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It's really really tough out here nowadays, cause it's like, who can you really trust?
Everybody really looking for a come up, it's just different ways on what, how they want to come up Today on the slide, we're blessed to have as a guest, the artist, Vehriion, new artist, also known as Dante Redwood, he represents, our future. He represents the youth, 27 year old young man. What we look forward to learning today is what are some of the things that he experienced in his past that laid a foundation for him to be successful?
How is being a member of the millennial generation presently, impacting his reality and also, what are some of those things that they need in order to, have a successful future and what can we provide them with in order to be able to establish successful outcomes for them as they move into this next generation or this next iteration of, time.
So, join me welcome. And we look forward to enjoying, Mr. Dante Redwood on the slide. You're listening to The Slide Podcast with Tavares Bethel.
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Hey, I'm over here completely sleep, right? Hey, hey, I'm over here real still. I'm over here listening to a song. I'm on, I'm on 75 headed to Atlanta, listening to Lil Papa saying, and we slide and we slide on 95. I promise you, you know what I'm saying? So welcome back to the slide with Tavaris Bethel. We have the pleasure of having with us today, Mr. Dante Redwood. Mr. Dante Redwood is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and we're blessed to have him in the city of Jacksonville as he launches his, uh, career as an artist. Uh, just a phenomenal young man. I'm going to allow him to tell us a little bit about himself. I just want to say thank you for coming and spending some time with us today, because there's a couple of things they want to discuss.
And I think that, um, that, uh, When you bring in the youth or somebody who represents the youth and it gives us the best opportunity to acquire information that will give us the ability to make decisions as we move forward. So without any further ado, please, don't say introduce. Who are you? Tell us about yourself, man.
I'm Dante Redwood. I go by a very on as an artist. Um, 27 years old, man from Cleveland, Ohio, a native of North Ridgeville, how it also represent to the Ville for, um, uh, I want to say I went to college at Mercyhurst university. And there, uh, I played football for four years. Four year captain there. So that was huge.
All American. So pretty much all everything as a DB right? And so my, my dream growing up, I'm like, man, I gotta get to the league. You, you asked myself, I was third, fourth grade. Hey, what am I doing when I'm older, man? I'm going to the league. I'm going to be an NFL player, right? So I was fortunately blessed enough to go to the Arizona Cardinals as a rookie, like minicamp trial player.
Didn't make it there. And it was funny because. When draft day came around, I was like, damn, this boy, Byron Murphy got picked first. Uh, I think he's first overall pick in the second round. So pick number 33, me and him are exact same player. So I'm like, man, this shit a wrap. I already gave my agent a list of, of teams that I want to go to at the top of Arizona.
I'm like, man, I need that warm weather. I need that warm weather. And number two was, uh, the jets and number three was the Patriots. But Growing up, I couldn't stand Tom Brady, man. He was always beating my Jaguars. Like, I couldn't really fuck with him like that. He was just beating our ass and he wasn't even really saying shit about it.
So I'm like, man, forget him. So, that was low key why I put them at number three. Really, they should have been number two. So, draft day comes around, and seventh round comes by. My agent texts me, hey, you may have a chance of getting picked here. If not, look for priority free agent status, and we'll go from there.
I'm like, alright, bet. That's it. So an hour after the draft goes by, I'm like, bro, what the fuck? I ain't got no call, no text, no nothing. I'll text my agent, but what's the word? What's the word? No response. So another hour goes by, I look at my pops and my nephew. I'm like, Hey, y'all hungry. This is why I ain't ate no shit.
Like we was going to celebrate, but ain't have no chance to eat. And I ain't really want to be around like my family. Nothing like one of the most disappointing times in my life. So we go to Arby's down the road. I get, I get my little meal, whatever. I'm like two bites in my phone. It's our ring. It's Zach Canney, Arizona Cardinals.
That's who the scout was. He's like, hey Dante, we're gonna bring you on board for camp. I'm like, fuck it. It's great. I'm sitting there at Arby's in an Erie PA with my nephew and my pops when I get the most important phone call in my life. This shit just absolutely blew my mind. So when I got back, I couldn't even, I tried to tell my dad, hey don't, don't let nobody know cause at this point they're expecting me to be disappointed as hell.
So I walk in, I'm low key grinning. I was grinning ear to ear, for real. And they're like, what happened, what happened? I'm like, man, I'm gonna be an Arizona Cardinal. That shit was tough, so we got the hat and everything, put it on, and uh, I just spent that next month grinding until I went into camp. Like, you didn't see me drinking or nothing.
I already didn't smoke, shit, so now it was just time to really lock in. So, what was it like managing the emotions for you during that time period? It's tough, man. Cause it's really a dog eat dog world. You gotta think. When you're going in as a rookie, so I was 22 years old at the time when you're going in, you're going in to take another man's job.
So you're gonna take the food that he's putting on his plate at the day, but it's like, fuck it. I want to put some more food on my plate. I don't, I don't want that little Walmart state where I want that Japanese Wagyu steak. Yeah, that's, that's what I'm really striving for. So, so what produced it though?
So, what type of environment, um, gave birth to an individual that could, uh, succeed in, in high school, succeed in college, um, have opportunity to get a opportunity that maybe 1 percent of the people on the face of the earth ever have opportunity to experience in their life. What, what was it like? What environment produced that?
You know I was blessed enough to have both of my parents in my life growing up and they were always there the entire time. And it was, I swear to God, it was my pops, man. That boy Jamaican, he's from Port Antonio, Jamaica. Just got back there from there like a week ago. And literally I want to say, I was probably a few weeks old.
That man had me doing sit ups in the crib, literally doing sit ups in the crib. He would hold my feet. My mom or somebody would hold applesauce or whatever. And I'd have to come up to get that food. It was crazy as shit ever. So I naturally already had like six packs. Shit blew my mind and then it was that that drive that I got to be greater than my dad my dad My dad told me he's a professional boxer, man.
He he he tried out for the US Olympic team for soccer He played cricket till he was 40 something years old like that. That's real as fuck. That's yeah I didn't beat that man in a race till I was 15 16 years old and I was one of the fastest kids in the area In Northeast, Ohio and Northeast, Ohio produced dudes, you know So just like trying to just aim for that kind of greatness and then realizing that I'm not the best anymore in that what it's going to take to get to that level is just that extra shit that nobody else is doing.
Yeah, I could have been in the inside playing the game because that's what was big growing up for my generation was technology was they was coming out with a new thing every every day. It was original Xbox thing, you know, you get the Game Boy Advance SP, you got the Nintendo, you got the Wii that came out like all this shit was coming out, but I was fucking grinding because my pops, hey man, let's go outside.
Let's play some catch. Show me your hands. Boom, he said drop pass, 10 push ups. Me and my brother, we wasn't dropping shit. I know for a fact we have the best hands in the state of Ohio. Because of what that man instilled in us and the level of excellence that he demanded out of us. You know, as, as an artist, what most, uh, intrigues me about your music is the way that you refer to family, right?
I think that the way that you mention and reverence family in your work is inspiring and understanding the power of music. If those type of seeds can be planted, I think it gives us the opportunity to have a A better opportunity to have better families, right? Because somebody has to provide that messaging.
What is it about family that drives you, man? It's everything. It's the root of what you came up. You know, when, when you started in diapers, you couldn't look out for yourself or you, you fucking child, you an infant, you a toddler. You don't know how to provide for yourself, you don't know how to do anything about the world, you don't know the world.
So they're the ones that teach you the world. And if they're there constantly supporting you, doing, helping you, doing what they need to do, to make you grow and succeed, and if you get the whole structure there, the only way to, like, live your life is to be great for real. And that's what it really came out to be.
Did your parents, uh, dictate to you your decisions, or did they give you options? Did they give you choices? What was that like for you? So, I mean, yeah, my dad was like, I always want one of y'all to be the President of the United States and make Jamaica a part of the United States. You, you want it, like, his life dream is for Jamaica to be a state in the United States of America.
That shit is crazy. So, he's like, you're there to be a lawyer, doctor, famous for whatever, but that is the end goal, be President of the United States. Um, so he set a pretty robust goal for you. Yeah. Right. So, so where are you at in your campaign aspirations based on the guidance that I'm making now I'm on my way.
Cause we need because I think right now we're in a situation where it was a job opening up there, but Hey, Dante for president. We're running them right now. Hey, there you go. I just got to turn 35 first. So, so, so now being, uh, representing the youth in America during this time period, it's just not an easy thing, right?
Right. There are a lot of challenges that your generation is outfitted with. And my belief is that every generation should solve for a problem. So that way the next generation will have an opportunity in order to be able to, you know, um, um, take our. Um, I'll take humanity to a higher level if you if you would now personally, I think our generation Um is doing a terrible job of of passing the reins over to your generation, which is only creating more work for your generation.
Um, and it's not that my generation I believe is, um, is apathetic. It's just that we had a different set of challenges. Like we had to deal with the Clinton administration and we had to do individuals calling us super predators. We had to deal with education and equity. You know, all of those things that we had to deal with that have been buried in our present.
Your generation is dealing with them. And the response that come from your generation is bananas. Right. So, so what is it like, um, being a member of, of your, of your generation? You're a millennial, correct? Yeah. What, what, what is it like being a millennial? It's, it's tough. Cause there's a certain like set of expectations, like you already said, where, where we're expected to go to college, right?
Four years, find the love of your life in college. Now, now y'all dating for a few years, you get married and before 30, you at least want to have a child. Right? And it's that set of expectations where it's like, Damn, how the hell we gonna do this? We're, we're 150, 000 in, in student loan debt. And God forbid you have any other kind of emergencies, accidents that happen within the family.
But this is the best case scenario, you're 150, 000 in student loan debt. Well, shit, now jobs out of school nowadays, they, a lot of them require MBAs, right? So, post grad degrees. And then, next thing you know, you're another hundred thousand. Now you're two hundred, you're a quarter million in debt. What the fuck?
How am I supposed to start out my life with this? And, enter a relationship? Where it's only, really gonna cause what? More financial burden, probably? Cause you gotta wine and dine, you gotta, you gotta court people, alright? Like, nobody wants somebody who's just gonna take them to a, a court. A coffee shop.
Hey, you want to come to my crib and just kick it and smoke? Yeah, yeah. Like, how's that going to last? Like, y'all not really doing much of anything. Y'all not really going to know each other and gather those experiences, right? So, now you're 250, 000 in debt. You don't got no lady. What, what is there supposed to, what are you supposed to do with that, right?
So, honestly, it's easier to hustle. It's really easy to hustle, and I really think that's what we're seeing a lot of days, is dudes out here hustling, minding their business for real. And if they're not, shit, that's where they really want to be. So it's really tough, it's really really tough out here nowadays, cause it's like, who can you really trust?
Everybody really looking for a come up, it's just different ways on what, how they want to come up. And that's the, I think that's the unfortunate part, because I think every generation face that, or every generation, um, Um, from our community, and when I say our community, I'm more so specifically speaking about black people, you know, up coming from, you know, the, uh, condition of servitude, uh, slavery, being enslaved or being in bondage, right, created a certain type of ambition, but that ambition, absent the resource, created, um, a need that developed into survival by any means necessary.
Right. And so now, when you get a generation such as my generation, my generation come along, my generation, the first generation, they get an opportunity to do things like talk back, you know what I'm saying, do certain things, you see what I'm saying, my, my generation, that first rebellious generation, right?
Generation X, right? And, and we know that in mathematics, X represent the unknown, right? So this is just my personal ideology. I've never been told this or taught this by a philosopher or a teacher, but it's, it's a variable. I believe that, I believe that our generation, Yeah. Um, as Generation X, or being unknown as the first generation, they couldn't really determine what we would become, right?
And so since they didn't know what we would become, I believe that, you know, there had been a kind of concerted effort to control the energy of our, of our generation. However, um, enough of, you know, us or individuals like myself made it through and we reproduce Children and those Children, if they couldn't solve for us, if society or you know, those those planners, those engineers, those societal engineers couldn't determine what we were going to become.
I know that they're petrified of y'all and your Children. I know that they're petrified of your Children because the amount of unrest and the things that you can do to see our society unravel And, and just become, uh, um, um, disgruntled by, by basic things. I was, I was talking to my nephew, um, a while ago, and we were watching 12 Years a Slave.
And he just looks so uncomfortable, right? And I asked him, I was like, man, what's going on? He said, man, he said, he said, I just feel so scared right now. Right. Uh, the connection with seeing those images of the past, right. And understanding what the future hold, you know, I, I kind of, I'm concerned about your generation, you know, cause I don't think that we've done enough to establish credibility with our generation in order to be able to give y'all guidance in order to get them going in the appropriate direction, you know what I'm saying?
So how do we, in the present, what can we do? Right. In order to bridge that gap between generations and I'll say this before I before I pass it back off to you. I had the pleasure of one day reading an article in the final call newspaper, um, by the Honorable Minister Lewis Farrakhan that said there exists a wobble in nature.
And that wobble is the absence of, of parental guidance in our generation that doesn't extend over into the next generation. It creates a wobble, right? So now, so, so there's no way, there's no conduit to appropriately connect our elders to our youth, right? How do we solve for that problem? What do we have to do as a generation in order to be able to create the bondage or the connection that your generation need in order to survive?
Or at least, at least experience some of the lessons that we experienced in our generation, right? All right. Now, I don't necessarily believe that it, that we need to connect through experiences because times are different, man. Like, you, you go to McDonald's nowadays, you, you try to get McDouble, what, it's three, three bucks, some shit like that.
Back way back when it was what, like 50 cents a quarter. So like, I, it's tough to say that the experiences can really be the same. It's more so about having the conversations. What can we do to help y'all? Lending a hand, the silver spoon, really, you know? Um, My, my college football coach, he told us a story this one day and uh, I'm gonna say it was probably during camp or something like one of them rough days where like you just had a really bad practice as a team, as a unit and like y'all just needed words to lift y'all up and he told us this story about there's this place where, where people go to pass in between and, in between life and death and they're, they only have hands, they only have spoons as hands And so, they have a huge pot of food.
So, you gotta figure out how you're gonna feed yourself, right? So, it's like, you have this spoon, how do I get this in my mouth? You try to run it down your arm, it's not gonna work. You might catch a little bit to survive for a little bit, but it's not gonna be enough to survive, like, a long time. So, somebody got the bright idea of, Hey, you, you right there, you grab that spoon and you give it to me.
I'm like, okay. They fed the other person. It's like, okay, will you feed me? I don't think I will. God came down. You, you're going to hell. Boom. Now you're back to the drawing board of ideas. It's like, okay, what do we do now? You pick up the spoon. You feed somebody else. You pick up the spoon. They feed. Now everybody's feeding each other.
Everybody who's feeding each other, now it's all fruitful. Everybody's going to live. Everybody passes on to heaven. And that's really like the true story. Like, so for one way for our generations to connect, we got to feed each other, man. Like we have different experiences, feed each other, like those stories, those, those, uh, ambitions, your dreams, that way we can understand, we can help you, like that, that's really what it comes down to is one, one hand feeding the other hand.
Yeah, that's, that's, that's profound. And as you, as you were telling that story, I could visualize it because, you know, when you can do something for others, when you can serve humanity, me, myself personally, right? I want to strive to be an individual that when I'm in the presence of a youth, I want to be able to do anything in my power to be able to help them.
Even if that's admonishing, you know what I'm saying? I don't ever want to be afraid to tell somebody in that next generation the hard truth. Right. But what I also try to be very careful about is being condescending or demeaning or, or, or judging them wherever they are in their experience, because they deserve to have the experiences that's going to set them up for For the for the future when I look at myself and I look at some of the challenges that I came through Right.
Being a, um, being a young man coming from Miami, Florida, growing up in Kara city, dropping out of high school, right? Nobody anticipated that I was going to drop out of high school, right? Everybody thought that I was going to college full ride scholarship. Like that's, that was my lineage, right? I was, I was destined to go to college on a full ride scholarship.
They had no idea Right. That I was not going to school at all. Hey, what time for Ms. Freeman? And y'all know I'm keeping it a buck while I went to school 30 days, my senior year, right? I said, I completed my formal education in 1993. However, that didn't serve as a barrier for me because like you, I had a father in my life, even though my, even though I came from a broken home.
I still had a father in my life. Now we'll talk about that joke one day. That's the 50 band conversation, right? You don't get Fred Bethel for free out of me, right? You gonna have to pay for that now, right? Because there's so many lessons that came from that. However, um, Having that person in my life that served as that for me, right?
He wasn't a beacon of morality, but, but ethics, right? He was, he was on it, you know what I'm saying? And so, and so, and for the, for anyone who just missed that, right, there's a difference between, you know, ethical responsibility and moral responsibility. So he was morally absent, but ethically, you know what I'm saying?
The man was on it. So he gave me some jewels that, that allowed me to survive some very, very arduous situation. Right? And so now when you get on the other side of it, for me, as a, as an older guy now, I think about my cohort, I think about the people who didn't have an opportunity to make it, my peers that ain't survived that era, and the individuals who we are left with, right?
Unfortunately, if you have an opportunity to hear these words, stop right now, take a look at yourself, and ask yourself, Are you real? You, you, some saying because if you just survive, but you ain't real, then why are you wasting your survival time? Be real. You some saying be a man, be a woman. When you walk into an environment or a situation, don't be afraid to speak truth to power.
Don't be afraid to love and represent and sacrifice for those individuals that you love. That's what being an elder is about, right? It ain't about running your mouth and talking greasy to a whole bunch of young people because those individuals who That's Live along that facet. That's why we don't have survivability because instead of passing those lessons on so that they can make it down to the view, you're right.
You're too busy talking greasy or being envious, right? That's a sickness. That's a you foul. You don't say the generation that's coming in back of you. They didn't ask to be. You didn't ask to be here. You and you weren't present when your mother and father went into the throes of passion. You know what I'm saying?
Unfortunately, but but however, you got a blessing because it was. They came through the throes of passion, they remain together. The majority of people slide off into the throes, right? And then they throw it away, right? And so now that creates another level of dysfunction, of difficulty for children who have to acquiesce in this reality.
So now, we understand where we are. How do we get from here? Right. How do we take those lessons? How do we, what do the future look like for your generation? Cause I, I'm obviously not qualified to be able to say what it should be because we have done a terrible job of shaping it for you. So what do you see for your generation for the future?
Man, I, like, like we kind of touched on a little bit earlier. I really think it starts with having a young leader in office, you know, somebody who more of our people can relate to. Like right, right now we can't relate to no 85 year old man. I'm sorry, but they got, 60 years on us like that. That's just kind of dead it like I'm not.
I'm not interested in here. We're no 85 year old man Got a safe room bro. Like they got they got hella bankruptcies. They got hella scandals going on. Is anybody really clean nowadays? We're not we're not asking for for a pure motherfucker. We asked for a clean Can we get a little bit of that So so I'm looking for somebody like 40 45 man.
Yeah, they they had a struggle to They were they really had to struggle too. I don't I don't want somebody who went to Harvard or Yale off of their parents going there And then their parents paid a hundred thousand as a donation It really is to get their kid kid in that school, right? I mean, they're looking for the business school and all that shit.
So it really starts with having that young leader I think we'll be all right. So now young leader young leaders are good What does the makeup of that individual look like because having a young leader in and of itself is okay But if that young leader got old money Right, then that young leader might have an old mentality.
I was having a conversation with this pastor one day, and he was asking me if I believed in life after the death, right? Or reincarnation or resurrection or something. I told him, oh, that's what it was. He said, do you believe in resurrection? And I was like, yeah, man, I believe in like, mental resurrection, I believe that.
Like people in America are most in need of spiritual and mental resurrection. He said, no, I, do you believe that you're going to come back? And I was like, bro, the first time you met me, you was with, you seen me. I was with my son. That's my new body right now. Am I worried about coming back? No, I'm not worried about coming back physically.
I want to make sure. That my mind is is is transferred into my new body and that's only going to be accomplished by spending time with my son Developing relationships and experience. I ain't worried about come out squandering this life
That's crazy so so so so being young I'm saying that to say being young is good but if that young person Is not a young person that really embraces the time period that y'all come from then you could potentially be being led down That same path. So what do y'all use? What does this generation use to be able to assess an individual character?
How do you know when you're dealing with somebody that's real? Shit. Honestly, if I was being honest, man, shit, have you been in a fight? Have you, have you had a disagreement where you spit in somebody's face where you kick somebody's head in? Like, come on, man. Like for real, like I want, I want to know about like when things were bad, like how you responded.
If you, if you responded that way, that shit. Yeah. Stan, Stan Tantos. Like if you stand in there fighting because somebody was talking shit about your sister, bro, go whoop they ass. Like, we don't want, we don't need nobody sweet for real. We're not really looking for nobody sweet, but we want somebody that's able to relate to some shit like that because it's really crazy out here.
Somebody will talk about your, your mom or your sister like this. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, it's crazy. Cause see, I, I, when I talk to the youth or when I talk to people on these days, I do see more of a affection for a Donald Trump esque leadership type than a Joe Biden leadership type coming out of the youth, right?
What's the difference in those two individuals in a leadership style and which leadership style do you respect? I say transparency. In true honesty, like it really comes down to transparency. What are you doing every day? What, what kind of conversations are you having? I mean, everybody knows Donald Trump.
That man was a keyboard warrior, bruh. He was like Twitter on fire when he was a president. Yeah. Dropping the nuclear codes right now. Type shit. Hit send. That's what I was most scared, scared about for real. But I'm like, dang, he finna accidentally copy and paste that shit. Next thing you know, all hell going to break loose.
Right. So I think it's really just more so about like communicating with what's going on. Like. In the Biden administration, I was having this car ride with my parents recently and I was like, like, honestly, like, what has Joe Biden done? Like I, and I'm asking from a place out of curiosity because I don't watch the news anymore, bro.
Like I get my news off of like Reddit or Twitter, like all those social media feeds. That's really where I get my world news. I don't see too much stuff going on with Joe Biden, but goddamn, I'll hear about that, uh, Trump rally in Pennsylvania. Like what's going on? He's, he's really promoting this shit.
He's pushing like his agenda, whatever. Like I, I see what he's doing. I don't see what buying is doing. That's the real difference is transparency communication. You spending them dollars to get your, your advertisements out there, your, your words out there, it's going to pay dividends. So I don't know if it's necessarily like.
The youth rocking with him more so than it is the youth just seeing him having that visibility on him and just just respect them because it ain't about whether or not they voted or not, you know what I'm saying? Because the person vote, that's your, that's your business. If anybody who have opportunity to watch this podcast, by the way, click like subscribe, share with your mama, your grandmama, your auntie, you don't say your uncle now, right?
Um, um, there are three votes. Right. There are three votes. Yay, nay, and abstention. Right. So remember that. Yay, nay, and abstention. Because it always happens around this time of year. Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote. From a bunch of individuals that do not understand the power of a vote or of politics, it'd be best if you just stayed home, you know what I'm saying, and been the Monday morning quarterback, shut up and just chill, right, because more than likely you're going to make a selection that is going to be, uh, um, disadvantageous to what we're trying to accomplish.
Sit home with your vote. Got it. You know what I'm saying? Civil rights, we fought and we died to have the ability to vote. But you shouldn't because you're uninformed. But so, so, so that's my opinion. Yay, nay, and abstention, right? You don't, you don't need to feel the need to select any individual because my abstention is my selection.
My abstention says that neither one of you. fit the bill for what I believe is the appropriate leader for the free world, right? That's, that's, that's important. Do it matter who win at that point? Yeah, no matter who win at that point, but at our level, we ain't controlling or influencing it, right? Because all politics start at the local level and at the local level, you have, what I, what I see is that you have to use more.
So looking towards, you know, that presidential, Federal type level of control without understanding that the real locus of control is local, right? So, so the opportunities, you know, the taxes in your, in your, in your city, the zoning so that way you can create and build business. The things that need to happen at a grassroots level where you can organize and then really get something done so that you can impact your reality.
We'll have no idea. We sit around arguing on, on, on social media about some stuff that's really just entertainment. Because it's really just entertainment. Donald Trump is an entertainer and Joe Biden been entertaining for the better part of 50 years, right? So, so, so until we can understand that, right, we can't figure out how to use these opportunities in order to create new opportunities, right?
So, so, so you, uh, um, relative to this period of this season, what do you recommend for your generation? What do you see? Man, gotta get educated. Like you just said, gotta get educated on at the local level. So. Yeah, we have this presidential election coming up this November, but also we're, we're voting on local policies, different things like that.
What, what kind of grants can we get for the youth to build a recreation center, a basketball court, a swimming pool? Like places for everybody to connect and get to know each other because Jacksonville, man, you know, you know it. It's a, it's a melting pot of people. Shit, I, I just moved down here from Cleveland, Ohio.
I ain't even been here a year yet. You moved from Texas. That's how this should go. You know, it's also a huge naval hub. You're going to get everybody from everywhere here. So it's like, if we don't take care of what we got at home, we can't worry about the bigger things, you know? We can't worry about those bigger things.
We got a hammer right here. Yeah, man, listen, we're going to have to get together and we're going to have to do this again because right at the end is when we brushed up upon, so what's the strategy as we move forward? Right, so what we're going to do is we're going to get back at this, we're going to have to part to it.
And so we can talk about the strategy for organizing our youth into viable entities that will give us the ability to be able to be successful, thrive economically. Uh, security, educational realities of our, of our children, and also understand how to prepare for the politics of our, of our next generation.
I think that'd be a good idea. Something that'd be good for the youth to start to learn about, you know, and we'll bring in some professionals and some experts in order to help us understand it a little bit better. But as we close, hey, you got any last words or any guidance for us? Shit, man, I always close with the same thing, man.
Just be great. That's all we can really ask for. Be great, man. Live every day like it's your last for real. Yeah. Hey. And so as, as we get ready to slide on out of here, you know, I just want to, uh, share. Thank you for taking this time to just consider what we have to say. Share with share with somebody and then take the responsibility serious, you know, or push back dropping comments if you got something to say, you know what I'm saying?
But you know that whatever you say, you're gonna be responded to. And those who know me no more respond to you just like the way you ask that ignorant ass question, right? So so so if you got something to say or you want to be a member or a guest, please inbox us.
We look forward to sharing and growing with you all at a grassroots level. And because it's time for us to start to evolve the way that we understand, and we got to realize that we have a responsibility, um, to the outcomes that we will experience as humanity. So, so with that being said, thank you all.
Thank you for your time. We enjoyed you and we look forward to spending some time with you again.
