when we were in high school we gave two of the most memorable speeches in student government history I’m Alexandra from fallen good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by catalyst the guys with the goods we don’t have any of the goods with this right now what we’re traveling in North Carolina but you can sign up for email deals and have a free catalog sent to your house by following the links in the description that’s right we are still in North Carolina and we are in our French classroom from high school that is now coach gages history classroom he was our teacher then but his room was over there oui oui and now that’s yes yes enriched I thought you needed to take a bathroom break I recalled very little actually I recalled nothing in front French class I knew that anyway I knew Louie Lee was like a French thing before I took French and that’s still all I know studying French tends to make me very sleepy and as I remember being very sleepy and sleeping and your name was Laurent well wrong let’s continue to go down this trail of memories here being in this place breathing in the smells you know scent the smell of teenagers the scent is one of the best triggers of memory there is you did know that yeah yeah don’t act like you knew that yesterday you throw me a bone occasionally link you’re learning something I know a lot of things he didn’t know that well but maybe he did I don’t even care if he’s Mel is the strongest sensed item ever my point is let’s remember who we were as high schoolers and share it with these people and teenagers smell the same now as I did then yeah like like they just came from the gym or yesterday were in the gym class and then they didn’t shower it’s not a good smell no it’s it’s smell of it’s a smell of a Hank it’s the smell of nervous energy yeah I read the nervous energy when I came back in through the doors yeah I read it I’m constantly achieving that so let’s talk about who we were as high schoolers share with you feel free in the comments to share who you were as a high schooler or what defines you if you’re a high schooler now if you’re into that defining yourself I would say that we were we were known for the term shenanigans is probably a good word because that implies that even at a restaurant I think that’s Bennigan’s absolutely but we should open up shenanigans and yeah compete with Bennigan’s so and be yeah but you would expect things to be wrong with your food oh there’s a fake roach in my mashed potatoes shenanigans ocean an ogres so anyway we were known for shenanigans and I said use that word because it implies that we weren’t like real bad kids he wasn’t like we were good kids we were like good kids hop and get some people’s heads and stuff they’re good kids they just like to cut up we were just doing fun stuff like to mix things up a little bit and keep you keep the teachers on their toes and you know they they we’re a path to the principal’s office I’m telling you there is a pastor who’s just talking for those boys it’s kind of your mom mixed with like a visionary okay well one of the things that I had the privilege of doing in my US history class now this is a u.s. history classroom but when I was in my US history class Miss Ennis was our teacher great teacher I was in the class with yes you were in the class and we had a lot of fun with her and she did a lot of creative projects and she let us do a lot of things but so I had this idea where I don’t remember who we were studying it was some figure in history but I said oh really I said listen I have Miss Ennis I have a encyclopedia on tape at home that talks about this particular guy and I would like to bring it in and play her for the class and she’s like okay well I did not have an encyclopedia on tape but when I went and what I did is I went home and I recorded myself speaking in a British accent that night that night all about this guy and I made up all this stuff that wasn’t true about him just ridiculous I don’t remember any of them but it was just the type of stuff that I might come up with like a future according to read just things that yeah obviously thoughts ridiculous things about this guy’s hobbies and then women that he had been you know he had married and stuff you did not tell me you were doing this I told no it was interesting that you would think it’d be the type of thing that maybe you’d get me in on it and we would do it together because we create things together now but this is just some time you did well while we were in high school you your voice hasn’t changed yet and so if I got you involved in this you’d be like I’m good get all these things I didn’t do anybody just given the whole thing away I didn’t want you in on it because you’d get in then when I played it what I’m gonna be obvious you’d start giggling well guess what happened the next day I come in I say missing us I’ve got that tape I put it in the tape recorder and I begin playing it I remember this and slowly the class the class begins to realize that this is Rhett the smarter kids began to realize it was me and they just started laughing mr. Lee missing us did not know that it was a joke and she’s and she just she says he does that man does sound funny doesn’t he and she’s watching now and it’s it’s dawning oh she doesn’t watch good mythical morning so I apologize minutes missing us for that actually I don’t know you called her minutes I think it was I think it’s pretty fun she was not a menace she was a great teacher he’s a great teacher miss Kelly Smith she was our freshman year an English teacher and she was she was young she’s very very pretty woman yes and she had won a Mitsubishi 3000gt oh yeah so she’s you know pretty young teacher blonde hair drove a Mitsubishi 3000gt yeah I had a crush on her so you know what was I gonna do I was gonna hide myself in her podium and then it sounds like I’m gonna let you look over here I was gonna plan here I wasn’t gonna look up her skirt I actually didn’t think much about my shenanigans I just did them spur of the moment so with zero planning I’ll remember I hid down in her podium and then she comes in I also recall this everybody in the room is kind of laughing and she sees me in the podium it wasn’t much of a joke there and it had a door on it she didn’t laugh she shut the door and then she left and she put something in front of door and she locked me in the podium the entire class and taught the whole class while you were in there and I remember for a couple of minutes you were like like hey hey I’m let me out isn’t this funny and I’m really doing something awesome and then I remember the moment like 15 minutes in a class when I knew you had resigned yourself to it that’s why she just kept going and she did it to teach me a lesson and well I never got in her coat before after that but I don’t know if she told me much of a lesson beyond that but as I continue to cut up a lot what we wanted to get to though is our student government speeches you know and know this is junior year yes and we had a good friend Michael Juby who we still stay in touch with very smart guy like the smartest of all of us that kind of hung out together hmm and we knew that he was an ambitious guy we were like Michael is I’m running for president of student body we were like alright you be the president and will be your cabinet yeah the two of us so I was at Al I’ll be vice president and I’ll be secretary whatever treasurer I don’t even know I was like loser I didn’t you wanted to do something required are you really are you gonna set it up this way oh okay well let’s just continue the story you called me a loser so where this is going yeah I got to get my shots in early yeah we decide I didn’t care what office we were running from because I was like I just the whole idea was I wanted both of us wanted to be able to get in front of the entire school the only way that you could address the entire high school was run from run for office so I was like this is my big chance this is the chance I’ve been looking for because we we relish those kinds of opportunities to be able to get up in front of they’ll have the whole high school’s attention so my idea from my speech was I was gonna say that I didn’t play the guitar at all first of all I’d never had picked up a guitar but I got a guitar and I said I’m gonna sing a song this must’ve been sophomore year then yeah it was not cuz well junior years when I started playing guitar it was right before that’s a sophomore year yeah so I said I’m going to bring a guitar and I’m gonna say that Merle Haggard has written our favorite country artist at the time and still today like anyone in the room wouldn’t know who Merle Haggard is first they did it’s hard at Central they knew who he was he had written a song to endorse me he had written it to endorse me and I was then gonna sing it and I got up there and I just I brought the house down man you remember this couldn’t even play guitar I couldn’t play guitar I’ll get I’ll give it to you I just were just like strum my open e and then I saying something I mean was probably horrible but everyone thought it was great I won in a landslide didn’t even tune the guitar no I didn’t know how to tune I got I looked at Lehner I got 87 percent of the vote I got up after you Secretary of the of the school I gave my vice president speech and like I said I put no planning in anything it’s like you know what it’ll just come to me so that morning as I was putting on my clothes I remember I had a black t-shirt yep in my closet and at that moment a few minutes before going to school I said I’m gonna cut two holes in this t-shirt and make it into a mask and I’m gonna be the dark horse candidate now I hope I’ll have to tell you that’s a dark horse candidate is that is the candidate who comes out of nowhere right and wins the election oh my gosh who is this link Neil running for vice president I’ve never heard of him before but certainly I’m voting for him he’s the dark horse candidate so so I get up there it’s a smart it was a clever idea I give you that I put the t-shirt with the two holes over my no that was a bad idea oh and I get up to the podium you look like an executioner hello I am the dark horse candidate connect and I know as you begin this conniving and after that I don’t even know what I said well I’m gonna explain what happened from my perspective because Michael and I Michael of course just a the consummate professional you know he’s we’re both seated on stage yes yeah well Michael does a great speech like a real speech like this guy’s gonna be somebody kind of yes I give they’re like shenanigans speech to get all the popular vote yeah and then we sit down up on stage and then you go to the podium and I see you put the thing on and then you say you begin and I look out and you say the thing about the dark horse candidate and it’s crickets absolutely no I don’t mean I don’t mean it like there’s one person that’s kind of smiling I mean total silence and like a few people who are evacuated people were confused in me and Michael we’re just we were losing it on stage I I couldn’t contain myself but I didn’t want to I didn’t want to embarrass you or anything I thought I in you were doing a good job I did not intend to do anything that had any racial overtones but I think people thought I was doing that had some sort of racist overtone I was not thinking that at all a dark horse candidate is just somebody who comes out of nowhere and wins but the problem is you can’t be the dark horse candidate if you don’t win so I thought I was a shoo-in but that is not the case sadly the I lost and I lost miserably but but that’s not the the thing is is that you went on for 12 to 15 minutes you you continued because you didn’t have a saree and have a bailouts which you didn’t write I have an eject button I thought if I went deeper they would start to appreciate and it just started getting really uncomfortable letter to everybody was like I’m a coachman now like everybody was squirming and kind of like what what is he trying to say and what I and I I went past laughter and I started figuring out how can I get how could I rescue how you gotta get you out of there but I just I couldn’t because then I would have had to get up so you didn’t rescue me in order to teach me a lesson just like Kelly Smith it’s a series of people trying to teach me the lessons that I’m never getting yeah yes just not you’re not learning through okay if you think it was a great idea please tell me in the comments again crickets okay lesson in this episode of good mythical morning by pulling up the invisible wheel look at the calorie Leggett uses winning it’s invisible wheel it’s not as exciting though because it kind of just seems like we know what it’s gonna land on yeah we do there’s what it’s gonna land on is cheerleaders for the world’s worst team okay so we’re like high school cheerleaders this is good go team the worst team ever but you are loved by us go don’t get hurt just be happy you can do this yeah it wouldn’t be worth it you know you’re going to lose so everyone’s a winner and everyone’s a winner don’t blow your hibiscus is that a part of the body