AD's Back!!

In this episode of It's a Kid's World Podcast, host Mr. Thomas sits down with A.D., a kindergartener, to discuss his recent experiences with swimming
lessons, upcoming graduation to first grade, and his excitement about an upcoming field trip to the zoo. You don't want to miss them one!!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:16

Welcome to another episode of It's a Kids Roger podcast. It's episode, I want to say like 13, maybe. I don't know, something like that, but it's a gloomy Friday, and we are back at it. Um I'm here with A D. A D, how you feeling this morning?

SPEAKER_01 0:37

I'm feeling absolutely great. I'm glad you're talking about absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

Okay, yeah. Well, I'm I feel great too. I got my cup of coffee. We are counting down days until school is almost over.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Milking cookies for me in the morning. Milking cookies. And yeah, and off of Santa Claus for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

Yeah, so by there you can tell how my morning is going. But how you feeling though?

SPEAKER_01 1:06

I feel uh kind of sick.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

You feel kind of sick. You just said you were good. Which one is it, man?

SPEAKER_01 1:14

It's it's uh the the the coughing or like covet 19 back again for me because I was born in 2019. Like I used like uh like I was I was in love when COVID-19 was there.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Yeah, I know that was a crazy time. Schools were shut down, like people were getting sick. It was it was COVID during the COVID time, man, that was crazy, but I don't think you got empty and streets were empty up.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

It would it was looking so scary. I saw a video of COVID COVID 19. Like it like I was watching it at nightcom. Oh, I I got so scared. I looked outside, I I thought, I thought that were empty treats. I thought COVID 19 was happening again.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

No, we don't want COVID-19 to happen again. I don't think it's COVID, but you said you was feeling a little sick.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

In a in a hundred years.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Okay. Well, I don't know how this this conversation took a turn. But get your hand. God. So yeah. I uh but I was c I was kinda sick a couple of weeks ago. Like I was losing my voice and I was trying to figure out why. I don't think I had COVID or nothing, but yeah, something going around, and it ain't good.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Were you like yelling?

SPEAKER_00 2:44

No, I wasn't yelling. I don't know. 80 youngest, I don't know what happened.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

But um Oh your voice, uh, with your uh they had a sore throat.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

Yeah, it was kinda it was kinda sore. Uh I didn't lose my taste or nothing though, so most definitely wasn't COVID. But I just think it was whatever like bug or allergies or whatever that was going around.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

When I used to uh live live in my uh baby house, I I I was uh like sick.

SPEAKER_02 3:13

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

But my taste buds, but my taste buds were gone. So so I could just taste uh my favorite thing is rice, noodles, pancakes on a stick. Yeah, I ain't noticed.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

I do know this.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

Yeah, I like I couldn't eat my favorite chips. Like, you know, my favorite chips, it's lace, but uh one time I was sick, I I couldn't eat my favorite candy. It was so it was so good. It was it was so good. It it was Skittles.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

It was Skittles?

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Purple bag is my favorite. You you gotta get the purple bag though, man. But the purple bag. That purple bag though, what you know about the purple bag?

SPEAKER_01 3:54

But the purple bag, nice.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

Nice, yes. That's that's the great, that's a great way to put it, AD. So let's talk about this. Alright, so we started something new um a couple of weeks ago with um our kindergartner. So we started to go to um this community center that um is sponsoring the school and allowing them to go swimming. So we've been going swimming for the last couple of weeks. Like the kids have been learning um how to swim, like the basics of learning, because as a black culture, that's something that um a lot of us don't know how to do with your swim. AD, how you been feeling about the swimming um lessons y'all been getting on Thursdays?

SPEAKER_01 4:35

So I feel uh like I feel calm about it, but but but sometimes I I like feel so happy cuz because we get to, we got a swimming pool inside there, a park, we get to do some math. I mean, and color.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

And we get and we get to uh just just enjoy y'all self, huh?

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

So what about swimming have you been liking? Have you been learning things that they've been teaching y'all? Like, is it things that you've been learning?

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Oh, I've been learning about how to swim. I already know how to jump in water.

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

But sometimes I I got I I guess like I'm like I'm scared my like you know those signs who say don't dive.

SPEAKER_02 5:28

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

And see those uh uh black those black people, not not not those uh dark uh Mr. Thomas. You know what I'm talking about, those like people and I'm scared I'm I'm gonna like accidentally trip and and bust my head.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

I mean But you're not though No, but AD that's not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

See, and that's the reason why listen, that's the reason why you guys are learning how to swim. No, I listen, that's the reason why you're learning how to swim, so you don't make those mistakes by falling over or um being afraid of diving because the only thing that y'all are diving off of right now is like the little edge of the water, but once y'all dive, the person that's teaching y'all they're catching you, right?

SPEAKER_01 6:20

Yeah. So but but but but but I'm scared. I'm gonna slip on a banana pill.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

Hey D, you won't be a banana pill by the pool just randomly. This is not the movies, this is not cartoons. Oh god. But yeah, so we uh so that's something that they have been enjoying, and we're gonna keep it up. We're gonna keep it up. So, hey, you're gonna be able to teach somebody else how to swim sooner or later. You think so?

SPEAKER_02 6:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

How did uh you tell your mama how you feel about swimming?

SPEAKER_01 6:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

What'd she say? Do your mom know how to swim?

SPEAKER_01 6:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

She do? Good.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

I was at Uncle Gary's house.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

He he had a pool. And and I was the I was the f like I was the kid who who knows how to uh walk on the deep end, but not the deep end the like little b de head.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Right.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

But we was uh making a whirlpool, I was uh on the side like I was like crawling on the side but I wasn't on the floaty, but the floaty it had flipped over. But but the floaty, I I was uh under the water, but Haley saw me under the water, so I got saved by Haley.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Haley your cousin?

SPEAKER_01 7:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Haley BB. Hayley Barnes. Yeah, I know, it's fourth grade, yeah, I know. I know it was your cousin, though. All y'all related, man. It's a few of y'all around. But that's good though, that you were able to do that. So, um, we're gonna be able to, we're gonna be able to do that too. So tell me, like, we getting almost close to you being in first grade. How you feel about that? How you feel about it? So you ain't gonna be the baby in the building no more.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Like, I'm I'm scared I'm gonna go to a different school.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

Wait, why are you gonna why would you go to a different school?

SPEAKER_01 8:23

You know.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Why would you go to a different school?

SPEAKER_01 8:26

Wait, the Katie graduated in the same school.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

But then he uh went to a different class, but he was in the same school.

SPEAKER_00 8:38

I know. So you go from kindergarten, you're in kindergarten now, right? Then from kindergarten you go to first grade. So you would stay in the same school. What happens is you will go to a different room. And you have a different teacher. So how Ms. Brown is your teacher right now, you're not gonna have Miss Brown no more. You're gonna have a different teacher. How you feel about that? He got his head on the table. A D. How you feel about Miss Brown not being your teacher no more after this year?

SPEAKER_01 9:10

She.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

Don't worry about it, man. He up here acting silly.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

She was uh so fun.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

She was fun. No, but she can't stay with you though. You have to you have to move on and go to a different grade and have a different teacher, but I'm sure they can't they gonna enjoy you. Um I'm more than certain they are. So graduation coming up. Are you excited about graduating?

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Yeah, uh when I was in pre-K, uh I I left the uh the school to go to this school.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

Right.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

But y'all didn't know me that much.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

I didn't know I didn't know you at all, AD. I didn't know you existed, but m very much so I know you now.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Did Hallie uh told you about me?

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Um no. She knew too. She wasn't here last year. I don't think she was here last year. I'm not, I don't remember. It's too many kids for me to remember. Some people come and go, but you're not going nowhere though.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

Why we get to have so much fun?

SPEAKER_00 10:19

Because school not supposed to be, this just my my perspective. School don't supposed to be just doing work. School should be fun too. Now you do come to school to learn, but I feel like your learning experience should be fun. And I'm glad that you think that it's fun.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

But why uh Friday grade? They don't get that much uh field trips like us.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

I don't know, that's between them and their teacher, man. That ain't that ain't my call. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

Our teachers plan the field trip.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

They do plan the field trips. Y'all got a field trip coming up too, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Yeah, it's uh after the weekend.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Where y'all going? Where y'all going?

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Mr. Thomas.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

What?

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Z-O-O.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Which is Zoo. There you go. Y'all going to the zoo. Are you excited about the zoo?

SPEAKER_01 11:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Man, I love going to the zoo. But I tell you this though, I don't like going to the zoo when it's hot.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

I love the zoo when it's hot.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

No. Why do you want to go out there? Hot, sweating, then if you shoot.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

No, no, no. No, when it turns hot time, my uncle's gonna make a video.

SPEAKER_00 11:24

What kind okay. What they got what they gotta do with the zoo though.

SPEAKER_01 11:29

Uh so so one time we we went to the zoo with with uh my my uh with my uncle named Uncle Gary.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Uh uh.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

But but Major, he he was uh like twice the size as me. No, no, no, no, no. The last Christmas, the last, what, the last Christmas, I was the the Christmas when I was not even alive. Major Major was was probably the the age of me.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

Yeah, he was. That's how it worked. It's called evolution, AD. But yes, the Christmas once upon a time before you were dangerous. What is dangerous? What's dangerous?

SPEAKER_01 12:11

About humans.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

No, okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

When the dinosaurs were alive, no.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

Yeah, no, we not we ain't gonna talk about that. So let's go back to the zoo. What's your favorite animal at the zoo? You gotta okay, pick three. I'll let you pick three.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

First, we got the most OG. We called the sea lion.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

The sea lions. Sea lions are cool. I like, okay, sea lions are cool, alright.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Wait, Mr. Thomas.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

Uh give me a second one. Give me a second one.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

And the second one, it's uh the hippos.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

You like the hippos?

SPEAKER_01 12:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Why do you like the hippos?

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Because they can swim and water and and they can uh work on weed.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

Okay. Hippos is a good one. And then give me one more.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

This is the one I don't even I don't even trust the monkeys.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

You don't trust the monkeys? Yeah. I was gonna put them on my on my three. I was I was gonna pick the monkeys, I was gonna pick the lions, and then third, I don't even know. I don't even know what the third one will be. I'll probably say, if you're talking about zoo animals, I'll probably say the sea lions too, because they do the things.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

Those monkeys who really steal people's stuff, but but they but sometimes like the baby monkeys when when people like show them they they may uh fall off a bridge.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Oh, you talk oh you talking about them videos that people be showing. They be traveling and the monkeys be coming and be taking stuff and run off? Yeah, and yeah, I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

But but I saw one video the monkey had fall fall off the bridge and and and the mama monkey, see, she got mad.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

Was it was it a real video or was it like AI stuff?

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Not AI. But I saw a video. It was real AI.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Okay. It was real, not AI, that's what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

I mean, it was AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI. AI together.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

Okay, got it. It goes, yeah, it do go together.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

So it was a video of a guy holding uh uh uh uh umbrella and the monkey had took it and and it had uh uh got off the bridge and started gliding.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

Mmm, interesting.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

That like you're not in a movie, like that would not happen.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

No. It may weigh more, but but you can't get but don't get caught up in the AI stuff. Like AI, like No, no.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

I'm not gonna get caught up in that.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

Okay, yeah, I don't want you to. I want you to make sure you focus on stuff that's real, okay?

unknown 15:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

Yeah, that's what we're gonna focus on stuff that's real.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Mr. Thomas.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

What's up?

SPEAKER_01 15:13

What is that though? It kind of looks like a saboto tiger.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

I think it is. Yeah, those are some pictures that I have on my wall with different quotes on it. It says, You do not lose when you fall. You lose when you do not get back and focus on what you can. So, in other words, it's saying, even if you don't understand something or you don't get it, don't give up. Try it again.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

Mr. Thomas. What's up, AD? But I heard some voice.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

I'll get you back to class.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

But I heard some voices behind your wall.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

Yeah, behind my wall. That's the uh second grade classroom.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

Second grade.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Yep, you're gonna be in second grade one day, but we gotta we got a while ago. So all right, one more thing before you go to um before you go to class. Tell me what you're doing this weekend.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

The same thing.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

T T house.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

TTR.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Still T T house.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

Still TTL.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Go back to school, Zoom.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Go back to school. All right, so we we we to TT House, and that's it. Alright, sounds good. Alright, well, AD, anything else you want to say before we go ahead and close this out?

SPEAKER_01 16:29

No, I'm okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

You okay? All right, y'all talked out. All right, well, thank you once again for another episode of It's a Kids. A D. It's your turn. Well podcast.