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00:18We've got a special guest performance to open the show today.
00:22He is a talented singer-songwriter who was recently named one of the best guitarists in country by Taste of
00:27Country.
00:27Some of his biggest hits to date include Stomp and still a few Cowboys left.
00:32Performing I'll Take You from his album Time, give it up for Ben Gallaher.
01:06I'll take you over anybody any day You'll have sunshine over and your hand in my hand
01:19And then life flows my way I'll take you over anybody any day
01:34I'll take you home all over Storball Down home or downtown
01:41Hunting over the future Some days the other way around
01:56I'll take you over anybody any day You'll have sunshine over and your hand in my hand
02:09Whatever life flows my way I'll take you over anybody any day
02:17I'll take you over anybody any day You'll have sunshine over and your hand in my hand
02:36Whatever life flows my way I'll take you over anybody any day
02:45I'll take you over anybody any day You'll have anybody any day
03:04One more time, y'all, give it up for Ben Gallagher.
03:11Man, congrats, congrats on the album.
03:13It came together during a big year for you, right?
03:16It did, absolutely.
03:17We started recording the Time album when my son River was eight days old.
03:22Great name.
03:23I know, that's what I'm saying.
03:25And we finished when he turned one.
03:27And I feel like people's perspective of time changes based on what stage of life you're in.
03:33Yeah, what chapter.
03:33That's right.
03:34This album covers a lot of those chapters, and it's out on vinyl today.
03:38Yeah, I love your voice.
03:40Even your speaking voice.
03:42Thank you so much, Ben.
03:43Give it up for Ben, y'all.
03:45You can pick up Ben's new album, Time, available wherever you get your music.
03:49We're going to move on to our lead guest.
03:51Listen, I'm going to keep it so chill.
03:54I'm going to be so cool.
03:56Yeah, I'm very excited.
03:59She's an actor, director, producer, philanthropist, mother.
04:03She's cool as hell.
04:05She's just so much more, y'all.
04:07You've seen her suffer a shotgun through the abdomen in Death Becomes Her.
04:10Such a great movie.
04:12Enter basic training in Private Benjamin and get thrown overboard and overboard.
04:16She's been in First Wives Club.
04:18There's so many.
04:19There's so many.
04:19I love her so much.
04:20Her new children's book is called The After School Kindness Group.
04:23Pooch on the Loose.
04:24It's out now wherever you buy your books.
04:26Please welcome Oscar winner and one of my favorite people on planet Earth, Goldie Hawn.
05:05This is like the highlight of my life.
05:07I'm not kidding.
05:08I'm such a fan.
05:10No, you're so much more than even I said.
05:13You're such a great actor.
05:15You're a great singer.
05:16You're hilarious.
05:18Like, you're comedic timing.
05:20You're all the things.
05:22Like, I just, it's, you got, you got all the cards.
05:26You're hot as hell.
05:27There's just all the cards.
05:28You got all the cards.
05:31We've, I feel like we've had your entire family here, but maybe not Wyatt.
05:35I don't think we've had Wyatt here, but your whole family is so talented.
05:37We've had, you're, you're a final one.
05:39I know.
05:39It's so crazy, right?
05:41Yeah.
05:41It is crazy.
05:42I have to admit, you know, you have your children.
05:45You, you raise your children.
05:48You see what they can do.
05:51You see what they want to do.
05:53Wyatt never wanted to be an actor.
05:55He's quiet.
05:56No.
05:56Wyatt wanted to be a hockey player, which is why we moved up to Vancouver, because he needed
06:02his dream, and we're going to support it.
06:03Yeah.
06:04But then he played and he'd think and whatever, but he said an interesting thing.
06:08He got, I'm not going to say kicked off a team.
06:12I could go into a whole thing, because I'm a hockey mom, and I'm going to say that was
06:15all politics.
06:16Yeah.
06:17On the other hand, he came back and he said, Mom, what am I, he was young.
06:21He was about 17, 18.
06:24He said, what am I going to be, I don't, if I'm not a hockey player?
06:29And I thought, oh my God, first of all, you are not your work.
06:33You will never be your work.
06:35That will never be part of your life.
06:37You happen to play an amazing guitar.
06:39You happen to have gone to USC.
06:41You made four great, basically, documentaries.
06:45Amazing.
06:46Yeah.
06:46You actually sing really well.
06:48You write lyrics.
06:48You're learning the piano, and you happen to play hockey.
06:52Yeah.
06:53It's a lesson, isn't it?
06:55It's a lesson, which is how we identify with what it is that we do.
06:58It's scary, though, because you meet a lot of people.
07:00I've actually had this conversation with friends, and I'm like, please don't ever let me be like
07:04that, because I've gone to dinner with people, and it's like their entire identity is what
07:08they do, especially if you're in the spotlight.
07:10And I'm like, oh, that is, it's a fickle industry.
07:13You know what I'm saying?
07:13You never know.
07:14Create your life, and that can be a part of it, but don't put all your eggs in that
07:17basket.
07:17Exactly.
07:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:18It is really the smart way to live in any way.
07:21It's sad to watch people feel like they don't matter, and let, yeah, it was like Celine
07:25Dion in her documentary she put out recently.
07:27She said, I love her fans, because she was saying, like, you know, I'm this tree, and I
07:31give, and I have all these apples, and I give them to the fans, and I'm so excited to give
07:34them to the fans, and she was like, what am I if I don't have that, if I don't have
07:38my
07:38voice?
07:38And her fans said something so cool, and it was like, we don't come for the apples, we
07:42come for the tree.
07:43Oh, honey.
07:43You know, and it was so beautiful, right?
07:45It's so great.
07:46I didn't see it.
07:47I didn't see it.
07:48I love that.
07:48But it is, but I, but it is such a lesson.
07:51Like, even for someone, there's people that are so famous that you love, and they're like,
07:54but sometimes they'll put all the weight in something that's like, oh, you don't understand.
07:57That's not exactly it.
07:59Exactly.
07:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:00Exactly.
08:00And it's sort of like, okay, so living your life for who you are and how you grow as a
08:06human,
08:06Yeah.
08:07And not the perception of, which we love all of you, by the way, like, so much, you can't
08:11believe it.
08:11But we, what we need to know is we matter to our children, we matter to our objectives
08:17to be happy.
08:18We literally look at trying to continue to refine ourselves as humans, right?
08:23I think that's our big job, selling back to the kids.
08:27Yeah, yeah.
08:28The children are, were amazing.
08:31All of them were great kids, but we raised them, raised them, raised them.
08:34Kate was always going to be something.
08:38There was no doubt about it.
08:39She's three years old, and she said, okay, let's take a picture, and she's on her bicycle,
08:42and she goes, hi!
08:45And I went, all right, that's, I know where she's going.
08:48Yeah.
08:48Um, and we'd have parties at three years old and four years old, she'd just ask me if
08:53they wanted a glass of wine.
08:54I knew, I knew who I had, okay?
08:57Yeah.
08:58Why I wanted to be a hockey player.
09:00Oliver literally was just a hockey player.
09:03He was champion, a karate guy.
09:05He was one of the funniest people I know.
09:08And literally, he started working early, oh, he's so funny.
09:11Yeah.
09:12He could walk across this room right now and make me laugh.
09:14Yeah.
09:14He just got that thing, right?
09:16Yeah.
09:16In the meantime, so he started early making TV shows and whatever, and series.
09:21So all of a sudden, and I'm thinking, now, Wyatt comes along, and he wants to be a hockey
09:24player, which is fine, because it actually individuates himself from his family.
09:29Uh-oh.
09:31He turns out to be, I don't know if any of you have seen Broke.
09:36Yeah.
09:37It's on Netflix.
09:38I saw it.
09:39I had no idea.
09:41I cried my eyes out.
09:43He's such a brilliant actor.
09:45Yeah.
09:45I, I, I mean, where did that come from?
09:48And I felt the same way about Katie.
09:50Yeah.
09:51I've seen her work.
09:52She's amazing.
09:52No, it's almost unfair, though.
09:53Your family stole all the gifts.
09:56Like, it's like, it's like nothing for anyone else.
09:59It's like, yeah.
09:59No, he's great, too.
10:01And that's a cool thing, because he and Kurt got to do, in Monarch.
10:03Yeah.
10:04Yeah, they got to work together.
10:05That's so crazy.
10:06But we need to get to some commercials.
10:08We're going to come back, though.
10:08We're so excited.
10:09Oh, we're going to have someone in the audience to help us out.
10:11Hi, Kelly and Goldie.
10:12I'm Ava.
10:14Goldie, you're an inspiration in all the ways you bring mental health awareness to kids.
10:18It's a space I'm active in, too, working with 988 through their response crisis hotline.
10:24One day, I hope to impact as many children as you do.
10:27Stay here.
10:28Kelly has more with Goldie after this.
10:43We are back with Goldie Hawn.
10:47The new kids' book is called The After School Kindness Group, Pooch on the Loose.
10:52You can find it wherever books are sold.
10:54Did you enjoy writing fiction?
10:56Did you enjoy things?
10:56Actually, I didn't write it.
10:57You didn't?
10:58Well, I say I didn't write it.
10:59I collaborated on it.
11:01Oh, yeah.
11:01And, but, you know, I'm not, you know, my nails are too long.
11:05It's just, I mean.
11:07I cannot be bothered.
11:08On the other hand, Lynn Oliver wrote the book as we talked about it.
11:14Okay.
11:14She's amazing, by the way.
11:16She, she, she's so funny.
11:18She was so great.
11:19She got everything.
11:20What we did was is that we took all the things, not lessons, but what we do with MindUp, which
11:27we'll talk about later.
11:28It's a program I created 23 years ago to help children understand their brain and understand
11:34how to use their brain because we don't teach them that.
11:37And they're all different in how they work.
11:39Yeah.
11:39A brain.
11:39And how it works.
11:40Yeah.
11:40So this book is really about experiential areas of learning, experiencing it, not talking
11:47about it, learning compassion, understanding what it is to actually have grit, knowing how
11:54to do a brain break, which is what, what they learn because they're anxious and doing all
11:58kinds of stuff.
11:59And they do a brain break, which is basically how you quiet down.
12:03And we do this in the classroom three times a day.
12:05Yeah.
12:05Uh, and it really changes everything in the classroom.
12:08The point being, this is a fun book.
12:11And I think about my childhood, and I bet you similarly had a similar childhood.
12:17I was free.
12:18I lived on a dead end street.
12:20Yeah.
12:20Be home by the time the sun goes down.
12:22Exactly.
12:22Yeah.
12:22I had my best friend, Jean Lynn, who, and we were, we were going to get married.
12:27I mean, we were, we, we, we loved each other so much that I would put a crinoline on my
12:31head, and then we'd walk down my dead end street and sing dun, dun, dun, dun.
12:38And that was your crew.
12:39Yeah.
12:40And I had my crew.
12:41Yeah.
12:41And then I had the two boys, and we played canasta on the porch.
12:44We'd crack, crack, crack, crack rocks open.
12:47I mean, we did, we had all kinds of fun things that we wanted to do.
12:51And we got them.
12:52Did we learn?
12:54Did anybody say, be compassionate or care?
12:56No.
12:56Our experience is what gave us grit.
12:59Our world gave us more joy.
13:02Mm-hmm.
13:02Our connection to our kids that we were talking to every day.
13:06There were no, no, no tablets, no nothing.
13:09Yeah.
13:09This book is about kids like that, meaning they have a real life.
13:16And they're in school.
13:18They've got a bully they have to deal with.
13:20They have a lot of things that are going on in this book.
13:23And it's about a dog that they want to buy and get and save.
13:27But you meet everybody in the family.
13:29It's so wholesome.
13:31And it's what I call somatic.
13:33It's not, what do you call it?
13:36It's not teaching anything except the brain break.
13:39It's not like preaching the lesson or anything.
13:41It's not preaching.
13:42You're just getting that inadvertently.
13:44Exactly.
13:44So what we've done is we've printed out the brain break so that kids knew how to do it.
13:50But they also have to read it when they're reading the book.
13:53So they read what to do for the brain break.
13:56You mentioned MindUp.
13:57So you started MindUp how long ago?
13:5923 years ago.
14:0123 years ago.
14:02Why did you start that?
14:02Why was this important to you?
14:03I saw symptoms with children that I wanted them to feel happier.
14:11We had just after 9-11.
14:13I felt the world had changed forever.
14:16And I think it did.
14:18And I was concerned about children's minds.
14:22I was afraid of the atom bomb, very much so.
14:25And it affected me in school.
14:27And I got depressed and scared and anxious.
14:31Every time I'd hear a siren, I thought we were being attacked.
14:35So the anxiety that I had about going to school and hearing,
14:40and that sound was so scary to me.
14:44And I thought, what happens when people watch buildings fall down?
14:47And the news is all over the place.
14:49And children don't really know how to process.
14:52A lot of little ones think the buildings are going down new, new.
14:55Every time they go down, they think they're going down again.
14:58And who's thinking about children's minds?
15:01And I was asking this question because I've studied a lot, as you know,
15:05about the brain, about mind, about my own psychology,
15:08of having to go to a doctor because I was not just depressed,
15:11I was very anxious.
15:13So we know that the brain is fragile.
15:16And we have to do that.
15:17Why aren't we looking at our children?
15:19Why aren't we saying these are going to just inherit the future,
15:23our future, and why aren't we preparing them for that?
15:26So this is why I did it.
15:28So everything I knew about the brain and happiness
15:32and all these things that I spent a lot of time looking at,
15:35studying, and speaking on,
15:37I thought, why not bring this into the classroom?
15:39Yeah, start.
15:40Right?
15:41And so I did.
15:43And I created the program.
15:46I brought in neuroscientists, practitioners, brain breaks, right?
15:51I brought in teachers.
15:52I brought in positive psychologists.
15:54And we wrote this.
15:56And it covers all of those things,
15:59attaching it to basically your academia, if you want to.
16:03Like your curriculum.
16:04In the classroom, the curriculum.
16:05They calm down.
16:07The classroom's calm.
16:09Which is helpful for teachers with 36 kids in them.
16:12I mean, and the teachers calm.
16:14Because the one thing is, in New York City,
16:16we got a call from the union.
16:18She called me and said, would you speak to our teachers?
16:20I think we need mind up for them.
16:23So we are in New York City schools now for that.
16:28Yeah.
16:31Well, we need another quick break,
16:34but we're going to go behind the scenes
16:35of some of Goldie's most memorable roles next.
16:38Stay right here.
16:39What is so good?
16:53Welcome back, everybody.
16:55Goldie, Hunter, thank you, everybody.
16:57You can find your new children's books,
16:59the After School Kindness Crew,
17:02Pooch on the Loose, wherever books are sold.
17:04When Kurt was here, we went behind the scenes
17:06of some of his most beloved films.
17:08Well, now it's Goldie's turn.
17:10Here's another round of Scenes and Stories.
17:14Scenes and Stories.
17:19Okay, here's how it goes.
17:21We're going to show Goldie a photo from one of her movies.
17:23Then we're going to share what comes to mind.
17:25Or she's going to share.
17:25I'm not going to, I wasn't there.
17:27She's going to share, like, what comes to mind,
17:29seeing that scene, or just in general about the film.
17:32So, the first is Death Becomes Her.
17:39This movie is so funny.
17:42I have a hole in my stomach.
17:47That's what I remember.
17:49What do you remember?
17:50Oh, I remember so many things about that movie.
17:52We had such a great time.
17:54And I thought it was so ahead of its time.
17:56And my favorite thing was the fat suit.
17:59So, the fat suit, when you put a fat suit on like that,
18:02you can actually do anything.
18:05It's completely freeing.
18:08So, maybe I would say I think about being in the fat suit.
18:13That's amazing.
18:14Okay, next.
18:15First Wives Club is next.
18:17I love it!
18:20What's the moment that stands out for you from First Wives Club?
18:23Oh, my God, it was the greatest.
18:27Aside from being with these three amazing, amazing women,
18:30by the way, and big laughs,
18:33is that scene where they go down the street
18:36and they walk down the street came to me.
18:39And I said, but it's one thing to be in the room,
18:42but they need to go out, and they need to dance,
18:46and they need to watch the sun come up.
18:48Yes!
18:49And that, to me, was an ending that I called and said this to the producer.
18:54I had this idea, and we implemented it.
18:58That's your idea?
18:59Yeah.
19:00Oh, my God!
19:01That was brilliant!
19:03It was my favorite!
19:04It was just like...
19:05It was free, it was like so sexy, and it was smart,
19:10and it was just all these things that, like, just was...
19:13I was so proud.
19:13I was like, I can't wait to be a woman one day,
19:15like a full woman, and do this.
19:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:18Like, yeah.
19:18The thing is, is that the one thing that I did,
19:22is that, okay, here's this thing I thought of,
19:24and whatever, it'd be great,
19:25and I called Scott Rudin, and I told him about it,
19:27and we talked about it, great.
19:29Anyway, now I did the scene, right?
19:31But we were in these high, these heels.
19:33Well, there was no way that we could do,
19:35you don't, oh, man, dance all the way down,
19:38because I had heels on.
19:39We're not all Beyonce, I get this.
19:39So I changed my shoes.
19:41Oh, yeah.
19:43No one will know.
19:45Everybody knew.
19:46Oh, I didn't notice.
19:47I got notes, notices,
19:49why did you change your shoes?
19:50I'm thinking, what did I do?
19:52Oh.
19:53I mean, I should have asked.
19:54Those are clowns, who cares?
19:55I cut it above my ankles.
19:56No.
19:57No, I didn't even, those are trolls,
19:59don't listen to that.
20:00I didn't even notice that,
20:01and it's like, what are you paying attention to that?
20:02That is not the whole essence of the scene.
20:04Well, the shoes, nothing, shouldn't bother you.
20:06Yeah.
20:06It doesn't have anything to do with this show.
20:08No, that's what I'm saying.
20:08No, it was so powerful.
20:10Oh, my God.
20:10I loved it, and just seeing,
20:11I just think three women so bold and powerful like that.
20:16Monique's mother?
20:18Oh, my God.
20:20There's so many gems.
20:21There's so many gems.
20:22Yeah.
20:22So, I love that you picked these movies,
20:26because I think they are really iconic.
20:28Yeah.
20:29In terms of who we are.
20:30Oh, my God, there's a billion more we can't even get to.
20:32No, we're not going to get to them.
20:33No, your whole career is filled, like, congratulations.
20:36Oh, dang.
20:37Your whole career is, like, filled with amazing movies.
20:42That was Seeds and Stories.
20:45Everybody, give it up for Go Beyond.
20:48Once again, her new book is called
20:50The After School Kindness Crew,
20:52Pooch on the Loose,
20:53and everyone in our audience
20:54is going home with a copy.
20:57Daniel J.
21:15Welcome back, everybody.
21:17You've seen our next guest in shows like
21:19Hawaii Five-0 and Lost,
21:21where still no one knows what happened.
21:24I'm still bitter about it.
21:26It's fine.
21:27It's been years.
21:27He's also a Tony nominee,
21:29and last year was named
21:30one of Time's 100 Most Influential People.
21:33His new show is called K-Everything.
21:35It's a look at the global impact of Korean culture.
21:37You can see it now on CNN.
21:40So how long did you enjoy the success of that song?
21:45As a singer, forever.
21:51But as a songwriter, oh, my God.
21:56Dream and nightmare at the same time.
22:01Really?
22:03How can I top this song?
22:083, 4, 1.
22:13that's a no
22:16no please welcome daniel jaykin
22:37so i always get i'm like what i was like what are they gonna like
22:41i know i was picking for you gold i was picking for everyone today and i was like i go
22:44i really
22:45stress about it really i do you made a great choice can i tell the audience yes you can so
22:49i don't
22:50know if you guys know this but for every guest that comes on the show kelly has a little gift
22:54bag
22:55and in the gift bag is actually a vinyl record and she's telling me now that she chooses personally
23:00each album that each guest receives i well i try and crush it and or i try and introduce something
23:07new well i try yeah just so you guys know she gave me youtube's greatest hits yeah best job
23:11i was like you seem like a dude that would have you seen them live i have oh my god
23:17i just saw
23:18them at the sphere oh my god yeah don't brag i know sorry i mean such a flex i didn't
23:23see them
23:24in madison square garden it was pretty incredible that's also yeah it was on the vertigo tour i also
23:27saw them in hawaii uh and that was also special oh so you really do like i don't know that's
23:32why
23:32it's a great it's a great choice it's a gift it's a talent it's a talent no i just i
23:38love vinyl so
23:39much and i have a big collection so i try and i try and give people things that either new
23:42or maybe
23:43they might like but so you were you were talking um you were talking to sai in that clip so
23:47do you
23:47feel like y'all had a lot in common when you're doing these interviews did you find any kind of
23:51common ground yeah you know sai's in the arts and he also grew up in america he spent a lot
23:56of time
23:57in america just like me so he understood what it means to be korean and korean-american and you know
24:03the challenges that it that he faced in each culture so we bonded didn't kind of fit neither
24:10was it hard yeah when i was growing up there were times you know like we all go through our
24:14periods
24:14of low self-esteem and thinking like that's called junior high yeah exactly right and so so during those
24:19periods i was like well i'm neither korean i'm not american what am i you know and it was anything
24:24that any fuel for any bullies is probably the wrong thing you know when you're not feeling
24:28you know great about yourself so uh i did feel that but i don't anymore i definitely feel like
24:34i'm the beneficiary of both cultures and you know that's a i think there's been a huge shift since we
24:39were younger too i think so good yeah i mean there's always more progression to be had and made but
24:45i think there's a bigger shift than whenever i was a kid especially what did you learn about korea
24:50from doing this gosh korea is an incredibly competitive uh hyper modern society um you know
24:58in for in three generations maybe four they went from being a war-torn poverty-stricken company uh
25:04country to a place that leads the world in many respects now and now we're seeing it in culture
25:10we're seeing it in pop we're seeing it in k beauty a lot of people go to korea now oh
25:15my god it's all
25:18you know k-dramas are everywhere uh and you know we also did an episode on the food scene now
25:24everyone
25:24knows about korean food in a way they didn't maybe 10 years ago so we thought it was a really
25:29great time
25:29and a great way to kind of show the world what korea was about yeah how long had it been
25:34since you'd
25:34been there uh i was actually i spent six months there two years ago shooting a tv series called
25:39butterfly okay but when you were how young were you when you live you lived there for a bit right
25:44i was
25:44born there uh moved moved to the states when i was one oh okay that's how i thought you were
25:49you
25:49were young yeah so i went back a few times uh once when i was like 10 and then another
25:54time when i was
25:5517. so there have been like chapters in my life in korea that were big ones has it been interesting
26:00to go back have you gone back with your parents or anything or interesting to see how the shift is
26:05even me from my small town like i remember going back it was just five years later and i was
26:09like
26:09this is different and then 10 years later this is completely different it just kind of changes
26:13yeah my parents were actually in korea at the time at the time i was shooting the show and so
26:19i asked them if they wouldn't mind being on camera for it yeah and they said yes which was really
26:24really
26:25i think a special moment for us they're yeah um but we were in the middle of seoul in an
26:31area where
26:32they knew very well when they were teenagers and i bet they didn't recognize it they didn't recognize
26:37a thing that happens i know yeah and that's when you know you're getting old yeah no it's true and
26:41so
26:42they were like we don't want to go out without you so like show us around seoul and i was
26:47like
26:47you're asking me to show you around seoul uh and so that's how much the the city and the country
26:52has
26:52changed yeah all right we have to take another short break you can catch k everything now on cnn and
26:58cnn plus the national teacher of the year is joining us next y'all we'll be right back
27:14welcome back everybody i'm sure many of you have at least one teacher you and probably more that you
27:19can remember who helped shape your life uh for hundreds of kiddos that haven't heard high school
27:23that educator um is the guest you're about to meet not only was he pennsylvania's teacher of the
27:28year he earned the title nationally for 2026 because he was one stop um we call him best in class
27:40let's welcome havert high ninth grade ap history teacher leon smith give it up
27:47welcome to the show congratulations how was it to hear you were teacher of the year nationally as
27:53well it was so exciting yeah like i just felt a tremendous honor it was a blessing yeah um you
28:00know
28:00last month i got a chance to meet you know state teachers of the year from all over the country
28:04and to just be able to represent them and just all the innovative things that they're doing in their
28:09classrooms i was going to say to y'all like trade ideas oh it is and just how much they
28:13love their
28:13students i mean that for me just like poured into me and as soon as i left that conference i
28:19just
28:19felt filled up and just so excited to celebrate them yes yeah i love that feeling yeah you get inspired
28:26yes again everybody needs that every now and forever vocation you know you have um is there
28:31a teacher who inspired you to become a teacher yes i think we all have that person but but for
28:35me it
28:36was my first grade teacher miss mason yeah i was only five years old but she just loved on us
28:42you
28:42she took us to mcdonald's and baskin robin that's where it was the best it was the fries yeah but
28:47she
28:47also like made us feel seen you know i never forget she gave us me and like three other students
28:52like
28:52a special math workbook and it just made me feel so smart like that she saw me saw something in
28:58me yeah
28:59that belief in you helped you believe in yourself oh no question no question and then later on in my
29:04career i had a 10th grade teacher uh when he walked into the classroom he was a black man and
29:09it just made me
29:10feel so seen because i had never had someone that looked like me before yeah and it just really
29:15reminded me of the power of a teacher that can just really speak life into a student and so for
29:20me
29:20i try to do that for all of my students yeah and represent what you could achieve as well just
29:25seeing
29:25that yeah absolutely well you say as a teacher you're a warm demander explain what that is well for
29:31me actually that came from a book called culture responsive teaching in the brain by zaretta hammond
29:35and i actually stumbled upon it because sometimes you read a book like almost like the never-ending
29:40story yeah and you read a book i love that you know the never-ending story that's like my true
29:44what okay oh my gosh okay and and just you feel like it's speaking to you and so when i
29:49read that book
29:50i really said this is what happens in my classroom it's an environment of love compassion and care
29:55but it's to do that so you can have the students reach high expectations and once they know that you
30:01care
30:01about them then they're willing to take risks and really reach their highest potential but once
30:06again it's like when you set a bar those are my favorite teachers that were actually harder on me
30:10in a in a in a constructive way yes you know it would set that bar because it's like no
30:14i know that you
30:15can do better than this and you do and i'm gonna make you i'm gonna make you reach that i'm
30:19gonna help
30:19you get there and i think that those are my favorite ones too that you kind of can't stand in
30:23the
30:23moment but then you're like all right all right all right yes yeah yeah so you emphasize building
30:28community as well right yeah yeah well i do that on the basketball court as well i've been a basketball
30:33coach for over 20 years but really just the understanding that when students walk into your
30:37classroom like we don't know what's been happening with them prior to them getting there but i really
30:42want them to feel safe a sense of belonging so when the students come in we do like a community
30:46circle
30:47yeah you know i ask them like what's their favorite late night snack you know what's their favorite kelly
30:51clarkson song exactly you know there's just so many to pick from and it just we get to know each
30:57other
30:57because they're going to be working with each other throughout the year and then once learn to work
31:01as a team no question and then once where everybody's just relaxed and once we've had that community
31:06then we can actually get to the learning yeah absolutely god and coach basketball ap history go
31:12ahead well let's take a quick break but coming up we're going to chat about the lasting impact leon's had
31:17on his students over 25 years stay here
31:33all right y'all we are back with leon smith give it up he's a ninth grade 18 history teacher
31:39at haverford
31:40high school in pennsylvania he's also national teacher of the year uh you say you want to inspire more
31:46people to become teachers right have any of your students become teachers yes i actually have a
31:51young man that i met about three years ago and when he was in ninth grade um everybody was talking
31:57about him he was just so charismatic and i had never met him yet but as soon as i walked
32:02through the gym
32:03one day i knew exactly who he was yeah eventually he was in my class later that year got to
32:08know him
32:09and i saw his leadership qualities and i decided to invite him into the profession you know i said have
32:14you
32:15ever thought about being a teacher and i think at first he was kind of taken aback like really me
32:19and i said yes and we talked about the power that teachers had to really change the trajectory
32:24of someone's life and he was interested i could tell yeah no question and so 10th grade he joined our
32:30future educators academy and got a chance to just see all the aspects of education like being a
32:36superintendent i.t director he was intrigued and then in 11th grade he wrote his philosophy of education
32:42education and then this year he's a senior and he's going to major in education and become a teacher
32:47and i'm just so excited for the students that are going to have him yeah absolutely well leon doesn't
32:54know this but that student marcus is here let's bring him out right now
33:18i think y'all can sit wherever you like you can sit wherever you like there you go um welcome
33:25to the show thank you so much thank you for having me
33:28yeah so you brought something for i did i got you a gift congratulations again thank you should i
33:34open it oh yes i mean i want to know oh yeah i mean yeah this is for you oh
33:40look at this
33:42yes i love a leather satchel man this is official right thank you
33:50that was really struggling with what you're wearing thank you thank you thank you thank you
33:56what do you what do you remember about you know about first having mr smith as a teacher um mr
34:03smith
34:03he was just uh he was so passionate about what he was doing you know like he wanted the best
34:08for us
34:08and he was just so energetic he had this vibe the way he wanted us to just be comfortable and
34:13he was
34:13just so passionate about what he was doing it kind of uh motivated me to be there and be present
34:17in
34:17this class um and i was going through a lot at the time mentally and mr smith uh he just
34:23went above
34:23and beyond to make sure i was okay even if it was an email or uh talking to me after
34:27class it just meant
34:28a lot to have someone there for me yeah to invest in you for sure like be present absolutely what
34:33do you want to say to mr smith i just want to say uh i'm still thinking you've taught me
34:37so
34:38much um you've inspired me in so many different ways and like i was going through so much at the
34:44time and you really helped me like see my my purpose and motivate me and get me just back on
34:49the right
34:50track and i'll never forget that you inspired me so much thank you thank you well we have another
34:58surprise leon doesn't know about we actually connected with a certain miss mason his former
35:03first grade teacher and she sent this hi leon it's miss mason it's been a long time since i've seen
35:10you and i understand that i'm one of the reasons that you became a teacher you said i had inspired
35:17you
35:17that you knew you were seen and i hope that you know you were also loved i remember those trips
35:24to
35:24baskin robbins the trips to mcdonald's and all the stars you had to earn to be able to go to
35:29do that
35:30congratulations on your national teacher of the year award it's very well deserved and i'm very
35:36proud of you i already cried but then i see a grown man crying oh no don't do it wait
35:53there's that we're
35:54not even going to stop there there's there's one more thing so after so much hard work you deserve
35:58some r and r so that's why we're hooking you up with a four night getaway to secret st lucia
36:03resort
36:04and spa and adults only 15 bars and restaurants and island inspired activities the trip is courtesy of
36:14the heroes club and cheap caribbean vacations where they give special perks for heroes just like you you
36:20need some time all teachers need this vacation like yes thank you so much for being so outstanding
36:25and incredible at what you do and inspiring so many yeah thank you so much and hey congrats man good
36:31luck yeah congrats we're going to be right back y'all with what i'm liking
36:52all right y'all we have one more story to share before we wrap up this is what i'm liking
36:59comedian anaconte is a powerful force both in front of the camera and behind it not only is she
37:04the co-creator and co-star of the critically acclaimed hulu series pen 15 she's also been
37:09named one of variety's top 10 comics to watch and one of the 50 most powerful show runners by the
37:15hollywood reporter no big deal now she's tackling a new thank you sal a new medium with her memoir the
37:21sane one we have her on the line right now to tell us about it what's up anna hi hi
37:27thank you for
37:27having me oh that looks wonderfully inspiring wherever you are um crying oh i like yeah i like
37:34it i would write a book there too what is what is the book cover oh it is the idea
37:40of me being a 30
37:41something year old woman making a collage of my family and me and calling myself the same one
37:47about funny um yeah it's like unpacking a lot about the past and to do that you have to be
37:53a
37:54little insane so i'll own it i love yeah i think that's what we all have to do with our
37:58trauma um
37:59so you cover trauma and healing but there's humor as well which i feel like is so important um there's
38:04the time that you were hired as a prank yeah yeah it was i i know i feel like i
38:10need to set the scene
38:11for for myself 18 year old anna um at nyu and i was you know i had worked all summer
38:19trying to save
38:21money for textbooks and food and all of that and i'm an acting student i'm going to acting school
38:26and so i'm like i need a gig i'll be like a i'll be dracula i'll be a ghost like
38:31let's just make some
38:32more you know let's make a little money and so i go on craigslist there is not like a dracula
38:37thing
38:38going on but there's a halloween party for celebrities and it says must be comfortable
38:42with famous people and i'm like well i don't know i haven't been in that situation but let's try
38:46and i i get hired unfortunately and i am told that the the prank is for someone a party guest
38:55that is
38:56supposedly misogynistic and i am supposed to um i can't believe i'm telling the story i'm given a bag
39:04of baking soda and i'm supposed to be like hey want to meet in the bathroom and he says yes
39:12and i
39:13go into the bathroom and i lay down and i have blood coming out of my nose on the floor
39:18and he um enters
39:20and with this other party plant and says we have to get out of here and just leaves you
39:28no he tries and then he's convinced to come back because i'm waiting for my cue i'm terrified by the
39:35way and then i finally hear someone say no we have to get help and that's my cue he leaves
39:40and then i
39:42get up and i put a wig on so he thinks that i've spookily disappeared and um and that's why
39:49the book
39:49is called the sane one because it's a really sane it's a how-to book it's a help book oh
39:57my god you
39:57are so funny and that is so wrong this that's there's never been more great of a tease for to
40:04to go buy this book you are hilarious everybody you can pick up anna's book the sane one wherever
40:11you get um your books and everyone is going home with a copy here in the audience thank you so
40:17much annie oh my god i'm liking your post right now can't wait to read the book man thanks to
40:24all
40:24our guests this hour goldie hahn daniel day cam leon smith marcus mcmason have been down here have a great
40:31day
40:31great day y'all and it's not grand changing
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