Brookdale Community College

I thought, boring.

I had like nine credits at the Brookdale Community College in New Jersey for some art classes.

And then I said, fangool, who needs it anymore? But here I was a million years later at the age of the grand old age of 28.

And I said, you know, the moment I had a reason to go to college would be the moment I would go.

I'm a scaredy cat, but I enjoy the experience of being terrified and shitting my pants.

But I got sucked into going into a not-so-scary haunted house in Brookdale Community College in South Jersey.

Which, you know, for what it is, it was fine.

It was, like, a community theater.

It's an experience.

But I mean, it's definitely not like what you went to, Brendan.

So Brookdale Community College in Jersey, is that what you said?

Yeah, it's just like a fun little theater that they the theater group puts together every year.

for being an author.

And in the audience was Anne Wallman, who is from Brookdale Community College.

She's the program administrator for contract training.

And so she hears me speak and someone else on her team says, why don't you ask Jodi if she wants to work, be a corporate trainer or do workforce development training? And she's like, no, she's going to be too busy.

then Manalapan High School?

Yes, Manalapan High School, yes, and then Brookdale Community College.

Yeah, very, very cool.

So first of all, I want to say thank you for being an inspiration.

Yeah, I did go to college, but I went to community college.

I did a life sentence at Brookdale.

So I got like 4,000 credits from Brookdale.

Do

you feel like it was a waste of your time? Total waste.

Welcome to New Books Network.

I'm Jane Smekal, Professor of History at Brookdale Community College.

Today we'll be discussing a new book by Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy called Presidentess: The Life of Julia Gardiner Tyler and the Transformation of the American First Lady, published by University Press of Kansas.

Christopher J. Leahy is Professor of History at Keuka College and is the author of President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler.

Um, we, we, uh, teamed up with, uh, Pat from finished basements.

How'd you meet him? We met at a, uh, at a trade show at Brookdale.

Oh, okay, no shit.

A lot of people knew of, like, we knew a lot of the same people.