Proviso West High School

So specifically, w- when you see a high school kid at a very young age have, an athlete, have his first moment where he really proves it, and doesn't prove that he's, like, going to be a college player or, or a local star, but shows something that you see, I don't know, once a decade, that it's like, this is going to be a really, truly special kid with what he just did now, that was big moment.

And John Shier had that moment long before anybody knew who he was, and he did the Proviso West thing, just on a random Saturday afternoon in, uh, Country Club Hills, at the Hillcrest Shootout.

There were a bunch of recruiting evaluators and newspaper people there, and Shier was just a sophomore.

And we knew he was good, but we hadn't seen him do it against truly high-level players, and he did it that afternoon.

The suicide rate among teenage boys has increased by something like one-third to one-half.

And relevant to those statistics is the fact that I have yet to meet someone my age, and I went to high school from 1961 to 1965.

My high school in the suburbs of Chicago, Proviso West High School, contained at the time 5,000 students.

My graduating class in 1965 contained 910 students.

I have yet to meet someone my age who remembers a high school classmate committing suicide.

Uh, we do not remember girls starving themselves.

We do not remember fellow classmates being removed from school because of drug abuse or alcohol abuse issues.

We do not remember fellow classmates being removed from school because of what then would've been termed a nervous breakdown.

Typically, typically, the- these type of things are funded by local property taxes, not by the state.

So this guy, he went... cornered and asked, "What the heck's going on here?" He says, "Yes, 40 million is in the state budget for Proviso West High School to build a sports complex, and I make no apologies about it." So the guy, as the Speaker of the House, was able to twist people's arms and to have this money somehow directed to his former high school to help pay for a new sports complex over there, when typically this type of money is not spent towards there.

So when I see them trying to nickel and dime Bitcoiners for having a transaction done, for buying it then moving it off, 0.2% every time you do that, to me that's bullshit because they are spending money on things which normally is, money's not spent like that, right? And just, I see that and they gotta do a better job, in my opinion, and I think in a lot of other people's opinion, is to spend the money wisely.

And we talked about the mayor of Chicago many, many times, that he has that room next to his office that has all the gifts and everything in there.

The suicide rate among teenage boys has increased by something like one-third, one-half.

And relevant to those statistics is the fact that I have yet to meet someone my age, and I went to high school from 1961 to 1965.

My high school in the suburbs of Chicago, Proviso West High School, contained at the time 5,000 students.

My graduating class in 1965 contained 910 students.

I have yet to meet someone my age who remembers a high school classmate committing suicide.

Uh, we do not remember girls starving themselves.

We do not remember fellow classmates being removed from school because of drug abuse or alcohol abuse issues.

We do not remember fellow classmates being removed from school because of what then would've been termed a nervous breakdown.

Dawkins, Bill Willoughby, that was about the extent of it.

And so I was recruiting them, Indian Hills recruiting them, and I was at the Proviso West tournament.

Yep.

In Chicago right after Christmas.