Jimmy John Liautaud
speaker
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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We don't we don't talk about it, right?
It's not it's not what we do, you know.
I mean we do it because it's the right thing.
Well, uh we'll go ahead and start with education.
You know, I graduated last of my high school class and uh
There was a guy that that helped me through high school by the name of of Jim Lyons.
They want to kick me out of my school.
And he said, uh, if you kick Jimmy out, I'm gonna leave too.
And they said, Well, uh, if we let him stay, then you gotta take care of him.
And you gotta make sure that that Jimmy doesn't get in trouble and and you gotta watch over him.
And Jim Lyons watched over me and he got me through high school.
And 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 uh I couldn't I didn't know that because I was A D D 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 I was a bit of a a smart ass because of my inability to comprehend.
They're like, Well if Jimmy would just apply himself.
Well, in with dyslexia and A D D, uh you know, I can read a book, but I 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 Leoto Upper School.
And I said, There's no way you're naming it the the Leoto Upper School.
You're naming it the Leoto Lions Upper School.
And then I brought Jim Lyons uh to the school and we and we broke the bottle or we had the celebration and and that was the I did that.
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