Jimmy John Liautaud
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1,897 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2017
last heard Nov 2021
Jimmy John Liautaud’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so that's a little bit of my journey.
And I'll let you now ask me, Stan, if you want to move it in whatever direction you want to move the conversation.
And I appreciate you letting me talk for so long.
We don't boast about it, right?
We don't talk about it, right?
It's not what we do, you know?
I mean, we do it because it's the right thing.
Well, we'll go ahead and start with education.
You know, I graduated last in my high school class and there was a guy that helped me through high school by the name of Jim Lyons.
They want to kick me out of my school.
And he said, if you kick Jimmy out, I'm going to leave too.
And they said, well, if we let him stay, then you got to take care of him.
And you got to make sure that Jimmy doesn't get in trouble and you got to watch over him.
And Jim Lyons watched over me and he got me through high school.
And from that, you know, I was dyslexic and I didn't know I was dyslexic and I have ADD and I didn't know I had ADD and I'm a smart guy, but I couldn't, I didn't know that because I was ADD and I was dyslexic, the teachers assumed that I was, they knew that I was somewhat smart, but they also at the same time thought that maybe I was a bit of a smart ass because of my inability to comprehend.
They're like, well, if Jimmy would just apply himself.
Well, with dyslexia and ADD,
You know, I can read a book, but I can't comprehend the book.
So long story short with education, my first big give back in education was I gave a million dollars to Elgin Academy, my high school.
And they wanted to name it the Leotow Upper School.
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