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Public Speaking, Tuesday, January 8, 2013
"Hey there," Josh said, standing behind a rostrum at the front of the room. "I'm Josh Lyman. You may all be suitably impressed now."
Yeah, it never worked in Fandom, but a guy's gotta try, right?
"Before I returned in glory to Fandom High School to teach you fine students, I was the Chief of Staff to President Matt Santos," he continued, "and before that I was the deputy chief of Staff for President Josiah Bartlet, and before that, I worked for various House and Senate members on the Hill. And before that, I got degrees from Harvard and Yale."
Be impressed, dammit!
"And in all of those places the ability to be articulate in front of large groups was absolutely crucial," Josh added. "If you can't make your point in a way people'll remember, there's no point in you even being in the room. This class will teach you how to be remembered."
He reached onto the shelf on the rostrum and pulled out a bullhorn, then tossed it to the nearest student. "And the first part of being remembered is making a good first impression. You each have fifteen seconds to get me to remember your name. Go."
Yeah, it never worked in Fandom, but a guy's gotta try, right?
"Before I returned in glory to Fandom High School to teach you fine students, I was the Chief of Staff to President Matt Santos," he continued, "and before that I was the deputy chief of Staff for President Josiah Bartlet, and before that, I worked for various House and Senate members on the Hill. And before that, I got degrees from Harvard and Yale."
Be impressed, dammit!
"And in all of those places the ability to be articulate in front of large groups was absolutely crucial," Josh added. "If you can't make your point in a way people'll remember, there's no point in you even being in the room. This class will teach you how to be remembered."
He reached onto the shelf on the rostrum and pulled out a bullhorn, then tossed it to the nearest student. "And the first part of being remembered is making a good first impression. You each have fifteen seconds to get me to remember your name. Go."
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"Olive Penderghast, and I'm a senior," she said, into the bullhorn, wincing a little because she'd picked up a little interference. "I was expelled from my last school for crashing a pep rally with a burlesque dance number and creating a fake persona for myself over the course of six weeks, and I'm still making a bid for three of the top colleges in California. Wish me l-- wish me miracles."
And then she set the bullhorn down and shrugged, having come in right under her fifteen-second mark. She was pretty memorable back in Ojai. Might as well try to make the same thing work here.
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Josh was a big liar.