David, where was this interview taking place? Midwest? Wonderful bit of nostalgia. I grew up in Cincinnati (in the apartment complex that was owned by Fred Trump) with black kids, Puerto Rican kids, mixed kids, Jewish kids--and we all played together and went to each other's houses. I would hear about the "racial hatred and bigotry" on the evening news during dinner, but it seemed none of us was certain what that meant but we were pretty sure it must be in far-off China, or Hollywood...and nowhere near our small world. Nobody had any money but we didn't know we were poor. We learned a lot about our differing cultures. My friend and neighbor Charlie Ogg was Jewish and his mother, Rosie, made the best matzo ball soup on the planet; my friend Yolanda Shepherd's daddy was a Reverend at Allen Temple AME and there was no spice level her daddy couldn't enjoy; Paul Greene's mom had had polio and walked with arm crutches, but made the butteriest Town House cookies in the world...the list could go on. My point is that no one felt lesser or greater than anyone else. It wasn't our parents or us as kids who saw any fault in being different. We learned it from the news. We learned it from school books. We didn't know we were different and that being different was *bad.* We have been programmed to react , to demonize, to marginalize and *generalize*...to find fault because we're told it is there. This brainwashing has gone on too long. The childhood I described was from 1976-1987.

Sounds like a normal Indiana man to me.

Man I get some of what he said but the ending about losing touch with the world is sad

The shorts include footage not in the video. What gives?

I can’t find it ?!! Can you post the link please ?

In my opinion, it’s more like the old library information is transferred onto other libraries. Today, the library’s are transferred onto usbs lol

I believe that’s an old African saying , it may translate to museum though. We get the point. Very true .

manny noneya all books are politicized. The top guy is right. The life experience of an elder is unique and cannot be found by just old books.

Arvind Talukdar books and writing can relay thoughts better than the original speaker, cause it makes it easier to think about things, and relay thought better

I had wished I had videoed a conversation with my grandmother about her life (being born in 1917, moving from Germany before the SHTF, and just her opinion of 'life') but I didn't. I also wished I did the same with my Dad....I had intentions of doing it (and wrote out questions) but when he got too ill, he went quick I didn't get the opportunity.

Facts I’ve never heard someone say that but that makes a lot of sense

It's funny you say that... Do you think that this man represents the majority culture of his era? Where did the majority of Americans live in the 1950's? Did they live in highly urbanized areas like this man? How many had shop owners for fathers? And the resources to go out every night? What were their values outside of the materialistic ones that this man focuses on? Do you find it odd that this man never talks about religion? Donyou think that religion was important to the majority of Ameticans on the 1950's? Why do assume that this man represents the American culture of the 1950's? Because he references Happy Daz and aligns with the spirit of that TV show? Does popular media today a accurately represent American culture? Misrepresentation of history indeed...

@@josephjones5070 You're right, but also wrong. I think she understands that, you're just reading into her comment in a way that furthers your doom&gloom perspective.

@@hatiroth7919 You assume my perspective. I actually see the degeneration of society as a plus for myself and my kin. Although it is always a shame that so many are lead astray. As the chaff is burned away, my line will stand the test of the fire. I simply try to bring light into the world by asking questions that might open some eyes. So that the blind can walk away from the precipice. This is my duty. The will of God is done despite the scheming of evil men. So what would be the purpose of gloom and doom?

@@josephjones5070 it definitely doesn't represent all. It is but a glimpse. Like looking out a window to the world. This his personal experience. Must watch more like these to get a better understanding. And still we will never get the whole picture.

You have to educate employers by silently not replying to e-mail or calls outside business hours.

So basically just existing not really living!!!

@@lifeasithappensno shit we know

@@lifeasithappens as humans, our lives have been 'living and not existing' for the 250,000 years since we achieved what we have chosen to call 'sapience'. be lucky you can type such lame shit into the internet.

Yeah it's fun ​@@lifeasithappens

I'd bet There are 1000s in your town, that have noone to talk to. Left for dead, in a so called cAre facility, after theyre kids got they're inheritance. The lack of integrity is astounding. Those same people will be in for a rude awakening, when it's there turn. Thank God For the people that bring in Dogs & Cats, & a Welcome ear, so these people can share whatever it is, they want to share. I know a few people in a senior fAcilty" they wouldn't let us enter during covid......we're sure the abuse of those that can't speak for themselves, was off the charts.....these facilities are Beautiful looking""" places They were also nice enough to steal the items we brought this woman....Even the so called Best""" Care facilities, in the BEST" areas,. Hire criminals..They'll toss your dentures into the trash, if they feel like it. Its uncommon for the elderly to be treated with 100% Respect, & dignity..Beware if you ever put a loved one in a cAre home. I recently witnessed first hand, the cAre friends received, .in a commiefornia approved establishment. If someone wanted too, they could easily feign being ill & record the way these people treat the elderly. Just a heads up to anyone that's going to put there loved one in a facility. Abuse in many ways, isn't the exception, it's the rule. I witnessed it, first hand. Nurse ratchet deciding when & how she will administer the drugs. Making decisions her way. .The Dr cleared that up, but it took a week..I wish I had it on RECORD" this is in a facility that is considered THE BEST" Let's just say, she was removed, & she is grateful, I help her. Oh yah, the lack of respect, for even the Doctors orders! Was WTF! To any & all NURSE RATCHETS" @.....we're coming for you!.🙏💕💪✌️. And there will be no mercy, for how you treated the disabled.....Can you hear the jail door slamming? We can.

@@Bellathebear777 Things like this are a disgrace and all to common. Really a shame that America lost her way in the 50's and 60's right after she had her best years. But like a German punk band once wrote: It is not your fault that the world is like this. It is only your fault if the worlds stays like this.

@@Bellathebear777 You lost me with "commiefornia." There are problems in every state. Fortunately, my elderly relatives most frequently died in their sleep at home or in a hospital after a very short stay. My mom needed lots of help and support to stay in her own home until her death a year ago at nearly 91. Her children made certain she did not end up in a care home.

Not all elderly are wise but otherwise I agree fully

”the elderly” - as if that is a homogene group. Jeez...

Crxpilot, Thank you for the update, sir. I am kinda glad he is not around to see what we have become. It is a far cry from not wearing socks in rebellion to shooting up schools with assault rifles.

He was the quintessential American man, and a good one. Would throw up if he knew who lived down the street in the big white house.......

So this is from the 80s

@@EarthChickadee ...I remember reading an article years ago that was a survey asking teachers back in the 50's or 60's what was their biggest problem with students...their answer was: Chewing Gum! Far cry from today sadly!

Good ole Frederick. I’m from the area my self

glad he didnt

pay more attention... we have a dishonest plutocrat running the show. Are you even listening to the Dems at all? Americans have no patience to learn...that's why we have this idiot in control right now.

Who says he isn't still alive?

@@billlyons7024 He died within a few years after this interview.

@@patriciax3677 You're an idiot, how about look at the shit the Dems just tried passing during this Covid panic then get back to me.

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It’s families with no fathers that are the worse. Listen up women.

@@ayo0o0o0o0fr

The part about college or trade school is dead on. Good man, wise with age and experience

​@@ayo0o0o0o0families with no mother's aren't better

@Dark Angel Fake news. Drinking "manly" whole milk and beer and eating "manly" hot dogs, bacon, sausages, ribs or dog food doesn't give you a deep voice, just a fat beer belly and life-threatening clogged arteries. Voices naturally change and deepen with age. Smoking cigarettes does give you a deep voice and also gives you premature wrinkled skin, lung cancer and respiratory failure. Food, generations has nothing to do with voice, macho bravado is fakery.

Baltimore accent

@@StevieStitches - I wouldn't waste time preaching logic to an obvious troll, it's not worth the effort. More on point, he does have a good voice, reminds me of James Arness.

@@yellowblanka6058 His voice reminds me of Peter Graves.

Growing up in the 70s as a kid, most men had deep rough voices. Mostly due to breathing in factor air and 3 packs of smokes a day. Another thing I’ve noticed is that nobody has those huge Adam’s apples like some dudes did back in the day.

not old *Experienced*

No shit

"The older you get the smarter your parents get"

The damn ground keeps getting further away.

Shut up old man

I would have loved to have someone in the family that had that kind of livelihood, at least here in the US, convenience stores like that seem to attract a certain group of people that always have interesting things to converse about. I always wanted to have a store like that in my big Midwestern town

I'm grateful you had that as well. I remember the home economics class. Kids now would be WTF is home eck?. Imo kids should be taught starting in 5th grade, the basics of how a home is maintained. Cooking, Growing Vegetables, etc. The school system in commiefornia is a political play. I know there are good teachers. That love & respect the children. Unfortunately the curriculum is biased. I would never allow any child to go to public school in commiefornia. In the inner city schools, they talked of Cleaning them up decades ago....while they feed the kids slop" & most can't even do basic math, cuz ya know, math is rAcist in commiefornia. But obesity is ok. These kids are being sent up river without a paddle. In San Francisco CA, the kids can get an education on drug use, & how to shit in the streets. Pelosis district is a friggin joke....All those classes you mentioned, were removed for a reason. The dumbing down of kids in commiefornia has been going on, for far too long. Now they want to vaccinate em.....it really is criminal.

I love what you're saying every trade is a dying art now.born into carpentry as a family trade tinker with cars for fun.in high end millwork now at 47 and no kids walking through the door not interested in hard work and skill sets and pride.damn shame

I graduated in 89 and we had lots of good stuff too. There was a forestry class that you went out and logged for a couple hrs once a week

Now the worthless magic of "doin it online" mines minerals transports food works iron paints buildings etc etc. Doin it in person with your own hands...what's that..

I did Dental Assisting my Sr. year of high school in 1982-1983, I agree! I had an A+ when I finished, did assisting for 1.5 years and then went to college full time and got a B.A. I really gained a lot of confidence because of ROP (Regional Occupational Program).

He dead

Thought that same thing

@@suffolk6311 dont we all?

Beautiful diction and intonation...a driver...best American accent I've heard...was he Jewish?

Except that nose sniffing all the time

I don't

@Bugsey Magee I'm guessing by the Russian name that it's because he doesn't trust Russians. ;o)

@Bugsey Magee Can't argue that. I guess that's one of the many sad things about growing up in a police state. The government uses the people to spy on each other so there's no trust. That's pretty much the way of life in North Korea.

@@danh5150 always remember, while the soviet government was evil, the people there were men like you and me.

@@the_Googie 1000% true. I've always been fascinated with the former Soviet Union and the accomplishments its citizens were able to make in spite of their government. Sometimes when I play hockey I'll wear a KHL or CCCP jersey. Would love to visit Russia some day; I have absolutely no problem with the people. And yes; Stalin was every bit the sociopath Hitler was. Russian people (and Ukrainian, Latvian, Belarussian, etc) were victimized by both.

The GREATEST GENERATION! I wish I had more time with them. When I was a kid, I was around a large group of that generation. Let's just say, the judge sent me..They were the best thing, that ever happened to me. We would go to coffee for a couple hours, & ld learn through they're joking around, about Billy running booze, the chain gang, the war, These people LOVED there country. I don't love this guvmint, but I LOVE OUR COUNTRY! for geez sake kids should start learning apprentice skills in 8th grade. Art music, woodworking, auto mechanics,. Or at the very least, the inner workings of the homes they live in.. One 30 something, I met the other day, didn't know how to turn down the hot water! Or change the HVAC filter. Or how to properly CK the air in his tires, or change his own oil. Or even how to properly CK it. I learned that stuff when I was 10. I didn't.like it at first, but I had to go to the dealership where my dad worked, on Saturdays. The men there, we're so cool! Friendly, kind, hardworking.... I still think about them. If they're still living, they're in they're 80s. Popeye Dennis with forearms bigger than most people's thighs. Love you Dennis. Tiny, was huge.....Cud Louie the service manager. Quite the talker" cud. Anyhow, I'm grateful for having been made to go to work. It was a blessing. Imo most Kids should be learning the basics of home maintenance, starting in 8th grade. If they're a step ahead, & they know, electricity can kill em,. You can start teaching them, when they're 5. The sooner the better.. There's no way, I would allow my child, to sit all day, with a cell phone in hand. Lol, unless they were listening to music. Get the kids back outside, to run, & play! It gives me no pleasure to be more physically fit, than most 20 something males in commiefornia. Or to see a 10 yr old Outweigh me by 50 lbs, heading into mc deez. Our eyes nearly pop out daily, as we see obese children everywhere. Nutrition needs to be #1 in the classroom, starting in kindergarten. It's pretty obvious the so called representatives in the state of California,. Could careless about these children. Half of them, can barely walk, unless it's into mc donalds to get themselves a nice cold salt laden WOKAH COLA. It's a crime. Imo These children are neglected, & malnourished. The rate of obesity for school children doesn't go down every year. It goes up. It's pretty obvious the education system in commiefornia, is a complete dumpster fire. Rant over. 🙏💕💪✌️🎵🎶🎵.For geez sake people, take the friggin phone out of your kids hands. Or don't. Chunky boy & girl, will remember how you let them sit on they're azz, & basically do nothing. Rant almost over. No one ever drowned from sweating. I'm grateful my parents, made me work. If a neighbor kid came by today, & asked if he could water, or trim the bushes, was the car, or do something to earn ,$ i'd hire them. What a shitty way to allow your children to live. Eat, sit, sleep repeat. Smh

They were still with us until 2012.

@@Bellathebear777 I agree on most things. I feel ignorant not knowing basic electrical stuff around the house or whats inside of a car engine etc. We got access to internet but this type of stuff needs to be practiced in real time for people to learn. Schools need to teach people these essentials, as well as cooking, cleaning paying bills. Fortunately I taught myself the last 3 things

Ww1 generation made the same mistake as all others fighting rich mens wars while the rich men profit off of both sides! Truth is that until the rich and powerful are put in there place people will never be free…

real men

Does this mean you’re going to power scale 50s men vs millennials

@@christianglass9139 no likes? this is a good comment reply lol

First and for most, big fan of your stuff my guy and 2nd you’re 100% right but hey I guess that’s what you get when you decide to build a top down society as opposed to bottom up, after all if the state controls and imposes everything then morality is eventually going to be included luckily we have elders like Melvin and people like you who can see through all the crap 🙏❤️

i agree, censorship never helps. have to reveal the truth no matter how ugly it is

@@martinvanburen4578 this ain’t even about truth anymore it’s gotten so bad that if you say something that could even be INTERPRETED in a way people don’t like it could get you cancelled

O k tbh 10k back then equates to what it costs today. Inflation

I’m seeing no historical evidence that it Ever costed 10,000 in 1950s money. If it did, a single semester would be $100,000 in today’s money, which is higher than today’s tuition by a large margin. And considering that tuition being unethical murder of the lower class is a rather recent development, It’s more likely that it costed closer to 10,000 after inflation.

@@aeringothyk5445 actually since the dollar was backed by silver, it would be more like $180,000.

Yeah cuz going to OU was expensive (Oklahoma univesity) probably atleast $5k-10k a semester for in state students lol other kids outside of state were double smfh haha

At least you have the chance to go to college. Because of my race I've never had the opportunity of a proper education, I am self taught on the majority of my educational skills. Tuff life be grateful because somebody somewhere has got it worse.

So true. I didn't. David Hoffman-filmmaker

Rolie O'Leary right honestly I didn’t know the guy who posted these videos was the same guy that took the videos.Thats freaking awesome.

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I'm genuinely amazed by whatever it was that you had in you that compelled you to *just keep going*...I mean...

​@@avamasquerade id reckon it may play back into the sayings "the people want to know" and "the truth is out there, you just have to keep looking" that provides a sense of duty and purpose to keep pushing on as a journalist.

“Low functioning parents?”

Well, with both parents working full time to live in a little less debt, there's not much time left for parent involvement. Thats only for the privileged.

Both parents don’t have to work. If u lower ur standards and not buy the latest IPhone when it comes out or the latest car. Stop going into crazy debt. One parent can stay at home and raise the children while the other works. This has been our paradigm for hundreds of years. Only in the last 70-80 years has this changed and everyone is acting like the problems associated with a government education is a Scooby Do mystery. Don’t let the government babysit, educate, and groom ur children. Raising ur children is a privilege and one should not take it lightly.

@@kickyourfacification Absolutely!

@@kickyourfacification I'm not talking about us privileged white guys. I'm talking about the 64% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. You think America is the leader in household debt because of iPhones?

I know right? Some of my favourite documentaries and docu-series on any subject were produced in the 80s some didn’t hold up to the test of time but still ❤️

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"straight talk, no jive" - neil fallon

@@shadegreen5351 precisely brother

You act like no one's straight up anymore

Wow couldn't just write a simple comment..

@@devonjenkins6829 Looks like you missed the whole point of the video. I leave the simple comments to the Devon Jenkins' of the world!

Couldn’t agree more. a) There are still many. b) Stop idolizing people and just BE the best you you can be. c) It affects your life in no way how many of “this guy” there are. d) I bet this guy would be the first to tell you that he like most of us has many flaws and you can’t draw some idyllic illustration of a person from a fifteen minute interview.

People just lived and survived they didn’t analyze everyone and themselves and make so much of themselves they just got up and did.

"be the change you want to see in the world"

Because people don't generally accept people like this nowadays there's no glory to it beside finding a couple if freinds who are similar

guys like him are everywhere, they're just not going to post selfies on insta so a good portion of the population would never be exposed to people like him. Younger people don't venture very far from the screens on their phones and are never in social circles that are truly diverse

why do you say he likely passed away? this was only three years ago and hes like he's strong and healthy here

@@donkey3187 The video uploaded was 3 years ago. This video of him, he looks to be an elderly man, and he is recollecting the 1950's. Even if he was only 55 years old in the video, which would mean he can recollect the social status quo's of society from when he was a 5 year old, that would make the man 128 years old right now. My money is he passed away....

@@chadhill455 I think you need to work on your math skills. If he was 5 years old in 1955, per your example, that would make him about 72 today. How you got 128 is beyond me but it's hilarious. To be 128 today,. he would have been born in 1894. lol

@@donkey3187 Yeah my math is shit. For some reason I had discounted that I don't know when the video of the man himself was recorded and it messed up my 'calculations'. I should've considered he would have most likely been atleast driving age during the 1950's, since the stories he tells revolves around that age

@@chadhill455 That's the real question and the key to the answer isn't it? When was the recording made? But if it was made any time in the last 30 years and he was say 55 when it was made, the most he would be today is 85, which is of course very possible.

Your not but nice try

@@tb1629 ok bud if you say so. look out everyone it's internet lord TB, he who knows and sees all. jackass.

So they get to feel plenty of that belt? ;-) Not everything was sunshine and roses. We made some improvements in our methods of education, but not every new idea is naturally a good one.

@@Traumglanz No belt is what creates the pink nailed fatsos blocking people on their way to work because they don't like oil.

Me too

He just has that wise, grandfather vibe about him. Like you could sit and listen to him for hours as he rambles, not knowing it’s some of the most introspective stuff you’ve ever heard. Kinda makes me miss my grandpa to be honest.

Okay boomer

He was a good man who was raised right.

I feel the same way...I miss him too, and don't know him...❤❤❤❤❤

Why do think that this man represents the culture of the majority of Americans in the 1950's? As an American I would say that he is a very special case. One that lines up with the TV show representation of his era. However, media very rarely shows the true culture. Rather, it is shaping it for the future.

@@josephjones5070 an "insight".

@@councilestateproduct Indeed. Simple questions can put things in a more clear light. Such as, where did the majority of the American population live in the 1950's? Was it in highly urbanized metropolitan areas? What does this man focus on, and what does he neglect?

@@josephjones5070 I really don't get why you're asking these questions? You've got your knickers in a twist over something and I'm not sure why. Google can answer your questions easily I don't get what what answering them would prove.

@@councilestateproduct I know the answers to the questions. They were supposed to be for your benefit. Oh well.

Yea. That’s true. That happens when the existential crisis kicks in. It never goes away.

Young as in a literal child. Gen Z has had to grow up faster than any generation before them. There’s no time for fun, no time for play, no time for anything except work and coming home to an empty apartment that costs 1500 dollars a month. Crippling loneliness.

@@joeschmo4646nooo way. Half these kids don’t work, stay longer at their parents homes, want to be influencers, professional gamers, and all those useless jobs. Plus fast food restaurants alone are now getting employees $20 an hour, which isn’t bad money. When I was a kid in the early 00s making money was tough. On top of everything, it’s much easier to progress in life as you have the tools all incorporated into a single unit (cell phone, tablets, internet is extremely vast compared to 20 years ago), and the list goes on.

You realise principles come with a price.

​@@joeschmo4646is that why it _seems_ that materialism is more important to Gen Z than any other gen before?

Look up: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Iserbyte

It is done on purpose. Same goes for the college system, some are good but most are crap by design.

@@ShulaOudean Fluoride ?

@@billhanna8838 Fluoride is one toxin they force down our throats without consent. Chemtrails, GMOs, vaccines, glyphosate, etc.

@@ShulaOudean Look up: Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning by Doug Wilson and NEA: A Trojan Horse in Public Education by Samuel L Blumenfeld. Those 2 books set me on a course of Classical Christian education for my daughter.

Geez I salute to him

Wow, I assume WW2, Korea, and Vietnam.

Certified Legend y

@@trollking99 too young for ww2 at the end of ww2 1945 he was 17 and it ended in June so if anything in 1944 he would be 16 so doubt it

@@C.G91 True, but still possible. He could have lied about his age to enlist - happens all the time. Plus, it doesn't necessarily mean he saw combat. I also just realized that 1928 was when my maternal grandfather was born.

My parents didn't drink except a glass of wine maybe at a fancy restaurant or a beer on fourth of July. They never told us that alcohol was forbidden or anything like that. Same thing with drugs. My parents made mistakes like all other parents but I think they handled intoxicants correctly. Drugs and alcohol were not forbidden and therefore interesting, but they weren't normalized either. I have a drink a few times a year and none of my siblings have substance abuse problems. I don't look down on people that have addictions because I was simply lucky. We learn from example!

So true!

My grandma tells me about her family couldnt afford to wear shoes and her father was a bootlegger. And how they weren't allowed to go to the Celtics games. Or when my Uncle was fired from the Post Office for "Co-Habitating with a woman he wasnt married to" even thought they had a child. Or how the FBI, had kept tabs on all my family for years with cointel. Even tried to stop my Nana from getting a job as PA for UCLA, because my Uncle had black panther meetings in her basement The past was stupid

I work in the service industry (fine dining) so I encounter all kinds of older people well off and great stories to tell so I know exactly what you mean

That's really lovely! I'm a nurse. I've had the honor of listening to life stories. It's just grand! It's a gift.

Living history books

I liked listening to my Grandma's childhood stories from when she was a child in the 30s. It was a different world back then.

@@Twig2250 p1

true words. also watch out for the quiet ones when they get mad XD

BS People with bad tempers will ruin your life if u let them, they have no control .

I grew up in W.Oregon, but have spent some time in the South. I somewhat felt the kindness in voice, greetings from strangers or acquaintances, friendliness was a thin veneer. That's true of just about anywhere, but if it was an 8 or 9 elsewhere, then the South turned it up to 11, and with a wider polarity.

@@aminaedits He said worst temper READ it carefully next time

@@pepperrgirl I'm assuming you're replying to someone and not OP who didn't indicate that temper comes out of nowhere.

100% male…

Well yes..he was just asked to describe his life as he lived it. He did it well.

This comment with your pfp has me dying 😂

Yeah, it reminds me of the Freudian method, where psychoanalysts would just let their clients talk about whatever crossed their mind. The dude in the video talks about his opinion, and you can tell the more important bits by his body language, tone, and the lark. There are no direct questions on the topic, they're just letting the dude talk and allowing him to make his own point.

He isn’t rational. More like he’s pragmatic.

TURN TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BEFORE ITS TOO LATE, GIVE YOUR LIFE TO HIM AND START WALKING IN OBEDIENCE, WITHSTANDING FROM ALL SIN AND WICKEDNESS, JESUS SAID THE PATH TO HEAVEN IS HARD AND NARROW, AND FEW FIND IT. MATTHEW 7:13-14, HEBREWS 5:9, JOHN 14:15, MATTHEW 7:21-26, 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:9-10, JOHN 3:16-21, JOHN 10:7-8, MATTHEW 10:26, AND LUKE 13:5. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

@@icebreaker9006 wtf does that have to do with what I said?

@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 most people are like this but I have a bias I've lived in the American Midwest but this guy resonates like the old timers I've met in the north Kansas plains. Note also . Alot weren't racist Kansas was a free negro state the inventor of basketball

@@igriesert8561 he’s witnessing, part of being a christian

1871 is still Reconstruction Era-that’s only six years after the passing of the 13th and 14th amendments. Ulysses S Grant was in his first term as president, stamping down the first iteration of the KKK. So long ago and yet so short a time in the scope of history.

I thought the same thing. He could have been a DJ or radio announcer.

I love rustic American accents like such.

Breathing that secondhand smoke since being a baby gives you that nice touch of rasp

right? did he miss his calling as a radio personality or what? panty-dropper vocals....

He had a cold during this interview. That is part of his voice here.

Imagine what the next 30 years are going to bring.

@@andrew2469 no ty-

He is as far from the events he's recalling as we are from when this was recorded

Oh, no. Since I was in the class of '89, it's my turn?

@@andrew2469 metaverse from mark zuckerburg

Not really, hes just less affected then present day people who are much more media savvy and understand the potential of KZfaq.

Maybe there is more to people than we choose to believe. Maybe of we truly listened we would discover that people are very interesting when they talk about things they know (as opposed to repeating slogans they were told)

You could have left out the part about you being an engineer. Such an odd angel to come from, because it seems you're putting yourself above others.

@@kurtangusofficial agreed. It's so qually patronising, superior and ageist at the same time.

@@kurtangusofficial i guess you missed the point entirely - the point is *knowledge is NOT wisdom* and just because i know a lot, it doesn't make me better than a *wise* bus driver i'd suggest you're projecting

You speak the truth i wanted to say something really close to this but it was long winded and to personal but I feel this, born in 76 have all the old school values hard work tell the truth help others when you can, do your best.no one is a saint.take what you need and leave the rest.

Nobody today has interest in their kids because if they did, they would require to give up the conveniences of the modern cancer

What are of foundations?

@@val21704If you don't know what the word "foundation" means, you don't have one

@@blobgooll9395 English is not my first language Im not that good

@@blobgooll9395 lol why just not explain to him instead if just assuming negativity

@PoWeR ToKeR 420 Denmark has what... World highest taxes. But more or less everyone can afford a car, even people on welfare lol

@PoWeR ToKeR 420 please practice your grammar

@PoWeR ToKeR 420 people in euro live in houses with 5-7 families easy.. Americans economy best its been.. Toke on fucko.

The necessities!

PoWeR ToKeR 420 what part tho

Yep the innocent days are long gone. Peoples choice in entertain ment music, lifestyles divorce etc are a far cry from then

Graham Polk hello sir! Please pm me I’d love to hear about your life and the past times. As a 27 year old I have endless questions to ask.

Its cool that you are on KZfaq

Stay Lit420 he’s 99 not 7

@@staylit4209 years and years of experience

I grew up in the 80's with parents that had the same attitude..."...go to work, put food on your table, keep a roof over your head, don't ask for help do it yourself,..etc.). There's plenty of "kids" that are growing up with similar backgrounds and beliefs today.

@@jenniferwilcox9759 You're my aunt's generation. I'm 21 now, grew up in the 00s and 10s. I don't have much experience to speak of, and I can't speak for all "kids" my age, but my parents also had the same mentality that existed during the depression. Everyone assumes life got easier, but did it really? My parents have worked middle class jobs their entire lives, incredibly disciplined and motivated, never spent a dime on luxuries except maybe the annual trip to another city in the country, always saved their money so that my brother and I could go to college. Speaking of college... It costs all my body organs to attend one nowadays. I've worked part-time all 4 years of it, that was barely enough money to cover my food and the occasional night out. And it's not just me, that's the average "middle class" person. My grandparents didn't even graduate high-school... I have an engineering degree and speak two languages and have access to all the information in the world. Yet I don't feel any luckier or happier, in fact, my grandparents seem more satisfied. The world is still raging with wars and disease and gets more unstable every day. Did it really get any better?

@@TonyNaber I'm not sure if it got better in the USA, given that living standards seem to have stagnated for the working class over there. I live in another Western country (Australia), where it got better in some ways. We have dishwashers and can eat a varied died of all sorts of cuisines... most families have two bathrooms and even two family cars... But there absolutely was degree/qualification inflation over the decades - my parents never finished high school, their parents never finished primary school. I have a masters degree (and a debt of $60k) yet life is a real struggle because I'm trying to save up for a house deposit before my biological clock leaves me unable to start a family. My grandfather paid off his whole first house in 3 years, and ended up with 8 properties by the time he retired... he was able to gift each of his five kids a house. He was a labourer, grandma was a housewife. You couldn't do that anymore, given a family home with a backyard will set you back a million dollars in an average neighbourhood... its the most messed up thing about my country, the price of a home. Healthcare costs are minimal (what were they like in the USA in the 50s?). But education is getting more and more expensive, and its such a waste. These days you need two incomes to raise a family in my country, whereas in previous generations, you would be comfortable on one income.

In my opinion, parents are the one to blame for not educating their children properly. They become awful adults and the world have to deal with them. It’s a form a neglect too, if you do not raise your children to be humble and respectful. It’s a shame really.

@@TonyNaber Cry because it is hard, but carry on anyway. It's hard and a lot of hardwork & sacrifice. life is hard.. you don't need to get affected by world news or worry about it. Finish your studies, pay your debts if you have any and struggle with all your might. The load will become lighter. you're doing the best you can, be proud of yourself.

So true

@ Jim Beckert---But, it's too bad that we have to learn THAT the HARD WAY !!!

Cliche as all get out lol

Lol

@@hughmungus6838 I'm a southerner moving to boston, I'll hope I get that line then

@@kirkspinelli3815 Cabbies are notorious for stream-of-thought talking with their customers for long lengths of time, even when given the slightest chance to voice the most simple thing. They sit for long hours transporting people, so the only real choices of mental stimulation are either social interaction with their customers or whatever happens to be on the radio, and social interaction is more personable and individualized. Be warned: they're good people, but they don't pull punches.

That is funny

Lmao! Best comment

Same I was born in 1970, can't not look back and see the way we grew up as a blessing over the life kids today with technology...

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Great comment cheers!

its like The Wire like when Frank Sobokta talks about trying to raise his only son like maybe you should of gone to College but hes right you need money so you sell drugs to actually afford stuff and look at Nick Sobokta like he first was against it then he saw the writing on the wall he was a working stiff but wasnt getting paid

Briansmobile 1 I am going to look up Dwayne C. Your piece was eloquently written.

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A lot of people don't have their own shit anymore

I dont understand your comment. To me this video shows me how similiar my peers are to this guy and his youth. and plus a "decent society" doesnt really make sense to me either. this is a white guy's perspective. Im sure life was different from everyone.

Joseph C: I don’t quite understand your complaint. Are you saying that because he’s a white guy he can’t be decent?

Critter: Guy Debord says it best: “Stars - spectacular representations of living human beings - project general banality into images of permitted roles. As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specializations that they are forced to live.” ... “The agent of the spectacle who is put on stage as a star is the opposite of an individual; he is as clearly the enemy of his own individuality as of the individuality of others.”

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Is that Larry David as your pic ? 😂

@@smartymcfly3957 His haircut...goals.

I can only hope XD

max springfield - RIGHT? Smooth sounding like buttuh...

Better than today, where everyone sounds and acts like they're in the middle of a Beavis and Butthead cartoon.

Crazy thing is I read this comment right when he said it

I did the exact same thing

@@mannygutierrez3922 That always happen to me in every videos one of the weirdest things

This man is very fortunate to grow up not understanding cruelty or abuse. Its refreshing honestly to see the lack of pain and trauma in his past.

@@aodili1 he didn't notice black people? Lynching laws were still on the books, civil rights movement was starting up, MLK and Malcom X were alive and well, we weren't allowed on the beaches or the burlesque or the race tracks lol

The world got darker the day he left

Thanks for that news ,loved listening to him.

Wouldn't have been very old either, only his early 60s if he was 23 or 24 in the early 1950s.

When was this interview conducted?

You don’t say

I thought the same thing then he mentioned Baltimore. I'm from and live in Baltimore, that's why I noticed it.

@@nummernein Nope, It's a DC/generic mid-atlantic accent.

Hes prolly from the dmv area

steve culbert Very perceptive!

6:29

Interesting analogy.

Bruce Lee (lost knowledge)

@@_Hound_ Watch "Enter the Dragon"...and pay attention!

jo 455 that’s how everything is now a days there’s something deeper in the book but all this instant gratification makes us not want to take our time and read further into that book or even just stop and listen, I swear humanity is devolving

This dude is quite interesting. He lived it. He's got a radio voice to boot.

That sentence rang out to me, too. The man's character.

@Canadian American < exhibit A

@Canadian American All the key points about the interview you truly missed or just didn't appreciate.

Given that mans only natural enemy is man, I'm surprised their isn't more of it. It used to be when the church had more power over the stupid .

I was reading your quote exactly at the same time as I was listening to him say it. It threw my mind into a temporary state of mental pretzelification. I could concentrate on neither the narrator's voice or the words I was reading. My mind was just trying to reconcile how a video could know what I was reading and be able to narrate it in real time. Of course I only freaked out for a second as I was snapped back into reality as my brain reconciled the mechanics of what was really happening. But for a short second or two, I wondered if I was even real. I wondered if I was actually just some simulation programmed by someone else. I was some whimsical and fleeting figment of someone else's not particularly interesting imagination. Anyway, back to the narrative.........

@Gordon Payne What do you mean? He was saying integration is the natural state of people.

I can smell the wood floors and comfy furniture in the house he grew up in as a kid. And then there's the security of a solid family, mom fixes breakfast for everyone before they go off to work and school. Damn! Mainstream society has fallen so far from what it was.

@Steve Hunt I don't understand why you're so mad. You're not even black so why are you complaining?

@@Earthdogbonzo3 That is why we need a time machine, not for anything more than to escape this time period and leave it to the mainstream XD let them have their utopia and we'll live in ours.

@@winkwildly you don’t think people should be integrated?

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For me it's opposite, it makes me sad to realize how much we've lost.

As a very difficult seizure patient when i am hospitalized for them. Nurses have nothing but my respect. They are special breed of human.

There should be an appreciation for what you have...however if you look a little deeper and listen more intently...you realize we are actually going backwards not forward.

Right before you give them a death shot

Living areas might be these days more segregated than they we back then. So in practise in many areas there was not that much progressed made since the 50s, America has some pretty strong reactionary forces driving it's politics. And instead of trying to solve those easy the democrats choose to fight over semantics.

@@Traumglanz Democrats won't solve black people sticking in ghettos or mexicans sticking in favelas.

@@Traumglanz What are you talking about? What segregation are you talking about? Why did you bring up democrats for no reason? Do you have dementia?

Blacks and Whites going to separate movie theaters sounds like a great idea tbh

Wtf do you mean we aren’t told that kind of stuff, that’s literally a key point in MLK’s life that we know he played with white kids

I agree. Interesting assessment of this man.

I doubt it is that anachronous. We are just told that everyone was absolutely bigoted and racist and sexist in the past, but from various accounts I have read, that is frequently just not true, or extremely exagerrated.

@@justforever96 I think (for whatever that's worth) that the religious south helped fuel a lot of those stereotypes of everyone back then being a raving racist/bigot. Likely because the zealots are usually the loudest and the squeaky wheel gets the media coverage, err....grease.

yep...

@@justforever96 idk, I study history as a hobby, plenty of photos and videos to show it's not exaggerated.

@RT-106 Music You're speaking facts I see.

Only cuz I’m too tired to move. Cuz if I still had energy I’d be going out to party

Dam he was old to be having kids..lol

My mom was born in 55...I was born in 75

@@themiz7550 Men are biologically designed and capable to have children until they die and in the past men had children well into their 50's before population reduction became a thing in formerly White Nations, but don't be too enthusiastic because the people that are now being brought in by the corporations as a surplus labour force and populating formerly White Nations like in North America, Oceania, The British Isles, and Europe are still living by the older natural system and with a strict Semitic code of male Patriarchy so they are producing children from 16 to 60 and will re-establish the populations in their new colonies.

@@weissmag I'm well aware of all that sir...thanks for the paragraph..I didn't want to read

He gave you Life. That's awesome

Me too. Exactly... Let see what kind interviews , done today, about the 80s, are received like in 2049...

jd1655 I worry about that day what the future will entail it seems like American Society is falling apart especially with the degradation of family and religious values. Communism is closely linked to atheism and sexual deviance.

@@drzoidberg844 Atheism, sure. Sexual deviance? People will deviate from that regardless of religion, unless that religion punishes it by death.

Same here! I'm 44.

I'm a 1975 model and I'm right there with y'all with these comments. My Freshman Year was '89

Seinfeld

i really enjoy older peoples stories, the trouble is, they don,t tell enough of them.

@Donde Merlin its funny thats what you take out of it... did his expression ever seem like he was trying to convey how horrible his generation was?

Don't think the points weren't edited out.

The point was to portray the culture of the 50's

Born in late 2003, I feel so glad and happy to see people like you thinking that way.

I was born in 1999 and I'm from Spain, and all the experiences you've had happened to me when I was younger. Got moved a lot as a kid, a deficient family with lots of bs, and when I was around 13/14 (a really important age for the development of a young adult) some of my new school teachers bullied me because I wasn't doing as well as other kids, so I did get put aside also, and that's when everything got worse because I just didn't care anymore about school or education, it was horrible, because I couldn't understand anything and when I asked they just made fun of me. Anyway finished high school somehow, and then I decided that I wanted to go to university, fast forward a couple of years and a shit ton of work, next thing you know is that I'm graduating next year of my mechanical engineering degree. So just don't give up, and as David Goggins says: Stay hard!

Thats life. Be proud you made it through. Youre a strong person. ❤

Amen!

@xcobar no it hasn't.

@Xcobar have you been watching the overnight repo market, countries purchasing gold, the manufacturing productivity index being the lowest since may of 09'? printing money will raise asset prices like the stock market, doesnt mean the economy is doing well.

hunter gatherers: "hold my berries and cooked meat..."

@@chad2831 Forget Xcobar, he's an obvious loser that is unable to think past his nose, you can't help that type.

God bless you John Tapp

John Tapp In Ontario here we have Big Brothers and Big Sisters organizations (also for grandparents) Google it , it has stories and information on it. It may give you ideas. People volunteer as little as an hour a week, or more. There are young children and teens that are not experiencing normal family life, not learning social skills and not enjoying nature. As you say they have need of a mentor.

God bless you Mr. Tapp!

Formal request for you to be my borrowed dad? Please

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Advanced technology breeds distracted and detached minds.

@emergerq huh, not so sure if those are the problems at all..there is a lot of meanness and cruelty like he mentioned, so why not be offended? the real problems are low rationality and laziness.

@@aric5205 Advanced technology is an opinion based on perspective. Fire was an advanced technology for early mankind. Crossbows were an advanced technology in the middle ages. Boats, gunpowder, a compass, all advanced technology. In 30 years we'll look back at what were using now as "primitive" the same way we look at pagers and rotary phones.

Absolutely agree.

It's smarter to think for yourself than to just be told what's going on. Especially if you're coming to the same exact conclusions just using peripheral experience.