Speaker 1: Welcome, welcome, all you listeners out there. I'm Bobby see
Speaker 1: Us and I play Marco. That's a wrap on our
Speaker 1: story for the season, but we still have more content
Speaker 1: for you. This is a bonus behind the scenes episode
Speaker 1: about the making of Here Comes the Break Right. This week,
Speaker 1: we have two special segments giving you a glimpse of
Speaker 1: the actors behind the characters, each reflecting on the show
Speaker 1: and its themes from a different perspective. First up, a
Speaker 1: conversation between a Santy Black are Reuben and Guile from
Speaker 1: the hit podcast Teenager Therapy, which we recorded back in
Speaker 1: May right as the show debut. Have a listen. All right, Um, okay,
Speaker 1: So I got a couple of questions for you. First
Speaker 1: question I want to ask is why was it important
Speaker 1: for you guys to put together this podcast. You know,
Speaker 1: I have my assumptions and you know why. I can decipher,
Speaker 1: but I want to hear from you. Yeah. So it
Speaker 1: was really interesting because I think when I thought of
Speaker 1: Teenage Therapy, it was sort of a a shower thought.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was listening to this other podcast
Speaker 1: that had a similar concept, but it was like with
Speaker 1: the married couple, And when it came to my podcast,
Speaker 1: I was like in the shower and then I thought,
Speaker 1: pulled up maybe there was like a teenage version of
Speaker 1: this that might be interesting, because I thought it would
Speaker 1: be interesting to listen in on what other teenagers are
Speaker 1: going through, what they're experiencing, what they're not and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. And so when I first started this podcast,
Speaker 1: it kind of just came as I think it's something
Speaker 1: that I wish existed and it doesn't, so I might
Speaker 1: as well just making myself. And we didn't really have
Speaker 1: any deeper meaning to it. But I think as we
Speaker 1: released the first episode, got feedback from our listeners and
Speaker 1: started to realize, like what this meant to people is
Speaker 1: when we really came to understand that there's actually a
Speaker 1: little bit something deeper here, and there's values in this
Speaker 1: that we could pull out and like talk about and
Speaker 1: like expand those values to our community. So even though
Speaker 1: we didn't start with these, now the values that we
Speaker 1: really hold is vulnerability and showing vulnerability, having the courage
Speaker 1: to be vulnerable, and just letting people know you're not alone.
Speaker 1: You know, there's others going through this, not just you.
Speaker 1: It's something that's really resonated with our audience. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: did you start to see that people were really relating
Speaker 1: and listening in. Was there a certain subject that you
Speaker 1: guys tackled that really made you realize, Oh, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is you know, this is helping a lot of people
Speaker 1: and we gotta keep going. Yeah. Honestly, it was like
Speaker 1: even after that first episode, we had a pretty good
Speaker 1: like first episode, and like as soon as we launched overnight,
Speaker 1: I remember waking up and we had a bunch of
Speaker 1: d m s and a bunch of people that had listened,
Speaker 1: and all of them were saying, like, Yo, I really
Speaker 1: love this podcast. It was so good to helped me
Speaker 1: so much. And as we kept just doing the episode,
Speaker 1: I think the next episode after that we talked about
Speaker 1: like mental health and heartbreak, and even after that episode,
Speaker 1: we got dms telling us like, Yo, this podcast is
Speaker 1: helping me so much. It's been helping me feel less alone.
Speaker 1: I feel like understood, I feel heard. And it's when
Speaker 1: we realized, like, you know, keep feel heard. They see
Speaker 1: our stories and even though maybe they don't relate to
Speaker 1: our issues directly, they see a part of themselves in us,
Speaker 1: and because of that, they're able to help themselves in
Speaker 1: their own lives, which I think was when we really
Speaker 1: realized like, well, maybe this is kind of important to people.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful. Is there a particular episode that you're really
Speaker 1: proud of that you know, your favorite one. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot to choose from. We've done like a hundred
Speaker 1: thirty seven episodes today, but I think I think the
Speaker 1: best episode that represents what our podcast is about is
Speaker 1: probably the realities of our friendship, where we just talked
Speaker 1: about like the dynamics in our friend group and the
Speaker 1: sort of power dynamic that sometimes takes hold because it's
Speaker 1: sort of like a business and a friendship and just
Speaker 1: trying to keep that together and keep everyone closed and
Speaker 1: keep the relationship healthy was something that we had been
Speaker 1: struggling for a while. So when we talked about it,
Speaker 1: like you know, we got pretty emotional and just really
Speaker 1: had a raw conversation about like, you know, what's going on?
Speaker 1: How do we fix is? Uh? And I think that
Speaker 1: episode was probably the best representation of our podcast and
Speaker 1: white like important conversations like those matters. No, that's so beautiful, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that it's really important for young
Speaker 1: people to see other young people being vulnerable and so
Speaker 1: that we can understand that it's okay, you know, to
Speaker 1: have those conversations. The only way to it is to
Speaker 1: go through it right. So he's got to go through
Speaker 1: it and have those people that you can go through
Speaker 1: it within exactly exactly. That's that's amazing. Always comes out better,
Speaker 1: always fixes things too. Always, that's amazing. That's all my pulations.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear you guys. Keep going, and
Speaker 1: you know, I wish you guys are best. Seriously, thank you, dude,
Speaker 1: thank you. That means a lot, of course. Our second
Speaker 1: segment is a conversation between Christopher Edwards, who plays Ruben's
Speaker 1: dad and also directed the podcast, and Raymid Cornell, who
Speaker 1: plays Ruben's mom. Chris and Raymid discussed the themes of
Speaker 1: the show from a parent's perspective, and they go into
Speaker 1: some detail about what it's like to produce a podcast
Speaker 1: over the pandemic year. Their conversation coming up next. HM. Hey, Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm Chris Edwards and I am the director of Here
Speaker 1: Comes the Break, and I also play Ruben's father. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm Ramie Cornell and I am Ruben's mother on Here
Speaker 1: Comes the Break. Good to be here, Hey, Ramy, what's
Speaker 1: going on? How you been. I'm well, thank you and
Speaker 1: I'm glad I probably get to talk to the people
Speaker 1: who are listening to this amazing story and and podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great. It was such an amazing journey to take
Speaker 1: to start the podcast and move through it, particularly during COVID.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, well, speaking of that, I mean, what was
Speaker 1: it like casting and directing a podcast over a pandemic?
Speaker 1: Right right? What was that process? How did this come
Speaker 1: about for you? That's a good question. It can about
Speaker 1: through through a network of folks here in Boston. Someone
Speaker 1: floated my name to the producers, and I hadn't done
Speaker 1: any podcast before. I've done, you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: of filmwork, a lot of theater work, run a shakespeare
Speaker 1: company here in Boston, and I thought, oh, this is
Speaker 1: an opportunity that just felt right in my wheelhouse for
Speaker 1: so many reasons. One because you know, often work with
Speaker 1: actors in the theater, but also because of the hip
Speaker 1: hop themes of the show, because I've done a lot
Speaker 1: of hip hop theater. So it fell into my lap
Speaker 1: that way. And to be honest with you, it was
Speaker 1: right at the beginning of the pandemic, and I wasn't
Speaker 1: you know, I was kind of a benefit dark place,
Speaker 1: like a lot of people around not being able to
Speaker 1: work in the theater, not being able to come back
Speaker 1: to live performances, and I was really questioning a lot
Speaker 1: at the time, and this thing came up as a
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air, this idea of a podcast that
Speaker 1: could be done virtually. It's deal had a strong narrative,
Speaker 1: it was about young people, and so it really helped
Speaker 1: me get through the beginning days of the pandemic. So
Speaker 1: we did a lot of the work virtually, and then
Speaker 1: we moved into a studio that was socially distanced and
Speaker 1: worked with the actors. You know. We had actors in Boston, yourself,
Speaker 1: in St. Louis, Los Angeles, and then we had artists
Speaker 1: from Deaf champ from pretty much all over the country.
Speaker 1: And luckily enough, the way it was set up that
Speaker 1: we could just get to work done virtually. So it
Speaker 1: was weird at first to try to direct something and
Speaker 1: not be able to see the actor, but really kind
Speaker 1: of hearkens back to the old school radio plays to
Speaker 1: some extent, you know what I mean. Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1: It was a great process. We had fun, and I
Speaker 1: don't think the pandemic put too much of a damper
Speaker 1: on what we were trying to achieve, right, Well, I
Speaker 1: think what we've learned, certainly I've learned through this is
Speaker 1: that there's two things that in the pandemic is that
Speaker 1: all of this platform and what we're doing, it allowed you,
Speaker 1: in terms of casts, to open up, right, to open
Speaker 1: it up to you don't have to be where everybody
Speaker 1: else is in order to create art, right, in order
Speaker 1: to create stories. And I think this is something that
Speaker 1: positive has even though we do it everybody has a
Speaker 1: home studio or that sort of thing, but allows you
Speaker 1: to cast a wider net and you know, and allow
Speaker 1: other artists to participate in these sorts of shows. I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, these these sorts of shows, which I
Speaker 1: think is is super exciting. It's like, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: my mic and I have my computer, and I have
Speaker 1: these people in mind, and that people from all kinds
Speaker 1: of places can come together. So what it does is
Speaker 1: it widens that opportunity right for those that want to
Speaker 1: participate and can participate. So it brings together you know,
Speaker 1: people say they have and the have nods, but then
Speaker 1: it allows and open in a far reach, right, which
Speaker 1: I think is really great about a podcast, which for me,
Speaker 1: I've always done voice overs, I'd never done a podcast past,
Speaker 1: and this concept was super exciting for me. And when
Speaker 1: you called me and you because Christopher and I have
Speaker 1: known each other for a very long time, almost thirty years.
Speaker 1: Our children are ten months apart. His daughter is now
Speaker 1: going to college, my son's going into a senior year,
Speaker 1: and had me in mind being a mom of a
Speaker 1: young black man. So I love that I was invited
Speaker 1: to audition and then eventually booked it, which is great,
Speaker 1: But for me, it was the concept in terms of
Speaker 1: this podcast where there's a story because their story and
Speaker 1: episodic story. But was even more interesting is that the
Speaker 1: listener actually can take something away in terms of artists right,
Speaker 1: and artists that are being introduced that is not just
Speaker 1: a story you listened to, like oh I love that story,
Speaker 1: but now the listener can take away and say, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm going to download this artist. I'm going to follow
Speaker 1: this artist. Right, There's a dual thing happening, which is
Speaker 1: what drew me. I'm like, oh gosh. The listener can
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I'm going to download this artist. Oh
Speaker 1: I just I loved her. That is what I think
Speaker 1: is unique about here comes the break is that the
Speaker 1: listener can take away with them not only information, but
Speaker 1: an artist that they can download and begin to listen to.
Speaker 1: And there's two things going on. So there's this sort
Speaker 1: of fictional story, but there's also the reality of the stories,
Speaker 1: like Wow, listen to this really great young, up and
Speaker 1: coming artist introduced by young people who are so on
Speaker 1: the pulse. Right, Reuben is on the pulse of what
Speaker 1: is happening, which is super exciting, which for me as
Speaker 1: like parents, like who is that artist? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, we're sort of old school right right with
Speaker 1: the casting and all of that, and you're being drawn
Speaker 1: to the project. What specifically, if anything about the mom
Speaker 1: character or or the narrative brought admitted interesting for you. Yeah, well, first,
Speaker 1: like I said, the concept that listener can actually take
Speaker 1: something away that's tangible. There was that, but also the
Speaker 1: familiarity of being a mom of a young black man.
Speaker 1: I am a single mother of a seventeen year old
Speaker 1: young black man, and sometimes things just fit because you
Speaker 1: have the experience and being an actor for all of
Speaker 1: these years, I didn't really have to pull from anywhere
Speaker 1: or imagine because there's a daily reminder of Okay, how
Speaker 1: am I navigating my son's future? How am I protecting?
Speaker 1: How am I not protecting? What am I doing now
Speaker 1: to help him move forward? So when reading the scripts
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, I know what this is. I
Speaker 1: know what this is. Okay, I know he's lying. But
Speaker 1: do I lean into this lie? Do I call him
Speaker 1: out on the lie? Is this the battle that I choose? Right?
Speaker 1: And I go through that every single day? So that
Speaker 1: was the the easy part to sort of drop in
Speaker 1: to mom. Absolutely, But what I love about here comes
Speaker 1: the Break is that Reuben's characters to solid parents who
Speaker 1: are present and are a team, which is super exciting
Speaker 1: and I think really important. But what's interesting is that
Speaker 1: young people that and I'll speak for my son and
Speaker 1: even Reuben that when a parent says no, and you
Speaker 1: can speak to this Christmas well, that all our kids
Speaker 1: here is we don't support them, and no means I
Speaker 1: don't believe in you. I don't support you, and right,
Speaker 1: that is the translation. Or it's not fair. That's not fair?
Speaker 1: How is that fair? And yeah, it's real. The the
Speaker 1: program brings up so many things that are palpable, I mean,
Speaker 1: in the world, but also just generally speaking in my
Speaker 1: life with I have eighteen year old daughter, and um,
Speaker 1: these ideas of being young and being a creative and
Speaker 1: what does that mean and sometimes the anxiety that that
Speaker 1: produces in the creative mind with will people like what
Speaker 1: I'm creating or are they going to think it's terrible?
Speaker 1: So like carrying the weight of that I found really interesting.
Speaker 1: And then when you add that to the social media
Speaker 1: the worlds that we're in, and how kids and even
Speaker 1: adults were putting stuff out in the world, and there
Speaker 1: seems to be this movement around not one too to
Speaker 1: be judgmental or to judge things, but in the essence,
Speaker 1: it's like a cash twenty two because you're throwing it
Speaker 1: out there for the world to see it, and then
Speaker 1: it's hard for the world not to judge what is
Speaker 1: thrown out there. And so just like the weight of
Speaker 1: what judgment means for young people right now, I think
Speaker 1: I got cut off. I was talking about what drew
Speaker 1: me to the role and what drew you to the role,
Speaker 1: and one of the things that I've found really interesting.
Speaker 1: I find really interesting about the project and the role,
Speaker 1: aside from the meta aspects of it that it's a
Speaker 1: podcast about three young people making a podcast, but also
Speaker 1: the things that are evolving around their lives. I have
Speaker 1: an eighteen year old daughter and who is also a
Speaker 1: young creative, and so the challenges that come up just
Speaker 1: around creativity for young people and the voice that they
Speaker 1: want to have in the world, and how that plays
Speaker 1: out in this this social media landscape, and how this
Speaker 1: social media landscape creates anxiety and judgments and and all
Speaker 1: of things, and how as a parent you navigate that
Speaker 1: for your child's health, but also you want to be
Speaker 1: supportive in what they're trying to do creatively because this
Speaker 1: is now this idea of an influencer and a blogger.
Speaker 1: All that stuff is new to our generation. I just
Speaker 1: want to say so. In the first episode, Reuben educates
Speaker 1: the listener, well, I was educated. I'm only gonna speak
Speaker 1: for myself. Was something that was new to me about
Speaker 1: young people and it's about likes and it's about and
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, whoa. I had to be educated.
Speaker 1: It's like, wait, is this what my kid is going through.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back and now back to the show.
Speaker 1: Your daughter. I noticed a creative. My son is an
Speaker 1: athlete and doesn't really care about anything, but I had
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, this is what it is now,
Speaker 1: which is different from our generation Wright. We're generation X,
Speaker 1: which I think is the best generation by the way,
Speaker 1: before computers, before phones and after so I think we
Speaker 1: had the best of both worlds. That's just an aside. However,
Speaker 1: that being said, I was like, oh, oh, this is
Speaker 1: what I need to be paying attention to. This is
Speaker 1: how I need to find out what my kid is
Speaker 1: engaged in or not engaged? Do I do it secretly?
Speaker 1: How do I get his phone? How do I find
Speaker 1: out what they're doing? But it was the education part.
Speaker 1: Listening just to the first I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this is what they're dealing with. Sure, now there's like
Speaker 1: an instant fame, and I had no idea that being
Speaker 1: an influencer had more credibility with young people then being
Speaker 1: on some TV show like what Right. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: crazy too, like what that causes around mental obviously, you
Speaker 1: know the writer's Nikia and Taylor really I know wanted
Speaker 1: to focus in on and captured very well. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: also when we spoke to the artists from Deaf Jam,
Speaker 1: it was also a huge thing for them. I was
Speaker 1: really impressed by how these young people. Because also those
Speaker 1: artists were early twenties, that may have been a couple
Speaker 1: of late teens right there at the top of their game,
Speaker 1: but all of them spoke about self care and how
Speaker 1: they deal with the challenges and the requirements of getting
Speaker 1: your craft together, getting your pr stuff together, organizing things,
Speaker 1: and also having a life, you know, And so I
Speaker 1: was really impressed with that. As a parent, again, that's
Speaker 1: something that I I've had to come to terms with
Speaker 1: around my daughter and anxiety and what that does, just
Speaker 1: her being creative and not wanting to be judged all
Speaker 1: the time. And yet that's the essence of what we do,
Speaker 1: you know, right, there's that generational difference if we know
Speaker 1: how we grew up and went to school. You stuck
Speaker 1: it up, people up your booststraps, you keep it moving.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting for me, like when my son he
Speaker 1: said to me, you start me the funk out, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, Like, what are you talking about? First
Speaker 1: of all, I've never said that to my parents because
Speaker 1: I would have got slapped across the faith. But secondly,
Speaker 1: I'm like what, But they speak and they sit in
Speaker 1: their truth and they vocalize their truth. You know, there's
Speaker 1: the line and they pretending and the sneaking around because
Speaker 1: they think we don't understand. We may not understand because
Speaker 1: they think we're against him. But I had to sit
Speaker 1: back and listen, like you know mom does to Rubin,
Speaker 1: to really listen to what his wants and what his
Speaker 1: knees not because the automatic is you don't support me.
Speaker 1: So that was another thing that was interesting because even me,
Speaker 1: I right off, I'm like, oh my god, okay, and whatever,
Speaker 1: you need a mental health but this is real and
Speaker 1: these young people are advocates and are teaching me, and
Speaker 1: I'm listening and holding space for that just me as
Speaker 1: an educator, which I am, and all of those things
Speaker 1: that I'm being taught by this young generation who has
Speaker 1: to navigate this not only social media, but some of
Speaker 1: them are really really good at it and savvy and
Speaker 1: others allow it to seep into what it is that
Speaker 1: they're presenting or what have you. So that to me
Speaker 1: was super interesting. And what's great about the show is
Speaker 1: that all of that is covered. Sure. Yeah, and playing
Speaker 1: a parent, and I think they wrote this really well
Speaker 1: that the parents in this project are very supportive parents
Speaker 1: that said, like Ruben does some crazy stuff, like one
Speaker 1: of the episodes, not to give it away, but he
Speaker 1: takes a long trip and just besides, he's gonna take
Speaker 1: a long trip, just on and I'm like, how is
Speaker 1: seventeen you get on a plane, you know, and like
Speaker 1: and the parents bug out on him, but like, rightly
Speaker 1: so because what he does is inappropriate and stupid. So
Speaker 1: it has a really great balance of like, here's this stuff.
Speaker 1: You have this anxiety, and we're supporting you around it,
Speaker 1: and we want to help you reach what you want
Speaker 1: to reach. But at the same time, you're responsible for
Speaker 1: your behavior, and this right here is we will not
Speaker 1: tolerate that. And so I found that to be very
Speaker 1: true to what it is to bring up a child.
Speaker 1: I don't have a son, but trying to help navigate
Speaker 1: for a young sorry, young black man right now and
Speaker 1: in a troubling time is dangerous out there. For these
Speaker 1: young men, It is dangerous. Sorry to interrupt, But the
Speaker 1: thing that is so frustrating is that my seventeen year
Speaker 1: old thinks I'm whack, right, thinks I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: If you only knew right, you can't play a players.
Speaker 1: What I tell my daughters, Christopher, we've known each other
Speaker 1: and you know, still it's the thing where they think
Speaker 1: we don't understand, you know, but there is maybe this
Speaker 1: aspect of it, which is social media. I don't completely
Speaker 1: grasp in some Lonelie and whatever that's bullshit, right, But
Speaker 1: the fact that knowing that, okay, this is gonna lead
Speaker 1: you down the wrong road, when do I let the
Speaker 1: failure happen knowing that right, or do I help you
Speaker 1: succeed or allow you to experience and fail whatever that means,
Speaker 1: or succeed knowing what the outcome is going to be
Speaker 1: and helping you navigate because they think we don't know
Speaker 1: anything about anything, even though we do, and we're like,
Speaker 1: I know exactly how this is going to play out.
Speaker 1: So is this the moment I sit back and let
Speaker 1: it happen? Are there no consequence of the consequences will
Speaker 1: be the failure? What happens on the other end, which
Speaker 1: I think these parents and here comes the break are doing.
Speaker 1: It's like you have to choose, Okay, where is the
Speaker 1: learning moment and where there so they can learn? And
Speaker 1: when do I support knowing that the outcome is not
Speaker 1: going to be what this person wants? Do I protect them?
Speaker 1: That is the super hard heart, and I do with
Speaker 1: my son on the Time Live yesterday. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm about something? And I knew it was a lie,
Speaker 1: but I would like, you know what, I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: this one go. He knows I think he's line, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna lean into break like, do you get what
Speaker 1: I meantime? You got to turn the other cheek around
Speaker 1: this stuff because at the same time that there's almost
Speaker 1: a sense that at times it's about them trying to
Speaker 1: find themselves right and also find what the boundaries. I
Speaker 1: think sometimes it's like what the boundaries of your love
Speaker 1: might be? Sure so that they understand that they're supported
Speaker 1: and what they want to do. That said, but they
Speaker 1: never think they're supported. If you say no, they think
Speaker 1: we're against them, that we don't work and we don't
Speaker 1: believe in them. I'm gonna ask you one quick question.
Speaker 1: What do you think parents should take away from this project? Gosh,
Speaker 1: what I hope is that there is learning for parents
Speaker 1: about what this social media and the impact it has
Speaker 1: on our young people, which I didn't even realize because
Speaker 1: I was unfamiliar. I have a tendency to dismiss, which
Speaker 1: we can't do that. I can't do that because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Whatever, what is the snapchat? And
Speaker 1: I'm on the Graham and I'm not on the Graham
Speaker 1: and you know, and all of that is that I
Speaker 1: have to be active and not be afraid, which I
Speaker 1: think I am as a parent of like what is
Speaker 1: the social media? And I think it's bullshit and this
Speaker 1: and that and you don't need this, that it's not
Speaker 1: that that it is a driving factor for a lot
Speaker 1: of young people and what is that? So I have
Speaker 1: to be an active participant. And I hope that parents
Speaker 1: take that away that to learn about what is this,
Speaker 1: how are teenagers and young people reaching other young people,
Speaker 1: what is important to them, and not dismiss what is
Speaker 1: important to them as a bad or or that this
Speaker 1: will go away. That this has been part of their lives,
Speaker 1: their whole life and wasn't ours. So that is what
Speaker 1: I hope is that the paying attention to how young
Speaker 1: people communicate, how they congregate, and they have power in
Speaker 1: that social media. There's power there and to respect that
Speaker 1: power and what it can do that is great, and
Speaker 1: how it can harm, and teaching about what that harm.
Speaker 1: Like my son sent a picture out and two days
Speaker 1: later I got a call from the school and I
Speaker 1: was like, and there's that, right, So it's at least saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is the platform you're going to use. How can
Speaker 1: we navigate it so that doesn't come back to bite
Speaker 1: you in the ass in the year from now, in
Speaker 1: five years from now or whatever, right, rather than getting
Speaker 1: rid of it because that's not going to happen, but
Speaker 1: to say, how can I navigate this in a positive
Speaker 1: way that impacts the way I wanted to impact? And
Speaker 1: that's what I hope parents say, Okay, let me learn
Speaker 1: what this is rather than dismiss what Let me accept
Speaker 1: this and figure it out, and how can I help
Speaker 1: my child in this space? That's what I think is important,
Speaker 1: right right? Yeah? Yeah, for me, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of times A look at stuff that's happening with her
Speaker 1: and her friends, and it don't understand the levels of communication.
Speaker 1: But when you think about the world and how we evolved,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, When we were teenagers, communication
Speaker 1: was at a particular level which was way ahead of
Speaker 1: when my parents were teenagers and when their parents are teenagians.
Speaker 1: And so these levels of communicating, whether it's through social media,
Speaker 1: through the phone, through the internet, it's that their lives
Speaker 1: are put on Everyone's life now is almost put on
Speaker 1: a pedestal or on display, pedestal or on display, right right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: on display. Yeah, you almost can't get away from that now.
Speaker 1: So then how how do you manage that? And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of times I look at how we
Speaker 1: grew up and think that that applies to how these
Speaker 1: kids today are growing up. And I think what I've
Speaker 1: learned is that some of it applies, but a lot
Speaker 1: of it is irrelevant to where they are because they
Speaker 1: are so inundated with imagery and message constantly and there
Speaker 1: and so this thing that I've often done, you know,
Speaker 1: I know you've done it, and friends do it like, well,
Speaker 1: I did this when I was eighteen, and I'm okay,
Speaker 1: So if she does this when she's eighteen, she'll be okay. Well,
Speaker 1: you know that's an old Some of those ideas are
Speaker 1: old and an archaic idea, Yeah, and they don't even
Speaker 1: apply to where these kids are right now. This idea
Speaker 1: that if we just do what we used to do,
Speaker 1: things will be fine, and some bullshit philosophically part and
Speaker 1: parcel to what we just dealt with for the last
Speaker 1: four years in the country around the idea that we're
Speaker 1: going to make America greater. That's based on some old
Speaker 1: idea that somebody had. Well first, that it was great
Speaker 1: in the first place, but that you know, that's a line, right,
Speaker 1: that that we can do what we used to do
Speaker 1: and that will still work. Now, that's just that doesn't
Speaker 1: ring as truthful to me. And I think that's the
Speaker 1: thing that I hope parents takeaway is the idea of
Speaker 1: being able to be empathetic to the moment that they're yea, yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. I hope everybody listens to Here Comes a Break.
Speaker 1: It's unique, the concept is unique, it is for everyone.
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Speaker 1: I shout out to the writers and to the producers
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Speaker 1: embrace it because they're they're smart and they're savvy, right,
Speaker 1: and they know what's happening in this moment called now
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Speaker 1: starring Asanti Black Is Reuben, produced by Danielle Perkins who
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