- Hi, this is Roberto.

You are back with another Steam Box podcast.

Today I am with my homies from Young Voices.

Homies from Young Voices, please make some noise and say what's up for the world.

- [Homies] What's up?

- Hi, my name is Brissia Rodriguez Reyes I am a senior at Classical High School as well as part of the board of directors in Young Voices.

Steam Box, they came to my middle school.

All I heard was Roberto's big, huge voice and just big personality in general.

And he was like, I will get you food and I will get you interviews with the most famous people that you know.

(Brissia laughing) - [Roberto] We had the artist from Nights on the podcast.

You got this book bag.

He signed it for you.

- Yeah.

- [Roberto] And he drew a picture.

- Yeah, he drew a little picture on like the front cover.

- Obviously I love Spider-Man, you all know that about me.

So sometimes people would pretend that they are everything that I want and I hate that.

- But Roberto recognizes our maturity and wants us to learn like how the real world works, how the adult world works.

- There are people who are genuinely suffering and in pain who want to hurt themselves, want to unalive themselves.

- I love that he gives us kinda like a pathway to that.

- All right, this is not Roberto, this is Angel and you are back with another Steam Box podcast.

Like, just because we're teenagers does not mean that like we don't have feelings, we don't have emotions, we don't have things going on.

Yeah, maybe not, we might not pay bills or have a job and all that stuff.

- Roberto especially is so open and is very understanding.

- [Roberto] Right?

So these are the conversations that I think are so dope and challenging to the world.

I think that's dope.

Thank you everybody for being a participant.

We are not done.

- [Brissia] Especially a lot of my friends are part of the LGBTQ community.

They're really scared of their rights being taken away.

I'm scared of my rights being taken away.

I'm scared for my friends who are immigrants being taken away.

This was like a letter to the teacher.

I love how much you've done for me.

I love that you helped me with my English.

Tell my classes classmates, I will miss them very dearly and that just brought me to tears.

(Brissia takes deep breath) Sorry.

- And it doesn't really matter if they have all the proper papers and visas and all of that stuff.

- [Arianna] It's like so normalized now.

Like to have all of these things that you're dealing with and like suppressing them.

- [Male Interviewee] We didn't talk about it when we was young.

We wasn't taught about it.

So it's kind of like we don't know how to speak about it.

- [Girl Interviewee] Because you really don't know what somebody's going through.

- Podcasting has helped me.

I have a lot of hatred stored up in me.

So podcasting has helped me like express that hatred out.

So it has helped me like help my mental state be a little bit balanced.

- And I'm gonna... - I don't really know how to explain it I really love him.

Like he brought so many opportunities to me, so I really appreciate Roberto for that.

- Roberto gives us space to be who we are.

He wasn't it, we are not - [Roberto] This is it's important.

- Yes.

So.

- [Roberto] I got you.

So, right.

(everyone laughing) - Okay.

Okay wait a second.

Wait, wait.

I'm getting that.

I'm getting that on the podcast.

We getting, we getting into this.

- It's easy to talk to someone.

Like they let you know that you can like really like go in depth on how you're like feeling.

- At least from that podcast we got to learn a little bit about ourselves and - Mhm.

- of course to better ourselves.

- It gets me mad.

- Oh right.

- That's, that's like a toxic behavior that I need to work on on my self.

- And I was like, and when I got home I was like, damn, how do I fix that about myself?

I just, it's, I think it's just practice right?

When it comes to like fixing your, fixing something about yourself that you know isn't okay.

It's just with practice.

- I feel like a few months ago I like, I took it very seriously this podcast I said you know, I'm gonna open up a little bit more like everybody's else is doing their part.

I wanna do mine like I wanna feel like useful like.

- I went to Prevention Day in Washington DC and it's to talk about our work that we do here in podcasting.

It was crazy because I was in a room full of like about like 300 people.

That's like crazy to think about.

And after we were done, people came up to us for like every five minutes and I was like there's no way.

Like I can really make a difference just by just saying something.

Just having that feeling of like feeling like oh I can really be up top and I can really like, you know, express the work that I've done, express the mental health in a way.

But also having the connections with fans, I would say?

Like it was crazy.

At the end of the day, school causes enough stress as it is.

So having these issues and not being able to talk about 'em kind of sucks.

Which is why this really like benefits the people who can't really open up.

- Reach out even though you think you're the only one who experiences that you have to reach out because you're not the only one.

- [Arianna] I feel like a different person from who I was like four years ago.

Like I wouldn't have been outside talking to people, I wouldn't be in this interview right now.

- I actually like wanted to be here.

- [Interviewer] I didn't know.

- No it didn't mean like that... (everyone laughing) - I know I've cried a lot when it comes to like podcasts.

- [Camera Person] I was gonna (indistinct) (Brissia yelling) - You're listening to SoundCloud rappers and you're saying they're good.

(Brissia cringes) Yes, I've been angry at times.

Right?

You call females and males to animals, right?

We're technically supposed to be like of higher conscience, you know, we don't call you guys males, we call you guys, men, boys, you know, we don't.

It seems degrading.

But most of the time I've been very happy and I've been extremely joyous at this.

That Steam Box is a thing and that I got to be part of it at least for a short while.

'cause I know for sure Steam Box is gonna last longer than me.

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