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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's another episode of the will Just Agree to Disagree podcast?
I am I am here, man, let's just say, I
am here.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You're here?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah, I'm happy to be here. What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm happy to be here. It's an early long week
from me be here early. Yeah, it's a long week.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I have you've been getting here before I do. Yeah,
I know that's pretty early.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The car you got, because I see it in the
garage every time I come here.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, the white one.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, sure, okay, So anyway, we have yes today. I
am so excited about our special guests. One of our
special guests, her dad does my teeth and he's amazing.
He is like my favorite in the whole world. Like
he took out my wisdom teeth.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I gotta get my wisdom out.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
He is amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Anyone who knows me knows I don't like anything medical related.
I like start happovitilating when I go to the doctor.
It's just a whole process with me, and he is
so amazing. He gets the job done and I walk
out with a big smile.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So shout out to doctor g that's in our column.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And with that further ado, we're gonna introduce our guests.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Hello, I am doctor Je's daughter.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
That is why I'm here at the amazing Beyonce and
Ryan super blessed to be here. And Beyonce has always
just been very welcoming to us. And I brought my sidekick.
Can my soul sister live with me?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Hey, I'm Olivia so happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Thanks for hanging out with us.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Hey, guys, we're so excited.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Oh so are we? So we're gonna get right into it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, So Ryan, we know about this whole generational thing.
That's why the podcast is why it's called will just
agree to disagree.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I am a generation xer, a proud generation xer.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Ryan is a millennial, and Olivia and Serafina are gen
Z correct. So first of all, let's start with this
whole generational difference thing.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Let me just start, and I say this respectfully, but
gen Z's you guys are a trip.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Wrong at all?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You guys?
Speaker 6 (02:11):
What I think we're defying a lot of norms of
what everything has how it's been. We're like, we want
to do the opposite of everything. And I don't want
to speak for everyone, but if there's something that's been
one way the entire time. We're like, we're gonna, we're
gonna switch, like you just want to switch everything up
because it might be a thing of like we need
to stand out. And I'm not saying that there's things
that are really good, some are not, maybe not the
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best decisions that gen Z is like defining the norms with.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But let's also say, and what are you guys again?
I'm okay, we're gonna call them gen o because we
can't say we can say I That's why I feel
like millennials we are right in the middle. There are
some ways that have been set in stone that I
do agree with that gen Z started or gen z
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X gen X let's start it, and I agree with.
But there are some newer ways that I'm like, I
like this. I think the battle comes when these younger
ones are trying to redo everything you guys did or
do something different that's not of the norm. Yeah, and
then that's where millennials come in. There was like, eh,
which one?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So you guys are like the mediators or you mean
you just don't know which way you want to go.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I think we're the ones.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I think we're the ones that is like let's think
about this. Oh, I feel like you guys are kind
of set in stone, like this is how somethen right
because I rock with.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
A lot of what gen zers do, and I like
what a lot of millennials do, and sometimes I disagree
with what gen xer is and that's how I feel.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
There's some things that I don't like about a millennial.
We talked about this before some millennials in the workplace.
I'm like, yo, I don't have this mindset like you do,
but we're under the same category of being a millennial.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So I just think it's not all but right. So,
like you say, all but let me give the ages.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
If you're gen z you're between the ages of twelve
and twenty seven. If you're a millennial, you're between the
ages of twenty eight and forty three, And if you're
a gen xer, you're between forty four and fifty nine.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Wow, fifty nine, Okay, that's pretty high.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But yeah, so let me just say real quick, a
couple of things that I don't really like about gen
z ers.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Let's hear it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Okay, what I leave you start with the like or
just like, which do you want?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I think?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Like?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Okay, So what I like about you guys is you're
very ambitious. I know six year olds that are making
a million dollars a year because they come up with
these ideas. They get them patentent, copywriter or whatever and
that kind of stuff. I'm like, Wait, if I was
six and I have my own company selling Barbie dolls
or whatever, that would be great.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So I love the hustle, if you will.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I love the social media mindset these kids nowadays, literally
kids because they're like twelve, thirteen and older, they can
take an idea and just grow it into a business.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I love that aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What I don't like is sometimes you guys are just
kind of like, yeah, I woke up this morning, and
whatever happens, life happens. Like I was in TJ Max
and I asked the girl who works there, what time
do you guys close tonight? Because I needed to go
somewhere else first and I wanted to make sure that
TJ Max will still be open.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
She looked at me and she's like, I don't know,
you don't know what time the store closes that you
work in. So that kind of stuff perturbs me.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I'm like, oh, like overlooking, like the basic things like
how do you not know.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
What time the store that you're employed by closes that night?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Serious?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
I mean it's interesting because, like you said, we value creativity,
we're very ambitious in nose fields, but if we're working
on something we.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Don't want to do, we're not we don't want to
do it, okay?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
That because her attitude was very like don't want to
be exactly okay, So I'll let that slide. And one
other thing that I don't like about gen Z's you
guys are very not you guys, but I'm saying it correctly,
very disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's not a good look.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Like I've seen kids yelling at their parents and I'm like, who,
I would never ride in my generation, never like screaming
like a sixteen year old girl the other day was
like yelling at her mom in the store, and her
mom was just like taking it.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Do you think that's an issue with our generation or
the generation that raised us?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Ooh, the question, question question.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But the generation that raised you would have been for
you like mine or before.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Us or is it the millennials that are having no
It would be your generation yep.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
And then after that would be the baby bimmers r Yeah,
because they would be the one disciplining us.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So I don't know, but that disrespect thing, that is
not a good look at all.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I have seen that because I do have some friends
that when I see the way they talk to their parents,
I personally know I can never talk to mine like
that and get away with it. So I and I
still don't know if that is an age gap or
it is just how you were also brought up and raised,
because I do know some also some gen zs that
are more respectful and they know you know how to
control themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
My case basis because I know you would never talk
to your dad.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Guess are strict on a millennial because I think we
just have the most common sense. I think you guys
are just like waking up, What do I want to
do today. I'm gonna quit my job travel That's not common.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
So I'm just gonna travel the world with just red
Ball and we're not gonna get it that Bcelona where
your guys generation from Beyonce.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You guys, I feel like it's just too set in
the same ways. You get what I'm saying, like not you,
because we know you will go off the cuff. But you, guys,
don't change. It's very this is how it's done. It
needs to stay this way. So I feel like it
comes to us to keep the world.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You know what I'm saying, guys. But also that's the
virgo in me.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah okay, he's a proud virgo. Yeah okay, So Olivia.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Well, I I think that quitting your job and traveling
the world is definitely something Saraphine and I would representing
this generation. I mean, we both travel all the time.
And me, it's like booking a flight, Okay, I'll just
book a flight, like it doesn't I feel like it's
an experience. Like Theraphia said, we really value experiences. And
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something I'm doing this year is I'm actually converting my
school to online, which is something I did last year,
just to be able to experience.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Different things and travel.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
And in the fall, I'm a US open ball girl,
so to be able to do things like that. I
have to do my schooling online and I kind of
love it. It's kind of it's different, but it's it's
something that COVID. Now that we have COVID, we do online.
So yeah, that's something with our generation. I think at
least in my area of influence is a lot of us. Yes,
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school is very important, but we're also valuing experiences of
like we get opportunities to do things out of school,
Like my professors are like, yeah, go and do that,
Go experience that. So is that a thing when you
guys were in college, of like I'm going to miss
class to go experience something else, or is it always
like textbook do everything like at school on your campus.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Combination of both, Yeah, I've done both.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I've done the out of country uh learning experiences.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Getting my masters. I studied at the University of London.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So I've always had that, oh my god, let me
get out of this country, let me experience something different.
And to this day that's where I'm different, he said,
I'm a little different.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
To this day.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I will just book a flight and go somewhere because
I value experiences too.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So that's something I have in common with. Okay, okay, right.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Here comes the millennial cloud.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
One that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So I went to Purdue and like, my I feel
like my sophomore, junior, senior year it became that way
where studying abroad became a huge thing. But before that,
like I really feel like we didn't hear about that,
so I didn't study abroad. I was one of those
like four years I got to be here. I got
to the school in person too. This is gonna drop probably.
You know, I've never been out the country. Wow, never
been out the country.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
That weird.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But it's bad though, because I've been flying since I
was a baby, Like we fly all the time, but
I've just never been out the country because I'm very
kind of like set in Stone, where I know you
guys are like experiences come first. I'm like, no, I
gotta go to work, I gotta go to this, and
then Beyonce knows for me to book a flight to
go anywhere, it's going to take like three months of preparation. Oh,
and like I have to think about it. Where you
guys need three hours your flight.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Is books also depends like where we're at financially and
or experience.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Real bills right now.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
That's curious what our parents are always like telling us,
like why are you doing this? Sarah Phene and I
once called each other and decided to book a flight
in Hawaii and did it within the span of only
a few hours.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So we're kind of out there.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But I love it, Yeah, but we don't take.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It for granted.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Yeah, And that's one thing.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
We're very blessed, Like we know how fortunate we are,
and we make the most out of our what we
have and what our parents built for us as well,
and appreciating that because without them we wouldn't have the
life that we have and everything and that sure, so
I think we definitely have appreciation for that. We're not
just like spending everything like crazy and that ends, but
we know the life that we could be living and
we don't want to waste it. I feel like with
our generation too, a lot of people expect everything to
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be handed to them. Yeah. I think that's a big
thing that we're both kind of just working on too.
Like you have to get up and get what you want,
you know.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And I think you guys are a good representation of that,
is that you can live your life. But you guys also,
I can just tell in these first few minutes you
have morals, you have respect, you know, you're grateful for
where you come from. Where it's not always like that,
like you said, there are the other people that are
just like they feel like I should get this entitlement.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, absolutely, Okay, So you touched on education a little
bit ago. Let's go into that right now. Education Is
college still necessary? Is that something gen Z believes in college?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
When I look at these six.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And twelve year olds on social media being millionaires because
of some concept that came up with their parents, most
people are like, Okay, she's eight, she's a millionaire, Why
does she need a college degree?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I would say it's very subjective. There's no right or
wrong answer. But I think it's more so not even
just the education's more so the whole college experience. And
I think it is helpful for people to be on
their own, living on their own without their parents and
figuring out life and seeing what they like and what
they don't like.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I don't think you need college.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
To do that, but it is a good stable area
to help you and try different courses and try different things.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
But I don't think you need it.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
But I think if you have the opportunity to do it,
and you financially can support yourself with it, then I
think it would be a good interest. But there's also
so many different options, like community college doing in that
for two years. There's so many people that did community
college and then transfer into like state like I go
to San Diego State and a lot of people did that.
Didn't even know that was a huge option for a
lot of people to do. But I think it kind
of just depends. But I think people are valuing the
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whole college experience more so than just Okay, I'm going
to play Devil's advocate.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I do not think it's necessary.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
I am a firm believer that today, like you said,
there's six year olds making millions of dollars. Especially with
the rise of social media like influencing, you can really
do anything. And something I always think about is college
is so expensive, but you're paying for like the piece
of paper, because anyone can just walk into like a
Harvard class, like speaking a lecture hall, and you're learning
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the same stuff, but you're you're paying for like the
actual degree.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You can learn the same material. You can even learn
that material online.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
We have all these resources now, So I personally don't
think it's necessary.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
But okay, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
What are you studying at ole miss? What's your major?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I am studying marketing and communications.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Oh okay, I'm studying it's a mix of business and
journalism and digital media, so kind of all over the place.
But I feel like I do way more outside of
school than in school. Like that's why I want to
go far away from home a little bit, just like
put myself in a situation I haven't been and don't
know anyone, don't know anything, start my own kind of gig,
and just do my own work my way up in
that aspect, school has helped, but it's also what you
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do outside of it, for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
True. Yeah, I think school.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I mean, I still think I gained a lot of
college a lot of things from college.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But I really do feel like college was a lot
of life experiences.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, like I said, that was your first time going
out so far, i'mb that was my first time moving
away of course, being on your own, really trying to
figure out, like, Okay, how do I navigate this kind
of like how do you budget the little money money
that you do have? In college, I feel like I
got more life experiences. And then even with what we
do now in radio, it was my internships that I
did that I did get through college, but that's what
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taught me what I'm doing now. What I learned in
the classroom, I didn't really I think I'm just.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
A nerd in general.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So no, matter what my occupation is, I always want
to be in school somewhere, So every five years I'll
pick up and just take a class or.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Just I'm a constant learner. I just like education, period,
so that's why I go to school.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I'm a proponent of education. I do agree or I
do feel that everyone should have a basis of some education,
whether it's a trade school, community college, a four year institution,
just doing something online, just something so you have some
knowledge of something so you can kind of move ahead
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in life. So I'm I'm all about education, but it's
not for everybody. I understand that it is not for everybody.
And some people are more successful without a college degree,
the people who have four, five, and six degrees.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
So it's all it's relative.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
And it's interesting because learning is so important obviously, but
how much are kids today always learning? Because now we
have all these AI, the things we have chat GBT,
kids are always cheating, you can, there's hard they can
they can find ways to just use the internet.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
We don't have to study from a book now.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
I know.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
So it's so different than how are right there?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
You can just go to Google Chimni It's right there
I got.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, that did not help you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
My mom's a teacher, so when he was we were
talking to the skill level that went down, especially with COVID.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's just sad.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah, but anyway, so what else did you guys
want to talk about?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Tell us about your experience with red Oh yeah, this.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Is a very gen z.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
So basically, red Bull has this thing, it's called red Bull.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Can you make it?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
And the objective is to make it from a starting
point in Europe. There's five starting points either Berlin sorry
to make it to Berlin. So you either start in Milan, Budapetz, Copenhagen,
Amsterdam or Barcelona.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
You get dropped off.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
In one of those one of those cities, and you
used to make it all the way to Berlin only
using red.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Bull as your currency.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
You have no phone, no money, no accommodations, no nothing.
And my team and I, Lucas and Ozzy. Ozzie called
me one day and was like, hey, there's this challenge
going on. You guys should like we should apply. So
we made a sixty second video pitching ourselves and we
made the video, came together, but we detached from the outcome.
We were like, if it doesn't happen. It's not it's
not gonna happen. If it happens, great either way. We're
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happy that we're able to come together and make a video.
And then I get a call from Jared who works
for Red Bull.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
He's like, hey, you guys have you guys have made it?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Congratulations, Like you guys are starting in Barcelona, blah blah blah.
And then like fast forward like a month after that,
Red Bull paid for our trip to then go to Barcelona,
started there, and then we went all the way to Berlin.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
That is crazy. For a whole week, you did not
have a.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Phone, and they had a content phone for us where
we capture because it's a very it's a marketing thing.
But yeah, we only use like a content phone and
just capture content. Other than that, like no maps, no internet,
no nothing. And now I feel like I'm very experienced
in that realm of travel. Even trying to get get
here today, I'm like I know where I'm going, Like
I'll be fine, Like if.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I do that, I.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I go, I have my phone with my backup if
I need it, but I'm like I can get it.
I feel I'm feeling more confident now how did you
do it?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
How my teammates?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
For sure?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
If I would never do that alone, And that was
a huge thing of like that I'm just lesson than
I'm learning myself.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Is like shared experiences.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
It's one thing to do by yourself, like we can
we can go out to dinner by ourselves, we can
go to the beach by ourselves, but it's a whole
nother thing doing it with someone, like if I had
a podcast alone, but with everyone here, shared experience is
so important. I'm really learning and valuing that. So without
my teammates, I would not be able to do it
that And then my mindset for sure of like you
have to make the most of everything if you're we
had to sleep on the beach one night, I pulled
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an all nighter and I was like, how do I
make the most of this? And I was like I
was so I was struggling with that, but I was
just like when will I ever be at the beach
again in these France looking at nothing, having no worries
right now? And I was trying to have to make
the most of it.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
How long did it take for you guys?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
It was a week we had to wait to be
a week to make it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, you're just stopping at strangers houses, having a hosta
and just like amazing, amazing.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah, and I was in school like just finished ups
and everything, So it was kind of the perfect timing
in a way. But I think that's something with gen
Z is just like experiences and we just want to
We value that so much of just wanting to get
out there and try new things, even if we're not
the most like financially stable at the moment. It's kind
of like once in a lifetime type experiences.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
For sure, that's awesome. I look, if you dropped me
off of Milan. Look, oh wait, I didn't have money though, right, Yeah,
no case shopping. Okay, that's not going to work. Oh Nivia,
what about you? What experience have you that's just like
amazing or that you would.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Love to have?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Okay, So something I did this year which I am
very excited about is I actually performed in the Super
Bowl halftime show with Usher. Okay, so I recently got
back into dance and they were having like open auditions
for you have to send in like choreography and like
follow what they were doing obviously, but I just that's
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another thing. I just thought like, let me just send
it in and there are a few more rounds and
then I heard back and here we are.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
So that was really exciting.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
But so to be able to do that though, I
had to go convert to online because I had to
be rehearsing in Vegas for like a month beforehand. So
that's just where I love the balance of like work
and school versus like having to be at school for attendance.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
So yeah, it's kind of interest.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
It's like the COVID how people are working hybrid now
mm hmm, yeah, so kind.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
A little bit of that.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
How was that experience of doing Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
It was amazing?
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Okay, and we couldn't have her phone, so you couldn't
like get pictures of oure but it's fine.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
But yeah, it was really good.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Didn't happen that if you think of the photo.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Exactly so, but it was amazing.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Just being surrounded by like so many creative individuals and
learning from a lot of professionals was really cool.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
A lot of artists are starting to do that though.
A couple of years ago or was it last year,
I don't know when. Was silk Sonic super Hot?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Was that two years ago?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Okay, two three, we couldn't have our phones at that
and I was like, what, you guys are the hottest
act right now?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And then recently we went to an cool Ja listening party.
He's got a new album coming out, and they took
our phones for that as well. And I just will
never understand that, like everything is digital now, everything is content.
Like I know, they don't want it to leak, but
somewhere somebody has on the phone and it's gonna leak anyway,
so you may as well just let us all have
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our phone.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
I have a question actually with your guys is like
college experience. What was the phone situation for both of
you guys in college? Like, was it up and coming
for millennials? Was it orty thing like anything documented?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Or not so much social media like it is now.
I mean it was big, but not like now.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I mean, I think social media just changes by the
month nowadays, because six months ago.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Certain things weren't as hot as they are now.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know what I mean totally, But of course we
had phones, we had social media, we had all of that.
But now you've got Instagram, you got TikTok, you got
all these other things. Whereas before it was just pretty
much Facebook, Twitter.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Now it's just like whoa with us?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Now it's like one second someone snaps a photo of
you and you can quote unquote get canceled for something
or misidentifying or if you're in a sorority or frat
and you're not supposed.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
To do like this quick picture snap done.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
That kicked out.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That is kind of like what we went through. I
remember my freshman year. I was like, I'm going to
Big ten school. I'm about to live it up. I'm
about to party, and I was doing that. But I
have two older brothers and I'm so grateful because the
moment I posted like the first photo and was on
Twitter because Twitter was big back then, my brothers immediately
call me like take this down, And I was.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Like, what, I'm having fun?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
If I got said I'm having fun in college and
they're like ten years from now when you're trying to
get a job. But when you graduate, they're going to
search all your photos and they don't need to see
that you like to drink this on a Friday night.
And I'll never forget that conversation because since that moment
my freshman year, I had stopped posting anything going out.
Even now, I won't post like if I'm like super
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drunk or anything like that, just because I'm thinking like
right of that part of it. But it was I
understand what you're saying. I do know people that went
through that I have. I was friends with basketball players
and football players who are playing for Division one and
I took this one photo of you smoking or get drinking,
and scholarships were loss.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
When I was to school, it wasn't as bad though,
it was like people were just normal, Like now people
are just wilding ieeling yeah, yeah, but now it's a
little bit like over the top.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Like women like basically naked and like it mustn't like that.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It was like we're gonna post and everything was so
g rated and you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh yeah, times they just keep getting crazy weird.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
It's very like external focus to people just posting just
for the external validation, yeah, or doing moments or specific
things just so you can.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Have a photo or a video and post about it.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
And something that's been interesting about me lately is I've
always like had Instagram, but recently I just like deleted
it because I just I'm really I don't know, I
was deleted and then go on Sundays just to like
catch up with people, because I think it's a great
form of like if you're building your brand or communication
with people or connecting. But I got in this little
trap of like comparison and just posting just a post.
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And I'm just so happy and content with my life.
Like I just I'm super blessed for my life right now,
and I feel like I don't even need to show
it just because I'm not happy with it that I'm
like I don't even need any like like survalidation with it,
like and don't get worry. I do post on YouTube,
but I feel like that's a different way. Yeah, people
have to like people have to want to watch exactly
and click it versus Instagram people are just like can
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just go.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Through their homepage and everyone.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Yeah, but that's kind of like a new Revolution type
thing that I've been going through. Like I'm just very
content with my life and like, if you are my
good friend, I will be receiving photos from you via
text message, Like we'll text photos from our week just
to like see what we've been up to.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Like your best friends.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Close, those are the ones that really truly matter.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
To me and like, I'm gonna talk to you. I
doesn't need v Instagram, I can text you and everything.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
In social media too.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
It's like everyone's just showing the best version of themselves,
the best things that they're up to. It's not always
what's actually going on. So maybe that's why we're like, oh,
we gotta go here, we gotta go here, because we're.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Like everyone's doing it.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah, that is true, because everyone is showing their best
lives of studying abroad. And when you talk to people
like people are like I was miserable during abroad or
I was miserable during this relationship.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Yeah, but they're posting with their boyfriend all happy and smiling.
But on the flip side, it's.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Like, yeah, but this photoho verry deceptive.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
One thing I will remember that you told me Ryan,
you said millennials, your generation, you guys post, not you necessarily,
but you know people or people in that generation post
to impress others. And I just thought that was so sad.
When you told me that, I was like, oh my god,
is he serious right now? You even said something. You
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gave this great example, and that always stuck with me.
You're like, yeah, we'll go down to not you necessarily,
but yeah, we'll go down to Stake forty eight and
we don't even have the money to pay for an entree,
but we'll get appetizers and we'll take pictures to make
people think that we're out here bawling and eating all this.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And I'm like, and we were you serious? That's funny
you said that.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I just had a conversation with somebody yesterday because they
got invited to a party of somebody who like, not
that they don't have money, but they're not financially where
you should be. Hey, I'm having a birthday party and
we're getting bottle service and we're getting a table, send
hundreds of dollars and all of this because it's the
look of it's my birthday. I want the sparklers to
come out. I want the bottles to come out instead
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of realizing, a if you don't have gas money on
Monday by Friday, you shouldn't be.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
That's how it is in college right now.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Like I remember it was some roommate situation and we
all had to like buy paper towels or something, and
someone couldn't buy them, but then could buy like a
handle the next day.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Likely I think it's like we don't.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Have money, but then we get the bar okay, shot
so on me, but what happened two days ago?
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Literally, And I think that's also We've been seeing a
little bit of a de kind almost that I've experienced
of people going out in our generation. And I think
it's also a little bit of financial like everything is
so expensive.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So yeah, I ate another day with a friend and
our bill was one sixteen a piece, that's and all
I had was.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Like a couple of shrimp and something. I'm like, Okay,
I'm doing too much. Yeah, yeah, And I eat out
all the time.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Especially when we're younger. We work more hourly jobs.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
So if you're going out and you're gonna spend twenty
dollars on drink, you gotta think to yourself, Okay, this
is like an hour of rar.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Do I really want to spend?
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Yeah, we didn't go out that, we barely go out
and like do all that. I think I used to
more in high school, but in college, Like I'm just
I'm just content with where I'm at.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Like that's how I love that.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I don't like I don't so much money because I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Be mad, like I used to be that way, especially
when I got out of college. I was back in
the city, I was out all the time. But then
now I'm kind of like pop out. I do, but
it's it's for work. Like you, No, we'll go to
those events, but other than that, it's a lifestyle. I'm
out seven days a week. I don't even know how
I do it.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
You are going to go Beyonce's a queen, just like
she's like, who knows, It's gonna be like long After
party soon.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
As my lifestyle, even before radio.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So before we.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Go, can I ask you what's next for you guys?
Because you have gone across the country, You're dancing in
super Bowls?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
What what is that?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Now?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I'll let you go first, you know what, it's a surprise.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
So her older sister who were staying with actually asked
this last night, what are you guys gonna do next year?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Because we're graduating college. So it's a big deal. And
I don't think any of us really knows. I know
a lot of people don't like to get asked that question.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
But I guess that's the worst question.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Is Yeah, because we may be working in business, we
might be starting our own business.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
We might be.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
You know, there's just so many different avenues that I'm
interested in, she's interested in. So I don't really know,
but I'm excited and I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No, I really do want to know, Yeah I do.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Yeah, I'm on the same thing of I don't necessarily
know exactly what's next. I think that's the beauty of
being in gen Z right now and just being in
our twenties is who knows what the next day we'll bring,
for the better or for worse. So I'm really just
trying to take it day by day, just enjoying what
I have in front of me now and just doing
random experiences like this being on your res an amazing podcast.
You know, it could lead to something else down the road.
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So just enjoying every single day the best I can.
Because we were talking about this a little bit earlier,
of like, yeah, you can go to college, get a
degree in one thing, have a job, but that's like
one that's one plane, that's one level. Like I want
to have different avenues and just try different things, find
out what I don't like, what I do like, and
just my biggest thing is I just never want to
get time in my life.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
And be like, I wish I did that.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I wish if I couldn't would have shu.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Yeah. Yeah, So I'm like right now just like, okay,
maybe construction, I don't know, whatever, whatever, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That's the person that came to mind.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Come back.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
But we love your mentorship as gen X.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You guys are awesome.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I love YouTube. Thank you for.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Coming on our podcast today.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Sarah Fina, who is a senior at San Diego State, Yes,
and Olivia, who is going to be a senior at
Ole Miss thank you ladies.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
And if anyone wants to check out my red Bull
video Serafina Gardulo on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I made the video.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
It's like it's called traveling across the Road with no Money,
So if you want to check it out, that'd be
a lot.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
But Olivia, what's your social.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Just Olivia version okay?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And mine is Beyonce Fox on all platforms and you
can
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Follow me at Ryan immediately and you can check out
this podcast on iHeart Radio app and YouTube at will
disagree to disagree
It's another episode of the will Just Agree to Disagree podcast?
I am I am here, man, let's just say, I
am here.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You're here?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah, I'm happy to be here. What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm happy to be here. It's an early long week
from me be here early. Yeah, it's a long week.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I have you've been getting here before I do. Yeah,
I know that's pretty early.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The car you got, because I see it in the
garage every time I come here.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, the white one.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, sure, okay, So anyway, we have yes today. I
am so excited about our special guests. One of our
special guests, her dad does my teeth and he's amazing.
He is like my favorite in the whole world. Like
he took out my wisdom teeth.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I gotta get my wisdom out.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
He is amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Anyone who knows me knows I don't like anything medical related.
I like start happovitilating when I go to the doctor.
It's just a whole process with me, and he is
so amazing. He gets the job done and I walk
out with a big smile.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So shout out to doctor g that's in our column.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And with that further ado, we're gonna introduce our guests.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Hello, I am doctor Je's daughter.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
That is why I'm here at the amazing Beyonce and
Ryan super blessed to be here. And Beyonce has always
just been very welcoming to us. And I brought my sidekick.
Can my soul sister live with me?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Hey, I'm Olivia so happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Thanks for hanging out with us.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Hey, guys, we're so excited.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Oh so are we? So we're gonna get right into it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, So Ryan, we know about this whole generational thing.
That's why the podcast is why it's called will just
agree to disagree.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I am a generation xer, a proud generation xer.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Ryan is a millennial, and Olivia and Serafina are gen
Z correct. So first of all, let's start with this
whole generational difference thing.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Let me just start, and I say this respectfully, but
gen Z's you guys are a trip.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Wrong at all?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You guys?
Speaker 6 (02:11):
What I think we're defying a lot of norms of
what everything has how it's been. We're like, we want
to do the opposite of everything. And I don't want
to speak for everyone, but if there's something that's been
one way the entire time. We're like, we're gonna, we're
gonna switch, like you just want to switch everything up
because it might be a thing of like we need
to stand out. And I'm not saying that there's things
that are really good, some are not, maybe not the
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best decisions that gen Z is like defining the norms with.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But let's also say, and what are you guys again?
I'm okay, we're gonna call them gen o because we
can't say we can say I That's why I feel
like millennials we are right in the middle. There are
some ways that have been set in stone that I
do agree with that gen Z started or gen z
(02:55):
X gen X let's start it, and I agree with.
But there are some newer ways that I'm like, I
like this. I think the battle comes when these younger
ones are trying to redo everything you guys did or
do something different that's not of the norm. Yeah, and
then that's where millennials come in. There was like, eh,
which one?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So you guys are like the mediators or you mean
you just don't know which way you want to go.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I think we're the ones.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I think we're the ones that is like let's think
about this. Oh, I feel like you guys are kind
of set in stone, like this is how somethen right
because I rock with.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
A lot of what gen zers do, and I like
what a lot of millennials do, and sometimes I disagree
with what gen xer is and that's how I feel.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
There's some things that I don't like about a millennial.
We talked about this before some millennials in the workplace.
I'm like, yo, I don't have this mindset like you do,
but we're under the same category of being a millennial.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So I just think it's not all but right. So,
like you say, all but let me give the ages.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
If you're gen z you're between the ages of twelve
and twenty seven. If you're a millennial, you're between the
ages of twenty eight and forty three, And if you're
a gen xer, you're between forty four and fifty nine.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Wow, fifty nine, Okay, that's pretty high.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But yeah, so let me just say real quick, a
couple of things that I don't really like about gen
z ers.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Let's hear it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Okay, what I leave you start with the like or
just like, which do you want?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I think?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Like?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Okay, So what I like about you guys is you're
very ambitious. I know six year olds that are making
a million dollars a year because they come up with
these ideas. They get them patentent, copywriter or whatever and
that kind of stuff. I'm like, Wait, if I was
six and I have my own company selling Barbie dolls
or whatever, that would be great.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So I love the hustle, if you will.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I love the social media mindset these kids nowadays, literally
kids because they're like twelve, thirteen and older, they can
take an idea and just grow it into a business.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I love that aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What I don't like is sometimes you guys are just
kind of like, yeah, I woke up this morning, and
whatever happens, life happens. Like I was in TJ Max
and I asked the girl who works there, what time
do you guys close tonight? Because I needed to go
somewhere else first and I wanted to make sure that
TJ Max will still be open.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
She looked at me and she's like, I don't know,
you don't know what time the store closes that you
work in. So that kind of stuff perturbs me.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I'm like, oh, like overlooking, like the basic things like
how do you not know.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
What time the store that you're employed by closes that night?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Serious?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
I mean it's interesting because, like you said, we value creativity,
we're very ambitious in nose fields, but if we're working
on something we.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Don't want to do, we're not we don't want to
do it, okay?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
That because her attitude was very like don't want to
be exactly okay, So I'll let that slide. And one
other thing that I don't like about gen Z's you
guys are very not you guys, but I'm saying it correctly,
very disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's not a good look.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Like I've seen kids yelling at their parents and I'm like, who,
I would never ride in my generation, never like screaming
like a sixteen year old girl the other day was
like yelling at her mom in the store, and her
mom was just like taking it.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Do you think that's an issue with our generation or
the generation that raised us?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Ooh, the question, question question.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But the generation that raised you would have been for
you like mine or before.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Us or is it the millennials that are having no
It would be your generation yep.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
And then after that would be the baby bimmers r Yeah,
because they would be the one disciplining us.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So I don't know, but that disrespect thing, that is
not a good look at all.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I have seen that because I do have some friends
that when I see the way they talk to their parents,
I personally know I can never talk to mine like
that and get away with it. So I and I
still don't know if that is an age gap or
it is just how you were also brought up and raised,
because I do know some also some gen zs that
are more respectful and they know you know how to
control themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
My case basis because I know you would never talk
to your dad.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Guess are strict on a millennial because I think we
just have the most common sense. I think you guys
are just like waking up, What do I want to
do today. I'm gonna quit my job travel That's not common.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
So I'm just gonna travel the world with just red
Ball and we're not gonna get it that Bcelona where
your guys generation from Beyonce.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You guys, I feel like it's just too set in
the same ways. You get what I'm saying, like not you,
because we know you will go off the cuff. But you, guys,
don't change. It's very this is how it's done. It
needs to stay this way. So I feel like it
comes to us to keep the world.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You know what I'm saying, guys. But also that's the
virgo in me.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah okay, he's a proud virgo. Yeah okay, So Olivia.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Well, I I think that quitting your job and traveling
the world is definitely something Saraphine and I would representing
this generation. I mean, we both travel all the time.
And me, it's like booking a flight, Okay, I'll just
book a flight, like it doesn't I feel like it's
an experience. Like Theraphia said, we really value experiences. And
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something I'm doing this year is I'm actually converting my
school to online, which is something I did last year,
just to be able to experience.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Different things and travel.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
And in the fall, I'm a US open ball girl,
so to be able to do things like that. I
have to do my schooling online and I kind of
love it. It's kind of it's different, but it's it's
something that COVID. Now that we have COVID, we do online.
So yeah, that's something with our generation. I think at
least in my area of influence is a lot of us. Yes,
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school is very important, but we're also valuing experiences of
like we get opportunities to do things out of school,
Like my professors are like, yeah, go and do that,
Go experience that. So is that a thing when you
guys were in college, of like I'm going to miss
class to go experience something else, or is it always
like textbook do everything like at school on your campus.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Combination of both, Yeah, I've done both.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I've done the out of country uh learning experiences.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Getting my masters. I studied at the University of London.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So I've always had that, oh my god, let me
get out of this country, let me experience something different.
And to this day that's where I'm different, he said,
I'm a little different.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
To this day.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I will just book a flight and go somewhere because
I value experiences too.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So that's something I have in common with. Okay, okay, right.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Here comes the millennial cloud.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
One that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So I went to Purdue and like, my I feel
like my sophomore, junior, senior year it became that way
where studying abroad became a huge thing. But before that,
like I really feel like we didn't hear about that,
so I didn't study abroad. I was one of those
like four years I got to be here. I got
to the school in person too. This is gonna drop probably.
You know, I've never been out the country. Wow, never
been out the country.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
That weird.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But it's bad though, because I've been flying since I
was a baby, Like we fly all the time, but
I've just never been out the country because I'm very
kind of like set in Stone, where I know you
guys are like experiences come first. I'm like, no, I
gotta go to work, I gotta go to this, and
then Beyonce knows for me to book a flight to
go anywhere, it's going to take like three months of preparation. Oh,
and like I have to think about it. Where you
guys need three hours your flight.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Is books also depends like where we're at financially and
or experience.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Real bills right now.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
That's curious what our parents are always like telling us,
like why are you doing this? Sarah Phene and I
once called each other and decided to book a flight
in Hawaii and did it within the span of only
a few hours.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So we're kind of out there.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But I love it, Yeah, but we don't take.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It for granted.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Yeah, And that's one thing.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
We're very blessed, Like we know how fortunate we are,
and we make the most out of our what we
have and what our parents built for us as well,
and appreciating that because without them we wouldn't have the
life that we have and everything and that sure, so
I think we definitely have appreciation for that. We're not
just like spending everything like crazy and that ends, but
we know the life that we could be living and
we don't want to waste it. I feel like with
our generation too, a lot of people expect everything to
(11:00):
be handed to them. Yeah. I think that's a big
thing that we're both kind of just working on too.
Like you have to get up and get what you want,
you know.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And I think you guys are a good representation of that,
is that you can live your life. But you guys also,
I can just tell in these first few minutes you
have morals, you have respect, you know, you're grateful for
where you come from. Where it's not always like that,
like you said, there are the other people that are
just like they feel like I should get this entitlement.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, absolutely, Okay, So you touched on education a little
bit ago. Let's go into that right now. Education Is
college still necessary? Is that something gen Z believes in college?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
When I look at these six.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And twelve year olds on social media being millionaires because
of some concept that came up with their parents, most
people are like, Okay, she's eight, she's a millionaire, Why
does she need a college degree?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I would say it's very subjective. There's no right or
wrong answer. But I think it's more so not even
just the education's more so the whole college experience. And
I think it is helpful for people to be on
their own, living on their own without their parents and
figuring out life and seeing what they like and what
they don't like.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I don't think you need college.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
To do that, but it is a good stable area
to help you and try different courses and try different things.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
But I don't think you need it.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
But I think if you have the opportunity to do it,
and you financially can support yourself with it, then I
think it would be a good interest. But there's also
so many different options, like community college doing in that
for two years. There's so many people that did community
college and then transfer into like state like I go
to San Diego State and a lot of people did that.
Didn't even know that was a huge option for a
lot of people to do. But I think it kind
of just depends. But I think people are valuing the
(12:37):
whole college experience more so than just Okay, I'm going
to play Devil's advocate.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I do not think it's necessary.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
I am a firm believer that today, like you said,
there's six year olds making millions of dollars. Especially with
the rise of social media like influencing, you can really
do anything. And something I always think about is college
is so expensive, but you're paying for like the piece
of paper, because anyone can just walk into like a
Harvard class, like speaking a lecture hall, and you're learning
(13:03):
the same stuff, but you're you're paying for like the
actual degree.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You can learn the same material. You can even learn
that material online.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
We have all these resources now, So I personally don't
think it's necessary.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
But okay, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
What are you studying at ole miss? What's your major?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I am studying marketing and communications.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Oh okay, I'm studying it's a mix of business and
journalism and digital media, so kind of all over the place.
But I feel like I do way more outside of
school than in school. Like that's why I want to
go far away from home a little bit, just like
put myself in a situation I haven't been and don't
know anyone, don't know anything, start my own kind of gig,
and just do my own work my way up in
that aspect, school has helped, but it's also what you
(13:42):
do outside of it, for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
True. Yeah, I think school.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I mean, I still think I gained a lot of
college a lot of things from college.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But I really do feel like college was a lot
of life experiences.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, like I said, that was your first time going
out so far, i'mb that was my first time moving
away of course, being on your own, really trying to
figure out, like, Okay, how do I navigate this kind
of like how do you budget the little money money
that you do have? In college, I feel like I
got more life experiences. And then even with what we
do now in radio, it was my internships that I
did that I did get through college, but that's what
(14:13):
taught me what I'm doing now. What I learned in
the classroom, I didn't really I think I'm just.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
A nerd in general.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So no, matter what my occupation is, I always want
to be in school somewhere, So every five years I'll
pick up and just take a class or.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Just I'm a constant learner. I just like education, period,
so that's why I go to school.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I'm a proponent of education. I do agree or I
do feel that everyone should have a basis of some education,
whether it's a trade school, community college, a four year institution,
just doing something online, just something so you have some
knowledge of something so you can kind of move ahead
(15:00):
in life. So I'm I'm all about education, but it's
not for everybody. I understand that it is not for everybody.
And some people are more successful without a college degree,
the people who have four, five, and six degrees.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
So it's all it's relative.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
And it's interesting because learning is so important obviously, but
how much are kids today always learning? Because now we
have all these AI, the things we have chat GBT,
kids are always cheating, you can, there's hard they can
they can find ways to just use the internet.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
We don't have to study from a book now.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
I know.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
So it's so different than how are right there?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
You can just go to Google Chimni It's right there
I got.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, that did not help you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
My mom's a teacher, so when he was we were
talking to the skill level that went down, especially with COVID.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's just sad.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah, but anyway, so what else did you guys
want to talk about?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Tell us about your experience with red Oh yeah, this.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Is a very gen z.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
So basically, red Bull has this thing, it's called red Bull.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Can you make it?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
And the objective is to make it from a starting
point in Europe. There's five starting points either Berlin sorry
to make it to Berlin. So you either start in Milan, Budapetz, Copenhagen,
Amsterdam or Barcelona.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
You get dropped off.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
In one of those one of those cities, and you
used to make it all the way to Berlin only
using red.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Bull as your currency.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
You have no phone, no money, no accommodations, no nothing.
And my team and I, Lucas and Ozzy. Ozzie called
me one day and was like, hey, there's this challenge
going on. You guys should like we should apply. So
we made a sixty second video pitching ourselves and we
made the video, came together, but we detached from the outcome.
We were like, if it doesn't happen. It's not it's
not gonna happen. If it happens, great either way. We're
(16:43):
happy that we're able to come together and make a video.
And then I get a call from Jared who works
for Red Bull.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
He's like, hey, you guys have you guys have made it?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Congratulations, Like you guys are starting in Barcelona, blah blah blah.
And then like fast forward like a month after that,
Red Bull paid for our trip to then go to Barcelona,
started there, and then we went all the way to Berlin.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
That is crazy. For a whole week, you did not
have a.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Phone, and they had a content phone for us where
we capture because it's a very it's a marketing thing.
But yeah, we only use like a content phone and
just capture content. Other than that, like no maps, no internet,
no nothing. And now I feel like I'm very experienced
in that realm of travel. Even trying to get get
here today, I'm like I know where I'm going, Like
I'll be fine, Like if.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I do that, I.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I go, I have my phone with my backup if
I need it, but I'm like I can get it.
I feel I'm feeling more confident now how did you
do it?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
How my teammates?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
For sure?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
If I would never do that alone, And that was
a huge thing of like that I'm just lesson than
I'm learning myself.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Is like shared experiences.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
It's one thing to do by yourself, like we can
we can go out to dinner by ourselves, we can
go to the beach by ourselves, but it's a whole
nother thing doing it with someone, like if I had
a podcast alone, but with everyone here, shared experience is
so important. I'm really learning and valuing that. So without
my teammates, I would not be able to do it
that And then my mindset for sure of like you
have to make the most of everything if you're we
had to sleep on the beach one night, I pulled
(18:01):
an all nighter and I was like, how do I
make the most of this? And I was like I
was so I was struggling with that, but I was
just like when will I ever be at the beach
again in these France looking at nothing, having no worries
right now? And I was trying to have to make
the most of it.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
How long did it take for you guys?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
It was a week we had to wait to be
a week to make it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, you're just stopping at strangers houses, having a hosta
and just like amazing, amazing.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah, and I was in school like just finished ups
and everything, So it was kind of the perfect timing
in a way. But I think that's something with gen
Z is just like experiences and we just want to
We value that so much of just wanting to get
out there and try new things, even if we're not
the most like financially stable at the moment. It's kind
of like once in a lifetime type experiences.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
For sure, that's awesome. I look, if you dropped me
off of Milan. Look, oh wait, I didn't have money though, right, Yeah,
no case shopping. Okay, that's not going to work. Oh Nivia,
what about you? What experience have you that's just like
amazing or that you would.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Love to have?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Okay, So something I did this year which I am
very excited about is I actually performed in the Super
Bowl halftime show with Usher. Okay, so I recently got
back into dance and they were having like open auditions
for you have to send in like choreography and like
follow what they were doing obviously, but I just that's
(19:25):
another thing. I just thought like, let me just send
it in and there are a few more rounds and
then I heard back and here we are.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
So that was really exciting.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
But so to be able to do that though, I
had to go convert to online because I had to
be rehearsing in Vegas for like a month beforehand. So
that's just where I love the balance of like work
and school versus like having to be at school for attendance.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
So yeah, it's kind of interest.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
It's like the COVID how people are working hybrid now
mm hmm, yeah, so kind.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
A little bit of that.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
How was that experience of doing Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
It was amazing?
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Okay, and we couldn't have her phone, so you couldn't
like get pictures of oure but it's fine.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
But yeah, it was really good.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Didn't happen that if you think of the photo.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Exactly so, but it was amazing.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Just being surrounded by like so many creative individuals and
learning from a lot of professionals was really cool.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
A lot of artists are starting to do that though.
A couple of years ago or was it last year,
I don't know when. Was silk Sonic super Hot?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Was that two years ago?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Okay, two three, we couldn't have our phones at that
and I was like, what, you guys are the hottest
act right now?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And then recently we went to an cool Ja listening party.
He's got a new album coming out, and they took
our phones for that as well. And I just will
never understand that, like everything is digital now, everything is content.
Like I know, they don't want it to leak, but
somewhere somebody has on the phone and it's gonna leak anyway,
so you may as well just let us all have
(20:59):
our phone.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
I have a question actually with your guys is like
college experience. What was the phone situation for both of
you guys in college? Like, was it up and coming
for millennials? Was it orty thing like anything documented?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Or not so much social media like it is now.
I mean it was big, but not like now.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I mean, I think social media just changes by the
month nowadays, because six months ago.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Certain things weren't as hot as they are now.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know what I mean totally, But of course we
had phones, we had social media, we had all of that.
But now you've got Instagram, you got TikTok, you got
all these other things. Whereas before it was just pretty
much Facebook, Twitter.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Now it's just like whoa with us?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Now it's like one second someone snaps a photo of
you and you can quote unquote get canceled for something
or misidentifying or if you're in a sorority or frat
and you're not supposed.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
To do like this quick picture snap done.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
That kicked out.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That is kind of like what we went through. I
remember my freshman year. I was like, I'm going to
Big ten school. I'm about to live it up. I'm
about to party, and I was doing that. But I
have two older brothers and I'm so grateful because the
moment I posted like the first photo and was on
Twitter because Twitter was big back then, my brothers immediately
call me like take this down, And I was.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Like, what, I'm having fun?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
If I got said I'm having fun in college and
they're like ten years from now when you're trying to
get a job. But when you graduate, they're going to
search all your photos and they don't need to see
that you like to drink this on a Friday night.
And I'll never forget that conversation because since that moment
my freshman year, I had stopped posting anything going out.
Even now, I won't post like if I'm like super
(22:32):
drunk or anything like that, just because I'm thinking like
right of that part of it. But it was I
understand what you're saying. I do know people that went
through that I have. I was friends with basketball players
and football players who are playing for Division one and
I took this one photo of you smoking or get drinking,
and scholarships were loss.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
When I was to school, it wasn't as bad though,
it was like people were just normal, Like now people
are just wilding ieeling yeah, yeah, but now it's a
little bit like over the top.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Like women like basically naked and like it mustn't like that.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It was like we're gonna post and everything was so
g rated and you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh yeah, times they just keep getting crazy weird.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
It's very like external focus to people just posting just
for the external validation, yeah, or doing moments or specific
things just so you can.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Have a photo or a video and post about it.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
And something that's been interesting about me lately is I've
always like had Instagram, but recently I just like deleted
it because I just I'm really I don't know, I
was deleted and then go on Sundays just to like
catch up with people, because I think it's a great
form of like if you're building your brand or communication
with people or connecting. But I got in this little
trap of like comparison and just posting just a post.
(23:47):
And I'm just so happy and content with my life.
Like I just I'm super blessed for my life right now,
and I feel like I don't even need to show
it just because I'm not happy with it that I'm
like I don't even need any like like survalidation with it,
like and don't get worry. I do post on YouTube,
but I feel like that's a different way. Yeah, people
have to like people have to want to watch exactly
and click it versus Instagram people are just like can
(24:09):
just go.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Through their homepage and everyone.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Yeah, but that's kind of like a new Revolution type
thing that I've been going through. Like I'm just very
content with my life and like, if you are my
good friend, I will be receiving photos from you via
text message, Like we'll text photos from our week just
to like see what we've been up to.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Like your best friends.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Close, those are the ones that really truly matter.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
To me and like, I'm gonna talk to you. I
doesn't need v Instagram, I can text you and everything.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
In social media too.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
It's like everyone's just showing the best version of themselves,
the best things that they're up to. It's not always
what's actually going on. So maybe that's why we're like, oh,
we gotta go here, we gotta go here, because we're.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Like everyone's doing it.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah, that is true, because everyone is showing their best
lives of studying abroad. And when you talk to people
like people are like I was miserable during abroad or
I was miserable during this relationship.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Yeah, but they're posting with their boyfriend all happy and smiling.
But on the flip side, it's.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Like, yeah, but this photoho verry deceptive.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
One thing I will remember that you told me Ryan,
you said millennials, your generation, you guys post, not you necessarily,
but you know people or people in that generation post
to impress others. And I just thought that was so sad.
When you told me that, I was like, oh my god,
is he serious right now? You even said something. You
(25:24):
gave this great example, and that always stuck with me.
You're like, yeah, we'll go down to not you necessarily,
but yeah, we'll go down to Stake forty eight and
we don't even have the money to pay for an entree,
but we'll get appetizers and we'll take pictures to make
people think that we're out here bawling and eating all this.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And I'm like, and we were you serious? That's funny
you said that.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I just had a conversation with somebody yesterday because they
got invited to a party of somebody who like, not
that they don't have money, but they're not financially where
you should be. Hey, I'm having a birthday party and
we're getting bottle service and we're getting a table, send
hundreds of dollars and all of this because it's the
look of it's my birthday. I want the sparklers to
come out. I want the bottles to come out instead
(26:04):
of realizing, a if you don't have gas money on
Monday by Friday, you shouldn't be.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
That's how it is in college right now.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Like I remember it was some roommate situation and we
all had to like buy paper towels or something, and
someone couldn't buy them, but then could buy like a
handle the next day.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Likely I think it's like we don't.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Have money, but then we get the bar okay, shot
so on me, but what happened two days ago?
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Literally, And I think that's also We've been seeing a
little bit of a de kind almost that I've experienced
of people going out in our generation. And I think
it's also a little bit of financial like everything is
so expensive.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So yeah, I ate another day with a friend and
our bill was one sixteen a piece, that's and all
I had was.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Like a couple of shrimp and something. I'm like, Okay,
I'm doing too much. Yeah, yeah, And I eat out
all the time.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Especially when we're younger. We work more hourly jobs.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
So if you're going out and you're gonna spend twenty
dollars on drink, you gotta think to yourself, Okay, this
is like an hour of rar.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Do I really want to spend?
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Yeah, we didn't go out that, we barely go out
and like do all that. I think I used to
more in high school, but in college, Like I'm just
I'm just content with where I'm at.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Like that's how I love that.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I don't like I don't so much money because I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Be mad, like I used to be that way, especially
when I got out of college. I was back in
the city, I was out all the time. But then
now I'm kind of like pop out. I do, but
it's it's for work. Like you, No, we'll go to
those events, but other than that, it's a lifestyle. I'm
out seven days a week. I don't even know how
I do it.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
You are going to go Beyonce's a queen, just like
she's like, who knows, It's gonna be like long After
party soon.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
As my lifestyle, even before radio.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So before we.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Go, can I ask you what's next for you guys?
Because you have gone across the country, You're dancing in
super Bowls?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
What what is that?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Now?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I'll let you go first, you know what, it's a surprise.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
So her older sister who were staying with actually asked
this last night, what are you guys gonna do next year?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Because we're graduating college. So it's a big deal. And
I don't think any of us really knows. I know
a lot of people don't like to get asked that question.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
But I guess that's the worst question.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Is Yeah, because we may be working in business, we
might be starting our own business.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
We might be.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
You know, there's just so many different avenues that I'm
interested in, she's interested in. So I don't really know,
but I'm excited and I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No, I really do want to know, Yeah I do.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Yeah, I'm on the same thing of I don't necessarily
know exactly what's next. I think that's the beauty of
being in gen Z right now and just being in
our twenties is who knows what the next day we'll bring,
for the better or for worse. So I'm really just
trying to take it day by day, just enjoying what
I have in front of me now and just doing
random experiences like this being on your res an amazing podcast.
You know, it could lead to something else down the road.
(28:45):
So just enjoying every single day the best I can.
Because we were talking about this a little bit earlier,
of like, yeah, you can go to college, get a
degree in one thing, have a job, but that's like
one that's one plane, that's one level. Like I want
to have different avenues and just try different things, find
out what I don't like, what I do like, and
just my biggest thing is I just never want to
get time in my life.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
And be like, I wish I did that.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I wish if I couldn't would have shu.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Yeah. Yeah, So I'm like right now just like, okay,
maybe construction, I don't know, whatever, whatever, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That's the person that came to mind.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Come back.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
But we love your mentorship as gen X.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You guys are awesome.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I love YouTube. Thank you for.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Coming on our podcast today.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Sarah Fina, who is a senior at San Diego State, Yes,
and Olivia, who is going to be a senior at
Ole Miss thank you ladies.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
And if anyone wants to check out my red Bull
video Serafina Gardulo on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I made the video.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
It's like it's called traveling across the Road with no Money,
So if you want to check it out, that'd be
a lot.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
But Olivia, what's your social.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Just Olivia version okay?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And mine is Beyonce Fox on all platforms and you
can
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Follow me at Ryan immediately and you can check out
this podcast on iHeart Radio app and YouTube at will
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Welcome to "Decisions, Decisions," the podcast where boundaries are pushed, and conversations get candid! Join your favorite hosts, Mandii B and WeezyWTF, as they dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often-taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love. Every Monday, Mandii and Weezy invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. With a blend of humor, vulnerability, and authenticity, they share their personal journeys navigating their 30s, tackling the complexities of modern relationships, and engaging in thought-provoking discussions that challenge societal expectations. From groundbreaking interviews with diverse guests to relatable stories that resonate with your experiences, "Decisions, Decisions" is your go-to source for open dialogue about what it truly means to love and connect in today's world. Get ready to reshape your understanding of relationships and embrace the freedom of authentic connections—tune in and join the conversation!