Half Century Hangout
We are Half Century Hangout where different perspectives make for better discussions.! John, Luke and Chuck are three guys who grew up differently but became good friends with a lot to talk about. On this show three unique perspectives are brought to the table where we dive into everything from current events to life's big questions. We might not always see eye to eye... But that's exactly why we're here. So grab a seat and join us for honest conversation, unexpected insights, and a few friendly arguments.
Half Century Hangout
What the skibidi?! Bridging the generational gaps!
Ever struggled to keep up with the whirlwind of modern slang and wondered if "skibidi" is a trendy new dance move or a state of mind? Join us as we untangle the web of generational communication! We laugh at our attempts to decode today's lingo while reminiscing about our own ridiculous phrases from back in the day. With humorous anecdotes and enlightening reflections, we explore how language both connects and divides us, especially when it comes to connecting with Gen Z and Gen Alpha. It's a fun-filled exploration of how our communication styles have transformed alongside the digital age, leaving us to ponder how to stay relatable to the younger crowd.
Half-century hangout. Here we are again, and you know what I am hearing, this new language, and I do not know what it is. Yeah, there it is Can somebody please explain to me what the skibbity.
Speaker 3:I'm half-century.
Speaker 1:Cap bro, what that's cap Skibbity what's a skibbity?
Speaker 2:That's a cap.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, I've never heard that term.
Speaker 2:We have to determine who Alpha Sigma is.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness, Alpha Sigma. I tell you, I think that's a fraternity, isn't it? I tell you, alpha Sigma.
Speaker 1:It's Gat all the way. What's Sigma? It's Gat all the way. What's Sigma? It's Gat, it's Gat. It's there sus, it's all sus. Man, it's all sus. Everything it's sus, that's all we're, that's all we're talking about.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing you got a lot of rears.
Speaker 1:Right now we've talked what we have talked so much about learning, right, so we're gonna do a little learning today. We're gonna figure this out a little bit. We're gonna try to decide where we fit into this lingo that I have no idea what it is, because back in the day we said things like Wasteoid.
Speaker 2:Gag me with a spoon Gag me with a spoon.
Speaker 1:I mean it's like eat my shorts. I mean, come on.
Speaker 3:Well, those made sense, right, Cool beans, remember that. You know how? About this Nice?
Speaker 1:Yep, nice, back in detroit, we did noise, noise, yep n-o-i-c-e, n-o-i-c-e noise and it was it meant the same thing, but I read something the other day that that if you, if you watched the breakfast club okay, and you were, you know, like a teenager or 20s that right now you're older than the principal that was in the show oh my god, I'm like oh yeah, I'm there.
Speaker 3:So we all have our, our little sayings, don't we? And so, so what are we talking about with the uh, sus and all that stuff? I?
Speaker 1:think that one of the things we're we're laughing about it today and it was just something that's come up, but we've talked about it a lot. You know, just in passing. I'm sure that our listeners must realize that we do not limit our talking to the time that we are recording ourselves. These are things that happen every day, that we've had experiences throughout our life, throughout our daily work day. You know, whatever it is, Things that make us go huh, yeah you know, and and today it just so happened.
Speaker 1:Today we just kind of laughed about it because we have a coworker who brought something up.
Speaker 3:who you know, maybe a little bit younger than us?
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's definitely younger than we are and she brought up something that one of her kids said and she had to look it up. She's kind of in that middle, so she's like a millennial. She's not a Z or an alpha right. She's a millennial.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of what we're talking about is a Gen Z, Gen Alpha talk.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, we're talking about that, but she was kind of there so she had to look it up. And the word that her son who's. How old is he? He's probably 11,.
Speaker 3:Yeah, fifth grade, fourth grade, something like that.
Speaker 1:And the way that he said it, you know, and then bringing it out, it's like, oh yeah, that doesn't really mean what you think it does, so you probably shouldn't say that anymore. But I think that when we look at this, we're looking at the idea of how is it that we as generations different generations communicate, right? Yeah, and for us in the half century hangout, I don't know about you guys, but if we walked into a bar, okay, at our age, three guys walk into a bar.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah and one duck yeah.
Speaker 1:And one duck right, yeah, okay. So the thing is is, if you walked in or if I walked in, or John, if you walked in and there's people that are younger than you are, can you fit in? Can you talk with them? Can you get conversation with them? Can you figure it out? I think there's some people that can.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think all three of us would probably fall into that category.
Speaker 1:There's others that really would shy away from it, sure like, oh my gosh, I don't know what they're saying. I have no idea what they're saying, you know whatever it is right, like, I think, that being raised I shouldn't say raised growing up, like in the high school ages, if you want to say in the 80s there was a lot of different things going on right. There was a lot of things that different sayings, the way that we spoke, the way that things were happening.
Speaker 2:The way we grew up. Right. It's so much different than it is.
Speaker 1:And for me, the number one thing and I say this to a lot of people as we laugh, and there are students that will tell this too and they laugh about it.
Speaker 2:So in college, so that's like mid-80s for you to. You know to yeah, when did you grow up there? Yeah, so my college years were 90 to 95.
Speaker 3:Okay so so you graduated in from high school, high school, high school 90.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you 90.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you grew up in the 80s yeah I grew up in the 80s. Yeah, I grew up, grew up in the mid-70s to the mid-80s Right.
Speaker 1:So the idea is that if you look at the way that it was, communication now is so much electronics.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It blows me away.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Like I remember thinking, and I just remember thinking like the first. I don't even remember what year it was the first cell phone I got, it was I was, I was, I was marrying that kids? I mean, I don't I was like come on now. This is, this is crazy. What are we doing with this thing? Right, and then I happened to get a job that they gave me a um, what was that old phone with the, the blackberry?
Speaker 3:oh wow and I thought that, I thought that was it. But then I was like I don't know. You know, I got that when I was actually a teacher.
Speaker 1:I mean it's crazy, and I think that the way that we communicate, and not just the electronic part but the verbal part, it's always a morph in progress, right, I mean?
Speaker 1:obviously I mean things from the 50s, the 60s, the electronic part, but the verbal part it's always a morph in progress, right, I mean obviously I mean things from the 50s, the 60s, the 70s. I mean every decade changes a little bit in how it goes. By the way, did you see Travis Kelsey at the Super Bowl, what he was dressed like? Did you see that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought he looked sharp. He did look sharp.
Speaker 1:But guys our age thought he did. Yeah, but guys, our age thought he did, but then others thought that he should have been selling me a 1977 Buick Regal off of a used car lot.
Speaker 2:Oh, no man, I thought he looked hot. I mean not that I would you know, not that way, but I thought he looked good.
Speaker 1:No, I hear you, I hear you. Some people thought maybe he was an adult film director too.
Speaker 2:Oh no, that didn't even come to my mind, I saw a meme about that.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but I think that we talked about the 80s. We talked about things that were going on then and as the half century club sometimes we look at the past and we'll be like, oh, you know, back in the day. And how many kids look at us now when we say back in the day and they roll their eyes and they're like, oh.
Speaker 3:So how do you know? You grew up in the 80s. What are some of the things that are Atari?
Speaker 2:Atari If you know, atari, you probably grew up in the 80s. Which one? 2600? No, no, no, the original.
Speaker 3:I mean the 2600 for sure. I think the 2600 was the original right.
Speaker 2:No, there was one before the 2600,.
Speaker 3:I think Pong. Are you talking about Pong? Yeah, no, I'm talking about the original.
Speaker 2:Atari With like four. Let me fact check myself here. All right, you guys keep talking, I'm going to fact check myself the original.
Speaker 1:Atari I think this is where I thought it was the 2600. In our introduction we talk about three guys who grew up differently. Right, we talk about we grew up in different areas. We did different.
Speaker 3:We're still kind of, but not western to a degree. A little bit different eras too we're still a little bit graduated.
Speaker 1:90 a little bit after us a little a little bit.
Speaker 1:John's an 85, I'm an 86, yeah, yeah you're a 90, so so we're, you know, similar, but it's a little bit of a jump because at the end of that that 80s and when you were the 90s, it's going. It's a little bit different and I know that for me and this certainly isn't like a status thing I think that well, I think and you guys can correct me if I'm wrong growing up in the 80s and when I was in high school, I was in the largest city out of the three of us you were, it was definitely larger.
Speaker 3:I'm a little bit more of a. Mine was like 700 people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you're in a, I was in a big city.
Speaker 3:I was in a very small town.
Speaker 1:I was in a big city but a small school because it was a private school in that town. So there's different things as we go, and I think that this always you learn things as you go like wow, that part of the country was doing this or this part of the country, even though it was the same time, and one of the things that I've laughed at since I've been to this area, which you said, like the Omaha metro area. One thing that cracks me up we'll talk about just for a second is fashion. They're a year behind If I'm in Chicago or I'm in Detroit and maybe you see it.
Speaker 1:And then you come here and it's like people like oh, look at my new digs, man, look at this, look at this, and it's like I saw that last year it's hilarious it's just, and I think that it's just a microcosm of how the country works and how things are and where people are. But nowadays, with electronics, it's a little bit different because, you see, see, everything, everything, yeah, you see the world differently than when you did when local news in omaha back then was just seeing what was happening, right?
Speaker 2:here correct. You know, the original atari came out in 1977 77 what was it? Uh, it was the original atari. And then the 20, what's it called, uh it? And then the 2600 came out 82, 80. So you know what? 1977. So it's the same thing there you go.
Speaker 3:Yeah 2600 was the original yeah it looks like it yeah. So, Pong was a little bit before that and Pong was the one with the paddles. Do you ever remember that?
Speaker 2:Yep pong was the one with the paddles. Do you ever remember that?
Speaker 3:yep, and it had four, four, um like games you could play. You could play hockey, you could play pong, you could play pong off of a of a wall and you could play double pong or something like that.
Speaker 2:Shout out to my friend Patrick Green, who had the original Atari that we played in probably 1980, 81, 82, something like that.
Speaker 3:And we played pong. Did you have Pitfall?
Speaker 1:I don't remember Pitfall until later on what year did cable TV come out?
Speaker 2:Man, I remember cable TV coming out. Probably the very first thing I think I watched on Cable TV was MTV and it was Phil Collins' you Can't Hurry Love.
Speaker 1:You Just have to Wait, but what year-ish was that?
Speaker 2:Probably 83, 84 maybe, because I know that.
Speaker 1:So for me.
Speaker 2:For me, anyway, that's when our house was able to afford it.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what I'm saying and I don't remember the exact year, but what I do remember is that there's a picture in the archives somewhere of my dad getting a color TV for us. And it actually wasn't from my dad, it was from some guys that he was doing some midnight work for as a printer, and they brought us one and we thought we were pretty cool right, yeah, we finally had this color tv.
Speaker 1:But my friend down the street, they were already there and then they got cable, which I didn't really quite understand. But what I found out in a hurry was they had a remote control yeah oh my god what was that remote control like? The, the remote control was probably like what's the biggest phone now like big one, whatever like a samsung something, yeah, some big old thing.
Speaker 2:It was probably twice the size of that thing yeah, and it was this big clunky.
Speaker 1:Did it have clickers on it? It had little clickers on it, but I remember that they got two of them and his parents got it and I remember going like, wow, this is, I don't have to stand up and go over to the tv and turn the channel and my dad yelling at me to hold the rabbit ears, you know like, hold it this way or put the foil on the end and hold it, but the biggest thing was is that they had all these channels. And so his older brother, my friend, jerry Moore he's his older brother, ken, who we learned everything from because of course he knew jerry moore. He's his older brother, ken, who we learned everything from because of course he knew everything right of course he's an older brother, he's.
Speaker 2:How could we not think? You gotta know, by the way, everything if you drove. You guys talked about a buick regal.
Speaker 1:I drove a 1977 buick regal sky blue he, he told us about this remote and we were there, and then we realized that there was one of those channels, the risque channel, uh-oh so risque we took one of the remotes outside. I was a little mischievous when I was back then you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1:We stood outside the window still a little bit jerry's dad and his mom were sitting there watching a movie and she got up to go to the kitchen to get some snacks or something and we switched it to the Playboy channel from the window.
Speaker 3:Oh no, I thought it was the Risque channel.
Speaker 1:It was Risque at the time and he was in there smacking the remote and she comes in and she's like backhanding him, you know, like mad, and he's looking at it like what is going on. And then she left again, like to go to the bathroom. We did it, oh it's great.
Speaker 2:So our remote was probably a two by three by maybe inch and a half little box and it had one, maybe three little buttons, I don't know. But the one button that you pushed would uh, you'd hear it clink, clink, clink, clink. Yeah, and it was a mechanical signal as opposed to an electronic signal. And then, my friends, we never had HBO, but it used to be, where, if you grew up in the 80s you know this HBO used to be a box that was actually on the top of the television Home box office.
Speaker 2:That's what that stands for. So if you grew up in the 80s Atari, that box on top HBO, I think our cable was Continental Cablevision and there was a little slider that you would have to slide each channel to, and there I think there were 44 channels.
Speaker 3:So I grew up in a small town and our remote control was hey, john, get up and turn the channel. Oh yeah, and why don't you turn that up a little bit and hold the rabbit ears? And yes, we had black and white TV. I don't think anybody today knows what black and white TV is.
Speaker 1:Well, it's funny because you look at it through the TV eyes and the electronic part and everything that we're looking toward, and you tell kids these days, you tell them these things, whether it's your own kids or whether it's somebody somewhere else, and they just look at you kind of funny, like what? And I remember we didn't have, we didn't have. So when I went to college, um, I got a like as I I want to say, if I remember right, it was a family group present and it was a dual cassette deck. Okay, yep, only because I was like, oh, I can transfer music from this tape to this tape, or I could even do like almost like I'm a dj and I could make some, you know whatever, and make a mixtape, mixtape.
Speaker 3:How about that?
Speaker 1:maybe two years in cds came out and the only reason we knew about it. So now I'm in chicago. So I went from detroit, went to school in chicago. My friend had a job at a, at a store, and it was like beta tapes, right, not even VHS, it was beta, okay. And he's like, hey, these new things are coming out, these circular things, and I'm like records. No, not records, they're smaller and they're like chrome and I'm like what?
Speaker 1:And he brought one home and I'm like, well, what do we do with it now? Where do you play it in? And then he bought a CD player and all of a sudden we were there and we were one of the and it was hilarious because I didn't think of myself as obviously wealthy or anything else, but we were the first ones on the football team and the thing to have a CD player in our apartment. People came from miles around to listen to it.
Speaker 2:Well, you can back the bus up from the CDs and the Walkman.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:With the mixtapes. I don't know how many nights I went to sleep listening to my Walkman that I got for Christmas. That's what I did before pregame.
Speaker 1:Absolutely Pregame and football. I sat in the wrestling room in the basement of Concordia University, chicago Illinois, and sat there and listened to my Walkman with my headphones on, listening to a little lunatic fringe and letting it rip. That's the way it went.
Speaker 2:So you know, you grew up in the 80s, when you know a lotty-dotty we like to party.
Speaker 1:We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody, we're just a man that's on the mic and when we rock upon the mic.
Speaker 2:We mock the mic, right, yeah. So I mean, that is like classic slick rick, yeah, slick rick and dougie fresh. You know, you grew up in the 80s, if you know that particular maybe it's funny. I don't know, john, did you grow up in small town iowa? Did you know that?
Speaker 1:they were a year behind. I didn't know that that we were like five years behind at that time, and it's funny that you say that, because so you were in the Ohio area which is close to Detroit, I mean you were there and that music that was there. It's kind of funny because this, what was that thing that happened last weekend, the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:Yes, the big game.
Speaker 1:And that thing at the halftime like we laugh about it a little bit. But once I got past my half century ears trying to figure out what he was saying the whole time, there was a lot of stuff that was going on there that was actually. There was some meat to it yeah, there's a lot of some things that were there and and I it took me back to those songs like that that there was always a message behind it.
Speaker 1:And there were so many things that were going on. And now it's like you listen to some of the music and we laugh because we play warm-up music for our teams when they come out, and half the time I'm like this is awful, I can't handle this, this is just terrible. How can this be getting them excited and going? But you know what it does. Somehow the message that they're getting out of it is the same as it was when we were their age, getting the message out of some music. And I think that's where the communication piece that sometimes and I'll be the first to admit it that I kind of dismiss the newer generation. I'll be like ah, they don't know what they're talking about, but you know what. It's so similar to what it was when we were there.
Speaker 1:It's just a different mode, it's just a different thing, but it's similar. Everybody does that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think that's you know, we can talk about the differences between, like, like today's music. We started off talking about the language and, like you know, gag me with a spoon versus what? The skibbity or Alpha Sigma, and then you know, we kind of in, you know, talking now about the music stuff. But I think, like we're each in our 50s and I think the onus to bridge the gap between generations, I think it's on us not to get too deep because we wanted to kind of keep this light.
Speaker 3:How do we continue to bridge the gap between you know, the next generation and us so that, like, we all see value, we all can relate, we all can connect, we all can succeed and pass on some of those maybe more important values, and we're sitting in a wonderful time in history where we've got four generations maybe five generations of people working in the same place, and it's an amazing time.
Speaker 3:It really is an amazing time and we've got such an opportunity to help these young kids get to where they need to be. And we've talked about excellence before. We've talked about being, you know, great and helping and mentoring these kids to be great. Right, One of the things that that I think about and I don't know if you've ever watched the this show, soccer show about Ted Lasso.
Speaker 2:Ted, yeah, that's one of my favorites, so so you haven't great show, but but he talks about not being judgmental.
Speaker 3:Be curious, not judgmental, I think you hitting.
Speaker 1:that is what I was going to say to your question, chuck, was that? I think this goes to what we've said in our intro is that we need to be open and listen and learn, because you know what the students, the kids, whatever it is your own kids, your grandkids, your students, whatever it is that you have.
Speaker 3:People you work with. You have young people around you.
Speaker 1:It is always good to listen to them and not just dismiss them, because you know what they have a voice.
Speaker 1:They have a voice, whether we like it at the initial or not, and I think it needs to be a two-way street where they can not only respect or listen to what we say, but we really need to engage with them and listen to them and hear what they're saying and how, because we can't.
Speaker 1:You know, it's one of these, these discussions that I have a lot is that you know there's a difference between sympathy and empathy. Right, it's hard for us, I feel like anyway, it's hard for us to empathize all the time with the youth of today, because, you know, we didn't grow up in the same world, so I can't walk a mile in their shoes. I mean I can think about it and they can't walk a mile in their shoes. I mean I can think about it and they can't walk a mile in mine either. You know what I mean, but it behooves both of us to listen and say, wow, that's a really cool viewpoint or that's something. At least, even if I don't agree with them. At least I get perspective then and I can hear where this kid is coming from, or what they're feeling or what they're passionate about.
Speaker 3:Because that's what it was when we were. What they're trying to say, right? What they are trying to convey Long-haired, freaking people may not apply right.
Speaker 1:That goes from back in the 70s.
Speaker 2:It's the same thing it's the same message, but it's a different sign.
Speaker 1:Sign everywhere, everywhere, and you need to understand that. And I think for us, and I know for the three of us, I know that we do this, probably even not as much as we should, but I know that we do and I think that we would encourage anybody to do it. And I know it's hard because sometimes you do it and you're like, oh my gosh, this is ridiculous, these people are crazy, this is ridiculous or whatever. But you know what it's? Just, it's a gift and a different wrapper. That's really all that. It is.
Speaker 1:And it's just something that we need to be able to look at and to say, hey, you know,500 rent is what $300 rent was when we were. You know what I mean. It's like it's the same thing but it's different, but it's still the same basic idea and all the things that go behind that. I mean I get it, but we to keep progress and positivity going. It helps us to communicate with those kids to understand.
Speaker 3:So, Luke, are you saying we've got two ears for a reason and one mouth? We need to listen a little bit, I've got headphones on. Try to understand what people are saying.
Speaker 2:I really think the onus when I say the onus and that's the weight of the conversation lies on dudes and ladies and people that are older, older, because what tends to happen, I think, and I've seen it happen multiple times is people that, as we get older, we tend to think oh man, this is the only way and we maybe a little bit disenfranchise ourselves from or separate ourselves probably a better word from a younger generation and we become irrelevant to any conversation that results in change. And so I think we really have to, as we get older, we really have to make it a focus and be very intentional about relating to the younger generation, whether it's connecting with them, like with the, the Skibbity or Gat, or that was savage bro.
Speaker 2:There you go. We got to relate to them so that at least we have some type of an audience, so that we can maybe pass on some of those values.
Speaker 1:It's kind of funny and I know this is a different way of looking at it. I think it was over. I want to say it was Thanksgiving. It might have been Thanksgiving and I was out here in the very garage we're in right now, had my kids here and we were enjoying holiday time and as they've gotten older, I always wanted them to be exposed to great music. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:So there was a lot of great classic rock or that was going on or things that were always there was great now did I always expect them that as they grew older they were going to listen to that, maybe in the back?
Speaker 2:of my head. I thought it was hope for it right, realistic at some point you get it.
Speaker 1:So I was in my son's car and of course you jump in and I wasn't driving, which doesn't happen very often and he you know his music comes on and it's whatever it is I'm like huh, okay, and I can't follow it.
Speaker 1:I don't know what's going on, but we sat out here and they were like, so, dad, what about music with this? And we started talking about it. So I've got the tv out here and we're doing youtube videos of old stuff like old run dmc or old sugar hill gang or whoever it was Like all these things. And they're playing new stuff.
Speaker 1:And I'm like well, I can kind of dig that guy. You know, I like him, I like that. And they're asking me like well, why do you like him? Well, it's because he's telling a story or he's doing it like you can tell Sure, and it was really cool because it was like I'm actually listening to what they're saying and they're listening to some of the stuff that I grew up with. And they're like well, I've heard this before a hundred thousand times.
Speaker 1:And I remember driving to Florida and we played I can't remember, but just listening to it and it was kind of new music at the time. It wasn't classic, but it was kind of in the middle somewhere and it was just like this bridge between the generations to see it and to hear it. And I remember going back with my dad and now it's kind of hilarious because, okay, self-laying it out here, all-star. Sundays. Thank you, Smash Mouth.
Speaker 3:Smash Mouth All-Star. There you go, and I listened on Sundays.
Speaker 1:every Sunday it's like 10 to 3 o'clock Yacht Rock.
Speaker 2:Love it.
Speaker 1:And as I go, I'm listening to it. I'm like you know what? My dad listened to this Because that was the time when he was like in his 40s, you know, in his 50s, you know whatever. And he was listening to it because it's just kind of cool, grooving, just kind of get a vibe. You know, do your thing. And I'm like I get it. I'm feeling it In some of the songs I knew anyway.
Speaker 3:Early 70s to early 80s. Oh, it's good stuff.
Speaker 1:But you can find a lot of that in the new music today. You have to search for guys in the half century hangout. You have to search for it, but you can find it.
Speaker 2:And you have to want to connect with it. Yes, absolutely. If you don't want to connect with it, if you don't like the groove or the style or whatever, then you're never going to connect with it.
Speaker 3:So, chuck, I'm going to ask you a question. Sure, so you said that we have to make the concession for helping kids and understanding kids. Right, kids and understanding kids Right. What do you think that we have to do to help them get to maybe understanding us a little bit? But what do you think we have to do?
Speaker 2:I think one of the things that I mean they have to like us. There's a guy that I golf with. His name is Dean. I just like Dean, why he was a teacher over at Walnut Grove Elementary and a great, great couple. I just like Dean. Dean's 35 years, my no, 25 years, 28 years, my senior I just like hanging out with him and I want to know more about Dean because I like him.
Speaker 2:So I think making that connection is the most important part between us and other generations. But my point is, I think the onus, I think the responsibility lies with us to connect if we ever want to pass anything on, if we ever want to pass on values, if we want to pass on values, if we want to pass on you know whether it's music, you know, and I think it starts with I loved your example talking with your kids in this garage. You know that's a moment and what I would like to see happen and maybe it's unrealistic is those moments turn into movements. Sure, happen. And maybe it's unrealistic is those moments turn into movements, sure, where people on a broader scale connect with younger generations so they can pass on things that we value.
Speaker 3:So you're talking a little bit both of you about mentorship, leadership, yeah, and values, which kind of is a little bit about the way our podcast is going.
Speaker 1:We've talked about that quite a bit. It's cyclical. I mean, we come back to the same things, we come back to them, and it's so centered on the idea that we feel and we agree to be a better person, to be a better culture, to be a better society. These things we need to be open to things. Yeah, we need to be able to look and you know what, as much as there was things in last weekend's Super Bowl, things about political stuff, and there were some commercials that were those commercials with Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady, they were good, Because you know what it's like, you know what?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can't just look at somebody or listen to somebody and say I don't like it because you can't do that.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's not that you can't, it's that you really shouldn't, because you know what they have something to say, whatever it is I don't know what it is Even if you don't agree with it. Like for us. We've had disagreements about things, but here we are still, sitting here doing the same thing, talking with each other, laughing about it, figuring out ways that we can meet in the middle.
Speaker 1:It doesn't mean that I'm always changing my opinion to John's or to yours. It's just the fact that John thinks a little differently than I do and I can accept that and it's okay. There's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't make him wrong or me wrong or me right.
Speaker 3:It doesn't matter, I don't have to be right all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we've developed this relationship.
Speaker 1:That hits different. That hits different.
Speaker 2:That hits different, exactly Boom. One of the things that I think why we started this podcast was because each of us stood around at one point and the three of us talked and we disagreed, but yet we still really like each other. And so we are of the same generation but we differ in some ways ideology.
Speaker 1:Ideologically.
Speaker 2:That's the word.
Speaker 3:You're the educated one, the way we think, the way that maybe 90s, 85, 86, you know those.
Speaker 2:Things differ, right, 85, 86, you know those things differ, right, and so what we're kind of talking about today is bridging that gap generationally, and I think there's another step where we can bridge gaps and that's both racially and gender-wise maybe, sure, when you're talking about women or whatever. Yeah, so I think there's different areas. I think we can expand this id idea of bridging the gap and reaching out and making those connections. I think that that's.
Speaker 1:That's great that you say that, because probably out of all the college courses that I've taken, having a master's degree and going through, I'm going to tell you right now the most powerful class that I ever had was the multicultural education class, because I think that listening to that professor and going through and having these open now granted, it was a grad level class which are always much better than undergrad, because you engaged in conversation Right always much better than undergrad, because you engaged in conversation, right, and that was the best, because, not that we don't like to do that, right, but listening to it and saying, hey, you know what, luke, you grew up in the first culturally diverse workforce in the country because of the big three, yeah, because of Detroit, and that's what it was.
Speaker 1:Because they needed people and they needed to come in and they did, and there was such a melting pot of people and cultures. And going to a school that was culturally diverse that I was at, and racially diverse, and living in Detroit, and going through all the things of hearing from generations about different stuff, there's so many things that we can learn. So many things that we can learn from anybody that is different than we are, I mean, and it doesn't have to be racially or culturally, it could be anything but we can learn from people that are different than we are.
Speaker 3:Hey, you know, we gotta listen, learn and change our minds sometimes. And that's where we are, and that's what we have to do and change our minds sometimes yeah. And that's where we are.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And that's what we have to do. So anything to kind of wrap this up a little bit, yep, I got a great quote from Martin Luther King.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2:And I think kind of what we're talking about is like giving each other hope, right Building those relationships and building hope that there's something can be different tomorrow than what it is today. And so Martin Luther King, in a sermon that he was preaching back after the I have a Dream sermon, this is his quote. So if you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Speaker 1:Very good.
Speaker 3:That is awesome. I want to thank everybody for hanging out with us here at Half Century Hangout. Absolutely, and you know, keep tuning in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, check in with us on Facebook, apple, google, wherever you find your….
Speaker 3:By the way, I'm Half Century so. I say tune in, but you know it's different right.
Speaker 1:Yep, by the way, chuck, yeah, that hat is drip boy. Hey, it's drip you know, maybe's different right.
Speaker 2:Yep, by the way, chuck, yeah, that hat is drip boy. Hey, it's drip. You know, maybe I'm Alpha Sigma. All right guys Nice job everybody, yep, thanks, We'll see you later. Peace out, peace out, peace out, peace out, peace out.
