Warren Smith
speaker
1,257 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 May
Warren Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, there was. Oh, good. There was that. Well, the assistant principal who ascended and led that whole coup, there was something different about his response. But the principal, the 30-year-old principal, who was always very helpful to me and helping me to get... You know, like, Warren, you should get your license in phonetics, and you can have this new special ed license my first year.
He was kind of this... a guiding hand before he suddenly had this power. And there was that at the end, and he was like, I would have done the same thing.
And he said, I need to run this up the flagpole. I'm going to need to call. This is just getting... I don't know how to respond to this. Pierce, Maury, I don't know what to... This isn't in the playbook. Yeah, right. So they arranged for a meeting with the executive director and her team of lawyers. There's a board that runs this school. She... Answers to them, I guess. She's never present.
She used to kind of have her office over near mine, but I hadn't seen her at all this past year. She just said... And so she... There was a meeting with her. Yeah. I went into a room with that principal, the one who... And it was a Zoom call. I think... No, it was just audio. And her lawyers were sitting next to her and they just said, well, technically you didn't break any rules, so you're...
congratulations, good luck to you. I hope you don't make a mistake. I need to lose you. And I thought, fair enough. I'll take responsibility for anything I say and do. And me and that music teacher were like... home free, but that's... It felt like that should be the response.
So you said something interesting about, and I agree, that the university, the dean has narrated in your own home what you do with YouTube. How does that correlate to the dean's business or the university's business? What's interesting is that when you go into the handbook, which after all this occurred, I went and kind of poked into, it's written that they have every involvement.
this school into whatever a teacher says politically on social media if they say and there's no clear objective definition of what where that line of course of course so they just reserve to themselves the right yeah the college of psychologists has basically done exactly the same thing and
So they could have actually gone after you. Oh, yeah. It was a unique contract to begin with. And I remember signing that when I first agreed on to that school. It said you could be fired for any reason, no reason, at any time. Yeah. And that's not a reality at your average high school. So that stood out to me. I thought, interesting. Okay. Well, this is a new world.
If things were different, No one ever spoke to me about it again, the video or I was continued to make YouTube videos is what I should point.
Now that I had this, I'm still doing the YouTube channel and it's, it's grown. It's not, so it wasn't like it was now and it's not huge, but it's, It was decent. Yeah. It was fun, most importantly. It was me and the music teacher. We were like, okay, we have this opportunity. He didn't want any part of it. It was his personality type.
If you had offered him the chance to swap places with me, I really think he would have declined it. It's just too much.
There's a lot that comes with that. Mm-hmm. You're in the unknown, and it's on you when you're entering this. But every Friday after school, we set up a little studio downstairs in my house, and every Friday after school, we would just sit down, record something, talk about whatever we wanted to talk about for an hour, and then edit it in an hour and post it. Mm-hmm.
So that's the voice you hear in those early, if you ever look at those videos, that's the voice you hear off camera. And he didn't want to show his face, which is understandable. Mm-hmm. And all those perspectives in there are his genuine perspectives, and he's very liberal. So it was interesting. It was an interesting dynamic.
It was like this classic... It was so stereotypical, people thought it was fake. They were like, this is a clearly staged, which I take as a compliment. It's like, really, you think the only way we could achieve this outcome would be to script it? Well, that means we're doing something right. So we were making these, and things just at the school...
I noticed I stopped being invited to certain things. There was like a wedding I wasn't invited to. My whole Site One team was. Everyone goes out for drinks on Friday. There's the bar nearby.
That's a good point.
That's how it felt, yeah.
It was interesting because this opportunity came along where I was presented with the decision, do I leave the herd, go into the unknown on this journey and see where it takes me, or do I go back to the safety path?
I think that the staff went to great lengths to insulate the students. That student that was the voice in the video, he loved it. He was aware of it. And I went in that meeting with the lawyers. I was like, look, so-and-so, I'd be happy to talk to his... I think he's going to be fine with it. No one expected this, but he's a good kid. They were like, no, we don't want you anywhere near this.
We'll talk to the parents. And the parents were fine with it. He already had the releases. It was...
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