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Speaker: No, this is actually perfect because this entire podcast is all about how we know nothing.
Speaker: And I truly feel like I know nothing.
Speaker: Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker: How long have we been trying to put this together now?
Speaker: Like just today, like with our technical difficulties?
Speaker: It's four now.
Speaker: I don't even know whenever we started talking.
Speaker: Okay, hello, hello.
Speaker: Welcome, everybody, to the first episode of our podcast.
Speaker: This is All I Know Is, and yeah, welcome in.
Speaker: My name is Presley, and this is my co-host, Medina.
Speaker: Hey.
Speaker: Hey.
Speaker: We had quite a few technical difficulties getting our recording equipment set up, so that was fun.
Speaker: It's been like an hour and a half, I feel like.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And then two weeks of trying to find a time to record.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So that's where we're at now.
Speaker: Here we are.
Speaker: Now we can actually have a conversation.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Now we can actually talk about your puppies.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So Presley is basically going to take the lead.
Speaker: And I'm going to just say what I feel.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, first of all, I'm going to start off with how are you doing?
Speaker: How have you been?
Speaker: I've been good.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Anything new?
Speaker: Busy.
Speaker: I wasn't prepared for this.
Speaker: We literally talked about how we had to wait to have a conversation with each other.
Speaker: Yeah, I know.
Speaker: But like, I don't remember.
Speaker: Like, this is hard because you're putting me on the spot.
Speaker: Nothing new.
Speaker: I haven't really been working or flying much.
Speaker: But yeah, I'm just vibing.
Speaker: Existing.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Had a guy come in.
Speaker: because our air conditioning isn't working, so it's hot.
Speaker: Fun.
Speaker: But I don't stay here very often, but Haley's here almost every single night, my roommate.
Speaker: Fair enough.
Speaker: What about you?
Speaker: What's going on in your little life?
Speaker: Well, my boyfriend's out of town for another week, but then he's back.
Speaker: We get a puppy the day after he comes back.
Speaker: We're driving four hours to go get a puppy, so that'll be fun.
Speaker: Okay, so then how long until you get another puppy?
Speaker: So we're getting Jasper this weekend.
Speaker: You already have names for them?
Speaker: Well, Caden just decided on Jasper's name.
Speaker: We had like a list.
Speaker: We were going to do a whole thing where we were like waiting to meet him.
Speaker: We were going to like pick up the vibe and see his personality and then decide and pick from our list of names.
Speaker: We were
Speaker: we had like i think bucky was a solid contender bear sheriff and nico those were caden's favorites and then all of a sudden he was playing bit life on his phone um and he was like what do you think the name jasper and i was like that's cute and he was like i wanted to jasper and i was like you still want to meet him and he was like i think i like jasper and i was like all right jasper it is so i have a i'm waiting to name the golden retriever we're getting him in june um like late june right before july um and i'm waiting to name him until i meet him
Speaker: um but okay yeah so this is so exciting like these are the puppies that are gonna be at your wedding that's that is the idea like yeah that's so crazy I saw where was I the other day I saw something and it was like I saw bandanas for dogs and one of them was like best dog and dog of honor and I was like this is what's gonna happen
Speaker: Like, they're going to help Caden, like, plan your engagement and, like, all of that.
Speaker: That's so cute.
Speaker: I love that.
Speaker: You are putting a lot of pressure on these dogs.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: It's okay.
Speaker: Dogs are great.
Speaker: Other than that, I graduate in, like, two weeks, and I'm ready.
Speaker: But, yeah, graduation.
Speaker: And then we're done.
Speaker: Okay, so how do we feel about that?
Speaker: How do I feel about graduation?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Because it's one thing whenever it's like high school graduation, because it's like, yeah, it was scary and everything being like, oh, I'm done with high school.
Speaker: But it's like you still have more school to do.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: So it's like at the end of the day, you still have structure.
Speaker: Yeah, you might have.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: But now it's like you're like done with school.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So I have multiple feelings about it.
Speaker: Partially, first of all, high school graduation was scary for several reasons at the time.
Speaker: We graduated during COVID.
Speaker: So that was fun.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That was definitely uncertain then.
Speaker: But I think what's weird is that I only had like a year and a half of like in-person college before I did like fully online so that I could work full time.
Speaker: So it kind of feels like I don't really feel like I've been doing school for a while.
Speaker: It kind of just felt like I had a job with homework, if that makes sense.
Speaker: So I'm excited to have more free time during the evenings, but it definitely is weird that...
Speaker: It's not weird to not have any more school.
Speaker: I really like learning.
Speaker: I like school.
Speaker: I wish that I could like do school for free and like learn all this stuff, but I can't do that.
Speaker: But it's kind of just weird, even though it doesn't feel like I have, I know that I don't have school left, even though that's not going to change because there's not much that's going to be different besides not having homework.
Speaker: I think the fact that I know that
Speaker: that now I'm just directionless without a structure except of my own.
Speaker: That's the weird part.
Speaker: They keep sending me emails that are like, oh, post-graduation destination survey, like where are you gonna be after college?
Speaker: What are your career plans?
Speaker: And I'm like, this feels mean.
Speaker: I have no idea.
Speaker: Right now we're just kind of winging it.
Speaker: I've just been working on an album while I'm like, oh, I'm going to start a podcast.
Speaker: And they're like, how are you going to provide for your family?
Speaker: And I'm like,
Speaker: Probably not like this, but we'll see.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I wish that I could pay you to be my stay-at-home girlfriend.
Speaker: Stay-at-home girlfriend.
Speaker: I would love to be a stay-at-home girlfriend.
Speaker: I see the stuff that you post on Snapchat, and you're like, I don't know.
Speaker: You posted this one that was like a tomato and onion and garlic, I think.
Speaker: Yeah, just roasted tomato pasta.
Speaker: Yeah, I was just like, mmm.
Speaker: What I would do.
Speaker: I love doing that stuff.
Speaker: I really want to host like hosting parties and stuff like that.
Speaker: But you live in another state.
Speaker: So that'll have to wait.
Speaker: You could literally come live with me.
Speaker: Well.
Speaker: You and your dogs and Caden.
Speaker: That sounds like a lot of money to move halfway across the country.
Speaker: No, yeah, it is.
Speaker: So I haven't actually – honestly, I'm not going to lie.
Speaker: I haven't really talked to my family as much as I should have.
Speaker: But I heard that there's like a tornado that –
Speaker: There wasn't a tornado.
Speaker: Like, there are, like, 12 counties that are in a state of emergency.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Have you seen the pictures of sulfur?
Speaker: I think I've seen, like, one.
Speaker: It is insane because it's, like, yeah, I've lived in Oklahoma before and, like, most of my childhood, like, I lived there.
Speaker: But I don't think of it as being something that's, like, so devastating or whatever until you see those pictures because they are literally just, like, it looks like something after, like, a war zone or something because it's, like,
Speaker: All of the debris, like, I saw that there was, like, ambulances and firetrucks that are just, like, on the street after they've been, like, blown.
Speaker: And it's, like, then I understand why people from other states are, like, who would live in Oklahoma?
Speaker: And I'm, like, hmm.
Speaker: Well, it used to crack me up in middle school whenever Janet would like, she was here during the school year.
Speaker: And with the, like, sirens would go off every Wednesday.
Speaker: And she'd be like, oh my gosh, what's happening?
Speaker: Do we need to get to shelter?
Speaker: And we were like, Janet, it's just sirens.
Speaker: We're safe.
Speaker: And even if it was here, we'd probably be watching it.
Speaker: And she didn't understand that because she was from Illinois.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And that always cracked me up.
Speaker: And I mean, I've always had parents that like to go watch them too.
Speaker: But yeah.
Speaker: The problem is that, like, they're getting worse because of the climate crisis.
Speaker: But we don't have to talk about that.
Speaker: That's for another episode.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker: Like, it is crazy because I feel like growing up, it wasn't something that was, like, crazy or anything like that.
Speaker: But even just within the last week, I mean, that's an entire, like, little town that will never be what it was.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's just gotten worse.
Speaker: And I think it's also weird because we're so used to like, oh, they jump over cities, you know, like that's just what we tell ourselves.
Speaker: And they're changing their minds.
Speaker: And then, okay, so you sent me the thing about them building like the tallest tower or whatever in Oklahoma City, which is not that far away from where all these tornadoes are happening.
Speaker: So I feel like that's like... Debris everywhere.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Shrapnel.
Speaker: Here's a baseboard for you.
Speaker: What is happening?
Speaker: Like, there's so many issues with, like, them building that.
Speaker: But, yeah.
Speaker: Well, I just think it'll look weird because there are no other buildings in Oklahoma that'll be remotely that tall.
Speaker: So it'll be like – Well, it's like having the – it's like take – it's literally just taking the Empire State Building and putting it somewhere where everything is flat.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, the Devon Tower is the tallest building in Oklahoma City.
Speaker: I'm pretty sure.
Speaker: Don't fact check that.
Speaker: I could be wrong.
Speaker: But the Devon Tower is like the like the mirror-y looking one.
Speaker: It's like the tallest one in Oklahoma City.
Speaker: And like it's not even going to come close.
Speaker: So it's just going to be like tallest building.
Speaker: Just kidding.
Speaker: It is just going to stick out like a sore thumb.
Speaker: Like I feel like it's going to look crazy.
Speaker: But...
Speaker: Yeah, I know.
Speaker: I think it will too.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Well, let's get into the meat of what the podcast is actually about because we also have two other episodes.
Speaker: So this first episode is basically just explaining the point behind the whole podcast, like goals that we have, like
Speaker: things we want to talk about, what we want to achieve, all kinds of stuff like that.
Speaker: So I'm going to give a little bit of my backstory in like why I wanted the podcast.
Speaker: And then you can kind of piggyback with whatever you want.
Speaker: So this podcast was originally my idea.
Speaker: So the reason that it's called All I Know Is, is it's based off of a Socrates quote.
Speaker: Okay, well, I can't find the exact quote, but it's a Socrates quote.
Speaker: And basically, he was quoted and saying one time, all I know is that I know nothing.
Speaker: or something to that effect.
Speaker: And this kind of like shook people to their core because they're like, you're one of the greatest philosophers of our time.
Speaker: What do you mean you know nothing?
Speaker: You know everything.
Speaker: You know more than we do.
Speaker: You're leading like our country in all that jazz.
Speaker: But the most important thing behind that saying that he said, like the whole phrase is that
Speaker: Like I may be the person that you think knows all this stuff, but like even I know like a drop of what there is to know in the ocean of information.
Speaker: And that's kind of the general idea that I want this podcast to be about is just kind of constantly questioning your own beliefs and looking to grow and learn more information.
Speaker: Just constantly being on the search for information to constantly expand your own mindset and develop your own perspectives from that.
Speaker: And that's the general idea behind that.
Speaker: There's a lot of reasonings behind it.
Speaker: But do you want to add anything onto that so far?
Speaker: No, I mean, I think that you explained it pretty well.
Speaker: Like at the end of the day, like even the best of the best, like in their fields, like I feel like people that are like experts in their fields that are true experts will tell you that there's more for them to know and to learn.
Speaker: And, you know, whether that's law, whether that's medicine, like whatever it is, like there's always a
Speaker: more to know, partially because things are always changing.
Speaker: Like, so who we, who, what we know today might be proven wrong tomorrow.
Speaker: And I think that like what we talked about, like in having this podcast is that, you know, who we are today and what we think today, what we believe today is going to be different from, you know, five years, 10 years, however many years from now.
Speaker: It might be different than like what I believe in a week.
Speaker: So like,
Speaker: Yeah, I think it's good to have that openness to change and just really living a life of I'm willing to learn every day, even if that learning is proven wrong from what I learned yesterday or whatever.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Well, and that's what's interesting is even in science, theories that we once thought were like
Speaker: believed in the majority of the population, like are disproved and changed throughout time and stuff like that.
Speaker: But yeah, so a weird thing about humans is that humans typically cannot handle the unknown.
Speaker: We don't like the unknown.
Speaker: We don't like uncertainty.
Speaker: It causes us a lot of stress.
Speaker: And I'm one of those people.
Speaker: My entire life, I've always been obsessive about trying to understand as much about everything as I possibly could, probably to a detriment.
Speaker: I wanted to learn how to do everything and how to make everything work so badly.
Speaker: I didn't want to deal with the process of actually learning it.
Speaker: I just wanted all the information in my brain.
Speaker: And I feel like that's really indicative of that fear of the unknown.
Speaker: And I feel like humans generally have that.
Speaker: But I kind of feel like humans need to have a little bit more of that now because it seems like people are a little bit less willing to learn nowadays.
Speaker: But, you know.
Speaker: Well, it's because we've built like a society where we can be like comfortable.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And it's like.
Speaker: We kind of already have everything made for us.
Speaker: Like the path has been laid out for what we're expected to follow and like we don't really have to question that.
Speaker: It's like we have a computer, but I don't know how to make a computer.
Speaker: Some people want to.
Speaker: I mean, you might.
Speaker: I don't.
Speaker: I know a little bit.
Speaker: No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker: But yeah.
Speaker: I mean, it took us two hours to like figure.
Speaker: Hey, I thoroughly believe if I was there in person, I think this would have gotten faster because I do know a little bit.
Speaker: I mean, I did do sound engineering.
Speaker: So yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But kind of like we already said, like the whole point of the podcast is to expand our minds, is to encourage everybody else to want to expand their minds and to like thirst for knowledge and stuff like that.
Speaker: Just like looking for different ways that like we can all be better, we can all communicate better, like a way to like form a community, stuff like that.
Speaker: I think that one of the reasons that I decided that I wanted to start this podcast was honestly because especially lately I've been very...
Speaker: I guess, discouraged by the state of the world in itself, but also like our country's political climate and the way that we're like super polarized against each other.
Speaker: It's really, really disheartening to see, especially for a country that's supposed to be like this melting pot, the American dream.
Speaker: We're supposed to be based off of like freedom and like patriotism and like a community in that.
Speaker: And the way that everybody within our country is like pitted against each other so hard has been, I think it's been shocking to everyone, but it's,
Speaker: it's been very disheartening to me.
Speaker: And it's something that like, this is my attempt at trying to make my part in resolving that, if that makes sense.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So we kind of just want to make a community where we can see like more ideas and foster a community where everybody can contribute their own thoughts and we can connect with people from all around.
Speaker: So everybody's thoughts, like all different perspectives can come together.
Speaker: Cause like usually I feel like people are brought up
Speaker: in a community and they're kind of instilled with the values of that community.
Speaker: And a lot of times I feel like everybody goes through a phase where they kind of explore outside of those ideas, but it seems like.
Speaker: You go back to what's familiar.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Like at the end of the day, it's like, yeah, you might go to college and you might experience like friends or you might like have some friends that are of like different culture, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker: But at the end of the day, it's like most of most people,
Speaker: I feel like, happen to go back to whatever is comfortable.
Speaker: That's what I think, too.
Speaker: Yeah, and that's going to be what you were raised in.
Speaker: You're going to find comfort in that.
Speaker: I mean, I feel like that's even applicable to me, to be honest with you.
Speaker: I try to keep expanding myself, but here in my hometown, same old beliefs.
Speaker: I mean, I think a lot changes, but...
Speaker: relatively my morals are pretty much the same yeah I feel like you definitely went through like that like rebellious like I'm not gonna like I'm not gonna believe what I was taught growing up and all of that kind of stuff but then it's like I feel like with you what's a little bit different though is that you did the searching like on your own too like yeah like you have a very strong like
Speaker: religious belief and like you went back to the Catholic church and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker: But I also feel like you did your own like research.
Speaker: Tried to.
Speaker: You weren't just, yeah, you weren't just like, I'm going to believe this because my mom told me to.
Speaker: But you were like, you did go through a phase where you were like, no, this doesn't make sense.
Speaker: That's normal.
Speaker: Like to go through a phase where we're like agnostic.
Speaker: I think that that's one of the most powerful things.
Speaker: people can do is like experience like being agnostic because it's like that does not mean that you're atheist that does not mean that you're Christian like that means that you are taking that time to like explore your sexuality yeah and like find what you believe like not what my mom believes not what whoever believed can you tell that like we only have moms that is a story for another day
Speaker: It's just one of those things where it's like, I feel like being agnostic, definitely, like, I saw it helping you out because you were able to form beliefs on your own.
Speaker: And I don't know, it was just kind of cool to, like, watch that growth, too, within you.
Speaker: Well, that's what's kind of interesting is that I feel like a lot of people saw it as, like, a rebellion of sorts, like,
Speaker: And though, I mean, I did like to push back against people.
Speaker: I liked to question people.
Speaker: I liked to push people and stuff like that.
Speaker: But like that phase in and of itself wasn't necessarily like meant to be a rebellion.
Speaker: It was more of, like you said, it was an exploration phase.
Speaker: It was also not voluntary.
Speaker: It was definitely something that was uncomfortable for me, like having grown up in a strong Catholic society.
Speaker: household and church and community and schools my whole life and then not being sure of that was it was a very scary thing and I think it's funny because some people are like oh yeah phase you went through and I'm like don't worry it was just as bad for me it was terrifying yeah but yeah well and also like
Speaker: When you think about like the fact of like not being like a god or like any spiritual like being that like is terrifying.
Speaker: And you were going through this as like upper middle school, like high school.
Speaker: Like this was when you were.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Because I feel like eighth grade you were kind of going through it too.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like middle school was a whole different.
Speaker: But anyways, anyways, so like, I feel like that in itself is scary because it's like you're going through all of these things.
Speaker: So like if I had, I don't know, there, yeah, that's kind of getting.
Speaker: Another thing that I wanted to kind of touch on was I think that a couple of, there are a few things that I think are like the biggest detriments to our society right now.
Speaker: And I'm gonna, not in any particular order, but so one of them I think is cancel culture.
Speaker: Don't get me wrong.
Speaker: I think that people need to be held accountable for their actions and need to be like pushed to be better versions of themselves.
Speaker: Like if you do something inappropriate, like you need to own up to that and you need to be better from there on forward and to apologize to whoever you hurt.
Speaker: But I think the biggest issue with cancel culture in our society today is the fact that you can't come back from it.
Speaker: People are not allowed to make mistakes and grow as people and still be respectable human beings.
Speaker: The second that someone makes a mistake, I understand that some people make very large mistakes, but I think that everybody deserves the opportunity to truly recognize that.
Speaker: And if they are truly wanting to make a change and be better, I'm
Speaker: they should be allowed that as an option, you know?
Speaker: And I feel like we don't give people that space to grow anymore and nobody even wants to grow.
Speaker: And I think that that actually contributes to why we're so polarized is because we all think that if we make any mistake, we're going to be ostracized, you know?
Speaker: It doesn't really matter what it is.
Speaker: And so everybody's terrified
Speaker: You have to be right in your ideas because if you're not, then you're wrong and you'll be canceled.
Speaker: So everybody is defending themselves and not willing to hear anybody else.
Speaker: And on top of that, like we're just terrified of being judged and being wrong in general.
Speaker: So that is terrible because of the cancel culture.
Speaker: And because we can't grow from that, it's just something that we're avoiding in total.
Speaker: So nobody wants to talk, actually have conversations and hear each other because of those outcomes.
Speaker: And so that's something that I want to cultivate is
Speaker: Instead of cancel culture, people can clearly state their views.
Speaker: Now, there are some lines that we do have to firmly draw.
Speaker: I feel like those are pretty self-explanatory.
Speaker: I hope that I don't have to explain this.
Speaker: But I think that people should generally be able to state whatever view they may have, problematic or not, and we can have a discussion about it.
Speaker: They can tell us where they're getting their points from, and we can tell them why we don't agree with that.
Speaker: And we can truly hear each other and understand and maybe consider each other.
Speaker: That's what I want to instill.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Because I really truly believe that that'll help to cultivate a community that is more open-minded and connected, interconnected with each other instead of being so like hell-bent on being right, I guess.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I feel like the biggest thing though is like there's not a they in us because at the end of the day, like we're all going to like believe different things like and that's okay.
Speaker: But like understanding because different things that you've experienced in your lifetime is going to make up like whatever you believe.
Speaker: And you've experienced certain things that make you believe what you believe, whether it's about like the economy and stuff like that.
Speaker: And the things that you believe about the economy, you have experienced firsthand.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: So like that's why you believe those things.
Speaker: Someone else believes certain things because of what they've experienced.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: So it's like just under and like acknowledging and understanding that.
Speaker: But I feel like it's one thing to believe what you believe because of what you've experienced.
Speaker: But then it's also important to be able to see the other side and be like, okay, like I understand how you got there through what you've experienced in life.
Speaker: But that doesn't happen if we don't talk to each other.
Speaker: Like, you have to understand.
Speaker: It's easy for me to understand you and, like, your ideas and stuff like that because I've grown up with you.
Speaker: So I'm like, oh, well, that's why she thinks that.
Speaker: But if we don't take the time to get to know new people, you know what I mean?
Speaker: Like, it's – I don't know.
Speaker: It's just harder to –
Speaker: No, you're right.
Speaker: And those experiences that you talked about that like shape our beliefs to be what they are, those are, they create incredibly important context for our beliefs.
Speaker: And they're things that we really need to be open to hearing about other people, because I feel like we aren't most of the time.
Speaker: And like, yeah, you might not be willing to accept somebody else's viewpoint, but if you're able to at least hear their experience and why they formed that viewpoint, I feel like it is super beneficial in unlocking that new perspective.
Speaker: But something that I super, super, super want to highlight is what you just said.
Speaker: Everybody else needs to pay attention to this.
Speaker: There is no they and us.
Speaker: There is no they and us.
Speaker: Like, we are a collective society.
Speaker: We are all human beings.
Speaker: We all have feelings.
Speaker: We all have experiences.
Speaker: We all are born and we all die.
Speaker: Those labels that a lot of people are using in our society today shove us into different categories that really create a divide between us.
Speaker: And so I really liked the way that you said that because I think that that's super, super, super, super important to remember.
Speaker: What's crazy though is like, okay, so I was watching my reality TV, which like I'm not proud of, but whatever.
Speaker: But it's like, it was like the most detrimental thing that they could have said, where they were talking about someone being a Christian and a Republican.
Speaker: And
Speaker: Then all of that through the web of like gossip and whatever, it ended up being, yeah, it ended up being that this person was called a racist because they were Christian and they were Republican.
Speaker: that person never said that they were like a racist.
Speaker: But it's like we automatically think like, oh, someone's Christian and they're a Republican.
Speaker: So they're super dangerous generalizations.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: But I feel like the same way like can be said about someone who is liberal and atheist.
Speaker: It's like you already have all of these like stereotypes about them when in reality you don't know
Speaker: Like what got them like to the place that they are in life right now.
Speaker: And I just think that it like that was like the weirdest like wake up call for me is that someone wasn't called something, but because of other things that they are there.
Speaker: Immediately assume.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I don't know, like, I don't like that.
Speaker: And I feel like that's why it's so hard, like for me to like, be like, Oh, yeah, I'm this or I'm not or yeah, I'll go to this church, like, because I don't want to be put in a group.
Speaker: I want you to know me not assumptions of what groups that I am.
Speaker: Like, I don't know.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: Well, and I think that succumbing to those generalizations is not only hurtful to the person that you're generalizing because you're putting them in a box and you're not truly getting to know them, but it's not beneficial for you because you can learn something new from everybody that you meet.
Speaker: It's two things.
Speaker: One, two.
Speaker: Is that better?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Did you not see it on your screen?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: It literally?
Speaker: Okay, so it's like-
Speaker: It's a bubble.
Speaker: It was like, you know, the emoji.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like that's what it was doing.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Sorry.
Speaker: That was a distraction.
Speaker: I did not.
Speaker: It's not showing that for me.
Speaker: Is it like, it's like auto-reacting?
Speaker: It's showing it on my side.
Speaker: Yeah, so like the things you do.
Speaker: So like earlier, it was like a balloon, like a bunch of balloons and everything.
Speaker: Like, okay.
Speaker: I don't even know what would have triggered the balloons.
Speaker: Like I did do this.
Speaker: So that makes sense that it did that.
Speaker: But I don't know.
Speaker: Okay, whatever.
Speaker: Okay, so I'm probably gonna edit that out.
Speaker: And they're gonna be like, why are you laughing right now?
Speaker: What I was trying to say is that those generalizations are super bad.
Speaker: One, because they hurt the person that you're generalizing because you're putting them in a box and you're not even bothering to get to know them.
Speaker: But that's also bad for you if you're generalizing because you can learn something new from everybody that you meet and that person could be amazing for you and you'd never know because you refuse to...
Speaker: step outside of what you've already assumed about them before even meeting.
Speaker: Like something I was going to say about cancel culture is that it's so bad for us as a society.
Speaker: I feel like I'm stuttering so badly today, but that's fine.
Speaker: It's super bad for us as a society because if we can't allow each other and ourselves the space to grow the way that we need to, I mean, you see like entire companies get canceled and then they have to like either rebrand or like dissolve and build back up.
Speaker: I mean, you see political figures, which...
Speaker: You know, whatever.
Speaker: But, like, even, like, people in, like, pop culture celebrities and stuff like that, like, they're just human beings as well.
Speaker: Like, Jenna Marbles getting canceled and stuff like that.
Speaker: And people are still pissed about that to this day.
Speaker: Like, they're like, she didn't deserve that, you know?
Speaker: And I love Jenna Marbles.
Speaker: But, like, people should not have to go, like, off the radar.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: Like you should be able to build back up.
Speaker: You should be able to recover.
Speaker: You should be able to fix what you did and truly grow.
Speaker: So I have, why is this important and what can we do?
Speaker: I wrote that we can create a community, that we can talk about anything.
Speaker: We touched over that a little bit.
Speaker: We can discuss like national and global issues.
Speaker: And what I think is important about that is
Speaker: There's a lot of stuff that happens here.
Speaker: There's a lot of stuff that happens like all over the world that I feel like we can form opinions on like what's happening with like, I feel like we need information from people experiencing it as well.
Speaker: You know, and it's like that's true for anybody in any situation.
Speaker: If something is going on in a different country, I think that this is a really good opportunity to connect with those people that are truly experiencing it far away from us so we can see what they're going through.
Speaker: because that helps us to empathize with the situation and build an opinion based off of that.
Speaker: We wanna build a place where we can see the world in a new way from a perspective that you didn't consider before.
Speaker: We wanna understand who those situations might affect that we might not have thought of before.
Speaker: And then we want to be able to make a place where we can put the well-being of our world above our egos.
Speaker: So people are so focused on being right and getting their way that we push the needs of others to the side or even endanger people who stand in our way.
Speaker: We can have conflicting views, but still prioritize international security for people everywhere, even with our conflicting views.
Speaker: I saw this thing, this thing.
Speaker: Me and Kate have been watching the Fallout show, and it kind of triggered something in me.
Speaker: that I was intrigued by.
Speaker: Honestly, thinking about doing this podcast for the past few months has been a little bit turbulent because the realization for it, I, so the reality is, is that we're probably gonna say some things on this podcast that are controversial.
Speaker: And that's important because I feel like there are a lot of things that people don't wanna talk about because they don't wanna be uncomfortable.
Speaker: And it is gonna be uncomfortable and we're gonna be uncomfortable.
Speaker: And I am so nervous.
Speaker: Because I have probably have family I'm going to piss off and stuff like that.
Speaker: But I think that they're important things to talk about.
Speaker: And so, like I said, thinking about doing this podcast has been so turbulent for me because I am scared of how people might view me.
Speaker: But I think that it's important because I really feel like I at least want to try and contribute to society in a way that I can like bring people together.
Speaker: I want to try to do that.
Speaker: And I kind of pushed the idea away for a while because I really want to do music and I don't want those things to clash with each other.
Speaker: But realistically, I am putting a limit on myself and this is important.
Speaker: I mean, as much as my music is important to me, this is important.
Speaker: I truly believe that we have to leave the world a better place than we found it.
Speaker: And I think that's actually what I've been putting as our little description on all of our social media.
Speaker: But so back to what I was talking about with we were watching Fallout the other day.
Speaker: And something that they said that was really interesting to me was they said, we all have ideas to change the world.
Speaker: We just can't decide on which one because we don't agree.
Speaker: And I thought about that because like the whole reason that I want to do this podcast is because lately I have been, like I said, I've been so discouraged by the state of the world.
Speaker: I've been discouraged by the economy.
Speaker: I've been discouraged by the way that people treat each other and like how rude people are and how we don't seem to care about being polite to each other anymore.
Speaker: There's no Southern hospitality anymore.
Speaker: Dang it.
Speaker: Um, yeah.
Speaker: And I've been so down lately.
Speaker: I've been so down lately because I'm overwhelmed by the way that we're treating each other.
Speaker: And I was like thinking the other day and I was like, man, if I could change the world, if I could just like make this place a utopia, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker: And then I got super down because I was like, that's not possible because there's still going to be people that disagree with me.
Speaker: There's still going to be people who –
Speaker: want to take other people's freedoms and that disagree, you know, but regardless, I think that the effort is important.
Speaker: And like, I came back to the conclusion that all that matters is that we have the right intentions in place.
Speaker: And that is that we want to take care of everybody.
Speaker: We want to connect with everyone.
Speaker: And I think that like,
Speaker: What's so important is that at the end of the day, like the only thing that I'm in control of is my intentions and how I try to make people feel.
Speaker: So that doesn't mean like bury myself down and make myself smaller or like don't give out my opinions or anything like that.
Speaker: That just means that like at the end of the day are my intentions for like the greater good.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: is what I believe benefiting me or do I feel like it's benefiting everyone?
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: That's not like a cash all like to excuse behavior though.
Speaker: That is incredibly true.
Speaker: Your intentions are incredibly important and being very cognizant of like how those are affecting people.
Speaker: So you can have good intentions and still hurt people, you know?
Speaker: You can have good intentions and accidentally hurt people.
Speaker: You can have good intentions and disagree and somehow hurt people, you know?
Speaker: But I think the intentions in collaboration with being aware and caring if you hurt people and wanting to be better if you do,
Speaker: and not wanting to hurt people in the process, which should be a given.
Speaker: But the fact that you want to be aware of whether you hurt people in that process, regardless of your intentions, and choose to constantly improve that, if you do, that's what's the most important with that.
Speaker: And I think that that's what I want everyone to understand about this podcast is you might not agree with us.
Speaker: I might not agree with myself in three months, you know, but we just want you to listen.
Speaker: We want you to think about it.
Speaker: And if you disagree, tell me why and maybe I'll think about it.
Speaker: You know, that's my goal.
Speaker: That is ultimately our goal.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And just because we talk about something once doesn't mean that we're not ever going to talk about it again.
Speaker: Because at the end of the day, if someone is like, hey, like what you said on that podcast is completely messed up.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: And this is why.
Speaker: And we're both like, dang, like they're right.
Speaker: We're going to do another podcast and talk about what we learned, like why our views have changed.
Speaker: Like that's important because that's going to happen.
Speaker: But that comes from having an actual open mind, not just saying, oh, I'm open-minded.
Speaker: No, actually listen to what people that you disagree with have to say.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And that is exactly what we want to emulate through this podcast is we want to build a community where we can say what we feel and you can tell us if we're wrong.
Speaker: You know, you can tell us if you think we're wrong.
Speaker: And like, we're going to do our due diligence to do research for what we talk about beforehand so that we do have an educated opinion as much as we can form one.
Speaker: But the thing is, is we're not always going to find all the information.
Speaker: And so if you have additional information, if you have something that shows a different side of the story, we would love to see that.
Speaker: That is exactly what we want.
Speaker: So don't hesitate.
Speaker: But along with that being said, we are trying to emulate a community where we can have these conversations.
Speaker: And there are ground rules with that.
Speaker: Everybody needs to be respectful.
Speaker: So like we're going to have hard conversations.
Speaker: We're going to be uncomfortable.
Speaker: We're going to have opposing views.
Speaker: You do not need to be starting a conversation about your views if you are not willing to listen to the other side.
Speaker: And that doesn't mean just listen and hear.
Speaker: That means listen to understand, not to respond.
Speaker: And that is one of the most important things that I want to clarify is that that's one of the biggest ground rules is listen to understand, not to respond and just, you know, consider, ponder.
Speaker: But also, obviously, no hate speech.
Speaker: I don't feel like that has to be said.
Speaker: That's one of those things I said earlier.
Speaker: But you never know.
Speaker: Some of us disagree on what that means.
Speaker: But I don't think that Apple Podcasts will or Spotify will.
Speaker: So, you know.
Speaker: Pretty simple ground rules.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Is there anything else important we should say about that?
Speaker: No, I don't think so.
Speaker: I think that's pretty.
Speaker: Just be here to listen, be here to learn, be here to grow.
Speaker: We want to have fun, too.
Speaker: It's not just going to be serious stuff.
Speaker: Like we're going to play games and stuff sometimes.
Speaker: It'll be interesting for sure.
Speaker: But yeah, keep an open mind.
Speaker: Don't be.
Speaker: closed off to whatever we say, you know?
Speaker: So like I said, we're going to try to entertain in addition to make this community, which is really good.
Speaker: We want to like spread this mindset globally, you know, however we can.
Speaker: We want to like encourage a mindset of like trying to always learn and be a better version of yourself.
Speaker: And don't get me wrong, like I'm human and I catch myself not being open minded sometimes, you know, like there are lots of times where I'll start to start to get mad about somebody that I disagree with.
Speaker: And I I'm like, obviously, I'm not practicing what I preach.
Speaker: And that's what I'm also learning to improve as well through this.
Speaker: But I guess, like, to share our vision, like, and, like, why we think that it could, like, change the world.
Speaker: Now, don't, like, I'm scared that people are going to listen to this and be like, what do these 20-something-year-olds think that they're saying?
Speaker: Like, they're not going to change the world, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker: And, like, that might be true, you know?
Speaker: But it can't hurt to try, you know?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's another thing that I really, really, really want to emphasize is –
Speaker: I don't remember who I was talking to the other day, but I think one of the things that I'm fearful of is like in our country, nobody our age wants to vote anymore.
Speaker: And I'm not going to get into politics.
Speaker: Don't honestly, I haven't voted.
Speaker: I haven't voted before.
Speaker: It's usually because I was working.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's usually because- That actually, like, that's, like, I'm sorry, that's crazy to me.
Speaker: Like- Well, it's important to me too.
Speaker: That's hard for me to believe.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But like, I have fallen victim to the same belief that I'll say in a second.
Speaker: First of all, usually I don't remember the election dates and I am usually working.
Speaker: But on top of that, I've fallen into this belief of it's kind of pointless.
Speaker: It feels pointless.
Speaker: It feels futile.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: And I think that that's the problem with a lot of our generation is that we're all so discouraged.
Speaker: We don't feel like we're being taken care of.
Speaker: Well, it's also hard to feel like you're being taken care of seriously whenever everyone in power is like so much older, but also like doesn't look to us to like, I don't know.
Speaker: There's just like not like a nurturing like, oh, like, you know, what you're saying like makes sense.
Speaker: Like let's like, let's build you up.
Speaker: There's no sense of that.
Speaker: Like there's no nurturing sense of like,
Speaker: oh, we want our, like, yeah, some people talk about, like, oh, like, you're the next generation, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker: But it's, like, there's a difference between, like, people saying it and then making us feel like we actually matter.
Speaker: Well, I mean, if anything, I feel like we're constantly diminished, you know?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, and it's also, like, oh, your generation is blah, blah, blah.
Speaker: Like, and how is that supposed to be, how are we supposed to want to get involved in politics and, like,
Speaker: whatever if if the people that are older than us are always talking about our generation in such a negative light yeah like and i feel like that happens with every generation like i know that like older generations look at younger generations and are like oh like we were so much better than you type of thing but i don't like that and i feel like with our generation it gets so much more like i don't know how to like not um
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I just feel like we get so much backlash because it's like, oh, well, you guys are always on your screens or you're always texting.
Speaker: And it's like, okay, but you don't give us the time of day to educate you on what we can do with this thing.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Well, no, and that's a super, super good point.
Speaker: First of all, like you said, realistically, we are going to inherit the country.
Speaker: We're going to inherit the world.
Speaker: We're going to inherit, like, the positions, you know?
Speaker: And we're not being given the space to get our voices out there and put our opinions out there.
Speaker: And we're not given the space to learn the grounds, even.
Speaker: So, like, by the time that we do inherit it, we're not going to know what we're doing.
Speaker: I mean, and you see it a lot in politics, but honestly, like, it's every, like,
Speaker: It's a lot of careers that it's like that.
Speaker: And it's like, how are you supposed to get a job in law when like people aren't taking you under their weight?
Speaker: It's an entry level position and you need eight years of experience.
Speaker: Yeah, like that makes no sense.
Speaker: I'm like, what the heck?
Speaker: And it's like, nobody is going, nobody wants to teach.
Speaker: And I feel like that's what it comes down to.
Speaker: Nobody wants to teach because we don't respect teachers.
Speaker: Anyone that wants to teach gets treated like crap.
Speaker: So who wants to teach?
Speaker: And the people who are teaching are not being compensated for it, for literally building the citizens of our country.
Speaker: Not even money-wise.
Speaker: I mean, obviously don't take money out of the conversation, but you take the money out of the conversation, there's no respect.
Speaker: Being a teacher, I feel like is not a respected profession when it really should be.
Speaker: What we need is teachers.
Speaker: And maybe not at a law firm, yeah, you're an intern, but you still need someone to take you under their wings.
Speaker: And I feel like nobody wants to do that because nobody's getting paid enough to deal with that intern.
Speaker: I'm sorry, but like, it's like, I don't blame them.
Speaker: But at the same time, it's just like, it's just sad that we've become less of like, a community based country.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Well, I wrote here that I think that one of our issues is that we have so many issues where our needs are being unmet due to selfishness or lack of empathy and all kinds of things.
Speaker: So I think my research says...
Speaker: so maslow's hierarchy of needs is based off of um research done by the blackfoot nation i feel like none of our needs are being met and that is one of the reasons why we'll get into this in another episode because it comes down to like needs and why we're handling things the way that we are but yeah i'm gonna kind of reiterate just our goals are creating community where we can all kind of talk about these things and it can be a safe place where we can all learn and grow and maybe change our perspectives um
Speaker: where we can remember that our connections to each other are some of the most important things that we have.
Speaker: Like we as the human race is incredibly important that we find our empathy for each other again, in my opinion.
Speaker: But yeah, we just wanna make it an environment where we can all learn and grow and we want you guys to talk to us and tell us what you think and stuff like that.
Speaker: I was gonna highlight the format.
Speaker: So if it's not obvious, it's probably gonna be a little bit of a looser format, just a more conversational type thing.
Speaker: We're probably going to switch between weekly and bi-weekly.
Speaker: I think we're going to start off bi-weekly for now and then kind of see how things go.
Speaker: Like some of our episodes are going to be fun.
Speaker: Some of them are going to be informational.
Speaker: Some are probably going to be discussional and like maybe a little uncomfortable.
Speaker: I think that's kind of fun to me.
Speaker: Community guidelines, like we kind of already said, try to be unbiased.
Speaker: I know that everybody has their biases.
Speaker: We have like implicit biases.
Speaker: We have like evolutionary biases, but try to at least be aware of your bias and
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: We basically, we want to invite your engagement.
Speaker: We want you to talk to us.
Speaker: We want, I think that that's going to be one of the coolest things about this is we're going to do our research beforehand.
Speaker: And then the idea that people are going to like tell us what they think afterwards.
Speaker: I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I mean, like we can also like come up with like questions at the end too.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Maybe we can have like a question of the pod.
Speaker: Yeah, I actually had recommendations for this one.
Speaker: So because our podcast is based on improving ourselves and like a thirst for learning and constantly expanding your mindset, I had a couple of podcasts that I wanted to recommend besides this one, obviously.
Speaker: You're promoting other podcasts a little bit.
Speaker: Hey, it's a community.
Speaker: It's a community.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: We gotta build each other up, man.
Speaker: Just saying.
Speaker: So the first one is Man Enough by Justin Baldoni.
Speaker: In addition to his two co-hosts, he has different guests on all the time.
Speaker: And like one of them was like Karamo from Queer Eye.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Let's see who else they have.
Speaker: They had Shawn Mendes.
Speaker: I'm trying to think of a couple others.
Speaker: Regardless, it's super, super interesting.
Speaker: It's kind of like unraveling like masculinity in our society and other societies as well.
Speaker: And like what that means for men, what that means for women and stuff like that.
Speaker: I thought that one was really interesting.
Speaker: Like every episode, I feel like I learned something like that blows my mind.
Speaker: And the other one is called Unlocking Us by Brene Brown.
Speaker: She has, I feel like you probably know Brene Brown, but I like a lot of her books and that podcast also.
Speaker: She has a bunch of different guests on it that, again, every single episode I listen to is like a new life lesson that I'm like, wow, I just learned that in like 30 minutes, an hour.
Speaker: It's crazy.
Speaker: So give those a, give those a checkout, you know, we feel like we hit so many different tangents.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Do we have a question to leave them with?
Speaker: Ooh.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Well, since this is like the opening podcast or whatever, and there's a couple others that we're going to record before this comes out, it should be, I think just asking like, what is like a topic that like intrigues them, you know, like what is like something that you're like,
Speaker: What's a discussion you'd like to have?
Speaker: No one's ever talked about it.
Speaker: Because I feel like we all have these things where we're like, well, I think about this all the time, but it feels like no one else is talking about it.
Speaker: So what is that topic for you?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Sounds good.
Speaker: And either put it on our Instagram or... I think there's comments or something.
Speaker: I haven't figured out how the actual format works on the podcasting websites.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't know how...
Speaker: Our link tree will be here somewhere.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: If you just look up All I Know Is, you'll find us.
Speaker: Hopefully.
Speaker: I've got to do some SEO work.
Speaker: But I think that's it for this episode.
Speaker: So we'll see you in the next one.
Speaker: See you in the next one.
Speaker: Thank you for tuning in.
