Warren Smith

Oh, the video was with a student making the claim that J.K.

Rowling, asking me, how have your views on Harry Potter changed given J.K.

Rowling's bigoted opinions?

There's a presupposition in there.

All right, let's just run through that.

And he ended up changing his mind, realizing he didn't have the evidence necessary for the claim.

That was all it was.

I was surprised that anyone watched it, to be honest.

Well, there were many teachers...

not happy about it because they disagree on JK Rowling.

And word would get to me, they don't say these things to your face, and nonverbal communication is extremely important in navigating these day-to-day games that occur.

But I was working with another teacher, a music teacher, who had been collaborating with me on YouTube in the past already.

We were fascinated by the technology, the medium, and he would tell me, man, they're looking, they're not happy, they're looking for, just be careful, they're looking for any reason.

And in the meantime,

he and i had set up a little studio space that's still that bookshelf that i record to this day every friday he would come over and he would be the voice off the camera and he had opposite views from romania and so it would make for really good conversations and there was something interesting about not having the person on camera because i think it allowed the viewer to project themselves in a way but anyways so why would they not be happy also just the response i think is primarily because at first

So the video goes viral.

The next day, Piers Morgan wants to have me on for like a 15 minute quick thing.

And I remember like, man, do I, I'm gonna have to run this through the chain of command with the school.

This is gonna be, they're gonna say no.

So I just did it.