Welcome back to the Rock Bottom Podcast, the only place where we speak the truth, with no sugar, no fluff and definitely no knockoff suits. I'm your host, esg, and today we're talking respect real respect, the kind you earn, not the kind you print on a lanyard and wear to board meetings with your middle school lunch breasts still lingering. So buckle the fuck up. Let's talk about what Mark Cuban's doing for healthcare, real quick. Yeah, the Shark Tank dude who's rich enough to buy a planet and humble enough to say here's how much the pills actually cost? Now that's fucking transparency. And I thought, damn, what if we did that in our schools, pulled the curtain back on all the bullshit? What if we said the administrator gets paid this much to ignore your email? The director gets this title, so we can laugh in your face and call it leadership. And that superintendent over there? He gets a retirement package with zero receipts and full immunity for being a decent human.

Kids, listen to me, I don't care what your background is, which grades are, how many followers you got on snap or tiktok or whatever. You deserve respect, period. I said it before and I'll say it louder than an eighth grade fire drill. No one and I mean no one has the right to disrespect you and walk away clean. I don't care if they got a shiny badge, a fat paycheck or a personal parking spot next to the God Complex. Respect doesn't come with a nameplate. It comes from how you treat people. And look, the superintendent at Council Rock. Let me break it down with all the tenderness of a Philly fucking pothole Dude. You are a piece of shit Full stop. If there's a diploma for arrogance, you gotta hang it up next to the autograph photo of yourself in your fucking office and your crew, the yes men in the off-brand men's warehouse suits starting around like they're auditioning for the apprentice but forgot their resumes at home. Spoiler alert nobody's fucking impressed, chad. Now let's talk about my personal favorite sideshow, the director of secondary education, or, as I like to call him, al the academic acrobat, because he flips faster than pancakes at a diner and has just as much substance. Him laughing in someone's face, that's rich. That's like me backhanding a squirrel and calling it wildlife management.

We live in a time that people getting paid the most to lead the schools are also the ones most allergic to accountability. And I don't mean like oops, I forgot to file a report of accountability, I mean they screw people over then grin about it like they just won the fucking prom king. What happened to me months ago? Humiliation, disrespect and straight up nonsense. They tried to flex power like it was gym class but forgot I don't play dodgeball, I throw the fuck back. They thought they could do what they wanted and walk away clean. Guess what? Not today, not ever. Not with me.

And to everyone who's ever felt stepped on teachers, staff, janitors, para educators, cafeteria crews, techs and students just trying to survive algebra I see you and I hear you. You're not crazy, you're not weak and you're damn sure not alone. Let me say something real. Combat won't solve it, hiding won't stop it, ignoring it won't fix it, but standing up to it, that'll give you something you can really take away Self-fucking-respect. Not the kind that comes from fake awards and boardroom claps, the kind you earn in silence, in the storm, in the moment you say enough. I don't care what police chief they golf with, what judge owes them a favor or what backroom deal they whispered behind a closed door. If you treat people like trash, eventually you're going to get fucking recycled.

To the Council Rock admin who forgot what education means newsflash. It ain't about power. It ain't about prestige, it's about people and means newsflash. It ain't about power, it ain't about prestige, it's about people. And you're failing that test harder than a kid who thought mitochondria was a fucking pasta. To the kids, to the teachers, to every tired, brilliant, frustrated, fierce soul in that district you are not alone and your silence ends here. My name is fucking ESG and this is the Rock Bottom Podcast, and we are just getting started. Subscribe, share and remember knockoff suits. Don't make you a leader, heart does. I got your back always. Kids, if you ever need somebody to talk to you, reach out to me and I will be there and I will be there for free and I will be there to listen and I will be there to share experiences. Okay, don't ever, ever let anybody walk on you, don't ever let anybody disrespect you and bigwigfuckers in power.