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Ep 75 - Tyler Rowe and Nason Lane | What School Resource Officers Really Do
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When people hear “school resource officer,” they usually think security first. We wanted to go deeper, so we brought in Officers Nason Lane and Tyler Rowe from the Sikeston Department of Public Safety to explain what the SRO role actually looks like day to day: building relationships, mentoring kids who are having a rough season, supporting staff, and stepping in when a real criminal issue shows up. If you care about school safety, student wellbeing, or how community policing works inside a school building, this conversation is for you.
We dig into how social media and smartphones changed the school environment. Rumors travel faster than adults can react, Snapchat creates risky illusions of privacy, and students often forget that a post can follow them into college, jobs, or the courtroom. We also talk about the impact of Missouri’s phone restrictions during the school day and why many parents end up supporting it once they see students reconnect, talk more, and focus again.
From there we get practical about the safety layers that schools use today: weapons detectors, clear backpacks, controlled entry points, fencing, cameras, visitor management systems like Raptor, and coordination with emergency response tools. But we keep coming back to the biggest takeaway: trust prevents problems. When kids see an SRO as a safe adult, they ask for help sooner and avoid choices that can derail graduation. Subscribe for more Sikeston stories, share this with a parent or educator, and leave a review so more people can find the show.
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July 4 And Bulldog Pride
SPEAKER_00Alright, Bulldog Nation, it's time to get in the doghouse. This is where Sykes and Pride live, where we tell the stories that make this town special, from the legends of the past to the faces shaping our future. Whether it's basketball, community, or just that good old Bulldog grit, we've got you covered. You're listening to the dog house, the voice of Sykes. What is up, Bulldog Nation? And before I forget, I'm Micah Harris. I'm Matt Tanner. And also before I forget, Happy Birthday, America. Yes. 250 years.
SPEAKER_03This will come out on birthday.
SPEAKER_00This will come out on July 4th. And we didn't plan it that way, obviously. But as proud Americans, and we all should be we we should be proud of there are lot of things to be proud of. There's things not to be proud of, but there are things we can be proud of of our country, and 250 years is a is a is a big milestone.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Kind of I've been like the last couple days reading posts from Aaron Griffin. And he's kind of talked about like the days leading up to the signing of the declaration. So it's kind of been interesting to to know, you know. I mean, like this went on on June 30th, and I remember all of it, but I mean it's kind of kind of cool to Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Aaron's uh Aaron's a history.
SPEAKER_03He he's uh I don't know if he has a history degree, right? But he is a historian.
SPEAKER_00He's a historian, that's correct. He has a lots of historical knowledge. Yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_03He actually was gonna make a fun. He has he he texted me. I text him last week about something, and and and uh he was uh I'm gonna give him a shout-out while we're on here. He was he I think he was very tempted to make a comment about the Jamie Johnson, you know. Oh, not the the other Jamie Johnson? I told him I said it wasn't the no-show Jamie Johnson. That's right. He wanted I think he wanted to say something on our on our Facebook page, but I think he restrained himself. So uh Aaron, have feeling to do it if you want to now.
SPEAKER_00That's right. That's right. We we we addressed that early. But uh anyway, happy July 4th. Hope you spend time with your family celebrating a big day. I always look back, and I wish I would have had it prepared for this, but I love the letter that John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, talking about we need to basically shoot fireworks and have celebrations and things like that for for years to come. And that's where we get the fireworks celebration from all that. So that's uh that's a big deal. I love that letter. I I wish we wrote and talked like that. We don't do that anymore, but that's uh it's really cool. It's a cool letter. I typically post it on that day, but anyway, it's a it's a great thing. Pomp and circumstance kind of thing.
SPEAKER_03Speaking of, I I think we're gonna go watch fireworks at Dexter at Lighthouse. I don't know. I'll hear that it's a really good one, and I'm gonna go look at it and check it out.
SPEAKER_00I hope everybody spends the time spends that day or celebrates in in their own way. And anyway, happy birthday, America. It's a it's a big deal.
SPEAKER_03250 years.
SPEAKER_00250 years. It's a big deal. Uh what they call it the the experiment as they call. And so I'm not gonna get political or whatever, but I think we're the greatest country on earth, greatest country on earth that's ever been formed, and I think we are all blessed to be here. Is it perfect? Of course not, because it's led and made up of imperfect people, so it's not gonna be perfect, right? But it is a it is a terrific country, and there are a lot of things, and I still believe that there are more things that unite us than divide us.
SPEAKER_03Right, and one of the I think one of the biggest things about it is we can have differences.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you know, I think I think I I was listening to a podcast today, Mike. I had to drive to Cape and they talked about how the founders had I'm trying to figure out lively debates, so to speak, and some got heated. That's okay. But at the end of the day, we all need to realize that we're blessed to be here.
SPEAKER_03I mean, like the system we set up is designed to be a two-party system.
SPEAKER_00Correct.
SPEAKER_03I mean, like which keeps us from having a king.
SPEAKER_00Correct. Yeah. So that's exactly right. But anyway, I don't want I I it it's a it's a big deal, 250. So I I want to mention that. Sorry for the it's our it's our show. We can talk about it if we want to. That's right. That's right. But we gotta pay some bills.
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SPEAKER_00Respect and bills, man. That's right, that's right. Shout out to Mercy Phoenix, healthcare staffing solution experts, Mr. Jody Tucker. Jody Tucker. Jody Cheney. Tucker Chaney. Got him, got him. That's uh maybe that's Chris, that's Chris Tucker's brother-in-law or something. I don't know. Jody Cheney, Tucker Cheney. We're thankful for them to be partnered with us. Again, if if you need healthcare staffing solutions, they are your foremost expert. And if you are looking for something in that career, in that field, they have lots of positions available. Jody told I talk to Jody all the time. Jody's a good friend of mine. Told me about some more that's coming online, like eight to ten more. It's a so but something that you have the ability to do, I would say reach out to them and get hooked up with them. Go to their website, mercyphoenix.com, or check them out on Facebook, Mercy Phoenix, and it's Mercy, M-E-R-C-I. Also, shout out to Greengrass guys, Mr. D Bizzle and Mr. David Bizzle. They are your long care, excuse me, turf management experts. And as Mike and I were looking before we came down here to come start the podcast, we've got our backyard, our renovations started, and we'll have some more work for D to do in the backyard. And have him wave his magic wand and make my grass look as good as it does in the front yard. And so we appreciate those guys. We appreciate all of our all of our partners. We know that they have the same vision that we do to, as we say all the time, rising tide lifts all boats. Yep. And we want to continue that. And we're just we're we're proud and we're honored that they're they're willing to be a partner with us in this venture. Shout outs, shout out to Luke. When you watch the video, you can see the graphics on the TV. Yep. He'll have some more when our guests come on. Shout out to Aaron. She's our our I guess she's our quasi host. Hostess. Hostess, I should say. Shout out to Justin, our general nuisance and general counsel. Tucker Cheney, the aforementioned Tucker Cheney with his video editing help. I really appreciate him. And if you noticed, I didn't really get to talk about it because I did it after we did the show, but on the the the video now, Micah, I've got some pretty cool things, I've learned some kind of cool things. I've got our names on there at certain points. I've got like an intro thing, and then I've got a deal at the end, like the credits rolling. I'm kind of proud of myself, actually. So if you haven't watched the video from Jamie Johnson, go check it out on YouTube. Wow. It's it's actually, I mean, for a rank amateur, when it comes to that, I'm pretty proud of that stuff. And I actually got some of it by like just clicking around and was like, oh, you know, that's cool.
SPEAKER_03You know, I was I've always said like somebody made a comment the other day about you know, like computer people are like the Microsoft and all the you know Androids and stuff, and I'm like maybe if you're 80s, but if you really looked at Apple, there's no comparison. Like it just makes things so simple.
SPEAKER_00Oh my gosh. It's it's unbelievable. Yeah, I working on Final Cut Pro, and I and there are all sorts of other video editing software, and they're probably more robust and all those things. Final Cut Pro for what is I've I mean I've tapped, I've like just scratched the surface on what this thing will do. I watch these videos and I'm like, how in the heck did they do all that? And they'll show you. I mean, it would take me hours to figure that out. And I spend the the editing part probably takes 30 minutes to an hour. The uploading and getting the stuff because the files are so big, the videos, you know, are an hour plus. But that's more sitting than waiting to kind of Well, what I'll do is I just load everything, then I go do something else. I just load it, and then when it gets done, I'll come back and start editing. But it's it's a it's a labor of love, uh so to speak. But but anyway, Tucker's been been very good with that. I appreciate that. Shout out to Derek James, Brian James, our local sports historians, bulldog history, CMO sports history all together. We appreciate them and their willingness to provide a lot of the stats and information that that I have and Micah has on here. And last but not least, shout out Tyler Anderson, our cool sign on the wall, Twisted Arrow Woodworking. Tyler texted me today, and you remember last week when we were talking with Jamie, we couldn't remember the guy's name that was on WPSD TV? Right. Dave Winder. I remember that. Because Tyler goes, I'm listening to the podcast, it's Dave Winder. I was like, Yeah. He's he said he's from Jackson. And and TA, or excuse me, Tyler said that he goes, hey, I know him, maybe we can get him on there. I was like, let's do it.
SPEAKER_03Let's do it.
SPEAKER_00So I said, Man, I love that. So shout out to TA. Thanks for uh always looking out for us and thanks for listening. Thanks for being a supporter. We appreciate it very much.
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SPEAKER_03Oh, just my wife. Yeah. Always give her a shout-out. I think she needs a shout-out this month. I think I think I think we just keep us in your prayers as well.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Yep. And I I'll mention it, what Micah is talking about. The last two Julys, obviously, my sister and I have a brother, Justin. We lost our parents. We lost our dad two Julys ago and our mom last July. So it's it's been an adjustment, but this will be two years for dad, one for mom. And so we just appreciate your thoughts and prayers coming up for us. And anyway, I'll I don't want to get emotional. We'll just we'll we'll move on from there. Yes. Thanks for mentioning that, Micah. And if you're interested in partnering with us, give us a shout. We'd love to sit down and talk with you. And we have some we have some more swag. I finally got some larges in. Oh, did you? Okay. And I've got our two exes in.
SPEAKER_03So we need to get Jamie one over there.
SPEAKER_00We do. He texted me and he goes, hey, I want one of those shirts after the show. I was like, Jamie, they're coming in. Actually, Brian called me today and told me they are text, called me or texted me, whatever. Julian Beard wants one. I got to get one to Julian. And I've got some we have some more dry fit kind of material coming too. We'll have some of those. Yeah. Those are ordered. The other shirts are in.
SPEAKER_03And so if I those be great for fall. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00If I if I owe you a shirt and I have forgotten, please reach out to me and let me know. I think I've got everybody caught up, but actually no, I've got to get Chris Lambert one too. He'll I don't know why I didn't give him a smedium. He'll want a small and cut sleeves out of it.
SPEAKER_03I think he did say he wanted a smedium.
SPEAKER_00I think he said large. So now we've got some larges, so I owe him one. So anyway, we'll get them to him for sure. And so with all with all that being said, stick with us through the break. We have Mr. Tyler Rao and Nason Lane, two of our SROs that are at the school, high school, junior high, and they are two fantastic gentlemen, and we are proud that they support our schools. They're actually worked for DPS as well. And so we are proud to have them. We want them to come on here, share their story, and what they do. But just stick with us. They'll be we'll be right back
Meet The SRO Guests
SPEAKER_00after the break. Hey, thanks for sticking with us through the break. And Micah, something we forgot to do. Episode 75. Episode 75, season two, episode 34. Yeah. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for reminding me. And so forgot to do that early on. Now we'll get to it. And now we'll move on to our guests this week.
SPEAKER_03Honored guest.
SPEAKER_00Honored guests, that's exactly right. I'm going to read their intro, we're going to get rolling. When most people think about school resource officers, they picture uniforms, radios, and keeping schools safe. There's a whole lot more to the job than that. Every day, school resource officers serve as mentors, counselors, coaches, problem solvers, and sometimes simply the trusted adult a student needs in a difficult moment. Today we're joined by two of the people filling that role for Sykston Schools, Officers Nason Lane and Tyler Rao of Sykeston Department of Public Safety. We're talking about what life is really like as an SRO, the relationships they build with students, the challenges that young people face today, how social me social media has changed the school environment, and what goes into creating a safe place for students to learn every single day. Whether you're a parent, grandparent, educator, student, or simply someone who cares about our community, this conversation offers a behind-the-scenes look at a job that impacts hundreds of lives every school year. Tyler?
SPEAKER_03Welcome to the doghouse.
SPEAKER_00Welcome to the doghouse, guys. Thank you. Appreciate you having us. Appreciate you having us.
SPEAKER_02Honestly, I think you you hit it on hit the nail on the head there when you said what we do is it's so many different hats. I mean, we're not just there for safety, security, we're not just there to enforce crime. I mean, we're there helping the students out, we're helping staff, we're mentoring, we're coaching, we're counseling, but at the same time, we want to be somebody that they look up to, somebody that they can really come to in a time of need. So relationships. Yes, definitely. Building those relationships.
SPEAKER_00So now are you just at just at high school? Or y'all go around, right? Yes, sir. Because I'm unfortunately, and I can get way down a rabbit hole on this. The governor's cutting budgets like everybody, and I know the the D DPS budget and the school pays part of y'all's salary for this and all this stuff. I'd love to have ten more SROs, right?
SPEAKER_02One time we had a bunch more, didn't we? You know, at one point I think there was maybe six. Yeah. But what you're looking at though is we can accomplish a lot with what little we have.
SPEAKER_00You can. And yes, absolutely. I didn't mean that as a knock. I'm just saying I wish we had I wish we'd have five at every school, you know, kind of thing.
SPEAKER_04But I'm sure Sarge does too, you know, just uh help out. He does less he more overseas, you know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So you know, I'm mainly at the high the last few years. I've been mainly at the high school, you know. We've had other SROs in place, Officer Lane's kind of taking that role over at the junior high. Yeah. And really we just kind of focus on the areas of where we can be the most impactful where our time is. But we do float around. We will go to the middle school, we'll go to Southeast, Lee Hunter, Wing, the kindergarten, the alt school. So, you know, we're gonna bounce around, but at the same time, we kind of focus certain times of the day, and we work with the administration, we work with central office to kind of see where the needs are pushed to and then where we're gonna branch out from from there. So because we still have a job to take care of all the schools. And at the same time, we still look into St. Francis. We'll help out with St. Francis and we'll even go and help the Christian Academy when they call.
SPEAKER_00So I did not realize that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. They're they're not as it's not as much of a high demand just because of enrollment, but you know, they still see us over there and we we bounce around like that. So Okay.
SPEAKER_00That's that's terrific. I I did not realize that you guys do that. And I think that's I'm sure it's a need that at all schools need for sure, with with students and all the different things. So tell us you've been with the department
Their Paths Into Policing
SPEAKER_00a while. Nathan Les, uh kind of how tell us all about your backgrounds, if you don't mind. Oh or what you can tell. I don't want you to have to kill us right one of those things, right?
SPEAKER_02No, I I'm a transplant. I've been I've been uh in law enforcement since 2013 and went to the academy at SEMO in 2012 when I got out of college. The reason I'm here is because I met a Sykston woman. And you know, their roots run deep here, so they always come back home. Um so I've been with DPS since 2014.
SPEAKER_00Oh and was this your first job right out of the academy then?
SPEAKER_02No, I actually worked down at Numadrid City for about a year and a half. Okay. And then came up here. I promoted to sergeant in 2020. Congratulations. And then in 2022, I took over as the school resource officer.
SPEAKER_00Aren't you like public relations communications?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so I do that as well. So I so uh I wear many hats, not only within the school resource realm, but within DPS as well. For a while there, you know, I was a field training officer, been a street supervisor as a sergeant, worked in the fire division, and then at most recently with the SRO, the public information officer, and then I've served time with our Homeland Security Response team, which is like our technical rescue. Okay. And then one of the other many things is I do our honor guard as well. So just a few of the hats. You know, you got anything going on? I mean You know, it's it's summertime and it's it's catch-up time on paperwork, but at the same time helping the helping the street guys out, but also making sure we're if we need to check in on some kids, we're checking in on kids.
SPEAKER_00So give us your story if you uh I started been doing this about five years, June of 21 is when I started. Okay.
SPEAKER_04I come from I grew up in Parma, a little town back south. Okay. Went to school at Bernie High School, uh K through 12, a little small school. Yeah honestly nothing compared to what we have here.
SPEAKER_00I randomly, I think we may be playing Bernie this year. Again. Really? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I think Coach told me that. If I'm wrong, don't send me a bunch of emails or whatever. But I I think Coach maybe he's talking about playing him. How about that?
SPEAKER_04See, I mean, when we were in school, that was always that was always a big thing. Hey, you know, because you want to get better. But uh, like I said, I went to Bernie, got out, started uh working, you know, just working, trying to make a little bit of money. Sure. Wanted to go highway patrol, but it just didn't work out. Okay. You know. Got offered a minority scholarship, applied for CMO football team minority scholarship. I got that back in 21. Congrats. I appreciate it. That's what propelled me forward.
SPEAKER_00That's awesome.
SPEAKER_04Got that, went up to SEMO Academy, did a couple YouTube videos, you know, kind of their poster child, I guess you could say. It was uh it was a good time, you know. I met a good lot of good people and uh Coach Tuke, I assume, and stuff like that. Oh, he amazing. Like I said, he put me on the spot a lot, and I definitely was not ready for it. But he was a great, he was a great guy, great guy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, awesome, awesome. So and then so you've been with DPS right out of the academy then? Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_04So right out of the academy, I've been with him, like I said, five years. Started out patrol level. You know, that's where we always start out. I worked patrol, what, a year, year and a half, maybe?
SPEAKER_02Almost two, maybe.
SPEAKER_04And I I actually got lucky because I applied for to be an SRO, and here I am. Yeah, it normally doesn't happen like that, so it's just a blessing.
SPEAKER_00Well, I can say both of you guys are a blessing to our school. I can tell you. I'm being on the school board. I I see a lot of the things that you do, obviously in the basketball games. You guys are there. Uh DPS does a great job. I feel like the school and DPS has a great they just communicate well, have a great working relationship. I know Chief and Shannon and now Andy. Yep. They they talk all the time, and there's lots of things that that we do, and you guys are very supportive of being able to graduation that's a big deal. Yes, sir, yeah. Yes, sir. With being there and and the officers being there. First day of school. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. There's m even more officers are involved at at all the schools and welcoming the kids back and all that. That's that's a big deal for us to and and and you guys are both parents, you know it's a big deal for your kids to be safe at school. Yes, sir. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna take us back a little bit. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_02So did y'all always want to be law enforcement, like growing up or you know, growing up, my grandpa worked for DOC for 20-something years. He retired as a captain, and I kind of saw that, and you know, he's always giving me a hard time. He's like, Man, you should go be a highway patrolman. Because that's what everybody always thinks. The height of law enforcement is hot highway patrol. And I was like, No, that's not what I wanted. I just wanted to get a job where I wasn't in office all the time. Little did I learn I'm in an office probably a lot more than what I thought. But it was just something that always got me in the community doing stuff like that. I wasn't always out there in the community as a kid, but just it's something that appealed to me. So I went to I went to college. I got my bachelor's in criminology and just found the easiest degree I could that was kind of close to law enforcement. You know, I graduated and here I am. But you know, I look back at school resource. I went to private school in St. Louis.
SPEAKER_00He's a dismet kid, by the way. So by the way. What's a basketball coach? Kent Stevens. That's it. They've kind of had a had a mutual hatred for Viani kind of thing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and and you know, going to a private school, we didn't have a school resource officer, but my brother went to public school, and honestly, I don't think he would have graduated if it wasn't for the the SRO there. So I've kind of taken a lot of that and the graces that that SRO did for my brother and kind of turned it into my own kind of mantra and my own the way I want to run, want to run my day and how I want to project myself as an SRO. Right. So that's kind of what got me into this, and that's why I really do enjoy what I'm doing every day.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So did you have similar aspirations as a young child or honestly?
SPEAKER_04I wanted to be, like I said, Howie Patrol, but at the same time, like it's really cool to you know to be a teacher, teach, you know, teach the people coming up, help them grow, learn right from wrong, teach them, you know. And then I got with my wife now, Brittany, and all the kids she has. We have seven kids together.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_04You know. So, like I said, we have a few of them. And it's just I I enjoy, I genuinely enjoy knowing that I made a difference in that kid's life. So if I can be a police officer and I can be a teacher, why not be an SRO? You know, I do both.
SPEAKER_00That's great. So and and by the way, Nason is on our street, he's one of our neighbors. And I listen, I love having him on the end. We got a retired highway patrol in the middle. I got a highway patrol two doors down. Let's go.
SPEAKER_04I appreciate it. Bring it.
SPEAKER_00Come on.
SPEAKER_04My kids love it. Like I said, they learn how to we moved here and they instantly learn how to ride bikes that week. So that's amazing.
SPEAKER_00Well, this road is kind of made for that. Yes, sir. We we talked about that. You know, you're not probably coming here unless you got a reason to be here. It's not a through street.
SPEAKER_03You know, I used to live on Sharp, which is a dead end street. And I I love the app I you know kids going up and down the streets. So I I got to know all of them. You of course I mean a lot of kids know me anyway. Right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You know, you don't want to be the hey, you kids get off my lawn kind of thing. I don't want to be that guy, but I'll I've I'll I'm with you. I love hearing the kids laughing and riding their bike.
SPEAKER_03Reminds me of when I was a kid.
SPEAKER_00Right. Right. That's what I think only difference between me and them is the block wasn't a limit for me.
SPEAKER_03You know what I mean? Oh yeah. I grew up in Charles and I was all over town.
SPEAKER_04You see kids, you see the bikes out in the grass, you know, they run in your in and out of your house, can have a popsuit, have a water. It's fine. I have a garage. Go ahead and grab it. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Love that. I love that. That's exactly that's what I think of a neighborhood. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And I'm your kids. I love it. I love it. Certainly not, but I'm sure there's some mischief going on. They're gonna be kids, right? You want Yes, sir. You want to a degree you want some of that. You want them to be kids and enjoy and act silly and whatever. So when you guys when people hear score resource officer, is there something that most people and maybe we touched on it just a hair earlier, do they tell us are there things that people think, oh, you're just there just to kind of be a jerk and kind of keep kids in line kind of thing? Do you get that a lot, or do people do they really understand what you're doing? I I think I don't mean you be a jerk, I'm just saying like in general.
SPEAKER_02No, with I think with social media and I think That's one of the other things we want to talk about too. But with social media and with different municipalities, different school districts imposing that you know we need to have more school resource officers doing. I think it's created a better light for us. I still get the joke of you know, the younger kids, they're like, Are you a real cop? You know. Not that I'm you know, not that I it's Halloween every day for me, but but you kind of also get this idea of these kids get used to seeing you every day. They see you and they're like, Well, what do you do when we're not in school? Well, I still gotta I still have to go do my job. I still have to to go work the street. I I you know, I don't just I don't just live here at the school and I wake up every morning and lock the doors, you know. Right. But I think we do kind of get almost like the kid cop. You get that c sort of kid cop persona or you know, label. But that's not all we do. I mean, we we still enforce the the laws just as much. We just have to do it on a smaller scale with with juveniles, with with you know, school age kids. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Are there well tell us about how social media kind of changed things for you guys? Is that in general to me it there seems to be it seems to be bad. I mean, there's some good with it, don't get me wrong. This will be on social media. I want people to hear it, you know, for you to talk about that, but how does that how does that play a role into all that?
SPEAKER_02You know, I'm not a big even though I do our public information stuff, I'm not a big social media guy. I don't I don't do all that. I don't I don't post a lot on Facebook on my own personal one. I don't I don't have Instagram, I don't record my own TikToks or anything like that, you know. But I do see I have friends that are SROs in other states and stuff, and they they really eat it up and it really pushes that out there. But I think it's helped, but at the same time, to kind of the parents and the and the students that might be listening, is that social media has really become a platform for people just to throw it out there and stuff gets out there so fast, and it's not always some of it's fictional and some some of it's factual. But I think that's really what's hindered a lot of a lot of the youth is that they can get their answers right away. And that social media is an instant gratification. And you know, growing up We didn't have that. I think Facebook started when I was in high school.
SPEAKER_03Also, because y'all are part of that first generation that really or the last generation that had some time where you didn't have Yes, sir. Like we didn't have it at all. Yeah, we're cognizant.
Social Media In The School Hallway
SPEAKER_02We're that middle generation where we we grew up still playing outside, but yeah, we still had I had dialogue.
SPEAKER_03We still had well we had you lived in Parma, you still got dialogue.
SPEAKER_02I remember when we got DSL. Like that was like the greatest thing ever. How could it get any faster than this? Yeah. Oh yeah. But we still, you know, we were still outside, but we were the inside kids, so we're that first generational gap, and we still had the teachers that said you won't have a calculator in your pocket. And you know, but I think with No, we have a computer in a kind of hit on the All we gotta do is type it in now and not just social media, but technology at your fingertips. Yeah. And I think it it's it's created a different style of learning, a different style of generation.
SPEAKER_03I mean, like I've had kids tell me that they don't need school, they got all the information they need to know. I mean, like, literally, that's I mean, like they're fourth, fifth grade and they think they know everything because of it. And and you know, you internet's a great thing. Yes, you do have information at your how do you know what's true? Right, right. I mean, so so I mean, like, how do you how do you Now you're really going down a rabbit hole?
SPEAKER_04That's what LGBT comes in at.
SPEAKER_03Right. Yeah, but I mean that's that's what I try to say. Like, that's what teachers and stuff are becoming is is to teach kids what is good information, you know.
SPEAKER_04But they they don't like also when it comes to uh go ahead.
SPEAKER_03Pull it just a little bit. Not bad. No, it's all good.
SPEAKER_04Also, when it comes to social media, though, a lot of things that, like you said, the SROs do, they push that stuff out there. That also shows we are human, we're just like you, you know, we like to have a good time, we like to, you know, have fun. Yeah, uh, that's something that like I said, I know we have some things we have to accomplish, but that's something that I we've talked about, like we'd like to do, you know, like it back to school or into school, you know. They do videos like that all the time, and some social media does help.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah. Has it changed like the way I know it's changed the way policing's done in general. Has it changed the way that school SROs deal with things? Does it call like problems?
SPEAKER_02I I think with the new bill, the House bill that Governor Kehoe signed in on the use of electronic communication devices, I definitely saw a different change in our students.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you're talking about the banning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02We saw a change in this last year. You know, this was our first year, and I felt like it was very productive. Yes.
SPEAKER_00We we we have from the board level, all that we've gotten. At first, we really let me back up the perspective that we I'm glad that the legislature did that because we were talking about that anyway. Because if you we did it one year at alt school, if you recall a year before. Exactly. Exactly. And so that kind of took a little heat off us, so to speak, is like, well, it's a law now, we have to do it, right? And I've heard a we thought we might get a lot of pushback from parents. Actually, it's the opposite. I think they're pretty happy that's good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And uh, you know, there's a time and place for for technology, and you know, with the way the world is nowadays, these kids need to learn how to use the technology. And actually they're teaching us every day too about it because there's some things I still don't know about some of these apps and stuff. Right. But, you know, it allowed them to be students, it allowed them to be children, to have conversation, to take take time away from the tech, and I think
Phone Limits And Digital Footprints
SPEAKER_02us as adults learned it as well. So I think it was good all the way around.
SPEAKER_03Awesome. Awesome. Because I mean I know at one time y'all were getting quite a bit of like referrals on things being passed around on like social media.
SPEAKER_02Yes, so that's always another rabbit that's another rabbit hole you can go down on Snapchat. I mean, honestly. Uh oh yeah, you know, i if people think because it's on Snapchat, you can't find it or get it. We can still we can still find it, we can get it. And these kids put everything out there.
SPEAKER_04And we've done it, we've we've did it time and time again, but yet they still don't believe it.
SPEAKER_00No, I I I I t I would tell kids I've around kids, you know, basketball practice or whatever, and just kids kind of in general. And you know, even even back in in my day, which was a lot longer than you guys, but people would still find out that we were having a party outside of town or we were doing this. Well, excuse me, they were having a party. I was never there, I was never involved. I was on my way to church. I never was involved in those things. I just heard about them. But now they literally like take pictures and post it. And I'm thinking, if I see it, who would everyone else see it? Everybody sees it.
SPEAKER_03I think I think I think one of the things that I would probably I learned early on, like working in social work, once something's communicated, it's always communicated. And I wish more kids understood that. Yeah, I wish more people understood that. Yeah. You can't take it back if you've communicated.
SPEAKER_00Not at that point. No. If it's out there, it's you can you can go get it.
SPEAKER_02You're you guys are absolutely right. So that that's another thing that we we kind of also, as part of that mentorship and and things within the SRO world, is kind of giving knowledge to these kids about this stuff that what you do and what you put out there can also hinder you in the in the in the future. I remember I remember when I went did my application and I came in and they were they wanted to look at my social media and they said, Keelan, and I said, here, let me log you in.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_02I was just gonna I didn't they didn't even need to do the deep dive. I mean, I was just gonna log in my own thing. You can go look at you can go look through my own personal profile. I mean, because if I didn't want it out there about me, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that.
SPEAKER_00But not everybody prescribes to that though, or subscribes to that sort of like you said, they just put it out there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But I think nowadays with the way social media and the media and just technology is, I think as officers, the more transparent we are, especially as SROs and and kind of that goes to the climate of the community, is the more transparent I am about who I am, I think goes a long way sometimes. Showing that humanity, the human humanizing the badge is kind of what they call it. Correct.
SPEAKER_00Or do you guys in general get support from parents or how how can parents help more? Does that does it vary from kid to kid, but in general, do you have support?
SPEAKER_04I'd say we have more support than not, would you because it's hit and miss.
SPEAKER_00I guess if their kids in trouble, then certainly they don't want the SROs around, right? I I get that.
SPEAKER_02That that's kind of that's kind of another thing within our role is we're not disciplinarians. Right. Okay. So we're not there, we're not the ones handing out referrals, ISS detention. Now if a law is broken, if a criminal act occurs, that's when we're involved.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_02But at the same time, we work with the administration, we work with the juvenile office to always find a way to to make things work. You know, and if a parent needs help, they're more they they call, they'll call and and you know, I'm not gonna if your kid doesn't want to come to school, it's not it's not me that's gonna come drag them out of bed. You know, maybe I maybe I can come by and kind of talk to them about, hey, if you don't go to school, this is what can happen. You you're you're now breaking the law at that point. Right. But it's more that mentorship and being that person they can lean on when they're having problems to come to us. That way maybe we're a trusted adult outside of that parent and then we can work through something. Because I don't want them to be afraid of us, because if they are in a dire situation or they really need help, or you know, I don't want them to run away from us. I want them to actually come to us and ask for help. So right.
SPEAKER_00So it it like each school, do they have their own set of issues? Like is the high school pr quite a bit different from junior high, from middle school, alt school, so to speak? How how what does that look like in general? When I say problems, I don't mean problems in a set of circumstances. How about that?
SPEAKER_02You kind of have a like a like a what um a pyramid? Yeah, almost a pyramid kind of or like a what is the bell bell-shaped curve? Oh, bell curve. A bell curve. You know, you have the same problems at all the schools with just basic defiance, disobedience, but as you get into the higher grades, you have kind of more severity that comes with it. So as they get older, you know, two kindergartners fighting is not the same as two seniors fighting. In kind of the way I look at it, that aspect. And you also what what I've learned is puberty, maturity levels, hormones really start to fluctuate as they get older. About junior high. Junior high.
SPEAKER_04So junior high, junior.
SPEAKER_02And it's not to single out any different school or any anyone else.
SPEAKER_00I think that's just that's just the truth stage of life they're in.
SPEAKER_02So if like I've told these kids, if you're having a problem with somebody and you don't feel comfortable going to the administration or the counselor, that's what we're here for. You come talk to me and we can talk through this so I can keep you from breaking the law and then me having to step in and and really take some enforcement action.
SPEAKER_03You know, a lot of times when I talk to kids about authority, you know, I I say I say you can use authority for your advantage, you know, and and being what do you mean by that? What do I mean by that? How do I how do I use authority? Yeah. So like if you use if you're obedient to authority, so like obedience is doing what I'm told, what I'm told with the right attitude. So if you follow all three parts of that, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's just use this, let's say a teacher is abusing their authority in a classroom. The only way to deal with that teacher is somebody with equal or more authority. So if I get up and I throw a fit in that classroom, I give away all my ability to go to somebody with more authority or equal authority to deal with a problem. Makes sense, yeah. Yes, sir. So I mean like so like obedience actually is freeing. And the fact that, you know, when you're obedient, your world gets bigger because people trust you. When you're disobedient, like any part of that is missing. So like if you hold out any part of that, doing what I'm told, when I'm told, with the right attitude, if you that partial partial obedience is still disobedience. So you're you're going to not be able to use the power of somebody else in that. That's interesting.
SPEAKER_00That's that's your deep thoughts by my God.
SPEAKER_04I think uh I think even with that though, with junior high, it's not it's not the single junior high out, but you know, we we I talked to other SROs, like this week was SRO conference, and when I was up there talking to them last year, junior high was, you know, one that you have to focus on because like you said, the hormones, yeah, people wanted to want to stick their chests out more than the other guy, my girlfriend, your boyfriend.
SPEAKER_03It's across the board, it's not just here. Well, no, no, no. There's a brain development thing there, too. I mean, like, I'm not well.
SPEAKER_04But then once you hit freshmen, sophomore, hey, we don't even hear from half of them, you know. Is that right? It changes.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's good. And you know, when we deal with kids sometimes on their worst day. Yeah, they may have never even dealt with an officer, or you know, we have to we have to investigate something, and we're talking with them. And and what I always try to instill in them is that don't let this one single moment define you. Yeah. Yeah. Because I might and I and I've used this even as a young officer and an officer on the street is that I'm not going to judge somebody based on maybe their past crimes. I'm going to judge you, I'm going to give you that respect level of how you know we are today, how you treat me today, the respect level, the respect I show you, the respect I get back, and then how we move forward from here. Are you going to, you know, take the consequences for your actions, accept them, and try to do better? And if you can continue to do better, I'm going to do everything I can to keep you on that right path.
SPEAKER_03So just kind of along the same lines, this is how I I talk to kids about this is I think your life is a book. In a book, you have a word. You have sentences, you have paragraphs, paragraphs turn to pages, pages turn to chapters, you know. So is this event going to be a chapter, a word, or sentence, or the whole book?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I might just use that one.
SPEAKER_00I I I think I mentioned it on here. Somebody told me this a couple of weeks. Oh, it was it was D. I think it was D Bizzle that told me this. Success isn't final and fail and failure isn't fatal. No. You've you've made a mistake. Yeah. Correct. Okay. Correct. Let's move on. Let's move on. It doesn't have to be the whole page.
SPEAKER_03It don't have to be a chapter. Don't it? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It don't even have to be a paragraph.
SPEAKER_03It could be a sentence or it could be a word. You know what I mean? It's your choice.
SPEAKER_02So to circle back to how we how parents, how can we work with parents is I don't tell parents I'm not I'm not there to take all the kids to jail. I'm not there to just throw everybody in handcuffs. My goal is to make sure these kids graduate, whether they're starting at that kindergarten level, they're or they're a senior. Because that high school diploma means a lot more, I think, than than maybe a GED or a high set or something. Yeah. And that nothing against those. There's some kids that do better. But it once you come to come to our school, I want to see you gradu, I want to see you succeed and graduate and then start working on where do we go from here? Because when I was in school, it was everybody goes to college. Yeah. You go to college, you got to go to college. Well, I've honestly started pushing kids towards trade schools in the military.
SPEAKER_04Because we need those.
SPEAKER_00We need those bad big time because they're running dry. I listen, I Mike and I have talked about this. My dad will be gone two years actually this month, but my dad was in the military, he was in Vietnam, as Micah's dad was, but my dad owned an H V A C business. And I remember him telling me when I was probably I was in college, so I was 18, 19, 20, somewhere around in there, and he said, you know, I'm glad you're in college. You know, your mom and I want you to go, want your brother and sister to go. And he
Mentorship Graduation And Trade Paths
SPEAKER_00said, There's going to come a point at some time that the people that are doing the work, which we would call a trade, this is not not looking down on anybody at all. Matter of fact, it's the opposite. The people that go try to find a bricklayer. See if you can find one. Go see and and find in if you own an HVAC business, trying to find somebody that can work for you that has the technical skills to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Or any other well, man, the welding program here, those kids can make six figures right out of the shoot.
SPEAKER_04We've had some guys graduate and actually was it go.
SPEAKER_02They go straight to the pipeline. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Right. Yeah. And the working everything, yeah, making money. Big time money.
SPEAKER_03And and I agree with you there. We said a guy last week that had created a whole niche and got a skill of moving houses.
SPEAKER_00You know what I mean? Yeah. Jamie, Jamie Johnson, yeah. He's his do you know Jamie with one of the coaches? He's a he's a principal expert. He's the head principal at the high school, and he he's with Michael Miner on the Squirrels. We had M1 and his family and seen it. They move houses.
SPEAKER_03But they just I'm all about getting skills. Yes.
SPEAKER_00That's a skill.
SPEAKER_02So be whatever you can do and get a skill. So sometimes it's us finding that problem that we're having and directing it more towards how do you get through the next four years? How do you get through the next two years at junior high to get to get to the area where you want to start going? Because sometimes it takes somebody with a little bit of that authority to kind of drive them along. And and you know, if I can if I can humanize the badge and decrease the stigma of cops, however you want to put it, especially in today's climate, that that's what I'm here to do is to not only hold myself in a professional standard but you know hold our department in a in a in a professional standard while working with it's really I don't even do nothing he still gets one of me it's really just holding Yeah I said he was being a jerk I said that earlier I knew it would come out it's it's holding everybody accountable and them as students it's just holding them as accountable as a student. You know enjoy these four years that you have and stop and stop stressing so much.
SPEAKER_03So enjoy it and sometimes this should be the last time you're in your life where you really don't have a job that you got to get up to go to school other than get up and go to school.
SPEAKER_02And I think that's where we find the success in is who it clicks for and we see them we go on to graduate and and do bigger and better things.
SPEAKER_03You know how many kids I've got through eighth ninth grade just by talking to them about S C T Cm.
SPEAKER_04Because they look forward to it that's hands on they look forward to it.
SPEAKER_03I'm like you got two more years of hard work you know and and and not saying that S E T C is not hard but it's something you're going to enjoy a little bit more. You know and so many kids buy into that too.
SPEAKER_00Yes we've talked about that on here we think SCTC is kind of a hidden gym in our district with a lot of the with the sending students what I mean by that is there are a lot of schools in the area that don't have a career in tech school East Prairie when Jamie talked about that they send their kids here. Bernie sends their kids here. You got Bloomfield Richland yeah there's there's a whole stuff right that send their kids here for the graphic arts with uh Mr. Henson or the welding or with Andy auto auto body culinary construction.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00You know all of the EMT and stuff firefighters and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_02That's exactly right. It's it's creating and and it's something that we can help incentivize to yeah.
SPEAKER_00So because they can come out of there most of those they're some sort of they're they have they get a certification in some in the trade of what they're in.
SPEAKER_02Even the CNA class right you can come out of right around away as a CNA and you can start working. Right work your way in and be a f get your phlebotomy certification too right it's incredible.
SPEAKER_00Yeah so I believe that's what my wife did was went through uh the SETC I believe awesome awesome we're don't tell her you don't know that may have been before his time that was before my time so the school and I'm gonna change up just a little bit the school we've taken a little bit unfortunately we had to take a back up schools in general have had to take a different approach to kind of safety for our kids. We've now we've gotten the weapons detectors are not metal detectors so to speak we have weapons detectors kind of how how's that been what's your you're on the front lines every day how is that going? I don't hear again we thought there might be a ton of pushback from from parents but it was kind of the opposite that we've gotten what do you guys see?
SPEAKER_02It's it's become the norm. You know they're in place and that's something that the district makes a decision and obviously we sit we sit in on you know the safety meetings and everything like that and you know people think that we're there just to deter everything and what we're there is as the students come through and you know staff runs it we're there in case there is an emergency. Just like at the ball games and you know moving to the clear backpacks. It's something you're seeing across the nation and it's not to say that we need to join the nation but at the same time every little an ounce of prevention you know reduces a pound of you know a pound of what is that ounce of prevention is better than a pound of um dang it Tyler I know well anyway we know what we're talking about. So there's several pound of cure pound of cure. There's several other things you know that we've worked with the district on I remember me and another SRO had gone to a conference and they came back with Raptor. We heard about Raptor so we sat in on it with some of my some of my bosses and everything like that and it found out how it linked into
Safety Tools From Detectors To Raptor
SPEAKER_02our 911 system. Yep. So through Rapid SOS so that was something so we're always bouncing well you know that's under that's under good hand. You know Andy Caton runs that right when Andy was on here he talked about that's that's just how the the relationship goes is we kind of bounce we get we bounce things back and forth you know Officer Lane's doing great things with Jody Gladwell and trying to trying to find grants for safety and security measures and everything.
SPEAKER_00So what what's the we've talked about that again on here what is that called where she gets some funding from like outside that's that's grant they're grant grant funding right I know but there's a specific one the cops grant yeah there's cops but there's another one literally like you go and I'm gonna simplify it probably you go to a website and you say hey we're a small school in rural southeast Missouri and we need X and then people from all over the country like give money to it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah what the heck is that oh shoot I can't think of the name of it. It's like corporation funding grant.
SPEAKER_00Exactly a lot of that is there's some of that.
SPEAKER_03Like like somebody in New York City maybe like say I want it but they specifically want to help.
SPEAKER_02It's kind of come to the point though where you know when we find these grants they're looking at us like hey what are safety measures you know you guys are kind of you guys are the police how can we work together what what would best benefit you and the school and right it it's become a great partnership. So and it it really attests to what Chief McMillan you know Andy McGill and previously Shana Hollifield were doing together with their partnership and cooperation.
SPEAKER_00So I know we've added some fencing at the high school you know that's a that's pretty well almost closed in now isn't it almost close. Yeah yeah we've added some fencing I know for that and then at at the lot of the other schools well especially the new schools there's a the safety vestibules and everything like that. Choke point so to speak you've got that there and we've added some to some of the other schools as well middle school high school even has that at the or you got to be buzzed in to so they know who's coming in, coming and going.
SPEAKER_02Just a visitor management system and you know that's another thing to tell parents is you know safety is always in the forefront of ours. It's not necessarily sniffing out all the crime and everything but it's the safety.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_02It's making sure people that are on the campuses are supposed to be there. Correct. And if they're not we're showing up. Yep. And we're figuring out who they are and what why they're there. I think that that takes up a lot of our time and you know if anything is going on the community we're a direct line of communication to admin to making sure the schools are safe at the same time. If you know DPS is dealing with something in the community we're we're available to kind of share what information we can but also keep everybody else at ease that knowing that we're gonna be there. So when I tell parents and they say well we don't have one at every school we get there but we can get we can get there we're we're not we're we're not a big town. Right.
SPEAKER_00But that's why you move too I mean like we move around too and that way people probably know you're gonna be administration probably knows but sometimes you again we're not there to try to catch people but you don't want to sometimes you come unsurprise or unannounced so to speak so that oh SRO's here now.
SPEAKER_02And y'all actually have access to like a lot of video too don't can't like the people have some of the video capabilities now through our training and through the SRO stuff that's that's kind of where we're we're in we're privy to that and stuff.
SPEAKER_00But that's not where we're sitting there just backfeeding while I mean like standing there looking at monitors all day.
SPEAKER_03But if you've seen something going on or somebody said something you could look and see.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah we can look into stuff um that's definitely and that that that also works hand in hand with us in the administration because if if something's going on their school and it's brought to my attention I'm I'm also going to bring that to the administration's attention as well. Just the same thing as if they're told something they're gonna loop us. But there's a whole line of of things going on around to provide safety to the school. 100% and you know we our guys that are working the street you know they're constantly popping in and out and you know they're always more than welcome that's one thing we always stress is oh yeah is knowing where they're at and I think that's you'll see it at the ball games I was just I'm just getting ready to say DPS is always very gosh what word I want to use very visible.
SPEAKER_00Thank you that's a word I was going to say scene very visible at football games basketball games not just you guys but your your your your officers that are in town and graduation there not just even DPS there's a lot of times New Madrid County's there and some of the other towns send a couple of officers with them.
SPEAKER_02I know the highway patrol comes in some I know Grant comes by sometimes I know last year we went to Jackson y'all was I mean I'm sure y'all do this with all the time with basketball but like we were there eating y'all stayed the whole entire time until they got right there with you yep oh you're talking about at McDonald's McDonald's yeah I I don't play by my school so there was a you know as I guess it wouldn't be an incident but there was some silliness going as things as things kind of change you know and and times change you know we'll always be here in town yeah we will always be here and you know I think that's half the reason I really kind of pushed me into the SROs because I was always going to the sporting events you know even before I was well your your in-laws are like we are not every one of them as well you know once once you're once you're from Sykes and you're always from Sykeston and it's been awesome to go to those games and now see it from another side so we want to show a different light that you know we can have just as much fun as everybody else while still doing our job at the same time.
SPEAKER_00Right right so what what does this look like we were talking about this before what what does summer look like? Obviously we're not in school at the moment and you know the I I'll I've always said July 4th is kind of like in the the middle of summer man now we're on the downhill slide of school starting after this weekend. Kind of what does that look like for you guys?
SPEAKER_04When it comes to the summer that's uh I guess you say that's that's my time to get out there and actually help the streets actually do stuff that I still enjoy.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04That's we're busy like I'm talking even this summer these past few months have been go go go go go you know I've enjoyed it we answer calls we I still do touch base with like you said a couple of our students we maybe had problems with toward the end of the year making sure their home life is good things like that. Oh wow we still do try and touch base with them but I guess the biggest and then if we have calls involving juveniles we do still try and go because the officer might show up they won't talk to the officer like they do nine times out of ten we probably know who they are exactly already dealt with them.
SPEAKER_02But you know summer's a little slower we're there to help the street guys out so being a being a supervisor if supervisor has vacation or takes off or it's gonna show yeah you know or if they have to go to court or something I can step in and I can I can fill that role so they're not having to call somebody in we can go handle calls. Right now I'm working on a few projects and stuff like that. Still keeping up with my BIO stuff
Summer Work And Juvenile Calls
SPEAKER_02schedule I scheduled a whole department wide active shooter training that you know we're gonna we're gonna do at one of the schools. So that's kind of been one of my big jugs I think there did you guys schedule something at Wing about I don't know a month ago because Aaron she woke up one morning she goes why are all they all over wing and I'm like I don't know there was something I think there were actually as it turned out they were showing some new officers like some of the schools yeah they were that's so so we're we're we're getting stuff like that done you know July 4th you know day has the summer camp we'll go show we'll take care of some of those special details and then we're seeing our kids that we've you know they're like hey I know you yeah you you go to my school right so that's my twin you know working working special details like that you know I got a chance the other night with with Officer Fobbs you know we got to ride the bikes down there at the 250 celebration down in town um July 4th coming up this weekend you know that's an extra opportunity that we can work a special detail and then we know summer's over when rodeo hits. I just get ready to say it gets real yeah will you guys be working rodeo this year so as part of at being SRLs and that's that's our main baby we work rodeo every year.
SPEAKER_03So so we kind of talked about what you do in the summer what are some things that the community could do to help prepare y'all going into the next school year for y'all like to help to help with y'all like is you know maybe hear from parents or you know kind of have that I don't want to say have that part have a partnership with us let your student know that if they are having a problem and they don't feel comfortable going to administration they can always come to us with that problem.
SPEAKER_02And and that could be sort of any sort of problem because we have resources within the mental health field yeah within children's division within the juvenile office or you're talking about CIT yeah we have you know Officer Lane here's gone to several youth CIT trainings so he's he's pretty versed up in that you know we work well with the YBHL which is the youth behavioral health health Rita not Rita but uh what her name is Charlie we had Charlie on yeah oh yeah so working with Charlie but and then if but you know have them understand that you know when they're at school administration is is in charge and and they really just need to have respect for that. Yeah I think a lot of times there's differing opinions on stuff and people start buttonheads. But if they are having that problem come to us.
SPEAKER_03Yeah and I I do think kids a lot of times need to I I I get bullying is an
How Parents Can Partner With SROs
SPEAKER_03issue. But in a lot of ways I think sometimes talking to somebody like y'all can help them learn to I say I don't want to say deflect but like try try to be assertive against somebody like that. You know using you know statements of like so you care about what I look like now?
SPEAKER_04I mean like that's the thing the kids nowadays aren't like they were you know aren't like us back then you know I mean they a lot of things do get taken to heart and ready to go you know but you're right you're right.
SPEAKER_03I mean like and I think that's I think y'all probably do that those things. I mean like you know just pull them to the side you know I get they communicated that to you it hurts but you know what they don't know how to deal with it is when you're assertive with them. They expect you to do one of two things they expect you to fire back at them or they expect you to cry. Whichever one they they I tell people you got a chain on you and you know when you pull that chain on Woody it says a couple things. It's like I snake in my boot. You know kid bullies everybody has a chain and the bully will pull it because it knows it's going you're gonna react in one of two ways. Around a group of people wanting to show off in front of groups and and and and if you got to teach kids to be assertive in the fact of like put it back on them. Like man you sure do pay a lot of attention to me. Why are you thinking about me all the time? Living rent free in your head yeah I'm just like that's I mean that's what we did as kids. I mean like people bullied us.
SPEAKER_02I mean like oh yeah it's a little different but I mean it's I mean it's the same it's the same but understand that that we're here to help. Right. And and that's all I need need the parents to know is that we're here to help. And if I can't if I can't help in a certain way I can sure find a way to get the help yeah get the resources that you need. So as schools being prepared talk to your kids about like you know if you have a problem you can talk to SRO you know nobody's ever going to deny them the ability to talk to to the officer. I've never I've never had that issue and I always leave that door open. My door is always open.
SPEAKER_00Do you get a chance I know you talk to them one-on-one so to speak in the hall or at lunch or whatever but do you guys do do you ever get to address like the kids like a group of them at times or no?
SPEAKER_02So I've you don't know about this but uh oh here we go breaking news I've been I mean I've been uh I have an office at Wing Wing's really been taking care of me you know elementary they really eat that stuff up oh yeah so you know it's pajama day things like that so one day they was eating at it eating in cafeteria you know it's a big deal to them they're just having fun eating well they were quiet teachers shh shh you gotta be quiet I went on put my bun uh my Batman onesie you know with the wings and everything I just took flight through uh through cafeteria the kids ate that up the teachers were looking at me like I was crazy the rest of the day I bet they did that's that's something that I do really enjoy you know because that that also shows them hey we're human yeah I in the past I've done a few things with uh Felicia Anderson and Lincoln University extension I've done some things that there's been some things in the past that have kind of changed over time was like they used to have freshman day that was like when they did the orientation you're talking about when the juniors and seniors took ACT sophomores took practice freshman day now the freshmen take the practice ACT so things have been changed around but I used to go in we used to go in and talk to the all the freshmen so things have changed over the years you know at the same time the school's got to get so many hours in every year so you kind of got to pick and choose a little bit and do you guys talk to Andy's class at all? So we do it to we do a tour with them every year and any group that you know needs a tour at headquarters I've done it for the Christian academy I usually end up doing those it comes to me I guess PIO SRO you know right uh but that's the time for me to talk to us talk to the kids about hey let's be making good decisions thinking about our bodies if we're having a problem who do we need to come to so every now and then I get a chance and you know if a teacher invites us into a classroom I'll go in there you know every year the seniors English classes they tie ties. Oh Miss Mikey's invited me in I got to go into with Ms. Hodgkiss's this year. So started doing small things like that where we can fit in every now and then and then we obviously work with junior high if they have like some sort of presentations we've done a few in the past I know last year we had DEA brought in their school segment to the junior high last year talk to the kids about just DEA things you know things you know I I didn't get to make it to that one but that was something I I got the DEA guy and Miss Wrestle with so that they were able to put that on for those students. So yeah do they still do a DARE program or no no dare unfortunately that hurts yeah though that's a rabbit hole you know you know that's a rabbit that's a whole they you could waste a whole nother episode on that not waste I said you you could talk all about you could spend a whole episode on that about the benefits of it and not have yeah I got you do you are there are there instances of like do you guys each have like a story like man this really no names don't give me names of kids or whatever but like man that this one situation like was good or as funny or something like that.
SPEAKER_00Do you got any any specific stories that you can tell that have really stuck with you over the years?
SPEAKER_02I don't know if you remember I think it might have been when Luke graduated I think it might have been his senior year. 23 his senior year but we had Officer Franklin attached to us uh with the SROs we had him and Sergeant Worsham because their summer schedule changed in the winter and they were putting the schools to help us out and he found a Grinch costume. And he literally went around to all the schools he was outside the kindergarten he was outside the elementary schools and man we chased him around for hours you know I mean just hours and the kids were eating it up and some loved it and you know you just had all that going back and forth but the they had the winter sports assembly that after that right it's the I think it's the last thing before break, isn't it? Yeah or that afternoon they had the winter sports assembly and we had worked with I can't remember if it was red peppers or if it was with the cheer team they did a routine they had some presents out front and we were pilot testing some new tasers and they had inert tasers so they had velcro things but it didn't actually send a shock so I was like all right you go steal a package in the middle of the routine. Oh my gosh that's hilarious.
SPEAKER_00And then I chased him down with that and I tased him and it popped and made the noise and he fell down out of sight and the kids legitimately thought that Franklin had been tased and you know I that one really sticks with me you know just hilarious anytime that I you know any organization asks me to
Stories That Show The Human Side
SPEAKER_00do something probably bite my tongue here but I'm sure my wife will be asking you know some more honeydews here saying and for those that aren't aware his wife Miss Andy she is going to be an assistant cheer coach this year with varsity. Yes. And so I bet they've already started haven't they?
SPEAKER_03Yes a little bit they're on deadweek right now. Okay. I think they they do a lot of camps some a couple or at least one camp in the summer don't they?
SPEAKER_02Uh they've Choreo Camp I think is what it's called. I'll probably gonna get tore up but they've been going twice a week and then I thought so dead week and then they'll hit the ground running for competition and sideline.
SPEAKER_00So they're they have two they have a s what a competition which is the ones that go for state state titles. Right and then the sideline is those plus some of the ones that didn't that didn't want to be in the competition so to speak. Yes.
SPEAKER_02And they're on the football field, basketball court, that kind of thing wrestling all of that yes yeah awesome so awesome yeah so she's getting ready to have her hands full yes on top of you know her her regular duties and all that and then everything else we got going on with your kids uh oh yeah so I mean once what I guess once they say once a bulldog always a bulldog I guess that's right nason nason's got seven he's like you guys that's nothing it sounds like easy peasy to you right Nason it it really does it really does you got these stories like that that that you share you like to share?
SPEAKER_04No off the top of my head at the moment I guess I can't I'm not I can't top his so that's a pretty good story.
SPEAKER_02Yeah it was I agree I I agree. It's hard to do that your first year and then try to like top that one.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that was your first year? That was my first year in the world. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's a that's a pretty that's a that's a pretty good one. Where when you look back and you guys have been here at different different times, are there like some specific accomplishments that you guys like, man, we we did that, we're really proud of that stuff. Anything that comes to the comes to mind, like less fights or you know, no arrest, or maybe not even nothing bad, but like we help this kid get through or something like that.
SPEAKER_02And I don't want to put you on the spot. I think changing the climate of who we are as officers, I think we've done a really good job of agreed. You know, these kids see me outside of even the parents, you know, they look at you kind of funny and you smile and you say hello, and then they're they it finally clicks and oh when they don't see you in uniform when you're not in uniform.
SPEAKER_04When the kid runs up to you hugging you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and their parents are kind of looking at you funny, and you're like, uh they're like, this is the officer at my school, you know, and then it finally I think having that ability for them to understand and see us, it's it's nice. And then watching them grow up and become successful. So I've you know, this I just finished my fourth year. Fourth No. Yeah, my fourth graduating class. So I've watched these freshmen come all the way up. Or no, this will be my the freshmen that when I started, they'll be seniors this year. So it's been nice to watch them, you know, how they're how they progress and how what they've been like when they were freshmen to where they are at seniors now. So I think that's the lasting impact we want to keep leaving.
SPEAKER_00That's why I was that was kind of leads me to my next question. When somebody looks back at you guys in 20 years, yeah. What do you what do you want them to say that about you guys? That or what's your legacy you hope that you're it starting to leave?
SPEAKER_02I don't I don't want them to say I was their favorite, but I I want them you know that hey, I remember that guy because you know he was there every day. He I don't necessarily have a smile on my face, but I was there and I showed up.
SPEAKER_04I showed up and we change how they view cops.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that change our change change the view and maybe maybe encourage them to to kind of move on and move up. So awesome, awesome.
SPEAKER_00Well, we're I just happen to look.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00Tyler, Tyler over there is fidgeting in his seat before.
SPEAKER_04I actually hadn't even looked. I looked.
SPEAKER_00He goes, And my watch died, so that's probably something.
SPEAKER_04Hey, he's enjoying it. I mean he's hey. That's right.
SPEAKER_00He he texted me before and he goes, How long do you think we'll be done? I'm like, uh, it's usually an hour or so. All right, soccer game's coming on. Yeah, we're 57 minutes. I know, I know it goes just like that.
SPEAKER_03That's why I said you we try to we've looked up in mid two hours.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. If if if you want to, if you if you're driving, go listen to Blake DeWittz. We're like two and a half hours, and I'm like, Blake, come on, man. He's like, I got another two or three hours. I'm like, we'll come back.
SPEAKER_01I had to go, I had to go to work.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, my guy had to go back to work. So we we still owe a part two with Blake. He said, I can still talk about fishing and hunting for another couple of hours.
SPEAKER_03When are you scheduled and let me take the day off?
Legacy And What Kids Remember
SPEAKER_03Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_00That's right, that's right. So we'll move on to our lightning round real quick. This is for each of you. Favorite part of being an SRO? Showing up every day. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Nathan, just talking out, hang talking and hanging out with the kids. Love that. Love that.
SPEAKER_00Favorite sports team.
SPEAKER_02Well, obviously team USA soccer right now, but any time any St. Louis team. So Okay.
SPEAKER_04I don't really have one. That's what I was gonna say, but I didn't want to sound cheesy, you know? Because I do enjoy Sykes and Bulldog basketball. This guy's telling me to calm down all the time.
SPEAKER_00Hey, you won't hear me say that. There you he could probably tell me to calm down. I get it, Nathan. I'm with you. Yes, sir. I'm with you. I'm with you. Coffee or energy drinks? Coffee.
SPEAKER_04Neither.
SPEAKER_00Oh, really? Yeah, neither. He's young. He'll he'll hey. I didn't start drinking coffee till late in life. I'm a coffee, I'm a fiend.
SPEAKER_04I drink a Red Bull here and there, but not often.
SPEAKER_00Gotcha. Gotcha. Your favorite local restaurant. Give a shout out. Kirby's okay.
SPEAKER_04Diamonds.
SPEAKER_00Love it. We just ate there the other night.
SPEAKER_04Ate there today for lunch.
SPEAKER_00I haven't been to Kirby's. I need to get up there and dinner in a minute.
SPEAKER_02Can't go wrong with a Kirby bird. No, no questions. I eat there way too often.
SPEAKER_00Somebody called where was I the other night? And they were talking about that. Somebody called it red Kirby's. That was that was like the like the old who in the heck was calling it that. I have to go back in my mind.
Lightning Round Favorites And Advice
SPEAKER_00Hidden either of you got a hidden talent.
SPEAKER_02So back in high school and in college, I was an avid disc golfer.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00Nice. There are no disc golfers or disc golf courses in this area now that I know of. Kate? Scott City, Kate. Oh, is it really? I okay. I stand corrected. I did not know. So I bet you can just sling a frisbee then.
SPEAKER_02I at one point I was about 550 feet.
SPEAKER_00Oh. What?
SPEAKER_02Did you ever play at like Jefferson Barracks? Oh, yeah. I grew up playing up in Jefferson Barracks. 2008 I qualified for Am Nationals, but due to things going on, I didn't go.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_02That was just from playing local tournaments and stuff. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_04That's a big deal. I can't top that. I mean, I can just do a few things on motorcycle. That's it. Oh, really? Yeah, I enjoy motorcycle riding. So that's it.
SPEAKER_00Like street bikes or street bikes. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Wheelies, things like that.
SPEAKER_00Do you do you have a bike?
SPEAKER_04I used to. I'm actually working toward getting another one. My wife has a house. Now it's my turn.
SPEAKER_03So are you like a Harley, a crotch rocket?
SPEAKER_04It was a crotch rocket because used to race, but now it's more or less a Harley because I started disrespecting my crotch rocket.
SPEAKER_00Or Honda or whatever. Honda's a funny one.
SPEAKER_04No, I need a Harley. I need a Harley.
SPEAKER_00See, now my next door neighbor, Bobby, he has he has a Harley. And he he gives me a hard time because I told him I'd like to get a can am like a spider. And he goes, Oh, you want a tricycle. And I'm like, or scooter. Oh, you want a scooter? I'm like, what? I want to be safe.
SPEAKER_03He's like you don't want you don't want oil all over your driveway.
SPEAKER_04I've been down three times. So have you laid them down three times? Oh my god. And rebuild one of them.
SPEAKER_00Oh my gosh. Well, Nathan, maybe I'll have I don't know. We're doing some stuff in the backyard right now. There goes my Harley. You know, you can get a Harley trike now. I don't want a trike. Can't do a trike. See, but see, the ones I'm talking about, two in the front, not two in the back. You know what I'm saying? Like at Tyler. I don't know. I'm I I get it. You guys that ride are hardcore, man. I get it. I get it. I I I appreciate that. If you weren't law enforcement, what would you guys be doing? Oh god. Professional soccer player?
SPEAKER_02No. No, I gave that up halfway through high school. Honestly, I'd probably be an engineer or a teacher. Might come from a line of engineers, but probably probably an engineer or teacher.
SPEAKER_04Cool. I'd be uh a lineman.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Okay. Like electric electricity. Yes, or like a lineman. Journeyman lineman? Okay. Okay. All right. What's the best advice you've ever received?
SPEAKER_02I think the best advice was to only worry about yourself. Because if you're constantly worrying about what other people are thinking, then you're causing yourself to worry more. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Uh you control anyone can tell you something. You you always control how you react. Um, you control how you react. Another thing is I think I have on my email, your badge gives you the authority, but your character gives you the respect. You know, that's that's a big one.
SPEAKER_03I love that. People don't understand that though. Authority is in the robe.
SPEAKER_00That's not the person, so to speak, it's the position. Right. Yeah. Oh man, I love that, Mason. That's great. The I think the quote, I think you're talking about the first one. I think that's attributable. I think it's Abraham Lincoln. He said, can't control and maybe I maybe I saw it somewhere, but so essentially you can't control what's said to you, but you can control your reaction.
SPEAKER_04Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_00What you give them. Yeah, yeah. I that's a great one. I love that too. Last one, got Tyler's over the itch, and he's probably they probably already started. One word that describes Sykston.
SPEAKER_02When you sent this to me, the first thing that came to my mind was passionate, but that falls into tradition. Oh, I love that. Yeah. You know, love it. This this town has a passion for a lot of different things. And then the tradition that comes with it because there's so many old things that we still do. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So and I I have to agree with that. Like there's I'm not from Sykeston, but just seeing how things go over here in Sykes has made me want to to start bearing roots. You know, like I've already started bearing roots. I want my kids to go here. I want, you know, my two boys to move from Sykeson to I mean from Mauden to Sykeston. Yeah. You know, it's it's really it's really good.
SPEAKER_00Awesome. Well, we want them here too. We want them here too. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Last one before we get out of here. Give us give us three people we need to get on the show. You don't have to do three each. Or give us two if you can. Or one, I guess. Well, hey, Michael, we'll take one. Have you uh have you had Ryan Mitchell on here yet?
SPEAKER_02I have not. No, but I'm sure he would be a good one to get on before football. Yeah. He well, just anything sports, yeah, Sykeston history, yeah, his path in life. Yeah, because he was I trained him at the department. Yeah. So and he's uh special education at Lee Hunter.
SPEAKER_00Right. No, but I mean, doesn't he um does he take photographs too? He's got photographs.
SPEAKER_03I did I didn't realize the other day, but like if you go on the roads over on Maine, North Maine, those pictures in there evidently he took because this is a true like.
SPEAKER_02Well he's also got uh and then he used to do stuff for SEMO Ball.
SPEAKER_00Really? I did not know that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, okay, awesome.
SPEAKER_00He's a loyal listener, too. He is a very loyal listener. Yeah, I know he wasn't. Because he he gave me grief because we had Chris Lambert on. Do you guys know Chris? Yeah, Chris is gonna be an he's an engineer, yeah, but he's gonna be an assistant football coach this year, volunteer assistant. And he was like, Chris Chris graduated with me. Chris and I have been friends for years, and we're like, man, are you the only one on on staff that graduate from Sexton? And then I was like, oh crap.
Guest Recommendations And Fieldhouse Talk
SPEAKER_00Well, Jacob Pride's helping out now, but then Ryan goes, What about me on Facebook? And I'm like, crap.
unknownSorry, Ryan.
SPEAKER_00You may have stopped listening to that.
SPEAKER_03I haven't seen him in a while. I usually run into him.
SPEAKER_00I know, I haven't seen Ryan in a minute they're probably heavy football.
SPEAKER_04You know everybody, so I'm just listening.
SPEAKER_00They don't have to be from here. No, no. I mean, I had last week when we had Jamie on, Jamie played baseball at Murray State, and for the longest time we couldn't remember the guy's name. His name was Dave Winder. Dave was like a sports guy on WPSD out of Paducah. And we were trying to think of his name, and then Tyler Anderson. Do you guys know Tyler? Man, I'm so you probably know Tyler. Anyway, he's like, his name, he texted me today. He was listening to it, and he said it's Dave Winder. He goes, I can get him on the show for you. Or uh maybe you can get him on the show. And I'm like, heck yeah. So anyway, but that's good. If you think about something later, shoot me a text or call me or stop by. We'll love to. We we love getting recommendations, you know, and talking to people. Yeah, we need to get Ryan on here for football season, too, don't we?
SPEAKER_03We need to get him and he might be a good one to do a pre-season output.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I'll tell you a funny little quick snippet about the field house. You know, the field house is huge. Coming from a school in St. Louis, gyms are tiny. You know what I mean? Charles Michael, the wrestling coach, head down. I don't know if you saw his flyer for this guy named Brian Jackson.
SPEAKER_00I did see that.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so Brian Jackson is a dismet alum. Okay. But when I was in high school, I wrestled AAU freestyle for him. I did freestyle training with him. So it was like a weird blast from the past. So I had a few old dismet things. He had his boys with him. So I gave him I gave him an old singlet that I had stolen from the locker room, you know, back in 2000.
SPEAKER_00Statue of limitations is gone now, Tyler. It's all good.
SPEAKER_02So, you know, I introduced myself to him and, you know, we were kind of reminiscing. Well, his boys, one had wrestled at Mizzou his last year of college, the other one's at a small school, but he went to northern Illinois when his they were state champions and stuff. They walked out the field house from the wrestling room. They walked in on the basketball court and they were like college win. Yeah, they were like, this is the one the ones at an NAI school right now, and he's like, This is this is bigger than our college gym. What? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I we told the story last week, but you remember we played Hayti at home this year. Yeah. And before the game, a c I remember who it was, if it was some of the other kids, maybe I can't maybe it was some of the administrators that were on duty that night. I cannot remember who told me, but they said a couple of there was three or four of the Hayti kids walking around before the game, and they're like, My gosh, this is like a like a college gym. They couldn't believe it. Yeah. Actually, we're talking we were talking about that with uh Mr. Sherman.
SPEAKER_02Um I can't remember if it was Father Tolkien or Gateway or whatever when they came down, and their coaches walked in, we're just like Well, Father Tolkien, I think their coach actually tries to come down and recover.
SPEAKER_03They wanted to come play.
SPEAKER_02They try to bring it up. But it might have been one of his assistants or something, but it was it's always fun to be kind of like the first one out front and not being from here though, but to tell you know the the legacy that is and how people's reaction because the first time I walked into a gym down here, and I was kind of like, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_04I definitely was the same. Like it's it's crazy. Like it's it's a beautiful gym. Yeah, especially the remodel, it's beautiful.
SPEAKER_00We're very proud of it. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And Mr. Sherman, if you guys haven't listened, do you know Mr. Sherman? You know what I'm talking about? We had him on a couple weeks ago. Just what what a fine gentleman?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he he was. He talked about elephants, he talked about elephants being in there.
SPEAKER_00Circus in there with elephants, and I'm like, Mr. Sherman. You're joking, right? No, no, wow. Yeah. He said they had a circus in there with elephants, and I said, How'd they get in? And we started talking. We think on those doors, you know, those big overhead doors that come through over by the wrestling room. Yeah. I think they came in there. So that's incredible. Yeah, yeah. The the floor was different at that time.
SPEAKER_02Well, also right before we did it, we had those BMX guys for church came in there and had put up ramps and we're doing backflips underneath the scoreboard.
SPEAKER_04What?
SPEAKER_02They were when was this? Oh, two, two, three years ago. Yeah. Like, I remember that. It was before the before the court was ready. Right before the court. It was the it was so that's why they let them do it in there because the court was coming up anyway. Oh, yeah. I remember that summer. Oh, they had two half pipes, a thing in the middle, and they were flipping BMX bikes around there where they had scaffold things jumping up and down. They jumped over a bunch of us laying on the ground. He's a bike rider. You can fire up the oh, you weren't in there. I wasn't invited. So I mean, they were coming up close to the underneath the scoreboard and stuff, yeah. What? I I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I wish I would have seen that. I was gonna say you could have we could charge audition for a lot.
SPEAKER_03There's a lot of famous things that went on in that's for sure.
SPEAKER_00That's for sure. That's for sure. Well, guys, we appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you for taking away or taking time away from your families. I know that's uh that's a big deal. Nathan has a long trek to get back home, about 500 yards to the north all the way across town for me.
SPEAKER_02So you know, I gotta go through a whole another county, Zipco.
SPEAKER_04I drove, I drove here. He looked at me like I was crazy. He said it's too hot. You know, it's too hot. That's what Luke said.
SPEAKER_00Luke goes, did Nathan just walk down? I'm like, no, I ain't parked out there. He was like, Oh, I thought he might walk. You know, I probably hit traffic, but that's okay. Well, rush hour's over. It's it's seven o'clock now. We're all good.
SPEAKER_03Well, I'm I probably got the feathers to go.
SPEAKER_00That is true. He lives out in many farms. Okay.
SPEAKER_03You got me beat.
SPEAKER_00Well, anyway, we we do seriously, we appreciate you guys taking your time to come down and and talk to us. And and and we love your perspective. We are very glad and we're very blessed that you guys help our are with our students, with our schools, and we're we're blessed that you're a part of us now, part of our town, part of our community. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. And and we couldn't be prouder that to call you guys friends and neighbors as well.
SPEAKER_02So glad to have the opportunity to to do what we get to do. Yeah. Honestly, we appreciate what you do.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, for sure. For sure. I know you know it's kind of like we always say about policemen, they don't pull you over and go, hey, you did a great job driving. You know, they that's a great job. So every everybody likes to understand that they're they're appreciated. And so that's uh
Thanks To The Officers And Closing
SPEAKER_00besides a lot of things that we do, we we Mike and I like to make sure that we tell people they're appreciated, especially in the positions that sometimes don't get it as much as they need to. I really appreciate that. Thank you. Absolutely. Thanks for thanks for thanking us.
SPEAKER_03Absolutely. We've been talking about it for a while.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, it's just it's been we we've just won those things, you know.
SPEAKER_03We we we we've had a few people when we asked three, y'all were y'all were pretty pretty high up on the list a couple times.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely, absolutely, they sure were. They sure were.
SPEAKER_03I think Scott, Ezo, and and both.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_03Oh, cool. Yeah, I sure did.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, sure did.
SPEAKER_04I appreciate you having us. I really enjoyed it. I'm I'm more relaxed than I thought I would be.
SPEAKER_00So well, good. Good. We would we don't want you to be tension. We didn't go down that list like that's right, like an inquisition or uh or an interview or something.
SPEAKER_02So sound confident, and that's right.
SPEAKER_00Even if even if you don't know, sound confident and it sounds great. That's right. They can't fact check us. That's right. It's our own opinion. Okay. That's right. That's right. I'll just hear about it later. Yeah, you will. That's right. That's right. That's right. Guys, we appreciate your time, and we'll we're gonna we're gonna get off here and and let Mr. Rao out. Well, I'll probably watch two. I'll probably go back and forth between that and the Cardinal game. So watch watch Go USA. Yeah. Let's get the dub tonight and move on. All right. I'm Micah Harris. I'm Matt Tanner, and we finish all of our podcasts with Go Dogs, right? Yes. All right. Go Dogs, go to the fly. That's gonna do it for this episode of the Dog House. Thanks for hanging with us and showing love to Sykston, where small town pride runs deep and bulldog grit never quits. Don't forget to subscribe, leave us a review, and share this with anyone who bleeds red and black. From the heart of the 573, this has been the doghouse, where Sykston stories always have a home.
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