So I Said… and I Don’t Think We’re Asking the Right Questions

In this episode, Dylan explores how AI, social media, and economic shifts are forcing us to rethink work, community, and faith. If the future no longer revolves around traditional jobs or institutions, what does it mean to live well — and who do we build that future with?

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So I decided to like just randomly hop on live, right? um I was gonna try to figure out like the proper way to do any of this, but I just had some things that I needed to yap about. So as y'all know today is St. Patty's Day. And if you've been following my like story or whatever, you know that like um I transitioned out of one job and I'm Lowkey just like kind of building the life that I want right now. uh And so I decided that I was going to go out and do some lift driving today, right? Do some lift driving. um And I don't know, like that's been a space where I'm clearing my head quite a bit um is driving lift. Because I drive in the morning primarily and people don't want to talk to you. So you do a lot of thinking, right? Or I'm listening to a podcast. um And today I was listening to this podcast about AI. There's this really, really smart woman. I don't remember her name, um but really, really smart woman. And she's talking about AI's impact on education and how we're going to have to rethink that. And so for me, I'm thinking of my... How does this impact the faith? How does this impact like the black community? That's where my mind goes immediately, always. And so I'm thinking about this and to be real, like we're not really conceptualizing how big this shift is, right? um Let's say that like all menial tasks are now done by some AI chat bot um and you can get all of these questions answered by it. They're creating things that we haven't seen before. What is your relationship with God like at that point? Right? When our theology has been place-based and work-based, right? It is, Jesus was a carpenter. Him being a carpenter is a big deal. And so you take your occupation to be a big deal. What they kept coming back to in the... uh in the pod was that AI uh is going to give you an opportunity to become who you were actually supposed to be. It's going to get rid of all of the chores and it's going to force you to be beyond your occupation. And that was trippy to me. That was trippy to me. And so I'm thinking through it and now I'm finding myself in this place where like, I kind of have to create my own reality at this point, right? um Because whatever's going on with the Trump administration has scared philanthropy. And like, let's take a side quest. Let's take a side quest. Let's take a side quest. Because what happened with... uh My job over at like Fair Elections Center had nothing to do with the company itself, had everything to do with the system that was created around it. It's the same thing that has happened to over 300,000 Black women, right? Like this job loss is because uh philanthropy is shrinking and quite a few of us find jobs in the helping professions that are typically funded by philanthropy. And that money is scared money at this point. And so the money today was given out to help people and be built safety nets. They're seeing like an administration come after that. And so you have to rethink what it means. Like, are you actually in this to help people? Are you in this to make money? Right. And so nonprofit has become really big business and I hate you got to make your coin. I'm not even really upset about that. But you have to think like as a Black community, as our community, if the grant dollars aren't there, how do we help one another? Right? Like if the grant dollars aren't there, how do you fund the food program? Right? How do you do book bags? Forget the like social service stuff. How do you do the justice work, the organizing work? Right, like all of the stuff that we are doing that like, if we being honest, like rich white people pay for. Here's my theory on philanthropy. I don't know if this is gonna help me later in life or not, but I'm ranting today. It is what it is. Got my little cup of tea. And we just gonna rock it until I'm done talking. If you in here and you wanna jump into this conversation, let me know. No problems with it. I'll add you into the conversation because I'm definitely game to go there today. Here's my theory on philanthropy. I believe that it is billionaire like tycoon money. People who have been like, because to become a billionaire is near impossible without hurting some other people. Right? Like that's you can't just like, there's no real such thing as like an ethical billionaire. That's their own thing. But what the philanthropy is, is washing the blood money, right? And so you often find that the people who are like doing the worst stuff in life, right, are also funding all of the like voting stuff, right? They're funding all of like the make you feel good stuff. And so they're washing their money. Right? So they make it over here. You go to Amazon. Amazon is a example. Amazon is perfect example. Let me walk that down. Amazon is perfect because on one end, right, you have these like centers where people are going and, like, I don't know if you've ever been inside of a, of an Amazon fulfillment facility, but there, there are no windows. It is not a nice place to be for real. Right? When you dropping people off to work there, it is insane that they survive day to day having to show up at that place. It grinds your soul. And so like, and we all do this in the name of packages, but on the other hand, homeboy gets divorced, she got half a billion dollars and she giving out all of the money to HBCUs. You feel what I'm saying? Or he's donating all of this. Where is he getting it? It's blood money, bro. He gotta watch the money. And so where does he wash it? In philanthropy. So billionaires make this money over here and they destroy the planet. They grind souls. They do whatever they have to do to make money and get power. And then on the other hand, they'll give you like pennies on the dollar to, I don't know, send some kid to school, right? And I'm not knocking it, but that's the game, right? That's the game that we plan. And so, There's no wonder that when we get to where Donald Trump is running the country and how idiotic he is, when we get to that space, people get scared and they wonder why is all the philanthropy money drying up? Because all of the billionaires are scared of Trump. And so the money that you would be getting from the billionaires where they felt like they had to wash it, they don't feel like they got to wash it no more. There's no reason to wash it. And so if I don't got to watch it, how many national organizations are laying off people by the droves, bro? Like this stuff, this stuff ain't hard math. Once you get beyond the veneer of like the names, you start to understand like how does money thing work? And so then you start have to ask yourself, okay, I'm in community, I'm in place, and I want to make a difference. Now you have to start talking about cooperative economics. Right? Now you have to start thinking about not, I'm a capitalist because that's a, that's a, you're not, you're not a capitalist. I love you. Like you're not a capitalist, right? You are in a capitalist system. You are not a capitalist. Capitalists have control for the means of production. You do commerce. You trade goods and services. That's what you do. Even if you do it on like a uh major level, even if you like got millions of dollars for the most part, goods and services, even if you in real estate, especially if you in real estate friends, especially if you in real estate, it's goods and services and you're exchanging goods and services and you might be doing that really well, but your limit is where the production comes from. How I know this art. Wood is very expensive right now. So the people who actually do the building, who actually control how much wood comes into the country, where the tariffs come from, those people are capitalists. You flipping a house is commerce. Follow me. So when you're commerce, now you have to decide how I'm going to take care of community, right? And these are all good questions. But the reason that I felt like I needed to YAT today is because I've been thinking about community and how to like be so sustained, right? How to make sure that like we could like find our way through this quagmire that is our country currently. And the thing that like nobody talks about is like AI, right? The only people talking about AI are futurists and people who are like really in the gadgets. and it's all about language models. And we're not talking about how that is going to philosophically change how we operate in the world and even what community looks like. The ability to sustain community and the pain points that we're dealing with currently may not be the same thing in 10 years. Right? So the problems that humans faced before electricity, right? The problems that humans faced before electricity, those problems went away when they got electricity. The wax candle making used to be an industry. Now it's a hobby. You understand what I'm saying? You, like making horseshoes used to be an industry. Now it's a niche thing. What's happening currently with like AI and like, like what's happening with like social media is that kind of leap. And so if we're going to make that kind of leap, the important part is like, how do we relate to one another? How are we dealing with each other in community? Right? How are we dealing with each other? How are we navigating our relationship with God? Are we navigating that relationship at all? Right? Because If this AI thing goes the way that they want it to go, what does it mean to serve a God that you don't have to work to please? And I know that people say like, okay, you I don't have to work to please God like, cause you know what mean? Like it wasn't my works that did the thing. I hear you, I hear you, but I grew up in church. Hi guys, I'm a pastor. So most people's theology is rooted in how they grew up and what they do. Your closeness to God is about how you deal with people, what you do for people. You feel like you're doing well in life with the job that you have, the car that you drive. Your blessings are attached to the material possessions that are being given to you by the God that you serve. What happens when you have to detach that because none of those things are attached to your work anymore. I know that this sounds crazy because I'm working this out. out. I was thinking about it. Listen, listen to me or don't. I hear you. I'm working this out in real time because like I'm having a paradigmatic shift. Like my, my mind is melding a little bit because like really we're in yes, James Cole, right? So like really we're in this like, how do I explain this? God help me. We're in this very sacred time for Abrahamic religions, right? Very sacred time for Abrahamic religions, for Jews, for Muslims, for Christians. Very, very sacred time. And at this time, the world is completely changing. If you are waiting for the world to go back to normal, if you think for one second that the world is going back to normal, sadly mistaken. This isn't as normal as it's ever going to be again. because it's not just the political things that are changing friends. It's how you do business. It's how you relate to one another. I am simultaneously streaming on Facebook and Instagram with a phone and a laptop. 20 years ago, this would have been an impossibility. You would have had to know me personally, but sitting in my living room to hear me rant like this. An AI is going to make that like exponential, right? So we're in this very sacred time for all three Abrahamic religions. And there's some things that are changing dramatically. There's wars. And then we're at home trying to understand our relationship to Christ. I can't tell you how many people that I've met up until this point in the last couple of years that are going through a deconstruction process, particularly black Christians, right? Where we are like, not just deconstructing what we believe about God, we are deconstructing what we believe about family, about community. about work, we are deconstructing it all. Right? That is almost, that was the work of what like my age group, millennials would do, what we were charged to do. Make it okay to like, nah, we shut it all down. Right? We not going back to church. The church don't look the same thing. We're not going back there. But we will engage with sermons. Right? The The pastors who are or the preachers who are on don't get me started with that. That's a whole nother rabbit trail. Can't go on that. The preachers who are online now, you know what saying? Are becoming celebrities. So these celebrities are are accessible so you don't even have to go to church to hear a sermon. Some of the best preachers in the country that you would have had to like wait till they came to your town. or you had to go to where they were to hear them preach, you don't have to do that anymore. You could go to their church every Sunday. You could pause it and walk away. You don't even have to go to church for the praise and worship experience. The best singers in the world are on your phone. You can listen to them as much as you want. So what is church then? If I don't, and this is what I mean about place-based theology, right? The black experience and the black Christian, our theology is place-based. It is a communal thing. And so being at the church was part of the theology. Well, now you don't have to be at the church anymore. So that part of your theology has been disrupted. You don't have to work. You never had to work, but the work part of this is being deconstructed. And so now everything's up for grabs. So what is your relationship with God and each other? What does that even mean? Where do you get that information from? That's what I'm tripping on, right? Because like we are pretending, and I can't tell you how many like, pastors I talk to on a regular basis, we are pretending like everything is normal and is going back to that we are going to stumble upon some golden age. Nobody is trying to figure out like, or it doesn't feel like it, right? The only people who are here talking about like how AI and uh job loss and all of that, like they're either talking about how to make money from it. or how it's gonna disrupt the working space, nobody's talking about like how it's disrupting, how it's going to disrupt or change. Disrupt is maybe the wrong word, change community. Right? Will we all just get into smaller enclaves? Is that the plan? Right? Will it just be like, will it go revert back to some form of like a house church? Where you only really kick it with the, like you only really engage spiritually with the people who are like in your town. And like, if you want a preaching experience, you just stream it. Like real rap, what do these people even go to church for anymore? And this is a pastor talking. I'm trying to understand this because like, We don't got no answers. We just kind of like walking through it. Anybody who tell you that they know what's coming and like they know how this is going to play out, bro, they lying. Like, I'm so sick of people. I'm so sick of people. It's, I want to say that it's the internet. And for the most part it is, like, I'm so sick of people who get on and just say a whole bunch of nonsense. whole bunch of nothing and then they tell you exactly how things is gonna go and you like well and that's the thing we're all desperate for like information we're all so desperate to like know what's gonna be next and like how to get over it or how to how to engage with it we're so desperate to figure that out That we'll listen to Listen to anybody. And heck, maybe I'm anybody. Who knows? Right? I... Don't give me that. Like, I was inspired by... And I gotta find her name. Let me see if I can find her name. I feel like if I find her name and then I say it wrong, that's gonna be a whole thing. But she's brilliant and you need to be listening to her. She seems like she might be a bit younger than me too. Like, I don't know what generation is after me. it Gen Z, Gen Alpha, one of them? She's um really, really, really, really smart. And she's talking about AI in a way that I haven't heard anybody talk about it. And it is peaking my interest. to make sure that it, like to see how it applies to our community. And like, I don't hear anybody actually talking about it. The only thing that I hear for people talking about like how AI is going to impact our community is all of the negatives, right? It's taking up all of our water and it is, right? Like it is a problem. These data centers are being built in marginalized communities. That's true, right? Like, I don't know. What you got? Imagine more generations under one roof or gathering in closer proximity for support on multi fronts. Yes. Yes. I was just thinking about this the other night, man. We got to talk more because you brilliant doc. Like, okay. So man, are you in a space where you can hop on? You just, you let me know because like I had this thought the other night. I don't know how many people have heard. Wait, let me not get sidetracked. Where's this? What is this? Sanid Baval. I'm put her, I'm just gonna put it in the chat real quick. Cause I'm saying it all wrong, but like definitely roll over there and check out her, uh check out her page. Let me see. E-L-L. All right, I just put her name in the chat. Right? She dope. She dope. I don't know if she on Instagram or if she on Facebook. I'm sure she is, know, smart girl like her. I'm sure she is. But anyway, I was just thinking about this the other day, right? And so I don't know how many people have heard of like, um heard of like family offices. This is something, family offices, this is, I read too much, I'm a nerd, like I be in rooms that I really ain't got no business in for real. So family offices are like for like the ultra wealthy and what they are is like wealth generation and wealth maintenance is a full-time job right so it's not really just like All of their money ain't at Chase. You feel what saying? Like, and so they hire as a family, the ultra wealthy have like the office for just their family. And at that office, they have accountants, lawyers, um real estate developers. They have a house full of like specialty people to manage their wealth managers, traders, all of them, brokers, all of them are in this like. family office, right? And the general gist of it is their job is to maintain the wealth of that family. They're supposed to make sure that they don't lose their shirt, right? That they don't like, they get the money and then they don't lose it. So they make sure all the investments are right. When they're spending money, they spend the money that way. And this is separate from their foundation. Remember I told you, right? billionaire on one hand, philanthropy on the other. Gotta watch the money somehow. And so the family office is usually the one that's interacting with the foundation to make sure that the foundation is getting the money from that family. So it's not necessarily the individual that's writing the check, right? It is coming from like that family office. Be that as it may. The point that I'm making to your point where you said, you know, imagining like multi-generational, I'm thinking to myself, okay, so If the ultra wealthy are benefiting from like hiring these people whose job it is to maintain their wealth, what do we have like that? Or how can you build something like that for, for like your chosen family? Right? So the ultra wealthy, their, their family operates like a completely different organization, right? Like it's, it's an organization. They're an entity, but your chosen family, like us, We're closer to our chosen family. Right? So I'm more at me, I'm more apt to maybe go into business or like share resources or pay bills together with my best friend than I am with my cousin. Does that make sense? And so like what, what are we doing to support each other financially, spiritually, all of those things, but in a very like, concerted effort way, right? Not just like, oh, we sharing Netflix passwords, right? But like, we pool our money together and we help each other get out of debt. We, you know what saying? We buy our groceries together. We do all of those things together. And then we make wealth moves together. And the idea is, we become like a unit, a social unit. So it's not just economic, but it's also political and social, right? And so come to find out, this is how houses worked in like England, right? Back when like they had like, you know, different houses and they named, they called arms, right? When you had a house, it wasn't that... necessarily everybody who was in that house was like blood related to you, but you were all connected on this mission, right? You're all connected on this mission to like move forward together. You feel what I'm saying? And so like, these are people who are locked in and they become family, right? They become family because they chose it, but they locked in together politically, they're locked in together economically, they're locked in together spiritually. Right? So like houses would have their own priests. I don't know how I feel about that, but that's, I'll just give you an example. Houses would have their own priests, right? They, they of course have their own lawyers. They, all of the land was like in a trust is the wrong word. Like, so each part of the family, like they had like ownership, but they all moved as a unit. And I think that like, we're going to have to explore how to do that with your chosen family. because like for the black community, the black church used to be this hub, but it's not that anymore. I don't know when it happened. I can't trace it back for you, but the black church is not that hub anymore, but we need something like that, right? You need a hub in order to like get people on their feet long enough to make decisions. and like the systems are being broken down around you, good, bad, or indifferent, these systems are collapsing. Right, the things that you used to like, you could count on, or that you at least knew how they function, like, what the current administration is doing is making sure that like, they don't operate that same way no more. They just don't. And so since they don't, And they don't operate like that no more. Now it's like it's on you to figure out how to survive. And like, I think we're going to need to turn to each other, but I don't, it's not a, and I'm careful not to say like we have to go back, right? Like there are things that we must remember from our ancestors and what, and what they did to survive. But we live in a whole new world. Like AI is not going anywhere. The internet is not going anywhere. Just like electricity isn't going anywhere. So our reality won't look the same as our elders. However, There are principles of like not just cooperative economics, but like political movements. And I'm not even talking about like, you need hundreds of people with you. And we gotta stop thinking that because like, that's not a thing anymore. Like the way of like, yeah, me and my crew is like a hundred, no, no, it's probably never been that way, but it's definitely not like that now. So we talking about like, do you got 10 people that you locked in with that you care deeply about? Do you got 10 people, five people, forget 10, you got five people that you so locked in with that if they called you in the middle of the night, needed a place to stay, they could come stay. Somebody that you trust that much, that you have already drifted off to sleep, they can come in your house, lay down, it's not a problem. That you would entertain, me your last two. If you know those five people, if you got five people like that, you start building with them. Because what the system has gotten us to believe is that like, you're such an individual that you can fight this battle by yourself, right? And like, we not even get married like we used to. That's neither here nor there. Just an observation, not a judgment. You're not getting married. So you really out here fighting a system that's designed to suck you dry by yourself. You really trying to pay $1,000 in rent, making $2,000 a month? And that's the system doing what it's supposed to do. And your job is incredibly replaceable by AI. And you haven't done enough internal work to know that you could create anything else. And that's the crazy part, right? So AI will replace your job, but it can't replace your mind. It can't replace your creativity. It can't replace your ability to ask questions. But you haven't done enough of that internal work to even self-actualize in that way. You haven't done any of work that would be necessary for you and God to get locked in on that level. And so when your job leave, because you have defined yourself by being able to produce, you're gonna be left in, that is the major fear of AI. That's the fear. And so you not locked in with a relationship like, we deconstructed community, we deconstructed family, we deconstructed faith. You didn't reconstruct anything. And you put the faith of your family in the hands of these billionaires who are quickly trying to replace your work, what you are calling work, quickly trying to replace it. and you don't talk to nobody. That chatbot is not your friend, Who are you locked in with? Who, right? It can't just be you and Sweet Jesus, I'm sorry. It just can't. If you spending your time at this point and you talking about it's just you and sweet Jesus or all I got is me and I don't need nobody else, you gonna be in a bad way. Like this is going to be the death of the individual, bro. This is my take. You know what I'm saying? Like this is my take. I think that the way forward is going to be together. and not just like nominally. I mean like intentionally locked in and I'm not just talking like romantic relationship. You know those people that you be calling your brother or your sister? The ones that you call that? You gonna have to mean that. Bro, gas is 350. 360. You think gas going down? You think that they gonna make less money on the food? They know that you gon' $20 for that toilet paper. You think they going back to 10? Here's a quick thing for you. Watch a period piece, right? Watch a period documentary piece. Watch like, there's these shows that the History Channel does about food and different things that were back in the 50s. And what they'll say is, and you gotta listen, you gotta listen. What they'll say is, they bought this company for $25,000 and adjusted for inflation. it would be worth about $5 million now. Just the foreign inflation. You let that run past you. What that means is $25,000 then, same $25,000, is now worth less because you would need more of those dollars to purchase the same thing. That $25,000, you would need $5 million more of those dollars to purchase the same item. So for those of you who grew up in the era that I did, I'm gonna make it real plain for you. For those of you who grew up in the era that I did, you used to go to the grocery store or you used to go to the corner store and get four bags of chips for a dollar. And if you was fancy, you would get the big bag that was not the biggest bag, but like the small big bag for 99 cents. You can't do that now. Adjust it for inflation. That 25 cent that you spent, now it's going to cost you a dollar. Used to be $2.04, now it's like $2.79, because they're trying to test the waters to make sure that they can charge you that full dollar for that $0.25 bag of chips. So you think that like inflation gonna come down and these companies go, oh yeah, inflation down, so I'ma let you pay less? No, baby, no, no. If you don't have a plan on how I like to do the commerce with one another, and this is one of the things that I'm working on too. I'm in it with you, I'm in it with you. And we'll figure out how to do this with one another together. The only thing that ain't going up is your paycheck. Rate has gone up, food has gone up, gas has gone up, electricity is definitely going up because of the data centers. Good, bad, or indifferent, they're going up. Everything in your life that is a necessity has gone up. You can't find a car loan that you're paying less than $500 a month for. Crazy. Crazy. So all in every month, if you got a car note, all in every month between car note and insurance and gas, you almost touching a thousand dollars a month for a car. This ain't a game, friends. Like everything is changing. And like, I was listening to that lady. I'm listening to her and I keep bringing her up. I'll put her name in the chat because I wish I could say it. uh Cause I don't want to mess it up. But she was talking about how AI is going to affect education and how we need to transition into a world where we don't put the premium on the answer. We put the premium on the question. breath. She said the people that are going to do well in this next iteration are not the people with the answers, but the people who know what questions to ask. We have to teach people how to ask better questions. That's what she said. And you know that to be true. If you've ever used a chatbot, if you've ever used a chatbot at this point, you know the better the question that you ask, the better the outcome. And so you can't put a premium on the answer because the answer is in abundance. What's going to be scarce is the people willing to ask the right question. Come on, bro. It's gonna be the people with soft skills. Like, which is why like the faith things become so important, right? Like I'm tying it all back. you've been with me, I'm tying it all back, bro. I'm coming, I'm coming. That's why the faith thing becomes important because the premium will be on the soft skills, not the answers that you might've spent your whole life trying to get. because this AI chat bot or this AI computing supercomputer will be able to do that better than any human. They've already said it. They're be able to do better than any human. So where we have the advantage is being able to ask the right questions. The soft skills, how are you interacting with people? Because people are the only thing that you're gonna have to interact with. There's a scenario where this happens and we're... We move as a society to a two or three day work week. You get everything that you need done productivity wise in two or three days in the week. The rest of the day is about, the rest of the week is about human interaction. And if you understand history, that's not a far leap. Seven-day work week was something that we put in place so it can be changed. Come on, y'all. This is, I don't know, man. I'd just be yapping, bro. um This felt good. I had to get some of this stuff off my chest, because I was just thinking about it, man. We're asking like, I'm finding myself in some situations, bro. The projection is for the creatives and trades to command top digital dollar. That's right on, spot on, spot on. The creatives and the trades, right? The creatives and the trades. You're gonna have to create art. That's the new game. experiences because people will need them. Like industries that ain't ever that we haven't even thought about yet will exist. She used an example while she was talking. She said that like, there are jobs that will exist that we could have never thought of. Right now, if you had told somebody when we were in high school, I'm coming up on my 20 year anniversary, 20 year um reunion from high school, from graduating high school. Coming up on my 20 year. If you had told us when we was in high school that a social media manager was going to be an indispensable part of any like really successful business, we would have laughed. We would have asked you what social media was. That was 20 years ago, bro. We would have asked you what social media was. We would have said something like, what do you mean, MySpace in 2006. 20 years ago, a social media manager as a job title? was incomprehensible, And that's where we are. And so now you're asking the question, if that is true, right? Because like, what did social media do to the church? What did social media do to organizing? These are the questions that me and my community need to figure out. Because what social media did to organizing was that you thought as long as I posted it on Facebook, I got the word out. That's what it did. Organizing pre-social media meant phone calls, door knocks, letters. You had to actually get out and have a conversation with people. After social media, I posted the flyer on social media. Black planet right? It would have been like what's black? You what saying? What's social media? You mean black planet? You know what saying? this is Yes, so what did that do to organizing? What did that do to the church? What does social media do to the church? What did it mean for our relationship with God? The algorithm got so tough that people thought that God was sending them a message through their feed. But it was the algorithm, bro. They would say, and I'm not, I'm not gonna tell, don't get me in a space where I'm saying what people heard from God. Like I'm not about to get into that bag. If you heard it from God and it blessed you, amen. but the way that the algorithm works, friend. It's listening to you while you're talking and then it feeds you content to keep you on the thing. That's just one of the things that social media did to the church. Now we have a chat bot who has more information than your pastor who has a doctorate, an earned doctorate in theology. Stop playing with me, bro. Like, we not asking the right questions. We having fights about the wrong stuff. Like, I promise you we are. Because we need to really be figuring out, because like... Social media created an entirely new industry, so people viewed work differently. You had teenagers, teenagers used to fight when I was in high school, bro. And you, you know this to be the case. You know this to be the case. When I was in high school, we was talking about like which fast food place paid the most money because that's where you wanted to work. You was low key hype about getting that summer job. People at my high school, people was trying to get jobs at Best Buy because Best Buy would hire you at 16, but they was paying you like you was an adult. Now, it's hard for people to find people who want to work in those spaces because you can make money from being a social media influencer. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is uh wild shift for humans. You feel what I'm saying? this is, okay. I'll be yapping for 45 minutes, friend. I need to, tea is what I need. I'ma go ahead and get off of social media. Cause like, I been done gotten into some other bag. Cause we ain't even opened up what these things did to relationships. intimate relationships? What social media, what does social media do to that? These are the questions, I'm not a futurist. I don't get into like the tech, right? I do relationships, I do people, I'm a pastor. These are the questions we need to be asking. I'm an apologist for my people. I'm an organizer. These are the questions we gotta ask bro. Like, wait a minute. If all of these people who are in this industry are telling us, they're forecasting it, they're saying this is going to change things. Not like what social media did, but like what electricity did to candles. The leap is horses to planes. Not horses to cars. And we not asking questions how that's going to impact. What is social media do to parenting? Are we asking that question? Not negative. Both positive and negative. What did it do? These are questions we gotta ask, bro. All right, man. I'm done. I'm done. You right, Walt. I need to go to bed, bro. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna shut it down. I'm gonna shut it down. Love y'all. Appreciate y'all listening to me rant a little bit.