[speaker001:] uh I don't know I can't give uh too good a perspective uh how things have changed in ten twenty or thirty years
[speaker002:] well I guess uh I guess the first thing you know comes to mind would be how they've changed to the worst
[speaker001:] yeah how so
[speaker002:] in a lot of ways yeah well yeah  I guess break down of the family unit for one thing
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] the uh astounding drug use that's uh going on and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] pretty depressing if you start thinking about it I guess
[speaker001:] yeah it's uh I don't know it's you know I lived in basically it's a suburb of Washington DC
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] um so I you know luckily I'm in a good area so you know I don't have to really deal with a lot of the problems that DC has to deal but uh you know
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh kids are you know kids are bringing in guns into the grade schools and high schools and stuff you know trying to kill others kids and you know it's it's it's outrageous you know
[speaker002:] unbelievable
[speaker001:] like like you hit the nail on the head probably that all comes from you know lack of a good family structure for this people you know they just
[speaker002:] yeah I don't know which came first I don't know I think the drugs had a lot to do with it but
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I don't you know
[speaker002:] I don't know if that's a cause or an effect
[speaker001:] yeah that's that's the tricky thing trying to separate figure out which is which um but I don't know you know it I don't think there was much of a problem until crack started hitting the streets really
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] yeah because that's cheap and incredibly addictive and uh you know that seems to be the target choice of the you know poor inter-city people cocaine and marijuana I don't they really were after that I don't think they really touch that that much
[speaker002:] however on the brighter side cars seems to be performing a whole lot better
[speaker001:] well that's true that's true uh would kill for a dodge viper a the moment uh a pretty nice car
[speaker002:] yeah uh the uh why the computers in the engines you know they uh compensate the whatever problems come along until I just
[speaker001:] um-hum I make six and I'm a bitch though
[speaker002:] yeah it does I mean uh but uh I do have a lot a lot help with those computers you know the curves giving a lot of information diagnostic
[speaker001:] yeah yeah but doesn't uh help the home mechanic that much unless they've got a uh you know some way to decode all that information
[speaker002:] sounds like my wife's car I just got uh Cadillac a used one eighty six and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] had a few things she had to get fixed on it and we just so now you just pressed pressed a couple of the buttons up in the uh the air conditioning panel I think and uh and it reads out codes that way
[speaker001:] um-hum hum
[speaker002:] and then of course have to decipher them
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] with the little book I use
[speaker001:] hum interesting
[speaker002:] but uh yeah I don't know uh street gangs and all that kind of stuff just
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I think it comes back to the you know that the family isn't fulfilling the role it used to
[speaker001:] yeah I I think that's probably the key thing you know the key thing so you've got single mothers who are trying to raise kids and you know are off working all day and the kids are on their own you know that much guidance they're going to get into trouble and you know now good stable family structure uh keep them straight or you know father figure to look up to or anything
[speaker002:] well  they get so much information from the TV you know
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh makes I think part of the parents you know party and so forth and stands in the fact that they were you know able to teach them and tell them about things that and now the kids probably know more than the parents in a lot of cases
[speaker001:] yeah about somethings but I don't you know
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] for the more important things about life I think uh a lot of kids are missing uh
[speaker002:] right that's true
[speaker001:] they're they're out for the the quick buck mentality you know who they gets defined by what kind of tennis shoes they wear and uh you know they they don't have really kind of deep personal values anymore you know what