It's a Kid's World

This Kid has no Filter!!

Travis Thomas Season 2 Episode 10

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In this entertaining episode of we talk to A.D., a kindergartener with refreshingly candid observations about school, food, family, and his dreams of becoming a scientist. A.D. shares his unfiltered opinions on everything from the mysteriously cold cafeteria food; to his fascination with dinosaurs and space, and more. You don't want to miss this!!!

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Welcome to another episode of It's the Kids The World Podcast. I'm here with one of our kindergartners. Tell us, what's your name?

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Arius.

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Arius, but what you go by though? What everybody calls you?

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A D.

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A.D. AD, tell us about yourself.

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So, so I drink a lot of juice and I eat a lot of food.

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Yeah.

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And when I make at home, I my sister always be mean and beat me up.

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No, she can't be beating you up. What kind of juice you like? You say you like juice?

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Yeah.

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What kind of juice you like?

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Gatorade.

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Gatorade?

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Yeah.

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Who's giving you Gatorade?

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Uh my uncle.

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Your uncle gave you Gatorade? Okay. So you're a kindergartner this year. You're about to get ready to go to the first grade soon. How do you feel about kindergarten so far? Like, what are some things you like about kindergarten and what's some things you don't like?

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I like we we uh we always get to do stuff fun. But I don't like recess is 20 seconds long.

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20 seconds or 20 minutes.

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20 seconds.

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It's not no 20 seconds, man. It's 20 minutes, AD. Why you think it's 20 seconds?

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Cause it every time I make it out there, we we go back inside.

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Because you only got a certain amount of time to be outside, man. You can't be out there forever. Why don't why don't you think uh you can't be outside forever? Don't you think you gotta come inside? You're not why not? Why you shaking your head no?

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Cause sometime It's on, it's on.

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Stop hitting the mic. It's on, man.

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Oh.

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Why why why recess too short?

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Cause every time we try to learn, somebody gotta say something.

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During recess time?

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No. During when we learn.

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When y'all learn.

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Yeah.

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Do you what people be distracting or interrupting class?

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Yeah, they make they make me look the wrong way.

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Can't nobody make you do nothing, man. You control your own actions.

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I control my own actions.

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Yeah. Yeah. You control your own actions, man. How do they make you do stuff?

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Well, well, I don't do it. I will not do it for them.

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You won't do it for them?

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No, I will not.

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Good. We don't want you to do it for them. Like you said, it's good to control your own actions and be able to do what you want to do, right? And not listen to people. How do you feel about the school? Like, do you like the school since you've been here?

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I like, I like it. Well, not the food.

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What about the food, man?

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Sometimes it be cold and nasty, and it smells like the mysterious sloppy Joe we be having in kindergarten.

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Uh-huh.

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And sometimes Miss Miss Brown be be nice to us. Sometimes she don't.

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You talking about your teacher?

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Yeah.

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So the food. The food don't be cold, man. Why are you up here telling these people the food be cold?

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I don't be telling them that.

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So who you just told me that? Why you feel like the food be cold? You don't ever say nothing about the food. I've never heard you complain about the food before.

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Sometimes I I complain about food.

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When the last time you had something good at lunch?

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The pizza and the cookies.

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The pizza and the cookies. That was like what? That was like last week? I think it was last week y'all had pizza. So what do you eat at home? What do you eat at home?

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The same thing every day.

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The same thing every which is what?

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Pancakes on the stick.

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You don't eat that every day.

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Uh-huh.

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You like it?

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Yeah.

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Maybe you need to bring that to school since you want to complain about the food all the time. Bring your pancakes on the stick to school then.

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Okay. I'm gonna bring my whole refrigerator.

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You can't bring your whole refrigerator. Is that possible? How?

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My mama can uh think bring uh a pickup truck and put the refrigerator in the back of the truck and and bring it in.

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Jesus Christ.

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See?

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You know what? That's a great idea, but why would you want to bring your refrigerator to school, man? It's too much work. Tell somebody that you feel like the food is cold, man.

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Well, I can make my own food.

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You can't cook.

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Yes, I can.

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Favorite thing to cook? Go.

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Uh, pancakes on the sticky.

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Bruh, here you go on this pancakes on the sticky. And what else?

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And breakfast food.

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What's your favorite breakfast food?

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Uh rice and cereal and eggs with the milk. I mean, not with the milk.

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I like pancakes, bacon, and eggs. Okay. Why are you whispering?

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Okay.

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Stop whispering.

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Okay.

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A D, what is wrong with you, man? Somebody write about you. What's your what's your favorite?

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Barbecue chicken alert.

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Huh?

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What'd you just say? Barbecue chicken alert.

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Barbecue chicken alert? Who are you talking about, somebody? No. What what wait, what's that? Uh what's barbecue chicken alert?

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It's a type of dessert. It's really, really good.

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But why you just start pointing and saying it? What made you say that, though? Okay. Alright, alright.

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Barbecue chicken alert.

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Hey D, stop saying barbecue chicken alert. What's your favorite? So what's your favorite thing to learn in school? Is it math? Is it reading? Like, what's your favorite thing to learn?

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Science.

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Science. Okay, why you like science?

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Cause because I love space and diagnose origin. Okay, you got mythical creatures.

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Mm-hmm. And mythical creatures. What's your favorite? What's your favorite mythical creature or favorite dinosaur?

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Fart dragon.

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Mm-hmm.

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A fart dragon.

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I heard you.

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And and my favorite dinosaur is the Mosasaurus.

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Okay, look at you. So what got you into dinosaurs? Who who started having dinosaurs and you was like, ooh, that's pretty cool.

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Oh, it was like this one time I watched uh Jurassic Park. And and I love the dinosaurs. So since I love the dinosaurs, I I wanted to become a scientist.

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That's pretty dope. I like that. You should do that. We need more black scientists. So most definitely. I like that. Jurassic Park. You like Jurassic Park movies?

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Yeah.

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Me too. I haven't seen it in a long time though. When the last time you watched Jurassic Park?

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Oh, I think it was like it was two years ago when I was just four years old and I was in my dad's house. Yeah. I watched the kid Jurassic Park.

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Okay. Is you talking about The Land Before Time?

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Yeah.

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What you know about The Land Before Time? They came out when I was little. Yeah. You know that, uh huh. They came out when I was little. That's my generation's Jurassic Park. Who got you watching that? Your mama? Oh, you know, you say your dad, right?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I was at my dad's house and he told me all about it.

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Nice. We're glad to see that you're into science and you got a love for it. So when you grow up and you become a scientist, don't forget about me. Cause I'll be an old man by the time you become a scientist. You wanna give me some money? You'll give me some money? How much you'll give me if I ask for something.

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Since you're my principal, I'm probably gonna give you like my million.

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You'll give me a million dollars, AD? Come on, man. I gotta shake your hand on that. That's what I'm talking about. You're gonna you're gonna retire me. That's what's up, man. I appreciate that, AD. So I got, all right, I got one more question for you before you go back to class. So when when you was walking down the hall, Miss Brown said something happened at your sister's house, or somebody by some hair or something? What happened? Tell the story.

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See, uh, she, so she went to my my mama friend's house. My mama, my mama friend's house. House is so filthy. Filthy and dirty and and disgusting.

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Why you say that?

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They got a rat as barbecue chicken on my barbecue chicken on my dude.

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What is wrong with you?

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No, I'm for real.

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I know you for real, man. I'm crying, man.

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No, that that rouse was deadly. That house was so deadly, the smell was tasted, I mean, smelled like doodle, chicken, breast, pea.

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Stop. I gotta get you out of here, dude.

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I know you're trying to trying to hold your laugh in.

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Hey, bruh. Um I gotta get hold up, don't you say another word, dude? Don't say nothing else. Hold on, man. Oh my God. Did you tell your mama you felt this way about these people's house? And what your mama say?

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Uh you can't say that.

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Cause you can't, man. You talking about these people. Hey D, I'm gonna have to we're gonna have to have some more conversations, man. I am so glad we had this talk. We're gonna have to have some more, man. So before you leave, is there anything else you wanna say?

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Yeah.

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Say one more thing.

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So I tried to join the army, but they said they they don't use me as a missile.

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Wait, what? Who said they was gonna use her as a missile? Who did?

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The people who who joined the army.

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Okay, that's it. He's talking about the military. AD, we're gonna talk again later. People, this has been a very interesting, funny episode. Um, oh Jesus. Until next time, um, It's a Kids World Podcast.