Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. Last week,

we were lucky enough to go out to Queens to speak to a group of students at Forte Prep.

Yeah, now, normally, we talk to college kids, we talk to high schoolers. This was 90 elementary

school students, fifth graders. A fifth grade career day. And we were up against, because

it's a competition, it's always a competition. We were up against someone from finance,

a magazine writer, an Emmy Award winner, some other people, a doctor. But we fucking killed it.

We killed it. But there was an existential crisis that we had ahead of time because, again, these are fifth graders. These are kids who, are they going to understand who Stevie Wonder is? Are they going to understand who Questlove is or A sap Rocky or Jay Cole? We can't play any of our videos. Every single one of them has curses in them. Yeah. Or like, if it's not curses and it's weed puns and if it's not weed puns and it's gunshots.

It was just... videos. Every single one has curses in them. Yeah, this is like, or like, if it's not curses,

then it's weed puns. And if it's not weed puns and it's gunshots. It was just, yeah, what were we going to do? And we were told you can bring a video to present or you can bring an artifact. I don't even know what we would have wrung. I was just like, uh, and so finally, luckily, we decided, okay, you know what?

We'll shape this all around some sort of lesson that we can teach the kids about when people say no.

You can overcome that and make something from that no, right?

Yeah, right.

No into a yes.

That's right.

So way back in the day, the first video we ever did was called deconstructing Biggie.

And when we went to a depot where they ship out all the boxes and said, hey, can we actually use some of your drivers for this sketch? They said, no, get out of here, leave. We said, fine, fuck you. We're going to go to our local art supply store. We're going to go buy some brown shirts and we're going to make these logos.

And that's what we showed the kids and the kids loved it. Right. We didn't say fuck you. We did not. Once again, fifth graders and we have some sort of class.

Yeah. Some sort of tact. Anyway, these kids were amazing, first of all. Yeah, they asked like real, like, incisive questions.

One of them said, how did you decide who to advocate for? It was I mean like I mean not to us that was to somebody right but still this is the level of child we're talking about these are

amazing kids. They were focused. They were curious. They were funny. They were just really cool. And we just had a blast with these kids.

One of the most surprising things to us was number one, they know who Stevie Wonder is.

Yo, the second class loved Stevie Wonder. Also, when we said, hey, what kind of music do you guys listen to and the kids raised their hand?

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