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Speaker 3: For young people right now. No, you're good. How are you? Oh,
Speaker 3: you got so many we're gonna we're gonna ruin this
Speaker 3: so much. You have no idea what we've got planning.
Speaker 3: You are walking into thunderdome. Uh no, you're gonna Honestly, like,
Speaker 3: we do this all the time every generation, like even
Speaker 3: the greatest generation, Like I mean, they dropped atomic bombs
Speaker 3: on people like don't don't let the perspective. We always
Speaker 3: think that the world is at its worst in the
Speaker 3: moment that we're in it. But like, you have to
Speaker 3: remain optimistic because the images that they present to us
Speaker 3: are to heighten your fear. That's how they make their
Speaker 3: Oh you're gonna love the show tonight. I found I'm
Speaker 3: gonna love the show. But so what do you what
Speaker 3: are you thinking? I think a lot of young people
Speaker 3: are a little bit not happy with big choices, tendis
Speaker 3: or I guess I feel like as b our voice does,
Speaker 3: it's matter, Oh, it so matters. Yeah, in fact, your
Speaker 3: voice is Can I tell you something about advertisers? Do
Speaker 3: you know that advertisers they look at different demographics, but
Speaker 3: the largest demographic that they look at is eighteen to
Speaker 3: twenty four. That's the one that means everything to them.
Speaker 3: Use that power, the power of the person. I'm sixty one,
Speaker 3: I'm not even listed anymore. Like they're literally companies would
Speaker 3: be like, what about people over fifty five? And they're like,
Speaker 3: I think they might be dead, Like, don't discount the
Speaker 3: power that you guys have. You have a tremendous amount.
Speaker 3: I would think on Instagram, I would tell them on Instagram, well,
Speaker 3: I don't know. This is the fight man. No generation
Speaker 3: ever feels empowered or seen or any of those things.
Speaker 3: But what I would suggest is trust your discomfort because
Speaker 3: you clearly feel it. But discomfort is a wonderful motivator.
Speaker 3: It's sort of the difference between stress and anxiety. Like
Speaker 3: action is the antidote to anxiety, and if you feel anxiety,
Speaker 3: it will lessen as you take action, small actions like
Speaker 3: a little bit every day. You know, I have young
Speaker 3: people that live in my house and I usually see
Speaker 3: them after three when they've woken up, and generally they
Speaker 3: just want me to make him a bagel. So it's different.
Speaker 3: But honestly, like that discomfort will spur you on, I'm
Speaker 3: sure of it and your generation, and then you'll be
Speaker 3: in a position to save us. But you won't want
Speaker 3: to think everyone should have on their shelf. Wow, that's
Speaker 3: a great question. And I really thought you were gonna
Speaker 3: end it with what's a book? Because you get that
Speaker 3: a lot from the kids. Now, sir, I have a question,
Speaker 3: what's a book? And I was gonna say, it's like
Speaker 3: a movie you flip, I would say. So this may
Speaker 3: sound antiquated, I was. I feel like I was raised
Speaker 3: on Kurt Vonnegut, and so any Kurt Vonnegut. I had
Speaker 3: the whole from Player Piano to Breakfast Champions to slaughter
Speaker 3: House Five to you know, Mother and all of them.
Speaker 3: And he was my favorite author by far, and I
Speaker 3: felt like he educated me in the genre of optimistic
Speaker 3: cynical humanism, like the thing that you're talking about, how
Speaker 3: do you maintain? So he's a guy who was an
Speaker 3: author who came of age. He fought in World War Two,
Speaker 3: he saw Dresden. That's what slaughter House five was about.
Speaker 3: It was about his experiences seeing the worst that people
Speaker 3: could do. And people always mistook his cynicism as or
Speaker 3: his I guess I should say his dryness as cynicism,
Speaker 3: but it was really idealism. He believed so much in
Speaker 3: people that he couldn't help but be somewhat disappointed that
Speaker 3: we were blowing it in the way that we were
Speaker 3: blowing it. But I would say, line your desk with
Speaker 3: Kurt Vonnegut, and you cannot go wrong. And I was
Speaker 3: lucky enough to get to interview him when he was
Speaker 3: you know, hadn't passed away yet, no, but he came on,
Speaker 3: and when he passed away, his son sent me he
Speaker 3: was also a really wonderful caricaturist, sent me a doodle
Speaker 3: of his that he had inscribed to me before he passed.
Speaker 3: So it's one of my most cherished. But I would say,
Speaker 3: Kurt Bonnagat, you can't go wrong, and like Playboy the
Speaker 3: best piece of advice. Wow, that is such an end
Speaker 3: of life question. That really is that nobody ever comes
Speaker 3: to like a twenty two year old like best advice
Speaker 3: and they're like, well, be hero.
Speaker 1: On liquor.
Speaker 3: Never been sicker, all right, the best advice I'm trying
Speaker 3: to think of good advice. I don't really I don't
Speaker 3: seek counsel in that way. Do you like a mentor.
Speaker 3: I didn't have a mentor. This was back in like
Speaker 3: late seventies, early eighties, so there were no mentors. I
Speaker 3: was raised feral, So I don't have a ton of
Speaker 3: a ton of advice. Oh here's one. This is a
Speaker 3: good one. So I used to host a show on MTV.
Speaker 3: It was a talk show, and then it got bought
Speaker 3: by Paramount to replace our Sineo. So I was the
Speaker 3: natural replacement for our Sineo because I think a lot
Speaker 3: of people are like, hey, the hip African American guy,
Speaker 3: let's stick a maybe small jew in his place and
Speaker 3: see what happens. And so the show was on for
Speaker 3: like nine months and it got canceled and we were
Speaker 3: all very sad. And when your name is on it
Speaker 3: and they tell you to get out of the building like,
Speaker 3: it's very hurtful. David Letterman came on the final show,
Speaker 3: and on the final show he said to me, don't
Speaker 3: confuse cancelation with failure. And I thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 3: And then in the commercial break he said, although this
Speaker 3: is also a failure, he just didn't want me to
Speaker 3: confuse it causes you had a question about college campuses. Okay,
Speaker 3: so the cafeteria. If you want to go by the quad,
Speaker 3: you're gonna look for the quad. Usually the food is
Speaker 3: near the quad. I just wanted to ask.
Speaker 2: Navigation, secondary elections, Indian campuses, and indiging positions.
Speaker 1: To listen.
Speaker 3: The beautiful thing about college is that it's built for that.
Speaker 3: It's built for you to push the limits of who
Speaker 3: you think you are and who you think you want
Speaker 3: to be, and it's a wonderful experience. Uh. The thing
Speaker 3: that I would say to you is have the courage
Speaker 3: in the internal barometer that you've developed over the years
Speaker 3: for yourself about right and wrong, and don't necessarily just
Speaker 3: allow the conditions that you find yourself in to shape
Speaker 3: that you. You're here for a reason and you're that
Speaker 3: way for a reason, and be strong in that and
Speaker 3: learn be open to people, but be convicted. It's you know,
Speaker 3: it's a good I think it's a wonderful experience for kids.
Speaker 3: And I don't worry. But you know, gen Z, there's
Speaker 3: sout you know, it's every generation is like that generation sucks.
Speaker 3: We were awesome, and I'm like, eh, I know my generation,
Speaker 3: like we were doing whippets in eleventh grade.
Speaker 4: Like, the Democratic National Convention is in full swing and
Speaker 4: the delegates are feeling good. So our news team went
Speaker 4: over to see if anything could ruin the good mood.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows I'm known for my positive vibes and happy,
Speaker 2: go lucky attitude, So let's go talk to.
Speaker 1: Some left wing nudes cure the DNC.
Speaker 2: Every convention has a theme, and this year is Democratic Engine.
Speaker 2: It's all about the vibes.
Speaker 1: What's the vibes to at the convention?
Speaker 4: Upbeat, spark sparkling, positive.
Speaker 1: I'm all about the motivating vibe. Are you feeling electric?
Speaker 1: I do feel electric. Don't shop dud, don't do who.
Speaker 1: That's a little electric. That's a real postal vibe, electric,
Speaker 1: top tier vibe.
Speaker 5: I went like viral like last week.
Speaker 1: While having good vibes.
Speaker 3: Just walking down the streets.
Speaker 1: There are people who have nothing to do with the DNC,
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with a campaign, and they're talking
Speaker 1: about the campaign. It just feels like it feels like
Speaker 1: we're going to do this.
Speaker 4: Oh god, it feels so good. It's almost as though
Speaker 4: the Democrats won't mak this up.
Speaker 1: You areither of you recall it prime when the vibes
Speaker 1: were so high from a political event. No, no, not really.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: For me, it was when Patty Leavelle couldn't find for
Speaker 5: background singers at.
Speaker 1: The night to enmetrics neat folk.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping for another one of that to happen here.
Speaker 1: Let's say it together, one, two, three.
Speaker 2: The vibes are great, but should they be the country's
Speaker 2: in serious trouble and we don't know how commonaw is
Speaker 2: going to fix any of it. Maybe the Democrats here
Speaker 2: will want the chance to drop the vibes and talk policy.
Speaker 1: Manufacturing jobs may be disappearing, those.
Speaker 6: Are not disappearing.
Speaker 1: You know what you're reading if you're reading this book,
Speaker 1: Tom Garbage. Wow, Okay, forget the policy and let's go
Speaker 1: back to the vibes.
Speaker 4: Who do you think Kamala should pick for the Secretary
Speaker 4: of Vibes Janet Yellen screen of Carpenter O S.
Speaker 1: Briena Carpenter.
Speaker 5: Do you think that vibes are more important or would
Speaker 5: you say policy is more important?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you really understand politics that much.
Speaker 3: I work in politics.
Speaker 1: All Do you mind if I cop some of your
Speaker 1: vibe right now? Which one would you?
Speaker 3: Lie?
Speaker 1: This one? I'm patriotic.
Speaker 5: Lie.
Speaker 2: Besides, with some of these notes, you maybe we don't
Speaker 2: want to talk policy.
Speaker 1: And let's sing it together, harmonize with poor we're gonna
Speaker 1: get there. Which you'll vibe of the comma border policy.
Speaker 1: You know, I really.
Speaker 5: Appreciated the way that she spoke to it during her
Speaker 5: rally in Atlanta. It's an economic issue. You cannot just
Speaker 5: say that we need to port from Relian immigrants like
Speaker 5: Datie vanst. I know it's extremely important, and I feel
Speaker 5: like she's put forward meaningful policies and Republicans have shot
Speaker 5: them down. Republicans are all about politics and red and blue.
Speaker 5: My public policy major. I want to find solutions. We
Speaker 5: literally had a bill on the table and Republicans suddenly no, it's.
Speaker 2: You're really killing my vibrant goodbye.
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