Out of the Mouth of Babes "Our Future Leaders"
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Out of the Mouth of Babes "Our Future Leaders"
S1 EP5 PT. 3 - Music, Fandom, and Phones: Navigating Youth Culture and Education
Could the music tastes of today's youth reveal deeper insights into their worldview? Join us on "Out of the Mouth of Babes" as our vibrant guests share their passion for music icons like J Cole, Lil Baby, and the emerging influence of Spanish artists such as Peso Pluma. We navigate through the energetic landscape of sports fandom, spotlighting beloved teams like the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears, and delve into the profound impact Deion Sanders has had on HBCU football. Our discussion crescendos with a spirited brainstorm over the perfect theme music for the Four Horsemen, tapping into tracks that encapsulate the electric mix of today's cultural landscape.
Switching gears, we dive headfirst into the heated classroom debate: should cell phones be banned? Our guests bring diverse perspectives to the table, from the thrill of engagement to the pitfalls of distraction. We explore how innovative teaching and lively school activities could transform boredom into vibrant learning experiences and dissect the unique ways teachers handle students who drift off mid-class. This conversation holds a mirror to the realities of education in a digital age, offering a thought-provoking take on the challenges and opportunities faced by modern students and educators alike.
Hey, hey, hey. We are back Out of the Mouth of Babes, a podcast for our youth, for our leaders, for our future leaders. Today we have in the house we got two leaders in the house and this is the entertainment section of Out of the Mouth of Babes. So we're going to talk about music. We're going to talk about sports. We're just going to have some fun up here. We're going to talk about sports. We're just going to have some fun up here. So I am. I just want to kind of get an understanding of you guys all listening to me. Who listens to music up here?
Speaker 2:I listen to a little bit of music, a little bit.
Speaker 1:Alright, so tell me your favorite artist.
Speaker 2:My favorite artist. I'd say it's probably J Cole. J Cole, yeah.
Speaker 3:J Cole. J Cole for sure, cole for sure.
Speaker 2:I'd say Lil Baby, I like Lil Baby. But J Cole, he is my number one, that's how good it is.
Speaker 3:I like Spanish music too.
Speaker 1:Like what.
Speaker 3:Probably Peso Pluma right now.
Speaker 1:Peso Puma, I'm sorry, tell me, tell me again.
Speaker 3:Peso.
Speaker 1:Pluma Peso Pluma, you got to send me that. I want to check it out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I like all kind of music. So now let's start off with rapping, and then I want you to transition into some other and let us know about some of the Spanish music that you listen to as well. So who do you guys think the greatest rapper of all time is? Oh, oh, that's fine, alright.
Speaker 3:No role models to speak of Searching through my memory, my memory.
Speaker 1:I couldn't find. Alright, we just had a little J Cole break in there In the headphones, who you think the greatest rapper of all time.
Speaker 2:I think the greatest rapper of all time is probably I'd say probably Tupac.
Speaker 3:Tupac.
Speaker 2:Tupac yeah. I give it to him.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I don't really listen to like you know, like older, older rap. So I can really I don't want to like say, yeah, I'm not, you don't want to disrespect him, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't want to disrespect nobody, all right. So tupac, I would say tupac is my favorite of all time as well. Tupac machiavelli hey, that's og right there. Yeah, I appreciate it. Yes, yes, yes, love it, love it, love it. All right, um. So you guys are athletes, so do you guys follow sports at all somewhere. So who's your? Who's your favorite football team?
Speaker 2:oh, my favorite football team cowboys, oh, cowboys yeah for sure, sure dallas, cowboys dallas cowboys oh, they still got a team yeah, yeah, what's your favorite thing?
Speaker 1:you already know jerome knows who's my favorite team Jerome.
Speaker 2:The Bears, the who, the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1:The Chicago Bears, the Chicago Bears, windy City Bears. Now I used to like, I used to respect the Cowboys Back in the day when they had Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders. You guys have followed the transition of HBCU football, I'm assuming with Deion Sanders going to Jackson State, you guys see that and have you guys had an opportunity of ever watching any of those shows and see some of his practices and some of the things on TikTok and how he comes at some of his players?
Speaker 2:No, I haven't, I got you.
Speaker 3:Okay, all right. I see some clips of him talking like after games, like bring my theme music yeah, yeah, stuff does that make you would? You would that make you hype? Yeah, for sure, if my coach had his own like song. If we can like, bring my thing, yeah, yeah, bring that all right, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna figure that out.
Speaker 1:we're gonna come out and be like who got our theme music? Yeah, because the Four Horsemen need theme music. Oh yeah, we need theme music for sure. Hey, so if we had to come up with a theme music for the Four Horsemen, what would y'all say? What song would it be? We got to do Hit Em Up.
Speaker 3:Oh, hit Em Up, that would be good.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure if we can put Hit Em Up. It has to be the extra clean version of Hit Em Up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it got to be a clean version.
Speaker 1:What about anything else?
Speaker 3:What other songs?
Speaker 2:Any songs Tia.
Speaker 3:I don't really know, I don't. I'd probably say something by Lil Baby, though I feel like Lil.
Speaker 1:Baby, something by Lil Baby, yeah, tia All right, tio, you just mentioned to us and again Pardon my ignorance on this you mentioned that you listen to some Spanish music, right? Is that the correct term, saying Spanish music, or yeah?
Speaker 3:I use the term Spanish music so I don't want to say it's like it's nothing offensive. Okay, saying Spanish music, it just means music in Spanish.
Speaker 1:Alright, so tell us about the, the song that you listen to I mean the artist and a little bit about the song.
Speaker 3:So Peso Puma, he's new, he's really new, but he's making like one of his songs. It was like Ella Baila Sola. It was number one in the US for a few weeks. It was crazy. Especially, you see Mexican artists really take over US billboards.
Speaker 1:It's nice to see.
Speaker 3:How's the song go? Oh, hold on.
Speaker 2:Hold on, Coach. How's the song go? I can't do that. I can't do that Come on TO.
Speaker 1:I can't disrespect that song on I can't I can't disrespect that song. All right, all right, but you are going to send it to me so I can listen to it, I will all right all right, any other, any other um music, like from cultural music, that that you want to let the audience know a little bit about no song in particular, but like um or artists like artists.
Speaker 3:Bad bunny's doing his thing, for sure, he's, definitely he's definitely yeah bad bunny's a he.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that part. I didn't know and I don't follow, I just don't, just didn't know.
Speaker 3:So yeah, bad bunny does a lot of collabs with like us artists and that's. That's how I've heard the name yeah, um, but like the thing with spanish music is they take like, um, they use a lot of instruments, you know what I mean. Like they use a lot of instruments, you know what I mean. Like US, we use a lot of beats. They use like trumpets, trombones, stuff like that, and it really like gives a different feel to the song.
Speaker 1:Awesome. What about you, Ron? So tell me somebody else that you like.
Speaker 2:I like SZA.
Speaker 1:SZA, she's not that bad.
Speaker 2:She got a couple songs. They're really it's like really chill, it's like late night vibes.
Speaker 1:The late night vibes is that the talk hold on? Is that the taco bell run late night vibe or is that the late night vibe late?
Speaker 2:night vibe. Well, yeah, she's she nice, she's really nice. She got a couple see. Well, the two albums I usually I listen to the most are I forget what it's called, but it's recent, it's recent. It has like the wave on it, like the ocean, or like on the boat or whatever.
Speaker 3:I know what you mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:Anything else y'all want to share or talk about, let's just get it out there. This is the time for you guys to to have some conversation about some stuff. Is there anything that's going on in the in the world that you? Guys have been, so so put it like this if I wasn't in the room with you right now, what would you be talking about?
Speaker 3:I don't know. A lot of our conversations do revolve around football. Football yeah, a bunch at a time About high school changes, about the changes they made this year.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about it.
Speaker 3:Let's talk about it.
Speaker 1:Let's get it out. What are the changes?
Speaker 3:I want to know the little phone changes.
Speaker 1:The little phone changes. Talk to us what happened with the phone changes.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty sure most schools have this, but we didn't have this. We got our phone in class and stuff. Look at it, put it back away, but now we only have it in the hallways and cafeteria.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what do you?
Speaker 2:think about that. I feel like it sucks. It just sucks that I'm on my phone. I don't know if they'll be able to let me listen to music still or not, because I love listening to music while I'm in school.
Speaker 1:So basically, what I heard him say is that he's going to try to cheat the system and have his AirPods in no, no, no, that's not even like that. I just like to vibe while I do my work, yeah.
Speaker 2:Have a little bit of motivation, but no, I feel like it will also help out a lot, though, with the school system, because I feel like most kids will start doing their work and all that and be focused on their schoolwork and not be distracted by the phone.
Speaker 1:So what I hear you guys saying is that the school corporation has decided that students shouldn't have their cell phones in class. Kudos to the school corporation. I was at Dennis Middle School last year and Mr Graber and I implemented a way for the day. It means the phone was completely away for the day, not even in the hallway, not in the cafeteria, so it was just like they put it in their locker.
Speaker 3:Excuse me, they just put it in their locker. Put it in your locker and if we catch you on it.
Speaker 1:we're taking it oh wow, wow, yeah.
Speaker 3:How'd they get it back?
Speaker 1:The first time we give it back. Second time your parent got to come get it. Third time your parent got to come get it and you got to do something. The fourth time you got to turn it into the office when you get to school.
Speaker 2:What crazy. That's crazy, that's crazy. I, I would never get caught that much. Yeah, everybody says that, but I'm telling you, so you guys are so, teo, you didn't.
Speaker 1:How do you feel about the cell phone change?
Speaker 3:um, I don't really be using my phone like that in class, but, like you know, sometimes like I get a text or something, I like text it back, put it back in my pocket you know, do my work, go back to doing my thing.
Speaker 3:You know I mean, I'm not like heavy on it. There is some. There are some people though they're like just on their phone the whole class period. They don't really, they don't really do any work. You know I mean, but like um, it's like if they take the phones away. You know, I mean, a lot of kids are just I me personally, I feel like they're just gonna fall asleep in class.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they just sleep, so that's a problem. So, so what? So now they need to come up with the. So if you were advising the school board, oh okay, what would you tell them they need to work on? We already talked about the cell phone. Now, sleeping in class is one. What else do they need to fix?
Speaker 3:um, personally, I think they should like get students more involved in things you know, I mean like we didn't really have Like assemblies or anything Like anything fun.
Speaker 2:We had like the little yeah, like one assembly. Did we have like a homecoming thing? I think yeah, yeah, we did, I believe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I thought I thought they were interested in that. You know, getting Getting kids up and moving around, not sitting at a desk all the time, you know, like it just Sometimes it just gets boring. I feel like they should come up with different ways to teach kids. You know, that's just my take.
Speaker 1:So kids sleep a lot in class.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of people do Sleep in class.
Speaker 3:Especially first three periods yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to even hit you with Back in my day. Back in my day, you may get an eraser thrown at you for being asleep there's some teachers that just won't tolerate it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like if you're gonna sleep my class. Well, you don't have to, like they'd be. Like, don't sleep my class, go sleep in the office oh, wow yeah, it's out of out of here.
Speaker 1:yeah, they just be like you're gone, all right. Anything else you guys want to share, I don't know, no-transcript.