Conversations with a 2nd Grader

In this episode, I talk to one of my most sawed after students. From my daily, Chronicles of L.B. stories on instagram, we sit down to have a brief chat into the transparent world of such a prospering student. Tune in, it's most worth it.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:16

Welcome to another episode of It's a Kids World Podcast. Today is November 13th. It's what's today? Wednesday? Wednesday, we are like a week and a half away from going on Thanksgiving break, and I am here with one of my um second grade students. Hey, you got any plans for Thanksgiving? What you doing for Thanksgiving?

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Going to my uncle's house.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

Your uncle be cooking? What's your favorite thing that your uncle cooked?

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Turkey leg and this it.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

What you know about turkey legs?

SPEAKER_01 0:55

It's good.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

It good. So before we started recording, you were starting to tell me about Veterans Day. Now, what were you saying about Veterans Day?

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Do you celebrate, do you celebrate Veteran Day?

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Um, I mean, I I I wasn't in the military, but I know people and I got friends that are in the military.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

I don't know, but as soon as he got out, he died.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

A couple days later.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

He d he died a couple days later after he got out of the military.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Wait, no, I don't know how he died. I know he was in the military.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Uh he was older. Oh. Were you close with him? Yeah, but no, I wasn't in the military, but I do know people that were. Do you uh did your people tell you stories about him being in the military or stuff like that?

SPEAKER_01 1:46

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:47

What do you remember that they told you?

SPEAKER_01 1:48

He told me when he was in the military, he he they used to have to wake up real air early. And they used to have stuff, they used to have to run.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

I almost uh joined the Navy. Like the Navy are the people that um most of the time they they be like on the ships and stuff. So, but I can't swim.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

You can't swim.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

I can't swim, man.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

I can.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

You can swim.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Yeah, it's easy to swim.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

And um when I was when I was like maybe six or seven, like I almost drowned. Cause I because we used to go to like this neighborhood pool, because I used to go to like a summer summer camp, jumped off the diving board, went straight to the bottom. They had to uh they had to come in and get me. A lifeguard had to come in and get me.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

I almost drowned the phone because I did a fun no, I actually jumped in the pool.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

Did you know wait, this before you knew how to swim? Or like after you learned?

SPEAKER_01 2:48

I didn't know how to swim. I took swimming lessons. So when I swim, I jumped in the pool. And it was numbers on the side of the pool. It said three feet, four feet, and five feet. I didn't know what they mean, so I jumped in five feet and I drowned.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Well, you almost drowned. Because if you drown, you're right. If you drown, you wouldn't be here. See, look, we got the same story. Both of us almost drowned. Man, you gotta be careful.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

Yeah, I took swimming lessons.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Okay. Is it any other thing that you learn how to do over time? I know swimming. Like what else? What else you a big fan of?

SPEAKER_01 3:23

Football.

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Alright.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

Favorite team, Kansas City. Player Patrick Mahomes.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Of course. Of course. I ain't got nothing against Patrick Mahomes. I mean, my favorite player retired already, so who? Tom Brady. You don't know who that is, do you? Sad to the man, that's sad. He shook his head, no. Sad. Exactly. The GOAT.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Who else? Got any other favorite football players? Who?

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Tyreek Hill.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

Hill. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Do you play for any teams here in St. Louis? You play for like any poor dog. No. Why you never tell nobody about your game? You don't want nobody to come to your games?

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Kind of not.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Why not?

SPEAKER_01 4:17

We lost the Super Bowl.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

So it don't matter. It's about support.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

We're six to zero. We didn't get to score one point.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

But hey, it's all about the support though. Like you don't want you don't want your teachers or you don't want um me or Miss Price to come. That's messed up, man.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

And then my other team, Jaguars, Cass City, Stillers.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

You like the Jaguars? They not good.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Stillers and Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

That's about it. So one thing um I know we done talked about it a lot because we always, well, I I always like walk you down to like the bus stop, whatever, but we talk about like your is it your papa? Who is it that you work with? Like you do a lot of working outside of.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Not my papa.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

It's not your papa? So who is it then?

SPEAKER_01 5:08

You're like, so it's one of my mama friends.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

And yeah, he taught me, yeah. He taught me when I was one, he taught me, no, when I was one, he gave me this little, he used to buy me all toys, and then when I started growing up, he started teaching me how to wash cars, cut grass, and paint houses.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Oh, okay. So is this something that you like to do more? Like, do you like to paint more? Do you like to cut grass? Like, what's your favorite thing?

SPEAKER_01 5:34

My favorite thing is to break down stuff. We break down stuff and take the copper and metal out.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

That's one of my favorite things to do.

SPEAKER_00 5:43

Is that something you want to like do as you get older? You said no. Why not?

SPEAKER_01 5:48

When I get older, I don't know. When I get older, I'm gonna I'm gonna play football in college and see if can I make the NFL?

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Okay. But this is just my suggestion. I feel like you should still do those things, like with the copper and the metal and the like the painting and all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

You know, only be your own a carpenter.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

Okay, but that's what I'm saying, though. Don't I feel like you shouldn't stop doing those things because you can eventually have your own business one day, or you can learn about it and you have something to fall back on. That should be like, you can still play, but you should also have something else you could you should do too, like a plan B type of thing. Oh no, that's just my advice to you. Because you should still make money doing those things on the side. Just like how you go to school now, you can be doing those things on the side still. You got some money? You don't got no money. Let me hold something. Why not? How much can I borrow? Give me a limit. It's it's almost the holidays.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

Five dollars.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Five dollars? What I'm about, five dollars.

SPEAKER_01 6:58

You got fifteen.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

You only got fifteen. I'll wait till you get fifty. Then I then I'm gonna need about ten. I can't get ten dollars. I'm not good enough for ten dollars. You done came to school with coffee this morning. Why you drinking coffee?

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Cause last night I asked my mom for my car. She said no. I said, she said she'll give me some coffee. Yeah, I got coffee. She just made it this morning.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

What does what does she put in it?

SPEAKER_01 7:25

Sugar and um that um coffee cream.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Man, you don't even know what you're drinking. You just drink it someday. How many times a week do you drink coffee?

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Not that often.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

No, she don't give it to you as much. That's good. You need to stop. Lay off the coffee, man. It's a bad, it's a bad addiction, trust me. I know, because I drink coffee. You need to fall back off the coffee.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

High chocolate?

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Drink, yeah, drink you some hot chocolate. I grew up when I was your age, I was drinking hot chocolate. I wasn't drinking no coffee. My grandma started to let me drink coffee when I was probably like, hmm, maybe high school.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Yeah, no, my mom used to always get coffee and she used addicted off.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

No, well.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Coffee good.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Coffee is good. That's that's the addictive part of it. But you know why coffee is good? It's the sugar and stuff that you add to it. But if you just drank coffee just. See, a lot of people, the healthy way, the healthier way to drink coffee is don't put nothing in it. And it's nasty. It's called drinking it black, that's what it's called. So, um, I can't drink it like that though. That's nasty. How do you feel about school?

SPEAKER_01 8:40

I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

Why you don't like school?

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Because we got to wake up so early and we're sleepy, and one thing I don't like about school, and we don't get to play as much.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

Man, you get recess time and you get elective. You get elective time.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

So why so You can like recess. I don't really like recess.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

What do you what do you like about school? Because I so I appreciate you being honest and saying that you don't like school, but like something gotta change.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

I like art. I like art.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Geo math. And that's it.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

How do you feel about reading? You don't like reading. So tell me why you don't like reading. Because maybe if you tell us why you don't like reading, we can help you.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

I don't really know how to read, and yeah, I don't want to be reading.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

But but that's why you're at school though, to help you. Because guess what? You said you want to play in the NFL, right? You're not if you read. I know. Because if you don't because if you don't don't know how to read your uh contracts, people gonna be stealing your money. If you don't know how to read football plays, then you're not gonna be doing it right. You're gonna be losing games. Or they might not put you on the team because you don't you don't know how to read plays. So you gotta learn how to read, man.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

You know what position I play?

SPEAKER_00 10:00

What?

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Running back. I want to be a QB, but they say I can't. I'm not that good at throwing. I'm more good at running.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

I'm good at catching and running.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

Yeah. But so, but my thing is, in order for you to play football, you gotta learn how to read, man. That's the only thing you don't like about school. The reading part and getting up early.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Man, one thing I don't like is That's all you could think of.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

Exactly. Everything else you like. Okay, well, I know it's your library time. I just wanted to catch you, talk a little bit, chat a little bit about some stuff. Um, but me and you always have. Like there, we always talk about different things, but I just wanted to invite him to the podcast and let him express some of his thoughts and hear some of our conversations that we have on a daily basis anyway. I hope everyone have a blessed day, have a good Thanksgiving. Next episode will probably be early December because we are about to go on break. My goal has been to kind of like put out an episode every other week for people. The podcast is doing good. I surely appreciate all the support that's coming behind it because this is a space for kids to be able to be free from an unbiased perspective and also um a loving perspective because we advocate for our kids. So, thank you everybody, and this has been another episode of It's a Kids World Podcast. Thank you.