Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique hustle, it's your boy, he's CEO. And my queen, the official Mr. Makers in the building, what's going on? Ninety-ninety number there. Man, hey man, look out man, hey man, I'm not for to mess y'all stuff up either because you got one guy here that's a videographer, he get mad when you say if you don't say Kansas City, Missouri and all that.  We don't know man, we don't know where y'all from. I don't know the difference between Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri or Kansas, how do you say it? How not, when you know the difference between Dallas and Houston. That's a different, how far is Kansas City from Kansas City, Missouri? She got a point right there.  Nah, it's only about 30 minutes. Okay, so it's a confusing situation here. Luston Hustle, what's going on baby? Nothing much. And who are you with? Big dog, big dog. The big dog is here. Man, so you guys are from Kansas City, Missouri and you guys, I seen some stuff where y'all promote and do a lot of different things in that area. Yeah, promote A&R.  Come up season. Come up season. You like that? Mm-hmm. Come up season. Well, let's talk about Luston Hustle before the come up season.   That ain't my show.  When you first came into the point that you was a boss, nigga. Yeah. When I first found out like basically who I am and who I am. Yeah, I linked that with my boy, one bounce. I don't know. I want to hear about you before that. When you growing up. Growing up gambling. Growing up gambling. I had a big gambling addiction at a young age. How old are you talking about young age? Three or two. Not about like. No, three or two dice. Two dice. We don't do three dice. That's right. I don't either though. Three dice, they do that like California. California, New York. I don't do that. Yeah, I don't do that. So how young were you? About 13. At my grandma house. Oh, he? 28th and Winslow. What's the most you have a bed for? I ain't gonna lie like. On the shot. Eight bands. One shot. 7 and 11 and I'm taking niggas money. One shot. That's at the casino. Did you lose? Yeah, I lost. Damn. Was you hurt? I take loss all the time. Was you hurt? I was sick.  You go right back. I see a nigga come up, right? Take a stack of coins, hundreds. And put them on that. Not on the line in the field. And watch and see if that thing gonna hit a 14 or 11 or double or ace or snake eyes.  And I be like, damn, that nigga got hurt. Right? Yeah. That nigga got hurt. That nigga did that. I seen him do it on black and red, on the roulette table. Come up. Baccarat? That's what my go-to is right now. Drop that thing. And just wait and lose. I've seen this losing boy by twice. I be like, damn, that nigga got hurt. I'm so glad. I'm so glad. I ain't got a casino. Your closest casino is like Oklahoma. Louisiana. Oklahoma. Oklahoma. Oklahoma 45 minutes. Yeah, that ain't bad. You can go hit that thing. You really love gambling like that. Yeah, that's what we do. Besides that gambling, I don't smoke. I don't drink. So that's just like a hobby to me. Besides that, I got artists. I got artists. Promote. What's the name of your artist? Dayface Munner. Dayface Munner. I got an E-baby out of Detroit, Michigan. Okay. And then I got a cousin who in BMF. Right now, his name's Ray Shine. His name's Ray in action. Okay. He in BMF. BMF right now, he a part of the Sustry Boys. Really? Yeah. He on, he on, at Tyler Perry's studio right now, working on that, like the second series. Wow. How did he end up getting, and you A&R, he really pushed himself on that. Really? Yeah. This is his uncle right here. Okay. Yeah. And then like, it kind of fell in my lap. Like all the stuff that I was already doing, and made sense. And then we just put it together and then he been pushing every sense. Wow. Trying to get to the next level and know what to come to. Yeah. Yeah. So they know you're going to push it. You treat it like the hustle, don't you? That's exactly how I treat it actually. I get it. And he knew he came to me when he came to me, you just keep doing what you're going to do. I'm going to do the entertainment part. I'm going to do whatever I can do.  If I can get it in Houston, Texas, we already come down here a lot and build a little brand here. I got a homie in Houston, a big homie group, like they hold a little group down there. They pushing hard, very hard. They strong, like a strong part of my success is going down there and messing with them. And just learning the more stuff about Texas and bringing it back to my own hometown, which I had a concert last weekend before we just came down here. It was good. People from Richmond, CashClickBug, and I had Peezy from Detroit. Peezy, Lou Graham, and they got artists like there that's pretty big on there. They go on a tour with Babyface Ray actually. Coming up, they'll come through Texas. Well, Houston, in Dallas soon. Wow. Yeah, man. Like I said, you'd never know how do you like the music game though? Because it's a patience game or it can be. I really think sometimes people too romantic with what they're doing their craft. I think they think it's more than what it's worth because a lot of time they'd be holding stuff back on the artistry. But I think you got to let it go more. And I think a lot of times you got to keep putting that pressure. You got to produce at a higher volume than what we used to. Do you understand what I mean? I agree. I think people are too romantic and they trying to do it the old way. And the old way is not the way no more. So if you don't put if you're going to put music out, you need to be putting music out more than what we used to because it's already strategically. Well strategically but you're supposed to be an artist, nigga.  You know what I'm saying?  And that's correct. The one that's winning they out working everybody else. They out working everybody else. So that's the whole game with the new artists they too busy trying to make one project Yeah. I got a I got a female artist. She like that right now. I said a little boost. Yeah. Everybody got to do it if it because because people looking at visuals every day and their attention span is not that long. So at the end of the day, you should have things in the vault. We remember the story we heard about Ice Cube. How far was the schedule out a year a year in advance? That mean he already working on twenty twenty three twenty twenty four almost. You got to keep the while most everybody else is sitting back trying to figure out what they're going to have going the next quarter in this quarter presentation is everything. So he already got his pat it he know what's popping. You can't call him and say let's come over here two months from now because he already got stuff going. So all I'm saying is I think a lot of times people are not caught up with the way things are now. We got to do things at a more strategic level. But then it got to be you have to produce at a higher level man. I think if you put a song out every week for a year, your name become a household if you're talented.  Yeah. Facts. That's facts.    And you yeah, use a fake nigga now. Facts.  We already knew. Yeah. You just had to show us. Yeah. Yeah. Now we know it. Now you putting it out there. You got your skirt tails. You got to have they call you slip showing. You got to slip showing. Yeah. No, it's just like I'm just talking about the people who do that. I'm not. I mean I'm the way I see it now. That's my truth. See it too. We was having a conversation about that. Come up to Michael. We was having a conversation about that. And during the car ride just like you got to be consistent with it. Or it doesn't make sense. No. You got to be consistent with your track with your craft. You got to keep putting it out. You got to keep giving them a visual. You got to keep giving them what people need because people's attention man ain't all the way there. That's right because they got so much to digest now. It's facts. But if they end to you you need to bring more into it. That's why I said that you got to be strategic and I was telling bro about that. I'm like man we get artists.  It's because they're not coming. They're not thinking about what they need to do. They're not really putting it into their craft. That's how I feel about it. I agree. I agree. But I also know that you have to you have to be talented bro. I would probably just move on to somebody else because you're going to give it a whole bunch in one year. When do you know that though? When do you know that? You know it because the people are not gravitating to it but they're going to gravitate to it. But it's been like circumstances like that out of solid. They wouldn't gravitate to them until a certain someone who was able to get hold of it share their music post their music.  That's my boy too. Let me just be real with you. I got people coming next week. But anyway, let me just say this man cash money is different. And I love the way that they move the way that they set people up. The way that the rich gang era went. They knew how to move in the middle of all the situations that they were dealing with. Even with Lil Wayne and whatever they even capitalized off that. If the bird man went to the breakfast club and put some respect to that. They hustling bro. They hustling. And that's what makes them different than most. That's why he gets so much flat because he really the only mogul in the south really like that. That was really all the rest of them sold out. All the rest of them really rocking with J-Nil. That's J-Nil. That's J-Z-Nil. That's J-Nil. That's J-Z-R-R-Rick Ross. It's just him and his brother. And his brother got that. He got the back seat he don't really got that. He don't do that. Because they're some real G's. Yeah. They ain't even talking about that. They ain't even They ain't even to say I think other people business and all that. Yeah. No, no. But I think I think a lot of time they try to count their money but then they be like they'll let you say what you gonna say.  Real hustlers don't even do all that. I just said something on the other day like Birdman never made a this song. He ain't ever talked bad about nobody. Yeah. And at the end of the day I think it's something that every nigga that's been around him they can million up too. They do? All of them million up and complaining but million up. I don't know if you got a partnership deal with the new artist that little baby just jumped on that track with Rob 49. Yeah. But from my understanding looking at and looking at Rob 49 page he ain't really got to save it. He ain't really got to save Birdman gave him any type of this or that or he connected with Birdman in that. That's let me know and I'm in that lane. That's let me know enough. I don't really got to you ain't got to say it. I see what it's doing. NBA young boy the same thing. Yeah. Same thing. Same thing. You know that's the only nigga he deal with really. They know what they're doing bro. And they don't care to be on the front line. They done did it so long they don't have to get the recognition for it. When was that back end right? Back end right. They ain't tripping. They ain't tripping. But you know situation. Having a whole label. How did you guys even know how to even come into that. That build that. That business. Back in twenty fourteen twenty fifteen. Like I said my bro who I started with here's name one bounce here producer. He was really heavy in it. I was just trying to figure out my lane because he was really older than me. So I was trying to see what I wanted to do and he was like in music so heavy. I'm like what can I do to help my bro get to the next level. So back in twenty sixteen we brought cheap key. I broke it in. But once he was that broken in. We did like in one day basically had a show in Oklahoma. It got canceled. It was at KU Kansas University. Shout out to them. But yeah. They had a little show up there and it got canceled in Oklahoma. We booked them for a little little to nothing because the show got canceled. So basically just sitting around did it in one night. Sold it out. Basically we dropped the flyer like a three o'clock in the evening time and said it's tonight. People was like all they faking he ended up selling it out going crazy. And then from there I'm like what are we going to do now? We got to figure it out because people going to want more and once you feel them this they going to want some more and more and more and more and more. So I'm like OK what can we do to basically go to the next level. So that's when I was like OK we thought about the name Como season. We sat and did it and did it and did it and like bro this ain't it. This ain't it. And then we started doing showcases. And then like before we knew it I just wanted to stay in my lane. The main thing with me is just staying in my lane. I don't like being in other people's lane I like doing me. That's why I was like I'm going to be an A&R but I'm going to come up season at the same time but I'm going to find these artists and I'm going to put these artists on the song with different people from my city and then we just going to blow up because nobody really made it at our city. Wow that's dope man. Like I said you guys man for you guys even take that jump it says a lot. And you're trying to do what everybody else doing. Be comfortable. They want to be the rappers they want to be the spotlight. Correct. And I think that's where we have to change that narrative. You know what I mean? If you want to be great you got to do different. You know if you want the same thing everybody else getting then you do the same thing everybody else doing. You're going to get it. It's a mindset. It's a way that we think bro. You got to think like an entrepreneur you got to make quick decisions. You got to push I mean my wife know how I am I come up with something in a minute whenever I feel like it need to be done right. So you get it. Yeah like just this podcast like at first I just came up with it I don't know I was like I got to do something to change the narrative because people not coming out as much or you know what I mean it's always trying to stay in the know how and what everybody else is doing but can we do it at a whole another level too. Like I said we produce we put this stuff that's sold or something that's coming out four times a day. That goes back to what you said four times a day keep putting it out you got to have that vision right now some of it some of it will say you ain't get but a hundred a hundred views and then some of them will go to three four thousand then you got to understand that you're being shadow banned a lot of time too they're not suggesting your stuff so you can't get discouraged because something don't go and quit running everybody else try and put your stuff on say cheese when you can say cheese don't get me wrong and I love half paint films and I love all these different outlets in the Dallas Fort Worth area but why not why not look at yourself as a real picture and deal with the people who want to deal with you I know you're trying to intercept some content it's okay to maybe buy a slot on some of the Instagram pages but you need to have a base for your stuff where you get your credit your credibility for yourself you know what I mean I try to teach that too but say cheese never that's like you're trying to take a shortcut y'all ain't hear me I feel you I'm soaking it I'm thinking like bro they need your show they need your show you know what I'm saying if they show how they give and fly that's how you do but they need your show for how you get you know what I'm saying Texas is one hustling place you know what I'm saying it ain't fake Hollywood it ain't hustling and if you at the position be able to give people different kind of games you gotta realize too also the lane that we're in that we're older being that we're married there's a lot of stuff going on here our other co-host money Moses shout out money Moses you and make it tonight nigga but you my guy we got certain people that we deal with and it's going to look a certain way like Bobo came in the night or you got ALD 300 I'll have different people come on some real core just to give it a different yeah yeah we get it and it's fun you know what I mean it's fun so when we put this together who you are that's important what your lane is going to be do you I do this for fun you know what I'm saying I'm not doing this like I'm going to come up I'm going to come up everybody else doing that I'm not doing that bro I just enjoy doing what I do and I'm at and I appreciate you for that for giving me an opportunity man come on man you here man you hear it now nigga family now once he said in that seat it's on nigga you could do all the little situations that show up interview your audience we're about to pick this whole thing up go look at that Kiki episode well I did a little Kiki little Kiki yeah I did it I saw it on your page but that was at his place that wasn't here think about that for me we'll pick up and go mm-hmm you'll see me in the rest of the show in Atlanta and then you go look it up we'll pick up and go I'm not trying to stun I'm just telling you we'll be in Kansas City Missouri nigga sitting in your place when y'all come to Missouri and I'm going to take care of y'all y'all shout out to that boy huh I definitely didn't care who you've been listening to you're going to say shout out to that I won't shout no I know I know no music Eddie Griffin nigga oh yeah for sure Eddie Griffin hometown I'm just saying yeah like nigga the whole play Columbus Sharp was on here last week nigga y'all better stop playing nigga y'all in presence of a player nigga you want to talk about nah but I just enjoy the youth man you guys is energy the way you guys bring it the vision is in the next generation for me I can learn from you guys there's things that I do on that damn phone that I probably won't never accomplish right I'd be like these damn folks they got it and then y'all got a competitive market within your own circles you see what I'm saying it's hell man so what do y'all plan to be in the we'll just say the next quarter my next quarter how is it looking right now summertime yeah I'm really like I said I'm trying to I'm trying to push the concerts because the concert is getting my artist shows but it's even better I can control it I can control my artist being around the artist if we want a verse we want a video whatever we want to do I can put that in the package of this performance if you're going to perform for my whole city why don't I make my whole city help push my artists because the artist can open up so besides that and that's what we're really about for real like trying to just push the artists that's coming from Missouri that's coming from Kansas City we try to give everybody the opportunity if you're paving you feel like your music is doing something we're going to push behind you you don't got the engineer you don't got the producer you don't got the studio to go through we got all them necessary things that you need to be able to get to where you want to be but it's just like the artist is they got to come with it you got to be serious about your craft we don't want to just be wasting our money or wasting this time or nothing like that so that's what we try to do who is the biggest artist that you guys seen come out of Kansas City Missouri in history of hip hop Rich the Factor Rich the Factor in history in history Rich now Rich who is the biggest artist that cause where take nine from me from take nine stop playin new stop playin new this is the thing hey listen we ain't gonna play like that Rich the Factor is the Kansas City horned soul he didn't build those bridges who who hey I don't know Rich the Factor but I damn sure no take nine is picture up there how come I ain't seen Rich the Factor listen we got to get on we got to set that up for you cause he need that he need that because you know what I'm saying but as far as underground goes as far as like who got the streets that's what we going with we going with Rich the Factor that's what got the underground street you got to come up to this Mike nigga that sound horrible nigga my bad but take nine he do he got he got it on lock he got a whole Kansas City on lock just cause Kansas City on like he don't got as far as like they not they not playing take nine they not but as far as like he don't give a damn because he never had that the white people is the war on play technology we talking about we talking about the underground as far as our folks go I'm talking about just who the biggest artist is out of Kansas at the end of the we can say but you know what he is but we going to speak on Rich though because he gave us a lane he gave us opportunity take and gave no opportunity to the city not more and we don't see him we can't get him you so get him up here get his let him out let him up for a second yeah let me yeah you got to stand on that you got to stand on that of course this come up season we stand on that we be under his post oh you got RJ do we not go under his post I didn't want to do we didn't try for it's good yeah you got you got to stand pull on up you got to talking to that Mike you do a lot of talking but you ain't really up here like you just sitting in the back talking but at the end of the day only when I say take nine is because that's who I see I ain't never seen what's his name again Rich the factor we ain't going to forget it Rich the factor we respect that we was around when Tech came up and on the music scene you know what I'm saying he started one way and then he switched to another you never seen him again okay I mean he ain't really giving an opportunity you said the white people got him what about my people he ain't not giving no game no he ain't opening the door how many times have we been under his post and then in this inbox you know what I'm saying beating it down like we want to just talk to you you know what I'm saying we didn't took area avenue to really just we're trying to get somewhere but why do you think that y'all working hard enough man come on nobody's working hard enough if nobody's dressing and working under his his way he ain't really if you don't dance this to him he's really not going to give you a certain kind of opportunity so that's just that ain't no other way to put it well I'm going to be honest with y'all you know what kind of music you make you say you know him do you listen to him no I don't but at the end of the day I understand why whether people who do support him I could understand why he supported him we're not knocking your husband but you're asking us have you ever seen him in the city y'all never seen him in the streets of course not where is he where is he I'm going to tell you right now okay I wasn't seeing Techni into coronavirus and I saw him on AT Divide coronavirus besides that you wouldn't ever saw him in coronavirus is the reason why he came out the house he probably got bored so you telling me that the only thing he only catered so he has a lot of money he has a lot of money he only catered so he has a white audience we know that and he has a weird audience too because I've had people to come here and be like I love Techni and he was like I love Techni and he wanted to buy something he came here he dropped a freestyle I still got the freestyle because we had a thing where we was having people to drop freestyle for outfits yeah it's like he got his own people we respect it we support we're not knocking it ain't even about the streets it's the city he don't give us why is your guy not loud enough okay why we can't hear your guy no, no I'm not talking about you I'm talking about the guy that y'all big up it who risked a factor who risked a factor he y'all just ain't hurt him y'all just want a few but he built a lot but everybody know him you know what I'm saying underground if you know him you know what I'm saying like a lot of people shout him out on that thing like everybody BMF everybody so have you been like on any of these podcasts have you been promoting he just didn't just that's wild how you seen take nine on something no you saw him on one exactly I ain't really seen take nine but you're telling me he don't he got out of jail he went to he a little older he really more like making his way out the game type you know what I'm saying like so really but he take nine they did plenty of songs together him and take nine they got a great relationship you know what I'm saying on the surface but he ain't never really you know what I'm saying for taking I mean for Rich you know what I'm saying Rich will be a much bigger person you know what I'm saying Rich got super talent everybody knows him undeniable talent I never heard of him I'm gonna look at him he out worked everybody I'm gonna tell you like that so when I look at his video it's gonna pop up like that sure ain't gonna be no video but it's gonna be a song he got a couple videos nah man he rapping oh he rap yeah but you saying that he don't he rap but he don't do video he got a couple he got a couple on there he got he old school how do you make make money off his music he been around since the 90s time that nigga from the streets that nigga drugs hand to hand like pimp and kid like pimp and kid like how you say we all see you got a damn drug dealer for y'all damn right hand man street nigga well he's from care city ain't nothing but street ain't nothing but a hall gay sauce to a boss that's the really I mean I got to look him up though I really like you think we can get him on boss time we can get him on here right now we can call him and get him on here I'm serious that day yeah he need this if he on here if you get him on this podcast right here people gonna be like how you do it really I peep that time but you know what I'm saying risk the factor I gotta find this guy then they making me want to get the nigga on the show and see what he talking about be nice well you gotta go listen to this stuff and see how good he is first I believe these niggas these young niggas hell I don't know I risk the factor yeah every time they compare them to take nine and then on that album cause they have two different links you just put him on that level nigga you put him on that level you put him on the level of course we put him so if you put him on that level I ask you the biggest you said that nigga to me risk the factor to me it's the city our city if they gonna have a vote it's gonna be risk the factor for anybody represent the city take nine don't represent our city you can look at him our city is not like that our city don't act like that we don't dress like that we don't talk like that none of that you know what I'm saying we not knocking what you do but that ain't what our city is about and that's why ain't no more artists coming out of our city cause they see that and they just like nah that ain't what it is that work for him but they city is on that we probably don't want that like that and that's why our city is really in a real bad space due to that so much talent but it's really getting overlooked left and right why because of that I ain't gonna say because of that but that's on my opinion right now yes sir because I mean it's getting undeniable and he ain't opening no doors if you not acting like him he's not putting you on his album he's not dealing with you he's not you know what I'm saying wow that's crazy well you know you gotta be careful you start talking to my people I'm getting it twisted when we had we had been through debates these conversations all the time it's a lot of people that argue really like man you hate and they ain't hate man that's our opinion and how we look at it and we we really in the city though it's a lot of people that y'all wherever y'all at but our whole whole generation gonna agree and say to where you from he come from our city but he got the other crowd he got the white people he got the cold like the weird stuff we we not on that we come from a whole we come from a whole different call so that's not what we listen to we ain't listen to the fast rapping all the angelic stuff we ain't listen to that we listen to more tragic stuff angelic devil worship music I wouldn't really say we don't really know because we can't rock with it just cause that's what it's giving off don't get it twisted we grew up on that we came up on tech now don't get it twisted I could recite a bunch of them you know what I'm saying but he kinda left everybody and went his way you know what I'm saying you know like I say people who say they give him opportunities to give him opportunities to who he give him to but maybe out of town our city ain't made it nowhere for a reason you know what I'm saying risk the factor and put us on his back as far as he could but you know he in the street so he can only you know what I'm saying well you guys got a label now and so at the end of the day you gotta keep the sound or keep the sound the same in the streets in the underground realm it ain't even just underground though cause I deal with R&B I gotta you got an R&B artist yeah for sure how do you feel about it you think R&B coming back go get him stuff there he said R&B R&B coming back when how long is it gonna take we gonna wait it's gonna turn over you'll like any his song he got the T-Rail and uh I fuck with T-Rail T-Rail from Topeka yeah we mess with him Carlos shout out to Carlos they down there in Atlanta right now DJ called today to be on the show I don't know who his DJ is but my son told me it's DJ yeah I mess with T-Rail T-Rail and Carlos yeah what about you like that Rye wave sound that's your boy Rye wave my boy yeah I fuck with Rye wave I fuck with Rye wave I like that I like that sound the real genuine music the words coming from something from the chest other people that make music they come from something just a different angle like who like Mazzy we give it to him like it's different it's all type of people you know what I'm saying Rich the Factor gives music from his angle you love Rich the Factor you ain't playin' no game about that and he represent KC and they say Rich the Factor we got a couple artists that's doing something our artist is doing something it's people in the town poppin' so you guys is an NBA young boy like that we listen to young boy I listen to young boy I listen to a little bit of everything for sure I listen to young boy Top three artists of all time dead or alive you number one Rich the Factor number one is Rich the Factor we going to Rich the Factor that's just what it is can I say something but you give me a why why we just came off the highway you can beat the whole highway down eight hour drive Rich the Factor he ain't gonna miss he put more material out than everybody he out worked everybody he talked to you number two two pop damn Rich the Factor over two pop number three I'ma go with J. Cole why J. Cole I fuck with him he really grinded it out he really grinded it out better than Kendrick Lamar to me I'm not a big fan he don't put out enough content J. Cole gonna jump on your 21 Savage J. Cole gonna jump on you might look up he might be on Nardo Wick stuff he just who is your top three artist number one here we go Steph don't do this man here we go Rich the Factor you know all of them he's gonna say Rich the Factor that nigga probably got he put he got the money behind I'm labeled let's go shout out Orca Promotion yeah Orca Promotion sure but Rich the Factor Rich the Factor number two number two I gotta go Lil Wayne of all time he said did her life number three they know I'ma tell you I'm different bro I listen to Joe Blow like he put a lot of material out for me the material is everything for me like you could if I could put your CD in if I only got skip like one song where it ain't meant for me or two you know what I'm saying these people they give you one good song two good songs out of 13, 14, 15 songs I'm not with that I'm older I don't wanna hear that I'm used to CD put it in and we got Joe Blow I don't care what they say and they can line the track lists up Joe Blow gonna give you more hits you know what I'm saying way more hits you asked the top three are you saying like what I listen to daily or are you saying like top three artist top three artist all the time and it's dead or alive any genre I'm gonna say Lil Wayne because that's my area number two the goat young boy number three and some people wouldn't agree but I'm gonna say Meek Mill that's my dog I can live with that he didn't say rich defect it's alright we did enough of it yeah we did that's dog that you can't see meek mill meek mill all the music was dream chase nigga they rap fast or whatever you don't always rap fast but I just feel like he authentic like sometimes he wears emotions but he always authentic he always gonna give you the real him I think he didn't got lazy I do believe that he got lazy I don't know what he's doing if it's like a marketing thing that he's doing or whatever but he ain't been I'm hard on you I don't think he's lazy nah that ain't hard I think the competition it's too many people no he's lazy all the people on his bumper he could push listen you can't put nothing bad out though you can't put nothing bad out what you mean that's him if you put some he an artist bro okay well kill me one more and drop nothing there how many years then that's him too fell off you either doing good or you doing bad he's scared to drop something bad nigga fell off they scared to drop something bad the nigga the only nigga that really be consistent like that is Drake and he been killing the game the whole time he's not in my top five at all he ain't in my top five I'm just saying how he consistently put out here people love him he can put out anything and he go and you may not like it yes y'all but I'm telling you some damn body is like it him and NBA young boy gotta figure it out bro and NBA young boy don't even have a damn Instagram page or nothing this nigga just knows how to do it I don't know what he does but his demand is up there bro you can't even name the last time young boy and I had a show these people done saw him in person it's been like three years they still bring stuff out of him what happened when he bring some out on YouTube go crazy many of you's in a date my son eight years old he be playing it already be on tiktok or something it's crazy ain't that crazy ain't that crazy you can't deny bro at all they shot out the other never broke again they hauled a little crew cause you can't deny they just reposted boss talk huh for real that's what's up that's what's up nigga y'all playing with boss talk getting there getting there I'm just about to say it was boss talk though what you expect let me tell you everybody watching bro I don't know how to do it it just happens so shot out the offer coming all the way down man we can't sit in Missouri and jumping on boss talk like this bro that's what they been working we tired we last weekend with the PZ man we get it in y'all get it in we get it in I work in people man I did a I did a I did an old school concert and all that we do all that I didn't do it yeah but yeah we beat it up though like you say I work everybody just do it right here like you say though he's up to the latest anybody like that's how he I work everybody he stayed up today what was that right here fashion new sports anything that makes sense make a dollar he up on a bitcoin he the first person that was you know what I'm saying I don't even deal with it probably like four years how's it going for you I got three shares but I've been having them for ever I've just been sitting on them for my kids I got three kids they growing yeah I'm just leaving like that dad she was I've been on that I just play around with I be gambling so I be put my money somewhere it's money anywhere so you know what I'm saying wow put my money somewhere so if you could do anything different when you started this label what would it be anything that you felt like damn I missed out on that I should have done this mmhmm paying attention sometime I can get I don't be paying attention enough I don't listen some rainwater said when he was on here that's some old threes rainwater said he wasn't aggressive enough like I felt him on that I felt him like sometime he's not aggressive enough like he had a hell of a run and an opportunity and if it you know I always talk about him because it's something about the way he do business bro he got he figures it out I mean and I didn't really it ain't always pretty the way you do it either it's sometimes ugly as hell but he make it happen and that's why I've watched a lot of people in the last year do this stuff I've talked to a lot of people in those seats and it's just crazy to me how the dice is being rolled in certain people's situation whether it be there is the shun down in Atlanta or it be Carl Crawford in Houston or it be a rainwater or here or either a say cheese TV you know what I mean a shun cotton these guys are strategic in the way that they're doing things and they have their own way of doing it and they've found it and figured it out to make it work for themselves you know what I mean sometime I got this character like sauce walker sauce walker I just did sauce wood winning sauce wood winning saw one of his artists I just had a man and about to release that next week he do things differently you know what I'm saying and a lot of people like I move around a lot of people don't man you came to success to me you know what I'm saying no matter you don't got to like it so you like sauce a lot I respect this game and I respect the hustle you know what I'm saying I respect somebody who do what they own way didn't you know what I'm saying they say like people calling Goofy man that man is getting money you know what I'm saying and he that's him like they say black youngster man you don't want to run up on black youngster you know what I'm saying you can say what you want but that's why they can do that because anybody around in Missouri ain't nobody could come around y'all doing that we just trying to bring some money around you know what I'm saying that's all you can't see the need some more money you know what I'm saying we're holding the sports now we're holding football down for sure we know that for sure we know that for sure we ain't going to play with it we ain't going to talk about it but my brother you play for the Texas I don't you come in here and talk the whole way I gotta live here America's team America's team no matter how you look at it you can win a Super Bowl and Jerry Jones will still sell more merch than you listen I'm gonna tell you like this did you hear what I just said y'all got the most loyal fans ever I ain't never seen I like this did you hear what I said when took us to win the championship and everything you can win the Super Bowl and Jerry Jones will still outsell you and merch listen I don't he ain't gonna win no games though he don't got to win no games he didn't talk about it money is everything I mean this is about the money he didn't let that boy there watching he know that this nigga I had to learn he had to think about it and I pay attention North City you can't pay somebody to put a little cheap shirt on down here man everywhere you go they got Dallas Cowboy and these are and it's crazy his fan is love it I ain't never seen nothing like it there's a coat falling you got to take no phone the way bigger they love it like tech he sell my merchandise than any other artists I seen the list he printed it up and he giving it to you for whatever price nigga hustler you got to that's what I like I ain't gonna I might not like the person like a lot of people didn't like Donald Trump but I was like that nigga hustler like when I seen or either even on the coronavirus with the shots that nigga's hustlers like I be looking at like you're a hustler so you should look at that and be like damn they killed that even though I might not agree with it I see the game in it and I'm like damn I got to respect it we don't knock tecnon like we understand where he come from and what he didn't sound so much better when he talk right into the damn mic did you hear that he the first time they done did that over in the corner like you niggas suck at talking in the mic that nigga right there you good at it bro yo you're on the podcast though like when we put this on Apple and Spotify and all that yes you're gonna sound creep what's going on buddy you was talking about listen look at niggas let's go y'all know man listen listen this niggas sit on the phone cupcakeing all night man no man now you talking shit but now what y'all give me a beat up that's how you have it from home next week no but I just you know when I think about you guys in the lane you guys are in all I can say is consistency content over create y'all get that it's always content over create people are too romantic if you're gonna do what you're doing make them people they got to put some stuff out bro and they got I mean visuals and everything they got to want it listen if they don't get them get them away from you fast don't waste your time with them who was he talking about because he just put it on the money for some people that's not here right now you know I'm saying that we didn't pay a lot of money we dragged them and beat them up they think she good but we talking about somebody else specifically an artist you know I'm saying who should be here but he rather does I'm saying you know he are artists super talented he play out the water with everything he play but can't wake him up before 8 o'clock at night yeah that's not good we ain't gonna say his name you got to want this so bad I don't put so much money behind this bro listen you got to want it but it's okay to shift gears too and if something not working be realistic with yourself about the results that you're getting make sure that you focus on winning bro I guarantee you if you it's so crazy that it's somebody out there that want it bro and you basically could be wasting time with somebody who don't really care to even work that hard that person that want it is out here you got to find the one who want it who doing it all already on it on it still getting up and making sure they produce we had a girl on her Lordy B last night dope crazy Cardi B stuff 2 million 5 million 20 million they watch it they every time she post something Cardi B posted you see what I'm saying find that person that really and she only signed to this one guy like radio shout out to radio Raheem I don't say one guy on here we call names respect but at the end of the day you know she only signed to him but say if she ran into a you and think about her hustle versus what you doing it's out to water you see what I'm saying but you got to find that person I think I'm just giving you my opinion that won't sit bad as you want it most time you find somebody that's talented that don't want it I think more so with me it's like did you hear what I just said it's the heart thing I be too in my heart like that's the problem like I got to keep Donald Trump we don't bring no people in around it's like our circle real tight you know what I'm saying it's a lot of things that go on behind doors through the back door so really really really you know what I'm saying a lot of people with snake you come around you get the information what do you think about working with young artists like a kid 14 it's hard though because their parents the one be pissing me off nah but yeah yeah get the paperwork right but their parents gonna be playing games bro I don't even know who you talking about but I'm just telling you the parents are gonna be the problem on that because most of the time people are dealing with vice defects I got my stuff yeah I got my daughter right now I'm gonna turn my daughter up though that's the way you do it that's the only way that's gonna be poppin for you I got bands I'm gonna turn her up I ain't gonna play you can do that now I'm gonna turn my daughter up that's the only way it's gonna work she gotta want it cause she gonna trip when she turn about 15 yeah her momma gonna help me though cause her momma I don't care they trips 15 and she gonna flip out on that nigga you can put a lot into a 15 she flipping out nigga I'm talking about he talking about the kids oh yeah for sure at 15 whatever you trying to do with them now at 15 to 14 they flipping out don't even trip I don't know what you're gonna do you're gonna invest your money you're gonna flip out but then they'll come back at about what maybe 21 22 life it starts to kick in but it's sad because you take it from experience I'm just talking experience I've done so much with different people my kids have had a lot of stuff to happen they don't know what their business do so I might go buy a store I might go buy this alright we've done a lot of stuff to try to implement them into what we do even the podcast they don't care they don't care about the money you show them look up here this is what they can make so pay these bills nigga keep it coming keep on putting something on it they don't care and then when it's gone and they have dealt with it their self that's when it's gonna be like damn I should have listened to that too I hate it but that's the way it's gonna always go down I try to break the algorithm it's not working for me let me get one question in go ahead that seems like the only question I'm gonna get well it becomes really we just having a good time we just talking I know I'm just playing since you started your business tell me one instance where you came to a road block and you had to learn how to overcome it okay the road block I came up with I don't want to say go ahead the road block one of the road blocks I came up with is my it's like bringing somebody like let's say I bring somebody cause somebody on here could be going through the same situation and you're gonna help them get over it use you and it's hard to say what we gonna say dude but that's real shit in this boss talk sometimes you gotta kinda separate from who you start with you know what I'm saying like Jay-Z and Dame Dash you know what I'm saying it's just certain things that just have to go their separate ways you know what I'm saying a lot of people stick together and take each other down through there you know what I'm saying you know what I'm saying doing things a little differently cause everybody gonna always agree you know what I'm saying if you can't meet in the middle then it's business so at the end of the day you gotta meet in the middle and if it's a business we can't meet in the middle then we gotta kinda go our separate ways you know what I'm saying the road block for real for real is like business and friendship that's really what it is yeah that's a road block it's tough you gotta change your method of thinking you gotta think on a business level that's what somebody said who said that on here somebody said that even if they're your friend you need to go ahead and just treat it like a straight business when it's business to business after hours it could be your friend it's tough but they come to the door like hey hey you remember me he like hey $50 hey get them outside they ain't got that money he gonna get that money he ain't playing about he don't care I be like man that's such a man but I support everybody no matter what it is we show love for sure but at the end of the day business is business business is business so you don't want to get caught of your show investment too yeah that'd be the road blocks like as far as like when he's doing like the promoting stuff stuff like that just dealing with different artists making sure they come on time some of them may not show up you just never know all that road let me say the road block we just had my boy Pizzy the club closed at 2.30 the flight got delayed at 10 o'clock my city don't play that like we don't got that city where they use just a hosting and all that no you better get this stage you better perform or whoever broke them is done he uh he drove 13 hours it said he was supposed to get there like 2.35 remind you the club closed at 2.30 like they don't play that it's over with everybody gotta get that money back we talking about we ain't talking about 20,000 we talking about some crazy we gotta come out the pocket and the club who ain't here before they get out this door they gotta get their money back or they gonna shut this club down that's facts gonna be a ride by the grace of God my dude I shout out to Pizzy shout out to CashKickBook he got here at 2.13 they drove a sprinter all the way from Detroit to Kansas City they left at 10 o'clock I mean they left at 11 o'clock and made it to our club at 2.13 and I put the mic in his hand while he was jumping out the sprinter got him on the stage and he rocked it out for me they ain't hot what time they closed 2.30 on the dot the club they closed at 2.30 they didn't care if he came at it's dead they don't care if Jay-Z or not they don't care if Drake was in there that's the city but they don't feel wrong that he only performed for a little bit of time if they closed he ain't gonna have to close them up five, six, seven songs really? he ain't gonna have to close them they outside ready to share they don't even know what time it is so they ain't really paying attention who's to say your show wasn't longer short because you don't know exactly how many songs the artist is gonna perform you don't have to I might not even want to hear all that so we want to hear what we want to hear but Peezy got hits though Peezy got hits well, okay well Trey Otah no Trey Otah talk to him see what he want check it man Trey Otah I'm doing an interview what you got oh, no, no, no you an interview just hit me when you get through here I ain't want to nigga, you run this thing he's texting the bill y'all shut we got some guys out of Kansas City, Missouri here some who you is man Lustin Hustle Lustin Hustle RJ I'm a big dog it's Como season man we here as a whole collective man it's Como season Kansas City, Missouri ask him have you had a risk to factor have you had a risk to factor Trey Otah no, no I ain't really familiar with Kansas City music see what I'm saying I mean that's cool we got to figure this out look him up for me Trey Otah look up risk to factor and I'm gonna call you in about 30 minutes 40 minutes and we gonna let me know if that nigga jam please okay you say rich rich rich the factor alright see ya okay rich the factor alright and he don't have a lot of videos but look him up and I'm gonna call you back when I'm on the way home alright alright I want to he on the blog he on the I want you to send me a text you let me know about it once you listen to him okay we gonna be mother around here but none of the eggs be first up that's my god man he got to get on up here man already y'all he represent the city a little he been doing it longer than us man they got to really understand the journey for us when is he coming we still ain't man listen put him on the phone right now I'm gonna make a phone call man call that nigga y'all can't even get that nigga on the phone I bet you can't get tech on the phone that's so you can't get on the phone not for less than 15,000 you know what I'm saying for real that's just for a phone call and shit so y'all could just get y'all can't get rich rich is somewhere probably selling cities right now like rich you can get free weed from rich you know what I'm saying he kicking it I mean he's findable you know what I'm saying you want a verse he definitely findable you know he's gonna spend some money he hustling yeah you see he like I do that answer yeah that's him freeway rick freeway rick ross he been on this show and he shouted out rich the factor because rich the factor kind of took the name freeway rick you know what I'm saying freeway rich and when he came home he blessed him like you can look it up yourself he'll bless you so you speak on I don't like rick ross and I don't feel like that's fair you can take a man identity and then capitalize off of it and not pay to man I ain't fair that's like still somebody dope selling it and then they come on man they ain't man I put no money on these books right why they locked up check it man check it man I love you guys coming on boss talk man ain't got love for Kansas city Missouri if you ever back in Dallas you know bring that rich the factor boss talk one on one we're gonna be looking for rich the factor man holla at your boy man it's a unique hustle and we out


I'm just really excited to come on the heels of hearing about Hackathon because it's something that we're actually going to do and pilot not overnight. But November 14th and 15th here at the main library. So we'll be contacting you to talk about how you did it. I'm actually going to exit the show for a second because I'd actually like to start with a video also. That was recently done. It's actually some of you I think might have seen our new website. It's themixitsfpl.org. And the reason I'm going there is I want to start with a video that was produced for us by Microsoft. That is the story of one of the teens, Carmen Sosa, who basically was one of the youth designers to make the mix happen. It was part of a four-year process and she started with us I'd say three years ago now and now she is in college and here we go. This is her story so I think it's kind of important to share. About six years ago, my mother passed away. I had to learn how to step up and be able to take care of my two younger siblings. I worked at Thanks School or Toria and I quickly realized that I had to know how to use technology. The reason why I wasn't getting access is because it's expensive. Although everybody sees technology everywhere, not all the youth in our communities have the access to these technologies that are so necessary for them to go to school, do their school work and have job opportunities. Technology is a really important tool. I see how it can connect people in communities. The mix is a teen digital media lab. It was developed by the San Francisco Public Library. I feel like it's a really powerful statement to say that this new center was made by youth, for youth. I've been part of the Board of Advising Youth for three years. Our group has done a lot for the mix. We've decided what programs we'll like in the space. We've done the interior design. We went to meet investors. We've publicized the past three years for the space. Some of the things that the Teen Center offers is a video production studio, the sound studio, the makerspace, tablets, computers, teens that didn't have any access at all to technology can now come to the mix at SFVL. It took a lot of partners in order to make the mix. From Microsoft, who donated a lot of their technology to the mix, from the Lori Foundation, KQED, and many more organizations. It really took a village to create something so amazing. Being involved in this process has been really great for me. I think that this new teen center is gonna get a lot of the youth really excited about technology. I feel like I'm really gonna see my work reflect on the community. So that is Carmen Sosa, and she has been an amazing part of the design team that made the mix happen. The mix is a place for teens by teens, and it is the result of much collaboration, not only from the youth, but through community-based organizations and from the city itself to make it happen. So I'm just gonna tell, I could probably spend all day telling you about it. So after this, if you, I miss something, feel free to contact me, but I'm just gonna kinda tell you a little snippet of the mix story. So now we've been open for about three months, and the programs at the mix are very value-based and collaboration-driven. And so the programs should live up to the values. All of them are designed with the idea of equity, full participation, and social connection. And I should emphasize that the mix is a space specifically for teens ages 13 to 18, and that's very new for the San Francisco Public Library and the main library to have a space that is specifically dedicated for teens. So we are mixing it up to make it work. The teens who were part of what was originally the design team to create the mix has morphed into something that we call the Board of Advising Youth continues to be active to shape the values of this space. And so the teen values that line up to equity, full participation, and social connection are open-mindedness, respect, and collaboration. And when you, you'll have a chance to tour the space after this during your break. So I think you'll be able to see that in action when you're there. And the overarching goal of all the programs is that they should help teens become better consumers of media have hands-on building experiences, have the opportunity to connect with mentors, peers, and library staff, and celebrate local culture and diversity. And some of you may know that the Mixed SFPL is part of what originally happened because of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services funded by the MacArthur Foundation which funded approximately 30 learning labs around the country and public libraries and museums. So we consider our peers to be the organizations that have programs that specifically serve teens such as UMedia Chicago, UMedia Miami, UMedia Hartford. And what we have together is a national community of practice where we can continue on a daily basis to share what we've learned, what we're learning, what we hope to learn, how to reboot and remix all the time. So the mix happens and has happened because we're part of a connection through partnerships and programs together to support learning, to support out-of-school learning. This is called kind of in the community practice, we call it connected learning in the sense that it's peer-led and interest-driven, very different, not very different, but different than the learning that you might find in a classroom. It's very much more of what a teen would hope to find if they were to choose learning for themselves. So this is what the teens might think of the library. The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, extremely well-read which makes them very dangerous. So teens we think have a preconceived notion that was about what the library is for teens. That's certainly true with our previous teen center. I don't know if you guys ever saw it that was on our third floor of the teen corner. And so because that was in a shared library space and I think a lot of you might identify this having a service for teens that's in a space that's shared for everyone, it's very, very hard to provide services that teens would want to come back to. So Leslie Nope does not have access to librarians who support her 21st century learning goals in the connected learning environment. So she's not likely to want to come to the library. But she probably really would want to come to the mix. So what we're trying to do at the mix together is to, in the spirit of 21st century learning, is determine which 21st century literacies excite teens the most, which of these literacies are a good library fit and which activities will encourage these literacy skills. So these are a menu of 21st century literacies, collaboration, self-direction, information and communication, technology, literacy, real world innovation and problem solving, media literacy and leadership. All of this happens on a daily basis at the mix and it's not necessarily so didactic as all of this, it just kind of happens. It's part of I guess the menu of experience that happens for teens who come to the mix. So let's talk a little bit about collaboration. The original grant that we received was a partnership with San Francisco Public Library in collaboration with KQED, the California Academy of Sciences and Bay Area Video Coalition. And we're really excited that we're continuing to collaborate with all of those organizations and more as the mix grows. And all of those relationships encompass informal collaboration, shared responsibility, substantive decision making and interdependent learning. That's like the outside partners, that's really what we hope happens every single day in the mix with the teens who go there. That is the experience that we try to model among the staff so that again the values of collaboration, open-mindedness and respect are modeled. Some of the collaborations that we've had are the, like I said, the California Academy of Sciences. Last summer they brought in their tech team to do a program that was involving the opportunity to kind of discuss media or like real science problems using social media, using Vine, using Instagram, using Facebook. We just started a girls who code club which we're really excited about. We have our Board of Advising Youth, we have a recruitment process for that now that's actually not only open to teens who are in San Francisco, so those of you, Daily City, Bartable Places, I encourage you, the deadline is tomorrow, we might be a little loose if someone got an application and by the weekend we might let it slide. We have gaming that happens on Fridays, we have video production with Bay Area Video Coalition and then we have audio studio programs with the Blue Bear School of Music, one of our newer partners and we're excited to hopefully expand that wider. There's an opportunity for teens to have real world innovation and problem solving as very inspired by hearing about the hackathon and I look forward to following up about that because that's something that we're actually going to do, have the teens will have the opportunity to use the mix as their space and their incubator for real world innovation and problem solving. Of course that happens through active inquiry, design thinking, real world issues and challenges and acting on personal ideas. And really the mix and San Francisco Public Library together, I've been very big host in an event that happens every single year, it's happening on May 17th next year, Youth Advocacy Day where it's an opportunity for teens who are in San Francisco to work with government officials to be able to problem solve and meet with government officials to talk about issues that are really important to teens such as healthcare, housing, education. Every single week we have a design studio that happens. It's actually a maker open studio that's with 3D printing. So we're very, very excited about that where teens can create something that might be of value to them using our 3D printer. Again, the Board of Advising Youth features very prominently since that meets every week. We have a new civic project that we're working with in partnership with some local artists where people, teens can come together and use the mix as their space where they can problem solve and find out they're working with artists to do a civic program that they have to do for school. And so using the mixes that out of school, really poising it as a place where they go to take advantage of resources that they might not have access to at home or at school. Youth Speaks, we're very, very excited. We've been partners with Youth Speaks for a very long time. They got their start in San Francisco. Now they're national. They have a studio that happens every single week in the mix. It's really when you I see the space, it's pretty exciting to see how it's able to change and adjust depending on what someone might want to do in the space. So the MC there creates a very intimate cafe environment where teens really feel the freedom to share and tell their stories. That they will have the opportunity to perform potentially in a national audience. And then again, the Teen Tech SF Civic Hackathon. So that's an organization that was started Teen Tech SF. Now it's global. It was started by one of the teens from the Board of Advising Youth who became very excited about this opportunity for the teen center. It was called then, but now the mix to provide equity of access to technology and opportunity. So we're really excited to be able to host that. And that is teen led completely. We're basically the way we like to think of ourselves in an optimal way as the keeper of the keys to provide the resources for teens to do what they want to do. So of course more than anything, because this is a library traditionally, the library is a place for self-direction. So teens who come to the mix have the opportunity to advance their skill levels at their own pace. We try to infuse that this is really just the stepping stone for the fact that the public library is learning as part of a lifelong process with all access to all the married resources we have through our databases and print materials. In a peer led interest driven environment, teens have the opportunity to set their own goals for success and define and complete tasks without direct oversight. So that's very important. And so the mix for self-direction includes sewing and crafting programs. Of course our plant collection are a wide array of weekly programs in the audio and video open studio. We have various kits that we're starting to activate. It's like little bits kits. And trying to do t-shirt printing. We're really excited to be partnering with someone in the maker community to help us better activate the maker space. We're really excited about that. And of course there's media literacy and the opportunity for teens to discover how messages are constructed and for what purpose. Explore how media can influence beliefs and behaviors, evaluate information critically and competently and learn media creation tools and conventions. So we hope to activate that more fully in the coming months. The way we've kind of done that so far is again through our collaboration with YouSpeaks, we also have a long collaboration with a local organization called Writers' Core. And probably most popularly would be the audio studio programs that we've had in collaboration with Blue Bear School of Music and Bump Records, which is an offshoot of the Bay Area Video Coalition. It's a youth mentoring program for teens who are interested in producing music and making music. And of course probably more, I should emphasize our website. I know members of our web team are here today who helped us create the mix-it-sfpl.org website. I encourage you to check it out. Leadership again, that happens through the board. I think I'm running out of time. Oh my goodness. Through the Board of Advising Youth gives the opportunity for teens to work together, work positively, ethically inspire others and demonstrate integrity. And that is a paid board. They're not volunteers, so they're actually paid a stipend for their time. And so again, we have the teen-led influence, but we also have programs that are led by community partners and professionals. And I think I'm gonna skip over the ICT literacy since I have not very much time left. If you want a question, you can keep going. Okay. We'll be going into the questions. All right, well, information and community technology literacy. I think we have an interactive wall that I encourage you to check out. We have amazing internet connectivity and we have access to technology. We have an amazing array of technology in the space that teens have access to, which is pretty amazing. And then we're really trying to ask the question through having a survey, trying to get the feedback from the teens if there was a meaningful activity that they started in the mix, what would they stop doing, what would bring them back? I think more than anything we have found is when the teens come into the space and they see that it is really, truly free and open and theirs and it's not for other people, I think that that's like been super powerful and super valuable, not for other people. What I mean is it's really for the teens themselves. And I just wanna encourage you to check out our website, follow us. All right, we have a hashtag, mix it SFPL. We have a pretty robust Instagram. We're adding more and more information on our more and more content. I should say on our SoundCloud and on our YouTube page. And we have four new youth mentors who have just started working with us and part of their role is to help with the content creation for this space. And so I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. I know that was pretty like very fast. Thank you, Catherine. Thanks. I'm over here. Yeah. I just wanted to remind everyone that because this whole thing is being recorded and will be archived and available on the PLP website. If you have a question, raise your hand and speak into the microphone so that we can capture that for the crowd to hear and for posterity. So now raise your hands. What have the most popular teen attractions been and how have you marketed it to the community? Let's see. What do you think, Mary? What's been our most popular audio? Just hanging out. You speaks, that's right. Yeah, you speaks has been probably the most popular one that we've had so far in terms of an actual program. And we feel like we have done a great job marketing. That's how we feel. But yet we meet people all the time who haven't heard about it. So the best marketing that we've had is through the teens who market it to their friends. So like, for example, the teens who come through, you speaks, they come back maybe to other programs. Answer your question. Donna, any collaborations or partnerships with area high schools? I wondered how much they were involved. And secondly, have you been, I know it's fairly new, but have you charted whether your book collection circulation has changed at all in the new space? Thanks. Okay, so the first question, yes, throughout the whole process we have collaborated with the local and community high schools. In fact, we've used that. In fact, today we're about to have a mixer of the San Francisco Unified School District teacher librarians from middle and high schools. So we had them involved in that. We're really excited that this will be their first time collectively in the space. We are now that we're actually open. So we have hours that pretty much mirror the, try to have the hours. Right now, we're only currently open Tuesday through Saturday, but we're open. Hours when teens would be most likely to be there. So afternoon, evening. So for example, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, one to 8 p.m., Friday, one to six, and then Saturday, 12 to six. However, in the mornings, that's a time when we can have group and class visits. So we're starting to have a lot of interest in the class visits, and that's something that people can arrange through our website. And so we look to, now that we're actually open to continue that conversation, we, there is an email distribution that goes out to every single high school student and a website for every single high school that we can use through the teacher librarians to communicate information about the space. So we have activated that, and we hope to continue to activate it more. And your second question, remind me, I'm so sorry. Circulation. Circulation, oh yeah, so actually, we've done a little bit of research about circulation since. One of the things that we've actually been surprised to find out is that there is more adult interest in teen books than we had thought, and so we're working with trying to figure out a way to expand access to any of you who have read this, those of you who are young adult librarians are not gonna be surprised about this at all, or even adult librarians who have populations who are interested in these materials. It won't come as a surprise to you, however, it did come as a bit of a surprise to us, but that being said, we're working to remedy that now to make sure that adults continue to have access to the teen books that they want, either by expanding those teen books in the adult areas, just to make sure that there's access whenever people want it. This is gonna be the last one. Hi, your values for the space are so well articulated. Can you talk a little bit about how you developed that? Yeah, the values for the space. So there is, so you mean the actual, the values, the teen-led values? Okay, so that was through an amazing process that we learned about through one of our community collaborators who works a lot with youth, and so I don't know how many of you have ever participated in a values activity before. I really recommend it for anybody. So you start out with a C of values that's on the floor, and you have the opportunity to select among all of those values, and so what happens is you have the ones that we came up with, which were collaboration, open-mindedness, and respect, but there's also values such as safety and peace and love. So what you start out with is each person selects a selection of whatever values that there might be, and then as the people, then after a few minutes, the people have an opportunity to meet in groups of two and then bigger groups and so on and so on, so they have to kind of winnow the values to the ones that really encompass what they're trying to do so that respect became an overarching higher value that might be more valuable than that respect might encompass peace, for example. So through that conversation, it's very, very deep and very, very powerful. I highly recommend it and I'm happy to share how we did it to anybody who would like to know. Thank you so much, Catherine. Thank you. So. Thank you.


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