I think they're very disappointed in the beginning, understandably so, because like, what are you doing?

It's like, oh, you're making $50,000 a year as a teacher. Like, in 22 years, you're going to be making six figures, Brandon.

You have a great, you have retirement, you have benefits. Like, you know, you spend all this time. How are you just going to throw it away? the plan but so they were disappointed but i think they didn't give me that hard of a time because

the first thursday of the school year when i taught my brother died 34 years old and he was waiting

to retire in the air force or he was a technical sergeant in the Air Force. He did not like his job, and he always talked about how he was looking forward to retirement. And he talked about, oh, this amount of years to retirement, yeah, because he got in early. Boom, he had a heart attack and died, like unexpectedly. I have his ashes right here, and this is the cross and the chain that he wore every day.

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Brandon Buckingham, welcome to Jersey, baby.

Thank you so much for having me, man.

Dude, of course, I appreciate you doing this last minute.

This is like Tommy was here the other night and this is the earliest podcast I've

done in, what, like three years, something like that? We never record in the morning, but I was

like, let's do it. So I had found your channel, I guess almost a couple years ago now. Content

was amazing. I found it through like that whole sneako thing that was going on. But I didn't

realize you were, I knew you were a teacher, but you literally left that job when you had like no subscribers and went full-time into this with the type of content where you got to travel around and go places.

Yep. I had under a thousand subscribers. It was December, my first year as a teacher. And there was a massage parlor in my hometown that got busted for giving out happy endings. And I was like, what if I went around and asked people like what they thought about the elite spa getting busted? I filmed that video. And then I was like, man, I think I want to do this. The next Monday, I went into school and then put my six month resignation video and then i was like man i think i want to do this the next monday i

went into school and then put my six month resignation in and then filmed like every week or two stacked

up videos when my contract ended june 18th they started no shit wow not even a thousand subs

what were you teaching elementary school art pre-k through fifth no shit okay did did you want to

be a teacher like

growing up was that yeah my mom's a teacher so uh my my whole life i wanted to do it always loved art

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