I'm Gonna Fucking Be There No but See That's Beautiful

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"I like to curse but I don't like the curse in public so you you're cursing kind of led me into cursing which is fine who knows how it works uh I have a potty mouth that I'm usually trying to train but today I was like well today I am untrained in a little bit dude" "Send me those cats we like disaffected people who are like you know something's wrong with this world. We have a lot of those folks who join us and when they go to these foreign places they learn a ton about themselvesWhich is part of the mission so send them my way manYou won't do brother it won't take so muchMan okay hey yeah keep going

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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