1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: All right. It is way up with Angela Yee and 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: I'm really excited about this segment that we're doing. And 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: this is with the future, right because you guys are 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: the future. But we have three students here with us. 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: We have Odessa Forbes Hi. We also have a Shanti 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: Butler Hi and Kwadair Jordan. 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 2: How you guys doing? 8 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: Okay? And this is all part of a program Tomorrow's 9 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: Leaders NYC, Inc. And the program director is here with us, 10 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: toy In. How you doing, Toyen? Say your whole name so. 11 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 3: We My full name is Olawa Toyan. That means God 12 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 3: is worth praising. 13 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Olo, wait, let me do it right, 14 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: olowatoy In, Yes, okay, got it? All right? So can 15 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: you tell us about Tomorrow's Leaders before we get into 16 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: these questions that we're going to do today. 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 3: So Tomorrow's Leaders is an organization that I found in 18 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 3: twenty eleven. Twenty eleven, I'm after working at different nonpropagations 19 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 3: and having a background education, I said I wanted to 20 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 3: start my own program and I wanted to do them 21 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 3: can unity. So I left where I was at to 22 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 3: start this, and I always felt like in order to 23 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 3: have a business to thrive, you have to stand out. 24 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 3: So I thought about, how could I start something as 25 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 3: far as nonprofits stand out. So I thought about my 26 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 3: experiences working with youth and I always kind of came up, 27 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,639 Speaker 3: but a connection with kids that've been left back in school. 28 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 3: It was very weird unintentionally. But then when I decided 29 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 3: to go back to school to study nonprofit management and 30 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 3: I came up with a business plan, I said that, 31 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 3: you know what, I'm gonna start my organation focusing on 32 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 3: this population of kids, right And they're tomorrow's leaders because 33 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 3: they because of the situations being held back in school 34 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 3: for whatever the reasons, they're indirectly leaders in the school. 35 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 3: They're older than most of their classmates. They pretty much 36 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 3: people follow them, you know, one one way or another. 37 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 3: So we're gonna use their past situations into positive So 38 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 3: they are basically tomorrow's leaders. So that's what it came about. 39 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: You Know what's interesting is when I was in college, 40 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: I wanted to be a teacher, and so I actually 41 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: did in Washington Heights this program called urban Education, and 42 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: there were students there that were kept back for a year, 43 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: but it was different reasons why. So for each of you, 44 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: I want to ask and I'll tell you what my 45 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: experience was like, because I feel like some of them 46 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: were the most gifted but were not interested in school 47 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: like that, and so I know sometimes there's a lot 48 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: of challenges that could be going on at home or 49 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: an environment. So I just wanted to start with you, Odessa, 50 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: what was your experience because you're a senior now about 51 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: to graduate. 52 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 4: Okay, finally, my experience is a bit different from everyone else. 53 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 4: I was never left back because of academic hardships. It 54 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 4: was mainly because since a young age, I was traveling 55 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 4: all over the world, and so because I'm traveling and 56 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 4: some of the language barriers, the curriculum was different. And 57 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 4: so when I finally settled back in America, they left 58 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 4: me back because they're teaching style was way different than 59 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,519 Speaker 4: where I was before, and there was also a language barrier. 60 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 4: So they were just like, what is the class that 61 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 4: we can put you back in that would not be 62 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 4: too bad? And that's why I. 63 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: Get left back. Okay, how did that affect you? Did 64 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: you feel like that was something that was a reasonable 65 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: thing to do? 66 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 4: You know, well, reasonable, yes, As as I said, traveled 67 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 4: a lot, so it became normal, a normal thing. But 68 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 4: it did affect me in the way that I was 69 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 4: more complacent. I was more reserved, and I was very 70 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 4: much more shy, and so I would not be as 71 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 4: outspoken as I was, and even if I knew something, 72 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,119 Speaker 4: I would hold back myself back intentionally as a way 73 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: not to draw attention to myself, as I was older 74 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 4: than my peers and I was coming in like like 75 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 4: fresh meat, kind. 76 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: Of okay, all right, and a shanty. You're also a 77 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: senior about about to graduate. Congratulations, so tell me your story. 78 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 5: My story so basically, or started in first grade. I 79 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 5: was when I was two, I was diagnosed with hearing problem, 80 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 5: so I was going back and forth to the hospital 81 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 5: for my hair, air infections and everything. So that affected 82 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 5: me with school. So in first grade everyone started. I 83 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 5: got left back once because I was keep on going 84 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 5: back and forth to the hospital getting surgeries, getting surgeries 85 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 5: from my ears, trying to see if I could pay 86 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 5: atti to the class. 87 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: I can't really hear the teacher. 88 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 5: I gotta come up to the first class like first 89 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 5: hour in line or whatever. I and then they wanted 90 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 5: to try to fight for FM union in school. My 91 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 5: mom tried to fight for fmmunity so I could try 92 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 5: to be on my right grade and try to do 93 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 5: what I have to do for myself and my health, 94 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 5: but it wasn't working. They was keep on denying me 95 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 5: and everything. So it's I just got left back twice 96 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 5: cause of my hearing. And I can think in my 97 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 5: sight like I just now got glasses to this like 98 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 5: last year. 99 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: But the glasses are cute, thank you. Now, how did 100 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: that affect you? Though? 101 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 5: It affected me because like I was the only older 102 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 5: kid in the class and that like I see my 103 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 5: other associate slash friends is moving up to the next grade, 104 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 5: and I'm like, dang, I could have been dumb, but 105 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 5: it's not even my fault. It's like it's my health, right, 106 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 5: and that's just made me depressed and everything. But I 107 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 5: just kept fighting, fighting, fighting me and my mother and 108 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 5: did I finally got hairing, hearing aids and everything. So 109 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 5: I've been working doing what I have to do, being 110 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 5: on honor roll. 111 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: That's right. 112 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 5: Everything, I just been working hard, pushing hard. Okay, that's 113 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 5: the way I can with this hairing program. That's great, 114 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 5: and quit Darren, what about you? 115 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 6: I would totally say my trouble like with like school 116 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 6: and stuff has started from grades three to six. In class, 117 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 6: I will often find myself for and behind than like 118 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 6: the other students because like and we started to learn 119 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 6: in like third grade pendas, parentheses, exponents, multiplication, and et cetera. 120 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 6: I doesn't forgot, so we started to learn that, and 121 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 6: basically it's like I wouldn't understand it because I would 122 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 6: just do it like you know, how it's put in 123 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 6: front of me instead of actually doing checking to see 124 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 6: if his parentheses first exponents. 125 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 2: Because when they give you the. 126 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:31,840 Speaker 6: Work and the teachers that I had, it really wasn't 127 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 6: explainable and I had to kind of figure things out 128 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 6: on my own. So by the time I would be 129 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 6: able to figure things out, the class has already three 130 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 6: lessons ahead of me. And now I'm struggling to find 131 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 6: time to get learn how to do decimals, learn how 132 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 6: to do fractions, and like you know, I passed third grade, 133 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 6: but I passed by the skin of my teeth. But 134 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 6: it really didn't catch up to me till fourth grade, 135 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 6: where I got left back and then I had to 136 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 6: do the grade again. And it just like it's not discouraging, 137 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 6: but seeing like as Ashanti touched up like seeing your 138 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 6: friends go on and like you know, they're going off 139 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 6: and stuff, it really makes you think, like that could 140 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 6: have been me. But like the way I look at 141 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 6: it and the way how I viewed it when I 142 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 6: was younger, it's not my fault because I felt like 143 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 6: the teacher should have been doing more to help me 144 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 6: versus just moving fast and moving at everybody's pace, or 145 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 6: like you know, try to work with me independently. 146 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: And how did the other students treat you, like knowing 147 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: that you were older than them. Was it a big 148 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: deal or was it not a big deal? 149 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 2: I would say it. I would say I wouldn't call 150 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 2: it bullying. 151 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 6: I would just call it like you know, I was 152 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,239 Speaker 6: just talked about. But it didn't feel good either, because 153 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 6: it's just like you know, when you know kids like back, 154 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 6: you know, when I was younger, they'll used to be like, oh, yeah, 155 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 6: look at the big dummy who's still in like fourth grade. 156 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: Yeah that's bullying. 157 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 6: Fifth It wasn't bullying to me only because ever since, 158 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 6: like young, I like when it came to like calling 159 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 6: names and stuff, I used to throw it right back, 160 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 6: even though it didn't solve nothing, but it still had 161 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 6: to do the school work. But it was just a 162 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 6: way for me for like, you know, protecting myself because 163 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 6: I felt like, you know, nobody else is like the 164 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 6: same age as me, and I can't relate to nobody else. 165 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 6: So that was my way of like protecting myself. 166 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 2: So cold. 167 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: Now, can you talk about this program that you have 168 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: toy in and how this is actually help What the 169 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: program does for these students. 170 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,719 Speaker 3: So the program provides social, emotional and academic support to 171 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 3: the kids. We partner with New York City public schools 172 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 3: and charter schools that have a high amount of the 173 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 3: population population. You know, reality is you're going to find 174 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 3: this issue in certain communities East New York, Brownsville, South Bronx, 175 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 3: South A, Jamaica, Queens. So we them with schools in 176 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 3: those communities, and we provide social emotional and academic support 177 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 3: during the school day to those students twice a week 178 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 3: with there for the entire day. The students have have 179 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 3: messals that are assigned to them, and then those same 180 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 3: students have the opportunity to get support outside of school, 181 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 3: So we do, uh, we work with their families, help 182 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 3: their families and whatever way we can do. We do 183 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 3: a lot of community service they do a lot of 184 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 3: given These kids are amazing. They do a lot of 185 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 3: giving back to different communities. We exposed them to different 186 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 3: career fields and college and we just came back from 187 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 3: Clark Atlanta. 188 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: Actually, I see at. 189 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 3: About exposure because those are the things that you know, 190 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 3: for me growing up, you know, I had I grew up, 191 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 3: I'm from Nigeria. My family, I came from a big 192 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 3: fan family. Everything was about family exposure. When I went 193 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 3: to elementary school, middle school, high school in Brooklyn, everything 194 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 3: was about exposure. And then one of the things that 195 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 3: even going to Hampton, it was just exposure and and 196 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 3: it told me that you know, we can educate and 197 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 3: empower ourselves. We don't have to wait on other people 198 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 3: to do that for us. And that's something that I've 199 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 3: always kind of just used to this day, like, you know, 200 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 3: why can't we just do it forosselves? Why we have 201 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 3: to always depend on other groups? 202 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: Right? So I agree with you there. Now, Odessa, do 203 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: you know have you or do you have any idea 204 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: what it is that you want to do in your 205 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: future if you think about your career, like have you 206 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: had that set since you were younger or are you 207 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: still trying to figure that out. 208 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 3: I have. 209 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 4: I'm currently going to be a criminal justice major in 210 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 4: Handy University. Yeah, the goal is to be a lawyer, 211 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 4: still iffy in which type of lawyer? 212 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: But I know it's a lawyer, and we got too 213 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: interested in that. 214 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 4: Well. Growing up it was my family and a little 215 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 4: bit of me because I do not agree, but they 216 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 4: have said since a young age, I have been very much, 217 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 4: very argumentative, and so I always have something else to say. 218 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 4: Don't know, I always have something to say, even if 219 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 4: it's just curiosity. Liked I like to know details, I 220 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 4: like to research, like all of that, and so because 221 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 4: of that, I was just really drawn to the career. 222 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 4: And so I was just like, hey man, everything is 223 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 4: pointing in that direction, so why not take it? 224 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: When you west and news? What interest you right now? 225 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: Like what you've been watching? I know Donald Trump just 226 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: got found guilty in this civil suit. But are there 227 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,439 Speaker 1: certain things that you're keeping up with. 228 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 4: I'm just keeping up with everything, but at the same 229 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 4: time trying to keep it at arm's length because everything 230 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 4: since the pandemic has been so it's so much. 231 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: It's a lot. 232 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 4: And what I'm particularly interested in at the moment was 233 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 4: the TikTok yesco okay, Like that's something I really kind 234 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 4: of like zeroed. 235 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 1: In on if they're banning TikTok here or yes okay. 236 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 4: And I was particularly interested in the meeting they had 237 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 4: and like the voicing their opinions and whatnot. I was 238 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 4: very particularly interested in that. And I still kind of 239 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 4: like bring it up with peers, like what do you 240 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 4: think about this? 241 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: Well, good, I'm glad you bought that, because we are 242 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 1: going to talk about social media. So what do you 243 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: think about TikTok? Do you think that it is more 244 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: good or more harm for people? For people your age teenagers? 245 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 4: Well, I'm kind of biased because I don't necessarily use TikTok, 246 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 4: but I feel like it's a good outlet for expression 247 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 4: and to have some kind of like agency and freedom 248 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 4: over your life. But with that being said, it is 249 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 4: very much detrimental with the content that is on TikTok 250 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 4: as of now, because I feel like there's just a 251 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 4: wide array of things that younger that's not really educational 252 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 4: or very much motivational in the way that should be. 253 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 4: It's more and more detrimental to the mental health to 254 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 4: a lot of kids. So I feel like it should 255 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 4: be kind of like rained in a little bit more. 256 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 4: But I do think the idea of it and the 257 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 4: reason behind. 258 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 2: It is good. 259 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: What about you, Asha, What do you get that it's 260 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: about TikTok? 261 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 5: Wow, I'm a TikTok, I have I'm tiktoks down none 262 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 5: of that. TikTok really like taught me a lot of things. 263 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 5: Like I used to dance on a dance team, but 264 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 5: like I just used to, I used to have sieges, 265 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 5: so I had to get up out of there and 266 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 5: get my life together. So once I started seeing TikTok 267 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 5: and everything, I just do a little fifteen second dance move. 268 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,119 Speaker 2: At least I could do a little. 269 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 5: Thirty second fifteen second dance moves and don't get tired 270 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 5: as that as much as you on a dance team, 271 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 5: you get tired and everything. So TikTok made me learn 272 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 5: multiple dances, multiple cooking things, everything, because my dream is culinary. Okay, yeah, 273 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 5: I've been saying that since I. 274 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: Was what's your what's your main dish? If you could 275 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: make us something right now, then chicken whole rap about. 276 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:58,719 Speaker 2: Fried chicken too? 277 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: Oh god, oh god, you have an air fryer? Are 278 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,959 Speaker 1: you gonna not deep fry, okay, but let's not eat 279 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: that every day. Yeah, but how do you think they 280 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: should regulate TikTok though, because too much of anything isn't 281 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: good for you, right, and so sometimes we're consuming certain 282 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: things and you know, just like a deesta set is 283 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: not a lot of regulations on it. So what do 284 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: you think should be done? 285 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 5: I feel like like it should be a certain age 286 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 5: limit to TikTok, like and like people who post harmful 287 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 5: things like it shouldn't be up there anyway. Like it 288 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 5: should be more socially to people who like enjoy it, 289 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 5: like people who like to dance, people who like to 290 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 5: see stuff, good stuff happen. It should have that type 291 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 5: of impact in TikTok. 292 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 6: Right. 293 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 5: I don't want to see no self harm. I don't 294 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 5: want to see no somebody getting hit by a car, 295 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 5: none of that. I just want to see good energy, 296 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 5: good vib Okay. 297 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: I agree with you, then TikTok and quite there? What 298 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: about you? What are your thoughts about social media? What 299 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: do you want the most? 300 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 2: I love social media. 301 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 6: I'm not gonna sit here act like I'm you know, 302 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 6: a saint, and I'm not going But like TikTok, I 303 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 6: see TikTok and some viewers and some content creators, I 304 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 6: see them expressing itself, like especially because you know it's 305 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 6: different type of tiktoks. But right now I'm on New 306 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 6: York TikTok, so I see order you know, New York. 307 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: I'm from Brooklyn, New York. 308 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 6: But I just feel like, back to what Ashanti but saying, 309 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 6: it does need to be an age limit, because it's 310 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 6: like certain stuff that I've seen on TikTok that is 311 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 6: just like a little kids shouldn't be doing that. It's like, 312 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 6: you know, it's one thing for them to you know, 313 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 6: be in a house doing it, but it's it's another 314 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 6: thing for them to go outside, you know, little kids 315 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 6: to be out here wearing you know, wigs and stuff 316 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 6: coloring their hair at such a young age. Like it's 317 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 6: like different like when you're like sixteen al right, Like 318 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 6: you know, yeah, about you're in high school. I would say, 319 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 6: like you're in the tenth for eleventh grade right around there. 320 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 6: So it's like, you know, I trust you enough to 321 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 6: know like you know, you know what you're doing is 322 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 6: et cetera versus, and you know it's a low controversial, 323 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 6: but I feel like you know it was something and 324 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 6: he's a controversial topic, Kanye West, right, Okay, it was 325 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 6: something that Kanye West like he was trying to warm 326 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 6: him about. I believe Northwest on being on TikTok and stuff. 327 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 6: So it's just like, you know, like Northwest for like, 328 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 6: you know, like example, it's just like I feel like 329 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 6: kids should be kids and like sometimes TikTok's influent kids 330 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 6: to grow up, okay, versus like you know then like 331 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 6: you know, being your authentic self and being a child. 332 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: See this is interesting to me because we hear adults 333 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: having these conversations all the time about what should be 334 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: done about social media and the harm that social media 335 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: can cause the kids and all of that, but we 336 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: got to hear from the kids themselves too. I feel like, 337 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: what do you guys think are the benefits? And then 338 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: it's interesting to hear kadare you talking about you think 339 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: it should be some type of limits to it, and 340 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: you can see that it can be detrimental, you know, 341 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: for people. So but it also is, like you said, 342 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: an educational thing. It's fun if it's used in the 343 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: right way, you know, So I think that's important. Now, 344 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,959 Speaker 1: you guys also talked about having a mentor, Right, so, 345 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 1: can you talk to me about the value of having 346 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,159 Speaker 1: a mentor and what that's done for you. 347 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 6: Having a mentor is like having a bigger brother or 348 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 6: sister To me, I feel like having a mentor is 349 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 6: like someone that you can go to with like homework, 350 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 6: then like some things that you can go to like 351 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 6: you know, personal and et cetera. And I also feel 352 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 6: like like they're also there to guide you in life too, Like. 353 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 2: So far I believe I had mentors like. 354 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 6: Through Tomorrow's leader, also outside of Tomorrow's Leader, and to 355 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 6: this day, I still contact them and you know, we 356 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 6: still keep in touch with each other because like, you know, 357 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 6: it's been things that you know, they helped me along 358 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 6: the way that it is just like it's some things 359 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 6: that you know, you just can't forget. 360 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: So right, that's great, Go ahead, I can see you 361 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: want to jump in. 362 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 5: Having a mentor is like the best thing that happened 363 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 5: to me, only because my mom, Like I can't really 364 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 5: speak to my mom about half of the things because 365 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 5: she got three kids. I'm a middle child. Nobody really 366 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 5: pay attention to the middle child. Like, so I feel 367 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 5: like having a mentor they helped me with my homework. 368 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 5: They helped me with my golden life, like they helped 369 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 5: me with a lot of things. And then I could 370 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 5: talk to I could express my feelings to them, and 371 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 5: it's confidential and like I like having that, like it's 372 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 5: like another therapist, but like it's also to guide me 373 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 5: to the future, like guide me what I want to 374 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 5: be in life and everything. Like it's like my oldest 375 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 5: like Kwadia said, my old oldest sibling. Cause I can't 376 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 5: barely talk to my old di sibling like that she'd 377 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,439 Speaker 5: be all over. So I like talking to my mentor 378 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 5: telling her, oh, are you available to talk right now? 379 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 5: But we could talk about school, we could talk about anything. 380 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,120 Speaker 5: But I like having a mentor. 381 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 1: And what a bat you and dec what's your experience 382 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: with a mentor? Then, like my. 383 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 4: Experience has been great because I struggled with the social 384 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 4: and emotional aspect when I in growing up with and 385 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 4: that's what tomorrow's it is really kind of like zero 386 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 4: going on with me as I grew up in a 387 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 4: family where it's just like if it happens in the house, 388 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,199 Speaker 4: it stays now, don't bring your business outside. So I 389 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 4: felt like because I'm also the oldest I felt the 390 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 4: need to only cater to others, and so I never 391 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 4: really expressed myself. And even to this date, it's very hard. 392 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 4: It's like tooth and nails. The twin can tell you 393 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 4: to get something out of me. So it's just like 394 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 4: I it is having a mentor and knowing that that 395 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 4: person actually cares and it's not just a job for them, 396 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 4: and they really do care, and they're there for you. 397 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 4: They're they're with patient with you and also understand you 398 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 4: a little bit that's outside of a family or someone 399 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 4: that you just think will pass by. Just really helped 400 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 4: me a lot and it kind of like allowed me 401 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 4: to open up a little more and trust people a 402 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 4: little bit more, like feel comfortable in like I don't 403 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 4: have to be the mentor the menteed. 404 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then one day you guys will be mentors, right, 405 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: how do you guys vet out mentors in the program? 406 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 3: In so, I think one of the things that makes 407 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 3: this orgation unique is our mentors. Most of them are 408 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 3: current college students or recent college graduates. So we go 409 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 3: to Keuni, we go to even go to Keunie particular, 410 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 3: all the human schools, the ones in Brooklyn Ones and 411 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 3: Bronze ones have had the ones and queens as well, 412 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 3: and we recruit students who are looking to get into 413 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 3: basically human services where it feels but the education, social work, psychology, 414 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 3: or just you know, students who just want to give 415 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 3: back to their community. They want to be mentors. So 416 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 3: that's how we're able to do it. And you know, 417 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,719 Speaker 3: been blessed for the past say nine years, we've been 418 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 3: able to pay the mentors, so they actually paid the 419 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 3: internship for them, so this is like for their first 420 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 3: foot into the door of working in human services. And 421 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 3: we've have been blessed to have mentors who's gone on 422 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 3: to be localti, the officials who have been principals, who 423 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 3: have been teachers every day in between. So definitely this 424 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 3: model of just recruiting mentors from college universities is a 425 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 3: great segue to kind of go back to what they 426 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 3: said about having a big brother big sister, because they 427 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 3: are they like their big brother as far as the age. 428 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 3: So that's pretty much how we recruit the mentors. 429 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: And a shanty do you know what you want to 430 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: be when or do you have any idea? You're still 431 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. 432 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 5: Well, at first, I was looking into nursing, nurse practitioner 433 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 5: and everything, just to see about my health because I 434 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 5: used to, like I said, I used to have sieges 435 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 5: two years, like in twenty eighteen, but it stopped in 436 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 5: March sixteen, twenty twenty. So I was looking into that, 437 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 5: but then again I'm like, that's not what I'm passionate about. 438 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 5: I want to go something that I've been saying I 439 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 5: was wanted to do since I was younger. So I said, 440 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 5: let me stick to my color memory, let me finish cooking, 441 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 5: let me show my videos of horn TikTok to try 442 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 5: to get I have. 443 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: To see these videos, all right, what about you, Dare? 444 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: And it's okay if you don't know yet, cause. 445 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 2: It's not that I don't know. It's like I want 446 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 2: to do something like a little bit of everything. 447 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 6: But my first love and mean love is acting, okay, 448 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 6: So like you know, I just love to like be 449 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 6: on stage and express myself. 450 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 2: Like you know, I do be a little. 451 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 6: Nervous, but like you know, after five minutes and I'm 452 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 6: into it, all right. 453 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: But I gotta ask you guys, who is your favorite 454 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: artist right now? Since this is all music station and 455 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: I want to know what y'all listen. 456 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 2: Can we do a top three? 457 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you can do it. Top three? All right, 458 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 1: you guys, come back to top three, Top three. 459 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 2: Cardi B. Of course. You know I've been a fan 460 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 2: since Love and Hip Hop? And you know, you know, how. 461 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: Were you watching Love and Hip Hop. 462 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 2: When Cardi B was on Love and Hip Hop? I 463 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 2: think I was. I'm eighteen now, so I think fifteen, sixteen. 464 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: Okay, fifteen, that was long ago. Fifteen. 465 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been that lost. 466 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 1: Cardi B's and your top. 467 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 2: Three, Cardi B definitely Glowrilla okay, and. 468 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: Let me see Gorilla's wild too, so it's curdy. That's good. 469 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 6: I love them. And let me see I like five. 470 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: Year four okay, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, I'm not mad at it, 471 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: all right, So let's hear your shanty. I feel like 472 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: you have yours ready. 473 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 5: My top three is gonna say Ice, Spice number one, sorry, Spice, 474 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 5: number one. 475 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: The women are killing it. 476 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 5: My second one, little dirt, okay, little dirt boogie. 477 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: My third one, all right, all right, Ojessa, So you 478 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: see I come on. 479 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 4: So number one, I'm in. I'm into K pop right now. 480 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 4: So number one bets one. Number one. 481 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 1: They got a billion fans, so yeah, you know day one. 482 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 4: I was here since day one. 483 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: I was in the airport one time. Whether they were 484 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: in the airport, I don't know what was going on. Yeah, 485 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: they were in the airport and everybody was going crazy. 486 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: I was like, what is happening? They were trying to 487 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: follow them through security. All right, go ahead, so bts. 488 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 4: I'm I agree with Cardi B and my third. I 489 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 4: don't know my third. Okay, I feel like those are 490 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 4: the top. 491 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: Those are your tap two orr if that's fine, you 492 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: narrowed it down. How do you feel when artists be 493 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: for each other? Do you feel like you have to 494 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: pick a side or do you feel like you could 495 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: like both hard? 496 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 4: I just like the artists in the song. I don't 497 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 4: care what happens in between there because I feel like 498 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 4: that's just a personal thing at that moment. And if 499 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 4: I do pick a side, that's a lot that's very 500 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 4: much invested, and they can get toxic really quickly. I've 501 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 4: seen people fight other people because they've taken sides, So 502 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 4: I'm just like they're fighting, that's crazy. But their song 503 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 4: was good though. 504 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: Okay, what do you guys think, because sometimes we see 505 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: these artists going at each other. 506 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 2: I don't want to get dragged when people see this. 507 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 6: But this goes back because in the cafeteria, you know, 508 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 6: me and my friends will go at it. Like a 509 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 6: few years ago, we all know Nicki Minaj and Remy 510 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 6: Man had Cardi. I said, had Cardi, Nicki minajen Remi 511 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 6: mind had beef. So we was just going at it, 512 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 6: and I was like, you can't go at it from 513 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 6: like hit numbers or records and anything. You gotta go 514 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 6: off of, like you know, facts and like what's been 515 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 6: happening within the last few few years. Personally me, I 516 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 6: feel like Nicki Minaj is a little shady, not to say, like, 517 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 6: you know, it's no hate towards Nicki Minaj. You know, 518 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 6: I like Nicki Minaj because before I knew it, Reey 519 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 6: may Ringma was locked the way at the time, and 520 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,479 Speaker 6: then before Cardi B was here, you know, Nicki Minaj 521 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 6: was here. But it started to switch when I just 522 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 6: charged started to see like just little petty stuff so like, 523 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 6: but when it comes to the beef, I just like, 524 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,679 Speaker 6: you know, watched from home because the barbs, you know, 525 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 6: they go full throut onto what they do. 526 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: So does it affect you, like when you see what? 527 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: Can you just listen to music and be okay with 528 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: just that? Or do you pay attention a lot to 529 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: people's personal lives and what they have going on? Can 530 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: you separate the artists from what goes on in their 531 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: personal life? 532 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 2: What's shaty? I have was to come back on that way? 533 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 2: I gotta think about that. 534 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: What do you think a shanty? Can you separate what 535 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: an artist music sounds like if you just love their music, 536 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 1: from their personal life or do you think it all like? 537 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,479 Speaker 1: Do you feel like you need to know a lot 538 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: about the artist? Do you pay attention to what they're doing? 539 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: Maybe if you personally don't like certain things, will it 540 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: make you not like their music? 541 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 5: No, not really, because like I don't care. Aw long, guys, 542 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,719 Speaker 5: your voice is nice and I like you as an artist, 543 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 5: but I don't care what the personal life is because 544 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 5: it's your personal life and you're arguing with another famous celebrity. 545 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 5: It's not me, Like, it's not my content, it's not 546 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 5: like i'm it's not like I'm entertaining it. So like 547 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 5: I'm just gonna listen to your music regardless, you said 548 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 5: his song his son Carti was beefing before, Like I 549 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 5: was still was listening to Dickie and I still was 550 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 5: listening to CARTI like both of them at the same time. 551 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 2: Like I didn't care. People was like, oh, you're mad fake. 552 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 4: No, I'm not fake. 553 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 2: It's just. 554 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 5: Music. 555 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: What's the song that you first heard on? 556 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 6: Like? 557 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: What is you think that? TikTok is how music breaks today? 558 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 1: Do you hear most new music off of TikTok? Yeah, 559 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: that's why I searched up mad at my songs. It's 560 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: from TikTok. Like I said, I'd be listening to the 561 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: to the song. If I don't see the swng down 562 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: on the bottom of TikTok, I just typing in from 563 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: YouTube the name of the song, like I sing it 564 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,719 Speaker 1: with it, I'd be helping it. 565 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 5: I'd be like. 566 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,479 Speaker 2: This year mon and I found it right there. 567 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: I was like, all right, well, listen you guys. I 568 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: appreciate y'all for coming through and chopping it up, because 569 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: I not only did I want to get into your 570 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: personal lives and this program tomorrow's leaders right and to 571 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: my leaders NYC t l n YC. What's the website 572 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: for people l NYC or okay, all right. We like 573 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: that so that people can learn more about it, because 574 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: I do think it's important and I love the fact 575 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: that y'all came up here and we're I'm afraid to 576 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 1: talk about your own personal lives and experiences and the 577 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: fact that you guys are all seniors now about to 578 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: Is everybody going to college? Yes? Yes? Okay, so you 579 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: said Hampton, where are you going? 580 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:30,959 Speaker 5: Kingsborough Community College? 581 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Kingsborough Community College? And where are you going? 582 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 2: The illustrious Clerklanda University? 583 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: Oh that's why you get the hoodie. It's like they're 584 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: already Did you ever envision all of this happening? 585 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 6: No, I will say no, but I always did want 586 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 6: to do like a little type of podcast or something like, 587 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 6: you know, because I feel like it's a way to like, 588 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 6: you know, express yourself and like say, like you know 589 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 6: what's going on and informing people of what's going on. So, like, 590 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 6: you know, there's always been something that I can see 591 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 6: myself doing as a side. 592 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: Hus Okay, well, you're definitely very outspoken and personable you 593 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: So that's a good thing. All right? What about you, ladies? 594 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: Did you ever see any of these things happening? Graduating, 595 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: going to college. Did you always know you were going 596 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: to go to college from when you were young? 597 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 4: I knew I had no choice. I I'm like the 598 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 4: first I was in the first generation going to college 599 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 4: with my family. 600 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: Congratulations on that, thank you. 601 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 4: And so my mom was just like she looked at 602 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 4: me and she was like, yeah, she's going to college 603 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 4: because she's not. She said, I'm breaking a generational cycle. 604 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 4: You're not. You're going to college. You're moving on degree. 605 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 4: She said, I don't know how you're going to do it, 606 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 4: but we're going to college. So I knew college was 607 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 4: definitely gonna have to be on that bracket. But as 608 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 4: far as the podcast, I was, I know, I know. 609 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 4: It was just like when I heard I had to 610 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 4: come here, I. 611 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: Was like, now, I'm glad you guys came as shanty? 612 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,719 Speaker 1: What about you? Did you always know you were going 613 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: to go to college or yes? 614 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 5: I knew I was going to go to college because 615 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 5: I wanted to be the first generation in my family. 616 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 5: I see, like I want to push my little sister 617 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 5: like to go to college as well. Like it's not 618 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 5: that hard as little guys like feel me, just try 619 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 5: to work hard, try and break up to it. You know, 620 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 5: be what you could be what you want. You could 621 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 5: get many of degrees and everything, but podcasts. I never 622 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 5: knew I was gonna be up here. 623 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: Well, you guys did an amazing job. 624 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 3: I think I want to say one thing. I think 625 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 3: the blessing here is just as a hearing you all 626 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 3: speak that you know what there has been with the 627 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 3: program for five years. This has been the program for 628 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 3: seven years. As shawnty three years. And even when you 629 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 3: talk about college, it is interesting because I just casually 630 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 3: took them to a HPCU tour in February, think nothing 631 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 3: of it. Take him to Morgan h Virginia State and 632 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 3: Hampton and being Hampton. I was right about Hampton, but 633 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 3: never and I said this, I said, you know, I'm 634 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 3: probably gonna cry one day, but I would have never 635 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 3: thought that one of my students for my program that 636 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 3: I started will go to the same school as me. 637 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 3: And that's just just like come back full circle. 638 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 4: I told him, I'm expecting to. 639 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: Well, guess what, when you become an attorney, if he 640 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: needs any type of legal work done, you know that's 641 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: gonna be we gotta get that paperwork together whatever. That's 642 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: your job all right, well, thank you guys so much again, 643 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: Tomorrow's leaders. We appreciate you guys for coming through A 644 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: congratulations and I cannot wait to see those graduation pictures.