Interview

00:02 My name is Andrew, and I am 16 years old. Today is December 13th, and I'm speaking.

00:07 With Kevin Killigrew, who is a teacher.

00:14 And Mr. Killigrew if you had to tell people who listen to this, what would you tell them to take to heart?

00:25 Okay. Just speaking to it. Okay, so what. What. What's the question?

00:36 If you had to tell people who listen to this, what would you tell them to take to heart?

00:45 Okay. I'm doing an interview, so I'm going to be as honest as I can in these answers, so. And I'll try to be relaxed when I do it. Yeah. So. And I haven't been prepped for this, so these answers are just coming out of my head and heart. Thank you.

01:04 All right. What is your favorite memory?

01:16 I guess maybe I'll go back to my childhood. I was born in Gary, Indiana, but most of my years, from 5 years old to 10 years old, I lived in Newburgh, Indiana, and we lived on the banks of the Ohio river, or we lived across the street from the Ohio River. And I just remember that area as being very. It's a small town. It was peaceful. There was a lot of things we could do. My neighbor worked at the Evansville Museum. He had a house that was built on stilts. In the springtime, the river would flood, and we would go into his house. He had a lot of artwork in the house. And just being in that house, and in the springtime, we would. He would move all of his possessions to the upper floors because the bottom would flood. And I just remember also going up into his porch, which he had on top, his rooftop porch, and he had a telescope, and we would look at the planets and stars and things like that. It was just a neat area. I just remember that. And also I played. I first started playing baseball, and my grandmother stayed with us for a while, and I remember having memories of her and just having fun in that town.

02:48 Yeah, that sounds like a good one. Do you have any regrets that you have?

02:55 I had a chance to join the Navy when I got out of college, and I just decided to go into the workforce so that I don't know if it's a regret, but it's just something that I wished about. I got a grandson in the Navy, and so he's in Hawaii now. So I think maybe I could have traveled more throughout the world if I would have been in the Navy or something like that.

03:20 Yeah. What is something that you enjoy telling people?

03:30 I just, you know, tell people I like to volunteer. I do some volunteer work for St. Vincent de Paul. And I'm currently helping people with. Who are having issues with their cars, and so we help them repair their cars. And I just try to look for the good in people.

03:53 If you had to choose between $15 million or a day with your favorite person, what would you choose?

03:58 Okay, what was the.

04:00 If you had to choose between $15 million or a day with your favorite person, what would you choose?

04:05 I would probably choose. That's a toughie. So you got a situation there with $15 million, and you could spend that. You know, you could do that for the rest of your life. But spending it with my favorite person, I think I might do the favorite person, and I don't. I don't know who that would be right now, but, you know, because, I mean, money was the money. I think that would be more rewarding. I don't think money's gonna get you a whole lot.

04:37 Yeah. What is the earliest memory you can ever think of?

04:44 Wow. Earliest memory maybe is just being in a home in Gary, Indiana, and my sister and I were in that home together. She was a year older than I was. I just remember being, you know, with my mom and dad and my sister in that home in Gary, Indiana, when I was probably maybe a year or two old.

05:11 That's early. If you had a talk about your proudest moment in your life, what would it be?

05:25 Let's see. Probably the proudest I felt was when we had. My wife and I had the birth of our twins. That was just. We just felt. I just felt on top of the world.

05:37 What are your hopes for the future generation of this world?

05:41 Yeah, I think there's so many challenges here. There's so many opportunities for the future generation. I think, you know, the future generation just needs to focus on, you know, like, you know, trying to do their best they can. And there's so many issues that need to be resolved. I mean, as far as race issues, there's issues with poverty, world hunger. I think those. There's so many opportunities there.

06:11 Did you have a dream of what you could do when you were out of high school?

06:16 When I was out of high school, I wanted to travel a lot. I wanted to get married and just raise a family and be the best I could be. So that was pretty much it.

06:33 Yeah. Thank you for doing this interview with me.

06:37 All right. Thank you, Andrew.