Streetlight Angels Podcast
Creating safety awareness and mindfulness to the nation to help our children take back the ability to play outside "until the street lights come on".
Streetlight Angels Podcast
The Village Reborn
We're on a mission to rebuild the village and create safer communities where kids can play outside until the streetlights come on. In this casual conversation, we explore what Streetlight Angels podcast is all about and how listeners can help shape our content.
• Community activities like kickball games and cookouts create bonds that strengthen neighborhoods
• Shared meals add "a different texture to the bond" and bring people closer on a personal level
• The podcast aims to shed light on why we don't trust our kids to play outside anymore
• Everyone has something valuable to contribute to the village, regardless of personality type
• Utilizing the podcast as a platform to voice concerns about community safety
• The importance of connecting with people who may have different opinions but share common values
• Building a foundation of trust in communities through positive interactions
• Creating environments where kids can safely play and develop
Email us at streetlightangelspodcast@gmail.com with your comments, suggestions, and stories about rebuilding the village in your community.
Welcome back to Streetlight Angels podcast. My name is Josh Yarkowski. I'm one of your co-hosts here. I got Eugene with me.
Speaker 2:What's up everybody? Hope y'all doing well.
Speaker 1:Yep, and we got on episode 14. Now Episode 14, which is absolutely crazy A little bit different episode. Today we're actually going to be specifically talking to you guys about Streetlight Angels podcast and maybe a little vision of what we see or what we want you guys to help us build, and things like that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we want to make sure that you also share, because we want your comments, especially for this episode, because we want to put ourselves into the neighborhoods and villages around and we're curious of what you guys consider fun. Like I know, growing up one of the things we used to do in the community was play kickball, and sometimes if it was a big family, it would be this family against that family and then we just it would be like a community playoff and the winners were just everybody who had fun. It wasn't like, oh, you lost. You know we had bragging rights, of course, but we also had, like you were mentioning in another episode, the community cookout. Another episode, the community cookout. So it was like at the cookout is when the bragging rights would start and then a whole new kickball game. Oh man, that would be so fun. Wouldn't start again, cause you know it's like, oh, we got to shut them down, they bragging a little too much.
Speaker 1:Well, I remember like 4th of July weekend back in my young days in the neighborhoods, we would compete against each other almost as far as who had the better fireworks show, you know, oh yeah, it was amazing to allow us the opportunity to be able to kind of kick it with each other.
Speaker 2:Now I noticed here in Florida some neighborhoods still have those competitive families but they do it in fun, where they have their little fireworks display. Yeah, sure, for sure, and I enjoy it because I could just bring my kids, because you know you may not have an extra couple hundred dollars, sure, and stuff.
Speaker 1:so that's right man fireworks should get expensive yeah you guys are gonna do better than me this year, I promise you that right?
Speaker 2:yeah, like if you knew the johnsons were about to show out because they were going against the Smiths across the street. Yeah, you know, and so that was always a cool opportunity to not only get out of the house, you know, you'd have people with their lawn chairs at the end of the driveways and but nobody was like eating together. And that's one thing, eating together, and that's one thing. As far as connections, if you notice a lot of conferences and a lot of other organizations, they always have at least one meal together. It adds a different texture to the bond it does.
Speaker 2:And it brings them closer on a personable level? Oh yeah, absolutely it does. Even drinks, you know, not heavy drinking like a lot of the breakout meetings, or when the big conference comes together, they'll have like a little social and they'll have like light hors d'oeuvres and stuff and then a little drink because they they did study that you know, no company spends money for nothing. They got to get something out of it and they know that conferences you want people to connect with each other. Sure yeah, and you want them to not only connect but see how they can work together with different resources. Right, so let's do that at a village level, right.
Speaker 1:So we're going to just corporate it down. You know what I mean. Bring it down to that level for us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, corporate got it from us, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true, that's true. They got it from us and they village up.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Time to village up, you're right, bring it to us. Yeah, because even if you look at some of them, they they'll have.
Speaker 2:They'll call them teams and networks, but it's really they all just building little villages inside of the bigger village, right, right, right. And and if you look, even if you looked at like Native American culture, they would have these small tribes and villages and within the bigger. It's like you know. But they all knew, for the greater good, yeah, how to share resources, whether it's time, like, even if, like, say, we did a community potluck, you know, there are some people out there it's like, oh well, I don't just eat from anybody's house, I understand that, but we're going to pray over the food anyway, you know.
Speaker 1:Sure what it's like. Streetlight Angels podcast. What is it about? It's about, you know, bringing shed light to the nation as far as why we don't trust our kids to go outside and play until the streetlights come on. But you hear that a million times from us when we're talking about that, because we're trying to reflect, rebrand, bring back the village of how it used to be. So let's rely on ourselves, and that's what Streetlight Angels podcast is about is giving that platform Right, so utilize us.
Speaker 2:Right To reboot and get the village back.
Speaker 1:That's right. That's right Recalibrate the village.
Speaker 2:That's right. It needs to be where we can come together, not just for safety but for fun. It's like when you have fun together, you know that your neighbor may be a little bossy about kids playing in their yard Right, but they can cook a great brisket, that's right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, use someone else's weakness or strength to your weakness, or the neighborhood's village weakness? Yeah, that's right, you may be a butthole dude, but man that brisket.
Speaker 2:Yeah. We can still be friends, that person may not be the best cook at the community cookout, but they got a truck and they can pick up a lot of ice.
Speaker 1:That's right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2:That's right, they got some time. I want to be the ice man, Cause you know I'm tired of cooking. I got 10 kids, so I'm I feel like I'm always cooking for a village.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no exactly, man, when you have the amount of diversity and the amount of a level of ages in your house and in your family, you know there's other people out there that would love to just kind of be around. That again you know what I mean. Even if, like, you got that old couple that just haven't been around kids in years and years and right, maybe they're just, you know, they're hungry for that, I mean, you know they want to watch like they want to watch ligo.
Speaker 2:Ones grow up, that's right. Yeah, yeah, and be like because we're even losing our old sands, because the elderly are not hanging out with the young anymore and so, like knee high, to a grasshopper is only being said yeah, you know, you're right. Certain villages that's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I mean it's unfortunate, but I think that Streetlight Angels podcast is what it's for and it always boiled down to the kids. You know what I mean and letting the kids flourish and do what they're supposed to do. But, man, bring that fun back. Give us comment, share this stuff. You know my mom. I said, mom, I haven't seen you on Facebook very much, you know, and she goes well, I've been busy and blah, blah, blah and I'm like, okay, I understand that, but just get on there and share the podcast, because you may not necessarily need that, even you know, but the next person that you share that to might be that episode that day specifically, or this one right here. This episode we're doing right now is literally just you and I talking about the listeners being able to get on there and help us share.
Speaker 2:Give us more firepower, oh yeah, help us share, give us more firepower. Oh yeah, it surprised me when one of my people that regularly come to my comedy show said man, I heard the podcast and I'm so happy you said that. And I was like what? Because he didn't make a comment on our comment page. Oh, on what?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what specifically was said, that resonated with him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so I'm hoping he'll hear this one and be like, hey, go back to that podcast and make a comment, because like-minded people you know they want to hear, and be like, oh well, let me go to that and see what was said. Sure, sure, you know, because my thing is that this podcast may not be for everybody, you know. So if you share it, if you're for having a safe environment for your children to play in, it's for you, that's right, which should be for damn near everybody.
Speaker 1:Yeah, actually, it should be for everybody, even if you don't like kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the best thing about this is we're giving information that help make better kids. That's right.
Speaker 1:Even if you don't like badass kids that are acting, you know fools in the neighborhood, right that that, yeah, they're right.
Speaker 2:This podcast will essentially reflect on yeah, I mean, we're looking at everything in a sense, and no, we're not the greatest people in the world, but I mean, we've observed enough. Well, I have enough experience yeah, and that's the thing, is that shoot stuff?
Speaker 2:we don't even know yeah, that's the best thing about the comments is that you may be like oh well, this works great as far as a community event. Like you know, growing up we had talent shows so we knew who could sing, we knew who could dance. It's other talents out there, you know. I mean now kids are playing piano, violin. You know you may have a future basketball star. It may not be for a talent show, but if you say, hey, streetlights need to come and check out the community center athletic program, you know, watch the kids.
Speaker 2:We'll come and support the kids, that's right. If they're hurting and doesn't have a case or two of water while they play basketball, that's a community issue. That's what's up. You know. That's a village or village issue. That's right and that's. The thing is that you don't have to have a kid involved in any sports. You don't have to have a kid to be a part of the village. But what you do have to have is an eye for what's right and wrong. You have to have moral standards and values, exactly. And moral standards and values have nothing to do with keeping to yourself and minding your own business, because if it's wrong it's kind of like at the airport. I mean, I don't know if it works, but you know, they always say if you see something, say something. I honestly feel like that should work. As far as keeping our communities clean, in a sense of even trash cans getting knocked over. Let's say, a teenager just playing and knocks over a trash can. A responsible teenager would pick that up.
Speaker 1:But we also know that some kids or a responsible adult would tell that teenager to pick that up. Yeah, if they respectfully like you ain't gonna get a fight, you're gonna tell a kid, you know whatever, just be like. Hey, come on now you know, this is our neighborhood.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. This is your village. Your parents wouldn't be okay with that that's right, you know, pick it up.
Speaker 1:You know I'll come help you if that's if you're gonna get all upset about it right, Right, Right.
Speaker 2:The little old lady would always, you know, tell us sometime you know your grandma wouldn't be letting y'all do that.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Like, yes, ma'am, and whatever we was doing, we would stop. That's right. Usually it would be like we'd be messing with each other or we play football in the street, sure, and nobody told us it was OK or not OK, but our neighborhood was. Even though it was a rough neighborhood in a sense, we still looked out for the kids.
Speaker 1:So utilize us as a platform for that, all of that stuff. Like, I mean, honestly, I've said this a million times we're not going to pull our punches. We're not going to, you know, butter anything up based on your feelings, right, and it's a no holds barred. We'll tell you straight up. We're not. It doesn't matter if you're black, blue, yellow, red, green, purple, or if you're, you know, republican or democratic, or if you're gay or straight or any of that crap.
Speaker 2:we don't care, because it's not about you, it's about the kids, yeah, and if you don't, want a safe neighborhood because it's too much work, then you're lazy, you know, and the thing is, is that those little backseat drivers, in the sense of they got so much keyboard, keyboard warriors, yeah, keyboard warriors actually we'll have them in our comments, and that's right, you know off the wall comments and you know that's what you should do. Also check out the comments just to see if people are on point or off their kilter.
Speaker 2:That's right I mean check yourself yeah, and most people are not, and then they get sensitive when somebody checks them. But, honestly, if you don't want safer neighborhoods for the kids or for yourself, and you don't want that A good village yeah, that good village Then get out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, find a retirement village of nags A bunch of mean yeah, a bunch of mean dumb people that don't want to have a good you know time in their life or enjoy themselves as they kick the bucket. You know what I mean like I mean, if you don't want that, fine, go somewhere else, but don't affect my kids.
Speaker 2:I want my village to want to do stuff. It doesn't have to be every day, but it's nice if we know this friday we're having a community cookout. If all I gotta do is make one side or bring one meat, that's right. That's less cooking, less cleaning up. I have to do at the house and then we all chip in and we clean up, we pack up the trash or whatever.
Speaker 1:I think doing just doing your due diligence by commenting in into our posts, letting us you know, kind of, you kind of see what needs to be expounded on, what needs to be discussed.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean for the village Like that, right, there is just enough work and effort alone. Even if you're a lazy little butt and you don't want to do nothing, you just want to chill and mind your own business. I don't want to talk to any kids, I don't want to talk to any neighbors, I don't want to do none of that stuff. Well then, you know what. You can listen, you can also write on there like, hey, I don't want to do any of that stuff, I just want to chill. But let's talk about it. You know what I mean, because I would still expect you to have that, that moral value or those, those moral ethics to be able to to still, I would know that you still would do the right thing if something was going on with the kid in the neighborhood, or be a part of the neighborhood indirectly or whatever the case may be right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you want village connection, either. Whether we're having a community event or if somebody noticed the person who likes to chill and stay in the house hadn't put their trash out in two weeks, somebody might need to go check on them. Or he hadn't made a bad comment or a good comment on Streetlight. We might need to check on him because you're part of the village. Even if you want to keep to yourself, that's fine. Everybody's like that. When you go to school, you may not necessarily be antisocial, but an introvert, and you don't lose being an introvert. Learn how to operate within what you can handle.
Speaker 1:That's a good point. You're part of our village, regardless whether you want to be a part of it or not.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. And we're not going to force it, right, we're not going to spoon feed you either. Right, when the time comes and you're ready, we're going to accept that and accept you and accept anybody. But that village is there, man?
Speaker 2:Look at Dave. That finally came out Exactly. What's up, Dave?
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly. You are a part of us regardless. You know, I would expect you to be a good Samaritan and a good person and individual, so that my kids can learn that from you and see that regardless. Hey, dave doesn't talk, he doesn't ever come out, he doesn't do nothing, but he's still part of the village and if we could, if we had to rely on Dave, we're going to. You know that kind of thing. Sorry, if you're a Dave out there, that you know. I don't take it personal.
Speaker 2:Trust me, I didn't make the Dave voice. I did not make the Dave voice. Oh, you need a Dave voice for it.
Speaker 1:My dad's name is Dave.
Speaker 2:Oh, it is.
Speaker 1:So my middle name is David. Hello, son, I miss you. Why aren't?
Speaker 2:you on Facebook.
Speaker 1:Well, I said, one of my dads is Dave, my other dad is Doug, so you can go ahead and play that voice with either one of them. That's for sure. I don't know, man.
Speaker 2:Doug is a good name. Doug just changes it up a little bit. Well, I mean, it's probably the perfect white name. You know what?
Speaker 1:I mean Doug, yeah, doug, really Like Russell Russell. No, eugene is a white name, clifford Eugene is a white boy's name.
Speaker 2:It's the whitest name Stereotypically. Every time I do a comedy show, people are like my grandpa name is Eugene.
Speaker 1:I'm like you're not making me feel any better. Oh, my gosh dude, what's your middle name, eugene? Oh, what's your first?
Speaker 2:name, then it's worse. I don't tell my first name. It's worse, okay.
Speaker 1:Man, you went with the least of the white days Well yes, the least of the. That's what you do, man, that's so racist.
Speaker 2:Hey, I have a. He's a great comic. He's wrote for a lot of the comedic greats, but his first name is Wellington and honestly, you would have thought he'd be a doctor, I mean with a name like wellington. Yeah, he's a stand-up comic. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:And when I first saw his name a long time ago.
Speaker 2:I thought he misspelled willie yeah, because he goes by welly, like like that's his nickname, welly, and I'm like, I'm like willie dude names are a trip. My wife cannot pronounce names, but she can read everything else. But when she butchers names, it's like her kryptonite in reading. Yeah, yeah. She was talking to a friend about Japan yesterday and said Yamaha and I was listening and I didn't say anything. And then the friend, I could hear her say are you talking about Yama? And I was like Yama is what she's talking about.
Speaker 1:So she got that the name, dyslexia it's crazy.
Speaker 2:Only name she butchered, like no matter what. Onomatopoeia is on point. What's crazy is, you know, we used to spell names phonetically. That's how Ella J in Georgia is really Elijah. They just spell it Ella J, oh wow, and so people just start calling it, but it's Elijah. I guess it could be that, but she pronounces it Elijah because she butchers names.
Speaker 1:I feel like there's some pressure in that too. So you don't want to butcher a name, but you end up butchering it just because the name comes across. You're like crap, I don't want to butcher, I don't even pronounce it.
Speaker 2:Like when I first met you, I was like nope and my wife was like we know too many Joshes we're going to have to rename him. I'm like just call him by his last name. I'm like nope, we're going to call Domingo.
Speaker 1:Domingo. You're going to call Josh Domingo Domingo now, because my last name is just not going to happen. Man, people are asking me how you say your last name. Most of the time, I don't even know how to say my last name, so I'm still trying to learn how to say it properly. I just make it up every time.
Speaker 2:It's something different every time, the only time my name has been pronounced correctly is when I was doing a show in UK they said Basham and I was like oh, that's crazy, because I mean I didn't brief him or nothing but they're used to the um sound like birmingham. Yeah, oh my gosh dude, and so I was like man. That's crazy well.
Speaker 1:so back on topic, you know, um, just, it doesn't matter your name, it doesn't matter your color or anything like that. Like we were saying, you know, it's all about bringing that feeling of fun back, what we need to be right, we don't care what your name is, right, you know, it's all about bringing that feeling of fun back, what we need to be Right, we don't care what your name is.
Speaker 2:Right, you know what I mean, and we want to have fun, like we want this podcast to inform folks, but we also want to meet you guys. My kid is having this problem in school or my kid is having this problem at the community center when they whether it's bullying or they can't raise enough money for jerseys. The village needs to know. If you guys know. I don't think any kid will go without in your village if you know where the money is going to. And that's the best thing about this community. Well, I say community, but villages across the country. We want to, but sometimes don't know how to help, and so some folks out there be able to comment and be like, hey, this is how you can help, or may comment like, hey, I want to help.
Speaker 2:You know, I heard you talk about mentoring on one episode. How can I mentor? We can be, you know, we'll train you. Or if you're a kid and you need some training, you got a mentor, a leadership training coming up, and I think that's great because I know how important leadership skills are as an adolescent growing up into an adult, because that's one of the things that kept me out of drugs and because peer pressure is real. I had my first kid on the way when I was 12. I can talk about peer pressure and how the guys you know they didn't bully me, but it was like they were talking about manhood and I'm applying it to myself as 11 and 12 year old, when I'm not. I'm preparing to be a man, but I don't need to behave or do things that men do. But I didn't know that. Then I'm like oh, I won't be a man unless I do this, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then if you have that scenario in your head where you're like man, I want to utilize tree light Angels podcast to help me get that information. We could do it anonymously and then we can reply back to you with a resource that you would need, even if it doesn't come with us or from us. Right? Right, we're not professional anything by any means, right, but we want to make sure that everyone has that platform or ability to use us for that.
Speaker 2:As young people say. You can hear this up in our DMs. You ain't got to have it in the main comments. But if it's a suggestion as far as what, what we can do for fun in the community, especially like if you're a business owner and you want to sponsor something, most definitely comment hey, this is something I would consider sponsoring, especially if it's to build the family and the village Absolutely. And or if you know of businesses that want to start getting more connected as far as like tribally because that's one thing about a tribe or village is you start doing business with owners because you're familiar with them, you know what quality they offer. There's a trust factor behind it. I go to restaurants where I meet the owner, like that's why I don't go to fast food restaurants, because the people there don't have a stake in the quality. But if you go somewhere where the people there have a stake in it is you, you get a lot of times Not stake the meat.
Speaker 1:Y'all like a stake, like an investment their own heart, blood and soul.
Speaker 2:I know I'm going to lose a few of y'all because I don't eat steak, I don't eat meat.
Speaker 1:You don't eat meat.
Speaker 2:No, I don't. Sometimes I pretend when I'm around a bunch of carnivores because you know I'm this big, tough, beefy guy, so they think that I I've never had a steak. You're lying, so I'm a third degree black dog, I know. When I was 12, my sensei was like to maintain weight, everybody needs to stop eating red meat. So I stopped eating red meat.
Speaker 1:Your sensei yeah, I don't like your sensei, bro.
Speaker 2:Oh, you love my sensei. No, now I hate him.
Speaker 1:What do you mean? He's going to be one of the people we interview.
Speaker 2:I bet you he eats meat man. What was crazy, I bet you he eats meat now. He does so when I was 16, I was still on that same track as far as competing and everything.
Speaker 2:Sure sure and I'm at the karate school and one of the other instructors brought him a plate, you know, wrapped in aluminum foil and stuff, and he unwrapped his plate. It was smothered pork chops with green beans and macaroni and cheese. And I'm looking at him. My heart skipped a beat because at this time, from 12 to 16, I hadn't had a hamburger and I hadn't had any red meat, not a pork chop, bacon, nothing, bro. I'm sorry. And I thought he was going to put the little pork chop to the side because because he was still competing too, but he wasn't worried about his weight he ate that mother pork chop. And I almost relapsed. I was working, I was 16. The only reason why I remember this is because I was working at Sonic and at the end of the day, whatever burgers we had left over, we could take them home and, like my relatives, love me because I would be passing out double cheeseburgers at the end of the night.
Speaker 1:You don't eat meat, man. We're going to have to talk about that on another episode, bro.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, well, cause, you know, the thing is, is that so for me? I stopped completely because I have a body type that doesn't process protein very well, and so my joints and my neck and back was hurting and I'm blaming, I'm like, oh man, it's from 40 years, oh, I see, it's from construction, when I had my construction company.
Speaker 1:So it actually benefits you not to eat, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's different by choice man.
Speaker 1:It's hard for me to trust anybody who doesn't eat meat?
Speaker 2:That's just me. You know I don't have some type of carrot fetish, or you know I'm most definitely not into cucumbers.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, but you're not vegan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just not raw vegan.
Speaker 1:I don't know. There's a difference between vegan and raw vegan.
Speaker 2:Well, raw vegan is it?
Speaker 1:can't be cooked. Do you eat chicken? Do you eat chicken? Do you eat chicken? Are you saying that because I'm Caucasian? No, I am not Caucasian. No, no do you. But you don't eat chicken, so you don't eat eggs, you don't eat poultry, you don't eat any fish.
Speaker 2:No Seafood. I used to eat chicken, fish and turkey. That used to be my thing.
Speaker 1:So you just skipped out the red meat, but then you still had the other stuff, yeah, but you know so for 30 years.
Speaker 2:What do you?
Speaker 1:eat with your protein, then your beans.
Speaker 2:I don't do any beans, I'll do, like, a lot of arugula, different greens and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:But now.
Speaker 2:Man. So now, when we have a village, cookout, I'll bring the best vegetables.
Speaker 1:You better bring some really awesome vegetables. I could put it on my meat.
Speaker 2:I don't think I like how you said meat.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I would take your badass vegetables and put them on my steak. Dude no.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know what's crazy, though that's cool Is that I think and this is just a thought, and this is a rabbit hole, though that I think we went from being vegan to meat eaters, in a sense, and now you're talking about like as far as primitive way, like yeah because, if you think about it, different people thrive on different diets.
Speaker 2:Like a diet, like a greek diet for you, sure you may still like gain weight or may have high cholesterol, but a greek diet for you, sure you may still like gain weight or may have high cholesterol, but a greek diet for somebody else made a jelly bean bro, and I get 10 pounds man, I feel like like I can't even one jelly bean dude, I'm done one slice of pie and it's the whole pie.
Speaker 1:I'm done, I'm just like but okay, I can see that. Yeah, that is a rabbit hole, bro, we're going to talk about. You know the origins of what we ate. Originally, I mean, obviously it had to have been veggies. You know what I mean. Until you figure out what animal you can eat, it's like caveman came in and just started eating on a cow.
Speaker 2:But you know, humans are so alpha in a sense, that we could have saw what a dinosaur is eating, like a predator. I'd be like I'm gonna eat that too. I mean, you know what I'm saying, and then now I'm gonna eat that dinosaur you would look at, you'll be like he ain't bigger and badder than me. You're right, dude, and all because of a woman. Yeah, that because the thing is is that that woman probably smelled some animal that got burnt in the forest fire, yeah, and was like that's some barbecue right there.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'll get that for you and then she wanted it every day, so he's bringing home the bacon with third degree burns right, you gotta get it while it's hot, right man, I didn't know that. All right, so completely off topic. We don't really have a topic, this episode anyways.
Speaker 2:So I mean, the main topic is if you have any suggestions as far as village events that we could put together, what would those suggestions be?
Speaker 2:that's right, you and utilizing us as a platform, say it, say what you got going on, and we'll do it anonymously if that's the case, if you had to comment, if you said the comment like I'm tired of these kids sagging we don't have an episode about it, because I mean, it's a history to it that is really not constructive, sure at all. And so it's like, a lot of times, a lot of people step away from some of these teenagers because it's not how they behave right, it's how they carry in their clothes, that's right and that's just carrying the clothes.
Speaker 1:Now that's been around for a minute. I mean, I remember crisscross, crisscross, dude, that's exactly who I would say you remember? Yeah, crisscross bro jump.
Speaker 2:But you grew out of that, you like. I wore my pants backwards until, uh, inside out and backwards.
Speaker 1:My best friend was tucked into your underwear boxers yeah, man and you and it was like in my white season.
Speaker 2:It was later on funny it wasn't something, something that stuck with you until adulthood.
Speaker 1:To me, but you got stereotyped in the sense to where, if you were doing that, then there was a lot of people who just wouldn't even look at you or talk to you or think twice about you. You could be a genius. You could be the next kid that cured cancer.
Speaker 2:I am a genius. They call me you genius, you genius.
Speaker 1:Okay, now they call me America's baby daddy, they need to call you somebody who needs to start learning how to eat meat again, right, no, but seriously, like it's kind of unfortunate. That I think and I catch myself doing this with the kids now is because I see some stupid haircut on a kid now and I'm like that dumbass kid. But then, in the same token, it's like well, hold up.
Speaker 2:I got to look at myself.
Speaker 1:You were that myself, man. Was I that kid dude, little Frosts? You know, I mean little Frost tips and everything like that JNCO jeans dude. For a little short period of time I was a little punk kid too, doing the regular punk kid stuff. So I see their dumb ass haircuts but in the same token, like that's not dumb ass to them, I have to catch myself with me Some good kids too Is the music that I grew up listening to and listen to now.
Speaker 2:my grandmother used to say wasn't good music.
Speaker 1:yeah, you know, based off of her experiences with music and stuff, what I say now and then today's music.
Speaker 2:My grandmother started listening to rap and it kind of blew my mind. I like I had respect, like, yeah, mc Hammer won my grandmother over. Wow. Like she'd be in the kitchen talking about you can't test this. It's good for her, though, but my grandmother was always evolving and that's what made it click in my head as long as the evolution is to the better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think evolving is amazing.
Speaker 2:I think everyone needs to do it yeah, but if you're working, I would have had it that's right there's some evolutional periods that need to just be gone or destroyed.
Speaker 1:You're right.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, you're right yeah so, but that's the thing. Is that you know the same thing with as far as we talk. To bring it back to comments, is that there's no bad comment, even if you don't appreciate the podcast at face value.
Speaker 1:I want to know who doesn't appreciate the podcast. Yeah, I mean, talk to me about it it might just be a simple tweak. As for us, that because we're learning yeah, tell me where we're jacked up on. I would love to hear some constructive criticism, because that's what's going to be in my head. If you come and tell me that, oh, your voice sounds like dog crap, then obviously that's not very constructive. Yeah, because we want to be the voice of the village.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and not necessarily just the village in Crestview, right, but on a national level, that's right, because the mission is for every child in the community to be safe and for every parent to feel comfortable. We had to let them play outside until the streetlights come on. He used to be comfortable. We had let him play outside until the streetlights come on. Last he used to be our last guest was. The question we asked her was does she feel comfortable today letting her kids go outside and play?
Speaker 1:yeah, a couple episodes. That was autumn yeah a couple episodes ago we asked her and she was like you know no.
Speaker 2:And he said no, straight up and you could tell her feelings were hurt that she didn't have that type of knowledge. Her village, and neither do I. Right, I don't feel comfortable.
Speaker 1:That's why, when I said that I didn't feel comfortable, she did. It's because I didn't want her to feel that uncomfortable to know she's the only one Right. You know what I mean. Or maybe she would think that it was self-induced as to why. But it's not. And we could tell I as to why. But it's not. And we could tell I'm the most outgoing person ever and I'm going to tell you right now I don't even feel comfortable yet.
Speaker 2:And it's like that everywhere you go, because the kids are not outside playing. That's right. And it's not because they have better video games, right. Some of it is because the parents are afraid for the kids to go outside. We don't let them unless we go outside with them. Outside, we don't let them unless we go outside with them. And then some of us, we know our kids are so dangerous, we're protecting the community from them. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1:That's what it feels like.
Speaker 2:My kids will dig a hole.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. So it's kind of like you remember when Bugs Bunny In the middle of the street.
Speaker 2:It's like Bugs Bunny was digging a hole to you know. I guess he was trying to go somewhere, but always wind up in Albuquerque. That's how I feel, like anytime I let my kids outside, I have to point out where they can dig.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm protecting y'all from my kids.
Speaker 2:So y'all, the village needs to appreciate me.
Speaker 1:But that's the thing Like utilize us in a platform to where you can say anything you want, like we've been kind of gentle on the subject. But, for example, if you're a guy or lady and you want to say something like, what's a big one happening right now, I think, in maine? I think they were talking about how the governor of maine is fighting the federal regulations as far as letting transgender play in sports, so like a male actually playing a female sport and vice versa, at any age, at any age, yeah, and so I think the don't catch me lying, you can check it out yourselves. You know what I mean. But what I'm seeing is that's what the news is kind of pushing and the agendas is being pushed to me, and that's just some things. I scan through it's trash. I don't want to have to deal with it's trash. I don't want to have to deal with it's stuff that needs to be brought up.
Speaker 1:So let us at Tree Light Angels, you know, talk about that, because it doesn't matter that the federal government dictating that. It doesn't matter that the governor wants their own opinion and how they think their state should be ran. It should be what the children need to grow. And if my girl, if I have a little baby girl and she has to play against a boy my son Tyler, he's 10 years old and he's got a friend that's a girl, that's 10 years old, half his size, right, let's just go ahead and say, on a primitive level and a gene pool, that she is not going to compete on him on a wrestling match, right, or something like that and it's not fair to her right and in some cases, like give us that.
Speaker 2:It's sad that the government feels the need to step in, but also if for the development of the kid who's transitioning, it's like we as a village need to figure out what we can do to help, not necessarily like cheer them on, but there's no way in hell I am going to make any child feel uncomfortable, that's right, and you know, unsafe or any of that. And so if you don't know how to respond or what to do, then ask yourself if you were that kid, how you'd want to be treated.
Speaker 1:Look at it from different perspectives. You know what I mean. Talk about it. Yeah, heck, you don't get on the comments.
Speaker 2:You don't have to change your beliefs to change how you treat a child. Like you know, I don't believe that every parent who has a screaming child in a grocery store or airport is a bad parent. But that's from my experience, because I know that every now and then I'm gonna have a kid who really wants a candy bar, and not today. We don't eat junk food, you know what I mean. So no steak, no junk food. You know they have other stuff, man, you bring. You put a fruit tray in front of them and I kid you not, you guys can come to my house and I'm not coming to your house, man.
Speaker 1:I kid you not, you guys can come to my house and hang out. I'm not coming to your house. No wait, now you'll have like we'll serve you meat.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, and shrimp I don't like the way you said meat right there. That's a callback. He's trying to call back to my joke.
Speaker 1:Use Streetlight Angels as an opportunity to voice your opinion. You know what I mean, and your opinion is just that alone. So don't get your feelings hurt when your opinion isn't the right one to everyone else. On a general aspect and just like me, I've got some strong opinions- A lot of people don't like that crap. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:And that's the whole point of you and I talking is that we understand it's not even about freedom of speech it's about. You should be able to tell your opinion and I respect it.
Speaker 1:I don't have to agree about it.
Speaker 2:And the thing is is that I'm going to plan on saying something that might tick you off, and it's okay. It's going to happen, dude, and it's okay for you to get mad, but still treat me like a human. That's right, we're still gonna record an episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we in this village. We're brothers. That's right, absolutely. If everybody could get to that fundamental value to each other and to stop being so freaking sensitive, you know. I mean to stop being such a piece of crap to your neighbor or to your other village member, like if you could just look at them as a human being, understand that they have opinions, just like you do. And then what you do, you do everything you possibly can to where you can bring that to your child, to where they have that ability. Don't take I'm not telling a parent to say you know your opinion doesn't matter because you're an adult. What I'm trying to say is you should be an adult enough to allow your child to make their own opinions and understand that their opinions do matter and try to make them in the most moral and ethical way that a village needs to be able to survive off of each other, exactly and still be able to come to the community cookout, that's right, and you may not.
Speaker 2:You may have had words the other day, but all right, we still. We still come in and fellowship in. That's right, and you may not. You may have had words the other day, but all right, we still. Yeah, we still coming and fellowshipping, that's right.
Speaker 1:And uh, actually, as a matter of fact, somebody told me today she goes hey, I heard you, and this is a friend of mine and she said hey, I heard you were talking about my company and I was like what, where'd you get that resource from? You know what I mean? Like I'd like to know. She's like I'm not going to tell you. I was like all right, fine. Well, what did you hear? And then I'll kind of explained. Maybe I was distasteful about something that maybe I disagreed disagreed about something you know me, but I have no problem talking about it.
Speaker 2:Maybe she was just having a conversation with somebody who likes to start crap. That's right.
Speaker 1:And you just don't know and I haven't had had a chance to follow up with her because I had to leave, and I'm still looking forward to that follow-up to figure out, you know the root of that right and then I would love to I'll talk about it on the podcast next time and be like hey, I found out let's invite her, yeah matter of fact, I've asked her to be on the podcast. I'm not gonna say her name yet oh yeah, I'll say it later after.
Speaker 1:Uh, yeah, I get the permission from it we ain't trying to have unnecessary drama, but it's.
Speaker 2:It's fun to show how, please devils, act.
Speaker 1:Forget with each other.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's fun to show how there's different opinions oh yeah, because we all grew up differently and what's right, like even what people deem as racism, is usually just a cultural difference, you know, I mean because or statistic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like us playing around with statistics.
Speaker 2:Yeah weird stereotypes, I should say sorry stereotypes yeah, I'm weird in new york because I make eye contact and speak to everybody, but down here, you know, if I didn't do that then I'm rude right no that has nothing to do with color yeah, no, it absolutely has nothing to do with color. More or less the way our villages and Crestview people want to connect and have a good time outside of politics, outside of church, outside of gender or race.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Just come together, like when I look at, when I go, when I have my comedy shows here, the demographics is so broad, it's awesome that. You're like why are we not doing this over here? Sure, why we can't meet up at a business, a local business, that's right and have a pizza party, you know, this month, and then next month, you know, because sometimes people don't want to bring stuff or cook, that's right, all right, well, let's go where they'll give us a good deal to cook for us. That give us a good deal to cook for us, that's right. And they'll be like oh well, we need to take care of this village because they bring their whole family.
Speaker 1:It's crazy. As long as we're coming together as a village is good and as long as everybody can reciprocate that and beat that, beat that nail on the head, because and drive that point, because if you don't, you're not doing anything, the wheels are spinning, you're not going forward. And I've seen it in my own family no-transcript, right, I don't want to do it again, because now my kids are getting old enough to where they can see me and I don't want them to rub wrong. You know what I mean. And then now that generation is now screwed because they just saw Papa acting like a fool. You know what I mean. To me, it may not have been a fool, but it is. You know what I mean. And so that's when I say I'm the first one I'll be the first one on this podcast to go public and say that I was definitely been an asshole before.
Speaker 1:You know, what I mean, but I'll also be the first one to say that I would have your back in a second these days.
Speaker 2:I agree with that, and you can learn I can learn from it. You've been a butthole. You're great. I mean you're loyal, yeah, and the crazy thing is is that anybody hearing this. What you should take away as far as Josh is that he's loyal to this village and to this country. You know, your time in the military shows that, over 20 years. Sure, that's the thing is that that's who you want advocating for you. Sure, that's the thing is that that's who you want advocating for you. That's the only reason why I signed on. You know, I think we met and hit it right off because I knew what type of person. So you're not just talking to talk, right, and everybody listening to this Don't think I'm plugging him because we work together. I'm only plugging him because I believe in what he's backing.
Speaker 1:And it's and now we know we are are backing right, right, it's an organization man. I didn't even want to live in this country when I went to japan and I saw the riots happening with these clowns and I saw the covid thing and how that just crippled the world, especially america right you know what I mean because I was in japan during covid and it was a lot, a lot easier there than it was over here.
Speaker 1:They've been wearing masks for 20 years Exactly, out of common courtesy, so they don't get other people sick off their nastiness. America doesn't even flush the toilets after they leave the gas station. You know what I'm saying? It's just nasty. I didn't want to live here. When I retired, we were going to leave this country, but then I did some soul searching and realized this is my home. You know what I mean. This is where I was raised. This is the country I served, just like you in the country you served, and just like the things that you want to do. This is what Streetlight Angels is about. It's to say, you know what, enough is enough. No more pulled punches. Don't care about your stupid feelings. I almost left my own country, my own country. I almost left because of how trash it is now and we're going to fix it. We're going to do everything we can to fix it right now. And it may not be our gen, it may not be you and me, bro, but it's going to be our kiddos, dude.
Speaker 2:I want my kids to be best friends with your kids and realize how dumb our gen and the gen before us was. One of the coolest things that I learned from the South was that a lot of our grandparents planted trees so that we would benefit from them. Man, and that's how we have to do. We got to plant the tree. Yeah, figuratively speaking. Yeah, like, think about all these pecan trees in people's front yard and back yards. You know, those grandparents knew that they weren't going to benefit from that. We have to think of that in a sense for our villages, that's right, and our schools and our children.
Speaker 2:And the thing is, is that if we could plant safety in the schools? People think schools need security In the schools. People think schools need security. No, what they need is individuals who know how to observe the behavior, to preempt that situation, awareness, to be proactive on it. Yeah, to be proactive, that's right, man. Like, when we had a cop playing basketball with us, everything reduced. We stopped, even just standing around on the corner. We knew, all right, let's go to the court, that's right, you know. So we could beat a cop that's right In basketball, that's right. Or we'd race them on our bikes when they started having bike cops, that's right. We were like, can we race?
Speaker 1:And he was like you beat that cop. You know village building, the trust we talk about it constantly. Utilize Streetlight Angels as that platform. Let us be your voice. Heck, if you want to get on here and record with us, hit us up and be like man, I'd love to get on there. Eugene and I were just talking about shifting up some platforms. Not only are we going to be doing video audio soon, very soon, probably within the next couple of episodes, we're also going to be nationally available to where we can start recording people on the other side of the country state world. I would love to hear some oh man, this is a rabbit hole. I would love to hear some people from outside of the United States to vocalize how bad the United States looks from outside, looking in now, when it wasn't ever like that. We were a powerhouse, the badasses. Now people are looking at us, laughing at us, bro.
Speaker 2:In England it's unheard of for guns to be in the school, and not because of all the laws, because where there's any criminal element, there's guns to be bought.
Speaker 1:Sure, sure yeah.
Speaker 2:But it's just not a thing. That village doesn't play when it comes right. Our kids, that's right. And I remember growing up it's like, hey, in this part of the area they're not having any drugs. That's right, these are our kids area.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is a safe free zone. You know what I mean. Kid kids zone. This isn't, you know, you guys? And then the village would come together and, yeah, sauce that out, you know cool like I would.
Speaker 2:Man, I'll make sure that I start on my facebook page plugging the people I know I'm like hey, listen to this episode from different parts of the world that I've performed and that I've I've lived in, because even in south, korea we're talking about japan, how safe it is for kids.
Speaker 2:It'd be a three-year-old getting ready to go to head start on a bus stop, that's right With no other adult. And you know, I was nervous because I thought it was a lost kid and I asked I knew an older business owner and I was like, hey, what's going on with the kids? And he's like, oh, it's okay, Waiting for the school bus man. And the thing is is that he told me he said if I'd have walked over and asked that kid, if they were OK, I could have possibly been in an incident because they would have thought some foreigner.
Speaker 2:Oh some, oh yeah, he's like it was good that you asked me, man, and I was like, yeah, my, my situational awareness and my training was to the point of where, yeah, I didn't want to create an international incident outside of a military base want to create an international incident outside of a military base, man dude, and we're a young nation which we'll talk about later on, I'm sure I I definitely want to bring that up in the in the future.
Speaker 2:We're a young country we can always rebuild ourselves. Because we're so young, we shouldn't be set in incorrectness. That's right, because what we used to do is we'd build and we'd look back and build and you know, and things and things would get better, like our cities, the way even our cities are developed, you know. You could tell that it was rethought. Yeah, you know, if we build our villages the same way, if we like, hey, the school system the way it is is not working. It's not hard to hire more teachers not working. It's not hard to hire more teachers. If I'm going to go into deficit, I'd rather throw money at teachers and the buildings themselves, as far as being safe, and that's right.
Speaker 1:And pivot back to the fundamental parts, right, the structure, and then if we could build that structure and solidify that, then start building it again. Right, you know, start building on top of that. I should say.
Speaker 1:But yeah, you're right, right, you know, start building on top of that, I should say. But yeah, you're right. If you know everybody's priorities are completely jammed, we'll talk about that on another episode too. All right, so we got to get off here, yes, sir. But back to the point. Man, let's get us away for this episode and we'll pick back up on the next one. I think 15 15 will be the next one, right?
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this is Streetlight Angels podcast. You can check us out on social media. Email us at streetlightangelspodcast at gmailcom. Make sure you put those comments in. We've been kind of talking about this entire episode. Let us know, give us some more vibes to play on. We'll do everything we possibly can to put the foot forward like we're supposed to. We'll actually get forward traction instead of just let those wheels be spinning round and round and going absolutely nowhere. So let's get some stuff done. Let's change the world. You know we love you. We'll talk to you next time, peace.