

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[02:17:14] So I was actually still in school and I was just like gonna be a rebel and move outta my house cause I was 18. Mm-hmm. And uh, I ended up moving into a place down there on the end of 68th Street. Mm-hmm. Good people too. That old house. Yeah, they're great. I love them. And I have,

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[02:17:30] The daughter in my class. That's kind of weird. They're

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[02:17:34] Randy Bloom: Yeah. I can remember Scott when Scott was working at the, the Sex Ho. Yeah, yeah. Forever. I used to call him Scotty the Body. That was his nickname having in class

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[02:17:45] Randy Bloom: Oh, you didn't? No, but that's what I walked in. You give Nick Games a community

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[02:18:01] Mm-hmm. Uh, because there's so many noises all the time that it's not really even spooky. Mm-hmm. It's like, oh, that door just randomly slam shut. That's

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[02:18:11] Jeff Nesbitt: Yeah. You watch those

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[02:18:21] Oh, north Ed? Uh, yes. Okay. North Ed. Yes. Um, and the kids are like, they did the whole thing. They did the seance, they did the, and this kids are like, this is, and one of the kids, I just stayed there and that room. Wow. So it's kind of funny. And then talking to the Ouija Ouija board the whole bit and they, that

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[02:18:41] I can't, I don't do that stuff. Well, I, I don't, don't fuck around with Ouija board. I did

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[02:18:49] Jeff Nesbitt: believe in demonic possession? No, I do. See, that's weird. I don't believe in ghosts, but I do believe in demonic possession, but I don't think it's, it's, uh, as scary as, uh, as like the, the exorcism of rose or the exorcism, original ex exorcist.

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[02:19:21] Mm-hmm. Uh, but if you take the, the separation away and realize like, oh yeah, I am often kind of inhabited by these spirits that don't feel like me. Um, it's not as farfetched. Nice.

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[02:19:42] I've never met a someone who was demonic. I met kids that are evil in teaching. I truly, they are. Yeah. No, I believe you teach that they have not a good bone in their body. Uhhuh, but I think that's more breaded with them, with their family than it is with them being. Actually, Satan comes down and just says, this is Satan's son here.

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[02:20:04] Jeff Nesbitt: boom, boom. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, that's, that's, that's different too. You're right.

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[02:20:18] Jeff Nesbitt: me. And I bet you were nice of them too.

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[02:20:36] Yeah. And I could tell by the way they looked at you, their eyes said, told a story behind those eyes. Yeah. That's

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[02:20:46] Randy Bloom: look. Yeah. They're right. The look is what the good word for it. Yeah. And I, I, I even see kids today, like, counselor time, please take care of this one.

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[02:21:14] Yeah, it really does. Oh, you've gone through a few of those stretches where there was,

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[02:21:34] If you get to that point, talk to me. Just talk to me. What can I do to help you? I'm not gonna talk to your parents. I'm not gonna, I just want to help you. And I had one recently, you know, that I worked with and wasn't suicidal. It was just friends being mean friends. Oh yeah. And

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[02:21:51] Randy Bloom: fast.

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[02:21:55] Jeff Nesbitt: The eyes are the windows of the soul. Amen. It's the truth. Alright, well you wanna wrap this thing up? Sure. We've been there a

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[02:22:05] Jeff Nesbitt: much. I wanna see her I the house too.

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[02:22:09] Randy Bloom: said, it's replica of my

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[02:22:19] Oh, yeah. With Paul Uhhuh. Yeah. All right. Well thank you guys for listening. We'll talk to you next time. Bye-bye.

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