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Episode 077: Millennials vs Gen Z: w/ guest Ashanti
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Have you ever wondered what happens when Millennials and Gen Z sit down for a candid conversation about their generations? In this special episode of The Table, we bring together both perspectives with guest Ashanti representing Gen Z in a fascinating debate about which generation has the edge.
The conversation moves seamlessly between humor and depth as we explore how technological adaptation shapes our worldviews. Millennials pride themselves on straddling both digital and analog worlds—we know how to use a phone book when Google fails and can read an actual map when GPS stops working. Meanwhile, Gen Z brings an intuitive understanding of emerging technologies that gives them an undeniable advantage in our rapidly changing digital landscape.
We dive into how parenting styles have evolved, with Millennials often taking a more communicative approach than the strict disciplinarian methods they experienced growing up. Ashanti offers brilliant insights about how Gen Z values emotional intelligence and open dialogue, challenging us to consider how we might bridge generational divides within our own families.
Perhaps most poignant is our examination of how social media creates unprecedented pressure, especially for younger generations. As one moment in our conversation highlights: "Social media got y'all rushing your goals. Remember, comparison is the thief of joy." We discuss how the curated perfection of online lives creates unrealistic expectations and contributes to anxiety among young people who feel perpetually behind.
The episode culminates in a joyful reggae music showdown that reminds us all that despite our different cultural touchpoints—from Tamagotchis to TikTok—both generations share more common ground than we might initially recognize. Join us for this enlightening conversation that will have you questioning your assumptions about generational divides while celebrating what makes each unique.
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Speaker 1Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the table. Oh, there's going to be a special episode today. Table for three is back in the building. You got to love it. All we want to do is Millennials versus Jim Z's today.
Speaker 4Let's today. That's Jim, you already know. I know y'all jamming to work today Coming home from work.
Speaker 1Maybe a dentist appointment? I don't know Anything. It's just random dentist appointment. I don't know Anything.
Speaker 4It's just random every day, I don't know.
Speaker 1Thank you for listening, we're singing.
Speaker 4Oh oh, Sheila, Let me love you till the morning comes. Oh oh, Sheila. You know I want to be the only one.
Speaker 1Hey, I've been dreaming of you. Oh, we're going to have a debate today. I can't wait till we get to it. I'm already giving you hints with this music.
Speaker 4Let's go. I just can't help the way that I feel.
Speaker 1I'm going to get to your favorite part. Don't even worry about it. You must know.
Speaker 4Now danger's inside, because I can't help the way that I feel. I just can't help the way that I feel. Uh-huh, if you know it, sing it baby. If you know it, sing it baby. If you know it, sing it Uh-huh. All right, let's go Uh-oh, b's go Uh-oh, bum bitch. Oh my God. Uh-huh.
Introducing Ashanti and Today's Topic
Speaker 4Uh-huh, oh, this is definitely All right. Bye, if you want my future forget my past, if you want to be with me. Forget my past Now. Don't go wasting my precious time. Get your act together. We could be just fine. Tell you what I want.
Speaker 1Ladies and gentlemen. Oh okay, Thank you for joining the table.
Speaker 2That's what we doing. She really wanted that part.
Speaker 1Thank you for joining the table. That's what we're doing. She really wanted that part. I can give you that part, hey guys. Welcome back oh it's beautiful to be back, I love it Full sped.
Speaker 4Shut up.
Speaker 1No, full sped. Ain't nobody asking you Full speed, full sped. Ladies and gentlemen, let me say we have a special guest in the building today and we couldn't wait for her to get on it on a show, and we have a debate that we're going to talk about today, that she brung to our attention and so we're going to talk about it. Ladies and gentlemen, ashanti.
Speaker 3Ashanti, what's up? What's up, what's up? Can you hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome, welcome. Thank you, I'm representing Gen Z. You know, all day Severely outnumbered, but that's okay.
Speaker 1So today's discussion is going to be surrounded about. Maybe the topic is going to be about Gen Z's versus millennials.
Speaker 2Versus baby boomers, because we got one at the table.
Speaker 3Well don't do NeNe like that. I am not a baby boomer Baby.
Speaker 2Baby boomer, look at your mind going.
Speaker 4She's a gen slavery.
Speaker 1What You're a gen slavery. Anyway, how was everyone's week Weekend? How was everybody? Don't look at me like that, I'm sorry, I apologize.
Speaker 2Don't apologize for things you meant to do. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1I am unhinged I am the unhinged one, okay.
Speaker 3Absolutely. Thank you for admitting it as soon as the mics turn on, here I go.
Speaker 1How was everyone?
Speaker 2It was really really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, how good. Actually, I felt like it was a fast week.
Speaker 1I felt like the week went fast for me, you never shite me of doing anything fast.
Speaker 2So um, I'm just saying like I think.
Speaker 1No, no, come on guys, stop, I'm starting early. No, it was a. It was an easy week.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was an easy week.
Speaker 1Stop.
Speaker 7Sometimes I don't even know how to respond to him, because anything I say gets twisted and misconstrued.
Father Leaves Kids at McDonald's
Speaker 3Come on, I am not Keith Sweat, keith Sweat, okay that's your name for the rest of the show Keith Sweat yeah, Keith Sweat.
Speaker 1That's the rest of the show. Keith Wett yeah, Keith Wett, that's the name of the episode.
Speaker 2So pretty smooth, Pretty smooth week Like my bottom oh.
Speaker 3The pause in the silence is crazy, you see.
Speaker 1Every time, nene, how was your week? It was a week. It was a week. All right, Ashanti, don't be taking my line.
Speaker 3How was your week?
Speaker 1Or weekend.
Speaker 3I would have to echo Nene. It was pretty long. I actually Just. My last day Of my job Was yesterday.
Speaker 1So I started a new job On Monday.
Speaker 2Nice Congratulations.
Speaker 3And you know that Last week of the two weeks, notice be. I'm surprised you stay for two weeks right you know I asked why did you leave? I left because I mean where I'm at right now in my career.
Speaker 4You know I'm looking upward mobility you know what I mean, and there just wasn't any there no growth, you know what I mean yeah, so I respect that I'm excited.
Speaker 2You know what you want. I'm just, I'm just uh congratulations on your new journey usually I don't stay for the last two weeks.
Speaker 1I mean I make it like a couple of days. I give them a couple of days. I'm not coming back. Dog Dog.
Speaker 3There are many times I'm like you know what.
Speaker 5They don't even deserve that. Like I'm going to take my belt.
Speaker 1Yeah, Let me be responsible. My younger days man, I don't think I ever made it to a two weeks notice.
Speaker 3My younger days. They never got that. I was like fuck y'all, I'm out of here.
Speaker 1I gave them a two weeks notice, but I don't think I ever did the two weeks notice. It was like a two weeks vacation for me.
Speaker 3Now, did I work those two weeks is another question. Definitely.
Speaker 4I'm like, what are they going to do?
Speaker 2fire me right. Some of those jobs try to do that. Yeah, they do when you put in your notice and they be like.
Speaker 4You know what that's legal.
Speaker 1Y'all go on your record, right you?
Speaker 2don't even need to be here would that go on your record?
Speaker 1if they do that, even though you gave you two weeks? I think that's illegal like retaliation. I don't think they. I sue everybody he's fired me actually. Yeah.
Speaker 3I mean if it's a private organization, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1That's what I learned about at will Employment At will employment. Yeah, that's what I learned about that younger Like at will, you can just fire me. At will, you, son of a bitch, which means you can leave.
Speaker 4Yeah, at will. Yeah, that means you can leave. Yeah, I will yeah.
Speaker 1Hell yeah, my week was cool. I didn't do much.
Speaker 3That sounds like an everyday thing for you. Well, the last couple weeks was kind of crazy with the family?
Speaker 2Did you work every day?
Speaker 1I did work every day. Okay, this was my full-. You worked a full week, I worked-.
Speaker 3Surprise you what I worked a full week.
Speaker 2You what what? Your mouth was full.
Speaker 1You know Well, yeah, nope, nope. So under the tuleage of Sean, no, I worked the full week. It was smooth. It was pretty much my week back from being out for a couple weeks. But yeah, got back to it, okay, got back to it. Now next week is my short week. Yeah, I bet I got shit to do. Okay, got back to it. Now next week is my short week. I bet I got shit to do. Aau is back around.
Speaker 2Oh, now you're going to be traveling.
Speaker 3Y'all signed up for that adventure again.
Speaker 1Oh my God, I don't know why I did it, but they invited him to tryouts. He went to the tryouts, blows the shit up. So now they want him on the team, he they want him on the team. He makes the national team. So I don't know the difference between a national and a regular AAU, but I think there's more cities you gotta go to you about to find out.
Speaker 2This sounds more expensive, more money coming out of your butt Just more expensive.
Speaker 1I can't do it.
Speaker 3Anything for your kids right.
Speaker 1Should be fine. Okay, what's going on in this crazy world today?
Speaker 2You know just a little bit of that, so not a lot of that.
Speaker 1A little bit so did you just put it? Why do you always got to focus on show tunes to?
Speaker 3the topic, so we just just passed it.
Speaker 1She throws a show tune on anything.
Speaker 2You guys heard about that Florida father, I mean Georgia father anything you guys heard about that.
Speaker 1Uh, that florida father I mean georgia father out you know I was trying to bring everything back to florida come on florida.
Speaker 3You gotta do better, but this is. We haven't talked about florida in a while, have we? We did, we did a couple episodes ago.
Speaker 1They've been surviving. Yeah, thank you, florida, for not making the news, even though you probably did, and we just never seen it. Just keep it like that. I can't see see it?
Speaker 2No, no, Georgia. So 24 year old Chris Lewis from Augusta, Georgia. He was charged with deprivation of a minor, so evidently he brought his little babies ages 1, 6, and 10 to McDonald's to play in the playscape and get a. They still got playscapes at McDonald's. Some of them yeah and get a. They still got playscapes at. Mcdonald's some of them. Yeah, get a little cheeseburger and a little fry yo maybe a little nugget. Yeah, look flurry. No, so the local police got a call that um there were children.
Speaker 2That was unattended there mm and a witness, uh, claimed that they saw him with his children around 4.30 that day, and then the witness claims that they observed him leaving the restaurant and then returning later and then leaving a second time. So he's checking on his kids.
Speaker 1So when he arrived back, it's all like he's checking on the kids.
Speaker 2When he arrived back a couple hours later, he found his kids, but he also found the police officers and um found out that he didn't own the. He was trying to explain like that. He didn't own the vehicle, own a vehicle and so he had walked to the restaurant um from his apartment with the kids and he didn't want to make them walk back as he was going to a job interview. So he's saying that he brought the kids to McDonald's so they could play and eat, keep them busy, to a job interview, so that he could support them. But he didn't have a vehicle.
Speaker 1He sound like a good man, savannah. Yeah, a vehicle. He sound like a good man, savannah.
Speaker 2Shortly after, once all the debacle with the police, you know the mother arrived and ended up taking the kids home.
Speaker 1So where was she? No, no, go ahead. Go ahead, me and you on the same page.
Speaker 3Go ahead and say what she was about to say. Let him finish.
Speaker 2Because I know you're going to ask, but I believe that they're not um together, together, okay, um, but even still yeah, why not reach out and touch right? Um, but yeah, so. But then, uh, another story came out after the fact, where, because the children, you know, kids got big mouths that ended up saying that daddy wasn't at no interview. Daddy does this all the time. Mcdonald's is just our babysitter.
Speaker 1Yo yeah Wait.
Speaker 3Yeah, and then didn't somebody put up money to get him out A celebrity? Was it a football player or something?
Speaker 2like that. I think it was Okay. Let me get this straight.
Speaker 1Yo, that's why you always gotta like dig into her shit, because my man went to McDonald's, dropped off his kids for a supposed interview, which understandable, but you got a one-year-old who's.
Speaker 2Why are you leaving a one-year-old? You got a one-year-old who's? Why are you leaving a one-year-old?
Speaker 1You got a 10-year-old that can watch him, you're right, but he's trying to get his life together. If it's the interview thing, then he's trying to get his life together and he didn't you know where moms was like. He couldn't call moms and be like yo. Can I watch these kids for me?
Speaker 3she probably was like no motherfucker them, your kids. That's your time you watching bitches.
Speaker 2So he had to do what he had to do which makes me feel like the kids was telling the truth, because he could have been searching, if you reached out to the kids mother and said hey, I'm going to a job interview. Can you watch the kids for me?
Speaker 1I know it's my time.
Speaker 2If she say no, that's bullshit, because why wouldn't you want to if he's trying to better himself? Because that may end up trickling down.
Speaker 3But then when you think about the other aspect, you have some assholes out there.
Speaker 2They broke up?
Speaker 3No, absolutely, she probably be like nah, nigga, fuck you If he's going to that money may eventually end up in her pocket.
Speaker 2Yeah right, why wouldn't she want to?
Speaker 3Exactly If they that spiteful help in that situation. Because you got some stupid dummies though.
Speaker 1Okay, and then he walked to the interview and then he said it took a couple hours, Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3So I'm suspicious, me too.
Speaker 2I was about to say I was like he was going to get his back blown.
Speaker 3I said he was going to go blow some back out on me or he was getting his back blown. I did say it.
Speaker 2That's what I thought she said I did. I said it was going to go on. I didn't hear the first part. It might be the latter, but anyway, ain't nothing wrong with that Listen. What I understand is this McDonald's was the closest to his home.
Speaker 3The crazy part is, if you're going to leave your kids, leave them motherfuckers at home, no, but why would you put them in public?
Speaker 2Because they needed to be fed.
Speaker 3He put them there. In the case that they choked on the burger, somebody was going to be there to protect them, because if they was at home.
Speaker 1Did this McDonald's have the ball pit?
Speaker 2I'm sure in his mind.
Speaker 3Wait, no, I want to know where you go with the ball pit.
Speaker 1No, no, no, back in the day, people used to get stuck in the ball pit. That's why they took them out.
Speaker 2I've never been stuck in a ball pit, you know you've been stuck in a ball pit, and you will never be stuck in a ball pit.
Speaker 1Oh my God, you'll fuck them balls up Like get the fuck out hey yo. Get them shits out of here. You know what I mean. No, we don't. No but back in the day the reason why they took those ball pits out because people would leave like needles and shit.
Speaker 3Needles and shit. You got stuck in a ball pit no.
Speaker 2Didn't you have a birthday there?
Speaker 3You ain't know me though.
Speaker 1That's what you said.
Speaker 2That's what you said. I remember she had a birthday.
Speaker 3I did and I slipped in the mud.
Speaker 1Got my little dress all messed up and Matt DeNight was on the piano singing you happy birthday.
Speaker 2This was in the 80s. This was in the 80s.
Speaker 3The good era, by the way.
Speaker 4We're not there yet. Relax.
Speaker 1You're talking shit.
Speaker 2Check one for us, though McDonald's in the playpen was us. Nene had a birthday party at McDonald's and specifically it was the McDonald's in Bloomfield, connecticut. At the Capaco Center when they used to have the animals at the farm.
Speaker 3That is before my time. We all got.
Speaker 2We got a burger and a pet to animals. We got a burger and we got milk and I was so upset because I do not like milk and I wanted yeah.
Speaker 4I do not like milk.
Speaker 3He wanted juice.
Speaker 2And.
Speaker 1I wanted yeah, he been telling this story for years. You threw me for a second because you was like it's an animal farm and you got burgers and you got milk. So I already know where you got the milk from. You thought he was out there milking the cow. I thought he was getting on them teats.
Speaker 2Somebody had to pay for the food. I was raised by a single mom so that's why you're good at it today.
Speaker 1I'm leaving. Alright, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2He didn't tell everybody.
Speaker 1He was the cop. I'm the whole village.
Speaker 3Whoa, I got enough for the village. Both of y'all need to turn y'all mics on table for two. How are you, ashazi? How are you?
Speaker 4I'm trying to maintain.
Speaker 2This is welcome to the show oh yeah, yeah, that's right either way, I'm kind of calling bullshit, because the kids said that he do this all the time you know, the kids tell the truth, whether or not he just has a lot of job interviews, because he's really out there hustling.
Speaker 3At some point you got to get a job. He should have applied for McDonald's. He had his kids there every now and then I mean it's right there I'm not convinced and he could sit there and watch them while they playing in the playpen, while he working Minimum wage is like $18, ain't it?
Speaker 2Every day is bring your kid to work day oh he good Hours, though, like.
Speaker 3that's why I'm confused, because you Yo for real. You went to McDonald's. You left the kids there. I'm assuming you went back to the house to change, they say he left and then came back and then left again.
Speaker 1So he checked on the kids to make sure they was good, maybe he had two interviews that day. I don't know an interview that goes a couple hours like that, though, Unless they was like hey, I'm going to, you know, come. You did so well, come meet the boss. And the boss is bosses.
Speaker 3He wasn't going for those type of jobs.
Speaker 1Maybe he had a lot to say, I mean give the man the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 2Or maybe the walk was long. Maybe that's why it took so long. I'm not understanding why he went to check on her. This is in.
Speaker 3New York, just to leave them there no Georgia, so wait wait, wait, pause Hold on. I do have another question when did this happen?
Speaker 4You know I'm going to investigate. When did this happen?
Speaker 3This happened last month, so this was last month. And how old was the oldest child?
Speaker 2Ten, ten, one, six and ten. Oh, so them niggas ain't in school. Oh shit, it could have been a Saturday, or it could have been, you know um.
Speaker 1Last month which.
Speaker 2The one-year-old would not be in school.
Speaker 1I know Daycare it could have been.
Speaker 2St Paddy's Day. It could have been.
Speaker 3St Paddy's Day is not a holiday. There's no holidays at all. Nobody gets that shit off.
Speaker 1Was this in February or March?
Speaker 3Well, last month, you said last month, so March, there's no holidays. Rosh Hashanah, spring.
Speaker 1Spring started in March.
Speaker 3Nobody gets that off. Yeah, Like I got questions.
Speaker 2Maybe it was a parent-teacher conference.
Speaker 3Who the teacher.
Speaker 1What's his name? Mcburglar or some shit? Mcburglar?
Speaker 2That was his stage name Back in the day I know McBurglar.
Speaker 1I had shiny shorts and I went by McBurglar oh get out.
Speaker 3Wow, I just had a picture.
Speaker 2My buns Just pickles everywhere. Hey yo, that's nasty.
Speaker 3Milk in the village. That is nasty, oh my.
Speaker 1God. What are we doing right now?
Speaker 3All right, no, but it's a lot of questions for this guy.
Speaker 1Well, I hope he got his shit together. I mean, if he was doing an interview.
Speaker 3Applaud you, I mean whatever, but Did he get arrested?
Speaker 4Yeah, he got arrested he lost the kids anyway.
Speaker 1What's in the mother? Well?
Speaker 2Right now he, yeah, the mother has them, I'm sure.
Speaker 1Yeah, get him in a job. He's just trying to get a job he should have applied. He's probably being a gigolo. That's a job.
Speaker 3I said Dunkin McDonald's, that's a job, what A gigolo, yeah he was probably going to satisfy. He was doing that for free, some kind of fetish? He knows that from experience. Sounds like it.
Speaker 2I think we're talking about legal employment. Yeah.
Speaker 3That's honest work.
Speaker 1Yeah, ashanti sounds like she knows.
Speaker 3He got kids? No, he got kids. He's swinging that dick for free. Hey yo, you said he was how old? 24? Yeah, with a 10-year-old, damn I'm sorry.
Speaker 2Maybe his daddy left him at the McDonald's too.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's wild, you right Damn.
Speaker 1Yo, I mean it was 14 slash.
Speaker 2I mean it's not.
Speaker 3No, shade, it isn't, it isn't.
Speaker 2Younger and younger they're. See, I told you he was slanging that dick for free, because if you look at a lot of these young kids out there today, they look older than us?
Speaker 4Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2Some of them are bigger than us.
Speaker 1Us millennials just look so good.
Speaker 3You're right.
Speaker 2I'll make you look up for me. There you go.
Speaker 1You know what I'm saying. I can't wait to get that. You got to admit.
Speaker 3Y'all do All right, I can't wait to get that you gotta admit.
Speaker 2Y'all do, y'all do alright, cause black don't crack, he get snatched back.
Speaker 3Well, it depends on what the crack doing what, how about the black doing?
Speaker 2wait what what's your crack doing yo not leaving my kids at McDonald's holy shit, enlighten us on the daily activities of your crack that's a patron. Uh hey yo subscription. Holy shit, enlighten us on the daily activities of your crack.
Speaker 3That's a patron Subscription for that information.
Speaker 2Everybody subscribe to her ex account. Yo, for real, just cracking them up.
Speaker 3I don't need to have an ex anymore.
Speaker 2I deleted that shit, just cracking them up.
Speaker 3Shit, shit, not the cracking them up.
Speaker 1All right, what's next?
Speaker 2Good luck guy, whoever, you are Good luck guy.
Speaker 1Shit, not the crack in the mouth. Alright, what's next?
Speaker 2good luck guy whoever you are, good luck guy, chris, he good somebody paid for him to get out. I'm sure you 24 years old, I'm sure you have a parent somewhere. I'm sure you have a family member, a family friend. You obviously have a mother of the child who was available to pick up the children and it's Georgia, georgia what am I supposed to? Yeah, what does that?
Speaker 3mean it's the friendly state, is it? I thought it was the peach state. Yeah, peaches is good.
Speaker 2Yo, what? What is happening? She was like they be juicy they be juicy.
Speaker 3They delicious, she knows.
Speaker 4Alright, Alright, what's next? She was like they be juicy.
Speaker 2They be juicy, they delicious. She knows All right, all right, what's next?
Speaker 3So did y'all hear about the three women caught on camera walking out of the restaurant because they stupid?
Speaker 2They walked out on. They bill, they dine and dash. They dine and dash Just because they walked out.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 3What the fuck did they do? I said they threw it because they was on camera and they had like information. Given that they it was, it was wild. So it was a birthday. Bash Bash, lord, have mercy At McDonald's it was it would have been better for them. I know Noah was at a Chicago restaurant. Three women decided to dine and dash, even bragging about it on social media. Now this is where it gets crazy. Why are you posting this shit?
Speaker 1This is.
Speaker 3And they tagged the restaurant saying thank you for a free meal. Damn how old they were. You know they had to be young. It doesn't say Don't do that Social media.
Speaker 1this sounds like some j't say Don't do that. I know Social media. This sounds like some jizzy shit. Don't do that, all right.
Speaker 3No, I'm going to stop, I ain't looking too good right now, so it goes after digging into some chicken wings, alfredo, and some round of drinks. The crew racked up over 200.
Speaker 1Alfredo. Alfredo like pasta, yeah, why?
Speaker 3Alfredo 100. Alfredo like pasta, yeah. Why was that necessary? I don't know.
Speaker 4The restaurant was upset about what the fuck they had to eat. Motherfuckers ate Alfredo. I made that pasta with my hands.
Speaker 3They was mad about that.
Speaker 1So damn.
Speaker 3They pulled a smooth move, sneaking out one by one within 30 seconds of the server turning their back as caught on surveillance. One of the ladies was rocking a blue wig. Hey yo Like. Why are you going to Dynadash with something?
Speaker 2that stands out. I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. That is hilarious, because now everybody's going to be looking for a bitch with blue hair. Yes, but hold up, everybody's going to be looking for a bitch with blue hair.
Speaker 3Yes, but hold up. Not only that, though. Not only that One of the ladies, after rocking the blue wig. To top it off, they accidentally dropped their names and phone numbers by signing up on the restaurant's wait list before getting seated. You know what?
Speaker 1Yo, you care.
Speaker 2They might as well when they went because they was on social media, on live, yes.
Speaker 1They might as well give their addresses. They might as well just walk in and be like I'm about to rob you.
Speaker 3They might as well go back and be like hey guys, it's us.
Speaker 1Yo, that's crazy.
Speaker 2Have anybody at the table ever dined and dashed?
Speaker 3Hell yeah, I would never Thank you Really. I am a contributing member of society.
Speaker 5That's why, you saying thank you? Why are you saying thank you?
Speaker 4you dine and dash with me, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 1I don't understand why I'm a contributing person to this, so I understand what you dine and dash at Walmart thank you and stop and shop.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, that's what oh, because they got the self checkout.
Speaker 2I mean, I have never dined and dashed, I've never ordered a meal and left without paying.
Speaker 3Because he's right. That's because he's drank and dashed, drank and dashed, drank and dashed Water. Who?
Speaker 2charges for water unless it's sparkling.
Speaker 3I scratched that. He's running for president, guys 2028. There you go.
Speaker 2And hopefully early, if we get rid of that orange hoe.
Speaker 3All we need is one you see what he trying to do. Tangerine tits gotta go.
Speaker 1Motherfucker trying to do a third term. Jesus Christ, I hope that shit not gonna come.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's wild, I swear on everything.
Speaker 1So you never dined and dashed Never.
Speaker 3No five finger discount either. Wow, nothing. Yeah, good for you. I'm a little coward. She said she's a coward. I'm scared.
Speaker 2Never crossed her mind Never.
Speaker 3She said not because I have morals it's mean I feel like I might have, like you know, slipped something in my pocket on accident and then walked out and I'm like, oh my god, did you turn around and pay for it? No, never, so okay unintentionally, unintentionally, but never dine and dash because your hands were full right. Yes, it was just a lot.
Speaker 2I believe it.
Speaker 1You dine and dash with your hands full, you dine and dash with your hands full, what you dine and dash with your hands full.
Speaker 3So I have a question If you do dine and dash, do you go back to that same restaurant after I have?
Speaker 2Nene has, you're wild.
Speaker 3Why do you do that? I have. But there's a long stretch of time before I go back.
Speaker 1You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3So let me tell you about my drinking dash. Her picture on the wall yeah, they drew a mural. No, it's not, even it's not even that bad, but I'll tell you about the drinking dash.
Speaker 2So what happened? She ran out on Parmesan Yo.
Speaker 3Parmesan fries, yo Truffle fries, bitch Truffle fries, no. So what happened was the chick. She gave me a receipt.
Speaker 2You know, whenever you start a story out with what had happened, some bullshit.
Speaker 3Whatever, but it's the truth. She gave me a receipt, but the receipt it was already paid by someone else.
Speaker 2Oh, that was the day I was with you so I didn't technically dine and dash. It was her receipt.
Speaker 4She invited me out. I love the political.
Speaker 2I love the political response right the way he backed out of this shit so smooth and it was on her right. She invited me out for a nice meal. I ordered my food. She told me spare no expense.
Speaker 3Now your story is dramatic as fuck right now, because I don't even think we ate.
Speaker 2We did, we just had drinks. At the bar. She was like oh, don't worry about it, I got it cause you know she's from the suburbs. And the bartender gave her her receipt and she was like oh, sean, don't you gotta use the bathroom?
Speaker 1Oh, it was one of those.
Speaker 3I said that I know I didn't say that. That's not how that shit went. She gave us the receipt already paid sign, like it was a receipt of oh, your shit's done. And I was like oh, so it's been paid.
Speaker 4Okay, time to go. She said, oh they comped their drinks. That sounds like God, so let's go.
Speaker 3Yeah, so technically no question. Technically.
Speaker 4That don't count.
Speaker 3I'm just saying.
Speaker 2So for me, I'm not liable for anything, because I paid for the drinks she brought me there. She ordered for me. She was the perfect date. She is a real man. She held my door. She pulled my chair out at the bar.
Speaker 3Chivalry is not dead. Love that hey yo. Oh, you get on my nerve.
Speaker 1Hey yo.
Speaker 4Jesus.
Speaker 1I've had times where I was given the wrong bill.
Speaker 3Because his story already started off with bullshit.
Speaker 1I spent like $200 in food and I got a bill back for like $80. And I was like I'm going to go ahead and pay for this and get the fuck out of here. I'll put a nice tip on there. I'll put like $15. That's nice to me $15.
Speaker 3$15 for a $200 bill.
Speaker 1The receipt said $80. Not even 10%. That's more than 10%.
Speaker 2No it's not For a $200 bill. It'll be $20.
Speaker 1$80. $80 bill. I was planning to spend $200, but I was like you know. I got an $80 bill.
Speaker 3I'll give him a little boost in his tip and I'm out of here. You know what happened there. Somebody there was having a real good day, or they were busy and just missed it.
Speaker 2Yeah, probably got somebody fired.
Speaker 3When I was working. I used to work at my uncle's restaurant. It was busy, just people coming and going and I'm by myself, right, and so I'm'm there, give this guy his food, I leave, come back. I'm like did you pay? He paused for a second he looked at me. He's like, yeah, I'm like you paid. He's like, yeah, I'm like you know what, go ahead. That man walked out with $80 worth of food it was good food at that restaurant too yo did your uncle beat you?
Speaker 3he did not. He, no doubt, like y'all, got me out here. That's crazy With the mob.
Speaker 2She was like Not child labor laws, yo fool.
Speaker 3But y'all don't go fool, it's banging, though, yeah.
Speaker 1I never had it.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 3I was better.
Speaker 2Do better, guys, you never share with him.
Speaker 1Nah, you didn't share with him. Don't share shit with me, he lying, he lying.
Speaker 3You learn early. He be lying. Yeah, it he lying. You learn early he be lying.
Speaker 2It's like that $80 bill.
Speaker 3I mean, sometimes lying is necessary sometimes it is necessary.
Speaker 1Alright, what else? What's next?
Black Lives Matter Murals Being Torn Down
Speaker 2so yo, I'll bring you out of the church in a second. So in Salt Lake City, sir, you gotta go to church to bring somebody to church Look. So in Salt Lake City, a lot of murals that honor black individuals like George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter one, where their lives have been taken. They have been being torn down. So the city is stating that the buildings were structurally unsound, of course, and contained hazardous materials. So why are you building a mural with hazardous materials and it's structurally unsound?
Speaker 3Right.
Speaker 2It's not like these are murals that have been around for like freaking ever.
Speaker 3These things are very recent, yeah, relevant to them, so they didn't know that before. Correct Right.
Speaker 2Yeah, are very recent, yeah, so relevant. They didn't know that before. Correct, right, yeah, um. So there's been like a public outcry right now about the um murals because it's pretty much just like in their. It's like a call for justice, because it's like why are you tearing these down?
Speaker 3in a lot of states we're finding that have been like um, getting rid of a lot of the Black Lives Matter, but I don't even think it's all, because if you look at the actual pictures when it scrolls by of the murals, it's not all just black people, not that one picture I saw that motherfucker ain't black that is so what out of 18,000 is like?
Speaker 1it ain't black.
Speaker 2She don't know nothing about they jeans.
Speaker 1He look like a good old boy with a comb over.
Speaker 2The picture is not even in full color.
Speaker 1He do look like a.
Speaker 2I know Y'all know black people with good hair. Don't do that. Don't do that, go look back. You know, when you was a young lad, you had good hair Nene.
Speaker 3Since when I still got good hair. You see what I'm saying? That is not Negros, that is not Negros. That is not Negros. Hey, yo, what? You say Nothing. No, I heard you. You disrespectful as hell. That's how I'm about to turn you in. It doesn't say okay. It does say black individuals, yes, but I think everybody there was killed by police.
Speaker 2So it's like a you know, Every black person doesn't come in the same shade that motherfucker look like he was Elvis Presley.
Speaker 3He is not negrous.
Speaker 1That last one. I think they put that in there just to spike motherfuckers. I told people off.
Speaker 2Did you say for DI? That's crazy.
Speaker 3That last picture? Yeah, he was not lecherous.
Speaker 1I don't know if I got to comb over him why y'all didn't took somebody's.
Speaker 3How you just kicked them out of the group. No, because every time that picture popped by. I just I don't know, I think they're trying to be funny.
Speaker 1I don't like it.
Speaker 3I don't even think he was a part of that.
Speaker 2They just threw it in there I've. I don't even think he was a part of that Did you see all of them. Yes, you know which one I'm talking about. You cannot determine someone's race and ethnicity. Nah dawg, Nah dawg.
Speaker 1We got rosy cheeks in that picture. Nah dawg. We ain't talking about those cheeks, sir.
Speaker 4Oh, dog, we ain't talking about those cheeks son. Oh shit, shit it's all three of you hey y'all.
Speaker 3I'll be trying to bring it around. That's a white man. Thank you, he is not that gross.
Speaker 2I hope whoever the family of that man is. I hope y'all reach out and meet him Yo please.
Speaker 1So he got 1% black Nah bro, he's black.
Speaker 2That's horrible. Did you say step black? This is an outrage.
Speaker 3You know his family black, don't you not? This is an outrage. You know his family black, don't you not? This?
Speaker 2is an outrage. He was adopted.
Speaker 3He was adopted, so he step black.
Speaker 1Motherfucker says step black.
Speaker 4Hey no.
Speaker 1Hell, no, no, step, black that's horrible, holy shit.
Speaker 3I'm just saying. But, no, I think it's messed up that they breaking that shit down.
Speaker 1Holy shit I'm just saying, but no, I think it's messed up that they're breaking that shit down.
Speaker 3Holy shit, they only doing that because of tangerine tips, because nobody was thinking about it. Nothing was ever brought up. It's been up for so long and now, all of a sudden, y'all decide that it's wrong If they're saying it's structural integrity or whatever hazardous materials, then they can make some other kind of like. If they don't do that then we know, we already know what it is, absolutely. But he ain't negros.
Speaker 2That black girl.
Speaker 3Oh shit, anyway, you know, I did not know that was spice, that's why it's so funny I don't think spice knew that she had a near-death experience that's why it's hilarious.
Speaker 1Yo, that was hilarious, oh my God she just said.
Speaker 2I'm going to get in on every market Yo, for real, yeah, and get my money where I can get it, and why not get it from the gospel, the gospel, the gospel. Yeah, instead of just doing all secular music.
Speaker 3I mean, if you look at majority of the artists, though, they all do that. Bro, did you say succular, don't play with Jesus? I'm sorry.
Speaker 2Don't play with Jesus, don't play with.
Speaker 3Jamal, don't play with Jesus.
Speaker 1Wait, did I pronounce it wrong?
Speaker 3And don't play with.
Speaker 1Dolly.
Speaker 2Parton Did I pronounce it wrong. It's secular, secular, okay got you.
Speaker 3He knew that.
Speaker 2He. What's wrong Dilla? It's secular, secular. Okay, gotcha, you knew that. He knew that he the type to leave his kids at McDonald's to go to a job, at least I check on them, at least I check on them.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, come back two, three times.
Speaker 3Blow a back out. Maybe get his back blown out you never know. No, I agree with a lot of people.
Speaker 1Yo.
Speaker 2Pussies, you know what.
Speaker 4I mean.
Speaker 2No, mm-mm, no yeah.
Speaker 3Jesus, all right. So I remember when Raven-Symoné had came out with that whole thing, where she was like she's not-.
Speaker 2Black African-American.
Speaker 3African-American, not black.
Speaker 2She did not say she wasn't black.
Speaker 3Yeah, she said African-American.
Speaker 4Yes.
Speaker 3And everybody went in an uproar over that and I completely agreed with her because I see that, because technically we are not African American, we were born here.
Speaker 1We're American.
Speaker 3Exactly, we're Americans. People who come from Africa get a citizenship here. They're African American, correct, and that's the problem that we have okay, what?
Speaker 1what about? What about raven some more?
Speaker 2no, that's that, so she was she did an interview something different. She did an interview and she was breaking down what she meant.
Speaker 3Oh, gotcha somebody who actually would like. Uh, went in on her one of the. What was he like? A content creator, whatever who her?
Speaker 2fucking name is that? Whatever, who the fuck his name is?
Speaker 3Caucasian. He's messy. What's his name? Jason?
Speaker 2Oh, jason, jason Lee.
Speaker 3Yes, he apologized for basically berating her about what she said until he fully understood what she meant by that, got it, got it.
Speaker 1There's audio.
Speaker 3Yeah, there's audio. She was breaking it down for him on. How Wait, it is audio. She was breaking it down for him on how Wait a minute, you get on my nerves.
Speaker 2Wait what she was breaking down, exactly what she meant by she's not African American. She wasn't denying her blackness. Right Gotcha Right, correct. Okay, say about me that interview you did with Oprah where she asked you if you were, you know, african-american or whatever.
Speaker 7You got mad at me Listen. I am not an African-American, I'm an American. I am a black American, I am definitely black and, yes, my ancestors come from Africa. How long does a bloodline have to live in one land before they are considered a pure species of that land? Meaning, how long did my people have to be in America? To say hey we're American Compared to some people who are English American, who are Irish American, who are German American from their ancestors, but they get to call themselves American.
Speaker 7There's nothing wrong with being African American, but a true African American is someone that is from Africa and moved here, either first generation or second generation, and has a tie to that country that I do not have. One of the first census in Virginia that allowed for black people to have a name was somebody from my family, so that means they were there long before. I think there comes a point where, when you build a country, when you fight for freedom, make money and pay taxes and generationally live in a country, you have the privilege to call yourself pure American.
Speaker 3There you go. The Eagles was a bit much.
Speaker 1Yeah, they're pandering at that point. Privilege to call yourself pure American. There you go.
Speaker 3The eagles was a bit much, they're pandering at that point, but like she's making sense though, because these white people we're pure American. No, the fuck, y'all not.
Speaker 2No one says European, american.
Speaker 3Right, y'all ran from your ancestors ran not, they came over here on this discovery shit. They ran because they didn't want to abide by what the fuck was going on over there in europe so y'all came over here on some bullshit and all of a sudden y'all pure get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2Yeah, and we can't be but it just it surprises me, it doesn't surprise me. Most of the outrage came from black people yeah.
Speaker 1Because, I don't think that they fully comprehend what she was actually saying, but that's the problem right there.
Speaker 3Comprehension Nobody's listening. You just run off of the first thing. You heard that she said she's not African American. That's usually how it goes, and mainly because she light skinned. So now they really, really attack that part. And her wife is white, thank you. So that went, that's what. And she's gay, yep.
Speaker 1Oh, she got all kinds of things working against her.
Speaker 3Yeah, so that was the whole thing about it. It was just ridiculous, ridonculous.
Speaker 2I was about to say ridonculous. That's crazy.
Speaker 3Not in a way, man, I hear about this a lot, not a little way, man, I hear about this a lot. They talk about it a lot on tiktok, especially like there's like this specific subset of black people who black american that's how I grew up calling them, because my family is jamaican- so we're west indian, I'm an american. Some of the jamaicans don't even really think I'm jamaican for real right, but when I think about like black americans and me, it's two very different experiences people who are descendants of slavery, who have built a life here, who have built america.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't have any, you know. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't consider this themselves american. You know what I mean exactly that like I had, uh um, at my job, one of the supervisors or whatever came up to me to ask about something, but he started off by saying he was like shut the fuck up. He was like you're black right and I'm like no.
Speaker 2And he was like oh, you should have said go man, Go man.
Speaker 3Yo get out of here. So then he was like, oh, you should have said go my knee, yo get out of here. So then he was like well, you're African-American, right? And I was like no, and he looked at me like bitch, what the fuck is you then? And I was like I'm a lady boy. I should have said that that probably would have fucked his ass up, but I was like I'm American. And he was like, oh well, and proceeds to talk about some shit that had to do with black people. But no, sir, of course it was a Caucasian man. Like that's stupid to me.
Speaker 3I think people were just taking the name as it was, like when you think African American, like for me at least, like I didn't necessarily assume that there were connections to Africa, it was just the name you know. So now, like people are woke, now you know, and people are looking at the name in the actual context of it, and it's like I have no ties to Africa, right, like I'm so far removed from that. It was stolen from me and my ancestors. And then you have to think about the fact that it was Indians, Like Native Americans was here, they got slaughtered this is stolen land they got slaughtered.
Speaker 3Some of us could just be Native American. We don't have to have been from Africa.
Speaker 4I'm actually Native.
Speaker 3American, our ancestors.
Speaker 2Our ancestors no.
Speaker 4We traced our Chief Red Cheeks.
Speaker 2And I'm from the Slap-A-Hole tribe hey yo Because you're going to slap a hole. I'm from the hey yo Cause you gonna slap a hoe. I'm from the slap a hoe tribe. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3But it's just like.
Speaker 1Alright chief.
Speaker 3It's just so many things that just needs to be wiped out.
Speaker 2I just think that it's another way To continue to segregate us. Exactly and put us into separate boxes, correct, and it's like why are we still doing this exactly?
Speaker 3I thought obama would have changed that when he was I always wanted to start a petition to get rid of that whole group thing that's my accent, that's my american accent yeah, like that needs to go. I might have an unpopular opinion, though, because, like, I think why this is such an issue is because I feel like that people are yeah, like people are imposing their beliefs on other people.
Speaker 3Like for me to say that you're black, so you're african. Like a lot of people don't feel that way. Right what I mean? Like you're black american, I'm west indian american. We're both black, but the experience we have living in America is two totally different experiences. That's my point. I feel like if you're just American, you were born and raised in America, you're American. If you were born somewhere else, that's what you are. But even for me, I'm American, I was born here.
Speaker 7I know, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3So it's like you don't check that off, because I know a lot of Jamaicans, west Indian people. They will not even say that they're black. Yep they're. Jamaican, they're Jamaican my mother would.
Speaker 1My mother is all the way Asian, you can't tell so it's like why is what is black?
Speaker 2what is black?
Speaker 3exactly. So why is it there? Yeah, it's very deep and I think it's touchy, you know, because of the history behind it. You know, jamaicans they don't. I feel like I can only speak for that, because that's, you know, what I'm used to. But they don't have to, um, they don't have to call themselves black, because where they come from, everybody's black.
Speaker 3You know, what I mean. And so when you come here and then, especially when they're talking to other like black americans, they're like oh, I'm not black, I'm. And so when you come here and then, especially when they're talking to other like black americans, they're like oh, I'm not black, I'm jamaican. You looking at them crazy because it's like what do you mean? You're not black. Like you are black, right, but they make sense, though, with what they're saying. That's because I've heard that so many times when people be talking. I have a friend and she'd be like I'm jamaican, I'm not black and I'm like you, right, you are Jamaican. The color doesn't exist. Like it doesn't make any sense. Like you're Jamaican, I'm American, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1Like I get that why she point at me and you didn't know what to say. She was like uh, this motherfucker over there, we still trying to figure out who you are. I'm still Beijing blocks and shit.
Speaker 2She's like you're Jamaican, you're black, you're McDonald's.
Speaker 1Find an interview nigga.
Speaker 3And then this was crazy. What comes into play is like everybody has ancestors from different areas. Like me and Shawnee, we have West Indian in our family. Oh, you got West Indian in you, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1I didn't know that, anyway, so Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, I didn't know that, anyway, so we're going to move past that. No, no, I really didn't know that. You, I didn't know you was part of.
Speaker 3Why? Because we related. Why wouldn't you think that?
Speaker 1I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know y'all was related. So you know what, sir, I can't? Oh, so you Jamaican too? Then yes, no, technically, so that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2I would not say that I'm Jamaican, but that's what I'm asking.
Speaker 1Like what West Indian descent are you? Well, our family.
Speaker 3Yeah, we have our family Got you, just like. Your family is from Barbados, but you weren't born in Barbados.
Speaker 1Got you, got you. I see what you're saying. Yeah, all right, my bad Go ahead.
Speaker 2No, that's the point I was making, Got you got you, he was born in the back of a yogurt store. That sounds funny. I'm part Sherbert, eat your body, he's sweet frog. Yeah for a delicious actually.
Speaker 3I could go for some sweet frog right now.
Speaker 1Yeah, that I could go for some sweet frog right now. That sounds good. You got a husband.
Speaker 3Leave me alone. Anybody said I wanted you, she just called me sweet frog. I was talking about the real sweet frog. Don't worry about it, baby, I don't want none of that.
Speaker 2Put your lily pad away.
Speaker 1I got two of them. Which one are you talking about?
Speaker 3Why you got two. I'm scared, let me be me so scared.
Speaker 1What's next.
Speaker 3So let's get into the topic of why we have a guest today.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, finally, let's go. I feel like this topic will get deep.
Speaker 3Let's go. I feel like this topic is going to get deep, so today we are dealing with millennials versus Gen Z Right and, according to whoever created this bullshit list, I'm not even a fucking millennial, so I'm a little pissed about it You're a baby boomer, right. Bitch, I'm a beat your ass, I'm a Gen X.
Speaker 1She a Gen A.
Speaker 2Shut up, she's Genesis. Yeah, for real. Tap the one verse Tap, the book of the beginning. Verse two In the beginning. God made me.
Speaker 3Hello world, If he had a baby first, a whole lot of shit would have went different, everybody would be dying in the nation right now as lady boys.
Speaker 4Turn your mic off. Okay, too much.
Speaker 2Too much Too much All right.
Speaker 3So technically this is between Mr Sean A and Ashanti, and Ashanti is a Gen Z-er Correct. So the discussion is who is the better generation?
Speaker 1We made Ghostbusters.
Speaker 3Now I have to ask better, by what measure?
Speaker 1Are we talking about music? Yeah, what's the matrix? I mean, we Metric, metric.
Speaker 3So well off of how he's talking they lost. Education.
Speaker 1Well, yes, I lost, lost definitely that battle.
Speaker 3I don't know, because I feel like y'all, education is a little we set the standard for the education y'all got but they switched it up, and is that a good thing?
Speaker 1it might not be. That's what I'm saying. It might got worse for y'all do you ever?
Speaker 3because if you look at like how our kids work, went right. So all my kids are basically Gen Zs and they'd be like, oh, mommy, help me with this. And you're looking at it like what the fuck is this?
Speaker 1The way they do math.
Speaker 3Yeah, the math is crazy.
Speaker 1First of all, they don't even come home with homework anymore.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's wild. They don't have paperwork at all.
Speaker 1That is wild. They don't have paperwork at all. That is wild. Everything's online, yeah. So like I'm pissed because I'm like yo, where's your homework? I don't have any. Like fuck you do. I know you got homework, they do, I just don't ever see it.
Speaker 2It's fucking crazy, yeah, but like I've seen, like some of their math and the way that they do their math right Now being taught of how to do their math and I'm like how?
Speaker 3do you do your math To be fair, and that's exactly the point I was going to make, because you kind of got the best of both, right, yeah, but that's the thing. Right is that and I made this point earlier early Gen Z, like 1997, to like being generous, like 2003, 2004 is so different from like 2005 going on. I don't know how to do that shit. I don't know what. They changed the methods and the process.
Speaker 2I don't know what that's about.
Speaker 3But when I think about why Gen Z would be better, my argument okay.
Speaker 1Let's hear it.
Speaker 3Being fair, right, because you know what Gen Z be better. My argument, okay, let's hear it. Being fair right, because you know what Gen Z. We're humble, you know, and I can give credit where credit is due. Yeah, I got the music. Okay, yeah, I got the movies. Yeah, I got the film. Yeah, I got the television. But when I think about, like, where society is headed as far as like technology is going, our generation was like we grew up with the change in technology you know what I mean like when I was going through school, that's like I did have the best of both worlds.
Speaker 3So I had, um, you know, the projectors and right, all that stuff right, but then I also had the tablets and laptops and everything by the time I was leaving school. It was kind of transitioning into like a fully online type of thing. Yeah, you know, and if you think about like where society is headed as far as technology goes, like if you're not tech savvy, you're at a disadvantage. You know what I?
Speaker 3mean. And so these kids these days, like even you, look at Gen Alpha right, that's like my little brother's generation, the psychopath generation. The little man man. His favorite color might be three, but he know how to use the time. So it's like I don't know, like that's what I'm saying, like there's different, like y'all got it. Y'all got it in a lot of ways and I think that we're we are the way we are because of the generation.
Speaker 1Yeah I was gonna say, like we, we, we like to pride ourselves to be the golden era. That's what they kind of deemed us as, like the hip-hop stuff. Like we, we took the originals and found a new way to to create music, to make it new type of things, and we kind of set the standards for what the future might look like. So the apple, the first iphone, the ipods well, we had this first cell phone phone, cell phone, the beeper from the beeper, the car phone and the computer type of shit. Like we lived in the era where all of that was created. So we had to kind of I heard you say you kind of grew up with it, but we had to learn it and grow up with it.
Speaker 3So I kind of see what you're saying but the plus side of that, why I feel like millennials, is probably but I can't type for shit. Well, that just depends on what you tried to perfect because I could type my ass off I couldn't
Speaker 3type for shit, my mother made me sit and take this freaking typing program, so that's how I learned how to type. But I feel like, when you think about it, we have millennials. Well, technically I'm not a millennial, but I'm a millennial. We have the best of the both worlds because, if you think about it, when technology fails, that's that baby. Her memory went she was like that's that, janette. Anyway, when we think about it, when technology fails, we know what to do with that technology.
Speaker 1Yes, Everybody else I don't need to calculate it. Pass, yes, everybody else past?
Speaker 3that will lose their fucking minds. Phone numbers, what are those? Right, exactly, yeah, like you know. So.
Speaker 2Because we know how to read a map. Yes, we sure do. We know how to look up someone in a telephone book Listen. They don't even know what telephone books are.
Speaker 1The yellow pages and the white pages. Dog Exactly the yellow pages. Don't even know what telephone books are the yellow pages and the white pages, dog, we were the original investigators because we didn't have an internet in the beginning.
Speaker 3It came later so we had to find out stuff.
Speaker 1We was forced to research. We was forced to research what Library?
Speaker 2What A card catalog? What Library? Yes, a card catalog.
Speaker 3I mean, look Microfiche At the freaking library.
Speaker 2It's crazy you know what the fuck.
Speaker 3What the fuck was that? That sounds like some Gen Z-ers don't say it, it does.
Speaker 1I don't forget what I was about to say. I should throw shit up.
Speaker 2That shit threw me off. But I think we're very similar, like how you just said, ashanti, like you got the best of both worlds based on like we had the same you know similar experience.
Speaker 3Even experience, even when I was thinking about like the movies and the shows and the music I'm like most of the stuff like that you would say is millennial we also grew up with yeah, you know what I mean. Like I'm thinking like all right, like for my generation, like that's a raven, like the disney sitcoms, the, the nickelodeon show, right, but you know about duck tales right see.
Speaker 3See, that's a little bit before my time, you know duck tails, that's like real early, early 90s. Oh yeah, you know, and, unless you like, actively saw out those shows like you're not right. Yeah, you know, because the, the revamp version of that is so cringe, yeah garbage.
Speaker 1But this is what I, this is what I was going to say, I I think the biggest difference between the two generations is, I want to say, parenting. To a degree, I think you guys, generation, are seemingly a better generation on how to look at parenting than we were.
Speaker 7Y'all, y'all I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1No, I'm saying no, I'm saying y'all y'all get a little, y'all provide a little bit more understanding. I ain't talking like the late part of the generation I'm talking about, like the 97's, to what she was saying, like 2003. They kind of look at the child and reason they're trying to figure out reason it's not straight, the punishment I feel like their era is the real and reason they're trying to figure out. Reason it's not straight. We're more tolerant. Yeah, it's not straight to punishment, it's not straight.
Speaker 3I feel like their era is the real reason why the soft era of these kids happen. You talking about gentle parenting yes, but that's what I'm alluding to.
Speaker 1Really, I don't think that's better, I'm just saying like they kind of made it to a place where it's not always straight punishment, negative reinforcement, but that started with the millennials, I feel like because of what we went through.
Speaker 2Some of them. I'm not going to say all, and that's just for everybody.
Speaker 3It's not all. I think. A majority, though, have realized like I don't want to put my kid through what that for me as a parent. I went through some bullshit as being parented. So when it came to my kids, I still say I have faults and every parent does, because nobody, there's no fucking manual on parenting. Right, right, right as much as these bitches who want to write books and shit, who only have kids want to talk about fucking parents and they don't know shit, until you're actually a parent.
Speaker 1How many?
Speaker 6books you done read. That pissed you off. She's like these motherfuckers ain't ain't books.
Speaker 3But I'm just saying like it comes to a point where you realize like what I say, because you know yourself as a human being, you have faults, you have your own issues. So you look at your kid and be like, well, we can talk. Yeah, you still punish them, but it's not like how we got our ass whooped when we was younger. We still probably had to put our paws on our kids, but not as aggressively as our parents did to us, and we, we kind of did the collective um you got punishment and we talked about why you got that punishment.
Speaker 3So it made it comfortable for you to come to talk to me about stuff Without me having to like berate you and tell you shit is. You can't do it that way, because this is how life is.
Speaker 7No that's not how it goes.
Speaker 3That's what I'm saying I will say from a Gen Z perspective when it comes to that right, because my mom is very much the same way, like she will say. You know, there are certain things that I did differently because of the way I was raised right.
Speaker 3And you know that is true, I think you guys do the best you can. But I think I had a conversation with her one time. We were kind of going at it right, just not agreeing on certain things, kind of button heads, and we had a conversation and she said something to me that really like was a light bulb moment. She was like I raised you the way I was raised, as much as she tried to do things like she raised us in the same way.
Speaker 1Um, her parents raised her, which is no fault of her own, like that's what she knows, right, that's what she knows, but the world is not the same as it was correct right so I think, like with gen z and like gentle, I think there are two extremes right.
Speaker 3So some people take it to the far extreme where it's like all right, like there's no discipline, you're just free reign but. I think for me, when I think about being a parent and raising my children, it's preparing them for what the world may look like or like being able to handle the changes of the world may look like, or like being able to handle the changes of the world Like I don't expect for them to act the way I acted when I was a kid.
Speaker 2You know what?
Speaker 3I mean, and I think that you couldn't have had the foresight to see that the world was going to be what it was like now. So when your kids are talking back to you or like challenging you on certain things, like the first instinct is to take it as disrespect because that's what your parents would have done. You know what I mean and so that's where I find a lot of the conflict is is because, like Gen Z, I think we're a little bit more tolerant on certain things. We're a little bit more like people would call it sensitive.
Speaker 3I don't think it's sensitive, you know it can be, you know, depending on who you're asking kids, never talk back now.
Speaker 2timmy is just expressing himself like that was my thing.
Speaker 3So I wouldn't really know that, because my kids really never talk back to me like my daughter was. Like mommy, can I ask you a question? Or it'll make sense yes, me, and I would say, uh, one of my daughters definitely kind of butt heads, but it's only because I realized that me and her are one in the same and so sometimes you have to look at things like this bitch is me, it be the you and your kids that you go at it with.
Speaker 4Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3Exactly. And then I think for some people it's a level of maturity or realization in knowing that I'm fighting myself. I'm fighting myself because I don't want to acknowledge that that's me. Yeah, and acknowledging that that's you is probably the hardest part that parents have to fucking deal with and I think some of them will look past that, and that's why you get that. Um, no bitch. This is how it is, because I said so.
Speaker 3Instead of just be like you know what, let me hear what you're saying, because you you know, that's what it is, and I had that realization with my daughter Because, like my oldest daughter I didn't have that problem with. She never gave me no issues. The young one we butt heads like a motherfucker.
Speaker 2That's the one you had through the bathroom window.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, the refrigerator door.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 6But, like.
Speaker 1The refrigerator door, yeah, but like there you go. She ain't no millennial, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2Fucking refrigerator door. She's definitely a boomer.
Speaker 3Get out of here, you'll pick your refrigerator door but dealing with her, I had to come to the realization like, oh, I am really dealing with myself right here, and so that took a lot of yeah. And I find that a lot of millennials learn that later on in life. Right, they learn it from their Gen Z kids who are telling them like yo, you had me fucked up For you, it was just a random Tuesday. But these are things that stick with me, right, not telling you this to make you feel bad or like disrespect you, but I'm being honest with you. Right, if I can't be honest with the person that birthed me, then who else can I be honest?
Speaker 3with because you're raising adults. You have to realize you're raising adults and and people have questions. So for you to be questioned, allow that question, don't get offended yeah and that's what the boomer generation yeah, they will get offended easy. Who?
Speaker 2the fuck is you talking to? But? I think that comes because the way they were raised. So now, with the generation before them, you got to think of what time they actually and they're out of slavery right. So there a certain Mentality that they had when respect is concerned, and so that's how they raised our parents, and so our parents was like.
Speaker 3Isn't respect so subjective?
Speaker 4It really is.
Speaker 3This can is red and you say it's purple.
Speaker 2Don't talk back to me.
Speaker 3And it's like we just have a difference of opinion. It's nothing personal, it's nothing against, and it's like we just have a difference of opinion. It's not impersonal, it's nothing against you I just don't believe it, and that's exactly what it is. It's always a difference of opinion, and that's the problem in America.
Speaker 1Way to wrap it up. I like that. I like that. It felt like I needed a theme song to go with it, like this is America, jesus Christ. But yeah, alright, yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2I like it and can I just say I don't like none of y'all anyway, and you know what I respect your opinion when you go out like say, like remember when we used to like frequent the mall and stuff.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm like I hated the kids, that generation. Yeah, that's how I know.
Speaker 2I'm getting old. Yes, because I can't do it.
Speaker 3The disrespect that they have for adults is ridiculous and it makes you think like damn, was we like that when we was younger.
Speaker 1I just had that happen to me. The other day. I was at the mall and I was sitting in the food court and I can't believe there's still food courts there, because the mall is halfway empty and there's no stores, so I don't even know why there was a bushel of kids, a bushel, a bushel of kids, a bushel, a bushel of kids in front of me in line and it was like the and they're young and I'm just sitting there like ooh shit, I was waiting for one of them to say something, but I was just standing there like they're going to call you Unc.
Speaker 1Yeah, one of those. I get called Unc all the time. So I'm standing there like if this was my generation. Back then, when I was young, I would probably say some shit, but they was just chill, like they don't. They don't looks like they just mind their business and just do what they do Sometimes.
Speaker 2Sometimes I feel like our generation was raised out of fear. Yeah, I feel like they don't have any fear.
Speaker 1Yeah, they don't give a fuck. And that was all I was thinking. Let one of these little motherfuckers pop off. It's on. They do not give a fuck.
Speaker 3That's why I say I don't discriminate at all, because I will beat the shit out of somebody's kid. I'm just putting it out there. If they want to step to me on some bullshit, I will beat the shit out of somebody's kid. Somebody call 911.
Speaker 1What are they called? You disagree. You call 911. What are they called? I can't disagree. Is this Jen? I can't disagree. This is the Jen's after Jen Z. No, he's Jen Z.
Speaker 3No, he's Jen Z he's.
Speaker 4Jen.
Speaker 3Z, but after Jen Z is a Jen Alpha.
Speaker 1Jen Alpha.
Speaker 3So let's just put him as so like my nephew, my young, young nephew is like a Jen Alpha Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2And these names.
Speaker 3I don't know. Somebody be bored. They ain't got shit to do all day they're making it up. That's crazy.
Speaker 1We'll take the nod. We'll take the nod, pump up the jam.
Speaker 7Pump up the jam for the millennials, let's do it.
Speaker 1Yeah, millennials, we respect the Gen Z's. I don't. You know, it's good to have conversations with y'all.
Speaker 3I'm okay with the Gen Z era. You better Everything after that. I don't know. I like having conversations.
Speaker 1It's the fact that we can have conversations with you guys.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And to kind of get y'all perspectives on things so we can understand a better way to communicate Right, to kind of get y'all perspectives on things like so we can understand a better way to communicate.
Speaker 3I think the communication with us and the baby boomers is like not exist. So really no, it's like serious.
Speaker 4They are stuck in a lost cause.
Speaker 3Yes, Damn no accountability. And if you tell them and they know you're right, they don't care. I love the fact that we switch it around on you Like, oh how dare you talk to me like that. When I've raised you for some Bitch, I'll smack the shit out you right now.
Speaker 2You're wild.
Speaker 1Yeah, I worry about these Gen Alphas, though, because they don't like to communicate.
Speaker 2Those are the ones I don't like. I didn't mean the Gen Zs. I'm okay with the Gen Z's because they're stuck in their phones and social media and they believe that shit.
Speaker 3That's what they're raised by.
Speaker 1That's crazy. They believe what they see and is like trying to have a conversation with them, and they're raised by.
Speaker 3McDonald's employees. I gotta give them grace too, because they're raised by who? Millennials and Gen.
Speaker 4Z's, so it's like we gotta really reevaluate what we're doing to our kids.
Speaker 3Man, the pandemic. That really messed a lot of people up, did it.
Speaker 1I think it might have helped, you think so no, absolutely not. I think it shined a light on the thing. I think you're speaking for yourself. I think it shined a light on things that people wanted to keep quiet. I think it shined a light on things that people wanted to keep quiet.
Speaker 3I don't think that did any good.
Speaker 1I think it's better to get out and open and see that it's happening so people can address it, like the fact that they can't read Right, we have to address some of this shit. No shade, you know what I'm saying. If the pandemic never happened, then I think the cycle would kind of kept going the way it was going. I like the fact that it just shined light on a bunch of shit.
Speaker 3I think I like that cycle better than this shit. That's just my personal opinion. I like things to be transparent. People would never be transparent. You can't take transparency from a lot of people.
Speaker 1I know, but it allows me to address things the way it needs to be addressed honestly and purposefully. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3So that motherfucker jumped off a bridge because you was transparent with their ass. These niggas is not stable.
Speaker 2I appreciated the pandemic because we had to stay away from each other. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3I hated that. I thoroughly enjoyed the pandemic.
Speaker 2I enjoyed it. I hate to say it, I enjoyed it. I won't say like my introverted ass enjoyed it.
Speaker 1Working from home is the best thing that ever happened.
Parenting Styles Across Generations
Speaker 3Being able to go outside disturbed me, because I like to be outside you like to frolic? Yeah, roll around in them, little trees, yeah I like nature, but not being able to Nobody Shut the fuck up, I just, I didn't.
Speaker 4If.
Speaker 3I didn't have stable Shut the fuck up. Stable support system with me. I think I probably would have been one of those people who lost their shit Because I didn't like it. I hated the pandemic. I did not like that shit. I so enjoyed it.
Speaker 1She got herself a chia, pet A chia pet.
Speaker 3I'm ready for another one. My bush was my chia pet. You got a chia pet. I'm ready for another one. My bush was my chia pet. That's absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 2Yo, and now we're on your favorite part of the show, kristen.
Speaker 4And during the pandemic.
Speaker 2She didn't shave what the fuck, oh shit. And during the pandemic she didn't shave her chair pet At all At all. She's got that green mush down there, oh my God.
Speaker 3First of all, don't do that, that's absolutely disgusting. All right, because you want to talk about your wife's chair pet. Don't bring that up in here she don't got a chair pet.
Speaker 1She has a.
Speaker 2Don't do that.
Speaker 1Treasure Troll down there.
Speaker 2You said it looked like the Heat Miser hey yo.
Speaker 3I used to love that cartoon. Hey yo Anyway.
Speaker 1Gem, number one Gem. I think this is the baby boomers. This speaks to them. Don't play victim to shit you started and then go give the world a sob story.
Speaker 3I don't even think that has to do with any generation. That's just certain people Gemini's, I'm sorry sadly, sadly, I'm sorry, sadly man sadly okay, I'm about to break this down.
Speaker 1Okay, and my Americans in here, my Americans in here, and it says black people understand anything. Watch this stop sign. No, stop light chair. It says black people understand anything. Watch this Stop sign. No, stop light. Chair, yo-yo, monkey, donkey and finger pointing down. Say it again Stop light. A chair, a yo-yo, a monkey, a donkey and a finger pointing down go sit your monkey ass down there it is.
Speaker 3You're not American, you black motherfucker one thing I will say about black America is we will decipher or give codes.
Speaker 2We had to because it's slavery. That's what they did.
Speaker 1We will decipher or give codes. We had to because it's slavery, exactly, we understand that we will do the deal.
Speaker 3Because when I was on, what when you was what On Pornhub? I'm sorry my bad. Oh my God, hey yo.
Speaker 1I like this Social media. Got y'all rushing y'all goals. Remember, comparison is the thief of joy, amen say that again oh shit, I'm on social media, got y'all rushing y'all goals. Remember, comparison is the thief of joy. Yeah, man what, and you know what?
Speaker 3in the spirit of gen z versus millennial, I'll say, that's one thing, that Gen Z suffers with a lot Just trying to rush. Yes, like social media has been, and that's speaking personally when you're seeing what people are only posting the best parts of their life Exactly. You feel I'm 21 and I think I'm behind because I'm not driving a BMW.
Speaker 2You know what I mean, Right, right right, That'll really do something.
Speaker 3That's why we're so depressed. My youngest daughter said that I'm this age and I haven't had. I'm like girl, if you don't calm, the fuck down what are you talking about?
Speaker 1Shit, don't start getting popping to you.
Speaker 4I was 22 with two kids Bitch, calm the fuck down. You're not doing too bad.
Speaker 3You ain't got no kids, you good.
Speaker 2Y'all got time, my biggest concern was keeping my Tamagotchi alive or my Polly Pocket. Oh shit. Remember the little the sea monkeys. Remember you used to have the little.
Speaker 1Y'all put it in water and grow it Mine never grew.
Speaker 3Bitches were dead out the back.
Speaker 2That was responsibility for us. It's keeping them bitches alive or goldfish. And now the kids out here talking about why I ain't get a BBL yet.
Speaker 3Right, no facts.
Speaker 1That's crazy, it's wild, it's true, it's sad.
Speaker 3Yeah, it is sad. This BBL shit is fucking up a lot of people right now. It's ridiculous. So that was my gems. Yeah, this sad. This BBL shit is fucking up a lot of people right now. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1So that was my gems.
Speaker 3Yeah, all right. So I had a question.
Speaker 1We got any listeners, questions or fan mail.
Speaker 3I don't think it was any fan mail. No, not today. I had a question, though, since it's like we're talking about the whole Gen Z and millennial thing going who had the best reggae era, like 90s, 90s reggae versus 2000s, 90s reggae Versus 2000s and up Reggae?
Speaker 6Like what I don't know. I think the 90s got it to me. Ah ha, good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who dem a be a feelin' with my carry, you know I'll do them some to me again. Wait, no, what you waitin' on who dem a to die, what that dem a try Dem got this king still a see what you wanna dem die. Y'all who dem a me got see dem with dem. Spell Dem this a money. Well, and dem so gonna hell y'all who dem a, who the who dem want cause dem this man, cause I know dem all by the dust. Oh, we had it yo With this shit. Come on now.
Impact of the Pandemic
Speaker 1I mean, I could do this all day. What you want, what you want, what you want, what you want, what you want. I could do this all day, play some Bujo. Oh, listen here, let me see if I can find it. Wait, I'm in the wrong one. You fired, I am Too long.
Speaker 3See this New DJ you know what I will say, though. You know what. I will say though you know what I would give to be in a club in the early 2000s.
Speaker 4What oh?
Speaker 3my.
Speaker 6God.
Speaker 3What it was? Definitely a vibe. It was a vibe, that's why I kind of want to throw one of those parties. I think that would be so dope. No phones, none.
Speaker 4No phones.
Speaker 3Nah, like it literally would have to be like original 90s, early 2000s bash music. Yes.
Speaker 7Fun times.
Speaker 3Please do. I'll be there Fun times.
Speaker 1No hanging on the wall. You got to be like on the dance floor, please do, I'll be there Fun times. No hanging on the wall, you got to be like on the dance floor.
Speaker 4Sweat Perm out Like listen. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 6Me and your mother. We're out Ear press perm. The club here was like whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, corrie Sparn you gotta play like Sean Paul, the elephant man, for like the 22,000 come on, come on, she want to love her man.
Speaker 4Come on, come on.
Speaker 3Come on, so fine, be trying to work, you and my watch the time stop playing with my mind.
Speaker 4Oh, I know he not true, but you will one day win. You call me on the phone. I know I won't stop talking until come down. And now I want you home action.
Speaker 6I talk about the world sweet, let me make the goddamn road action.
Speaker 4I talk about the world, sweet. I'm talking about you, sweet. Let me make the girl them broke. Action I'm talking about you, sweet.
Speaker 6Let me make the girl them broke Butterfly. I'm talking about you. I'm responding to the kiss of the girl that we're going to tell you this.
Speaker 1Sunday Come on now. It's also rock and roll. Come on now. It's a new drop Players go feel the kiss.
Speaker 6It's hip hop my own, maxie.
Speaker 2Her bitch is like A bunch of gross.
Speaker 6And if I ever tell you About Maxie, you only say I don't know what I know.
Speaker 4But Murder, she wrote Murder, she wrote Murder, she wrote Murder she wrote Pretty face and bad character.
Speaker 3I feel like, okay, you ain't played no 2000 songs, though Listen Vibes Cartel what Movado? Dark Skin Vibes, because I don't know about this. Light Skin Vibes.
Speaker 1You said Dark Skin or Light Skin, vibes.
Speaker 3Don't do that. The Bleachings were off Alkaline. Adonia yes, they had a nice run too yeah, they did, you know it's the nostalgia it's like you get a certain feeling when you hear the, you know absolutely, you could never yeah, cause we was all ducking and dodging in the club when that one
Speaker 1let me see, let me see.
Speaker 4That's for real, that's for real.
Speaker 1Don't talk Now. This is not 2000s, though.
Speaker 6Right Don't talk love me everything.
Speaker 3Don't talk, love me everything, I think he started in the 90s though.
Speaker 7Yeah, he did.
Speaker 6Bye, I think he started. Send the whole of them. Send the whole of them free. Pack up me the all body wide. So what am I saying? Alright, now Me, step in a the globe. I dance from a dome. And a girl come and wind up on me, me step so tall back against the wall. And now she's got time for me. It's kinda like a tricky. I'm checking out, thinking what you know. Say time is up on me. Me, wear the yellow white. It's like All right, all right.
Speaker 1All right. Thank y'all for joining us. Yes absolutely.
Speaker 3Ashanti, it's been a pleasure. We got to do this again. Yeah, this is good, let me know it's fine. Oh my God, you're again. Yeah, this is good, let me know it's fine. Oh my God, You're having me yeah.
Speaker 2All right, Until next time we leave off with this Later Bye guys, later Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
Reggae Music Showdown
Speaker 4Bye, bye, bye. I don't know what you really, really wanna do. Tell me, baby girl, if your love is really really true. Tell me what you wanna.
Speaker 6What you really, really wanna do? Tell me baby girl.
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