April 24, 2025 • 26 mins
In this powerful episode of RAMPLIFI, we sit down with Tieast Jenkins, a Victor Valley College student whose story is the definition of grit, grace, and growth. From returning to school after raising her children, to overcoming trauma and rebuilding her life with purpose, Tieast shares how VVC became more than a college — it became her launchpad. Her journey includes:
🎙️ Produced by the Associated Student Body of Victor Valley College.
- 💼 Earning an Associate Degree in Business Administration & Management
- 🖋️ Launching her own notary business
- 🎓 Finally completing her GED after walking away from education years ago
- 🧬 Breaking generational cycles and building legacy
- 📦 Preparing to relocate and begin the next chapter of life in Georgia
🎙️ Produced by the Associated Student Body of Victor Valley College.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hello, and welcome to another edition of Ramplify. So I'm
your host Andrew Travella here at Big Caravelli College. This
whole entire podcast is about amplifying the voices of our
rams Ramplify. Hopefully this far into the season, you guys
have figured that out. If not, well now you do.
(00:33):
So today I have a really special guest. She's an
awesome student, ty East Jenkins. Hello, yay, hi Amy. Uh
So you're in You're you're an ASP You're in an
associate student body. What's your what's your position?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm vice president?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah. See, so we have this amazing did you just
literally go like this? You just we have this amazing
publication here, it's called RAMS Monthly, and you were in
the Halloween edition, the October edition, we did a feature
on you and I'm going to get to it because
(01:10):
you have this really really cool headshot. Yeah yeah, I
mean you could literally he yes, he was. It's like
he knows what he's doing. You could you could use
this for like job interviews. Well okay, sorry, my job interviews.
Like I come from the acting world, so when I
go in on audition, this is how I do a
job interview. But I don't know. Maybe with the resume,
(01:32):
you could just you know, here's yeah, because then they'll
remember you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, So I'm gonna put it on my business card.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You should, you should? Okay, Well, we have a great
episode for all of you. Tayist is a mom, and
as a mom, she decided to go back to school. Uh.
I'm curious to know, just diving right into this interview
with you. Uh what did you do before choosing to
go back to school? Like where where in the timeline
(01:59):
we're were you before school was was going to be
the next thing in life?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay? So I went to Georgia in twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, okay, Yeah,
I left the kids out so I can go out
there and kind of explore, see what's out there. So
from twenty sixteen to twenty nineteen I was there. Twenty
nineteen I had to come back to California. Just happened
to come back because my grandmother was dying.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Did you did you like Georgia?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's beautiful, humid, No, it's it's it is a little bit,
but it's beautiful. Like I actually had asthma and when
I went out there it went away.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Wow. How are the peaches peaches?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I didn't get no peaches. There's peaches out there, peaches,
but not the ones you can eat.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is it more green out there?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It's really green, like the stores are really seasoned. Oh okay,
and said a lot of what are those things that
I was getting bit up? I had all these knots
like mosquitoes.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, yeah, they're crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, you'll be jacked up out there. But yeah, So
I went out there, came back here twenty nineteen my
grandmother was dying, and that I stayed here from there.
I planned on going back out there because I was
building something, but I ended up staying here and then
staying here, I lost what I had out there, and
I had to rebuild out here.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How long when when you came back for your grandma passing?
How long were you out here before before she passed?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
She so they made it seem like she was like
gonna get ready to leave, but she actually stayed like
to two and a half months.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh wow, Okay, so you got some closure with her.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah I did. I was able to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's good. So yeah, uh living in Georgia, Like, what
did you do for work?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So this funny story because I was it was hard
to find work out there, so I was trying to
get with temp agencies. I did some temp agency work
and warehouses, and then I eventually got into a restaurant,
a seafood restaurant where they make the seafood bags. So
I was a manager in that kitchen.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I assume you like seafood. It's not for everyone.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It was free for me.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You got a favorite dish there, that whole bag, just
everything in that bag, the shrimp, the crab, lobster tails.
I just like the shrimp and just dipping it like
that's as That's as far as I got and tune
of sandwiches. That's as far as my seafood goes. Haley's
with us. Shout out from.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Haley, Shout out to Haley PRIs a.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
She's like in all of these interviews, all of them.
So so all right, well that's cool. Uh, there's some
other things I want to talk about, going in a
little more in depth with you, like your single mom
of how many kids, five, five, and they all like you,
they all love me, So I mean, it's it's a
really cool story that you know five kids and you decided, hey,
(04:37):
I'm gonna I'm gonna go to college and I'm gonna
go make something of myself like after because I mean,
I don't know about you, but like one or two
kids seems like a lot for me, but for you
to have five, like it sounds like you've lived a
couple of lifetimes. And it'll be really interesting to explore
that as we go forward in today's episode of Ramplify. So, uh,
(04:57):
keep it locked and we will be right back in
just a second, and we're back on Ramplify with tysh Jenkins.
She is a mother of five and she is graduating
this semester here at Victor Valley College. We're gonna talk
(05:20):
about her life. So I know that you said in
our last segment that you moved to Georgia. Part of
that is as you were a single mom trying to
trying to figure out life to kind of make it through, correct. Yes, uh,
And and I know on our campus that we have
a lot of single moms and stuff. So I think
this is a perfect opportunity to connect with with those
students who are are you know, working class people, who
(05:41):
working class mothers who are trying to just make a
living and they want something better for for their for
their lives. Yeah, here's an intimate question I want to
ask you because I know I know off camera we
we've talked a little bit about this as far as
like relationships go, which appear to have been a hot
mess in the beginning, right. Definitely, do you still believe
(06:04):
in love?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I do?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You do?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I do?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Tell me why?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, I had to relearn what love was. I had
to relearned because if you don't love yourself first, and
you can't give real love, so the love comes from
the inside of you. So I had to learn how
to love myself because when you're a mother of five
and beyond the numbers, everything is about the kids, not
about you anymore, and you lose yourself. You lose yourself
(06:30):
a marriage, you lose yourself as a woman, who you were,
your personality. So when you start finding that again, it
revives everything else. But I'm a person that loves love anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's that's very positive to hear. That's very very positive
to hear. So when you came back to California, how
did the whole because I know you came back for
your grandma, as you said, Yeah, so you're here now,
how did the whole thing of Hey, go to VVC.
How did that come about for you?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, so I was actually struggle. I've been struggling since
I came back to California, just working warehouses, temp agencies.
I did work in a nonprofit now. That gave me
some joy because at that nonprofit, I worked up to
be like an office manager. But we helped people with rent,
We helped them with bills, helped with school supplies.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Making a difference in people's lives. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And then also there was another program that was there
for people that get out of jail and they have
like a.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Year to recover, like a recidivism.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So I was helping with that. But within all that,
I prayed about it, and I know I heard the
Lord say to me, because I'm a believer in Christ.
I know I heard him say, go to school. So
I'm like, okay, well, if I'm to go to school,
then give me joy to go to school. And then
from there, what was it? June twenty twenty three, Summer
of twenty twenty three, I had joy like I was
(07:49):
back in high school and just made friends with everybody
and talked to everybody and try to spread joy wherever
I could do.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You had told me in a previous conversation that when
you first came back, it was it like sucked for you,
like you were you were regretting it, which which was
interesting to hear because when we talk about people who
are not from California, in your case, you were, uh,
it's everyone. That's the sun, It's the Golden State, right,
like southern California, palm trees, the mountains, the beach, like
(08:20):
you know, everyone wants to come to California or they're
envy of California. But but but in your case, you're like,
I really don't want to be here.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah I didn't. Well, I think it might just be
like the high Desert Victorville, because I've been living here
since the eighties and it's a very slow building place.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It moves at a different rate of speed.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes, yeah, shoot, heck no, it's stupid, but but this
is my home. So but I never thought I could
make it here because of all the years of pushing
and things and not able to break down doors like
I wanted to. So I don't know if it was
just not that time or if it was just the
high desert.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So you also told me before deciding to take that
leap to go to college that you had a lot
of questions with who am I, which is crazy to
hear because you think, you know, black and white on
the surface, you're a mom of five kids. You know,
you seem very family oriented, but even in that time,
(09:23):
you still were trying to figure out who is tais?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, so take it back to what I said before.
When you become a mother, once you get past two
or three children, it's all about the children, and so
you forget about yourself. You forget to take care of yourself.
You forget to do your hair, do your you know, nails,
your health and all that kind of stuff. So you
kind of lose who you are, or in the process
of building your family, you don't grow yourself. You kind
(09:50):
of like stay that same working machine over and over again.
So when you get to the point where your kids
are grown and now it's time for you, you're like, Okay,
what do want to do? Like I never stepped out
when I was like twenty three, and now I'm like whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Old enough?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, old enough, old enough? And so what do I
want to do? What did I have I grown into?
What do I like? Do I still like steak? Or
do I like chicken more? Do I want to be
vegetarian or vegan like you don't? Do you have the favorite?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Do you like steak like more than chicken? Absolutely? Okay,
all right, I like steak? Took Steak's great. So Sierra's
here too, taking pictures. Do you like steak? I do
like steak? Yeah? How do you like a steak? Medium? Rare? Yeah?
Little bl So it's okay if it's mooing? Is that
(10:40):
what you're telling me? Okay, all right, getting back on track. So,
so you felt stuck who you were, You're trying to
learn that because you're a mom and stuff. I think,
what's what's unique about that? Well, it's it's unique. But
there's so many people that can really relate to that.
(11:00):
Is that I've been in situations where you know, I've
you know, I've covered stories over the years in like
hospitals or in construction or in different just different fields
in life, right, And it's interesting how I find people,
you know, adults late thirties, forties, even early fifties who
(11:21):
were literally on their second or third career. You know,
I've met nurses, like new registered nurses forty five forty
six years old, and I'm like, well, what did you
do before this? And they had like a whole nother life,
like they were managers in like retail, you know, real
estate agents, like all kinds. And when I was younger,
(11:43):
I started to realize, Oh, you don't have to do
the same thing for twenty thirty forty years. You can
literally start over whenever. And what you're telling me is
that's what you did. You started over. I did because
that's what you wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It's actually beautiful. It's kind of like the process of
a butterfly. But this is your second chance of being
a butterfly, So what kind of butterfly are you going
to be? So all that time that before I came
to Victor Valley, like twenty sixteen to twenty twenty three,
when I actually came in, it was like the process
of being in that little cocoon and trying to eat
(12:18):
my way out. And then when I prayed and found out,
so now I'm like not starting to wiggle out a
little bit or whatever, and then now I'm gonna ready graduate.
So my wings are coming out.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
All right, and we're gonna talk about those wings when
we wings sound really good right now, can you order?
Can you uber eat? Haalen?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I want a lie?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I know she said wings and that's where my mind is.
So we'll be right back here with Tye Jenkins on
rample fight, don't go away, and we're back. It doesn't
appear that our wings are here. I asked for honey
(13:01):
barbecue and let me move back. Well, don't you have cash?
We we should, as as the associate student body, we
should try and advocate for a wing stop on campus.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We should and Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I think that's important.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Maybe I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Okay, I'm causing stress in our in our student president
right now, but you have to admit it's a great idea. Excellent, okay,
all right, all right, I want to talk about you
told me that things changed in twenty twenty three, that
that's when you decided to get on the bandwagon and
start attending the college. So step out, walk me through.
(13:45):
First off, No, no, don't don't do that because then
that'll date yourself. I was gonna say, you know, how
long has it been since you've been in school?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
First day of school at VVC. Let's I saw that.
I saw that. Look first day of school at VVC.
What what was that like for you. Were you nervous
because you've been gone from it for a while.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
No, I don't. I don't get nervous.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
What does that feel like.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
When it comes to stuff like with just stepping out?
But I said, I prayed for joy, so that joy came.
So it was just like being for me being in
a place I want to be, you know how like
you have you have a job and you just working,
and that's you just like work.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
This is what I want every that's every day here
with Haley.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Oh yeah, I gotta go see that's crazy. What gosh, No,
this this adventure. It was like an adventure. You're starting,
step out.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You start so so you've always you've always had that
about you, even when you like you went to Georgia.
Let's go, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I love talking to people. Yeah, that's why I'm comfortable
right now.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, I love talking.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Like so, so I'm curious where your threshold is, Like
could you jump out of a moving airplane or Okay,
So that's that's that's too much.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Okay, But I could talk to the president.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Okay, Okay, so we can talk to the president with confidence,
but we can't jump out of a flying airplane. Let's see.
Uh could you go into the middle of the Pacific
Ocean and deep sea dive?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Not not either? Okay? Could you tight rope walk over
a cliff? Okay? Trying to figure out where that threshold?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Maybe, well, if I if I hit it head on, like,
if I face it like I did when we went
to Washington, DC recently, then yeah I think I could.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Okay, Yeah, what about a lion? Could you feed a lion?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I'll throw it. I'll throw it to you. Better go
get it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's great, okay. Uh, so your first day was good,
So it was excellent. You made friends easy?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Heck you. Tam Madale was my first teacher and he's
still my right hand man when it comes to teachers.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You liked him that much? Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
He's cool. He's cool. He the era that I'm from.
He loves it. Okay, I go to sea, which.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I have tried so many times to try and to
try and at least a generation, and it's just just
not it's not material that it is the generation. Okay. Uh,
highest peak in life here at VVC because you've been
here for a couple of years now, so looking back,
maybe there's a couple like what was like, Yeah, this
(16:23):
was the moment that I'm always gonna remember and I'm
always gonna take with me wherever I go, because this
was really where you started to transform and transition into
into something better.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Hmmm. So probably after that first semester, because I don't
know if I would be okay with doing the class.
It's like, Okay, I don't know, I haven't been in
school in a while. But after that first semester, it
was just like I got this, I got good grades.
I got I don't want to get less than a C.
(16:53):
So it started making me like push myself, Okay, you're
not gonna get a C in this class, or you
gotta turn homework in, or you're gonna know, really catch
on the online classes. And it was just after that
first semester, especially because I was bothering my teacher in
two of my classes. So yeah, I had to warm
up some kind of way.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
What do your kids think about you getting getting back
into education and trying to trying to complete this.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
They love it, they brag, They're not like my kids
are not like normal kids, like you know, how to
hate their parents. Yeah, I got a little bit of that,
but not a lot. Like when my kids started hearing
what I was doing at school and they was like,
what the heck you doing it at school? I'm like, yeah, girl, yeah, guys,
(17:38):
look you should come with me.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And so I am, Yeah, what are your kids' names?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Okay, so don't laugh, it's a lot of teas. Oh god, Okay, okay,
so tyron tyshan Oh Marion, Lania and Alani.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh Marion was that before omar.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
No, My sister named him because of a Mario.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
She was in love with him and then she yeah,
I let her do it. I let her do it.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You let her do it? Okay? Does O Marion know this? Yeah?
He does.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
He knows the story.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
And what does he think?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
He doesn't? He doesn't. He didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
O Marion condolences. Condolence is my guy? Oh man. The
first two they're kind of rymy are they? Are they twins?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
No? Actually, so those two were when I was sixteen
and seventeen, and I ain't gonna even say that because
I was going to say something. I'm gonna say they're
very special, but don't get jealous. Third or first, but no,
they're not. They were actually like a year apart.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Okay, well, you see that whole conversation right there kind
of makes me believe that they were spoiled a little
more than the others.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yep, because I was still at home. So but I've
come from a family of eleven.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So, oh, where are you in the timeline?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm the third oldest. There's seven girls, four boys, okay,
and so all my I didn't have to pay for
a babysitter. I have to look for one. That's nice
because I didn't even touch my children myself because they
wouldn't put them.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Down, right, Yeah, save a lot of money that way.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, yeah, yep. I didn't have to worry about changing diapers, feeding,
taking them, putting in a bath. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well that's so nice. Yeah, that's so nice. Uh. We're
gonna take one more break, and then we're gonna wrap
and talk a little bit about what you're what you're
studying here at Victor Valley College, and why this particular
graduation for you is very very special because it's more
than just getting an associates degree. So stick with us
(19:38):
and we will be right back here on ramplifying. So
what are you studying here? Like? What is what is
this associates degree that you're trying to to achieve.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So this is going to be business administration okay, and
business management okay, because I'm gonna have my own business.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh yeah, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Notary loan signing and life scan.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Oh my gosh, that that pays good yep.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And then I'm gonna do it for the government after
about a year, I give my SEPID year.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So aside from that, you're also getting something else while
while while coming here to VBC, tell me a little
bit about that.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So I wasn't thinking about getting it. I'm gonna get
by GED. I wasn't thinking about getting it. I got it.
I tried to get it way back when my kids
were like two or three, my first two, but in California,
I don't know at the time, they were kind of
like changing the tests, so I missed too.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So you never So you never actually graduated high school.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I didn't get to graduate.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, I'm assuming because you were a parent by that
point and that. Yeah, that took more presidents.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, so they kind of forced like back then, they
kind of forced you like okay, well you just gonna
get the GED. Okay, You're not gonna go a regular
high school diploma.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
So when I did go for the GED, I missed
it by two points and they didn't give it to me.
So I was like, okay, well, I just keep pushing.
So that was that mother push, just keep pushing, push
and push. And so when I got here this last semester,
I wasn't thinking about the GED. I was just like, oh,
I'm getting ready to have a degree. But then I
heard another guy, I heard another little voice of guys say, hey,
(21:13):
you know what, We're gonna go ahead and wrap this
thing up in full circle. Let's just have you walk
out with your GED two. So I'm getting my GED
and I'm gonna have that business degree.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
How does how does that feel to close that chapter
and go full circle and just in just a couple
of months here for you.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's unreal. It is actually unreal.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Because I'm sure you've had some time to reflect that
it's starting to settle in that this is reality, this
is happening to you.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Well, you know what, it's the closer I get to graduation,
the more is setting in. And I don't think like
even probably the graduation day, I'll probably still be sitting
back thinking like, oh my god, I actually did this,
and I did it in two years and everything's wrapped up,
so like a full circle. Everything is wrapped up. And
then my youngest daughter is graduating from high school, so
that's my last and I'm the first, so we're all
(22:00):
just once.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It's all happening at once. Yep, yep. That's got to
feel real good inside. Yeah it does.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'm very proud.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So I imagine the waterworks are going to be running
on that day.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Right now, and they gonna be running after that day. Yeah,
that day, after that day. Yep.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, that's really special. Yeah, that's uh, there's I don't know,
there seems like there's some symbolism in there that your
youngest who's completing her high school and you are completing
your higher education as well as getting your ged.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, because a lot of times in African American households,
everybody doesn't graduate or nobody graduates. So to beat generational,
I could say curses, because sometimes it just keeps going
like okay, from one household to the next year, not graduating.
You're not graduating. You're not graduating.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
If I can for a second, to get a little
more personal in your own family. Does that mean that
you're breaking a cycle of some kind?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I'm breaking a cycle. So it's not we have a
couple graduates, but not everybody got to graduate. It's either
like later on in life. So for me being one
of the oldest, they're even my sisters and brothers that
are grown right now, they look back and they're like, wow,
you actually went to college and you got a degree.
I'm proud of you. You know. So it kind of
(23:16):
it's not just a reflection to my children. It's a
reflection everybody that knows me, and a lot of people
know me.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's a legacy.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yes, yes, legacy.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
So legacy. Why'd you look there? Is there something with
legacy I don't know about.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Well, President Rayes here we were talking about legacy and
she was like, well, I'm so young. I don't know.
I don't have a legacy. But you're building it. You're
daily building part of my legacy. Okay, she's daily building legacy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, you got to work on legacy. Nineteen years on
campus over here.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
She got a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, that is the legacy. Nineteen years on campus.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
That's a long time.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
That is we should we should try and advocate for,
like a bronze statue of you, like like a fountain
in the lake for the ducks and the geese to
use your something.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I don't know, be cool much.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It's a lot. It's a lot, so very cool. So
uh so you're gonna get your degree, You're gonna go
on and create a small business. Are you staying? Are
you staying local or are you trying to get the
heck out of here?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Well, I'm gonna stay local for just a short period
of time, very short on maybe a year, less than
a year. Maybe where you want to go.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I'm going to Georgia, going back. We'll try the peaches
while you're there.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, I'm gonna try a lot because they do a
lot of like festivals, city festivals, chili cook all, you
know the stuff that you see on Hallmark. Yeah, that's
what they do.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, they shoot a lot of Hallmark there, so they
really do all those small little towns.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Like what It makes sense because the neighborhoods look like storybook,
like a magazine.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, I definitely got to come out there and visit.
So well. Hey, Tys, thank you so much for being
on ramplifying. Of course, I wish you, I wish you
the best in everything that you're doing. And save some
water works for graduation day because we're definitely going to
be getting some pictures of those. I need those for
marketing purpose.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I gotta dance. I got a hairstyle ready, yes?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Please? All right? We will see you guys on another
edition of Ramplify next time. Thanks for joining us, see
you again later, and that's it. You're done. How do
you feel You're good?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That was excellent? I was, I was a really good interview.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You're so matro I am. I'm aware of that, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
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and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of
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Speaker 1 (25:51):
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Hello, and welcome to another edition of Ramplify. So I'm
your host Andrew Travella here at Big Caravelli College. This
whole entire podcast is about amplifying the voices of our
rams Ramplify. Hopefully this far into the season, you guys
have figured that out. If not, well now you do.
(00:33):
So today I have a really special guest. She's an
awesome student, ty East Jenkins. Hello, yay, hi Amy. Uh
So you're in You're you're an ASP You're in an
associate student body. What's your what's your position?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm vice president?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah. See, so we have this amazing did you just
literally go like this? You just we have this amazing
publication here, it's called RAMS Monthly, and you were in
the Halloween edition, the October edition, we did a feature
on you and I'm going to get to it because
(01:10):
you have this really really cool headshot. Yeah yeah, I
mean you could literally he yes, he was. It's like
he knows what he's doing. You could you could use
this for like job interviews. Well okay, sorry, my job interviews.
Like I come from the acting world, so when I
go in on audition, this is how I do a
job interview. But I don't know. Maybe with the resume,
(01:32):
you could just you know, here's yeah, because then they'll
remember you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, So I'm gonna put it on my business card.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You should, you should? Okay, Well, we have a great
episode for all of you. Tayist is a mom, and
as a mom, she decided to go back to school. Uh.
I'm curious to know, just diving right into this interview
with you. Uh what did you do before choosing to
go back to school? Like where where in the timeline
(01:59):
we're were you before school was was going to be
the next thing in life?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay? So I went to Georgia in twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, okay, Yeah,
I left the kids out so I can go out
there and kind of explore, see what's out there. So
from twenty sixteen to twenty nineteen I was there. Twenty
nineteen I had to come back to California. Just happened
to come back because my grandmother was dying.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Did you did you like Georgia?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's beautiful, humid, No, it's it's it is a little bit,
but it's beautiful. Like I actually had asthma and when
I went out there it went away.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Wow. How are the peaches peaches?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I didn't get no peaches. There's peaches out there, peaches,
but not the ones you can eat.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is it more green out there?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It's really green, like the stores are really seasoned. Oh okay,
and said a lot of what are those things that
I was getting bit up? I had all these knots
like mosquitoes.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, yeah, they're crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, you'll be jacked up out there. But yeah, So
I went out there, came back here twenty nineteen my
grandmother was dying, and that I stayed here from there.
I planned on going back out there because I was
building something, but I ended up staying here and then
staying here, I lost what I had out there, and
I had to rebuild out here.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How long when when you came back for your grandma passing?
How long were you out here before before she passed?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
She so they made it seem like she was like
gonna get ready to leave, but she actually stayed like
to two and a half months.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh wow, Okay, so you got some closure with her.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah I did. I was able to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's good. So yeah, uh living in Georgia, Like, what
did you do for work?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So this funny story because I was it was hard
to find work out there, so I was trying to
get with temp agencies. I did some temp agency work
and warehouses, and then I eventually got into a restaurant,
a seafood restaurant where they make the seafood bags. So
I was a manager in that kitchen.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I assume you like seafood. It's not for everyone.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It was free for me.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You got a favorite dish there, that whole bag, just
everything in that bag, the shrimp, the crab, lobster tails.
I just like the shrimp and just dipping it like
that's as That's as far as I got and tune
of sandwiches. That's as far as my seafood goes. Haley's
with us. Shout out from.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Haley, Shout out to Haley PRIs a.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
She's like in all of these interviews, all of them.
So so all right, well that's cool. Uh, there's some
other things I want to talk about, going in a
little more in depth with you, like your single mom
of how many kids, five, five, and they all like you,
they all love me, So I mean, it's it's a
really cool story that you know five kids and you decided, hey,
(04:37):
I'm gonna I'm gonna go to college and I'm gonna
go make something of myself like after because I mean,
I don't know about you, but like one or two
kids seems like a lot for me, but for you
to have five, like it sounds like you've lived a
couple of lifetimes. And it'll be really interesting to explore
that as we go forward in today's episode of Ramplify. So, uh,
(04:57):
keep it locked and we will be right back in
just a second, and we're back on Ramplify with tysh Jenkins.
She is a mother of five and she is graduating
this semester here at Victor Valley College. We're gonna talk
(05:20):
about her life. So I know that you said in
our last segment that you moved to Georgia. Part of
that is as you were a single mom trying to
trying to figure out life to kind of make it through, correct. Yes, uh,
And and I know on our campus that we have
a lot of single moms and stuff. So I think
this is a perfect opportunity to connect with with those
students who are are you know, working class people, who
(05:41):
working class mothers who are trying to just make a
living and they want something better for for their for
their lives. Yeah, here's an intimate question I want to
ask you because I know I know off camera we
we've talked a little bit about this as far as
like relationships go, which appear to have been a hot
mess in the beginning, right. Definitely, do you still believe
(06:04):
in love?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I do?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You do?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I do?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Tell me why?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, I had to relearn what love was. I had
to relearned because if you don't love yourself first, and
you can't give real love, so the love comes from
the inside of you. So I had to learn how
to love myself because when you're a mother of five
and beyond the numbers, everything is about the kids, not
about you anymore, and you lose yourself. You lose yourself
(06:30):
a marriage, you lose yourself as a woman, who you were,
your personality. So when you start finding that again, it
revives everything else. But I'm a person that loves love anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's that's very positive to hear. That's very very positive
to hear. So when you came back to California, how
did the whole because I know you came back for
your grandma, as you said, Yeah, so you're here now,
how did the whole thing of Hey, go to VVC.
How did that come about for you?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, so I was actually struggle. I've been struggling since
I came back to California, just working warehouses, temp agencies.
I did work in a nonprofit now. That gave me
some joy because at that nonprofit, I worked up to
be like an office manager. But we helped people with rent,
We helped them with bills, helped with school supplies.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Making a difference in people's lives. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And then also there was another program that was there
for people that get out of jail and they have
like a.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Year to recover, like a recidivism.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So I was helping with that. But within all that,
I prayed about it, and I know I heard the
Lord say to me, because I'm a believer in Christ.
I know I heard him say, go to school. So
I'm like, okay, well, if I'm to go to school,
then give me joy to go to school. And then
from there, what was it? June twenty twenty three, Summer
of twenty twenty three, I had joy like I was
(07:49):
back in high school and just made friends with everybody
and talked to everybody and try to spread joy wherever
I could do.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You had told me in a previous conversation that when
you first came back, it was it like sucked for you,
like you were you were regretting it, which which was
interesting to hear because when we talk about people who
are not from California, in your case, you were, uh,
it's everyone. That's the sun, It's the Golden State, right,
like southern California, palm trees, the mountains, the beach, like
(08:20):
you know, everyone wants to come to California or they're
envy of California. But but but in your case, you're like,
I really don't want to be here.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah I didn't. Well, I think it might just be
like the high Desert Victorville, because I've been living here
since the eighties and it's a very slow building place.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It moves at a different rate of speed.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes, yeah, shoot, heck no, it's stupid, but but this
is my home. So but I never thought I could
make it here because of all the years of pushing
and things and not able to break down doors like
I wanted to. So I don't know if it was
just not that time or if it was just the
high desert.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So you also told me before deciding to take that
leap to go to college that you had a lot
of questions with who am I, which is crazy to
hear because you think, you know, black and white on
the surface, you're a mom of five kids. You know,
you seem very family oriented, but even in that time,
(09:23):
you still were trying to figure out who is tais?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, so take it back to what I said before.
When you become a mother, once you get past two
or three children, it's all about the children, and so
you forget about yourself. You forget to take care of yourself.
You forget to do your hair, do your you know, nails,
your health and all that kind of stuff. So you
kind of lose who you are, or in the process
of building your family, you don't grow yourself. You kind
(09:50):
of like stay that same working machine over and over again.
So when you get to the point where your kids
are grown and now it's time for you, you're like, Okay,
what do want to do? Like I never stepped out
when I was like twenty three, and now I'm like whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Old enough?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, old enough, old enough? And so what do I
want to do? What did I have I grown into?
What do I like? Do I still like steak? Or
do I like chicken more? Do I want to be
vegetarian or vegan like you don't? Do you have the favorite?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Do you like steak like more than chicken? Absolutely? Okay,
all right, I like steak? Took Steak's great. So Sierra's
here too, taking pictures. Do you like steak? I do
like steak? Yeah? How do you like a steak? Medium? Rare? Yeah?
Little bl So it's okay if it's mooing? Is that
(10:40):
what you're telling me? Okay, all right, getting back on track. So,
so you felt stuck who you were, You're trying to
learn that because you're a mom and stuff. I think,
what's what's unique about that? Well, it's it's unique. But
there's so many people that can really relate to that.
(11:00):
Is that I've been in situations where you know, I've
you know, I've covered stories over the years in like
hospitals or in construction or in different just different fields
in life, right, And it's interesting how I find people,
you know, adults late thirties, forties, even early fifties who
(11:21):
were literally on their second or third career. You know,
I've met nurses, like new registered nurses forty five forty
six years old, and I'm like, well, what did you
do before this? And they had like a whole nother life,
like they were managers in like retail, you know, real
estate agents, like all kinds. And when I was younger,
(11:43):
I started to realize, Oh, you don't have to do
the same thing for twenty thirty forty years. You can
literally start over whenever. And what you're telling me is
that's what you did. You started over. I did because
that's what you wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It's actually beautiful. It's kind of like the process of
a butterfly. But this is your second chance of being
a butterfly, So what kind of butterfly are you going
to be? So all that time that before I came
to Victor Valley, like twenty sixteen to twenty twenty three,
when I actually came in, it was like the process
of being in that little cocoon and trying to eat
(12:18):
my way out. And then when I prayed and found out,
so now I'm like not starting to wiggle out a
little bit or whatever, and then now I'm gonna ready graduate.
So my wings are coming out.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
All right, and we're gonna talk about those wings when
we wings sound really good right now, can you order?
Can you uber eat? Haalen?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I want a lie?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I know she said wings and that's where my mind is.
So we'll be right back here with Tye Jenkins on
rample fight, don't go away, and we're back. It doesn't
appear that our wings are here. I asked for honey
(13:01):
barbecue and let me move back. Well, don't you have cash?
We we should, as as the associate student body, we
should try and advocate for a wing stop on campus.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We should and Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I think that's important.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Maybe I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Okay, I'm causing stress in our in our student president
right now, but you have to admit it's a great idea. Excellent, okay,
all right, all right, I want to talk about you
told me that things changed in twenty twenty three, that
that's when you decided to get on the bandwagon and
start attending the college. So step out, walk me through.
(13:45):
First off, No, no, don't don't do that because then
that'll date yourself. I was gonna say, you know, how
long has it been since you've been in school?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
First day of school at VVC. Let's I saw that.
I saw that. Look first day of school at VVC.
What what was that like for you. Were you nervous
because you've been gone from it for a while.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
No, I don't. I don't get nervous.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
What does that feel like.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
When it comes to stuff like with just stepping out?
But I said, I prayed for joy, so that joy came.
So it was just like being for me being in
a place I want to be, you know how like
you have you have a job and you just working,
and that's you just like work.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
This is what I want every that's every day here
with Haley.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Oh yeah, I gotta go see that's crazy. What gosh, No,
this this adventure. It was like an adventure. You're starting,
step out.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You start so so you've always you've always had that
about you, even when you like you went to Georgia.
Let's go, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I love talking to people. Yeah, that's why I'm comfortable
right now.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, I love talking.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Like so, so I'm curious where your threshold is, Like
could you jump out of a moving airplane or Okay,
So that's that's that's too much.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Okay, But I could talk to the president.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Okay, Okay, so we can talk to the president with confidence,
but we can't jump out of a flying airplane. Let's see.
Uh could you go into the middle of the Pacific
Ocean and deep sea dive?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Not not either? Okay? Could you tight rope walk over
a cliff? Okay? Trying to figure out where that threshold?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Maybe, well, if I if I hit it head on, like,
if I face it like I did when we went
to Washington, DC recently, then yeah I think I could.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Okay, Yeah, what about a lion? Could you feed a lion?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I'll throw it. I'll throw it to you. Better go
get it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's great, okay. Uh, so your first day was good,
So it was excellent. You made friends easy?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Heck you. Tam Madale was my first teacher and he's
still my right hand man when it comes to teachers.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You liked him that much? Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
He's cool. He's cool. He the era that I'm from.
He loves it. Okay, I go to sea, which.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I have tried so many times to try and to
try and at least a generation, and it's just just
not it's not material that it is the generation. Okay. Uh,
highest peak in life here at VVC because you've been
here for a couple of years now, so looking back,
maybe there's a couple like what was like, Yeah, this
(16:23):
was the moment that I'm always gonna remember and I'm
always gonna take with me wherever I go, because this
was really where you started to transform and transition into
into something better.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Hmmm. So probably after that first semester, because I don't
know if I would be okay with doing the class.
It's like, Okay, I don't know, I haven't been in
school in a while. But after that first semester, it
was just like I got this, I got good grades.
I got I don't want to get less than a C.
(16:53):
So it started making me like push myself, Okay, you're
not gonna get a C in this class, or you
gotta turn homework in, or you're gonna know, really catch
on the online classes. And it was just after that
first semester, especially because I was bothering my teacher in
two of my classes. So yeah, I had to warm
up some kind of way.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
What do your kids think about you getting getting back
into education and trying to trying to complete this.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
They love it, they brag, They're not like my kids
are not like normal kids, like you know, how to
hate their parents. Yeah, I got a little bit of that,
but not a lot. Like when my kids started hearing
what I was doing at school and they was like,
what the heck you doing it at school? I'm like, yeah, girl, yeah, guys,
(17:38):
look you should come with me.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And so I am, Yeah, what are your kids' names?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Okay, so don't laugh, it's a lot of teas. Oh god, Okay, okay,
so tyron tyshan Oh Marion, Lania and Alani.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh Marion was that before omar.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
No, My sister named him because of a Mario.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
She was in love with him and then she yeah,
I let her do it. I let her do it.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You let her do it? Okay? Does O Marion know this? Yeah?
He does.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
He knows the story.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
And what does he think?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
He doesn't? He doesn't. He didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
O Marion condolences. Condolence is my guy? Oh man. The
first two they're kind of rymy are they? Are they twins?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
No? Actually, so those two were when I was sixteen
and seventeen, and I ain't gonna even say that because
I was going to say something. I'm gonna say they're
very special, but don't get jealous. Third or first, but no,
they're not. They were actually like a year apart.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Okay, well, you see that whole conversation right there kind
of makes me believe that they were spoiled a little
more than the others.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yep, because I was still at home. So but I've
come from a family of eleven.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So, oh, where are you in the timeline?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm the third oldest. There's seven girls, four boys, okay,
and so all my I didn't have to pay for
a babysitter. I have to look for one. That's nice
because I didn't even touch my children myself because they
wouldn't put them.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Down, right, Yeah, save a lot of money that way.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, yeah, yep. I didn't have to worry about changing diapers, feeding,
taking them, putting in a bath. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well that's so nice. Yeah, that's so nice. Uh. We're
gonna take one more break, and then we're gonna wrap
and talk a little bit about what you're what you're
studying here at Victor Valley College, and why this particular
graduation for you is very very special because it's more
than just getting an associates degree. So stick with us
(19:38):
and we will be right back here on ramplifying. So
what are you studying here? Like? What is what is
this associates degree that you're trying to to achieve.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So this is going to be business administration okay, and
business management okay, because I'm gonna have my own business.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh yeah, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Notary loan signing and life scan.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Oh my gosh, that that pays good yep.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And then I'm gonna do it for the government after
about a year, I give my SEPID year.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So aside from that, you're also getting something else while
while while coming here to VBC, tell me a little
bit about that.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So I wasn't thinking about getting it. I'm gonna get
by GED. I wasn't thinking about getting it. I got it.
I tried to get it way back when my kids
were like two or three, my first two, but in California,
I don't know at the time, they were kind of
like changing the tests, so I missed too.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So you never So you never actually graduated high school.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I didn't get to graduate.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, I'm assuming because you were a parent by that
point and that. Yeah, that took more presidents.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, so they kind of forced like back then, they
kind of forced you like okay, well you just gonna
get the GED. Okay, You're not gonna go a regular
high school diploma.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
So when I did go for the GED, I missed
it by two points and they didn't give it to me.
So I was like, okay, well, I just keep pushing.
So that was that mother push, just keep pushing, push
and push. And so when I got here this last semester,
I wasn't thinking about the GED. I was just like, oh,
I'm getting ready to have a degree. But then I
heard another guy, I heard another little voice of guys say, hey,
(21:13):
you know what, We're gonna go ahead and wrap this
thing up in full circle. Let's just have you walk
out with your GED two. So I'm getting my GED
and I'm gonna have that business degree.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
How does how does that feel to close that chapter
and go full circle and just in just a couple
of months here for you.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's unreal. It is actually unreal.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Because I'm sure you've had some time to reflect that
it's starting to settle in that this is reality, this
is happening to you.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Well, you know what, it's the closer I get to graduation,
the more is setting in. And I don't think like
even probably the graduation day, I'll probably still be sitting
back thinking like, oh my god, I actually did this,
and I did it in two years and everything's wrapped up,
so like a full circle. Everything is wrapped up. And
then my youngest daughter is graduating from high school, so
that's my last and I'm the first, so we're all
(22:00):
just once.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It's all happening at once. Yep, yep. That's got to
feel real good inside. Yeah it does.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'm very proud.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So I imagine the waterworks are going to be running
on that day.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Right now, and they gonna be running after that day. Yeah,
that day, after that day. Yep.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, that's really special. Yeah, that's uh, there's I don't know,
there seems like there's some symbolism in there that your
youngest who's completing her high school and you are completing
your higher education as well as getting your ged.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, because a lot of times in African American households,
everybody doesn't graduate or nobody graduates. So to beat generational,
I could say curses, because sometimes it just keeps going
like okay, from one household to the next year, not graduating.
You're not graduating. You're not graduating.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
If I can for a second, to get a little
more personal in your own family. Does that mean that
you're breaking a cycle of some kind?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I'm breaking a cycle. So it's not we have a
couple graduates, but not everybody got to graduate. It's either
like later on in life. So for me being one
of the oldest, they're even my sisters and brothers that
are grown right now, they look back and they're like, wow,
you actually went to college and you got a degree.
I'm proud of you. You know. So it kind of
(23:16):
it's not just a reflection to my children. It's a
reflection everybody that knows me, and a lot of people
know me.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's a legacy.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yes, yes, legacy.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
So legacy. Why'd you look there? Is there something with
legacy I don't know about.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Well, President Rayes here we were talking about legacy and
she was like, well, I'm so young. I don't know.
I don't have a legacy. But you're building it. You're
daily building part of my legacy. Okay, she's daily building legacy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, you got to work on legacy. Nineteen years on
campus over here.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
She got a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, that is the legacy. Nineteen years on campus.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
That's a long time.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
That is we should we should try and advocate for,
like a bronze statue of you, like like a fountain
in the lake for the ducks and the geese to
use your something.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I don't know, be cool much.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It's a lot. It's a lot, so very cool. So
uh so you're gonna get your degree, You're gonna go
on and create a small business. Are you staying? Are
you staying local or are you trying to get the
heck out of here?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Well, I'm gonna stay local for just a short period
of time, very short on maybe a year, less than
a year. Maybe where you want to go.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I'm going to Georgia, going back. We'll try the peaches
while you're there.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, I'm gonna try a lot because they do a
lot of like festivals, city festivals, chili cook all, you
know the stuff that you see on Hallmark. Yeah, that's
what they do.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, they shoot a lot of Hallmark there, so they
really do all those small little towns.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Like what It makes sense because the neighborhoods look like storybook,
like a magazine.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, I definitely got to come out there and visit.
So well. Hey, Tys, thank you so much for being
on ramplifying. Of course, I wish you, I wish you
the best in everything that you're doing. And save some
water works for graduation day because we're definitely going to
be getting some pictures of those. I need those for
marketing purpose.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I gotta dance. I got a hairstyle ready, yes?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Please? All right? We will see you guys on another
edition of Ramplify next time. Thanks for joining us, see
you again later, and that's it. You're done. How do
you feel You're good?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That was excellent? I was, I was a really good interview.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You're so matro I am. I'm aware of that, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Ramplify. The podcast is filmed and recorded in Victorville, California.
This podcast is made possible with the support of the
Associated Student Body of Victor Valley College. The views and
opinions expressed in this production are those of the speakers
and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of
Victor Valley College or its affiliates. Ramplify is hosted by
Andrew Caravella, produced by Robert A.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Sewell.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Production crew includes officers of the Associated student Body of
twenty twenty four through twenty twenty five. If you'd like
more information about this podcast, please reach out by email
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