Hi and welcome to another episode of What's Next?
I am Miki, your host as usual.
And actually today I think is a pretty rough day.
It's raining, it's pretty nasty outside and that mostly means that people aren't feeling
well.
And same thing for me today.
I'm not feeling that good.
And actually today is going to be a deep topic.
It's going to be really deep.
That's why I am going to give you guys some trigger warnings.
Trigger warning bullying, school shootings, talk about suicide, talk about violence.
If you are not okay with that then I wouldn't recommend you listening to this today.
Otherwise I'm glad you tuned in.
That's exactly how it should be.
Because of course I have to be your favorite show host.
As I said, starting off pretty strong with a good song you all probably know.
All the other kids with the pump done, kids who spend their money running, now run like
a dog.
All the other kids with the pump done, kids who spend their money running, faster than
my boating.
All the other kids with the pump done, kids who spend their money running, now run like
a dog.
All the other kids with the pump done, kids who spend their money running, faster than
my boating.
So you've guessed right.
It was Pumped Up Cakes by Foster the People.
And the reason why I'm starting off with the song today is it's one of the happiest songs
at least it sounds like one of the happiest songs ever.
But it's actually pretty deep.
It's about a school shooting.
And sadly we are having more and more school shootings.
And it's always yeah we should try and stop gun violence and of course that's true and
one of the biggest reasons why school shootings are happening is the gun laws in America.
Like I'm going to be completely honest it's the gun laws because why the fuck should a
13 year old child be able to buy a fucking gun like who decided that a 13 year old is
old enough to buy a gun but is not old enough to get an abortion if the person is raped.
Like you know it's just America I guess.
But yeah and to be honest it also has a lot to do with mental health.
And that also includes bullying because bullying is something that destroys your mental health.
And I have a feeling that we as a society do not talk about or do not talk enough about
bullying and why school shootings are happening.
Why people decide to shoot up a mess of kids and teachers.
It's mostly bullying and injustice.
One of the biggest reasons why that's happening and we should pay more attention to that because
those are things that can destroy a human so fluffing bad and make life for someone so hard
and so rough.
And it's also like when you're at the point where you do not know what to do
where people are actually not giving a damn about you like in your way of thinking.
Sometimes people just get the idea okay I have to get revenge because I can't let that sit on me
and that's sadly a lot of times gun violence.
And the funny thing is a lot of teachers afterwards said they were so so worried about the child and
so worried about the person in general since they got to know the person because they run around weird
with a hoodie and were always silent and never said anything and didn't get along with the other kids.
But they never said anything about trying to solve that or trying to get them to get along with the others
or kind of investigate in that problem you know which is actually something that should happen a lot more.
And I can tell you you can feel so bad when you get bullied.
This is also going to be the bridge to the next song right now.
You feel like a literal punching bag and as I said it's the bridge to the next song.
Next up Punching Bag by Polaria.
Give me more complaints you're real I'm just a fake.
I'll wake up I'm so glad I couldn't be your punching bag.
Go on make my day go get high on my mercy.
Go ahead and mow me, want me and they sow me.
I'm smiling upside down now I'm more used up ready for my close-up in my pretty underground.
If it makes you happy use and abuse me till I'm gone.
Go on make my day go get high on my mistakes.
Give me more complaints you're real I'm just a fake.
I'll wake up I'm so glad I can't be your punching bag.
Go on make my day go get high on my mercy.
If you want me come and take me because I love the way you lay me.
I didn't even notice that I got a moment not a moment to myself.
Heaven's what they sold me but now I miss the old me before I got stuck in hell.
Walking down the street just a public enemy my back's against the wall.
I didn't even notice that I got a moment it would be a two-hunched me fall.
This is goodbye you've bled me dry.
This is goodnight my soul has died.
I gave you my all you built me up to fall.
I gave you my all I gave you my all.
Go on make my day go get high on my mistakes.
Give me more complaints you're real I'm just a fake.
I'll wake up I'm so glad I can't be your punching bag.
Go on make my day go get high on my mercy.
If you want me come and take me because I love the way you lay me.
Someone's calling me someone's saving me because I feel like I'm fucking dying.
So as I said you feel like a punching bag when you're getting bullied and yeah when
we talk about bullying like this we think of people just being mean to somebody just
insulting somebody saying slurs or whatever being just the biggest idiots in this whole world.
But we rarely think about other ways like for example violence.
I mean there are things happening there are people that go to school that get into class
completely normal and get out of class with bruises a bloody nose and a swollen eye you know
like that does happen and we do not pay enough attention to that.
A lot of teachers do not do anything to help like you know it's every time I've talked with
a school about that a teacher about that they always said yes we are trying to make it stop
we are trying our best and we do care so much about the topic and getting bullied and bullies
and how you interact with children and kids with each other how they interact.
And I've never seen any school any teacher in my life so far actually take action and do something
and really talk about that and really just get in the class and say okay we're going to talk
about this now this is happening and it's not okay and I'm going to educate you on that now
that does not happen. I've never met anybody any teacher any school where that is happening
and that is something that needs to change like that's I'm going to be honest it has to
change as soon as possible and we have to open our goddamn eyes because so many teachers
as I said I talk a lot with teachers and I have a lot of contact with teachers
um a lot of them said they never realized that happening they've never seen that person like
that they've never noticed that anything is going on in the class or in general in the school
which I if I'm thinking about it like this I actually think that it's
not really true I do think that they notice at least something but just aren't sure or do not
want to take action in it because they think it's going to solve itself like the problem it's going
to be solved itself by itself and that's actually the wrong way to think because so many little
things go unnoticed that actually change up a person's view of the world that actually
change you inside change you outside and that make you so much worse make you feel so much worse
and it's it's just something that's it has to stop it really has to stop it it just we just have to
think a bit more and sometimes just shut the hell up and start using our brains because I notice
that a lot of people are not able to use their brain they don't think before they talk and that's
a problem I'm saying it as it is it's a problem because you know bullying is just one thing and
it can start small but I don't think people actually know how many people suffer from bullying
and how many people have taken their lives because of that because we as society have standards
and if those standards aren't met we are not allowed to be ourselves according to society
it's not okay to be different and it's not okay to be yourself that's what we are teaching young
people and so many young children teenagers even adults old people even seniors like even old people
okay have committed suicide because of that people are dying because we as a society are not able
to accept people as who they are and we might just know about a few like we can say oh yeah
in like in a yearly what you call it I forgot the word fuck um like yearly around 300 people
kill themselves because of bullying but there is actually a lot more we do not know the dark
number behind it there's so much more and that's so sad because people are dying because we just
can't shut up and we can think before we speak that's what's happening because we are feeling
so bad inside that we have to make another person feel even worse and it's the worst thing that you
can do to anybody in the world and people don't even notice that people don't think about that
when they start insulting you or when they start kicking you in the face or whatever they do not
think about that but when the consequences let's call the consequences come then they start
realizing oh damn okay and that also only sometimes happens
but yeah anyways um we've got the next up song make it stop by rise against enjoy
oh
like a breath exhaled they're gone forever it seems like just yesterday
we bravely
of storms together
let this end 18 years
oh
bang bang from the closet walls the schoolhouse halls
the shotguns
i'm
make it stop
up
oh
the cold river washed him away but how could we forget the gatherings are candles
oh
and
oh
make it stop make this end this life shows me
i'm not lost in sin
i plan to go on living
so
don't mean it must suit me so i'm living for you yeah i'm living for you and you can't stand the
sight of me so what's the point of this fucked up catastrophe i'm waiting for my time to start is
always there is always there i pop these pills away sometime is i'm fading is i'm fading
at this shit messes with my head the only home i know is my bed
too lazy for a suicide i just watch the days pass
oh
i'm sorry
mama
i'm sorry
in the ground you broke my heart and you left me just waiting just waiting
i pop these pills away sometime is i'm fading is i'm fading
the only home i know is my bed too lazy for a suicide i just watch the days pass
oh
i'm sorry
oh
so yeah we've had a another song in between that it was lonely by palais real
and basically what these two songs are about the first one make it stop by rise against
is actually about people who get bullied and who committed suicide after because of bullying
because of bullying because some random ass dudes decided that it's not okay to i don't know
wear flannel with jeans or have a few pounds too much what means too much whatever just do not look
the way they want them to look or they do not behave the way that people want them to behave
they don't listen to the music that's cool right now they don't listen to what i don't know a
preacher says or a teacher because honestly teachers and preachers pretty much the same thing
at this point um it's just you know we pay so much attention to how people look what people wear
what people listen to what they eat and based on those few things
we actually make their lives a living hell we try to get those people as low as possible to rock
bottom because of how they look how they eat or the best thing
who their family is with whom they talk and do things like for example when you have sick parents
and it's not even their fault that they are sick but there are people out there getting bullied
because i don't know their mom has cancer or their dad can't walk which is just so damn stupid
why would anybody do that and it's just at the point where it's just too much it's happening
way too much and we need to put an end to that because i'll tell you right now just because
somebody decides that they do not like your jeans or they do not like your t-shirt or the band you
listen to does not mean that you're uncool you're probably even cooler than them and you also have
to know that just because i don't know some dude or dudette let's say like that
who gets everything from her dad and her mom and has her own car at 16 and has a golf place at home
like what you call a golf place i guess at home doesn't mean that you are not beautiful
just because somebody like that says that because you have so much more in your heart so much more
in yourself so much more than just your looks or your music taste or in this case even your family
you are so much more than that and you shouldn't it's easier said than done i know
you shouldn't listen to those people and it's hard to not listen to that especially when you get hit
with it every time every day every hour every second and it's hard to not let that influence you
but at some point you might be able to and it's probably going to be the point where you realize
you're so much better than that and you deserve so much more because inside you are maybe probably
i guess one of the most beautiful people you're somebody who deserves better
to be completely honest nobody deserves to get bullied nobody deserves to get kicked around
get punched get insulted except nazis i'm sorry but they actually do like those are people that
i would completely bash but still not okay to bully them still not okay to bully them so much
still not okay to bully them so much that they kill themselves that's never okay no matter who it is
because you are not somebody to decide who is allowed to live and who isn't you are not
allowed to play god nobody is allowed to play god because everybody is his own person has their own
body and that has to be accepted it doesn't matter what that body looks like or who that body belongs
to and we have no right to tell anybody how they should dress what they should listen to
or what they should eat and continuing with what i just said there is a really cool band
that i liked a lot especially in my high school days it's black veil brides
and the reason why i have such a big heart for that band or why i connected it bands so much
is because they are part of a anti-bullying project and some of their songs are about the topic of
bullying and mostly about being yourself actually realizing that you are so much more that
which is also going to be the next song have a heart of fire and you're worth your life
and you should fight for what you want you should fight for who you are and never back down
and that's the mood we are going to start with into this next song
so
not
oh
this
is
so
this
is
this
is
and i hope you understand now first of all and we're back to finish that sentence
but i hope you understand now um why i like that band so much why i like their songs why i listen
to them and why i have such a big connect okay you probably will not know why i have such a big
connection with that band but i hope you kind of got that from listening that for me i'm going to
be honest it's a deep topic it's an emotional topic and you've probably noticed because i've
been on the verge of crying the whole time but that's okay because topics like that
should be talked about we should talk about things that are difficult and
in that case that's one of them and it's important that we do that so you know
because eventually we'll get to the point where we have to talk about it where we will not be able
to get around um talking about it because it's going to be more present and i can promise that
promise that i can actually promise that because things like that never go unnoticed but we should
you know they never go unnoticed but we should notice them before
anything happens like we should get to that point of noticing things earlier
and that's actually something that i've also realized we're struggling with
we are stronger with that and because i showed you one song there is one
pretty cool song that's been also recorded 10 years ago also by by black veil brides
um and actually one of the songs that they also have said is about bullying is about standing
together and i'm going to be honest we as people and people who get bullied should stand together
we should be there for each other we should support each other and help each other
and not destroy each other and yeah i hope you like this next song
see
a simple shadow we can find together
oh
together
we're going forward
the strength of innocence
we'll fall like angels if we lose one matter
oh
we will
hey
so
i hope you kind of got a bit of those lyrics because they are hella important and
basically what's been talked about in that song is the same thing that i've said before
we as humans a society as people should stand together should support each other and should
help each other instead of destroying each other and making each other's lives a living hell
a living hell because i think it's enough that we have climate change and it's literally
getting hotter and hotter and at some point in life on this world we will be on hell
like this place will be on fire so we do not have to make each other's lives even more difficult
really it's not necessary and if one of you guys is actually kind of thinking about if they've ever
done something like that if you've ever bullied somebody or if you maybe even are a bully
it's cool that you're realizing now because you should
and it doesn't mean that you're a bad person though it does definitely not mean that you are a bad human
because things can change
and as long as you see that and you see that you've maybe made a mistake and you see
you see that you need to change something then you're on the right path then you're definitely
not a bad person because a bad person wouldn't even notice a bad person would not even care about
it that's literally what in my opinion a bad a bad i can't really say bad but i think you get what i
mean human person living creature is always thinking about yourself always picking on others trying to
make yourself look the best all the time what i mean with that is nickering about others behind
their back and being shady towards others being mean being insulting and being a literal bully
that's what i mean with always trying to be the best in everything at everybody's party or whatever
you know because that's what most of the time happens when you when people try to do that
but we've we have been talking a lot today and it's also been quite a
i just say roller coaster of emotions um and just because it's already 8 p.m to get a bit in that
more quieter mood mood mood um i actually found a pretty cool song it's not
the typical thing i listen to so it's not rock music it's not punk it's not metal it's not
i don't know what but it's still pretty cool because this song has so much meaning behind it and
we're probably not going to understand it because it's in korean i'm sorry but what the song is
about is about a girl named maria in that case that's always trying to be beautiful always trying
to live up to everybody's standards people tell her to she has to be skinnier she has to eat more
she has to have long hair no short hair suits you better she has to have bigger lips she has to look
better she has to be the best version of herself she has to be a good mother she has to be a good
sister a good wife she has to cook she has to clean she has to be perfect in other words perfect
in the eyes of today's society and what in this case huasa is the um
is the singer of that song she's also pretty cool she's a literal girl boss and i love it
but what she means with that song is maria you don't have to be like that
you are beautiful just the way you are and you are a shining star among others
and you really really are allowed to be yourself you should be yourself and that's a message that i
want to give you guys too you are a shining star even if you don't see it right now but
others see it and you're eventually going to see it too you are definitely allowed to be yourself
and you should be yourself and most importantly you should stand up for yourself because that's
what's going to matter in life and that's that is what you're going to need you will actually need
to stand up for yourself sometime and you will need to get loud and that's important and please
get loud so to finish this off today i hope you liked the show and
i hope you have a nice ongoing evening
here we go with the last song and i am going to say bye bye to you guys now
i hope you enjoyed bye bye
me
yeah
hey
no frame no fake
foreign
maria maria maria
yeah