 Lonely Piggy unrelated but Chicho tell me you were supporting the Canadians for the Stanley Cup all of my friends were for Tampa Bay so with their win tonight I won't hear the end of it I wasn't following it I'm sorry Lonely Piggy I stopped following hockey not that I ever really followed it but professional sports in general I think it's gone too far let me tell you why back in the early 2000s or mid-2000s there was a hockey strike what year was that Lonely Piggy do you know there was a one year where all the games were canceled there was a dispute between management and the players all right so there was no hockey that year it's just 2004-2005 okay thanks King Canada live bother bother is not the same since they started wearing helmets hilarious right right off because we can hear people know they're hockey around 2004-2005 I think lockout lockout yeah lockout or strike or something right now at the time I had a lot of students and there was I had a lot of students that were into hockey and there's a lot of hockey games there's a hockey game every night so I had some students that watch hockey every night now during that year I had one student that had learning disabilities or learning differences like really heavy heavy right it was a level that I started working with them in grade eight or nine right and he was barely passing math right and most people had written them off right by the time we were done I worked with them all the way through high school all the way to grade 12 he ended up taking I've told the story before but I'll say it again math 12 calp pre-calc 12 chemistry 12 and physics 12 got 70 80% in all of them and ended up going to engineering at university I'm serious talking serious learning differences right like even droopy eyes right what changed this kid's life and I'm not f-ing with you this kid's life changed changed it wasn't me or it wasn't just me right most of it was him okay but there was an event that occurred which was the hockey lockout in 2004 2005 this kid to be and a lot of kids are under pressure like a lot of boys and girls as well but being to be socially included they do what others do like in his crowd everybody was watching hockey played hockey so in his school so he did the same and a lot of other kids did the same as while right and that consumed a lot of time when that hockey strike happened he couldn't consume hockey that there was no games right some of the kids were going crazy they couldn't watch hockey I turned to this kid had a talk with them a few times and he man it was he worked his ass off to learn this shit I whenever I have students where they complain when this is too hard I just laugh my ass off because they have no idea what it means to work hard and struggle the way this kid did no I'm not effing with you right and I won't have talks with them every now and then he needed a little boost up right but I have talked with my said listen just try this out one year you can't watch hockey you're going crazy I'm telling you put the time in this year and this was in grade 10 I believe right put the time in this year instead of effing around I was really straight up I'm really straight up I said instead of effing around wasting your time you can get a handle on your life right now be anything you want to be whatever the hell it is you want to be I don't give a rat's ass what you want to be I'm just telling you learn your math right now it's gonna be hard right check this out in grade 12 when they were in grade 12 I had a whole bunch of I had him and a whole bunch of his friends that had seen all the way through high school right and for a grade 12 test and at the time I had a nice set up at a pool table in my teaching space and stuff like this like a full-blown clay pool table right and I was really good at the time right and they were all going in to write a final I can't remember was physics or math right I think it was math pre-calc 12 and I turned to all of them I think was a trigonometry one and I turned to all of them I said this whoever gets the highest mark in this test I owe them a pool lesson okay when they graduate and this is an open offer and this kid hasn't taken me upon it yet right I said this is an open offer whenever you want if you get the highest mark in the class right or within the group right you get one pool lesson from me and I'm really damn good okay and I left at that next week they came back and this kid had the highest mark he was so damn proud and he should have been right so for any of you guys that are then you might be in school you think math is hard get a life right you have no idea what hard is unless you have some serious serious learning differences and I've had some kids who have some serious learning differences he was one of the top ones right where you have to struggle and work your ass off if this kid can do it so can you you just gotta fucking do it okay no excuses no victims here though the world doesn't give a rat's ass about you if you think you're you deserve something or the world should take it easy on you right learn your damn math I want a little preachy there but it needed to be done okay needed to be done