August 16, 2024 • 31 mins
Are you involved in the Nayborhood? Are you concerned with investing in the community? Let's talk.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Danny, it's the Neighbors Podcast, will be Mike. They discussing
different issues that affect us, treating like that. It's the
neighbors who wait, the neighbors, Yeah, yeah, you you you
what's up? What's up? What's up? Yo?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Thank y'all for listening, Thank you' all for tuning in.
So today we you know, we're called the Neighbors Podcast.
We're called the Neighbors Podcast for a reason, you know
pretty well, there's a number of reasons, but ultimately, I mean,
y'all know that we are actual neighbors, live down the
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street from one another and uh actually on the same block,
on the same side of block at that, you know.
But something else that you know, we want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Y'all heard us.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I mean, if you listen to our previous show, we
talked about the neighbors getting together, right, and we kind
of touched on a topic that you know that really
concerns us, and which is people being involved in the community.
You know, and you've heard me talk about, Hey, you know,
Mike posts a lot about people getting jobs and volunteer
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and what's going on, what the government is doing not doing,
you know, all those type of things.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Those flyers.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But I want to know why do y'all think that
people are not involved in the community like they used
to be.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That's a good question, That's a very good question. And
I'm trying to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You know, speechless man, And I'm gonna be as honest
as I can be. I think that when you when
you consider the community, what are people getting out of it?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And I think that's what happens.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
People are looking so much as far as what I
can ben how I benefit, not so much how I
can help someone else.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Right, Okay, you get what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You know, because if and we had talked about it.
You know, old block parties, so we block party, what
are we doing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We're out there painting, sweeping the streets, sweeping.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You know where where you know for those of us
that I mean, I grew up in Philly, so you
know in our block party we painted the street. Well no,
I'm sorry, let me let me let me back up. First,
we would, like you said, get the permit, block off
the streets so no one came down our little block.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Then someone would come outside and turn on the hydrant,
which would clean.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The block clean, you know, cutting the grass freshened up.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So then now we're painting the sidewalk, painting our numbers.
You know, like you said, cut grass if you had grass.
I mean I only had maybe a four foot by
three foot area of grass in the front of that
career at.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The house we moved to it. You know, it was
not a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know, some people decide to repaint their front doors,
you know whatever, like you know, so we had pride
in our block. I don't think people have that anymore,
don't you get what I mean?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Granted, we do live in a county, right and we're
lucky enough that in our neighborhood we have a street
sweeper every Tuesday, Yeah, Tuesday, So the street sweeper comes
and picks up most stuff, not everything, you know, everything
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is not picked up, but whether it's because someone decided
they didn't want what they are right, you know, or
you know, the trash yourself was too big, or whatever
it might have been.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But we're lucky in that sense.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So you know, we're you know, so people are not
necessarily having to go out and take care of their
their in front of their house like we had to
back in the day. You know, So because of that
I think that missing. That people are not allowed to
take pride in their neighborhood to say, hey, look at us,
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We're clean, we're nice, we're straight, you know whatever. So
now why would I even consider being part of the
Home and School Association while I consider being, you know,
a member of the Boy Scout again, because I'm not.
I don't benefit by doing any of this stuff. And
the only other thing I would, you know, be interested in,
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is having my kids in a sport that hopefully they've
become the next megas start somewhere and make me a
whole bunch of money, right right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I don't know. Times is just totally different now. I mean,
like as you know, like the times, you know that's
just cleaning black, you know, just time you'll see me
outside go around the house picking up trash in front
of my house and all that, of course, neighbors and
all that. I just I hate clutter. I hate trash.
We got too many trash cans around here for you
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going around walking. Just throw stuff on the ground right
in the trash can. It's not gonna hurt you. It's
not gonna hurt you. But uh, but you see some
people in these houses, trash, cut the grass, trash. Ain't
righting about that with damn right right cool, you too
booze to pick it up or whatever. I'm not understanding
you can. I mean, especially when you got a corner house,
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you gotta boom represent right right. You gotta look at this,
you know. I try to, you know, and it's I
don't know, but some people just don't care there. Yeah,
they don't don't care. But you said people don't care.
I don't know why they don't care like they used to.
I mean, yeah, I mean, if you can come outside
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and put something on your front step, just leave it there.
Saying is like a broom. That broom is sitting outside
for a week, and it's right near the door. You
can't grab the broom and go in the house, and
you are passing.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You pass past it every day every day to at
least twice a day because you gotta come out and
go back in. I'm not standing there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I'm like, you know what I'm saying, And watch this
broom sit outside for a whole week, and like shena,
they gonna take it in the dope dope. They walk
past it like it's a mailbox.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I mean again, how to why should I be involved?
While why should I care about how my place looks?
And some people don't, don't you know? And unfortunately, you know,
some people were not raised in that space to care
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for their spot. I know way too many people that
that you know don't like you're talking about sweeping ab outside.
So how many people do you know that really sweep outside,
like on this block alone? How many people do you
see outside really caring for their for their space them?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It's not too many. There's not too many, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And I know for me, and this is just me personally,
I get so frustrated sometimes of having to clean up
somebody else's mess that blew on my spot.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I mean, I understand it's windy sometimes, you know, trash
and all that. But if you got a little skippy
plastic skippy trash can and got a hole in it,
get a new trash can. Those it up there, pile
two or three trash bags on top of the trash can. Yeah,
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and birds come on the way. They burned these girls
around here, they look like raccoons. Man, the big an brus,
I gotta go pick up your crap. Stop being lazy,
Get a new trash can dude.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I don't get it, man, I don't get it, you know.
So so again, if I don't care about my where
I live, why am I going to be involved in
the community. You know we we have in this area.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You listen to our representative, they have paper shredding day,
you know, and then they talk about how many people
did or did not you know, attend, just something simple
as that. So how many of you have piles and
piles and piles of trash being male in your in your.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Crib talk about it, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Know, you know, cause I know for me, I try
to shred as much stuff that has my address on
it as possible.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, knucklehead be yeah, I said, I call myself a
knuckle Yeah. Times I called myself a n you know,
no shame of my game. Over the years, I get
to it later, I get to a later, a little
Walmart bags, Kmore bags. Back to the day. I get
to the later ten years later, sitting in the damn
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bigger ass box ship back from two thousand and nine.
That don't make no sense that gotta get a shredded
to come out and shredded. I mean, I mean, you know,
take it to these shredded events. Yeah, but they saved
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me right right, right right.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But I'm just saying, like, you know, like you said,
you know, just how much are we makeing care of
our stuff?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You get what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
But which ultimately does that make us not care about
the community as a whole?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You know, for some people, if some people, if you
don't care how your outside look, you don't care about
the community as a whole, doesn't, right, right? You know,
I mean, come on, you have company people walking back
coming right, it looks like you I mean, make yourself.
Make the outside look presentable, right right, seriously, sometimes you
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had to worry about what was inside because people ain't
coming up. But make that outside lookable? Oh well, he warring.
Nobody doing the inside of school, but still got to
take care of the outside, right right.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I don't get it, you know. And let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
If you are taking care of the outside and everybody
is doing it, what does it start to do?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Raise up? Raise up your value again, property value everything.
You know, a lot of people don't take notice that
that's not They don't think that it's important. You're done
it is, right right, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So now when we're trying to and because of that,
hopefully people will have a different appreciation overall.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So now you can sit outside.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Now you can go to a community event and not
worried about a fight breaking out exactly, you know. But
then you again, you can't always control who's coming in
either exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's like, oh, you know, because we got a community
event this weekend coming up, we do park Okay. Now,
the thing is the way you go in go in
is the same way you come out. So you know
every county cap will be around here, right, they know
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what's going on. I mean you no, like I said,
we're gonna jump over the houses.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well you know some people are think they're brazen enough
to do that. Well good luck, you know what I mean.
Too much want back then, you know. But I think
that those type of things because people want to be outside.
People want to enjoy life, you know, without the fear.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
But right now you're too nervous to even say anything exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You know. I remember not being able to.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Go outside because the elders on the block was going
to tell my mom you get what I mean, you know,
and those that those parents that were my mom's age
or they had kids my age, they were like secondary
and third type parents. You get what I mean. So
now now I'm being reprimanded on more than one level.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Now I have a different level of respect for adults
and elders and things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
So me going to an event, now, I'm almost certain
to see some little kid that's seven, eight, nine, ten
years old to be fussing out some adult.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah. Yeah, do you get what I mean? No respect
at all? Man?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
You know, so now that ruins your experience right right, you.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Know, because now you want to say something to the
kid and or the parent, and a parent like those
ain't not to my kid. Right now, there's a whole
other situation.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Another situation. I know. I got a couple of people
friends of mine, they're principal at the school. Teachers. She
said what one parent called the cops on her, You
pick it with my child. My child was getting in trouble.
Because your trouble. Your child always doing stuff that's right,
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get suspended. Oh I didn't get suspended. They don't want to,
you know, they didn't want to because he started it.
I mean, it's no sense you do. Couldn't your child
come to school? Call me all kinds of mother sucker
right right, and I'm right old, But you're gonna beleed
what the child says than the teacher, the principal. Come on,
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and you know, even school does it still is a village, right,
you know, village the community. But if you don't, like
I said, you know, a lot of not to say,
a lot of people send their kids to school, babysitting
at babysitters.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But I mean and with me coaching used to coaching
football and basketball, you know, I kind of felt that
way too.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
It's like, hey, yeah, I'm gonna put your kid.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know, you're either gonna get the parent that's over
zealous and want the kid to be the superstar, you know,
or you're gonna get, like you said, the parent that's
going to like, hey, y'all gonna be here for two hours.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I got two hours ago and do what mean? You know?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And unfortunately that puts more pressure on you, you know,
because now now I have additional responsibility. You know, so
not only are we trying to have fun, but now
you're a child because you're especially since you're not there,
they acting now, they acting out, you know, So now
that ruin's the experience for everybody else.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yep, it's called discipline at home. It starts from home.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, but you know, and so that ruins community events,
it does.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And now I don't want to volunteer to help out
your kids, you know, I don't want to help out
you know, an adult or something like that.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Like you know, you start having these doubts right now, right,
and you know they're talking about, you know, the funding
to have stuff for these kids to do. It's stuff
for these kids to do. But something I mean back then,
we back then were going to a carnival. I'm going
to card and get on the rise, right, I'm not
gonna just walk around.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
But see now, all right, so so look at a carnival, right,
you talked about carnival.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
For a carnival, you gotta buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right now, what happens for those kids that are just
hanging out because they don't have the money to get tickets.
But because then they don't have the money to get tickets,
they can't get on rides and stuff like that. Now
they're becoming mischievous, you know what I mean, for whatever reason,
or they feel as oh, look I just want to
be mischievous for whatever reason, just because you know, and
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again ruins the event.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Rules the event, right, But what makes you do and
you do that, they're gonna go across the street throw
stuff at the supermarketeer at the supermart. What are you bored?
Or you're just dumb? You know?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So so it's hard for me sometimes it really want
to be involved in the community, right, you know, because
of these instances, because I want to help because something
nice and hell could be artist hell right, right, It's crazy.
You always want to look on the positive things, but
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when that negative is trying to take over the positive,
you're like, don'tfully.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Going through this? Yeah, I don't, you know, it's it's
something easy, too much, it's just too much, just that
the disrespect.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Rightspect and then I mean, I know, for me, sometimes
I'm like, listen, do y'all know how my kids are?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I ain't got there with that exactly, you know what
I mean? Like, do you know how they are?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And they're not only are there older than you, but
they're graduated college, they're adults, they're doing it whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Like I don't have to deal with this. I'm like this,
I'm not your mother. You talk like that, what you're
probably doing anyway, right, but I'm not gonna but I'll
tell you one thing. You put your hands on me,
I'm gonna put my hands right back on you.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And seeing that again, So now here's the other part.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Not and again, this is what happens when we talk
about this whole community involvement. Back in the day, you
could touch somebody, right or even if their parent came
up to you being a father, you know, father, the
father thing you know in your mind, like, all right,
we're just gonna have a fair one right now. It's
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not fair, Nope, because all anybody want to do is
pull out their their weapon.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Of choice, you get what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And now all of a sudden, it's again a whole
other situation, you know. So and then as you had
stated earlier about hey, our community is going to have something,
but you're going to have fifteen different boroughs and townships
with their you know, not only their their uniform cop
but they're playing clothes exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You get what I mean? You know, because of that,
Because of that, right, I was shocked, you know, even
if Broo Moore they canceled there, right, I'm like you,
I don't get it. It's stuff for y'all to do
family or there. You know, family friends have a good time, right,
some people choose not to do it. Stuff go down,
even down. And why wouldn't the beach saying I don't
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get it? Why trying to play tough guy role because
social medi Oh he called you a punk?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Okay, now, I mean but all right, So so I
mean we back in the day, I mean, I remember
your mama jokes like you give what I mean, like,
you know, yeah, and did that cause a fight?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
In some cases it did did, but you know, we
all knew it was some fun and game. Yeah, But
these days and some people, you know, did take it serious.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Like I said, I mean, I remember a few times
of you know, even myself crying. You get what I mean,
you know, because your feelings are hurt and you can't
you don't know how to respond, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
So yeah, your films could be hurt is whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But now.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Again, these kids are not in that space because they
grew up in this anti bullying spot.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But was that actually bullying? No, in my opinion, is not.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I mean, if you look at anything that's going on
in the community, you know, government wise, where they to me,
ain't worry they're doing the whole time.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Everything is a bully.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You know, you gotta either you're gonna think like me
or I gotta eliminate you.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Right, what are you talking about them? Right? Exactly? Oh man,
you got a knuckleheads cheering them up. Yeah right, I
don't get that. But the thing is, the thing is
after that they get caught. We're doing what they supposed
to be doing. We're doing what they're doing. The allergies.
You know, since a crying. Now you wasn't crying. You're
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over here doing such and such. Right, No, now you
want mama, but you're there with Big Bubba, right and
John John R. Yeah, yeah, don't think about that. Yeah,
I don't get it, man, You know they think. I
know what it is. I think is you can't do
what they want to do at a certain age because
they go they go your slap on the wrist them days.
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It's kind of over. As adults said, you want to
do stuff. They got Like I said, you know, they
got positi stuff for y'all to do in the community
and all that power athletic community centers. Right, y'all won't
go around though, play bang bank, go in the bass,
play basketball. You can't me play basketball?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
So so how do you become more involved in the
community if people are too nervous. Now I understand some
people like, hey, you know, I'm not going to allow
this person to run me out.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
You're like, all right, I get you on that.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Like, I don't get me wrong, that's not that's not
right wrong, that's how you feel, you get what I mean.
But there are some people that are not in that space.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
There are some people that's like, hey, I'm not giving
up my life because y'all want to act dumb exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I like my life. I like my life. I like
my freedom, right right, you give what I mean? You know?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So, and I know some people out there that are like, hey,
you know what, I can defend myself and that I can,
you know, go at them, go at it with the
best of them.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But why why.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Do you need to? And you know these nuggles, they
don't fight that. They want to jump you, right, you know,
then you see them body themselves, you'll hear a peep
out of them, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So, I think that's some of the challenges that we
have as a community.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You know, how do we pull together, how do we
get more involved how do we improve one way or
the other.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You know that situation with that, these parents, they got
to community, have a community with their kids, to talk
to your kids, blease your kids. I mean you know,
like you said, you know earlier on the show. You know,
talking about privacy. Okay, I understand your privacy. Your only
promise you got is the bathroom, the bedroom door, Check
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your child, Check your child. It's stuff going on, especially
hanging with certain people. Girls too, hang with is to girls.
Check your child. Yeah, y'all you gotta curfew being out all.
You don't pay bills here, right, you don't like it
the dough. Yeah, I'm trying to put a roof over
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your head.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And let's be honest. Yeah, it's you can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Father.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Stuff is going on right now. It's harder for anything, right.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So so don't think you can make it our only
streets right right, you can't. I mean one thing, two three,
well three things you be homeless, figure under or jail cell. Yeah,
you know, like they said, go sitting down, Go sit
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in the bathroom for twenty three hours, yeah and see
how it feels. Yeah. Yeah. The somebody had their own
Facebook and put a picture up there free rooming board,
gave me the kid. You know, Stanley is still problem,
you know, but I.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Think sometimes that's glorified more than anything else. So, like
we're talking about being involved in the community, and granted
we haven't even talked really dug deep into community organizations exactly.
And here's the reason why. Because for whatever reason, we
can't get off the front porch.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You can't get off the front, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And unfortunately those community groups that can make a difference,
right that need to volunteers or could use the volunteers.
Is no, they're not lifted up, they're not put out
there in your face. But going to jail is pretty
much you know what I mean. You know. So and
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one last thing before we sign off, I think that
because we don't have enough male role models, I think
that hurts.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, it could, it could.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I think so because and here's the reason I'm saying that.
I think sometimes the ladies are way too soft and
not uh hey, you know what, because I think some
of this bullying things is from a lady perspective, you
get what I mean, A little soft spoke, you know,
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where where those guys where we're a little more rough
and rugged and right, you know whatever, just overall not
saying it's one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I want nobody to twist any of my words or
whatever else. And I understand where I'm coming from. Just
I guess an old school mentality, right likewise, but one
thing is, okay, we do need more male you know.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
But also you got an older brother, You've got a brother,
a cousin that's doing good uncle. But see, some of
that is jealousy. Jealousy, you know, you know, you get
what I mean, you get with these dudes if they
can't they just did for snacks, right right, You're not
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gonna come into my house. You can't let these come
into the house tell you what to do with your kids.
But that's all they did for snacks, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
But see, some people are you know, willing to There's
some guys that are willing to. Hey, you know, well,
you know, let's really partner with these kids. And then
the ladies kind of like.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
No, you can't talk to my kid.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Well, well guess what, that's a whole issue, because now
what do you want? How do you want this gentleman
to support you if your kid does bad?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You get what I mean. If your kid is now.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Behind bars getting locked up because they went in store
a Snickers bar, do you know what I mean? Because
let's be honest, I know all these stores that are
just letting people come in and just steal something, walk
right back out. It's gonna come back to horn. It's
gonna come back one way or another. Just don't know when, right,
you know, So when they start cracking down all the
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way on that and the other part that is, you're
assuming that every place has a camera, they got you on.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Camera camera places you never know they got cameras.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So so and let's keep in mind that they have
cameras in places that you'll never even realize as a camera.
So just because you see that one camera on the
ceiling is one literally pointing you in your face, on
your level, on your level, because you're so busy looking up,
(27:39):
you're never looking directly in front of you and that
bear or that mirror.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
You know what I'm saying, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
So, So I think that's the challenge with being involved
in the community. You're fearful of what's going to happen,
you know, and not being able to be free to
help someone else.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Out because you're free too. You're afraid to go out
just coming off the steps, you're afraid to walk to
you kids can't be and walk to the corner store. Right.
They got word for somebodys soming. It's coming down chasing somebody,
chasing somebody into the dagging store, right or whatever. It's
just like, come on now, you gotta get that community back.
But it starts with some of these parents, with these
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kids at home. I mean, I understand, you know, okay,
you know you can afford this, that, this, You can
do things that's not expensive, right, seriously, I mean, if
you know, go to the beach, get on the bus,
New Jersey training, make it a nice come on, damn
(28:41):
be surprised. But you know, people don't think outside the
box like that.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And let's be honest too, everyone has not been outside
their own community, so true, you know, so so even
when they had the opportunity to come off their step,
everybody hasn't been.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Isn't even taking that advantage?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
You're right, you know, I've come across way too many
adults my age a little older.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
That have never been outside of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So out all these years and you know, and I
ran across one who said, now, okay, y'all, you know,
you know, I'm from West Philly. I live in Delaware
County and so but I'm on the where we on
the southwest side of Delaware County.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So, so we're out here now.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
King of Pressure Mall is north of US.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I ran into someone who said they've never been outside
Philly to go to King of Pressure Mall ever, And
I'm like, first of all, how is that even possible?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Even the buses run out there.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Come on, man, you know they've been running out the
King of Pressure maf forever and you're excited because someone's
finally gonna take you out, Like are you serious?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So you over fifty and you've never been, right, Like,
I've never really been outside of Philly.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I've been.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I've been to Wilmington once because of a funeral, a
family funeral, and I can't write back that was it?
So never been anywhere to have another type of experience.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Wow, yeah, because so many kids the only thing they
know is the police touch me in the zoom right
excuse me? You get what I mean? You know?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So, but you know I want to know what your
thoughts are about community involvement.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You know, we really think it's important.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
But the problem is that we have a challenge, and
what we're addressing is their challenge.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And the challenge is ourselves.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Right, right, right? And how do we police ourselves enough
so we can get off these steps?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
You know?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
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Speaker 2 (31:30):
Thank y'all very much for listening today. Stay cool, and
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Speaker 1 (31:35):
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You are
Danny, it's the Neighbors Podcast, will be Mike. They discussing
different issues that affect us, treating like that. It's the
neighbors who wait, the neighbors, Yeah, yeah, you you you
what's up? What's up? What's up? Yo?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Thank y'all for listening, Thank you' all for tuning in.
So today we you know, we're called the Neighbors Podcast.
We're called the Neighbors Podcast for a reason, you know
pretty well, there's a number of reasons, but ultimately, I mean,
y'all know that we are actual neighbors, live down the
(00:41):
street from one another and uh actually on the same block,
on the same side of block at that, you know.
But something else that you know, we want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Y'all heard us.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I mean, if you listen to our previous show, we
talked about the neighbors getting together, right, and we kind
of touched on a topic that you know that really
concerns us, and which is people being involved in the community.
You know, and you've heard me talk about, Hey, you know,
Mike posts a lot about people getting jobs and volunteer
(01:19):
and what's going on, what the government is doing not doing,
you know, all those type of things.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Those flyers.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But I want to know why do y'all think that
people are not involved in the community like they used
to be.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That's a good question, That's a very good question. And
I'm trying to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You know, speechless man, And I'm gonna be as honest
as I can be. I think that when you when
you consider the community, what are people getting out of it?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And I think that's what happens.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
People are looking so much as far as what I
can ben how I benefit, not so much how I
can help someone else.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Right, Okay, you get what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You know, because if and we had talked about it.
You know, old block parties, so we block party, what
are we doing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We're out there painting, sweeping the streets, sweeping.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You know where where you know for those of us
that I mean, I grew up in Philly, so you
know in our block party we painted the street. Well no,
I'm sorry, let me let me let me back up. First,
we would, like you said, get the permit, block off
the streets so no one came down our little block.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Then someone would come outside and turn on the hydrant,
which would clean.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The block clean, you know, cutting the grass freshened up.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So then now we're painting the sidewalk, painting our numbers.
You know, like you said, cut grass if you had grass.
I mean I only had maybe a four foot by
three foot area of grass in the front of that
career at.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The house we moved to it. You know, it was
not a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know, some people decide to repaint their front doors,
you know whatever, like you know, so we had pride
in our block. I don't think people have that anymore,
don't you get what I mean?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Granted, we do live in a county, right and we're
lucky enough that in our neighborhood we have a street
sweeper every Tuesday, Yeah, Tuesday, So the street sweeper comes
and picks up most stuff, not everything, you know, everything
(03:53):
is not picked up, but whether it's because someone decided
they didn't want what they are right, you know, or
you know, the trash yourself was too big, or whatever
it might have been.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But we're lucky in that sense.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So you know, we're you know, so people are not
necessarily having to go out and take care of their
their in front of their house like we had to
back in the day. You know, So because of that
I think that missing. That people are not allowed to
take pride in their neighborhood to say, hey, look at us,
(04:33):
We're clean, we're nice, we're straight, you know whatever. So
now why would I even consider being part of the
Home and School Association while I consider being, you know,
a member of the Boy Scout again, because I'm not.
I don't benefit by doing any of this stuff. And
the only other thing I would, you know, be interested in,
(04:55):
is having my kids in a sport that hopefully they've
become the next megas start somewhere and make me a
whole bunch of money, right right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I don't know. Times is just totally different now. I mean,
like as you know, like the times, you know that's
just cleaning black, you know, just time you'll see me
outside go around the house picking up trash in front
of my house and all that, of course, neighbors and
all that. I just I hate clutter. I hate trash.
We got too many trash cans around here for you
(05:26):
going around walking. Just throw stuff on the ground right
in the trash can. It's not gonna hurt you. It's
not gonna hurt you. But uh, but you see some
people in these houses, trash, cut the grass, trash. Ain't
righting about that with damn right right cool, you too
booze to pick it up or whatever. I'm not understanding
you can. I mean, especially when you got a corner house,
(05:48):
you gotta boom represent right right. You gotta look at this,
you know. I try to, you know, and it's I
don't know, but some people just don't care there. Yeah,
they don't don't care. But you said people don't care.
I don't know why they don't care like they used to.
I mean, yeah, I mean, if you can come outside
(06:10):
and put something on your front step, just leave it there.
Saying is like a broom. That broom is sitting outside
for a week, and it's right near the door. You
can't grab the broom and go in the house, and
you are passing.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You pass past it every day every day to at
least twice a day because you gotta come out and
go back in. I'm not standing there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I'm like, you know what I'm saying, And watch this
broom sit outside for a whole week, and like shena,
they gonna take it in the dope dope. They walk
past it like it's a mailbox.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I mean again, how to why should I be involved?
While why should I care about how my place looks?
And some people don't, don't you know? And unfortunately, you know,
some people were not raised in that space to care
(07:10):
for their spot. I know way too many people that
that you know don't like you're talking about sweeping ab outside.
So how many people do you know that really sweep outside,
like on this block alone? How many people do you
see outside really caring for their for their space them?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It's not too many. There's not too many, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And I know for me, and this is just me personally,
I get so frustrated sometimes of having to clean up
somebody else's mess that blew on my spot.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I mean, I understand it's windy sometimes, you know, trash
and all that. But if you got a little skippy
plastic skippy trash can and got a hole in it,
get a new trash can. Those it up there, pile
two or three trash bags on top of the trash can. Yeah,
(08:07):
and birds come on the way. They burned these girls
around here, they look like raccoons. Man, the big an brus,
I gotta go pick up your crap. Stop being lazy,
Get a new trash can dude.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I don't get it, man, I don't get it, you know.
So so again, if I don't care about my where
I live, why am I going to be involved in
the community. You know we we have in this area.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You listen to our representative, they have paper shredding day,
you know, and then they talk about how many people
did or did not you know, attend, just something simple
as that. So how many of you have piles and
piles and piles of trash being male in your in your.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Crib talk about it, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Know, you know, cause I know for me, I try
to shred as much stuff that has my address on
it as possible.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, knucklehead be yeah, I said, I call myself a
knuckle Yeah. Times I called myself a n you know,
no shame of my game. Over the years, I get
to it later, I get to a later, a little
Walmart bags, Kmore bags. Back to the day. I get
to the later ten years later, sitting in the damn
(09:31):
bigger ass box ship back from two thousand and nine.
That don't make no sense that gotta get a shredded
to come out and shredded. I mean, I mean, you know,
take it to these shredded events. Yeah, but they saved
(09:51):
me right right, right right.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But I'm just saying, like, you know, like you said,
you know, just how much are we makeing care of
our stuff?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You get what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
But which ultimately does that make us not care about
the community as a whole?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You know, for some people, if some people, if you
don't care how your outside look, you don't care about
the community as a whole, doesn't, right, right? You know,
I mean, come on, you have company people walking back
coming right, it looks like you I mean, make yourself.
Make the outside look presentable, right right, seriously, sometimes you
(10:34):
had to worry about what was inside because people ain't
coming up. But make that outside lookable? Oh well, he warring.
Nobody doing the inside of school, but still got to
take care of the outside, right right.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I don't get it, you know. And let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
If you are taking care of the outside and everybody
is doing it, what does it start to do?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Raise up? Raise up your value again, property value everything.
You know, a lot of people don't take notice that
that's not They don't think that it's important. You're done
it is, right right, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So now when we're trying to and because of that,
hopefully people will have a different appreciation overall.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So now you can sit outside.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Now you can go to a community event and not
worried about a fight breaking out exactly, you know. But
then you again, you can't always control who's coming in
either exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's like, oh, you know, because we got a community
event this weekend coming up, we do park Okay. Now,
the thing is the way you go in go in
is the same way you come out. So you know
every county cap will be around here, right, they know
(11:46):
what's going on. I mean you no, like I said,
we're gonna jump over the houses.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well you know some people are think they're brazen enough
to do that. Well good luck, you know what I mean.
Too much want back then, you know. But I think
that those type of things because people want to be outside.
People want to enjoy life, you know, without the fear.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
But right now you're too nervous to even say anything exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You know. I remember not being able to.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Go outside because the elders on the block was going
to tell my mom you get what I mean, you know,
and those that those parents that were my mom's age
or they had kids my age, they were like secondary
and third type parents. You get what I mean. So
now now I'm being reprimanded on more than one level.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Now I have a different level of respect for adults
and elders and things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
So me going to an event, now, I'm almost certain
to see some little kid that's seven, eight, nine, ten
years old to be fussing out some adult.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah. Yeah, do you get what I mean? No respect
at all? Man?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
You know, so now that ruins your experience right right, you.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Know, because now you want to say something to the
kid and or the parent, and a parent like those
ain't not to my kid. Right now, there's a whole
other situation.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Another situation. I know. I got a couple of people
friends of mine, they're principal at the school. Teachers. She
said what one parent called the cops on her, You
pick it with my child. My child was getting in trouble.
Because your trouble. Your child always doing stuff that's right,
(13:43):
get suspended. Oh I didn't get suspended. They don't want to,
you know, they didn't want to because he started it.
I mean, it's no sense you do. Couldn't your child
come to school? Call me all kinds of mother sucker
right right, and I'm right old, But you're gonna beleed
what the child says than the teacher, the principal. Come on,
(14:06):
and you know, even school does it still is a village, right,
you know, village the community. But if you don't, like
I said, you know, a lot of not to say,
a lot of people send their kids to school, babysitting
at babysitters.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But I mean and with me coaching used to coaching
football and basketball, you know, I kind of felt that
way too.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
It's like, hey, yeah, I'm gonna put your kid.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know, you're either gonna get the parent that's over
zealous and want the kid to be the superstar, you know,
or you're gonna get, like you said, the parent that's
going to like, hey, y'all gonna be here for two hours.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I got two hours ago and do what mean? You know?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And unfortunately that puts more pressure on you, you know,
because now now I have additional responsibility. You know, so
not only are we trying to have fun, but now
you're a child because you're especially since you're not there,
they acting now, they acting out, you know, So now
that ruin's the experience for everybody else.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yep, it's called discipline at home. It starts from home.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, but you know, and so that ruins community events,
it does.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And now I don't want to volunteer to help out
your kids, you know, I don't want to help out
you know, an adult or something like that.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Like you know, you start having these doubts right now, right,
and you know they're talking about, you know, the funding
to have stuff for these kids to do. It's stuff
for these kids to do. But something I mean back then,
we back then were going to a carnival. I'm going
to card and get on the rise, right, I'm not
gonna just walk around.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
But see now, all right, so so look at a carnival, right,
you talked about carnival.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
For a carnival, you gotta buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right now, what happens for those kids that are just
hanging out because they don't have the money to get tickets.
But because then they don't have the money to get tickets,
they can't get on rides and stuff like that. Now
they're becoming mischievous, you know what I mean, for whatever reason,
or they feel as oh, look I just want to
be mischievous for whatever reason, just because you know, and
(16:10):
again ruins the event.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Rules the event, right, But what makes you do and
you do that, they're gonna go across the street throw
stuff at the supermarketeer at the supermart. What are you bored?
Or you're just dumb? You know?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So so it's hard for me sometimes it really want
to be involved in the community, right, you know, because
of these instances, because I want to help because something
nice and hell could be artist hell right, right, It's crazy.
You always want to look on the positive things, but
(16:46):
when that negative is trying to take over the positive,
you're like, don'tfully.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Going through this? Yeah, I don't, you know, it's it's
something easy, too much, it's just too much, just that
the disrespect.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Rightspect and then I mean, I know, for me, sometimes
I'm like, listen, do y'all know how my kids are?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I ain't got there with that exactly, you know what
I mean? Like, do you know how they are?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And they're not only are there older than you, but
they're graduated college, they're adults, they're doing it whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Like I don't have to deal with this. I'm like this,
I'm not your mother. You talk like that, what you're
probably doing anyway, right, but I'm not gonna but I'll
tell you one thing. You put your hands on me,
I'm gonna put my hands right back on you.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And seeing that again, So now here's the other part.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Not and again, this is what happens when we talk
about this whole community involvement. Back in the day, you
could touch somebody, right or even if their parent came
up to you being a father, you know, father, the
father thing you know in your mind, like, all right,
we're just gonna have a fair one right now. It's
(17:59):
not fair, Nope, because all anybody want to do is
pull out their their weapon.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Of choice, you get what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And now all of a sudden, it's again a whole
other situation, you know. So and then as you had
stated earlier about hey, our community is going to have something,
but you're going to have fifteen different boroughs and townships
with their you know, not only their their uniform cop
but they're playing clothes exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You get what I mean? You know, because of that,
Because of that, right, I was shocked, you know, even
if Broo Moore they canceled there, right, I'm like you,
I don't get it. It's stuff for y'all to do
family or there. You know, family friends have a good time, right,
some people choose not to do it. Stuff go down,
even down. And why wouldn't the beach saying I don't
(18:53):
get it? Why trying to play tough guy role because
social medi Oh he called you a punk?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Okay, now, I mean but all right, So so I
mean we back in the day, I mean, I remember
your mama jokes like you give what I mean, like,
you know, yeah, and did that cause a fight?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
In some cases it did did, but you know, we
all knew it was some fun and game. Yeah, But
these days and some people, you know, did take it serious.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Like I said, I mean, I remember a few times
of you know, even myself crying. You get what I mean,
you know, because your feelings are hurt and you can't
you don't know how to respond, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
So yeah, your films could be hurt is whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But now.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Again, these kids are not in that space because they
grew up in this anti bullying spot.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But was that actually bullying? No, in my opinion, is not.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I mean, if you look at anything that's going on
in the community, you know, government wise, where they to me,
ain't worry they're doing the whole time.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Everything is a bully.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You know, you gotta either you're gonna think like me
or I gotta eliminate you.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Right, what are you talking about them? Right? Exactly? Oh man,
you got a knuckleheads cheering them up. Yeah right, I
don't get that. But the thing is, the thing is
after that they get caught. We're doing what they supposed
to be doing. We're doing what they're doing. The allergies.
You know, since a crying. Now you wasn't crying. You're
(20:28):
over here doing such and such. Right, No, now you
want mama, but you're there with Big Bubba, right and
John John R. Yeah, yeah, don't think about that. Yeah,
I don't get it, man, You know they think. I
know what it is. I think is you can't do
what they want to do at a certain age because
they go they go your slap on the wrist them days.
(20:49):
It's kind of over. As adults said, you want to
do stuff. They got Like I said, you know, they
got positi stuff for y'all to do in the community
and all that power athletic community centers. Right, y'all won't
go around though, play bang bank, go in the bass,
play basketball. You can't me play basketball?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
So so how do you become more involved in the
community if people are too nervous. Now I understand some
people like, hey, you know, I'm not going to allow
this person to run me out.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
You're like, all right, I get you on that.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Like, I don't get me wrong, that's not that's not
right wrong, that's how you feel, you get what I mean.
But there are some people that are not in that space.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
There are some people that's like, hey, I'm not giving
up my life because y'all want to act dumb exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I like my life. I like my life. I like
my freedom, right right, you give what I mean? You know?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So, and I know some people out there that are like, hey,
you know what, I can defend myself and that I can,
you know, go at them, go at it with the
best of them.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But why why.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Do you need to? And you know these nuggles, they
don't fight that. They want to jump you, right, you know,
then you see them body themselves, you'll hear a peep
out of them, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So, I think that's some of the challenges that we
have as a community.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You know, how do we pull together, how do we
get more involved how do we improve one way or
the other.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You know that situation with that, these parents, they got
to community, have a community with their kids, to talk
to your kids, blease your kids. I mean you know,
like you said, you know earlier on the show. You know,
talking about privacy. Okay, I understand your privacy. Your only
promise you got is the bathroom, the bedroom door, Check
(22:48):
your child, Check your child. It's stuff going on, especially
hanging with certain people. Girls too, hang with is to girls.
Check your child. Yeah, y'all you gotta curfew being out all.
You don't pay bills here, right, you don't like it
the dough. Yeah, I'm trying to put a roof over
(23:10):
your head.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And let's be honest. Yeah, it's you can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Father.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Stuff is going on right now. It's harder for anything, right.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So so don't think you can make it our only
streets right right, you can't. I mean one thing, two three,
well three things you be homeless, figure under or jail cell. Yeah,
you know, like they said, go sitting down, Go sit
(23:42):
in the bathroom for twenty three hours, yeah and see
how it feels. Yeah. Yeah. The somebody had their own
Facebook and put a picture up there free rooming board,
gave me the kid. You know, Stanley is still problem,
you know, but I.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Think sometimes that's glorified more than anything else. So, like
we're talking about being involved in the community, and granted
we haven't even talked really dug deep into community organizations exactly.
And here's the reason why. Because for whatever reason, we
can't get off the front porch.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You can't get off the front, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And unfortunately those community groups that can make a difference,
right that need to volunteers or could use the volunteers.
Is no, they're not lifted up, they're not put out
there in your face. But going to jail is pretty
much you know what I mean. You know. So and
(24:43):
one last thing before we sign off, I think that
because we don't have enough male role models, I think
that hurts.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, it could, it could.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I think so because and here's the reason I'm saying that.
I think sometimes the ladies are way too soft and
not uh hey, you know what, because I think some
of this bullying things is from a lady perspective, you
get what I mean, A little soft spoke, you know,
(25:20):
where where those guys where we're a little more rough
and rugged and right, you know whatever, just overall not
saying it's one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I want nobody to twist any of my words or
whatever else. And I understand where I'm coming from. Just
I guess an old school mentality, right likewise, but one
thing is, okay, we do need more male you know.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
But also you got an older brother, You've got a brother,
a cousin that's doing good uncle. But see, some of
that is jealousy. Jealousy, you know, you know, you get
what I mean, you get with these dudes if they
can't they just did for snacks, right right, You're not
(26:04):
gonna come into my house. You can't let these come
into the house tell you what to do with your kids.
But that's all they did for snacks, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
But see, some people are you know, willing to There's
some guys that are willing to. Hey, you know, well,
you know, let's really partner with these kids. And then
the ladies kind of like.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
No, you can't talk to my kid.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Well, well guess what, that's a whole issue, because now
what do you want? How do you want this gentleman
to support you if your kid does bad?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You get what I mean. If your kid is now.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Behind bars getting locked up because they went in store
a Snickers bar, do you know what I mean? Because
let's be honest, I know all these stores that are
just letting people come in and just steal something, walk
right back out. It's gonna come back to horn. It's
gonna come back one way or another. Just don't know when, right,
you know, So when they start cracking down all the
(27:03):
way on that and the other part that is, you're
assuming that every place has a camera, they got you on.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Camera camera places you never know they got cameras.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So so and let's keep in mind that they have
cameras in places that you'll never even realize as a camera.
So just because you see that one camera on the
ceiling is one literally pointing you in your face, on
your level, on your level, because you're so busy looking up,
(27:39):
you're never looking directly in front of you and that
bear or that mirror.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
You know what I'm saying, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
So, So I think that's the challenge with being involved
in the community. You're fearful of what's going to happen,
you know, and not being able to be free to
help someone else.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Out because you're free too. You're afraid to go out
just coming off the steps, you're afraid to walk to
you kids can't be and walk to the corner store. Right.
They got word for somebodys soming. It's coming down chasing somebody,
chasing somebody into the dagging store, right or whatever. It's
just like, come on now, you gotta get that community back.
But it starts with some of these parents, with these
(28:19):
kids at home. I mean, I understand, you know, okay,
you know you can afford this, that, this, You can
do things that's not expensive, right, seriously, I mean, if
you know, go to the beach, get on the bus,
New Jersey training, make it a nice come on, damn
(28:41):
be surprised. But you know, people don't think outside the
box like that.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And let's be honest too, everyone has not been outside
their own community, so true, you know, so so even
when they had the opportunity to come off their step,
everybody hasn't been.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Isn't even taking that advantage?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
You're right, you know, I've come across way too many
adults my age a little older.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
That have never been outside of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So out all these years and you know, and I
ran across one who said, now, okay, y'all, you know,
you know, I'm from West Philly. I live in Delaware
County and so but I'm on the where we on
the southwest side of Delaware County.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So, so we're out here now.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
King of Pressure Mall is north of US.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I ran into someone who said they've never been outside
Philly to go to King of Pressure Mall ever, And
I'm like, first of all, how is that even possible?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Even the buses run out there.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Come on, man, you know they've been running out the
King of Pressure maf forever and you're excited because someone's
finally gonna take you out, Like are you serious?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So you over fifty and you've never been, right, Like,
I've never really been outside of Philly.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I've been.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I've been to Wilmington once because of a funeral, a
family funeral, and I can't write back that was it?
So never been anywhere to have another type of experience.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Wow, yeah, because so many kids the only thing they
know is the police touch me in the zoom right
excuse me? You get what I mean? You know?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So, but you know I want to know what your
thoughts are about community involvement.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You know, we really think it's important.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
But the problem is that we have a challenge, and
what we're addressing is their challenge.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And the challenge is ourselves.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Right, right, right? And how do we police ourselves enough
so we can get off these steps?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
You know?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
But I thank y'all very much for listening. Of course,
like sharing, subscribe exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
You know, you have any questions or anything you want
to get off your.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Mind, shoot us an email, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter or
tweet or X.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Once again, whistle, We.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Thank y'all very much for listening today. Stay cool, and
we will touch you all a little later.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Peace. You are that agent and we look for change.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
You are
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