Welcome to another. that it's going to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of Bekardisiellis podcast. This one's going to be a fun one today, guys.

I have one of the smartest, most brilliant creative writers.

Just the way he's able to put together words and his platform is just so unique

and so dope.

Damon Young, what's happening brother?

How are you today?

Hey, hey, what's going on?

What's going on, man?

I'm glad to be here with you.

You know, my show is unique in the way that we start each one of

our shows and episodes by having our guest walk us through the arc of their careers, and you're

an entrepreneur, a writer, and an artist, a cultural commentator, and just a all-around-dope-funny dude.

Talk to us about what you were doing before Very Smart Brothers and talk to us about your career arc since VSB was acquired in 2016 and what you've been up to since then.

Man, how much time we got?

Well, the show only, I mean, we're going to cut you off in 30 minutes anyway, so.

Because there's ain't one of them questions that has like a linear, linear sort of answer,

because like, all right, so my first job out of college and I graduated college 2000 and two was I was a sub I was a I was

sub at Wilkenburg High School right and it was a junior senior high school so I

would go between the middle school in the high school, so I would go between the middle school and the high school, you know, just

toggle between here on a daily basis and then I ended up getting my own classroom.

And around that time, I'd also start my first block, right? So I'm teaching during the day and on the weekends or whatever I would update my block.

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