You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one the freak. I would
say the top story today that we had in town as the four people killed
in a crash off I thirty five. Mike, you saw it, Yeah,
he saw a little bit of it. JJSA a little bit of it.
Driving in today. Four people who had stolen a car and it was
a police chase started in Irving two am, give or take. The Irving
police pulled over a car and they hauled balls, and the chase made it
all the way to thirty five right of the Continental Exit. I don't know
if they were on one of those overpasses and fell off of it, because
the car is situated directly underneath two kind of elevated on ramps. But when
I went by, man that car, like I told you guys, I
saw from the worst side of the car. Most of the pictures online are
kind of from the better side of the car. You couldn't even tell it
was a vehicle. I'm pretty certain, without knowing for sure, that that
car went off and overpass because all of the angles that they're showing. They've
got a drone camera up right now. Paige Ellenberger from Fox four is on
the scene, grinding like the newswoman she is, and they keep peering the
camera up towards the overpass. Yeah, and I haven't read anything, but
it seems to me that that car went for a toss because it landed in
a spot that there's no way that it could have ended up there had it
not dropped from above, right, and if it didn't, I mean again,
the cars annihilated. Yeah, so I don't know that. Maybe they
were going a one hundred and try to take a turn, but I would
guess they came off that thing. The sheriff who was chasing them, they
think he has a broken arm. I saw that reported, but because he
the vehicle that he was chasing crashed into a light pole and then the light
pole fell on the cop car. Oh really, so his arm. The
deputy injured his arm but expected to be Okay, I said broken arm,
that's incorrect. He injured his arm, so we don't know if it's broken
or not. Much like Derek Leveley's nose, which she still don't know.
Jason Kidd said it wasn't. That was weird. Yeah, but it's also
like I don't know. At nine the morning after a game. Do you
when you're about to travel, do you even have even talked to the doctors
about if it's broken or not? How fast do you know if something's broken
immediately? Well, something as a nose, I would imagine. I think
a nose would be easy. That Casey would have been able to put his
hand on his nose and go, yeah, it's broken. Ry And there
was a giant lump in it. I mean, it clearly looked broken.
But and then yeah, is Casey not even there anymore? I don't think
you, Yeah, that's weird too if that's not, because that was almost
like underreported because he's yeah, Casey Smith one of the best, Yeah,
bench doctors. Very interesting. Oh well, we's go ahead and get to
our special guest today joining us now on the Freak Hotline, Well, on
the Freak Zoom line. It is Sarah Abraham and I saw Farah on TMZ
the other night. Now I'm gonna let her kind of walk you through the
nuts and bolts of this a little bit. But there's a big proposed social
media ban happening in Florida where if you're under the age of sixteen years old,
they're trying to get a bill passed to where you can't use social media
if you're under the age of sixteen, which is kind of crazy. Even
their governor, whether you agree with him or not, on some topics,
Ron De Santas even said this might be going a little too far. But
this bill has gotten through one portion, it's heading to the next step,
and they're trying to get this passed through. And I feel like I saw
a pharaoh on TMZ the other day and felt like she was a little bit
against this. Good morning, Sarah, thanks for joining the show today.
Good morning, thanks for having me. I love that I get to talk
and discuss with fellow parents, and we're non parents, so I think it's
good to have a discussion about this if it's a faccine our youth and our
children and next generations, for sure. Yeah, it's for full disclosure.
I'm Kevin and then Mike here. We don't have kids, but Danny does.
But Danny doesn't have a teenage kid, so we're we're kind of out
of the loop on that when it comes to having teenagers. Listen to this
fair Danny has tell her the ages of your two kids. I have a
thirty thirty one year old and one that turns three in March. Oh my
gosh, I love that. I feel like that could be me. Uh
what next? Yeah, Like I feel like my daughter could be thirty and
I'll end up having davies. Well, you had a child pretty young,
right, well documented, you know if people follow your story your trajectory sixteen
yeah, fifteen, yeah, six, and IM pregnant and Sophia is turning
fifteen this month. So yeah, I don't know when I'll start over again.
But yes, so you are. You're thirty two, thirty one,
thirty two. You should never ask a woman their age, they say,
but I just did it. That's really fine. But you have Wikipedia too,
is I actually look it up? So thirty two just bit older than
your oldest Danni Qui same age. Okay, so on this this deal that
I saw him because I saw on TMZ and it was like, that's interesting.
We don't have a bill like that happening here. But I know it's
like a big topic right now in the world going on with like social media.
So you have a fifteen year old daughter? You said yes, And
I think I just also think back to when I was a teenager. I
was definitely on the Internet myself before sixteen, and I was writing blogs and
having fun and just that's what we did. Like that was part of community
outside of school, and I went to a public school. I think for
my daughter, who is homeschooled, I think taking away some of the online
groups or online things that they have for homeschoolers, I think would be really
bad for like socialization. But I also feel she is a celebrity child.
I think a lot of kids are using the Internet for income or branding or
doing something of the sort themselves. From living in Los Angeles for a bit,
we saw that everywhere, and I think if it came out of Florida
and it turned into like a national thing, I think that would really impact
children in general. And also like understanding online safety and how to turn people
in. I did bring up you know, predators or like criminal activity,
you know, fraud scams, those things get reported so it can help other
people. And I just want to want to be you know, doing even
my post to chatbots or criminals, to be honest, Like who else would
I have to talk to you on the internet sometimes? And I think I
like doing things with my daughter, whether it's our YouTube channels and whatnot.
Too, like showing our trips and stuff. So I think that would just
kind of infringe upon like even me being a good parent. You know,
there's the drinking age, and in most states is twenty one, but not
everybody is over twenty one that drinks. There are going to be endo rounds
for kids to be able to use the internet, to be able to use
social media if they're under sixteen. Regardless of whether this passes, it kind
of seems like, why would they spend so much effort, so much time
and investing in its legislation if the reality of the situation is the kids are
going to get online anyway, right? Yeah, I agree. I think
we saw that with TikTok. Sophia when she was thirteen, got a TikTok
because all of her friends had tiktoks. But TikTok actually ended up banning my
daughter at thirteen, making an example of her, and it was it felt
very unfair because all the other kids were having underage kid account on TikTok and
that was majority of the accounts on TikTok at the time when we're at thirteen
years of age, so I didn't see that hold up. It was very
unfair to the kids. So I don't Yeah, I agree, I don't
know why we're wasting our time with this. So yeah, did they make
an example out of her because of your fame? Yes? So I literally
had to change her account to Farah and Sophia for many years just so that
she could still get on the internet on TikTok. Yet her other friends who
were not famous could stream all day long not have any issues at all.
It was a pretty sad experience, and I think about that heavily when I
hear something like this, this is Farah Abraham joining us. See, I
kind of agree, But there are statistics on you know, teenage suicides going
straight up sort of in the same arc that social media came into our live.
Self esteem is a really concerning issue, and I always think of this
like, if you're a kid at school, right, you're concerned about your
popularity with social media, you actually have this like number that determines how popular
you are. And I just feel like that's such a pressure pack thing that
we, maybe as adults who didn't grow up with this as part of our
everyday life, can't even really quantify how significant this is to young people.
Now, I don't think I'm really arguing that it should be stopped. But
do you think there's any middle ground? Is there any regulation by parents that
should have a hand in the exposure that their kids have to social media that
frankly might just make them sad more often than it should. So I've watched
many documentaries on the usage of cell phones with teenagers, the impact. I
also have done a lot of psychological work myself on shame spirals, self esteem.
I went to a trauma center just because of like bullying and a lot
of things that I have to deal with it on the internet consistently. I
have to say what changed me was having a better inner toolkit with myself,
a better inner dialogue, journaling daily, but working on my self esteem in
those shame spirals so you have more resilience, I think is a tool that
you must have. And I went on to teach my daughter this so that
she could be more successful with using online and safety and also her mental health.
So I think not only should I just say, oh, let's take
away the Internet, but I should say what can I do to phrase the
grit the resilience in myself, my mental health and my well being. So
I can be prepared for this, and I think a lot of teenagers definitely
lack that, and that is sad, and that's what I've seen. I
do feel like we are in a very unique time in culture where the kids,
a large portion of the kids that are growing up in no other world
other than an internet world, in a social media world, A lot of
them probably have parents that didn't so there is a chasm between the two.
The parents didn't grow up equip to understand this stuff. And the fact that
technology is exponentially the growth of technology, technology is infinancial, are exponentially growing
more than our emotional maturity. Is that it's going to take the generation of
the kids that are on social media now for them to have kids for there
to be a true connection and true understanding. Just seems like there's a disconnect
right now. Yeah, yeah, I would agree. I mean, I
think what you just said is like me, my generation, we are using
the internet. I have to take care of my mental health, you know,
go to trauma centers or whatever to make sure that that's in check,
so my resiliency is up. Otherwise I would just delete all of my accounts
and go into a hole, because I couldn't be able to tolerate it,
or you know, there's sadder things in that. So I think those gaps
need to be filled. And I think that's what I'm putting myself out there
and doing not only for myself but my child. My parents definitely would just
get off the internet. So maybe there is that age gap, but mental
health online social media, mental health support needs to be number one. How's
it different for her your daughter? I suppose, I mean you, you
have a unique past and you've done you have some things on the internet that
most parents don't. I'll put it like that. So how does that play
with your daughter? And how does the I suppose conversations happen with your daughter
when you're like, look, yeah, mommy's famous, but mommy also did
some pretty wild stuff, some pretty unique stuff. How do you have that
chat? And I assume you've had it. Yes, So I always take
the opportunity to talk about what's on the internet, our self worth, our
behavior. Again, mental health is number one. I have talked to Sophia
about everything. Saffia is also famous. Sofia and I became famous together,
like I was like we were born. She has born on MTV and we
became famous together, so I took this journey seriously and letting her know about
the differences. And I think I think a lot of children just do not
get to have the talk. And as I've seen as being the aunt that
I am, I'm an aunt to so many in my family, and when
I talk about self worth and not sending pictures out to boys, we had
like an issue in the family where people were sending pictures out and they thought
I was best to talk about that because I do believe in like DMCA takedowns
online, protecting your copyrights, your intellectual property online, your pictures, your
videos, and learning how to do that. And that's why I have branded
myself and I make lots of income from the internet. But I do think
a lot of the kids are not getting those talks, and it's affecting their
relationships, their birds and bees conversations, and I think they need to be
included, maybe younger, so that there's no discrepancy in our behaviors and how
that translates to online. If that answers that no, no, that was
going to answer in a good question too, I think this is fair.
Abraham joining us in ninety seven, one of the freak fair for just one
second. I talked to the guys for a second. This is a quick
sidebar. Yes, did you guys get the birds and the bees talk?
Because I did not. But I had older you know, just older cousins
and people around. He's kind of I felt like I knew a lot in
second third grade. You know, I didn't know as much as I thought
I did. But also, the internet back then was way different than the
Internet was, you know when I was in third grade in nineteen ninety eight
or ninety nine, you know, way different than when kids. I mean,
because a lot is out there on the Internet. Now, did you
guys illustrated book handed to me and illustrated book? Yeah? I had illustrated
book handed to me, and I had images. And then if I didn't
follow up questions, which I did, my dad tried to have the talk
with me, but he gave me a lot of what I learned later to
be wrong information. Huh. Yeah, And I didn't figure that out until
I was like thirty. It's like, honey, you're doing it wrong.
Oh well that's my dad said, Oh oh really, oh it goes there.
Yeah. Real talk I had was like my dad explaining to me what
nine to eleven meant, like what was going on? Like that was the
talk? It was like a sex talk. So did you have that fair
or what was that like? So growing up for myself, you know,
sexual education, birds and beans, talks of things. My parents actually chose
to have me out of those. I vividly remember that to take me out.
I remember in fifth and sixth grade, I was not allowed to be
in the sex said course that they wanted, and I think any other sex
said course that we got, even when I was at my private school and
we were teenagers. It was said in a way of like this could harm
you or kill you. It wasn'tsane in a way of like relationship safety,
your mental health towards sexual behavior. And I think those two components are always
missing in our sex said. I would agree that I even think kindergarteners need
to start having sex. Said. I was appalled as a parent to have
my child come home or even when I was at school and I had kindergarteners
talking about sexual things, or my daughter is saying that someone's bringing up my
sex life to her. So I have been dealing with that since she's been
in kindergarten and just kind of being appalled with how other parents would deal with
that. I think the school just basically says stop talking about those things,
and I think we're not. I think a lot of people are just scared
to include youth in sexual education, mental health behavior around sexuality, and I
think that's why we get a lot of kids, teens who are confused.
They have to do trial and error. I do think the Internet is kind
of powerful in a way of Wow, if I don't know something, if
I don't know about medications, if I don't know about what doctor, or
like, find a real professional to get some real answers here rather than being
in the midst of my parents' talks, my sister or my brother weird friends,
Like, there needs to be something credible in place, maybe a LAH
for you know, our youth to have credible education. And I think that's
also eighty eight compliance around sexual education. I think it's needed. Do you
feel like the people that are outspoken advocates for you know, not teaching this
stuff about you know, banning social media for kids, maybe, uh,
the people that are pulling their kids out of out of the sex aid classes,
like much like your parents did the ones that are so outspoken against the
things that you were kind of fighting against. There's a huge element of hypocrisy
in that that if you actually pulled back the curtain on these people's lives and
looked at your at their browser histories, your eyes would pop out of your
head. Yeah, that's no surprise to me. And I also think when
I was a teen parent and I was blamed for you know, like my
birth control not working. You know, how is a young teenager supposed to
pick up the pieces and educate themselves when they're taken out of classes. They
weren't taught habitually year after year. They weren't like there's just a whole component
that's a fail systemically, I would say, in our governments, our society.
And then parents blame their kids, and I have to say that that's
really backwards. And I think how that could change is just like a simple
act of making it mandatory for all these mental health things around, you know,
sexuality, birds and bees, knowing your doctors. I think that's all
just really good to have. So if they're being told something and influenced by
stories or peer pressured, they can say no, that's not for me.
Because I have the right tools, I have the right education, and maybe
we you know, maybe you want to have seen me do some things.
But I didn't know mental health back then, and today I do. And
so that's why I really love sharing everything and not being scared to share it
to my teenager or my child over the years. I love that this is
Fairah Abraham on ninety seven one the freak, Now you did did you grow
up and go to school in Nebraska? That's I'm just going off Wikipedia here,
like or did you had you so? Shout out to Thomas Jefferson High
School. I was there in Iowa, Yes, and I love growing up
there. I miss Iowa. It's amazing. Okay, so Middle America.
I can see their take on sex and how early you should know about sex
is probably a little different. I mean, I know when small town that
I'm from, it would not be something you would ever talk about with your
parents or anything like that. But that's I'll talk with you about it.
Yeah, Danny, I mean Danny and I are from small town and Mikey
went to Sarasota. Guy a big city guy, you know, speaking big
cities. You ever spend time in Dallas? Any wild times in Texas.
Yeah, of course I love Austin, Texas and based there. Now I
have dated someone in Dallas. I love to go to Dallas, Houston.
I like all of Texas actually, so yeah, I read on your U
on TMZ it said you're I don't know if it's current, but your boyfriend
you met on your only Fans. Yeah, I certainly did. I think
anyone can meet anyone any place with their you know, dating principles in place.
So that's what I employ with anyone who I date. Well, how
did anywhere? How did you get him the green light? Did he make
the coin sound effect go off a lot or how did that work? Well?
Definitely on only Fans, it's about tipping in money, So there was
that component for sure to get my attention because it's pretty busy with millions of
people on there. But I also did a dating program called The Guardian of
Your Soul and with coaches and a lot of psychological work, and so I
kind of have dating principles and things I abide by, and if someone is
in alignment with what I do, my future and my relationships with I definitely
would take a date and you know, date them. So yeah, he's
a good person. Are you still very active on OnlyFans? I know you're,
Uh, your Twitter thing has a lot of links to it. I
just we not obviously no numbers, but I think it's fascinating, like the
kind of unlimited income that you can make at five bucks ahead or eight bucks
ahead or whatever it is. Is that is that something that's turned into like
kind of a financial windfall that you know you wouldn't even thought of however many
years ago. Yeah, I really enjoy it. I keep it healthy for
myself. Again, that's like per the person and how you conduct yourself,
but I keep that healthy and happy. I think I would actually be sad
if I ever closed my only Fans because I just sort of like a Farah's
like group on Instagram and I just kind of showed some of us like the
feedback I get on there and it makes you laugh. It makes me happy,
and so I think if it's still joyful and positive, then I'm going
to keep doing that and aside from making money and income and inviding by laws
and policies, which I love and it keeps me happy. So yeah,
I don't really look at OnlyFans as a negative. I like that they abide
by laws. That's really important. I gotta be quick here because we're almost
out of time, and I want to tell you I did not see this
episode, but there's he's been the news around here this week because he's starting
a TV network in Fort Worth. Is doctor Phil of Looney Tune. I
did not see the episode you were on years ago. I just but yeah,
is he a kook? Yeah? I'm done with persuading audiences to dislike
youth and dislike young women. So I will not be watching Doctor Phil.
That's note for me, all right. Yeah, suck it, doctor Phil.
Yeah, uh uh, Pharah, thank you for the time. We
really appreciate it. Do you want to plug your accounts or anything like that
or anything? Where can they find you? No? Just I wish you
never want a happy Valentine's Day. Thanks so much for having me. I
appreciate you all. Thank you, thank you, fair appreciate it. I
have a great day. She goes, stay in powered, young queen.
All right, all right, A lot of feedback on the text. Yeah,
tex Mex going wild? What a bess? I mean, dude,
that's quite a life. Someone text me hey today they said she was on
the teen Mom show like they were like or sixteen break She was like kind
of one of like she really had it together compared to and she got obviously
big time famous after that with the you know the movie that was made but
Backdoor teen Mom starring James Dean. He's in trouble too and he's always in
the allegations on him were pretty bad. Yeah, he's great, he plays
rough. Yeah man goin all right, Well there was that went a week
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