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Okay Guy, it's time for another debut. I want you to guys to give her a very warm welcome.
Sj LeHoven! Alright, I'm jazzed to be here.
Hi, I'm SJ. I live in Hawaii and it's really hot there
too, but it's different because we have the trade winds.
So we don't notice when we're having a heatstroke. Until later.
I'm a teacher and a couple of years ago I went to teach at this place in Cambodia.
It was so hot where I was teaching that I just drank all of the water that they had
at the orphanage. When I was teaching I noticed that the kids
kept staring at me and there was literally a river of water running down my arms. I was
sweating so much. And they just don't sweat. They just don't sweat. And then so after class
the kids would come up to me and kind of, you know, pet me. And I thought it was just
to see what I felt like, but maybe they just needed THE water.
I'm from Hawaii, but I can really relate to some of the things happening here in New York
City with your candidates. I was on my high school track team, and the
day of a meet I skipped school to go have lunch at Wendy's. And I'm enjoying my hamburger,
and my fries, and my shake when my track coach walked in.
I wasn't supposed to be there, and if they catch you, they suspend you for a couple of
days, and that would have meant that I wouldn't have been able to run in the meet. So my track
coached looked right at me, and the message in his eyes was clear, "I don't see you, and
this didn't happen." So I thought, "Shoots! I can get away with
things just because of the position I hold." So I got hamburgers. And your politicians
got hookers. I think sometimes I get over excited. I was
in this marathon in high school, 100 runners. (Hear, "This is her first time." "I know.")
You got a medal if you were in the top 5. I was so excited and I was approaching the
finish line, and I realized I'm in the top five. I just held my breath in anticipation.
Which is not a good thing to do when you're running a marathon.
So when I regained consciousness, they told that I finished in the top 100.
When I was in college, I joined a sorority. And there was this mixer once with all the
different sororities. I was wandering around and I noticed this
group of girls laughing hysterically. And I thought, I love to laugh. I'll hang
out with them and see what's so funny. So I look at the girl telling the story, she's
very nice, and she smiles at me, and I smile back.
And she says to me, "I'm just telling this story. It's true, but it's unbelievable.
'So there's this marathon, and about five feet from the finish line, this girl passes
out!'" I learned about the birds and the bees from
the nurse at this Southern Baptist summer camp I went to.
She was really candid with us. She described the act of creation in great detail. She was
very specific about what happens to your body when we become pregnant, and what the child
birthing experience is like. The class was just girls, but the camp was
co-ed. And just before the class, I had a crush on
this boy and I remember kissing him right before I went into the class.
And that class had a big impact on me because the next time I kissed a boy I was 26.
Growing up at my church they made us read the entire Bible and they made us memorize
all the books of the bible. They made us do this because they said that by knowing this
it would somehow keep us safe. I still don't know what they were talking
about. I still don't know what they were thinking. I mean unless they thought that maybe we could
protect yourself from a *** by saying, "Before you do this I think you should know
I have a bad case of Deuteronomy." Or a kidnapper.
"Well, you should know that not just behind me are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and the
Romans." I grew up in the South, and for Tennessee,
my parents were very moderate. In Junior High School, my best friend was
Jewish. My Mom and Dad thought it was terrific that I would go to her house on Friday for
Shabbat. Everything was fine until in my 20's I brought
home my fiancé. It wasn't that he was Jewish that they found
so upsetting. It was that he was a musician. A guitar playing
musician. I remember when my dad said to me, "Leave
it to you to find the only Jewish man you can be married to
where you'll starve to death. Thanks. Aloha. Sj LeHoven!