When A Popular TV Producer Rewrites Your Podcast Episode - School Bureaucracy Exposed: How Admin Bloat Steals from Teachers and First Responders (The Remix)

DJ ESG kicks off the inaugural episode of the Rock Bottom Podcast with a blistering takedown of educational bureaucracy that will leave you equal parts amused and outraged. After being deemed unfit for a school hall monitor position despite his impressive resume as a successful businessman and community philanthropist, Eric Scott Golden transforms his frustration into a powerful commentary on broken priorities in our education system.

Golden's experience reads like satire—being initially hired, then subjected to an interrogation about his "vibe" and podcast content by administrators earning triple his potential salary. The absurdity reaches its peak when school officials reveal their primary concern isn't student safety but preventing hallway vaping. This encounter serves as a perfect metaphor for a system where frontline workers struggle financially while administrators feast on outsized salaries.

Through raw, unfiltered commentary, Golden exposes the stark reality of teachers spending their own money on classroom supplies while "educrats" enjoy three-hour steakhouse lunches on the taxpayer dime. He questions why we've created an educational hierarchy where those furthest from students earn the most, while those directly shaping young minds earn the least. His passionate advocacy for teachers and genuine concern for students' futures resonates throughout the episode, making it clear this podcast will be a voice for those silenced by bureaucratic nonsense.

Whether you're an educator frustrated by administrative bloat, a parent concerned about school priorities, or simply someone who appreciates unvarnished truth-telling, the Rock Bottom Podcast promises to be your weekly dose of cathartic reality. Subscribe now to join the conversation about what really matters in education and beyond—and catch new episodes every Monday at 8!

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Chapters

• 0:28 DJ EST Introduces Rock Bottom Podcast
• 1:08 The Clean Record Defense
• 1:43 Professional Background and Achievements
• 2:40 The Hall Monitor Job Interview
• 3:49 Administrative Priorities Gone Wrong
• 5:38 Education System's Financial Inequities
• 7:46 Closing Thoughts and Next Episode Preview

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:14

What's up, people of Earth? This is DJ EST and you're listening to the Rock Bottom Podcast, a show for the people who are tired of the BS, allergic to fake smiles and permanently banned from the local PTA Facebook group because we said exactly what everybody else was thinking. Now buckle up, buttercup, because today we're diving into a topic so ridiculous, so mind-meltingly stupid. It might just make you want to go off the grid and live in a yurt. Why the hell are frontline workers making peanuts while bureaucratic trolls rake in six figures to twiddle their thumbs and schedule vision board meetings? Before we go any further, let me clarify something, because the rumor mill in my hometown runs faster than my metabolism. After Taco Tuesday. Google my name, that's right DJ ESG, eric Scott Gold, scott Gold. Look it up. You won't find a mugshot, no felonies, no misdemeanors, not even a passive-aggressive HOA violation. I used to be on the board. My record is cleaner than a new pair of white sneakers. No parking tickets, no scandals, nothing, zilch, nada. I'm the human equivalent of a Mr Clean magic eraser. So why am I ranting today? Well, the public school system and let's just throw in every mid-level bureaucrat institution for fun has officially lost its fucking mind. You know what I've done in my life Everything. I've run two of the most successful DJ companies in the region, founded a 501c3 for anti-bullying. Did it lift off? Not quite, but it was on the runway, damn it. I was the president of Wish Upon a Wedding, aka the Make-A-Wish Foundation for the wedding industry. Yeah, that's a thing. Google it. We made actual dreams come true, not just you-get-to-keep-your-whiteboard-markers kind of dreams, like some of those school board execs. Oh, and I've donated more to the community of Southern Florida, southern California, bucks County than your local politician has spent on haircuts and ego boosts. So why does this matter? Because apparently, according to some folks in little offices with Ikea desks and delusions of grandeur, I'm not qualified to be a fucking hall monitor. Yes, a hall monitor. The person who tells kids to stop vaping next to the janitor's closet. That's what broke me, that's what dragged me into the void and birthed this podcast. Let me walk you through it.

Speaker 1: 2:26

So I go into the school job interview. Right, five people two principals, one head of school, one head of security and one guy who looked like Mr Belvedere on a protein shake diet all sitting around nodding their heads like I'm pitching them a cure for chronic stupidity. We go through my resume. We laugh, we bond. They shake my hand like I'm being knighted. They even walk me out to my car sort of that's like second date level commitment. When you walk somebody out all the way to the door Next day bam phone call. Hey, eric, you didn't get the part-time gig but we're giving you the full-time job.

Speaker 1: 3:01

The 11th grade principal of one of the high schools. I'm hyped, ecstatic, telling all the neighborhood kids I'm going to be your hall monitor, baby. It's not about the money because, let's be real, mcdonald's managers are making more to ask you if you want fries with that. I was ready to be the guardian of the hallway, the Gandalf of the school corridor. You shall not pass without a hall pass.

Speaker 1: 3:20

Then it gets weird. My badge is made. My neighbor told me the hiring forms were sent. The office told me status on the school website hired. The IT person told me all I had to do was meet the superintendent for a little easy, warm and fuzzy, right wrong. I walk into that office and it's like an ambush episode of to catch a common sense criminal. Two bald men think Dr Evil and his unpaid interns start asking questions like I'm being vetted for CIA clearance.

Speaker 1: 3:48

How do you know this person? Why are you connected to this person? What kind of podcast do you run? What is this on your resume? Excuse me, what the fuck does any of this matter? It's not a transcript podcast for 30-somethings trying to pick centerpieces for their wedding. It's my wedding podcast. What high school kid is fucking getting married? And if they are, you run a real whacked-ass school here that we're going to say it, even if it gets us banned from LinkedIn podcast. So I say I thought I was hired and they hit me with oh, that was just a pre-hire. We still have to evaluate your vibe. What vibe you're wearing? Jc penny and you look like you haven't brushed your teeth in 15 years. Bro, I've got more vibe than the whole administrative team combined.

Speaker 1: 4:26

I make kids laugh, I keep them safe. I break up vape rings like I'm the dea of hall monitor nonsense. You want someone to care, that's me, but no, they said the most important part of being a hall monitor was absolutely vaping. Not safety, not getting kids home, just making sure little Jimmy isn't puffing clouds like a baby dragon behind the bleachers. And this was the old principal of one of the high schools and this is the guy you're paying $170,000 a year for, oh my God, let's make sure the kids don't vape in the hallways and smoke, but they can get hit by a car on the way home or wind up in a tree. Yes, safety, or is brushing my teeth? Are you joking? If a kid gets hit by a car but isn't vaping, congrats, gold star.

Speaker 1: 5:06

Give me a break and let me tell you what I wanted to do, but didn't, because I'm civilized. I wanted to stand up, whip out a metaphorical pair of brass balls, slap them in the head with them and walk out like a boss. But instead I started this podcast. Why? Because that's what you do when you're too smart to punch, and one in two broke to get sued.

Speaker 1: 5:24

So let's circle back. Teachers, nurses, emts, firefighters, police all of them scraping by on 45K to 85K a year, while some human spreadsheet who hasn't spoken to a kid since 2004 is ranking in 180K for administrative leadership initiatives. That's not leadership, that's theft and khakis. Why would any kid want to grow up and do that? Go to college, get in debt, come out and make less than a Twitch streamer who streams at video games for a living. What are we selling them? Delayed poverty and high blood pressure. You know what kids say when they ask who their favorite adult in school is.

Speaker 1: 5:55

It's not the executive liaison for tier three learning objectives. It's Mrs Thompson, the teacher who stayed after school to help them pass algebra. Pay her more, give her the porterhouse lunch. Stop, stop, stop. Oh, but these are the executives, the administrators who stood on the steps of the school and sang the eagles fight song and posted on their social media page. Not the kids, not the parents, not the teachers, the fucking admin. Fly eagles, fly on the way to my 200k. Fly eagles, fly. I get to go home at one o'clock today.

Speaker 1: 6:30

Meanwhile, you've got these educrats taking these three-hour lunches at high-end steakhouse, like I just said, pretending they're in meetings while they expense wagyu beef. You know how much we could fund in our programs and school supplies just by cutting their filet mignon budget. And don't even get me started on a middle management in education. There's a person overseeing the person who oversees the assistant to the person who oversees, in charge of the person who does literally nothing. It's, it's a metra oscar doll of incompetence. We don't need more titles, we need more desks, we need more support for the teachers and maybe, just maybe, a few administrators who've been in the classroom since bush was president, oh my god.

Speaker 1: 7:03

This is why I started the rock bottom podcast, because something I had to say. Someone had to call out the emperor for being butt naked and sunburned. So to all these parents out there, to all the underpaid heroes, to the teachers buying their own expo markers like it's a side hustle, this podcast is for you. I'm DJ ESG, eric Scott Golden. Next week we're going to go even longer and talk about these idiots and another rant that's going to get me on the government watch list mondays at eight. Be there or continue living your life in a quiet rage, my god. And to the superintendent yeah, and his little sidekick, brush your teeth and get a life. Fuck you both. Oh my god, go take your 220 and 170 000 your paychecks and go sing the Eagles fight song on somebody else's steps. All right Cause, I'll tell you this right now. Both you guys can kiss my ass. Peace, love and God above, and I'm out Bye-bye.