Speaker 1: So look this here podcast you're about to hear was
Speaker 1: recorded a while back, uh, and I still stand by it.
Speaker 1: But then this weekend the Inflation Reduction Act PAST, the
Speaker 1: i r A. If anybody knows their history, you see
Speaker 1: why that's funny, and it's like, oh, dope, inflation reduction.
Speaker 1: That's great at past. Also what's inflation? So next week
Speaker 1: there'll be another how much of dollar cost episode about inflation?
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're gonna do that next week because we
Speaker 1: didn't have time to edit. Let's do what anyway? All right,
Speaker 1: so next week inflation reduction. But this week all these
Speaker 1: foods is built different. So look, this was the first
Speaker 1: time I was on Homegrown Radio with Chuck Distel DJ Head.
Speaker 1: It's a really doped like radio podcast. Uh, really important
Speaker 1: now here in the West coast, like just specifically. L A. H.
Speaker 1: Also shout out to them. They were on the radio
Speaker 1: for a while. Uh heads um stepping away from the
Speaker 1: corporate music and kind of betting on himself, So shout
Speaker 1: out head. Anyway, he made this statement about um the
Speaker 1: way that like the other dudes that the musicians we
Speaker 1: listened to and the street dudes we listened to, or
Speaker 1: that we were kind of like raised up under, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like r O G S right,
Speaker 1: and they what they say about sort of young rap
Speaker 1: is He's like, dude, all my ogs be like these
Speaker 1: young nick it's weird. Just y'all, Like I don't understand y'all,
Speaker 1: like just net banging, like Internet gang banging, like where
Speaker 1: it's like why you you know, you trying to funk
Speaker 1: somebody in the comments section, Like what's wrong with y'all?
Speaker 1: Like that's that's weird to him, like y'all weirdos, you know,
Speaker 1: saying like that's the way they felt about the way
Speaker 1: the young dudes move and what Chuck was saying, because
Speaker 1: it went from being cool to sell drugs two being
Speaker 1: cool to do drugs, you know, like that's kind of
Speaker 1: where you know, at the time I was on the show,
Speaker 1: that's where music went. And now it's like it's kind
Speaker 1: of cool to see like it's getting a little cooler
Speaker 1: to to like get off that, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because well, we were all depressed. It turns out we
Speaker 1: just need therapy. It seems like it seems like that's
Speaker 1: where like if I'm looking at like sort of younger
Speaker 1: it probably like outside of just to like drill music,
Speaker 1: you know, just to like you know, real hood street stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like, actually, you know, we should be financially stable
Speaker 1: and you know, go get the money. You drunk and
Speaker 1: high all the time. I can't go get the money,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But anyway, he was like,
Speaker 1: at the time, that's what he he was talking about, Like
Speaker 1: it became cool to just do drugs rather than sell it.
Speaker 1: Like you know, we make fun of drug addicts. We
Speaker 1: just make fun of crackheads, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So he was like, you little Nicklas is weird, right,
Speaker 1: And what he was saying was like, okay, so when
Speaker 1: y'all was rapping about selling drugs, ah, y'all was doing drugs,
Speaker 1: he was like, who do you who do you think
Speaker 1: you were selling to? Deep saying you were selling to
Speaker 1: them as kids and then they grew up on the
Speaker 1: drugs you sold them, so you could call them weird,
Speaker 1: but they they built from your thing, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Of course, that's like a negative way. This
Speaker 1: is if this example is a very negative way to
Speaker 1: look at it, you know what I'm saying. But the
Speaker 1: motif is still like y'are different, like y'all built different.
Speaker 1: And a lot of times people say that about when
Speaker 1: you when you from the old guard, you know, you
Speaker 1: cut from a different cloth, you know, you know, they
Speaker 1: don't make them like they're used to. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You're usually trying to say it's a disk
Speaker 1: to the young dudes because they're not like you. But
Speaker 1: there's another way to look at it, to be like, well, y'all,
Speaker 1: like look at use the terminator like some of y'all,
Speaker 1: you know, we are no Schwartzenegger's out here like robots
Speaker 1: from the future. But then the liquid T three's come,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like the ones that come
Speaker 1: in and list like man, them things can shape shift,
Speaker 1: they do. Like I'm like, yo, we're we're robots like you.
Speaker 1: They're liquid you know what I'm saying. So it's like
Speaker 1: they are different, but they they what you want them
Speaker 1: to be. Is it advances from who you are rather
Speaker 1: than like devolving. But what ever they are, you have
Speaker 1: you to think the environment for which you fostered these
Speaker 1: little homies, these little niggas, these these these these young shooters.
Speaker 1: I mean it came from somewhere. We got some brand
Speaker 1: new faces running for office in this mid term. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about these young leagues because they built
Speaker 1: different politics y'all, so look that the changing of the
Speaker 1: guard is inevitable. We make fun of boomers, but boomers
Speaker 1: were once children and when they grow up, they had
Speaker 1: a revolution. You know, when they become young adults, they
Speaker 1: do their own revolution. They change the world whenever, and
Speaker 1: then they become what they are, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And then Gen X that's who the boomers gave birth to,
Speaker 1: and some of them the like early millennials, you feel me.
Speaker 1: But the Gen X kids, you know who they and
Speaker 1: they they in their fifties now, they were a product
Speaker 1: of their parents. You know who was flower power and
Speaker 1: peace love and fighting the war. And then they became
Speaker 1: yuppi's you know what I'm saying. They became the ones
Speaker 1: making all the money once they got into the to
Speaker 1: the business. You feel me, right, And their kids gen
Speaker 1: X is just like you know, they saw the Berlin
Speaker 1: Wall fall like they was teens when like the Berlin
Speaker 1: Wall fell, you know what I'm saying, into the car war,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they saw horrible economic crashes,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and at this so gen
Speaker 1: X comes out being like nothing matters, Like you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like we don't give a ship. Authority
Speaker 1: don't matter, Your plans don't matter, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like we're just gonna do we should doing. We they
Speaker 1: tear down systems because they're like who gives Joe said,
Speaker 1: like that's kind of how they how they run. You know,
Speaker 1: in all these generations produced politicians, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: they produced artists. You feel me there, that's because it's
Speaker 1: it's us. But the cycle continues. Then you become the establishment,
Speaker 1: and then there's another disruptor. You feel me, you know
Speaker 1: in a in a in a direct hood motif. It's
Speaker 1: like my dad and them. You know, my father was
Speaker 1: a panther, you know what I'm saying. In his lovemies
Speaker 1: were like that first generation of of like crips and bloods,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And they you know, they
Speaker 1: were street brawlers, like you know, there was knuckle up,
Speaker 1: that's you know, get damn jack. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like the first that first wave, the the early eighties, dudes,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, in late seventies, early eighties, dudes,
Speaker 1: like you know, they was you know, they was knuckling up.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until crack when you know, the guns started
Speaker 1: coming in. I'm saying that everything changed and it was
Speaker 1: like and then and and the ogs was like, man,
Speaker 1: why y'all are like trying to get stuff with all
Speaker 1: this guns. Now, when I was a young child, I
Speaker 1: was a I was a young child of the of
Speaker 1: the year of the drive by years. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, that's what my early childhood was. Yuys
Speaker 1: gonna drive by started happening. But then things changed, like
Speaker 1: some of the ogs came back and was like, I
Speaker 1: see what you are doing, but this ain't g like
Speaker 1: it's not like it's kind of cowardly, like if you're
Speaker 1: gonna because remember they were the ones that first put
Speaker 1: the gun, that first got the guns. And was like,
Speaker 1: now you run up on it, You run up on
Speaker 1: a dude, put that in his face, let him know
Speaker 1: what it is. You just drive by and leave. Now
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, You stand on your square,
Speaker 1: you know. But then was like, man, just it's kind
Speaker 1: of it's kind of corny to like shoot out the
Speaker 1: window and go. But like I didn't think that I
Speaker 1: was scared of him, because, like I said, that's what
Speaker 1: the big dudes were doing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But by the time I got of age, like drive
Speaker 1: by is kind of it kind of stopped, you know,
Speaker 1: and the dudes, you know, sort of of my crop
Speaker 1: were like started to be like, oh, we need to
Speaker 1: get this money. They started following a little more like
Speaker 1: the sort of mafia kind of moving where it's like nah, man,
Speaker 1: like play it low, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: don't be so obvious with your colors, like you know
Speaker 1: who you are. You wrap your square, but like man,
Speaker 1: like you're messing up the money, like go get the money.
Speaker 1: So that gives birth to like the nipsey hustles of
Speaker 1: it all, who like word shooters. They come from the streets,
Speaker 1: but they're there smart like these like hybrid like no,
Speaker 1: like what but they're all products of what came before them.
Speaker 1: I know this is a long explanation, but like like
Speaker 1: see see what it is and see how one begat other.
Speaker 1: And each one of these people thought those little niggas
Speaker 1: was weird, yo, I'm saying, and wish them little dudes
Speaker 1: would listen to him because they got game to give you, right.
Speaker 1: But then every once in a while, of course, we
Speaker 1: have like the few that like no, we no, I know,
Speaker 1: I get it, Like I'm I'm like, you have a
Speaker 1: young person that's cut from the cloth of the old ways,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And then those are like
Speaker 1: really special ones. They can bring that that new young
Speaker 1: energy and then apply that wisdom you could get from
Speaker 1: the old heads and from that experience. And then you
Speaker 1: get someone like a Nipsey, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like a Kendrick Lamar. You get somebody like that, you know,
Speaker 1: and who are now Actually it would if if Nipsey
Speaker 1: like didn't pass, Like they're becoming elder statesman, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like Kendricks becoming like you know, he's
Speaker 1: the studio album like he's becoming you know, like like
Speaker 1: he's becoming a vet, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: these young shooters who like, you know, especially like if
Speaker 1: we're to go going to the hip hop thing, who've
Speaker 1: never you know, they never recorded analog, Like they've never
Speaker 1: recorded on a two inch tape. They never had to
Speaker 1: like get the mix tape off without the Internet. They
Speaker 1: only know streaming, you know what I'm saying, Like, and
Speaker 1: they only know how to game the game by via TikTok,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like these dudes that like
Speaker 1: they that's all they know, you know, And our attitude
Speaker 1: was always like, yo, if you could apply you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, the the hustle of like having to
Speaker 1: go to open mics and having to pound the ground
Speaker 1: and having to like send out press kits and all
Speaker 1: this good stuff. Like if you have the hustle that
Speaker 1: it takes from that. But with the wisdom of how
Speaker 1: y'all move now and how songs actually break, oh you get,
Speaker 1: you get amazing things. And honestly, I feel like this
Speaker 1: can help you understand some of these young things running
Speaker 1: for office. Let's get to it, alright, So back from break,
Speaker 1: I think what's so interesting about this is like that
Speaker 1: is not just a phenomenon of the left or the right.
Speaker 1: These young dudes is built different, and they think different,
Speaker 1: and they move different in the and the and the
Speaker 1: choices they making. You know what I'm saying. It's people
Speaker 1: always talk about in in politics like the establishment or uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the center of the party leadership, and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Um, but again, like I can't stress enough
Speaker 1: the party leadership used to be young shooters and you
Speaker 1: just wake up one day and you're like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: I guess I'm I guess I'm old you know. And
Speaker 1: apparently that cycle last really long because you know, old
Speaker 1: jo Biden. You know what I'm saying, that's an old man.
Speaker 1: You know, uh you old old old Nancy. That's that's
Speaker 1: she's been around the world. And now yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But yeah, this mid term election,
Speaker 1: we're about to see like the first like gen Z
Speaker 1: politicians and it's like, ye're not They're not teenagers, y'all.
Speaker 1: They're not children. Like it's the little foods running for office.
Speaker 1: Like you just you just wake up one day and
Speaker 1: like the kids just grown and they're running for office.
Speaker 1: And listen, they built different, y'all. And you may think listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: The politicians running against him, they think, like yo, y'all,
Speaker 1: the little niggas is weird. Like now, man, y'all, y'all
Speaker 1: ain't got y'all ain't got it, you ain't got the juice,
Speaker 1: or you better use some wisdom and understand that. Like
Speaker 1: you gotta listen to the kids, bro. You listen to
Speaker 1: the kid bro. That is a Kanye West joke anyway.
Speaker 1: So NPR has kind of been doing some some of
Speaker 1: the some of the producers over there has been doing
Speaker 1: like these like stories about you know, reporting about the
Speaker 1: first like gen Z is running for office and why
Speaker 1: this year is because you, I mean, you gotta be
Speaker 1: twenty five too, to live, live, to sit in the
Speaker 1: House of Representatives. The first Gen's ears or five. Now
Speaker 1: let that sink in. They're you, oh fam Now one
Speaker 1: would think that, you know, at the motif is like
Speaker 1: all right, if they're young, you know, they got spry
Speaker 1: new ideas and they're progressive, right, And some of them are.
Speaker 1: Some of them are like wildly progressive, like super hell
Speaker 1: of progressive, and then there's some that are freakishly pro Trump.
Speaker 1: The big lie this not he's still our president. We
Speaker 1: need to go back, I mean, staunchly conservative. But of
Speaker 1: the little handful that's running, what you notice what keeps
Speaker 1: showing up at all of them is it ain't no moderates.
Speaker 1: That's crazy to me. But but again, they built different.
Speaker 1: Now why are they built different because of the people
Speaker 1: before them? What when where the moderates come from. What
Speaker 1: is a moderate? Yo, that's a moderate air quotes. That's
Speaker 1: that's Bill Clinton, that's you know, for in his time
Speaker 1: kind of you know the Bush Bush Jr. I mean
Speaker 1: like moderately moderate. You know what I'm saying, Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: Like they came in as now think about it like this.
Speaker 1: They came in being like, yo, we gotta work across
Speaker 1: the table here. Man, it's like this polarizing stuff like, man,
Speaker 1: this don't work. Why because they children are the eighties,
Speaker 1: their children of a Ford and Ray Agan. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, man, when you when you was
Speaker 1: when you was a young shooter during that time when
Speaker 1: you was forming a religious right, when you were you know,
Speaker 1: you watched the Nixon Ship and you know, in the
Speaker 1: silent majority and Wood's breaking into other people things with
Speaker 1: like Watergate. You like, man, look dog, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: things different. You know what I'm saying. That that gen
Speaker 1: that we watched, that that gen that that that Barack
Speaker 1: Obama Jim they was the one singing we are the world, yo,
Speaker 1: hands across America. You know what I'm saying. Like they
Speaker 1: came from that, so they're like we gotta do politics different,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like we want to come ACA.
Speaker 1: But and you know what the Elder Statesman thought, they
Speaker 1: was weird those am I gonna listen to you over there?
Speaker 1: What is what is you doing? And look, you know
Speaker 1: what the gen z saw, what we all saw. It
Speaker 1: was like nigga, pick side this moderate stuff. This this
Speaker 1: this old meal with no sugar. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: y'all cacky, y'all beige out this mug. I don't even
Speaker 1: know where you stand. Nigga, is it America first or not?
Speaker 1: Joe saying they like, listen, you're either wiping out our
Speaker 1: student debt or you not. What is this like? You
Speaker 1: either we get either we all getting access to health
Speaker 1: if we're all getting free health care and we're not
Speaker 1: getting help? Like what is all this in between stuff?
Speaker 1: And niggas don't want to talk to you. They don't
Speaker 1: like you over there. I don't understand why you keep
Speaker 1: trying to talk to them. That's these young dude, that's
Speaker 1: what they can. So you could be like, ah, they weird.
Speaker 1: Oh no, these they're they're they're too polarizing. Well why
Speaker 1: why you think they're polarizing? Why you think there ain't
Speaker 1: no moderates. Nigga us Yo said, they like it is
Speaker 1: like DJ Head said, these young niggas is weird. Why
Speaker 1: why they're weird? Fam why us So? Look, you got
Speaker 1: Caroline love it she running any New Hampshire in one
Speaker 1: of them districts up there. That's actually you know it's
Speaker 1: kind of right now the district ram by a Democrat.
Speaker 1: This dude checking notes Chris pappis right. But look, young shooter, Caroline.
Speaker 1: I mean she Trump because like fiercely conservative, like I
Speaker 1: ain't playing games with y'all. I mean she's on some
Speaker 1: like the lecture was stolen and the thing is like
Speaker 1: she was already like she's pretty vetted, like she worked
Speaker 1: in a lot of offices already. You know what I'm saying. Um,
Speaker 1: So they kind of know she is. The kind of
Speaker 1: know she is. They you know, they see her. They
Speaker 1: see her out here like right, I am you outside right?
Speaker 1: And she I mean she outside outside especially on something
Speaker 1: like uh drump won the election. Yeah, I just like
Speaker 1: I y'all can see the smile through my face through
Speaker 1: the or y'all can see this mouth here my smile,
Speaker 1: can't you? I'm like all mean we'll go ahead, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead on in. But look, you think that's
Speaker 1: not gonna work for him? She might mess around wit
Speaker 1: this mug. I mean, lave Homie was already assistant press
Speaker 1: secretary in the Trump you know office, y'all. Another one
Speaker 1: is is she the House Republican at least Stephonic out
Speaker 1: of New York? You know she uh, she used to
Speaker 1: be a little stargy, you know, moderate Now she now
Speaker 1: she all magnified, you know what I'm said, Like and
Speaker 1: love let me Levitt. You know, she became her spokeswoman,
Speaker 1: spokeswoman for for Stephonic, so she didn't work to her
Speaker 1: office too, Like I'm trying to tell you, like love
Speaker 1: me like she Looke's certified, you know. On the other hand, Look,
Speaker 1: you got this little young shooter in Florida, Maxwell Alejandro Frost,
Speaker 1: and he's super progressive. And listen, hommy been organizing for
Speaker 1: ten years according to this the reporting after the Sandy
Speaker 1: Hook joint. Like so listen, he had looked, Look they
Speaker 1: built different. These kids have been outside for a while,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You're looking at like they
Speaker 1: did the March for Our Lives. Like, hey, they FeelA
Speaker 1: be old enough to run the office. But what's like
Speaker 1: super intriguing is like, are these foods feel like are
Speaker 1: they pushing the line? Are they like, are they willing
Speaker 1: to like rebel against you know they oh geez and
Speaker 1: when you talk to him. According to this report, they
Speaker 1: all got heroes in the party, like everybody got an
Speaker 1: O G Like, no, that's what I'm saying. They just like,
Speaker 1: but listen, unc you know what I'm saying. THEEA like,
Speaker 1: I got some ideas for you. You feel me Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say you're not important no more.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to say, like, I mean, maybe it's
Speaker 1: time for new booty. Oh dang, I shouldn't say that phrase.
Speaker 1: I mean, however it is in politics new booty is
Speaker 1: it just means I mean the literal translation is what
Speaker 1: it sounds like, you know, but it's just it came
Speaker 1: from jail. A new guy comes in, it's new booty. Anyway.
Speaker 1: The point is a new guy, you know, it's some
Speaker 1: new blood. Let's say new blood better. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: just it's crazy how cringe e can slay can get
Speaker 1: once you grow up a little later. So anyway, y'all
Speaker 1: if we're gonna get any further, Like y'all need some
Speaker 1: new ideas because this ship y'all coming up with, like
Speaker 1: it just ain't working for them, and we've been outside.
Speaker 1: I think that's what's super interesting about again this crop
Speaker 1: of kids is like yo, they actually been involved in
Speaker 1: politics for a while. But again that's our fault. That's
Speaker 1: why they've been in politics so long was because got
Speaker 1: dog like you know, culture caught on fire. So look,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be an O g R oh ahead, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, will you remember that episode?
Speaker 1: You're gonna be all ahead and be like god, you
Speaker 1: know what these little niggas is weird? Or you're don't
Speaker 1: tap in with the young links, see what's up? You know,
Speaker 1: tap in? But then the difficulty was tapping in. And
Speaker 1: it's the part that we as the citizenship really I
Speaker 1: think about, like you know, when you if they start
Speaker 1: like like legit like mentoring these dudes, you know, these
Speaker 1: these these young shooters, It's like, do you mentor the
Speaker 1: zeal out of them? Do they become just as like
Speaker 1: jaded as everybody else, you know, like or just or
Speaker 1: that's how the system don't change? You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because all they're doing is like learning the ways that
Speaker 1: they is run Like, you can't disrupt if you're just
Speaker 1: gonna learn the ways that you come. But on the
Speaker 1: other hand, you can't just be walking in here all
Speaker 1: Johnny come lately. You know what I'm saying, All spring chicken, like,
Speaker 1: you know what you're talking about? When it's like family,
Speaker 1: don't you don't sit once? You're gonna sit down somewhere,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like you may need to
Speaker 1: get us sat down somewhere. You feel me, y'all know it.
Speaker 1: Sat down somewhere he is. I don't have to explain
Speaker 1: that we may have to take several seats. But when
Speaker 1: you just try to check the young things like that
Speaker 1: on something like hey home, you need you know what
Speaker 1: I mean saying, you know what you're talking about, Like
Speaker 1: a lot of times like that's you don't age yourself out.
Speaker 1: So now you ain't got no pull with these young
Speaker 1: shooters you I think about. I mean, it's a lot
Speaker 1: to think about if you if you want to stay
Speaker 1: in politics. And we all know people that do this well,
Speaker 1: that know how to like understand what it means to
Speaker 1: be an elder Statesman and just give young people game listen.
Speaker 1: I was backstage once, Um, this is gonna be the
Speaker 1: most name droppy thing I do with DJ Moski, who
Speaker 1: produced one of my last EPs, Terraform the People. By
Speaker 1: the way, I got a new cold brew, Like it's
Speaker 1: a canned cold brew. I'm throwing a commercial from my
Speaker 1: own business in there. So yeah, if you're in a
Speaker 1: coffee nerror like me and can go to Terraform cold
Speaker 1: brew dot Com, gonna get you some coffee anyway. Uh So,
Speaker 1: I was backstage at this DJ Quick show because you
Speaker 1: know Mossky and Quick or anyway, it's like it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of more Mossky's flex than mind. I was back
Speaker 1: there because I was hanging with Moski, was really quick
Speaker 1: as who invited MASKI back, So we're talking whatever and
Speaker 1: Quick like, yo, listen to this, you know, and he
Speaker 1: played something but it was like it sounded like like
Speaker 1: young rap, Like it's sounded like new rap. And Moski
Speaker 1: was like, yo, I mean getting on that is this you?
Speaker 1: He goes, Oh, No, I could never make nothing like this.
Speaker 1: It's jam and no, this's for the young dudes. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to help him mix it. So, and he
Speaker 1: was just back there vibing, didn't feel no kin away.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I know what I do. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? This y'alls, This y'all's thing. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm just gonna Like he had a
Speaker 1: pro tool session up. He was just like, you know,
Speaker 1: arranging stuff, just kind of like just putting his hands
Speaker 1: on it. And he's like, no, that's that's them, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm like that type of confidence of like I
Speaker 1: can't do what you do. You got these new ideas.
Speaker 1: That's y'alls thing, Like, I don't you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's it's like when you got you got sense enough
Speaker 1: to be like, look, man, like I'm just not gonna TikTok.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm not gonna do these dances.
Speaker 1: And it's not that you you a hater, it's that
Speaker 1: that's y'all's thing. But if you can influence them dudes,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, them young younglings, give him
Speaker 1: the game that you want without jading him, then we're
Speaker 1: talking about a whole different story. Yeah. I think in
Speaker 1: the Behind the Police episodes, we talked about when cops
Speaker 1: go on right along after they finish the Police Academy,
Speaker 1: not the movie, but after you finished the Police Academy.
Speaker 1: You know, before you like certified officer, you gotta do
Speaker 1: ride alongs. But the veteran cop that take you on
Speaker 1: the ride along, he like a week from retirement, and
Speaker 1: he's just tired, you know what I'm saying, Like he's
Speaker 1: been seen the worst. Yeah, he don't even like you.
Speaker 1: That man like counting the clock. He's Stanley out this
Speaker 1: mug you said, that's a from the office, Like just
Speaker 1: like I don't be here, I don't care about none
Speaker 1: of y'all, you know what I'm saying. And he didn't
Speaker 1: seem the worst of the city. So this young sprye
Speaker 1: like you know officer that feels like he got new ideas.
Speaker 1: He's gonna change the way that we do policing. Like
Speaker 1: maybe he was an organizer. Maybe that kid got in
Speaker 1: here and he was just like, dude, we need to
Speaker 1: role form rather than abolish. I don't know, whatever it case,
Speaker 1: whatever the place. Maybe he get in there and then
Speaker 1: he ride with this tough cop that hate the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And for him to be considered one of the homies,
Speaker 1: he got to start messing around and acting like this
Speaker 1: old head who hey, everything showing him the rope, how
Speaker 1: to sprinkle some cracking on somebody. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You don't say he had a gun, doesn't worry about it,
Speaker 1: Just say he had a gun, you know, giving him
Speaker 1: all kind of like you know, bad takes. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how that's how the cycle continue, you know. But
Speaker 1: the question is like, how do you keep that collective
Speaker 1: knowledge and wisdom about your culture and your your your
Speaker 1: work without passing on the jaded nous and letting these
Speaker 1: these young shooters be young shooters rather than being like them.
Speaker 1: This is weird. They just built different. These fools have
Speaker 1: been marching, they've been putting together mutual aid, and at
Speaker 1: some point when that happens, at some point you realize,
Speaker 1: like I need to see that at the table. I
Speaker 1: need to know what I'm talking about, because you can
Speaker 1: only do so much from the outside. Now. There's a
Speaker 1: flip side of that motif to where it's like, once
Speaker 1: you get at the table, you like, this tablet is trash.
Speaker 1: I don't even know why. It's like there's nothing anyway.
Speaker 1: But we're not talking about that just yet, you know.
Speaker 1: But right now. They're like, look, we deserve a seat
Speaker 1: at the table. So when talking about you know this thing, uh,
Speaker 1: you can't help but think about the crop of young
Speaker 1: shooters that came in before them, the millennials right, who
Speaker 1: also had young spride great you know, disrupting ideas, but
Speaker 1: their form of disruption us again this like moderate Who's like, look, man,
Speaker 1: we can make real change if we learn how to
Speaker 1: unify like unity not uniformity, like you know, oneness not sameness.
Speaker 1: That you know, we can reach across party lines. We can,
Speaker 1: we can we know, speak to our better selves and
Speaker 1: and we can make a better world. Like that was
Speaker 1: their idea of saying, like they don't have to be
Speaker 1: just as all this posture and like, listen, red, we
Speaker 1: all want the same things. We all want the same things.
Speaker 1: Let's let's make the world better. Let's make our nation better.
Speaker 1: But these kids build different. They like, nah, gramps, listen,
Speaker 1: is we getting healthcare not? You know, is America great
Speaker 1: or not? Man? F Yo, Like, no, I'm not reaching
Speaker 1: across nobody the matter fact, I'm gonna do everything I
Speaker 1: can to make sure the plans that you have and
Speaker 1: don't happen, because they literally are like, yo, our lizard
Speaker 1: brain is always triggered, like we're in crisis because this
Speaker 1: in law gotta change now. Like that's so crazy that
Speaker 1: both extremes believe they in crisis and probably are feeling it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So they're like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not ready, man, you'll see it at the table. Flip
Speaker 1: the table. And finally, the remaining question is like why
Speaker 1: do a whole episode on this, you know what? Difence
Speaker 1: doesn't make it like gen Z, you know, like it
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem like it was a heavy enough topic.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you why in this very gross anecdote.
Speaker 1: You know, if you've lived in you know, sort of
Speaker 1: low income areas, it's kind of a rule about roaches.
Speaker 1: I know, just stay with me. If you see one,
Speaker 1: there's a hundred of them. You know. If there's an
Speaker 1: ant crawling across, like the insect crawling across your kitchen table,
Speaker 1: just follow the trail. There are drid's more coming. Especially
Speaker 1: if you're living in apartment. Yeah, of course, there's like
Speaker 1: a what happens in the department is like I don't
Speaker 1: care how clean you keep your house. If your neighbors
Speaker 1: are dirty, you're gonna get their roaches. It just sucks. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not comparing politicians. He's like, wait, Congress is roaches. Now.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm trying to say is that there are
Speaker 1: just a handful that are here that are running this cycle,
Speaker 1: this election cycle. But you have to remember Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: you know, joined the Congress when he was thirty. That
Speaker 1: man said me nine years old. Yeah, So like what
Speaker 1: you're looking at is this is the first sign of
Speaker 1: whos gonna run our nation for a long time. These
Speaker 1: people are all in the news that we're talking about,
Speaker 1: like they've been in government forty fifty years. So like
Speaker 1: you better be paying attention. This is gonna be when
Speaker 1: you're collecting your soul security. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: If so security exists, you feel me like this this
Speaker 1: cool finish look. C. S Lewis, M Now I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm jumping. I know I'm jumping, but like following me. C.
Speaker 1: S Lewis, he has a saying and I think it's
Speaker 1: in it's I think it's in mere Christianity. He was like, look,
Speaker 1: in a hundred and fifty years, the planet's going to
Speaker 1: have an entirely new group of humans and the whole
Speaker 1: of brand. Just think about every hundred fifty years, it's
Speaker 1: a brand new set of humans, completely brand new. Right, So, like,
Speaker 1: think about our country like I mean, unless you are
Speaker 1: some sort of professor that uses their like autism as
Speaker 1: a superpower. I mean that in the most respectful way possible.
Speaker 1: Because one of the guys that when I was doing
Speaker 1: my my student teaching so I could become a teacher,
Speaker 1: he was a math and science teacher for eighth graders,
Speaker 1: and he had like some severe like O c D
Speaker 1: and a little bit autistic on the spectrum, and he
Speaker 1: turned that into a superpower in the sense that demand
Speaker 1: was able in a public school to individually track the
Speaker 1: development and the growth of every student. The guy could
Speaker 1: go into his closet in his or his garage and
Speaker 1: there was this perfectly aligned like measured out twelve by
Speaker 1: twelve squares of these file cabinets and folders, and he
Speaker 1: could be like, I could be like Yo, who was
Speaker 1: in your class in two thousand and six and sat
Speaker 1: on the third chair from the right, and what was
Speaker 1: his or her grades? He could be like like, Yo, Okay,
Speaker 1: that was not deep sing he graduated this year. Look,
Speaker 1: here's here's all of his work like he was just
Speaker 1: he turned it into a superpower. So all that to say,
Speaker 1: maybe you have that type of superpower, and you could
Speaker 1: tell me who was the thirty nine district representative for
Speaker 1: Northwest Arkansas in nWo, Like maybe you know that as
Speaker 1: far as the rest of us is concerned, that person
Speaker 1: might as well be a pterodactyl. They just gone who
Speaker 1: that person is? Everybody we're talking about right now or
Speaker 1: whether it's the Trump's closest, what everybody like they're gonna be,
Speaker 1: You have to think like they're gonna be as far
Speaker 1: from these new kids as Walter Mondale or Williams Jennings Brier,
Speaker 1: like Woodrow Coolidge, you know, obviously Calvin Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is like these people are their
Speaker 1: cartoons to me? Like they don't. I mean, I'm because
Speaker 1: I'm into this, like I know, I know, I know
Speaker 1: what it is, but like i mean, I'm less. Let
Speaker 1: you watch in the History channel or are you in
Speaker 1: a class? Can't about tell you nothing about a Woodrow Wilson.
Speaker 1: You're saying like we're no twenty four hour news like
Speaker 1: anyone win not like he like tear crews, like we
Speaker 1: got memes about this. You know, maybe they did, but
Speaker 1: they did, but we don't. I don't know nothing about
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. This is the beginning of
Speaker 1: that transition. So look, we're gonna be all gs, We're
Speaker 1: gonna be all heads. We like this young energy. I
Speaker 1: hope you like this young energy. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because like you, we do need them new ideas. We
Speaker 1: do need young bucks. It don't work if you or
Speaker 1: we die all. Like I said, we all gonna be gone.
Speaker 1: But they built different. And if they built different because
Speaker 1: of us, they they they are product of the culture
Speaker 1: we handed them. If you happen to come to this
Speaker 1: show via cool Zone Media, you know, if you're listening
Speaker 1: to it could happen here. Think about Garrison. Garrison built different.
Speaker 1: Garrison is an upgraded version. Like they are new kinds,
Speaker 1: you know, the intelligence, the willingness to put themselves in
Speaker 1: harm's way, the topics they choose to like take on. Look,
Speaker 1: Garrison built different, and I'm here for it. If they're
Speaker 1: gonna do better, we gotta do better. You're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna give them game without Jaden him up. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, but you gotta like like think about
Speaker 1: this for a second, y'all. Like yo, next congress person
Speaker 1: right now doing TikTok dances. Yo. Next listen, Yo, next
Speaker 1: senator right now in line for a bad bunny uh
Speaker 1: in store right now? That's your your next senator. You
Speaker 1: feel me? And look, that same kid not only was
Speaker 1: waiting for the bad bunny drop, but I tell you what,
Speaker 1: that kid was on Capitol Hill, you know, lobbying to
Speaker 1: end Roe v Wade. That kid is engaged. That same kid,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, was also at the March
Speaker 1: for Our Lives We're trying to stop these school shootings.
Speaker 1: That same kid, you know out here talking about climate change.
Speaker 1: That same kid was, you know, carrying a Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter Like these these kids is built different. They started
Speaker 1: early and they got damned and they mean what they say.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, you, I mean you it
Speaker 1: may sound weird, but like our last senators you know,
Speaker 1: stood outside doing L S D at a woodstock you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like they was kids at one point,
Speaker 1: but they also protested against Vietnam, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: and got Roe v Wade made in the first place.
Speaker 1: So this is so look what you're gonna be. You
Speaker 1: gonna be like these young nickas is weird or be
Speaker 1: a little self reflective and see like, okay, this is
Speaker 1: actually an interest. Same time, how can I invest? You
Speaker 1: know that might I might cause you. I might be
Speaker 1: asking you to like participate in some of these rallies
Speaker 1: like like no email, these young you know, go go
Speaker 1: out like and again these kids organized, especially like the
Speaker 1: new little progressives Dave be outside, So like I'm saying,
Speaker 1: tap in, see what's up. We're gonna be all Jesus,
Speaker 1: We're gonna be all heads because they build different and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be theirhood. And then the cycle gonna continue
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