Brown Bag Mornings

4/10/26 IG Etiquette for 61-Year-Olds 👴 | Brown Bag Mornings

61 min
Apr 10, 20268 days ago
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Summary

Brown Bag Mornings covers a NASA spacecraft landing, Instagram etiquette for older users, hip-hop industry drama involving Gucci Mane and Poo Shiesty, and a listener call-in about a father's inappropriate Instagram comments on his son's girlfriend. The episode concludes with a segment on LAUSD labor negotiations and potential strike action by school workers.

Insights
  • Older adults adopting social media platforms often lack understanding of digital etiquette norms, creating unintended social friction within families and relationships
  • Public figures using music as a confessional medium can blur legal and ethical lines, potentially creating evidence against themselves in ongoing cases
  • Labor negotiations in large public institutions reveal systemic wage inequality where essential workers cannot afford basic housing in their service areas
  • Self-deprecating humor and laughing at oneself signals confidence and authenticity, making people more likeable in social situations
  • Gaming content creation and streaming has become a legitimate income pathway, with titles like GTA 6 offering potential for significant earnings
Trends
Intergenerational social media friction as older demographics adopt platforms without understanding community norms and etiquetteMusicians addressing legal cases through song lyrics, creating documentary-style confessions that may complicate legal defensesGaming and content creation as viable career alternatives, particularly for younger demographics seeking income diversificationPublic sector labor organizing intensifying around cost-of-living crises, with multi-union coordination becoming more commonDating app alternatives emerging in physical spaces (sports venues) as younger singles seek organic social connectionsAir quality and environmental alerts becoming routine weather segment content in Southern California broadcastsCelebrity accountability through fan-driven social media monitoring and screenshot sharing as informal enforcement mechanism
Companies
NASA
Spacecraft landing discussed at episode opening, featuring astronaut from Pomona landing in Pacific Ocean near San Diego
Rockstar Games
Parent company of GTA 6, confirmed $70-$80 standard pricing for upcoming game release in November 2024
Take Two Interactive
Parent company of Rockstar Games, CEO confirmed GTA 6 pricing structure
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
Subject of labor negotiation segment; facing potential strike by three unions over worker wages and conditions
SEIU Local 99
Union representing thousands of LAUSD school workers including janitors, lunch staff, and aides
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)
Teachers union coordinating with SEIU Local 99 and Teamsters for potential Tuesday strike action
Teamsters
Union representing LAUSD principals, joining SEIU Local 99 and UTLA in potential strike coordination
Cypress Hill
Hip-hop group referenced in opening segment; B-Rail mentioned as member
Fortnite
Free-to-play gaming model discussed as alternative monetization strategy to paid games like GTA 6
Dodger Stadium
Venue hosting 'Drafted' dating event in bleachers for singles to meet and mingle during baseball games
People
Max Arias
Discussed LAUSD labor negotiations, worker housing insecurity, and potential strike action on Tuesday
Maria Abalos
First-time radio guest sharing personal experience of wage struggles, housing insecurity, and care work with special ...
Gucci Mane
Released song 'Crash Dummy' detailing armed robbery incident with signed artist Poo Shiesty
Poo Shiesty
Arrested and federally charged with armed robbery and kidnapping of label owner Gucci Mane; facing potential life sen...
Young Thug
Shared metaphorical life advice at Florida International University book release event about navigating adversity
Drake
Referenced in discussion about Instagram voice note habits and social media behavior patterns
Ariana Grande
Struggled with acapella performance of 'One Thing' at concert; discussed vocal challenges and song difficulty
Jillian Pfeiffer
Created 'Drafted' dating event concept at Dodger Stadium after 10 years of unsuccessful dating app experiences
Quotes
"99% of our members cannot afford a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles. 10% struggle with housing security."
Max AriasLabor segment
"LA Unified is sitting on a $5 billion reserve. That's double the budget of LAX. And that's just a reserve."
Max AriasLabor segment
"Everybody that takes a dump on you is not against you. Everyone that cleans dumps off of you is not with you."
Young ThugLife advice segment
"I am a supervision aide. I get paid for hours every day. It's not enough for me to support my daughter to have a home."
Maria AbalosLabor segment
"Our members are not going to work. This would be historical if this happens, because it's so many people from the biggest district, LAUSD."
Max AriasLabor segment
Full Transcript
Yo, before the episode starts, leave a like, drop a comment, leave a review, and yes, subscribe so you don't miss any brown-backed mornings. What's up? This is B-Rail from Cypress Hill. Where are you from, Esse? Don't you know I'm local? All our space fans out there that have been watching are tenants too. You know the spaceship that launched with that homie from P-Town? One of the NASA astronauts from Pomona. Go up around the moon, all that good stuff, and come back down. Well, they're coming down, they're landing over here in the Pacific Ocean. In the Pacific to be specific. Shout out to Rob, they're gonna land off the coast of San Diego. If the heat shield holds on. Okay, so they're set to land at 5.07pm today. The crew will then be recovered and taken to Naval Air Station North Island before heading to Houston. I'm assuming that Naval Air Station is somewhere in San Diego? Oh, yes. That's a really bad idea. Landing at 5.07pm, traffic is gonna be crazy. Oh, right, the 5 right there? Have you seen the videos of the boats? They're getting people in spacesuits and training to take them out as quick as possible. Those people have already trained probably. They gotta put them in quarantine immediately. They never seen Apollo 13 did? No, but I did see ET. What? Yes. Didn't they have a bunch of hazmat suits in ET? They quarantined to him? They put him in a white tent? Everything in Apollo 13 is exactly what's gonna happen. You've never seen Apollo 13? No, I don't even know what that is. He saw when it launched. Yeah, I'm like, no. He saw when it launched? Wow. You're showing your eight. You've never seen Apollo 13? It's when the mission failed to go to the moon, but they had to come back with the heat shield. They were scared of it because it was, it gets super hot. Is that the one where I should stay away? No, that's how I'm gonna go. Please don't confuse the classics. That's an asteroid movie. It's not a moon landing movie. It's not a moon landing movie. That's an asteroid movie. Very possible. Our time is two at Lads today at 5.07pm. If you want to check it out, there's a lot of streaming places that you can go watch it. Yes. Incoring a C-SPAM, which is like the, where you're supposed to go. Incredible channel. 4.30 today. Yeah. I'm excited. I don't know why I'm excited. Why do you change your time? I just said 5.07pm. Yeah, why do you change your time? Eastern time, 7.30, so three hours. You just said 5.07. He's loading. What on earth is he saying, you guys? He said that 5.07, PT, Pacific Saturday time. And somehow you landed with 4.30. And then you gave me East Coast time. What does it matter? You're talking in PYT, pretty young thing, time. I'm so confused. You confused us. And the listener, Greg. Yeah. Because Greg is not a listener. Right now people don't even know where they're at. What time is it even? People think they're late to work right now. It's like wait, 7 o'clock. If it's hip hop, you know Letty's on the act go, rap sheet. Letty set, go. How long do you think Drake is? Pause. Wait, what? Yeah, that's the question. You've seen the video, right? Okay, minutes. How many minutes? How many minutes long do you think Drizzy is? What? There's a real question. And there's a real answer. Six. Six minutes. Second? Or minutes. What? Just six minutes. How long do you think Drake? Because he's a six god. Oh, that's a good one. It's a very obscure general question. One minute, man. He's one minute guy. What do you think, Yukon? Two minutes. Two minutes. Okay, he's closer to you, huh? I don't know what you're talking about. Angie, what about you? You're fine now. I'm gonna see three. Three minutes. Okay, the closest one was Greg. Six God. Yeah, why? He's eight minutes long when he sends voice notes. You sick, guys. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Eight minute long voice note. Bro, isn't that crazy? Yeah. I do it all the time. Exactly. I told you. I think he's like you. Okay, so Drake had posted on an Instagram story, is anything but the dang album. He posted a meme that says, I hate Texan people and they start sending voice recordings. I think yo butt to the studio. He answers, this is what knowing me is like, I'ma send that eight minute literature. Oh man, send me a voice note. Voice note. Yeah, one of those. I just want to know why you fools do that. I'ma know it here. So yeah, send me that voice mail, dawg. That's really good after the meet. That's how we respond, huh? That's all voice notes. It can even just be like a sound and that's what the voice notes is. I don't have time for one. I feel like it takes more time to click on the voice note section and do it and then record it and then send. It takes me twice as long for anybody else to send a text message. Aw, I thought you knew that. Because I don't know how to spell. So I gotta go back and retrace my steps. I don't know where I go help you nothing. Nah, sometimes, even out of corrects, like what the hell? Even out of corrects, like bro, I'm lost. Bro, you're making me work OT. Or fob, or you just use chat GT for this, dawg. I remember concrete was sending stuff in the chat and then Angie keeps voice notes and then concrete's like Angie, stop saving these. Yeah, stop keeping these big dawgs. Why do you, why do you save them? I don't even know. It didn't. Nah, you're the FBI, dawg. It can press to keep a voice note and I just see concrete like Anyando Angie in the chat. Like, giving the voice notes, dawg. When did you do that? Gathering evidence over here. Gathering evidence. I don't like that. I don't like seeing that. I feel weird when people do that. Like, why'd you keep a voice note? All I sent you was my food order, dude. What the hell? Why do you want to hear me so bad? Yeah, why do you want to hear my in and out order? That's crazy, dude. If you want to hear me listen to brown eye warning, then you are. I'll put it away. Or podcasted. There you go. That's the sound of the police. The petty police. You're petty. You're just petty. I'm being petty. Petty, petty girl. Pretty and petty as... Pretty and petty as... All right, this story is actually crazy, but you're going to tell me if it's also petty, okay? It has to do with Gucci Mane and his incident with his rapper, Poo Shiesty, that signed to his label. Poo Shiesty is now being accused and charged with setting up a meeting with Gucci and then robbing him at gunpoint. Yes. Shiesty allegedly pulled out an AK style weapon while him and Gucci Mane were meeting and said, look, you got to get me out of my contract. You got to sign these release papers. Apparently they were also... They robbed him of jewelry, watches, and cash, okay? Reports say someone was nearly choked unconscious. They don't say if that was Gucci Mane or not. And some of the stolen items were later shown on social media. Super dumb thing to do when you do that. Oh, yeah. Poo Shiesty and multiple others were, including his father, were arrested and federally charged with kidnapping, armed robbery, and all of that, okay? A judge recently ruled that he should stay in custody while his case plays out. If convicted, he could potentially get life in prison because this was been... Poo Shiesty? He just got out. In and out. In and out. He literally just got out. That's the most frustrating part. Like, if you're a Poo Shiesty fan, he didn't learn anything in there. No, it's enough. And then, honestly, like, Gucci Mane is... Like, he has that Southern charm about him, but he's not to be played with. His history in hip-hop is very about the business, too. He had his own jail stint and everything. And now he has released a song called Crash Dummy, giving more details on what happened and also kind of pouring salt on Poo Shiesty's wounds. Like, can't help you did this to me, but you still signed, bro. You still signed to me. Check this out. I was like, oh my gosh, he really... He got you there, right? He went like 06 Gucci II with the flow. Yes, I'm not mad at this song, but then he also gives a little bit more details of his side of what went on. Check this out. Damn. I have a question. Because clearly that's petty. Like, hey, hey, like... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're still signed to me. Like, I think that was like a crazy trump card. Sorry for the... But is that snitching on what happened? I mean, yes. You know, Poo Shiesty's like, you know, he's cooperating all the language. He went online like, I'm not going to say anything to anybody. Like, I don't know what happened or whatever. But now you're basically singing on a song. This is the perfect exact... There's actually a skit that Key and Peele did on the show where the dude is being interrogated and he's playing his song. And the detective, he's like, about the whole crime and how it happened. That happened. This sounds exactly like that. And that's a parody of life. Like, it's just so funny. No, but I'm used to... And I get it on like rapping about things you've done and that's pretty dumb. But he's rapping about things done to him. No, this is like in chronological order. Like, they walked in, it was 4-0, 5 p.m. Yeah, yeah. That's like his statement. Tall male, hey, tall male, large build. Yeah. He's rapping them in everything. We're a buckle of a mask. His name's Ryan's with Feisty. I really like the song. Like, I'm not gonna catch it. It's really catchy. But I'm like, wait, hold on, is this... I don't know what the code is for something like this. Well, I mean, he was right when he said, man, I'll never talk to the police. Technically, he's right. He talked to the whole world. And then he'd draw their conclusions from there. I'm not gonna tell you anything, but go and download this other song. I'm not gonna tell you anything without a beat under it. Spotify, go ahead and stream it up, buddy. It's called Crashdom, I mean, I guess it tells the details of what was done to him by Pusha East in the crew. I don't know if that's what we use against them. I know a lot of people aren't gonna like it though. A lot of people that are in the streets are gonna be like, oh, he's snitchin', dry. Of course. But I mean, I don't care. I don't care. I've drawn that Pusha East still signed to him, which is crazy. It didn't hit him well. Alright. One of our favorite 2000 songs has been ruined and you're never gonna be able to hear it the same. And it is this one. Great song. Love that song. Yes, one thing by her. She decided she wanted to sing it live at a concert and she wanted to go acapella. But it did not go her way. Listen to this. One thing you don't want to admit is this one thing you can't admit you did. Is this one thing you did? She kinda struggled. It was the beginning, but I think she redeemed herself. A little, but even at the end she kinda messed up at the beginning. There's a bug going around, bro. She might be sick. Yes, there is. Because I'm telling you, man, I've been able to host some shows with her. And I've heard her live and I've never heard that before. She's a really nice person. Her defenseman, she probably got that little COVID situation. Yeah, she probably got whatever's going around. I changed my dad's voice, bro. And he's trying. But the thing is, you guys are starting to get the bug. Maybe her voice is messed up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, she's done this again before. This is the second time she's done this. Don't do that. She's not a repeat offender. She couldn't have been. My voice is... She was on Tiny Desk struggling as well. She just let the backup singers talk a little bit. I feel bad because A. Marie, like, everybody goes to her shows to just hear one thing. And it's that song. That song. And if it's not sung in that key, which is so hard to do. It's hard, bro. It's hard, bro. It's thinking. Then everybody's gonna clown. It might be great studio-wise, but to stay there and... High key that energy. And also, we recorded 20 years ago. Her voice changes. And people are making it into a trend now. Trying to sing like that. Oh, been trying to let it go. Trying to get my eyes closed. Didn't do it. Never gonna see it. The one thing challenge. The one thing challenge. Oh, man. People are trying to sing her song. They're trying to sing it in that note. It's hard. I'm not mad at her. A. Marie, we can't be... It's so nice. She's super nice. Greg's the one laughing at you, A. Marie. It's this one thing that comes me slipping. It's this one thing that was in me. It's just that part. That little part right there. She's growing up. She's growing up. Yeah, she's going through P.D. I leave her alone. All right, let's get into it. Tune in to Young Jock and the streets want to take over. I think I'm like the queen of parking tickets. Shawty was out there trying to negotiate with one of these terrorists that write tickets on the street. So Shawty, he talked himself out of a ticket and he was trying to talk her out of giving me a ticket. But as soon as I seen the lady face and demeanor, I looked her up and down and what did I say, Shawty? I am letting her know that we are the morning show. These are all our cars. Please don't touch our cars. Like, and then I knew what she knew. My uncle who worked for the police department, she was a former police. So she had us. So I'm going to hold her at Banker. She about to write you a ticket. I'm like, this is my coworker car. I knew you was on the way down. Shawty hit the car. I'm like, there she go right there. You don't have to write the ticket. Shawty, I saved her from writing you a ticket. Shawty looked up with her ashy ass energy and that bald face and said, she couldn't wrote it. And we've been getting tickets ever since. Tune in to Young Jock and the streets want to take over. Available now on your favorite podcast platform. To the weather. And now, the weather. Oh, hell, God, God. With concrete storm. But it does it is going out for the weather. April 10th this Friday. First off, we hit the homies over there and mobile. Y'all good there, but it will raise him some parts of SoCal this weekend. 74 degrees and 55 at night. Now we wrap some bars all the way to the CPT bump and snoop. Dre with some DPG. 71 is 60 degrees over there in Compton. Now we're right up the coast of the city of Ventura. It's going to be cold over there, baby, but I'm still going to have Calentura. 67 degrees and 58 degrees with a little 55% chance of some Rizzle Dizzle out there with some rain. Lastly, we pop a tent in the city of Coachella. Party perritos. I hope you brought an umbrella, but it's still going to be hot. 88 and 60 degrees at night. The South Coast Air Quality Monitoring District has issued an air quality alert in Coachella Valley due to wind blown dust pollution. And rain is also in the forecast. This weekend. This weekend. So sister, be careful because you're you pop the tent over there. There's a bunch of dirt. Watch out with the mudslides. What about us? What about Angie and Letty? Be careful. You guys ain't staying there. You guys ain't staying there. There we are. Why are you not? You just said earlier that you were going to drive back home. No, I said I have mom guilt. Yeah, she didn't say she is. Yeah, what about Vicky? They just got like there. Vicky, do Vicky, do Vicky. You guys are not doing the popping the tent. No, I'm not popping the tent. Stay with mom. Oh, you said, I thought you said popping the tent. I'm like, maybe that's another word for like. No, popping the tent. Oh. That's what. I mean for what? Drugs. Drugs. Yeah. Oh yeah. For sure. Papa Molly, be careful out there, guys. Yeah, we are. Be careful, guys. All right. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Mova, Mono Valley going to be 74, 55 degrees at night. Compton, 71 and 60 degrees at night. Ventura, 67 and 58 degrees with 55% chance of rain. Coachella, 88 and 60 degrees at night. There it is. And look, one more thing, guys. What? What? What? What? You know how Mono told us we had literally had no time each? No time each. All right, check this out, Homie. You need a homie or need some help? We need your help. We need a lion. I mean, phone line. We got you, Falk. The Homie Helpline. Art needs our help. Art, Art hit us up and said, what's up, Brown Bag? I'm Art. I'm 31 and I've been dating this beautiful girl for six months. Very beautiful. Everything's been perfect until my dad started acting weird. Oh, man. What do you do? What do you do? He said, my dad is 61. He recently left my mom and has been a viejo mañoso. I guess since he's single now, he's been all over Instagram. And I noticed he follows a bunch of IG models. Look at this. Jenny's 69, Jaylen Ojeda, family friends that are girls, and comments creepy emojis on their pages and stories. Creepy emojis. Yeah, that's kind of embarrassing, but he's a grown man and I'm not going to nag him for that. But the other day, he commented on my girl's spring break photo dump on IG and in some of the photos she had a bikini on. His comment was, you look so pretty, Miha. Or maybe you look so pretty, Miha. Yeah, which one is it? We don't know. It's a comment. It's a comment. It depends how you take it. I'm pretty cute. Oh, man. She's a little... She's a little... He said, my girl thought it was hilarious and laughed it off, but it really pissed me off. And to top it off, my boys in the group chat always send screenshots of Don Arturo's creepy comments and cook me. It's only a matter of time before they find this one and start talking their ish about this. I mentioned it to my mom and she said, why are you surprised he's always been llevado, overly friendly, and always acted younger than his age. So, I'm going to go back to the phone bag. Do I need to check my dad for his comments or am I about to crash out on my own pops for nothing? You know, he's saying it with like, she reminds me of her mommy. Oh, when she was younger, she was younger. She was younger. That's great. She had a quiet fossil like that. No. She's my enemy. No. No. No. No. No. It just depends on the context dog. Yeah. I mean, you can't hear context to texts. That's the problem. It's a common texts. Yeah. A lot of older people comment stuff that they don't know that they're commenting. Yeah, also it's like IG etiquette. Yeah. Like we know better that we're not supposed to comment crazy things on, you know, girls. Do we? I hope. I hope you do. Because it, because everybody can see it. You know what I'm saying? Back in the day, I used to comment things and then I, like people would be like, whoa, it's all your comment. And I was like, eem. Bam. Burned out. You know, like. You should be leaving those comments in the first place. Yeah. I do it all. I do it now. Now, okay, thank you. I do it within your screen. Yeah. You know what I mean? Bathwater Vick has signed up himself for? Drink your bathwater girl. Oh, you guys can read this. But it took me a while, even at my, you know, younger age to like realize that, like, no, really people see this and if they follow you, like, your comments will pop up immediately. It's not hidden necessarily. You know what I'm saying? Right there. Yours will be the first one that everybody sees. Yeah, gotta be careful, man. Exactly. So I think he doesn't really know the etiquette. He's an older dude, 61. Yeah. Probably just thinking like whatever. And I don't know. I don't know what he thinks he's going to come from. I don't know because you can't choose that he's old or that he acts like he's young. Like, which one is it? Is he like an older dude that acts young so he knows what it is or is he old that he doesn't know what he's doing? He doesn't know what he's doing. Because the mom's like he has always acted younger than he is. Yeah. Like the fact this one has an Instagram and knows how to use emojis and all of that. That's beyond him. And I don't do not think 60 is old. But if we're calling him like that old vibe, then I don't know. It's just something's not... I just don't think he's trying to slide on his girl like that. And then how long has he been together? Six months. And so what's the dad's relationship with the girl? We need to ask her. Well, clearly he's following her. Well, he's following her, but does he call her Miha? Yeah, he called her Miha. No, but does he call her Miha? Is that cultural to him and her? Like, what's their dynamic? Well, yeah. Yeah, I mean, the mom said he's always been yabado, overly friendly. No, no, no. Okay. But I want their specific relationship, right? Like the relationship with the dad. Do they get along? Does she like him? Like, you know, things of that nature. She didn't seem to raise any red flags with her because she said... She laughed it off? She just laughed it off. You know, so it wasn't like, oh, here it goes being creepy again. Yeah. I'm saying. But then as a guy, you look at her like what the... Why is he commenting that? Like specifically like the heart eyes and stuff like that? Your homies might oversee it too though. Like, you know, they'll hype it up. They'll hype it up. And then like you know your dad. Each of you guys knows your dad, right? Yeah. Like, would you feel away? I know my dad. I know my dad isn't going to be creepy like that, but I don't know his dad. I don't assume he's just going to be creepy off top. I just feel like he knows his dad the way that his dad says he is. He knows if that's creepy or not. Yeah. You got what I'm saying? Like he knows his dad's ways. I think it could be he's on guard because it's like he's recently single. And he's just acting a fool and then getting... Yeah, pops is... And then like everybody's sending him screenshots like oh he's being thirsty. He's being thirsty. With the IG models. And so now he doesn't really get the benefit of the doubt. He's embarrassed. Which is kind of his fault, you know, for being thirsty under, you know, all these IG models. Yeah, I know my pops. My pops has an Instagram, but my dad would be making mistakes. Like I would just see a random story of like a shoelace. I'm like, Dad, what are you doing? He's like, no, I don't know what he's doing. I don't know what he's doing. I don't know what he's doing. I don't know what's going on. Yeah. My dad's 65. He doesn't know what's going on in his head. He knows how to open the app and scroll. Right. But as far as like create a story and throw tags on it and he doesn't know he's not going to do all that. But this seems like a savvier like on social media type of dad. Judging from one, you know where the emojis are to use them. You're leaving comments. Like you're not just like, I don't know. I'm just looking, right? You're following certain IG models and people that people know. He does seem like he's like he's hip to it. So I don't know that we can necessarily cast it off as like, yeah, he's old. Old people do old people things. That's because he seems like he and I don't know how long has he had social media? Did he get it before his him and his wife broke up? You think he's recently single. He didn't say that. I didn't say that. Yeah. He's single now. He's been all over. Is that when he started it? Yeah. Doesn't say. Probably just models. He said IG models. Yeah, he follows a bunch of IG models. Like he has to be hippin' up to know who Jenny69 is and Yelena for that. Or he has a good confidant like, I'm Mijo, ensenyame. Don't nestah la Jela. Like who's at work? Like who's at work? Yeah, but like he would have to know who that is. Yeah. Not like he's following JLo and Jessica Alba or like Salma Hayek. Like basically quote unquote like household names. Like these are low key like niche people that you would know if you know, if you're looking for it. Right. Or it could just pop in and he like, because what happens sometimes when stuff pops up on your algorithm, even if you look at it for three or four seconds, it already thinks that you like that. It's how your attention is. Yeah. That it caught your attention. So that's how the algorithm works. I'd be looking up stuff like meteorology stuff all the time. So I'd be getting all kinds of weather, all my stuff. Dude, you're stuff full of it. You're stuff full of it. Stock. You know. I'm getting all kinds of stock markets. And the phone is always the same. Like a viajito, like we're trying to make it like we're trying to like cast it off it. It seems like it's a dude that knows what he's doing. If you know me and at 60, you know you're doing like, tampoco no. We're not like all senile. Todavía es caliente el señor ahí. Well, so he's being all quote unquote viejo mañoso. Yeah. Like he's up. It's up. Man, what up? Oh, for sure. For four hours. With a headache and all that. Oh, my God. Me call. Yeah. Me. My head. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That happens. Oh, man. Me. My heart. So you're trying to figure out if you should check his dad. Yeah. 61 and all over Instagram for liking a photo of his girlfriend in a bikini and also saying you look so pretty. Me how with heart eyes on it. Should he check his dad or is he about to crash out for nothing? Soc. Definitely. Your own dad. Your own dad. You're going to fight your own dad. Yeah. Hypothetically. Yeah. No, I would just be like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And even if it is on my girl like, like, like, come on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's so nasty. It's funny to list your dad on your wife. Oh, dude. It's funny to list his dad on your wife. Oh, dude. It's funny to list his dad on your wife. Oh, dude. It's funny to list his dad on your wife. It's so nasty. It's so nasty. It's so nasty. It's funny to list your dad on your wife. Oh, dude. It's funny to list his dad on your wife. Oh, dude. It's funny to list his dad on your wife. like yeah, I would creep you out. Yeah, I'd be like look. So that the girl is like, oh, this is so funny. Okay, but you look so pretty, Miha. Is that, is that too far? And a photo of Bikini, yeah. Yeah? I mean, it's a photo dump, so maybe there's sunsets, maybe there's, you know, different things. I don't know, we'll just edit it. You know, Vic, you just, What? Is he paying you? You just keep trying to like, oh wait, maybe that's a sunset. Maybe like the sunset. Maybe it was a picture of her and a bikini looking at a sunset. Maybe he likes, you take pictures of sunset all day. All day, I do. I started at turn 40, I started taking pictures of sunsets, bro. That's how I know I'm getting old. Okay, but regardless of it's a carousel and there's other pictures like of the sunset. That's not saying you look pretty. He's saying you look pretty, Miha. Cause I'll tell you, I've gotten in trouble for liking like artist photos when it's like one of them was provocative. But I was like, I like the music. I'm just people. Yeah, that's what you like to do. Yeah, I don't remember. Because what, you like the Drake photo? Yeah, wife and luchi or who? It was a female artist. It was a female artist. I would love to hear your female artist take. Which female artist do you like the music? Yeah. Who? Mostly, who is it? All the music. Which one? Say one name. Missy Elliott? Was it Missy Elliott? No. No. Oh, you know, I could text Jordan and find out where she was. I hope she doesn't remember. Oh, it was a fight. We had plenty of time, Vic. But what I'm saying is I genuinely, like I learned my lesson, right? Because I liked the photo. And in one of them, the artist was wearing a bikini. But that's not the photo that made me like the post. It was for show back at you. And he don't like her music. So he was lying. Wait, let me finish. I like her music. He don't like her music. So I didn't say that on there. I didn't say that on there. But what I realized is like, you got to account for every photo that's in the dump. You know what I'm saying? Even if one of them is that, I'm sitting there trying to argue. I didn't like that photo, but it's part of the post. And you also got to account for the fact that you've thirsted live on air and on the pod about Becky G in the past. So of course, if you then like a photo of her, your girl's going to take it away. I don't think it was Becky G, but yeah. Oh, OK. Nonetheless, nonetheless, I can't remember. Too many things going on. Every day is a new adventure, man. OK, 818-520-159. Art wants to know if he should check his dad. And see, it took your girl checking you for you not to do it again, right? True. OK, so should he check his dad? You don't need one more? No, good for you. Should Art check his dad for comments? Art's dad, who's newly single, is making on Art's girlfriend's photos, OK? She put a photo dump on Instagram and one of them had. She had a bikini in it. And he said, you look so pretty, Miha, with her eyes. And his girl laughed it off, thought it was funny. But it pissed him off, because yeah, he knows his dad. So should he check him? Or is he about to crash out on his pops for nothing? Let's go to Ellie in Chatsworth. What's up, Ellie? Ellie. Ellie. Hi, good morning, Brownbag. Good morning, happy Friday, Mama Sita. Talk to us, Ellie. What would you tell Art? I would say that he would bring it to his dad's attention, because that is disrespectful. I feel like there should be some boundaries there. Just for the you look so pretty? With hearty, mochi eyes. Yes. That part, maybe it's a typo. That isolated is one thing, but Art knows his dad. Knows his dad as being viejo mañoso. That is a very Brownbag word. So he knew to speak our language. He's like, this is when someone's old, but is crazy like Woody on the girls, right? Knows that exactly. He's been wild on Instagram since he got it about four months ago. He's been following the girls that get him a certain algorithm. Of yeah, that right? Clapping. All of that. Yeah. And he's leaving similar comments. So isolated. Yeah, it's just a cute comment added with all the stuff he told us. And I don't know that there's any saving grace for pops. And then worst case scenario, I guess on one side, you could be checking him and he's really being a creep. Or he's not being a creep and you check him and now he knows what not to do. Now he knows your boundary, right? Thanks. Because what could go wrong if you try to check your dad? What could go wrong? You got to spoil. You ruin Christmas? Yeah. Yeah, you got to spoil. The thing we're in April. There's time to rebuild the family. Yeah. Dad's not going to give me a gift no more, guys. He's 31. Let's go to Johnny in both heights. What's up, Johnny? Johnny. What up? What up? Good morning. Johnny, what would you tell Art about his pops? What's up, brother? Other way, and he's telling us he player. Very right on, right on. Hey, what's Art's dad's name? Art, Don Arturo. Don Arturo. Don Arturo, ay, staca. No, no, no, no. I think, oh my gosh. Then I can see. Hey, I think Don Arturo is like putting lines into the water and see what fish is going to bite. That's what I think. Oh, got it. I think, I think, I think Arduro needs to check his pops, right? And I got the perfect way he walks up. He said, ay, pa, pa. We see the photo of my novia and she would be like, ay, mijo, sí, qué bonita, no? And they'd be like, orale, ay, 15 second body shot. What? Body shot. We're going body, zapa. He was your dad. Abrete. How is he? Mego, lego. What is the tool, Chaki? That's what he needs to do, because, hey, listen. The first comment was, ay, qué bonita te ves, mijo, right? You know what the second comment is going to be? You know what the second comment is going to be? What? Hasta pa'ca chiquita. Hasta pa'ca chiquita. That's so creepy. Why do you like this? You're really good at that, too. Go buy some Mike and I, please. Let's go, Johnny. He speaks to Viejo Manuel. Yeah, he knows. Hannah, Hannah and Glendoro. What's up, Hannah? Hello, how are you doing? What's up, Hannah? What would you talk art about his creepy pops? Is his pops deserving of checking or should he just let it go? He has to check him, because he's going to get some weird DM. He's going to get some catfishing going on. He needs to teach his dad how to use social media. He needs to go through the likes, because there's a new section that shows all the likes. Wow. And he needs to be like, dad, you cannot do this. This is not okay. Hasta pasando, pa'. Has it ever happened to you? Hannah. It has happened to guys that I know and I had to DM them and be like, hey, I'm your big sister here, you are being creepy on some IG's models and my sister or sister-in-law or cousin-in-law is going to freak out and they're like, my bad, Dean, I didn't know it. It accidentally liked it for no reason. Oh, they liked you too? And the girl's like in a thong dancing and I'm like, oh my god. I like the song. Yeah, the song in the background. That's a good song. Wow, that's why you're needing you lied. No, no, no. Because people don't like... Because you said she lied to you too? No. And then you said you like the song. You just snitched on your own dang song. Who are you? Gucci main? Brr. Make a song about it, Vic. Make a song about it. Yeah, go get a win with it. Okay, let's go to Joey in Washington. Joey, Joey, we're talking to the homie art. Art wants to know if he should check his dad for not just liking a photo of art's girlfriend in a bikini, but also commenting, you look pretty Mika with heart emojis. The same heart emojis he puts under like photos of Jenny 6ix9ine, and other IG models that even art's homies are like screenshotting and sending over because they for show follow those same models. They all got the same type. They look all crazy. Right, so he wants to know if he should check his dad or if he should leave it alone. Talk to us, Joey. What would you tell him? I would just let him run like hey, you want to be a creepy python on IG and stuff, go ahead, but just not with my girl. I wouldn't say check, he's checking the grass. Just be a steward, you know, figure boundaries. Like, as my girlfriend, I know that you're on IG, but at least you're not with me. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, go at her tia, or somebody else, but I'm my girl. Oh, no, that's my girl. And then what if he's like, well, why are you uploading those photos? True, why did he get it? Oh, I like yours, but I don't like yours, I like yours. Oh, the tia? I don't like tias. I don't like tias. I don't like tias. I don't like chicken. Oh, chicken, I don't like chicken, I like chicken. Oh, so uncomfortable. Yeah, I did too. That was a crazy statement, that was a crazy statement. That was a crazy statement. Oh, god. So creepy. That's the craziest day you've ever seen. Conn, you're gonna be incredible as an old man. Yeah. Yeah. You're preparation already. That one was a while ago. Okay. So the consensus is, check your day. Check that fool, dog what? Check your home. I'm gonna check you out at homey. It's the essential, Ibrah Laura Rosenberg podcast. Why are moms excited when they see their toddler drop it like it's hot? Why is that joyous? You don't think about it like that. It's just cute to see them enjoying. But then they turn five and like with Issa one time we was at the playground some music came on. And I had to be like, yo, Issa come in. When they drop it low, moms go, woo. Now streaming on your favorite platform. We're giving away tickets right now. We're giving away tickets to go to Six Flags Magic Mountain. I'm sorry, I have Luis in here. Hi, say hi Luis. Hi everybody. Hi, is there anything you wanna say? No. Six seven. No, my god. That's so old. Oh, sorry. That's not cool anymore. That's not sure, buddy. Okay, so we're giving away tickets to go to Six Flags Magic Mountain and we're playing a game. Now we told you to call up and choose a player because this is another round of head to head. Okay, Mario in Long Beach, he's rooting for you Vic. Let's go five, six, two, baby, yeah. Monson, Ontario, DinksCon, you will win. Okay, yesterday who won? Vic. Yeah boy. I'm over two this week and people are still two that are going down this path. That's true. At some point you gotta win, that's why. Well they still won tickets last year. What? They didn't. What? Losers don't win tickets. Oh, to his show. I'm saying something once it gets. Not to your show. Okay, so right now, it's kinda like yesterday. Your name is your buzzer. So what's your buzzer? My name. What is it? Christian. Your name, you said my name. Yeah, okay, what's your name? What is your buzzer? Christian. My name is Christian. Your name is Conkry. Your name is Conkry. Conkry. Yeah. Thank you buddy. What about you? You gonna help me? Yeah. Okay, you help me. It's a big, all right. Whoever answers their name first gets the chance to answer the question, okay? Okay. All right. What's the topic? Looney Tunes. Oh, you should win. You should win. Looney Tunes? No, not the. Not the regular. Not the producers. No, no, no, no. Okay, are you ready? Yes. I chase a tiny yellow bird. Vic, you get one point. Congratulations. Well, you said, you didn't even say it. Your name is your buzzer. Your name is your buzzer. You don't just say the answer. Okay, so yeah, I told you that's why I had to re-ask and you were like answering me like, doh, let thee and then you did it. At least you didn't answer, Jude. At least you didn't answer. Thanks for the answer. Okay, ready? This clue is just, that's all, folks. Vic, Khan. Wow. Man. Porky pig. Correct. That's two. No, zero. You should have known that. I did. I said my name. I said Khan. He's faster. After that, that's all. I should have had your name. Okay. That's all. Well, I was listening to this clue. It was just, I think that's a part of the whole damn thing. Guys, there's a reason. It's never you. It's always us. Yeah, it's always us. It's never you. You're perfect. There's a reason why I'm not on the moon right now, guys. So I'm not an astronaut, okay? There's a really good reason. Because you weren't born upon one. It's another quote as a clue. It's another quote as a clue, okay? Quote, okay. Be veeery. Vic, Elmer Fudd. Oh my God. I knew it, too. Man, you got sweat. Ladies. I knew it, too. Mario, Mario and Long Beach is not a week. Let's go. Five, six, two, babies. Oh, okay. I knew it, too. Come on, one. At least one. I knew it, too. Come on. I didn't get none wrong. I just didn't have the opportunity to get them right. Yeah, you're really slow. Here's your clue. I'm always trying to catch a fast bird. Yeah, all the time. Oh. I don't want to play no more. No, stop it. I think I know that one. Not 24 hours. A fast bird? Yeah. That's Riley Coyote. Yes, good job. Yeah, because he's a road runner. There you go. That's it. All right, well, let's go to the song because this ended really quickly. Okay, come here. You know what's going on? Yeah! She's Mation with Angie. Okay, you guys, did these freak offs are protected under the First Amendment? Thank God. Or at least that's what he's trying to say, okay? Oh, okay. So if you guys know, he's actually serving, he's serving jail time right now for what, 50 months, right? Yep. And so yesterday he had a court hearing and he's trying to appeal his prison sentence and asking for immediate release, pretty much downplaying his freak offs by calling them amateur adult films. Yee-hee-hee. Yeah. Now, his lawyer's saying that the recording- There's films? Yes, they were getting filmed and all that stuff. That's the whole thing, he would play them at the parties, right? Or something like that? There was a bunch of stuff, yeah. Yeah, so the lawyer is saying, you know what? The recordings of sexual encounters involving partners or workers, otherwise known as freak offs, are amateur adult films, meaning they are protected under the First Amendment and they kept arguing that he shouldn't have been convicted under prostitution laws and described the events as consensual, Consensual? Consensual, sorry. Choreographed with costumes, role-playing, filming, et cetera, right? Choreographed. That's what they're saying. And said they made for private viewing, not for criminal activity. Can you do that four count again? I go, ah. Five, six, seven, eight, go. Yeah, we went over this. Supposed to be the face, not the stomach. Ha ha ha ha. We went over this, that's weird. What did the judge say? Right now there hasn't been a verdict. Like a final verdict. Yeah, not yet. This is so dumb because why didn't they use that defense when they were in court? If that's what it was, you know what I'm saying? They just figured it out then. I guess somebody was right. That didn't work, but here's what we're gonna do. Ah ha! The First Amendment exists. Yes, coach is right. Jesus. All right, thank you for that update, Angie. All right. Give it tip-hop. You know Letty's on the act-go and rap sheet. Letty's set, go. All right, I had to do this because our kids need to hear this, okay? Wise words from none other than Yunk Thug. He had a book release event at Florida International University in Miami and was like, hey, while I have the attention of the class, I'm gonna give you guys a metaphor for life. All right, and this metaphor for life might not make sense at first. And then it's gonna not make sense some more. Before it finally not makes sense, all right? So here it is, Yunk Thug at the university talking to kids, giving them some life advice. Here you go. It's a cow eating grass. Didn't see the bird. Took a poop, pooped on the bird. The bird started unholy. And started feeling the sleds, feeling this body again, and then he started like making noises. And then I can't hurt the bird. And he like ran over to the bird, cleaning all of the poop off of him, and ate him. So he gives a story of a cow eating grass, poops on a bird. The bird tries to get itself out of the poop, starts making noises. A cat comes and helps clean the bird, and then eats the bird. All right, did you get it? Do you see his life? Don't be the bird. No, so then- Listen, listen. Wow, and I say it to say. Oh, it's true. Everybody that takes a dump on you, it's not a question. Everyone that takes a dump on you is not against you. That's number one. That's number one lesson. Everybody that cleans dumps off of you, it's not with you. Everyone that cleans dump off of you is not with you all the time. You get it? Because the bird cleaned the cat, cleaned the duck. Just to eat him. Just to eat him, boom, boom, boom. And sometimes when you and a lot of shit, just be quiet. And then when you're in a bunch of poop, be quiet. Because if you be quiet about all the poop you're in, the bird won't come, pretend that you're friend, and then eat you. The cat won't come. The cat won't come. Shhh, mind blown. No duck, teaching the kids. That's his TED talk. I was ready to itch all over, but it kind of makes sense. It makes sense. Come check us out. But you see how it initially made no sense whatsoever. What the hell are you doing telling a bunch of kids this? Even if you're covered in poop, don't make noise, because you'll get eaten. That's all I took. That's what he- And then the cow, the cow didn't know cows was eating grass. Sometimes you get mad at the cow for taking a dump on you. The cow's just living his own life, right? You gotta worry about the cat that came and licked you out, because like, hey, I got you, don't worry, and then ate you. So the cow's just life. The cow is just hanging out. He says not everybody that takes a dump on you is against you. This is directly to my other scientists. Yes, I cheated. That doesn't mean I'm against you, OK? That's fire. It's about your homegirls that then said they had your back, and then wanted to sleep with me too. The homegirls are the cats. And at the end of the day, horses don't stop. They keep going. Young Thug said that. But he says, hustler. No, no, no, it's horses. Horses. Now I think it might be horses. See? Why is it wise words from Young Thug? Mind blown, mind blown. See, kids, life is just like a cow pooping on a bird and then the cat eating it, OK? What? Stay silent and poop. E-man, you get that? Yeah, the cow told the bird to move over. Oh. Stick to the turntables, E-man. Oh, rough. That joke for sure. Oh. Can you remix that? Come on. Try that one, man. E-man. Put that one on rotation. E-man. I purposely said that for you guys. Yeah. All right. No, it was not perfect. I knew it was cheesy like Greg's mixes. So it's all. Oh. Oh. Oh. Burner. Shut up, Greg. He turned off your mic too. Oh. Time to make money move. Time to make money move. Hey, if you ever thought of becoming a gamer, I know you see it and you're like, oh. All the time. I could do it. All the time. The time is now. You could be a millionaire. What? You could be a millionaire because of a game that's coming out this year, GTA 6. All right. Of course, the release date has been pushed back a few times. It is currently set at November 19th of this year, November 19th of this year. And according to PC Gamer, that's his name is Hip Hop Gamer, he says that user-generated content which plays a big role in GTA 6 online could make you up to a million dollars because of that demand. People sometimes watch people just playing on YouTube. Yeah. They don't play the games themselves. My kids. But you got to think of that. Start your gaming career now. Be some of the first to play GTA 6. And that could make your views go up really, really soon. T Grisly, the rapper, he stopped rapping pretty much because he was making so much money on GTA 2. Yeah. Wow. A ton of money. A lot of money. Yes. So, hey, if you're just thinking like, oh, what's my way out? And my girl keeps telling me I play games too much all over that, right? Play GTA 6 and that could be your ticket. Also in other news of GTA 6 people were questioning, is this thing going to cost me an arm and a leg to have? Yeah. Apparently, the price is going to be between $70 and $80. Oh, so bad. It's been officially confirmed by Take Two's CEO, the parent company of Rockstar Games, confirmed that it would be a standard $70 to $80 price point. So that's a standard version because there's usually like a deluxe gold version. No, like the standard. It's a standard. It's an industry standard. You're on $70 to $8. They should just make it free like Fortnite. That way you just buy all the stuff. All the add-ons. Yeah, all the add-ons. You make way more money. More money that way. I hate the ones. It's free on your phone and then it's able to pass the level that you suck at. Oh yeah. Dude, I built the whole city of it that thing. Yeah. One of those games that just had me buying more and more. Build the road. I kept building roads. Exactly. I had employees. It's all paid. It's all paid. Imagine GTA, you have to buy your own car and stuff like that. It's like, whoa. That'd be cool. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, but yes, you can make money off of GTA 6 and you could pay a nice little chunk of change to pay for it. It's not too crazy. It's my sudden try it out. Almost start streaming. Boom. So you're signing a become a gamer. Yeah, it's a gamer. All right. Let's get into some studios. Great start. Tell the studios. What's 9 plus 10. Financial life. Look at this. Studios food. Burritos, this new studies telling us that if you fall in tripp in public, don't tripp at cove. Okay. Because it's going to make you sexier, dog. Oh. All right. When you do something awkward, like trip in public, or wave at the wrong person, laughing at yourself is sometimes even, you become more likeable as a person, dude. It signals confidence, self-awareness, authenticity, while being overly well-embarrassed can make you seem insecure, dog. Yeah. Because what's the other option to laugh at yourself? Yeah. To look awkward? Exactly that, I think. But the key thing is that it only works for small, harmless mistakes if someone gets hurt laughing off, or laughing can come off as being a little unsensitive. Rude. Oh. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So by the line, don't overthink the awkward moments, dude. It's going to be OK. Yeah. Just laugh at yourself. Yeah, just laugh at yourself. Yes. You know what I'm saying? OK. I do it all the time. As a comedian, it's called self-deprecation comedy. I mean, you know, you laugh at yourself, and then the people feel like, OK, cool. He is me, I am him, so I can laugh now. OK. So I was thinking of when you mess up, or when you blunder to laugh at yourself. Like, OK. Do it all the time here. No, no, no. Like, when Vic does a joke and it just doesn't land, like if he laughs at himself, he's more likable. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you did that joke, what was it like? Yeah. Yeah. Wait a minute. That happens all the time. Yesterday, it was like you wake up with your cousin or something? I said that? Yeah, you said that. No, I didn't say that. No, you did. Maybe he laughed at himself. He wouldn't be so creepy. I think it's just creepy. I don't think he's doing that. Yeah, yes, right. It was something about Coachella. You would have called me my cousin. No, look at this brother. How did I get in there? What? That's crazy. You wake up to your sister. Yeah. Yeah, you did. You did. I wasn't even here yesterday. You did say that. You're big creepy. We talked about it. I wasn't even here yesterday. You totally said it. Just laugh at yourself. OK. So creepy. Ha, ha, ha. Oh. Weird. Weird. That's why you don't want to make it weird now. Did it work? No. Am I more attractive now? Do you think I'm sexy now? Am I risen it up now? You're so like more. Is this what you do? Is this what the Rizzler does? Are you wanking it with your head? No. Yeah. Weird. All that talk and that crispy fade you got going on. Thank you. Just laugh. That sworn outfit? Oh my god. Just laugh it off. That's my way to go. You're making me hot, Con. Am I? Put that sweater on. You know what else can make you hot? What? Two tickets to go see the Tina Turner musical. Yay. Ha. Come into the Hollywood Pentagus Theater for one week only, April 14th through the 19th. See the story of Tina's journey to becoming one of the musical icons of all time. Tickets on sale now at Broadwayinhollywood.com. You can be caller number 10 to win two tickets to go see the Tina Turner musical. Call us right now. It'll be caller number 10. 818-520-1059. That's 818-520-1059. Call us right now. Hurry up, Humby's waiting for your call. Shoot the J. Shoot it. Play ball. All right, you guys. I was telling you to know that when you weren't here, we changed it. Yeah, we had so much more fun. We hated it. Way better. Oh yeah. And we loved it. Yeah. You loved it. Yeah, we hate it now. Yeah. Oh my god. You're still likable. Thank you. Set the song. Only have 90 seconds. All right. Look, the club scene is dead, you guys. Bottle service is done for. So if you want to meet hot singles, you can hit the bleachers. Yeah, of course, with this song. Oh yeah. Let's talk like in the background. Oh, dude. Hey, what's up, bro? You can hit the bleachers in Dodger Stadium, which makes a lot of sense because nothing makes me more horns than an Ohtani bomb. Makes me all hot. Nothing makes you horny. You understand? Nothing makes you horny. So a diehard Dodger fan named Jillian Pfeiffer came up with a concept. Because she spent 10 years striking out on dating apps, and there's an event called Drafted. And the concept is singles can buy tickets and sit in a designated area in the bleachers and then mingle with each other. And everyone is fair game to talk to and hook up, possibly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Hey. Hey. Yeah, that's not. You see how this song can be. That's Dodger baseball. That's Dodger baseball right there. Yay. Hey, what you doing over there, you single? Yeah, yeah. No, but what's up? Ha ha ha. What's this like? I could do anything you want to do. No, why? What happened? What? Do you want to drink? Yeah. Absolutely. You want to 20 dollar meat gelata? Yeah, let's go. What? I'll be right back. Don't talk to anybody else. Yeah, I'll be right back. I'm going to go fight somebody on the bleachers. You already have the bleachers. Yeah. All right. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, so that's a look out for that. Don't go on a dating app. Go to Dodger Stadium. Go to Dodger Stadium. It's like expensive as day. It is. But oh well. All right, thanks for that, babe. You want to do your little ride? Appreciate you, brother. Hey, I'm big. I'm big. I do sports. Ha ha. Jeboic. Jeboic. All right. Good morning. We have two special guests with us today. Joining us is Max Arias, executive director of SEIU Local 99, which represents thousands of school workers in Los Angeles and our lovely Maria Abalos, who brought us the Malish. Shout out, Maria, a campus aide at LAUSD who has worked for LA Unified for more than 10 years. Thank you both for joining us. Thank you so much for coming in. Thank you. Good morning. Of course. And Maria, thank you. This is your first time on the radio. Yes, this is my first time. Oh, I can't wait to talk to you. I can't wait to talk to you. OK, so take this out. Maria works at LAUSD and Max is the elected executive director of SEIU Local 99, which we've got to learn so much about through knowing you these past few months. Good to see you both. And we saw you at the rally a couple weeks ago. Incredible rally. So let me start there. That rally was to tell LAUSD, hey, this is how many people can show up. You do not want us to go on strike. But it can lead to that. How are negotiations going since that day, Max? Not well. We're at impasse. The district has not really moved. They've not proposed any type of solutions to our members struggling. Just a reminder, 99% of our members cannot afford a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles. You know, 10% struggle with housing security. And the children of LA, the students, the schools are not well maintained everywhere. And so that's what we're facing. And they still have not really given any proposed solutions. They're not they're not making any movement. So we're not really bargaining. We're at impasse and the district knows what they need to do. They need first to stop harassing our members. And second, they need to give our members what they deserve. If not on Tuesday, we will strike them. Wow, Max, that's serious. What's been the hold up, do you think? Lack of will. There's a lack of will and also that LA Unified is claiming that they can't afford it. But LA Unified is not your regular school district. They are sitting on a $5 billion reserve, $5,000 million. That's double the budget of LAX, by the way. And that's just a reserve. The state has made no cut. So we don't understand affordability. And then we say, well, these are the people that are keeping the schools clean. These are the people that drive the buses. These are the people that feed the students. These are the people that support the teachers. They cannot continue to live in this situation, in which they have a percentage of them also struggling for food insecurity. And I say that living in the richest state in the country in the forces. It shouldn't be like this. Absolutely not. Some of the workers that are in such a dire situation that work within four LAUSD is like you, Maria. We spoke briefly at the rally. Can you tell listeners what you do and what your wages mean for you and your family? I am a supervision aide. And I get paid for hours every day. It's not enough for me to support my daughter to have a home. The rent is really high. My daughter has epilepsy seizures, which she has to take some medication, some medical done some covering or more. So I had to be paying 1,000 more each pill. One pill, $1,000? Yes. Oh my gosh, Maria. And that must be so hard for you. It is so hard. And just four hours a day you get paid. But you're not at the school just for hours, are you? No. I actually, so for me to learn other stuff, precision, I am taking a class to have a seven hours to work. But they're putting me one position and another position. So if they give us three hours and three hours, we don't get the benefits. You have to have a threshold of over, what is it, over four hours, I'm assuming? Yes. And so it's kind of built against you for never to reach that standard. She works six hours and does not get the benefits because it's two different positions. Oh my gosh. And Maria, can you please share what you do, how you care for the children and the students? What I do is there's many kids that are special needs. We help the TA, the one and ones, that they have a lot of kids together and they can have all of them at the same time. So we try to make them feel comfortable that they are at home at school. So we grab them, we sing to them, we take toys so they could go with the class. We care about the kids, the safety. We also provide anything they need. Yeah. And Maria, when I talked to you at the rally, it's almost like your care and your love for what you do when the children gets used against you, right, Max? It seems like they know you'll keep showing up regardless of the situations. And you guys are tired of that. Yes. Absolutely. One thing we told the district is they're paying workers six or seven hours. That's from bell to bell. But the workers are there before and after the bell. And because they understand that none of our members would ever leave a child alone, they expect their members to do it. So our members keep doing the work out of love. But they're struggling at the same time. They can't feed their families sometimes. And that breaks my heart. But also, Maria, you brought us tamales, even with your situation and what you're going through. None of that goes unnoticed. That's so amazing of you to do that for us. It's a pleasure. I always get up every Friday and Saturday. I get up late early so I could do the tamales to be fresh. Oh my gosh, I love her so much. Max, tell us what happens on Tuesday. Walk us through that. So on Tuesday, unless the district, the district is meeting today, they're meeting with the teachers tomorrow, and they know what they have to do. So unless the district meets our members' demands that are exactly what they need and students need to thrive, our members are walking out. That means on Tuesday at 12 o'clock, one right after midnight on Monday, 12 o'clock, one Tuesday. We're not working. Our members are not going to work. And this is teachers. This is janitors, lunch people, aides, all of that. This would be historical if this happens, because it's so many people from the biggest district, LAUSD. It's three unions. This time it's us, UTLA, which represent teachers, and the ALA, Teamsters, which represent the principals. That's new. 23 teachers and us walked out. This time it's also the principals. Oh, my gosh. Furthermore, all of the legislatures that are the LA regional state legislatures have sent letters. The Congress people have sent letters to LAUSD. Mayor Bass has sent letters. The city council of LA passed a resolution telling LAUSD to give our members what they need. So all of society is telling them what they need to do. It's their responsibility. And I want to tell parents, our fight is for our members are fighting for themselves, but you heard Maria. The conditions at the schools are not adequate. We're fighting for those conditions to be adequate. So if the district forces us to strike and be out there three, four, five days, our members are seeing it as a sacrifice. So in the future, your students, your children, your young ones have better conditions at the schools, regardless of where they live. But it doesn't have to happen. Call the board, call the superintendent, tell them to do what they need to do. Thank you so much, Max. And Maria, I'll give you the last word. What would you like to tell our listeners? I would like to, if this isn't clear to the parents, please, if they, please don't stay home, come and support us to your own schools. Because we are the ones that provide everything for you, your child. The kids need to be safe. And if they give us what we need, everything will be okay. Thank you guys so much. Thank you for coming through. It's power one of six, LA's number one for hip hop. And thank you Max Adias, executive director of SEIU, Local 99. Also Maria Avalos, campus eight at LAUSD. This coming Tuesday could be a really, really, really impactful time should LAUSD not come through with the correct things for their members. Thank you guys so much for coming through. Thank you so much. Of course.