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0:00All right, what’s up, man? What’s your name? My name’s Jocer. And where are you from? Philly. Okay, and how old are you? Fourteen. Okay, sick. What do you think about, I appreciate it, boss. What do you think about the USA? I think it’s confusing. Because, like, it’s like, they got so much stuff going on. It’s like, they don’t want to know what they do with themselves. It’s like, I feel like once, like, it gets like, once years go on and on, I feel like USA is going to get more bad than I don’t know how it already is and I feel like that’s really going to affect human life and us in general
0:36Why do you think it’s going to get worse? Because like the war, you’re trying to start this war over Israel or Iran, wherever it is I feel like it’s going to cause like a lot of corruption and destruction I heard somebody talk to me about the drafts like the other day Yeah, my day, I don’t know You feel like people have been talking about the drafts at your school? Huh? People at your school talk about the drafts? No so the people talk you but have your friends talked about the draft at all like people oh my teacher your teacher yes to you all as a class yes what they
1:09say um he was like just letting y’all know like a lot of like Trump has like decided that whatever decided is that people at 18 or over automatically get drafted so I feel like I feel like at the end of the day I feel like I don’t know bro I feel like Later on in life, this is gonna get hurt. Like, hurt real hard. Prices might get raised back up. You don’t know what can happen. Yeah, it’s that real.
1:38And then not just about, um, war, Philadelphia. It’s bad. Like, real bad people get killed every single day. Kids get in, um, cross fights or whatever and get shot over there and die, all that stuff, bro. And I’m like, it’s weird, but like, I be telling people, like, you see like, yo, like, I said, job, you trying to be this, you trying to go steal a car or whatever, I’m like, bro, I don’t get into that, I’m a student, I’m 14 years old in the eighth grade, I got three college offers, I got a lot of high school offers, I got everything, and all I’m trying to do is make it out, so I don’t have to be stuck in this environment, and my life would be on the line, because I have to walk out, every single day I walk outside, and have to look behind your back and all around, just because
2:27Scared that somebody will shoot you or rob you or jump you or try to antagonize you like it’s just it’s just we’re out here bro and I just feel like life is going to get real serious but that’s that’s life period what do you think is the source of people acting like that I feel like that make you have to even worry I think so we are you actually like why you think people are doing it yeah honestly it’s a trend like when I was growing up and I was younger like probably like six or seven years old I didn’t really see people like my age do stuff like that
2:58and I feel like Nail Desk is evolving. It’s going to get worse. Like, I feel like it was just like a term to put his bottle behind it. And if you could ask people across the city one question, what would you want to ask them? Well, I’ll put your life on the line and not do something better. That’s one more question. Okay. And do you have a message to kids under 10 years old? Keep dreaming. It’s going to happen. Keep going. Keep your education up. All day. Y’all gonna be like me. I got, what, pictures and emails and all of that of colleges, all them texting me, texting me to go on a tour or inviting me to these campuses, just whatever. So, I’mma tell y’all, bro, just stay out in the streets, bro. You don’t wanna be in the streets, bro. You don’t wanna be in the streets, bro. What sport do you play? Play football. Okay. And what advice would you give to somebody that wants to get better at football and, like, they don’t really, like, they feel like they’re getting stuck? I would say, um, I’d say. You must be doing, you must
3:58I say, if you wanna get better at football, you gotta go to the right team, you gotta have the right mentor, and you gotta get trained right, a lot of coaches don’t train kids right, a lot of coaches think that they’re gonna teach them a play, and then think they’re gonna get it by the next day, you really gotta teach kids about the whole program of what football can help you with, like, I use football for an outlet of anger, sadness, or whatever, football can help you with a lot of stuff, they can motivate you, You feel me? And I’ll do what the kids will know about that
4:32Okay, cool What is a sign you have a good coach? A good coach, make sure you’re okay at the house Maybe talk to you daily, see how you’re doing, whatever Try to get you to come to high school workouts or Try to even invite you to college camps Cause some, I got a coach named Coach Nate He trying to get me to come to, what’s that college class? for Rutgers University and try to go on a tour with them. I think that’s going to be a cool tour. Okay, cool. Alright, I appreciate it, man. You’re welcome.
