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Speaker 1: Okay, Remia and Sofia are in the studio, hi, and

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this is their theme song. So I guess it's gonna

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be the best day of all of our lives. Thank

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you guys for blessing us with uh with this song.

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Sophia and and Remia are both students graduating, graduating, graduated.

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I'm I'm forgetting it.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, we're graduated goal ties of twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so I was wrong. You're not Generation Alpha,

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your generation Z. Yeah, they don't want to hear that.

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So I'm you know, I'm having I'm having struggle here

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getting more information. So I know that you guys one

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is a valedictorian and one is a salutarian.

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Speaker 3: Right, No, I'm a salutatorian, salutatory.

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Speaker 2: I was head of school award recipient.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let me get the accolades straight, all right. So,

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and you guys just graduated really near the top of

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your class. So congratulations to you. Yeah, I mean, I

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think you know, we we don't have a lot of

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gen Z that listened to KBLA talk fifteen to eighty.

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We're hoping to get more. But I think that sometimes

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the millennials and the gen xers and the boomers can

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can stereotype you guys a little bit. Maybe a little

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Speaker 4: I hear the like Gen Z is a lot lazier

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because we have our phones, like we just rely online.

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But I really feel like using the technologies really helpless

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cultivate better skills versus like using it to supplement those skills,

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You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, And honestly, I've been on the radio a

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long time and I feel like every generation we say

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they're lazy, Like every general, the next generation, you know

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then we said the millennials were lazy. Now it's like

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every generation is not motivated. I feel like adults get older,

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adults get what I call selective amnesia and forget what

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they were doing when they were your age. That said,

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I really appreciate you being here and sharing your perspective

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on various different topics. I mean, I congratulate you guys

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both on your graduation big plans. So feel where are

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Speaker 2: I will be attending UC Davis this fall. I'm going

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to be majoring in sociology.

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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, awesome, And where will you be going with.

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Speaker 4: Mea, I'll be going to UC Berkeley and I'll be

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majoring in electrical and computer engineering.

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Speaker 1: What so really lazy?

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Speaker 2: This is just for showing.

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Speaker 1: So. And you graduated from Saint Mary's Academy Go Bells,

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which a lot of people you know may be not

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familiar with. Tell me a little bit. You guys have

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a lot of school spirit obviously. Oh yeah, tell me, Sophia,

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tell me a little bit about why you have so

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much enthusiasm.

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Speaker 2: I think in terms of enthusiasm for Saint Mary's as well,

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it's because they also have enthusiasm for you. So it's

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reciprocated in that. And I think as you move forward

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and you go from underclassmen to upperclassmen, you feel a

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lot of that love, and so you want to give

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it back. And so I think that because Saint Mary's

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was good to me as well as to both of us,

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I think it's only it's only good for me to

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give it back to them and to also talk good

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about the school, because they really deserve it. And so

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when you when you're around girls from SMA, you're like,

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oh yeah, you can feel the energy, you can feel

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their brightness and their enthusiasticness. And I think it's so

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important to also carry that with you. So I think

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that's why I get so excited talking about sam mauries

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because I'm like, oh, yeah, you walk in, someone's singing, dancing.

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Speaker 3: About it absolutely.

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Speaker 4: I feel like, especially like once you go for the

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first time, I remember being nervous, like as a freshman,

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like as you should be, but like junior seniors, like

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upperclassmen coming up to us going like hey guys, hey,

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everyone's so excited, like literally, people singing all the time

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in the pavilion, and when you leave the school wearing

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your thaie color like we're gold tie is the best

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color obviously, but when you leave the school and people

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will come up to you like, hey, I was an

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alumni of SMA, Yeah, this was my Thai color. We're

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the best taig color. Even though if it wasn't gold,

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, I love that the school spirit and the enthusiasm

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because there's an intentionality about that, right. It's not just

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we show up and we see what happens. It sounds

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like you show up and you set the intention to

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be vibrant and be to be.

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Speaker 2: Light exactly yes. And also when you're just walking down

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the street and someone sees your uniform and they're like, oh,

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go gold, or they'll say, oh, I was a green tign.

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thie color, just by what you're wearing, you're already so

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connected and there's so much history and lord to it.

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space or a college. Yeah, get so patriotic or like

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like riled up by their school, but not to have

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that as a high school or it feels so like empowering,

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like no matter where I go, like I'm a goal time,

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Speaker 1: So it's really cool, and I'm sure it's really refreshing

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for our KBLA delegation because again back to the stereotype,

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some of which we will break down today because why not,

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it's Friday. It's that young people are like, oh, we

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don't care about anything, we don't care about school, We

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hate adults, we hate people, we hate education. Sophia laughs.

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won't get to say married, it's completely different. Atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I mean obviously you said they give

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love to you, they care about you, so that's part

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of it. But also some of the malaise that we

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do experience from teenagers is you know, developmental hormonal. I mean,

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you guys are dealing with a lot, right, I mean

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you're growing into a whole adult human, so I think

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you know some of it, some of it is baked

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into that cake. So what is it that you guys

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do yourselves personally? We can start with you, Rema, to

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keep that spirit of enthusiasm and joy and engagement I know.

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Speaker 4: For I mean personally, I think it's just having hope.

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when I in the future, it's gonna like benefit me.

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and you, I mean you have fun too, Like that's

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why you try and go out with friends, like you

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do the little things that make you happy. I know

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me personally, I love art, even though I'm going to

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I like to make crafts for my friends. I like

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to skateboard with my neighbors. Like there's little things I

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do to keep me motivated, like having little breaks throughout

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my hard work, all the like the things we do,

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all the accolades we receive. But I think what really

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helps is having that hope and knowing that, like I'm

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going to work hard now I'm having fun with what

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I'm doing and in the future it's really gonna help

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benefit me in my career and building that generational wealth

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Speaker 1: And how about you, Sophie, I mean, I know you

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don't become, you know, get all these accolades without working

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I have to agree with Romeo over here

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because I think that while it's good to also focus

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on your academics, you also have to take care of

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yourself first before you can dedicate yourself to something so important.

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And so I play soccer on my free time. I

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dance for Glorrico, so that's also good for my mind

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as well as my body. And then once I'm okay,

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then I can get to work and start studying. And

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then once you're able to do that, then you know

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what you want for yourself. And so because I'm like,

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you're applying to Colledron and like, but I want to

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see myself succeed because I see the girls around me

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do as well, as well as the women at our school,

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so I just I want to achieve that as well.

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Speaker 1: And for those who didn't follow because you said it

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kind of fast foo, I'm so sorry, no apology needed,

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but you know they might not be up on what

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floordigo is that that's you know, cultural dance, right, And

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's the club.

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Speaker 1: So clearly staying connected with your culture is part of

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the formula for for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm very Yes, I've been dancing since I was

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six years old, I believe over ten years. And when

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Latinas and so one of the upper classmen created it

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and I saw it as an opportunity to just involve

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myself and continue this beautiful legacy that is our culture.

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assemblies and it's just amazing to see how many people

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really do care about what we have to say.

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Speaker 1: And REMI you're part of the Associated Student Body and

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Student Leadership Council, a whole bunch of club, the Anime club,

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but also the Black Student unions, so clearly that cultural

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connection is important for you too.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: I know I personally, I am a return in American.

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me personally, I remember trying to find that connection between

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my African identity and the Black American identity was a

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struggle for me, especially like coming in as a freshman

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Speaker 3: But I think joining in.

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Speaker 4: I really saw how we empowered all types of African

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students at SMA, and so with that, I know, me

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and my sister and I believe there's three to four

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other Reacheran girls and a few other Ethiopian girls as

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well at SMA, and so we started doing a reacher

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assemblies every month or not every month every year?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, Oh so we could get to it every year.

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Speaker 4: I think I raided a point to try and connect

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with my culture in school, and I do it as

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it's the School of a Reacheran Languages in Los Angeles

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and it's a nonprofit organization. So I try and meet

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really empowered me to be more confident who I am.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you guys have time for all this.

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I'm at your resume. Make it me time. Sophia and

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Ramia are here and we are giving a a gen

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Z view on some but also you know, recent graduates

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headed off to college, your perspective on a few things,

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and if you want to join in the conversation, eight

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hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty is the number

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of course you can do what all these other folks

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I'm Dominique de Prima. Happy Friday from all of us

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at KBLA Talk fifteen eight. Yes, you're waking up with me,

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and you're waking up with Sofia and Ramia. Sofia, thank

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you guys for being in today. I want to talk

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about a few things. Sofia Omelo and Ramia Techle Yes,

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having yes indeed again getting it together here on the pronunciations. Okay, Ramia,

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Speaker 4: I think for me, I really grew up in a

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space where I saw a lot of like building and

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especially my parents first came in like first gen, and

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fixing and tinkering little computers, and like whenever my laptop

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through designing, through making so many innovations. I think it

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especially like impressed me when I saw other Ritrians or

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black women in STEM and in engineering. And when I

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saw them, I immediately was like I want to be

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because it was just so impressive to me. So I

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so obviously you're not ing a fright No AI.

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big reason I want to get into engineering because I

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feel like we can use these resources to help our

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future generations. And I think the problem now is it's

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very valid when people be are afraid of AI is

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going to take over my job, AI is going to

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ruin my future. And I think that's something America's really

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much cultivated in society. I think it's a horrible thing.

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to study abroad in Japan, and I saw how AI

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and robotics was used to really help every member of society.

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of them being afraid of AI taking the jobs that

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they could have had, and instead worked with them.

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Speaker 3: I saw how there were like let's say, cafes.

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Speaker 4: Where people were able to work from home and control

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robots instead. So it gave them even more jobs instead

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of leaving them at home to really do nothing and

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not feel like a part of a growing, technologically advanced society.

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afraid of it, and I think if we work together

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and got everyone involved, we diversified the people creating the technology,

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then it would be something that everyone enjoyed. It could

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be something that benefited everyone instead of just the rich

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, we tend to weaponize

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pretty much everything in this country, so maybe in a

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different model, AI has a different implication. It sounds like.

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is about the campus panic that we see at a

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lot of universities. Maybe you guys were just at high school.

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professor is not being sure how to deal with it

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and whether or not kids are using it to write

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papers or take tests, and how to you know, how

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to limit it and how to welcome it in. So

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not have this experience. But maybe you want to pile

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on to what Ramya said about AI your own thoughts

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on AI your generation.

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Speaker 2: If I'm being completely honest, I am an AI. I

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don't like AI. Oh every time someone talks about like, no,

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get jadg Gibt out of your use your brains, because

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I know that we're so capable of doing whatever it is.

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just ask, oh, give me a five pay say about

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and so I think, oh my gosh, everything someone talks

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about it. But I think I've also seen that that

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teachers are so afraid of seeing their students you resort

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to that instead of just asking a question. And if

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who started crying because his students couldn't put together a sentence,

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and I think that that has something to do with

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AI for sure, because when you don't know how to

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do something, it's I your fingertips. Immediately you don't know

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what just something, look it up on the internet. And

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now there's this new installment that you can just it'll

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do whatever you want like it will you ask it

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a question and it'll give it to you to perfection.

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so hard to use it as a balance, and I

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it but then also using it to your benefit and

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using it to just abuse it and just do it

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for you. And I guess I would say that I

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would prefer people not to use it because I think

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that once you when you really sit down and you

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you sit with your thoughts and you can see how

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much you can do. I mean, obviously sometimes it's good

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to get a little bit of help, but that's also

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why there are people around you and you can ask

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for that help. So that's where I would say, you can,

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if you ever resort to AI, come to me and

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I will I will tell you how how smart you

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are and intelligent and how much you can do. So

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if you ever need that help, I know because I

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see people doing it. I tell my friends sometimes I'm like,

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don't do it.

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Speaker 4: Every time she sees the tab open on my lap

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of this turned that up.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's actually like.

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Speaker 4: Coming from an engineering perspective, I really understand like the

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fear of like we don't want students to be supplementing

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their knowledge with just searching it up.

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Speaker 3: But I really think it's just a learning curve.

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Speaker 4: Like I'm really like, I'm a big advocate for like

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AI is gonna be something that helps us. It's gonna

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be something that stays around, and so we should learn

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how to work with it versus trying to remove it.

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they brought laptops or phones into the school space, I'm

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sure teachers were afraid, like, oh my god, now kids

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are just gonna be googling.

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Speaker 3: How to do something.

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Speaker 1: Now they're taking them out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah now.

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Speaker 1: And LUSC has really strict new policies.

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Speaker 4: I know, I see like the pockets where they put

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the phones in. I know it hasn't come to our school.

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I feel like my neighbors like who have go to

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LAUSC schools where they put their phones in these little pockets.

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Speaker 3: It locks it up, and I'm like, it's really interesting.

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Speaker 4: But I feel like there should be ways to add

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this technology because in the real world, like if we

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stop teaching people how to use phones responsibly, how to

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use AI responsibly, how to do things responsibly, then they're

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gonna go into the real world finally having access to

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these things and abusing it and using it in the

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wrong way.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like when we teach people how.

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Speaker 4: To be more AI literate, which is one of the

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things I had to learn about when getting my sort

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of certificate from the AI Powered Women's Organization, that a

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lot of students and adults aren't like AI literate. They're

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not even like knowing how to use these technologies properly.

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But when we teach them how to do it, or

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when we kind of learn them, like learn how to

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use these things responsibly and allowing you to grow your

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own knowledge and using it all together, then I think

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we'll be able to grow more like responsible technology users.

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Speaker 1: What I'm really enjoying right now, you guys are representing

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Saint Mary's Academy Gold Thie class of twenty twenty six.

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I can see how you guys apparently broke a bunch

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of records at your school. Thirty four point three million

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dollars in college scholarships among the gold thigh classes. You

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all did that, acceptances to all nine University of California campuses.

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That's when you guys go, we did that we did

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that and twenty seven full tuition scholarship offers. Y'all did

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that from one hundred and seventy eight different colleges and universities.

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I see all that, but I also see too on

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very scholarly but also effervescent young women who appear to

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also be friends.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, way back.

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Speaker 4: It's actually funny because her sister and my sister are both, like,

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you're younger than each other. So that was one of

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the things we first talked about, like building our friendship

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is that this esme like love runs deep, like our

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both of our families come here, like both of our

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parents hop out the school a lot, and so I

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think both of us are just very involved individuals.

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Speaker 3: We both are just fun people.

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Speaker 2: So we like both of our sisters are red tie

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shout out, Yeah are better, but yeah, they're also they're

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in the same grade. But I think me and Romya,

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I think it was we had we had aps together.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, very intent the trauma bonds.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so when we would need help, I like

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I would go to Ramya and we would just chat

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it up. And then you know, it's easy for we're talkers,

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so it'll be easy for us to get off track.

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But and then all the way till senior year, we

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would we would hang out all.

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Speaker 4: The time and we're like calling into like two am,

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string ap computer science, like random stuff. I'm just hoping

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you could all be over. But we went through together,

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so it was fun.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, you make it seem fun, I mean,

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and I think fun exactly, so I because we did it.

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I do love that, because you know, we we well,

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we only have a minute here until news traffic and sports,

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and we'll keep talking on the other side of news

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traffic and sports. So it wouldn't really be fair to

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ask you a question and expect you to answer it

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in fifty six seconds. So what I'll do is I'll

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set it up and we can talk about it after

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news traffic and sports. I think that there's a lot

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of talk, I'm sure you hear it about how discouraging

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society feels right now. You know, things are expensive, there's

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political turmoil. We see a contraction of opportunities, fewer opportunities

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perhaps for women, for people of color, for Latinos, for

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black people. And I feel like on top of that,

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we are seeing these lawsuits which reflect the pressure your

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generation has to deal with from the social media world. Right,

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You're not only just dealing with school, You're dealing with

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this sort of alternate universe of Instagram and Facebook and

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Twitter and TikTok. So. I guess what I'd like to

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talk about is how you see those discouraging trends and

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how you seem to be navigating the world without letting

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them dictate or control your lives. Maybe some of the

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gen xers that are in our KBLA delegation can take

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some notes and get a few hints. You're listening to

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KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. You're getting a lot of love

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in our YouTube chat, as you should. Future leaders are

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joining us in the studio. Sofia Omelo is here and

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Rama tech le Yes, yeah, we're getting it together. But

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I asked you before news, traffic and sports, and this

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was for both of you. You can take turns here.

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But you know, there a lot of us who are

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not just graduating from high school are discouraged by the

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political climate, by the affordability crisis and the pressure that

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comes down from social media, which can be in some

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cases so severe that people get pushed into you know,

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self harm, and like, how do you how do you

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handle that you guys are so joyous and you guys

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are just a ray of sunshine in the studio today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think for me personally, like I'm someone who

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really likes to keep up with politics.

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Speaker 3: I know, me and my dad like will talk about

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in debate in the car.

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Speaker 4: I'll watch the news every night, like we're like that

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kind of like duo. And so I feel like, I

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think this year is probably the first year where I

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really stopped watching the news because on top of like

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underst in the pressure of like trying to do college applications,

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trying to keep up, like kind of realizing that, like

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my life is going to change after this year going

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to college.

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Speaker 3: Stuff like that, I kind.

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Speaker 4: Of just became too much for me to also be

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watching the news and seeing like what's going on in

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the world, because it kind of be at first it

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was like trying to stay politically aware, but now in

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that political awareness is really stressing you out, which isn't

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a good thing. I feel you should still be political

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politically aware no matter what you're doing. It kind of

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became a lot for me, So I really understand the

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whole idea of like politics stressing out younger generations. But

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I think it also gives us a guideline of what

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to do. Like whatever we don't see that we don't like,

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we learn how to grow from it. I know I

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personally have favorite political leaders who I see on social

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media that I love what they're doing, and it really

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teaches me that when I go into engineering, when I

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go into whatever I do in life, when I vote,

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that I want to vote for people that I know

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will help my generation, will help accommodate. Like crisis is

479
00:22:35,559 --> 00:22:39,039
like social media hurting generations starting like instead of like

480
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:43,119
eradicating them, but helping students, helping with financial crises and

481
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all stuff like that. So I think politics can be

482
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a helper. But also I guess I could scare off you.

483
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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like you're giving yourself, you're pacing yourself.

484
00:22:50,039 --> 00:22:51,920
I mean I do that. It's my job to pay

485
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,599
attention to what's going on. But I usually give myself

486
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,319
one news free day per week, and then I might

487
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,480
cram the next day to catch up what I miss.

488
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,079
But I need that mental space. It's like a buffer.

489
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,519
There's other things in life, Sophia, how do you see it?

490
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,319
Speaker 2: I think I can touch on what Ramy said. About

491
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,400
social media branch off of it a little bit. I

492
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,519
think that it's super easy, and I'm talking for myself

493
00:23:16,559 --> 00:23:20,000
as well, to just doom scroll, lay in bed, just

494
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,759
just go TikTok. Then you don't like what you say

495
00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:24,519
in tech, so you go to Instagram. You're just switching

496
00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:25,119
off apps.

497
00:23:25,279 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

498
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Speaker 2: But also I think, as for myself, I get tired

499
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,559
of it a little bit. I'm like, what am I doing? Like,

500
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,359
I'm just laying down. I should go do something, and

501
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:36,279
that's when I text rom.

502
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,640
Speaker 1: Mea're like what should we do? Yeah.

503
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Speaker 2: But I think that also there's a lot of pressure

504
00:23:41,799 --> 00:23:43,839
when it comes to social media also being on it,

505
00:23:44,039 --> 00:23:45,920
and I was like, oh, this is how you look

506
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,880
on social media, but in real life you're nothing like that,

507
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,359
or you should post this instead. But I think, like

508
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:51,960
Ramyo was saying, it's the way that you use it.

509
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Because also social media is really good for finding your

510
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,720
scholarships and seeing what schools you want to apply to.

511
00:23:57,279 --> 00:23:59,519
But I think that it's it's also a balance. I

512
00:23:59,519 --> 00:24:01,480
think everything you need a balance in between, because too

513
00:24:01,559 --> 00:24:04,240
much social media, anything, any too much of anything is

514
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,480
like not so good for you. But I think that

515
00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:08,920
if you have a balance because if you want to

516
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,240
take like a mental break, also, don't go on your

517
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phone or something that I've.

518
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,279
Speaker 1: Been doing is.

519
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 2: It's not gonna helps get you more stress. It's just

520
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gonna start. But one thing that I started doing is

521
00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:23,240
just the first hour when I wake up, I don't

522
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,400
go on my phone, so just to let myself reset

523
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:27,960
and just I've just woken up, so I'll just go

524
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to a living room. I'll just drink a cup of water.

525
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And so I think also you have to hold yourself

526
00:24:32,799 --> 00:24:35,359
accountable because no one is really gonna tell you, oh,

527
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,240
get off of social media. No matter how many times

528
00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:39,599
someone complains about social media, Oh you're on it too much.

529
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,440
You're not gonna stop unless you want it to stop.

530
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And so when I'm like, do scrolling, I'll be.

531
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Speaker 3: Like, no, I can't.

532
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,279
Speaker 2: I'm like no, no, no, it has to benefit you.

533
00:24:48,319 --> 00:24:51,240
And also now that we're starting college completely, we're going

534
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,839
away from home. We're not we can't stay in our dorms,

535
00:24:53,839 --> 00:24:55,519
and we're gonna be like, I guess I'll just do

536
00:24:55,599 --> 00:24:57,440
scroll now because I don't know what to do. And

537
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,319
so I think once you start like, oh, you want

538
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,799
this for yourself and go hang out with friends, like

539
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,640
you'll start making memories that you will always remember. You're

540
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,960
not gonna be like, oh yeah, I just dom scrolled,

541
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:11,559
like oh what did you do when you were younger?

542
00:25:11,799 --> 00:25:14,279
Just sat in bed, I was just chilling. When I

543
00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:15,799
went to TikTok, I would get bored, so I would

544
00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:16,559
go to Instagram like.

545
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Speaker 4: You no, yeah, I mean it's funny because it's like

546
00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:23,599
it's really scary how like tempting it can be, and

547
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,720
how you may start like I'll just take a quick

548
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,200
break at three pm and I see you know, six

549
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,839
o'clock and you've been scrolling for like hours true, or

550
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,160
like you're just going to bed watching TV. Like you

551
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,039
wake up like just going straight to your phone to

552
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,000
check text, Like it kind of just becomes like your

553
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,119
life is revolved around the phone. So I can like accounsel.

554
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,680
I think this morning, I probably woke up as like okay,

555
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,119
who texted me? Or like let me text Sofia, like Sophia,

556
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:43,599
what are you wearing?

557
00:25:43,599 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 2: It like literally happens today. And then I see like

558
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,640
I'm like, oh my god, can I reply me? Because

559
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,640
I didn't check my phone?

560
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,759
Speaker 4: Absolutely, So I think I need to start doing that too,

561
00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:54,079
Like when I wake up, like just give myself an

562
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:55,599
hour when I go to bed, Like give myself an

563
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,319
hour like read a book or something. So of just

564
00:25:57,319 --> 00:25:59,759
like opening your eyes for a bright screen, immediately closing

565
00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:01,279
them and expecting to just Actually one of.

566
00:26:01,319 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 2: My greatest fears before I go to sleep if I'm

567
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,599
like on my phone, like I don't. I can't look

568
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,680
at my phone while the lights are turned off, so

569
00:26:08,759 --> 00:26:11,359
it's just TV. But before you go, I'm like, oh

570
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:16,559
my gosh, I'm gonna need glasses. I'm sorry, Okay, okay.

571
00:26:16,799 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: Take it from us, But I mean that's I've done

572
00:26:20,519 --> 00:26:22,599
a version of that, which is an hour before I

573
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,079
go to sleep. I don't let myself because I'll be

574
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,359
stressing and oh wait, breaking news, breaking news, and then

575
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,960
I'll be dreaming about breaking news, and that doesn't make

576
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,400
for good rest. But you're right, I do find a

577
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,920
lot of great news stories, just as you find scholarships.

578
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,720
So I guess the flip side of that question is

579
00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:45,480
what gives you hope? What is that? What you know?

580
00:26:45,559 --> 00:26:47,799
What makes you feel inspired and hopeful?

581
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 2: M in general in terms of social media.

582
00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: Yeah's just in general.

583
00:26:53,519 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 4: I think for me personally, I think it's seeing like

584
00:26:56,039 --> 00:26:58,920
innovation like when I see like, let's say someone my

585
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,839
personal idols like Timate Gebru and she's a Reatrin American,

586
00:27:02,079 --> 00:27:05,519
well not America, a Reatrian computer scientist, and she was

587
00:27:05,559 --> 00:27:07,960
an AI advocate at Google and she was then fired

588
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,960
because she was really trying to advocate for diversity with

589
00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:11,759
creating AI.

590
00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 1: I read about her and she was warning about some

591
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,319
of the dangers of the evasiveness.

592
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 4: Absolutely, so I know, like reading people like her, seeing

593
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,200
politicians I love who I won't mention, but I know

594
00:27:23,279 --> 00:27:23,640
people that.

595
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: Okay, we're apologetically progressive.

596
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,079
Speaker 4: I'm like, I know me personally, like I love AOC,

597
00:27:31,319 --> 00:27:34,920
I love mom Donnie. I know she's a new congresswoman

598
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,960
and she's also a Reatrian, like she's publisher as well.

599
00:27:37,079 --> 00:27:39,000
So I think seeing like leaders like that, it really

600
00:27:39,079 --> 00:27:41,920
makes me excited for the future for like our new generation,

601
00:27:42,039 --> 00:27:44,880
like seeing like new leaders coming in like really like

602
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,079
being more progressive, and like it makes me hopeful that, Okay,

603
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,440
my kids are going to have like the teenage years

604
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,440
with in America that maybe I didn't get and it's

605
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,680
going to be amazing seeing technical logical innovations that won't

606
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,400
be used just for like destruction, but used for like

607
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,559
new I don't know, helping everyone, and I think just

608
00:28:01,599 --> 00:28:03,440
seeing stuff like that makes me really hopeful the future

609
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:04,839
and like makes me want to be a part of that,

610
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,240
like I want to help make that happen.

611
00:28:07,079 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: And what makes you hopeful, Sophia.

612
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,279
Speaker 2: I would say I would honestly say my friends and

613
00:28:12,279 --> 00:28:14,519
my family would be hopeful, like like honestly listen to

614
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,519
listening to ROMI, so I'm like, yeah, she's my friend,

615
00:28:16,599 --> 00:28:20,119
Like we're doing this exactly. But I think that's I think,

616
00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:22,480
like you were saying, there's a stereotype of gen Z

617
00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:25,279
and it's I don't really think it's that. I think

618
00:28:25,279 --> 00:28:27,359
that people. I think for some it can be true,

619
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,200
but also the majority of the people that I surround

620
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,279
myself with them like, oh, we want the higher education,

621
00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:33,759
we want to help the world. And so it's really

622
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,759
I think that that's what gives me hope because I

623
00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:38,480
know that we're gonna do it. And also when you

624
00:28:38,599 --> 00:28:40,480
when you're around people, you also want that for yourself

625
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:41,880
that you want to be like those people. And so

626
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,200
when I'm around my friends are like, I want to

627
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:44,799
do that too. I want to I want to help

628
00:28:44,839 --> 00:28:46,799
other people and I want to make that change as well,

629
00:28:47,079 --> 00:28:48,359
and so I think I think I see it in

630
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,680
my sisters too. I'm like, oh, yeah, we'll be okay,

631
00:28:50,759 --> 00:28:52,920
Like it'll be good. So I think it's the people

632
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,079
you surround yourself as well. And also when I when

633
00:28:55,079 --> 00:28:56,839
you when I do go on social media, it's like

634
00:28:57,359 --> 00:28:59,440
I look at like the good things that are happening

635
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,440
in the world, because some people post like, oh, people

636
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:02,839
talk about all the bad things, but there are some

637
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,640
good things that are happening to them. Like it's also

638
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,400
good to focus on the positive while also like helping

639
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,000
the negative and trying to make it better and improve it.

640
00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:12,960
And so I think that when people think of the negative,

641
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,400
it's like, oh, it's just negative, but they don't do

642
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,519
anything to change it. But then I see like people

643
00:29:16,519 --> 00:29:17,960
of our age, and they're like, no, we have to

644
00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:20,480
because then so everything is good, so we can continue

645
00:29:20,559 --> 00:29:23,440
to succeed and excel in what we want to. And

646
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,880
so I think what gives me hope is that mentality.

647
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,440
And also I think our generation is gonna do good.

648
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,279
I think I think we're doing pretty good. So unpopular opinions,

649
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,319
but I think I think that's will give me hope

650
00:29:33,319 --> 00:29:34,960
because I go into school, and I'm like, I see

651
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,720
my well, not anymore because we're graduating. But when when

652
00:29:38,759 --> 00:29:40,920
we were at Saint Mary's when we would go, when

653
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,240
I would go into cuss I'm like, oh my gosh,

654
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,200
like we're so smart, like we can do this. And

655
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,720
also I see it in educators, our teachers, like they

656
00:29:46,759 --> 00:29:48,799
want you to succeed. So that's why I'm like the

657
00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:52,519
older the older generations millennials or Gen X, even though

658
00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:54,279
they're maybe they're hating on us a little bit, but

659
00:29:54,319 --> 00:29:56,799
also our educators like, no, we want we don't want

660
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,920
that stereotype to be true for you. So you can

661
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,960
go into class talk it up with them. They'll they'll

662
00:30:02,079 --> 00:30:05,240
shut down that stereotype. We can talk about absolutely.

663
00:30:05,279 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 4: I feel like sometimes stereotypes can be like grown through

664
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:09,200
the two or three.

665
00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:10,319
Speaker 3: Loudest voices that say it.

666
00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 4: While there's millions and hundreds of people who do have

667
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,240
confidence in our generation because they're the people who are

668
00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:16,039
helping us out. So I think it's really like it's

669
00:30:16,079 --> 00:30:18,240
a testament to SMA as well when you go and

670
00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:21,119
you see our fellow bells doing amazing things. And I

671
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,759
know for me, like especially when I was younger, it

672
00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:24,279
was hard to like say, I used to be it.

673
00:30:24,319 --> 00:30:29,920
I still am a LinkedIn addict, Like that's hilarious.

674
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, I used to go on it, and I used

675
00:30:31,599 --> 00:30:32,279
to get intimidated.

676
00:30:32,279 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 4: Like I would see everyone's like the things they do,

677
00:30:34,279 --> 00:30:35,960
and I'm like, oh my god, like I'm nothing like this,

678
00:30:36,039 --> 00:30:38,319
Like they're so like advanced and so like they're like

679
00:30:38,519 --> 00:30:40,759
fifteen caring cancer and I'm just here in my room

680
00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:43,920
doom scrolling and it makes me like so like insecure.

681
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,079
And I think now you get older and you get

682
00:30:46,079 --> 00:30:48,400
empowered by like let's say the ESSM community, by your friends,

683
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,960
and you know that you can do anything. So you

684
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,119
start going on these sites feeling empowered like hey, like

685
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,920
I'm like them too, like I'm good as well. And

686
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,480
you start in your room and then you start adding

687
00:30:58,519 --> 00:30:58,880
to the room.

688
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 3: You start learning from the room.

689
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 4: Instead of going somewhere feeling like like intimidated, you start

690
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,319
going in and learning from other people and growing yourself

691
00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:08,359
and them like simultaneously. So I think this generation is

692
00:31:08,359 --> 00:31:10,079
really giving me home because we do help each other

693
00:31:10,119 --> 00:31:11,839
a lot, and we do all do great things.

694
00:31:12,319 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: SMA, by the way, is Saint Mary's Academy. Oh yeah,

695
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,480
where I just graduated from and you know, I love that.

696
00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:23,519
I've never heard of a young person addicted to LinkedIn before.

697
00:31:24,039 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 2: That's I'll probably get your after she broke a Guinness

698
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:32,240
World record being on LinkedIn more than the average person.

699
00:31:32,839 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: Which is such an engineering mindset that I'm not gonna

700
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,480
doom scroll on Instagram. I'll doom scroll on LinkedIn and

701
00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:47,119
TikTok they call that job anyway. So Fion Melo and

702
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,359
Ramya Techle are here. Will continue the conversation when we

703
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,640
come forward on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. All right, we're

704
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,079
having a great conversation this morning. I hope you're enjoying it,

705
00:31:56,119 --> 00:32:00,319
getting a lot of good feedback. You guys are in

706
00:32:00,359 --> 00:32:04,599
our YouTube chat. Sophia oh May Though is here, Ramia

707
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,559
Techle is here. They are both recent graduates of Saint Mary's.

708
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,359
Sophia's on our way. Do you see Davis to study sociology,

709
00:32:14,079 --> 00:32:16,160
Ramia is on our way? Do you see Berkeley to

710
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,400
study engineering? Yeah, it's good stuff. How do you see

711
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,799
we know? Yeah, we're gonna ask deep questions, but not

712
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,799
hard questions. Questions you know the answer to, how do

713
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,759
you see what? What do you see as the most

714
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:35,359
important issues for your generation or for our world from

715
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:40,480
your gen's point of view, what are the most important

716
00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:41,079
issues to you?

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Speaker 4: I think a big issue I see is like helplessness.

718
00:32:45,759 --> 00:32:47,920
I think a lot of people go in and they

719
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,680
feel like their life is dictated.

720
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Speaker 3: Their life is dictated.

721
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,279
Speaker 4: By like the millennials or like older generations who are

722
00:32:55,319 --> 00:32:58,519
just controlling everything in a way that like accommodates their

723
00:32:58,559 --> 00:33:00,720
older way of living, which I can underst because I bet,

724
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,279
let's say us like you, you go into like like, oh,

725
00:33:04,319 --> 00:33:05,720
I want to study politics, So I want to do

726
00:33:05,759 --> 00:33:08,119
this based on like the societal understanding they had in

727
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,640
maybe nineteen sixty or something, and now you're in like

728
00:33:11,039 --> 00:33:13,519
the twenty twenties and you're trying to make issues or

729
00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:15,960
like make laws that accommodate to that, or like trying

730
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,960
to create technologies like anything that benefits that type of

731
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like living without the understanding of us and the current

732
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,119
issues that we go through. So I think a lot

733
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,279
of people can feel like helpless, like no one's here

734
00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:27,680
listening to me, no one's understanding me. So I guess

735
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,640
like trying to empower people into knowing, like, hey, but

736
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,720
if you work hard, if you like do what you

737
00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:33,519
gotta do with the help of some of the people

738
00:33:33,559 --> 00:33:35,480
of the older generations, the help of each other, that

739
00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:38,480
we can be in these spaces creating technology that benefits

740
00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:41,960
present society, and like not even technology, but like making laws,

741
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,599
making medicines, making everything that can work in a way

742
00:33:44,599 --> 00:33:46,920
that benefits the entire world, and bringing us together in

743
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a way that helps everyone.

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Speaker 1: Now, yeah, I think it's a good point because that

745
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:56,480
idea of helplessness or disempowerment touches every other issue area, right,

746
00:33:56,599 --> 00:34:00,640
whether you're an environmentalist or whether you're a your fighter.

747
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,880
If you're feeling overwhelmed, then you know, whether it's racial

748
00:34:05,079 --> 00:34:09,199
justice or women's rights, or you know, whatever your area

749
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,480
health rights is, if you're feeling helpless, you're gonna shut down.

750
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Speaker 2: Yes, I definitely have to agree. I think mental health

751
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,039
is so important, especially because when you're getting into your teens,

752
00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:22,000
you just think, especially with social media, just like I

753
00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:24,679
can never be like that, but you can, you can

754
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,199
be like that. And so I also think that what

755
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,800
I've seen is and I can. I will include myself. Hea.

756
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,440
Sometimes I think we're just afraid to ask for help

757
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:34,159
because we're like, we don't want them to see us

758
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,480
as weak or that we were not capable of doing something.

759
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,400
So if you notice, like in if you walk into

760
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,599
a classroom, there's not much raising hands, there's not much

761
00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:44,519
just engaging because when people answer, there's this idea that

762
00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:46,679
we have to be right, if we have to have

763
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,800
the right answer. As I've grown up and my dad

764
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,440
has told me that you're not in school because you're

765
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,400
in school because you don't know. If you already knew everything,

766
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,280
that you wouldn't be going to school, right, So I

767
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,800
think that that has a big Yeah, it has a

768
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,079
big thing to do with that, that you're already there

769
00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:06,039
because you want to learn, because you have to learn,

770
00:35:06,119 --> 00:35:08,679
and there's so much for you to learn. And also

771
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,880
that ties into mental health because you're like, oh, if

772
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,559
I'm already, if I already feel that I'm not good enough,

773
00:35:12,599 --> 00:35:15,239
how am I gonna help or add to this classroom?

774
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,000
How am I gonna make it better? And I think

775
00:35:17,039 --> 00:35:19,360
that's a really big issue as well, because also I

776
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,079
see the people don't really think as mental health as

777
00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:24,400
important or like older edgeneratially like, oh no, they're just

778
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,239
they're just faking it or they're just on their screens

779
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,000
a lot, like it's not really important. But I think

780
00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:30,280
it is a real issue because it's it has a

781
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,800
lot to do with social media as well, that we're

782
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,280
just we just compare ourselves and like, no, we just

783
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,440
can't do that, and then you can do that, and

784
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,119
then once you do, like oh yeah, I did do that,

785
00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:41,679
and it's like it it's just about you knowing your

786
00:35:41,679 --> 00:35:43,639
limits and also saying that, oh yeah I can I

787
00:35:43,679 --> 00:35:45,480
can pass my limits and I can do even more

788
00:35:45,519 --> 00:35:47,559
than that. Like that's a big issue that we should

789
00:35:47,679 --> 00:35:48,519
also focus on.

790
00:35:49,559 --> 00:35:51,639
Speaker 1: The two young scholars that we're talking to are both

791
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,719
graduates of Saint Mary's Academy, and if you didn't know

792
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,599
that happens to be in Englewood, I think they may

793
00:35:57,679 --> 00:36:02,960
be Oh, Saint Mary's academ Me in Brentwood, Saint Mary's

794
00:36:03,039 --> 00:36:10,039
Academy in bel Air. No, It's Mary's in Englewood, right

795
00:36:10,079 --> 00:36:15,960
next to so far you guys are dodging traffic. Oh yeah,

796
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,360
but what is it about? You know, you said at

797
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,920
the beginning of this conversation that you feel the love

798
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,960
coming from your teachers, from your faculty. Can you pinpoint

799
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,800
I mean, of course love is paramount. Can you pinpoint

800
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:34,719
anything else as far as support systems or methodologies or

801
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,920
I don't know, things you were introduced to during the

802
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,280
course of your education that helped you maintain sort of

803
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:49,360
the level of enthusiasm and achievement and also personal fulfillment

804
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,599
that you seem to be showing right now.

805
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Speaker 4: I think for me, like I think the teachers at

806
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,960
estime really showed like specifically a belief in this, like

807
00:36:59,039 --> 00:37:01,039
we can do anything, and the fact that they felt

808
00:37:01,039 --> 00:37:02,679
like I could do anything made me feel like I

809
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:04,920
can do anything, like I know, especially when I was younger,

810
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,920
I struggled with the idea that like if I wasn't

811
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,760
perfect all the time, if I didn't have awards that

812
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,000
were signaling exactly what I was doing, like someone highlighting

813
00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:14,480
my achievements, like someone showing me that like here, you

814
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:15,800
did so great, let me give you this, let me

815
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,559
give you that. And so it kind of just showed

816
00:37:17,559 --> 00:37:19,000
me like if I didn't get that, like oh my god,

817
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,559
I wasn't good enough, Like I wasn't doing enough to

818
00:37:20,559 --> 00:37:22,320
get that, like I'm not good enough. And so I

819
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:23,800
used to go to like my teacher, I give her

820
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,199
shot out, Miss Landry. She was like, what it was,

821
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,000
your dugs teacher? And I remember once I'm crying to

822
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,480
her because like I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

823
00:37:29,519 --> 00:37:30,960
I feel like I try and do a lot, but

824
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,039
no one's recognizing it. And I feel like I'm scared.

825
00:37:33,039 --> 00:37:35,039
I'm gonna go to like places like Berkeley where there's

826
00:37:35,079 --> 00:37:36,960
so many students and I'm just gonna be a fish

827
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,039
underwater and no one's gonna like realize I'm doing anything.

828
00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:40,599
I'm not going to go anywhere in life because I'm

829
00:37:40,639 --> 00:37:42,519
not doing good enough. And she kind of just showed me, like,

830
00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:44,679
if you're doing stuff with a purpose, if you know

831
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,639
why you're entering a room without like thinking about the accolades,

832
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,320
If you're doing everything for accolades, you're not doing it

833
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,159
the right way. Like if you're doing everything with if

834
00:37:52,199 --> 00:37:53,920
you're doing it like for a purpose, if you go

835
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,039
in proud of who you are and giving everything you got,

836
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then you're doing good and your rest.

837
00:37:57,519 --> 00:37:59,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's a great back to your point, Sophia

838
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,559
about social media, that that plays into that perfectionist thing

839
00:38:03,599 --> 00:38:05,719
where we think we have to be we can never

840
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,960
be as perfect as those people. But those people aren't

841
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,000
as perfect as they look in that in that post either,

842
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,119
And I'm getting I got a text from my colleague,

843
00:38:15,159 --> 00:38:21,079
attorney Dion Raymond. She says blue tie here, and she

844
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,320
points out that the original Saint Mary's Academy location was

845
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,679
Crenshaw Lawsome so there I didn't even know. Right here

846
00:38:28,679 --> 00:38:33,559
in the building where we have your fellow alumni, an alumni. Okay,

847
00:38:33,599 --> 00:38:36,880
we just have a minute here. I know, time flies

848
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,679
when you're on the radio. Go ahead, Okay, it.

849
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:44,079
Speaker 2: Was really really fast for those. But I was just

850
00:38:44,079 --> 00:38:47,440
gonna brag a little bit about our college. Our college

851
00:38:47,639 --> 00:38:50,760
Knowledge class. We have this class where it's you just

852
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,480
work on your applications and it's a class just for that.

853
00:38:53,599 --> 00:38:57,239
But also once you finish your applications, we have we

854
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,960
have headshots taken of us. We work on how to inner,

855
00:39:00,639 --> 00:39:03,440
we work on our resumes. We also meditate, we draw,

856
00:39:03,559 --> 00:39:05,920
we color, so I think. And then also it's not

857
00:39:06,119 --> 00:39:08,519
outside of the classroom. The college counscert will go up,

858
00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:10,119
Tom like, oh, I just found this opportunity. I found

859
00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:12,239
the scholarship, and we would have a wall of all

860
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,599
the scholarships that she had found. And I think that's

861
00:39:14,639 --> 00:39:17,199
that's something to brag about. Because also when you're and

862
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,440
then you go outside and then everyone's playing bingo, there

863
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,280
we're singing, And I think that that's so amazing about

864
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,320
SMEs that there's there's fun stuff and then there's like

865
00:39:24,679 --> 00:39:28,719
there's academic things. Yeah, and so I think I think

866
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,480
that's what I really love about simat is something that

867
00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:32,880
has to offer because you can lock in and be

868
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,400
dedicated and then you go outside and everybody's singing love.

869
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: That's our song.

870
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,679
Speaker 4: That's so Yeah, it's just cool to see how like

871
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:42,719
the teachers will go out of their way do anything

872
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,679
they can to empower you and then still make you

873
00:39:44,679 --> 00:39:47,039
feel like a kid, like, yeah, you have the fun,

874
00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:49,159
and they still make you feel like you're a leader,

875
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:50,519
You're the best thing you could be.

876
00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:52,119
Speaker 3: And it's just the most amazing experience.

877
00:39:52,519 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: Well, certainly if you guys are a reflection of what

878
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,920
they're doing over there, Uh, they are doing it right

879
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,800
you guys. It's been a pleasure having you in. Sophia,

880
00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:10,559
Sophia Omelo and Ramia tech Leg. Yeah, congratulations to you

881
00:40:10,679 --> 00:40:14,719
on your college journey. Look forward to watching your stars.

882
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,480
The best of Tavis Smiley is up next. Like my papa,

883
00:40:21,519 --> 00:40:24,039
the late Greater Mary Baraka used to say, a person

884
00:40:24,159 --> 00:40:26,639
is either free or they are not free. There can

885
00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:30,480
be no apprenticeship for freedom until the next time. I beloved,

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k b L A delegation one Love