Today is Memorial Day, a day to honor and remember the men and women who gave their lives in service to this country and to recognize the families who carry that sacrifice with them every day. Freedom has a cost and there are people that we will never meet who paid it on our behalf. To those families and to those we remember today, we offer our gratitude, our respect, and our promise not to forget.
00:01:24.380So I want to first, we want to first recognize Memorial Day.
00:01:29.260And, you know, that's why when they were like, happy Memorial Day, yes, we always say happy Memorial Day.
00:01:33.680But the reality is Memorial Day of what it is.0.95
00:01:37.840You know, so I wrote it out so I don't sound like a total fool, okay, you guys?
00:01:41.700So I just quickly want to say, before we get started today, we want to take a moment to recognize Memorial Day and what it truly means.
00:01:50.880Today isn't simply the unofficial start of summer.
00:01:53.820It's a day to honor and remember the men and women who gave their lives in service to this country and to recognize the families who carry that sacrifice with them every day.
00:02:04.280Freedom has a cost, and there are people that we will never meet who paid it on our behalf.
00:02:10.700To those families and to those we remember today, we offer our gratitude, our respect,
00:02:16.320and our promise not to forget. Thank you. And please don't, you guys. I mean, it's true. Once
00:02:23.760the ceremonies are over and they get handed that flag and, you know, they go back to their life
00:02:31.600without their loved one who gave the ultimate sacrifice. And now that family has to continue
00:02:35.980on with that ultimate sacrifice and you know kids are still playing their video games and people are
00:02:42.780still on tick tock doing their thing and somebody's mother father son daughter cousin friend just died
00:02:50.220so you could keep doing that so don't waste a day always be useful and never forget and always be
00:02:56.540thankful and owen as our designated military man would you like to say something also
00:03:03.180Well, I certainly have a lot of respect for everyone who serves and, you know, certainly those that made the ultimate sacrifice.
00:03:11.120It's just, you know, it was an eye-opening thing for me going through the process of being in the military.
00:03:16.360I was lucky never to be deployed, so I'm not a veteran and I don't claim to be.
00:03:20.580But, you know, a lot of it was just taught me what they do and taught me the role they play and even just why we sometimes have to go to war.
00:03:30.540And so it totally changed my perspective on it. And, you know, even just serving in my reserve unit with the people that I trained, you know, I had a lot of respect for them too. And, you know, one person in my unit died when I was there and they had a funeral for him. And, you know, it was a little bit of that for me. It wasn't a combat death, but it was just somebody had a heart attack.
00:03:52.180and um you know i saw i saw what it meant to people i mean these people are really close
00:03:57.020they're like a family and um you know the that my unit went to the persian gulf before i was there
00:04:03.600and they went to iraq and afghanistan after i left and um you know i don't know what ultimately
00:04:09.480happened to some of those people but um i certainly gained a lot of respect for what the military does
00:04:13.880for us and i never forget that and certainly memorial day is one of the days that's meant to
00:04:19.080help everybody remember that people are out there protecting us. They're out there keeping us safe.
00:04:24.060They're out there keeping the people who want us dead. And there are people who want us dead
00:04:27.720from doing that. And so I just really appreciate everything that the people in the military do for
00:04:33.960us. Amen. Marcella? Sorry, I'm going to get emotional. But yeah, so just when you're out
00:04:44.040there today remember them uh remember the soldiers that gave the ultimate sacrifice as we say
00:04:51.060um they did it um with resolve without asking they did it for us um in being an immigrant and
00:05:01.680having come to this country um you don't understand how how much freedoms you guys have and
00:05:08.240and maybe some of you do, but they definitely, um, their sacrifice made this freedom possible
00:05:14.940and I'm grateful for them. Oh, thank you. I know it's, it's tough. So I do want you to know,
00:05:21.780I did some investigating in case you're going to barbecues, which you should be, if you can,
00:05:27.000if it's not pouring where you are. Oh, don't eat Chuck's burgers. Um, but if you're going to have
00:05:35.240hot dog and you're watching your protein it's 16 grams of protein so that's your useful memorial
00:05:41.720day barbecue information 16 grams of protein in a hot dog who thought i just happened to
00:05:46.840look and i was pleasantly surprised that was your useless information of the day it might depend on
00:05:52.440the hot dog but okay well yes and i will say it's not like a little ballpark frank because size does
00:05:59.800matter it's a little bit it's like this big it's like this one okay so it's a hot dog about where
00:06:06.600are we going with this erica it's like not a little tiny ballpark frank it's a bigger
00:06:15.000not but not like a big one is it i'm assuming these would be like 32 grams of protein
00:06:21.880but this one's 16 just fyi i don't know why owen's laughing but what up i think a lot of
00:06:27.480people know why i'm laughing erica i don't understand the girth yeah um i can see you
00:06:33.800blushing from there through his picture yes okay so get your protein um okay so you guys so exciting
00:06:44.680we have so many fun stories for you today but owen owen's gonna show me how much of a chance i have
00:06:53.080of um having a robot clean my house and do all my domestic goddess duties owen so what's that
00:06:59.720story and i'll put up a little picture while you tell it yeah well apparently there's a service
00:07:04.840that is now deploying humanoid robots to clean people's houses and potentially undercutting
00:07:10.600maid services and it's 150 bucks in san francisco so i'm guessing that's relatively cheap um i think
00:07:17.960a lot of times you pay more than that for any sizable house to have people clean it but there's
00:07:22.680this service called gatsby that uses humanoid robots and they clean floors countertops other
00:07:28.760surfaces autonomously the price point they're saying is significantly lower than traditional
00:07:34.840professional cleaning services their quote is we just made us history today gets we ran the first
00:07:39.800ever consumer cleaning by human robot in the united states we picked someone random off our
00:07:44.040san francisco wait list they booked a cleaning we delivered the robot and it cleaned their entire
00:07:48.280apartment on its own no humans inside this is the first of its kind in the us and we are proud to be
00:07:52.280the pioneers writing this line in the history books today so um one more step in terms of
00:07:59.400both uh humanoid robots doing tasks but also potentially taking away jobs one more giant
00:08:06.200leap for the trad wives good lord say which robots which type of robots they were using like which
00:08:12.680company i don't remember i don't think it's said in the part that i took out the story but um you
00:08:19.880know i think it was that one that has like the sort of circle head looking thing the figure yeah
00:08:25.640probably um what if like your dog or cat gets in the way or what whatever there's so many what ifs
00:08:32.920i don't want to what if it's a death they'll clean your dog too oh you're both the fittest
00:08:37.560yeah survive now don't you think this is just me but i think if i saw that thing making my bed the
00:08:46.060way i didn't want it made i'd be like what are you doing and you can't put that like that you
00:08:51.360can't use that on that surface i don't know it's gonna take a long time but do you guys in the chat
00:08:57.320want a robot cleaning your house would you hire one erica no no no i like to yell at people
00:13:40.680that would be enough to be worth the effort.
00:13:43.440so interesting i love that guy he's he's great i'd like to think if i was a bajillionaire i would
00:13:50.880look and dress just like palmer lucky he's so chill um so i mean you know all right so first
00:13:57.120of all what i loved was there's a problem right that's a big problem but he's also giving you a
00:14:03.200solution and that's my favorite type of person like i've always said like in any business i've
00:14:08.320owned please if there's a problem come to me with a solution like don't just throw problems at me
00:14:13.040tell me how we can fix it. So I love that kind of a thinker. Obviously, these guys are all
00:14:18.180brilliant, but Marcella, holy cow. So what do you think about that? No, he's right. I mean,
00:14:25.260they're able to get all this information. I'm sure there's classified patents, but from what
00:14:32.400I gathered, this is not my area of law, but from what I gather from what he said right now is that
00:14:38.000that classified patent section is like very nuanced is very narrow about what it covers so
00:14:47.100it wouldn't cover everything that he would have to patent because the the government might not
00:14:52.320consider that in need of a classification or be classified or confidential but i mean
00:14:58.260they should all be confidential i am not understanding why um why certain certain
00:15:07.240technological patterns can be read by anyone yeah in the world you know like we have in the court
00:15:14.440system we have very few cases that can be read uh civil cases probate cases but then there's certain
00:15:21.240other parameters that are put into it where you can't access the case and if you want to access
00:15:26.680the case you have to actually go down to the court or you have to explain why you want it
00:15:32.760or subpoena the documents for a specific reason so i think he's right but i mean
00:15:39.740you're you're completely correct erica like he gives you a um he gives you a solution but is
00:15:46.900that solution are we going to have congress create new law you know i think they should
00:15:53.120absolutely i'm sure somebody's seen this clip and they should absolutely have him as an advisor on
00:16:00.680this. He's got an amazing team of people that could all get on this. And it is crazy to think
00:16:09.460that it's like Biden leaving all of our military equipment in Afghanistan. It's like, what are
00:16:16.480you doing? So now you just gave all of our technology to the enemies. This is the same
00:16:21.620thing. It's just another type of warfare, in my opinion. Owen, what do you think?
00:16:26.380And the problem is a lot bigger than just patents. I mean, that is maybe an egregious example where they can just download all the plans and whatever specs are in there and copy them. But I think they've been doing this type of espionage for decades and we don't seem to do very much about it.
00:16:43.280I've read stories in the past where they're saying other countries like Australia and Japan and others, they're at least trying to stop it. They're doing what they can to keep China from stealing their intellectual property. But the United States just doesn't seem to care and doesn't seem to do much of anything to stop it.
00:17:02.020And then you have all the Chinese people that are coming here to university and getting into our graduate research programs, and they're exposed to all the things going on in our graduate research programs.0.88
00:17:10.720And then if you do business with China, a lot of times that basically they force you to do some kind of joint venture with them, and they force you to give all your intellectual property over to them as part of the deal.0.99
00:17:22.500So when Scott said China's not safe for business, I think he meant it, and I agree with him, that they're not playing fair.
00:17:29.100there you know the they they come out with copied products all the time and um you know it is0.72
00:17:37.340something i mean i think i've heard similar stories on amazon where you know you'll launch
00:17:41.140a new product and then days later or very soon after there'll be all these chinese knockoffs
00:17:45.740and happen to scott's books yeah and and so it's it's a big problem everywhere and i think um1.00
00:17:52.720we should take it more seriously and we should take treat it like warfare because that's really
00:17:56.740what it is i mean also isn't that kind of the gist of timu you know it's like timu is like
00:18:05.100everybody's idea with like a little uh let's just zhuzh it down and make it a dollar um i i think
00:18:13.420that's all i don't know if those are patents like i guess they're product patents but if you change
00:18:17.500one little thing right then it's different i don't know um well i think the problem is that
00:18:23.180China just doesn't respect the patents they you know they're I don't think they necessarily
00:18:27.380grant or enforce them the same way there that they do here so even if they are violating the
00:18:34.000patent it doesn't necessarily make them stop doing anything yeah and and I I worry about like all of0.73
00:18:41.700the um you know like you said the students that are here from China the the spies everything I
00:18:48.960know i i think palmer lucky would be doing us a really really big favor if he could advance that
00:18:54.880somehow to the white house to the right people i don't even know who it would be but the patent
00:19:00.080department but something i thought that was so interesting to congress yeah oh god i mean like
00:19:06.400when you think about to legislate new law but um president trump can pass an executive order as well
00:19:12.800if you want to yeah come on president trump come on trumpy yeah i wonder if that that supreme court
00:19:20.980ruling would would make it harder though because didn't they basically say that the executive
00:19:25.120branch can't just make up their own stuff anymore they only can do what congress told them to do
00:19:29.320so that may actually force or require i wouldn't say force but require congress to be the one that
00:19:35.960would fix this yeah i don't know for sure i mean it may be that they've given explicit enough
00:19:41.360instructions that the patent office could change things in a good way but you know i'm wondering
00:19:46.660if that supreme court ruling might mean that a lot more things are really stuck in the legislative
00:19:51.020branch for a solution yeah i mean eventually it will stop the executive order like most executive
00:19:58.060orders but you know in the meantime it can help but you know what's interesting is that elon does
00:20:04.180a lot of business in china which is the only one of the few companies american companies that does
00:20:09.680do actual like has uh the gigafactory over in china yeah so you know it would be interesting
00:20:16.940to see his perspective but i i think he's just like copying me i don't care i guess that's the
00:20:23.400way i mean i guess he's probably so far ahead of the last thing he's doing
00:20:27.680that he's just like go ahead by the time you do that i'm i'm way ahead of you but there is that
00:20:34.100other side of the argument that it's like a lot of it's more about execution manufacturing
00:20:37.740capability things like that and i think that's where elon has a lot of talent and that's really
00:20:41.860what makes the difference for a lot of his products but i do think for a lot of people
00:20:46.600who invent things you know they they want that protected and they want to be compensated for
00:20:50.820what they invented and you know they don't want to just um release that information to the world
00:20:56.200and the patent itself is supposed to be kind of a deal it's like okay i'm agreeing that i'm going
00:21:03.960to give this technology to the world and anyone can do whatever they want with it in exchange for
00:21:09.400having protection for 20 years and so you know if you don't respect that then you're basically just
00:21:15.080asking them to give up their stuff for free and not giving them anything in return all right well
00:21:20.840it's interesting um thank you Palmer Lucky you're a genius obviously um so yesterday Owen had his
00:21:29.920after party show on saturday and then he had his subscriber spaces um yesterday and he was talking
00:21:36.080about gad sad's book suicidal empathy which led into like other discussions and i was in there and
00:21:42.640so we were you know i i think it's kind of cool to stay on this theme of suicidal empathy and one
00:21:48.960thing i had brought up was you know about you know race like not being afraid to call out different
00:21:55.760things and you know i i think i know what scott thinks about the whole situation as far as race
00:22:02.360i think we're not like not like what you guys are thinking like the whole not this
00:22:07.160not the scott was right about everything meme but he was but i mean he was but um i i found a
00:22:18.240lesson from him and i just think it was really interesting and we miss him couldn't we all use
00:22:23.500a whiteboard on Monday. I mean, this is going to be so good, you guys. So let's just start with
00:22:29.900what Scott's opinion was about things like this and move forward accordingly. So this is going to
00:22:37.840be sit back, relax, heat up your coffee and smoke a cigarette if you want to. It's going to be about
00:22:44.50015 minutes of our beloved Scott. So we'll see you on the other side. I'm going to tell you where
00:22:51.740things are headed. You ready? Whiteboard time. Well, I'm old enough to remember, as
00:23:03.620many of you are as well. Let me give you a clearer look here. When, if you're talking
00:23:12.740about discrimination, the biggest topic of discrimination was usually white versus
00:23:19.700black. So there was a time when it was just a white versus black conversation. But as
00:23:25.380you know, that was not good enough. And that eventually evolved into something called
00:23:30.140intersectionality. Now, if you're not aware of this term, this is intersectionality means
00:23:36.540that you might be discriminated against for more than one reason. For example, you could
00:23:42.960be black, but also a lesbian. So that's the intersection. And that's important, because the1.00
00:23:50.580problems of just being black would be different from somebody who's black and LGBTQ. But let's
00:23:58.240say you could throw disabled in there, you know, people who are differently abled. So you'd have a0.55
00:24:02.200number of categories, and you could be more than one, you could be several things, right? Now,
00:24:06.940why is this better? Why is it better to look at intersectionality versus just to see things as
00:24:13.660race? Well, I'll tell you. Your common sense is very clear on this, which is that it's not close
00:24:23.640enough. That the people who have these unique problems have problems that are pretty unique,
00:24:29.420Right? If you're Hispanic and LGBTQ and you've got a disability, your situation isn't quite like anybody else's.
00:24:41.820Would you agree? You have some things in common, but your situation's different.
00:24:47.540So it makes sense. I think everybody would agree. Left and right.
00:24:51.800It makes more sense to get down to some granularity.
00:35:24.180Yeah, well, I think it's great. I think the part that he might not have really been talked explicitly about is that I think there is a system behind the first two, but it's not to help people. It's to divide people. I think the intent of the system on the black versus white, I think, is just very clearly to divide and make those groups fight each other and not interact and be friendly and integrate and assimilate and have any kind of shared culture.
00:35:51.080And I think the intersectionality part was more about basically scoring life on victim points, where if you have an extra thing you can throw in there, like, you know, I'm not just a woman. I'm black. I'm not just a woman in black. I'm a Muslim or, you know, whatever you want to throw in there.
00:36:09.560and then they get to say oh well you can't talk about me because you know you don't know my lived
00:36:14.360experience and so it's really just a way of trying to one-up people and it's this inverted moralism
00:36:21.560which i think gad said also talks about in suicidal empathy where it's like you're you're elevating
00:36:26.440someone based on their victimhood not based on their achievement or meritocracy or anything it's
00:36:31.400just you're you know saying oh if you're the biggest victim then you're better than everybody
00:36:36.280else and they're potentially an impressor because they didn't have your victimhood and it's
00:36:41.560encouraging people to focus on how they're a victim and being powerless and it's just it's
00:36:45.720the opposite of helping someone succeed so I think there is a system behind it it's just not a good
00:36:50.080system and I think he's very much right that I think treating people as individuals is the best
00:36:56.860way to go and as much as you can to personalize things to individual needs I've talked about that
00:37:02.580recently with the education system where i think we should be having the goal which you know maybe
00:37:07.400scott wouldn't like that word but i think we should be having the goal of getting every student
00:37:11.700to their highest potential but that means treating everybody as an individual and saying okay if some
00:37:17.080people are willing are able to go faster through the material we should put them through the
00:37:20.720material faster and if other people need more time we give them more time and if other people
00:37:24.320need a different way to learn because some people are more auditory some people are more visual some
00:37:28.680people are more kinesthetic. And if we can tailor those approaches, I think we could have much
00:37:33.100better outcomes for each individual. And it would probably also mean we'd have a better outcome
00:37:37.460overall. But if you start dividing people into groups, it does the opposite. And I have an
00:37:43.040example of that in my local school district where they said, oh, we're going to get rid of the
00:37:47.040honors track because not enough minorities were in it. And it's like totally backwards. It's like,
00:37:53.060okay, you're basically taking away the opportunity for those minorities that were in there
00:37:56.920to to get be in the honors track and you're taking it away from everyone else too you're
00:38:02.720basically just saying everybody's down at the lower level now and they claimed oh you can still
00:38:07.420get honors credit but you have to do like this extra credit stuff on the side but you know
00:38:10.660colleges would know that's not the same thing as being in the honors track because what being in
00:38:14.000the honors track does mean you go like 1.5 times as fast or twice as fast through the material
00:38:18.320so they know that those students that are in the honors track are much at a much higher level in
00:38:23.720terms of being college prepared and able than other people and they judge schools and students
00:38:29.500accordingly and that is suicidal empathy yeah yeah it is it is and um that lasted exactly one
00:38:36.260year until the parents realized how terrible it was and that they were ruining college chances
00:38:40.220for everyone and they reversed it but they tried it and it was all just based on this thing like
00:38:45.320we're trying to make it fair for everybody and we don't want to you know discriminate but basically
00:38:49.520they're just saying, we don't want to treat anyone differently because they have higher
00:38:54.380intelligence or high, you know, an ability to learn faster or a harder work ethic. I mean,
00:38:58.160there could be a lot of things in there as far as how someone qualifies for that honors track,
00:39:02.620but they're basically just saying, we're going to make everybody the same. And that means make
00:39:07.280everybody, you know, the lowest common denominator and just treat everybody as if they were the same,
00:39:12.020even if they're not. And so I think it's again, destructive and it just leads to worse outcomes
00:39:16.960overall. And so I'm, I'm, you know, I'm very much in agreement with what Scott was saying that I
00:39:21.420think the best solution in most cases is to treat people as individuals. And, um, you know, I think
00:39:27.300the underlying thing that he didn't really say is that it also means you kind of treat everybody the
00:39:31.140same in a certain way where it's like, you don't, you know, you don't treat someone different
00:39:35.060because of their color of their skin or because of their gender or because of their disabilities
00:39:39.480or abilities or whatever. It's like, you're, you're treating everyone like they are an
00:39:43.780individual. Everyone is an individual and it's a lot more unifying to say everyone's unique
00:39:49.020and we're also, you know, the same in a lot of ways. And so I think it's a more unifying system
00:39:55.380as well. I don't know if anyone, I don't even know if this is a good example, but this is
00:40:00.460in my head. Do you guys remember the first time maybe you felt like people were being rewarded
00:40:09.460for being in groups. And for me, if anyone's around my age, which do I have to say it? No.
00:40:16.820You were watching Oprah every day, right? And so you would see Oprah rewarding particular groups
00:40:24.440of people, whether they were poor or they were teachers who didn't have a big income or whatever.
00:40:32.540And so I loved watching. We all loved Oprah. She was like the thing. And then I started realizing
00:40:38.580like, wow, nowhere ever in her shows does just some average person win a reward ever. It was
00:40:48.140always like some kind of victimized group. And like in theory, I was like, oh, I get it. But
00:40:53.760then I was also like, well, what are the people who like show up every day, try to build futures
00:41:00.020for people and employ people and like they do right by their bosses and whatever. They're so
00:41:06.280passed over. And I was like, doesn't everyone just kind of want to be like that contributing
00:41:11.180member of society? But I just clearly remember the Oprah Winfrey show being like, and not that
00:41:16.780like you get a car and you get a car, but it was always like just everybody with a victim story.
00:41:23.080And the more stories and the worse it was, like the more attention and, and glorification they
00:41:29.300got. And then every show just, you know, all the other shows were the same way. And I was just like,
00:41:34.340well, all right. So for everyone else, minding your business, doing your thing and doing the
00:41:39.680right thing and paying your taxes and just plugging along without complaining, sorry,
00:41:44.660you don't qualify for anything exciting. But Marcella, so how do you see this, especially
00:41:50.960as somebody who came from another country here? And I always talk about so amazing how
00:41:57.460you speak all these languages. This was not your first language or where you were born,
00:42:02.720but you've achieved so much and you've become an attorney and you're self-sufficient and you're
00:42:09.880not a victim. You are. And you could act like a victim if you wanted to, but why would you, right?
00:42:16.660You know, I never believed in collectivism. I always believed in the individual. My father
00:42:23.900was always a person that taught us that each of us was the best at what we could be. If you were
00:42:32.020a janitor, if you were an engineer, that you had to be the best at whatever the thing that you did
00:42:39.480or you worked for. When I first came to this country, it was a shock to me that I was expecting
00:42:49.680that everybody spoke English. No one at the district I went to, I moved to California,
00:42:56.320spoke English. They all spoke Spanish. And I was just, I went, I was very distraught. I went home
00:43:02.680and I told my mom, oh my God, these people speak Spanish and they speak it. They don't speak well1.00
00:43:08.160either. So I was so shocked. Eventually I went to a different school where they actually spoke
00:43:13.600English. This was a general public school, but at the public school where I was put in,
00:43:20.540the English as a second language, ESL, they had us in the back of the room.
00:43:28.520The teacher at that time, they decided that all ESL students, English learners, had to first learn
00:43:35.760their own language because some of those students that would come in did not even know how to read
00:43:42.620their own language. So they had us go in the back of the room to learn our own language. Of course,
00:43:47.920i knew spanish so the the lady was like i don't know what you're doing here but um eventually i0.76
00:43:55.220spoke to that teacher uh my my main teacher and i told her i'm not like them you got to put me up
00:44:02.040there or i'm leaving or whatever you know i was like fourth grade or some fifth grade or something
00:44:08.220and she was like oh my gosh what's going on and eventually they realized that i i didn't
00:44:16.860i didn't go past the sale like i i didn't i wasn't sold on your collective you're part of esl
00:44:25.280you're gonna be here because that's what that's what we think that's what that label is what we
00:44:31.760put on you so the labels that you talk about in phase one and phase two that scott talked about
00:44:38.060are labels that hurt people that are from different countries, that hurt people that are
00:44:47.780minorities. They hurt them the most than the majority because most of those kids that I went
00:44:55.980to ESL with, they eventually never amounted to anything. They just stayed in ESL. And I wasn't
00:45:04.120going to be somebody told what to do. I was telling them what I could do. And I was reading
00:45:10.720at a higher level, whatever, different schooling, different background. But the point is that Scott
00:45:16.180makes is that it should always be based on the individual. You shouldn't be basing anything on
00:45:25.460a collective of this is how they are. And on top of that, those people, the label, the collective,
00:45:34.120or the victimization of these individuals, like Erica was talking about, Oprah. Those are the
00:45:42.400ones that profit from that. The people within those classes, within those labels, do not profit
00:45:48.240from it. They are just given this label. They're told they're never going to amount to anything.
00:45:53.580Later on, I became a teacher for like two seconds. And all my students, when I was there,
00:45:59.780I told them all of them could achieve anything they put their mind to as long as they worked hard and they had systems versus goals.
00:46:09.420And they were just amazed. They were so happy to be in my class and they were so like nobody's ever told them that.
00:46:18.760And I found it to be sad because I was teaching this one class that I taught was a high school class.
00:46:25.000so they were freshmen sophomore they've never heard of such a thing and i was just like you
00:46:32.640know a lot of the things we talked about owen talked about the education system and getting
00:46:36.960rid of you know gate and all the um genius uh um labels or anything like that because there's not
00:46:45.760enough minorities that's that's that's like saying that minorities cannot achieve that0.56
00:46:51.640right you know so that in itself is racist in my mind like black people can't get id to vote0.85
00:46:57.580and actually right or women married women oh yeah right right right right because we're too busy0.57
00:47:03.620baking yeah we're barefoot and baking all the time um magi you were so funny on x the other day
00:47:11.480somebody really got mad that i said that minorities you know that that is such a such bs that people
00:47:18.340can't get an id because he was having an issue with his wife and i'm like listen like stop0.98
00:47:24.500figure it out with your wife but it's it's an absolute ridiculous statement to just say
00:47:29.540an entire group of people can't do something like how disgusting um so the only question i have like
00:47:37.540about so scott's lesson on this is when i do see these um i don't know why i can never remember
00:47:45.540what they call these things these take teen takeovers that is a group of people so it's a
00:47:52.580group of you know um 99 it's black culture for some reason that this is happening with so how do
00:48:02.660i owen reconcile that yes there's like this group of people doing this consistently over and over0.92
00:48:09.780and over and over and over again and ruining businesses and this and that it seems to be
00:48:20.440Well, at least the high school students, at least when I was in high school and I had these teen takeovers, and lots of them were my friends, they were just like, this is what we're supposed to do.
00:48:50.560that means you apply the rules the same way to them you would to anyone else.
00:48:54.880And so if they're committing crimes, if they're causing disruption,
00:48:58.680if they're violating the law in some way,
00:49:00.960then they should have the consequences for that.1.00
00:49:03.220And it shouldn't be any different because they're black, right.1.00
00:49:06.920Or Hispanic or any other group that would do that.0.99
00:49:09.160Well, didn't Scott say also that there are just differences between us and cultures? I mean, there just are. I mean, look, I don't see them. It's because I don't see groups of black people. I always see people like, where's the white person? I'm like, where's the white person in your group? You're different. It's different things.
00:49:38.160So like, stop calling us racist when I don't see white people like in your big flock of
00:51:31.380is just the area where I worked at was, you know, the inner city. So a lot of the grandparents had
00:51:38.160to take care of these kids. And you know, when you're a grandparent, you're older, you're not
00:51:43.060as able to move around and tell, you know, your grandkid not to go into a street takeover. But a
00:51:50.200lot of them are just, to me, the issue would be parents not being there for these kids, you know,
00:51:57.780Possibly. And it could also just be kids doing what the rest of the group is doing so they feel like they can fit in. But that's a, I feel like somewhat of a collective problem within black culture. And I'm allowed to say that even though I'm not black, I'm observing things. So, you know, whatever.
00:52:16.080but i i just wish that there was a way to call things out to just tamp it down and literally
00:52:23.740try to find a resolution for people like marcella said you can be anything you want to be if you
00:52:28.920apply yourself you know they need people separating them from like this crazy culture and be like is
00:52:36.000this what you want for your life you know but i don't know how you do it like do we need to get
00:52:39.900more like big brother, big sister YMCA programs, you know, mentors. So I don't know. I would love
00:52:47.500to think that there's a way through this because I've seen, you know, we've all seen lots of like,
00:52:52.760you know, the home life for a lot of these people can be tragic. I don't know. I just,
00:52:58.300I just think that I don't want to stay quiet about very obvious things at the detriment of our
00:53:04.960country and you know there's people that can't just go live freely right now because these types
00:53:11.440of things will happen and then if you call it out you're going to be called names like i don't know
00:53:16.020yeah yeah i just i would just say within what scott was talking about i would say that's maybe
00:53:20.680more of a symptom of that first frame you know black versus white or you know different groups
00:53:25.280kind of pitted against each other and i think if you can move more to that individual frame
00:53:29.840that kind of falls apart because then people aren't going to say oh i want to go do a teen
00:53:33.680take over why why why would i do that like you know and it why not i i think if if you get to
00:53:40.760the point where you think of everyone as uniquely you know everyone has their own problems everyone
00:53:45.040has their own strengths everyone has their own abilities and you just need to try and optimize
00:53:49.360the outcome for each one of those people and then that leads you towards the solution as opposed to0.99
00:53:55.940just saying oh it's a problem in black culture and you know black people go fix it because that's not
00:54:01.020how it's going to get solved i don't think i mean i think it's more giving people a path that they0.98
00:54:05.900can succeed so maybe there are some other solutions like better school choice and other things to
00:54:10.720allow people to get on a better path um and certainly i would say in this country what's
00:54:16.340that what's better than this country it's like the kids can't do it on their own if they don't have
00:54:22.640the parents leading the way i i don't know it's just frustrating and it's one of the reasons why
00:54:29.540saw being a teacher is that you're taught not to be uh strict in class so we would have teenage
00:54:37.460takeovers in the classroom like they would just go crazy and do whatever to these teachers and
00:54:42.980i was like nope nope i don't you hear me speak spanish that means you're not you're all gonna
00:54:49.460be staying for lunch and you're gonna be here forever i'm gonna have you do a test so the
00:54:54.980the issue is that no adult puts a limit to them like when i was talking about the law applying
00:55:02.420to them and all that it seems to me that they just you know they just want to have fun and do
00:55:07.360whatever they want to do and there's no adult supervision at all and that's what really a
00:55:14.220teen takeover is they don't have parents their grandparents whoever's watching them doesn't
00:55:18.640have the power to tell them what to do they've never heard somebody say no to them and uh yeah
00:55:25.720just i mean a lot of mentors get beat up by their kids too it's insane it's insane yes everybody
00:55:32.480lost grandparents too king randall is being mentioned that's one person that's making a
00:55:38.980difference there's other people making a difference but it really why don't we all try to do that if
00:55:44.820you're somewhere where you can mentor people, do it, you know, find, find a way to, to help. I mean,
00:55:51.160we can watch and complain, but can we step in? I have lots of friends that really mentor people
00:55:57.460everywhere. Oh my God. But you know, if you can, that's a really great way of being useful. I mean,
00:56:03.900I have, I have one friend I'm thinking of in particular, and he mentors his nieces and nephews.
00:56:09.580They're great kids, but he's there as like an extra mentor to just be like, listen, you know,
00:56:14.820you see what happened there you know they talk it through you know you don't want to do that you
00:56:18.940want to respect this you you know blah blah blah blah and i don't think there's enough of that i
00:56:23.280mean he he's like really teaching like maybe like what our parents would have taught and i think
00:56:28.460that's missing but i could go on about this forever i think i think parenting i think parenting has
00:56:34.880gone downhill yeah across the board and i'm not talking about any particular group i mean i know
00:56:40.300there are problems in particular groups that might be more prevalent than others but I'm saying like
00:56:45.360you know the I think parents used to be a lot more involved with their kids in that sort of
00:56:50.280mentoring thing teaching them lessons teaching how to do things I felt like I was a lot more on my
00:56:56.300own you know because my dad was really busy you would travel for work and things and I did a lot
00:57:00.640of that too so maybe my kids feel the same way but you know I did make an effort to like counsel
00:57:07.100and coach my kids and talk them off the ledge if it sounded like they were about to do something
00:57:10.880bad and um you know correct them when it was necessary certainly too and i do think that
00:57:18.040both mothers and fathers are important in that and they both have a role to play and in no matter
00:57:23.680whether it's a girl or a boy and um i think it's just a really important role that i think people
00:57:29.340have kind of forgotten about and you know that there's the opposite part where people say oh
00:57:34.240now we have these helicopter parents and like structured activities and some of that might be
00:57:38.960true too and maybe that's a problem in itself too that people don't have enough time to do free play
00:57:43.380and some of the other things that I did when I was a kid but I still think to me a lot of it is that
00:57:49.080when a kid is in trouble like that in my experience it means their parent probably isn't involved and
00:57:55.480and it may not be you know an intentional thing it may just be that they are you know a single
00:58:00.580parent and they're working all the time and they can't. But if there was some system we could put
00:58:04.840in place to fix that or to help with that, I think it would potentially make a big difference. And if
00:58:09.880more mothers and fathers stayed together to raise their kids, I think it would make a big difference.
00:58:15.120Take the phones away from your kids. Take the iPads away from your kids. Let them get creative.
00:58:19.560Let them read a book. Talk to them. How about talk to them? How about no phones at the dinner table?
00:58:24.540If I go to a restaurant, I mean, I saw a father who, it was clear that he had, it was like his
00:58:30.320time with the son. Like you could just tell he was like a single dad type of thing. They sat at
00:58:35.240the table right near me, each one of them on their phone. They did not say a word to each other. The
00:58:40.580kid was probably nine and then there's the dad. And I'm like, what do you, like, this is such a
00:58:45.620wasted opportunity. So parents do need to step up and, and grandparents and aunts and uncles and
00:58:51.640friends and cousins, everybody should just really do their best to be useful because this generation,0.99
00:58:59.480like the under 30 generation is running amok. So if you can help mentor when you can, do it.1.00
00:59:05.980It doesn't have to be an official capacity either. It could just be like a situational
00:59:09.380moment where you could just be like, hey, like pull the person aside and be like,
00:59:12.980I just want to talk to you about what just happened here. Something like that. I don't
00:59:16.460know. It could just be one little thing. All right. So we're out of time. You guys, this day
00:59:22.400flew by. It was so good seeing all your faces this Monday morning. I'm going back to bed. I'm
00:59:29.200kidding. No, I'm not. But we will be back tomorrow. And why do I keep forgetting the date? It is,
00:59:37.960Oh, we have a special guest on Wednesday.
00:59:42.020Dr. Drew will be here with us for the hour.