Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Okay, just a couple of quick things.
Speaker 3: Oh, just a hot hot note here, FEDS raised interest
Speaker 3: rates are half a point taking the more aggressive stance.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that here in a second. Hey guys, Shannon,
Speaker 2: what the heck are you still doing there in the
Speaker 2: Carolina Kiddo? I thought the game was over with on Sunday.
Speaker 4: It is Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Come home unless you're planning on moving there. Okay, love
Speaker 2: your show, Love you guys. Bye.
Speaker 3: On a side note, I just got a text from
Speaker 3: your husband that asked, is there any way that you
Speaker 3: might be able to stay in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: For the next week. Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, I will have you know. He misses me and
Speaker 1: I want to be at home. The Chargers are staying
Speaker 1: here this week because they play in Pittsburgh on Sunday,
Speaker 1: So the coaches wanted to keep the team on the
Speaker 1: East Coast rather than fly back and forth to wear
Speaker 1: and tear on the body and you know, getting off schedule.
Speaker 1: And this way they'll be acclimated to the time change
Speaker 1: and all of that, Right, good.
Speaker 3: I like that reason. I mean I would have preferred
Speaker 3: if you had gone to London. I mean that would
Speaker 3: have made more sense, or Berlin or something like that.
Speaker 2: Right the last time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember though, Yeah, we stayed in Cleveland for a
Speaker 1: week before going on to the game in London, which
Speaker 1: made sense.
Speaker 5: Is probably much better.
Speaker 1: Than Yeah, in hindsight, aside from having dinner last night,
Speaker 1: I would have gone back. I should have gone back
Speaker 1: and forth, because there's not a lot to.
Speaker 2: Do here, and I'm in this studio that's the size
Speaker 2: of a closet.
Speaker 1: And there's no window, and poor Jacob has to just
Speaker 1: listen to me ramble and the brakes about nothing.
Speaker 3: About time he gets to listen instead of me. But
Speaker 3: last night, what was that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Last night was the dinner with your mom, your biolot?
Speaker 2: Right, all right, here's the other.
Speaker 3: Oh, dare you guys compare dogs autism to a child's autism?
Speaker 2: Not what you guys are, not what we were doing,
Speaker 2: not at all what we were doing.
Speaker 3: In fact, I was trying to make the very specific
Speaker 3: delineation that that veterinarians say dogs don't get or have autism.
Speaker 1: Oh, speaker, Johnson's spending plan hits the floor today. It's
Speaker 1: where we kick off.
Speaker 2: Watch swamp is horrible. The government doesn't work. Man, make
Speaker 2: it like a reality TV show, A bad noose. Always
Speaker 2: a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Hey Joe, a town all too clearly built on a
Speaker 3: swamp and in so many ways.
Speaker 5: Still a swamp. Watch of malarkey. Nobody said, drained the swamp.
Speaker 1: I said, Oh, that's so Heph. You know the thing, Okay,
Speaker 1: So if this spending plan fails, it will publicly highlight
Speaker 1: what some GOP members have been saying privately for days.
Speaker 1: They cannot pass any funding bill on their own. As
Speaker 1: of late last week, about ten GOP members were poised
Speaker 1: to vote no on this. Some Republicans are hoping that
Speaker 1: once the bill fails, it'll force Mike Johnson and the
Speaker 1: rest of the conference to turn to a backup plan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's a lot that goes into this game.
Speaker 3: This isn't just spending bills that this happens. There's a
Speaker 3: lot that goes into the game of I'm going to
Speaker 3: put it up for a vote so that you are
Speaker 3: on the record voting for or against whatever it is,
Speaker 3: so that you can hold it against the other party
Speaker 3: or the other candidate, or however you want to do that.
Speaker 3: And this seems like there are sort of baked into
Speaker 3: this legislative process. There are these votes that we know
Speaker 3: are doomed that will then sort of change the tactics
Speaker 3: for whatever negotiation has to come next. Mike Johnson's plan
Speaker 3: calls for extending funding at current spending levels for six
Speaker 3: months through March. Calling it or linking it, I should
Speaker 3: say with the Save Act, which is legislation that Trump
Speaker 3: likes that would require people show proof of citizenship in
Speaker 3: order to register to vote. The way it is, I
Speaker 3: guess you would say whipped. Now in terms of the
Speaker 3: number of votes, it would be failing because there are
Speaker 3: a number of Republican lawmakers, some of them fiscal conservatives,
Speaker 3: some of them defense hawks, have vowed to tank this thing.
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson does not look like the once rising star
Speaker 1: that I thought he was. In the first eighteen months
Speaker 1: of this Congress, only seventy laws were enacted. Calculations by
Speaker 1: political scientists Tobin Grant, who tracks congressional output, put this
Speaker 1: Congress on course to be the do nothingnesshingest wow do
Speaker 1: nothingest since eighteen fifty nine to eighteen sixty one. That's
Speaker 1: when the Union was dissolving.
Speaker 3: That's just great, that's a nice poor tends well for
Speaker 3: the future.
Speaker 1: They say that his house, Johnson's house isn't merely unproductive,
Speaker 1: it is lunatic. That Republicans have filled their committee hearings
Speaker 1: and their bills with white nationalist attacks on racial diversity
Speaker 1: and immigrants.
Speaker 2: It's there.
Speaker 1: They're just there's just too much fat and weird far
Speaker 1: right fringe causes.
Speaker 2: I guess that that are just gumming everything up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's also it's not just the far right
Speaker 3: caught far right because they won't they won't do this.
Speaker 3: And they say that Mike Johnson is a weenie whatever
Speaker 3: words they're using behind closed doors, because he's not standing
Speaker 3: up to Democrats and I it seems like, if if
Speaker 3: you follow what happened to Kevin McCarthy at the beginning
Speaker 3: of this year when they ousted him as a Speaker
Speaker 3: of the House, his argument in favor of staying was,
Speaker 3: or his defense of his behavior as Speaker of the
Speaker 3: House was, listen, we can't just stop being a government.
Speaker 3: We can't just shut everything down, because that's not only
Speaker 3: bad for the thousand, hundreds of thousands of people who
Speaker 3: work for the federal government and rely on federal old dollars.
Speaker 3: It's an awful it's an awful message to send internationally
Speaker 3: about what condition this country is in. And Mike Johnson,
Speaker 3: I feel like, got in there and realize once he
Speaker 3: sits behind that speaker's desk and holds that gavel. Uh Yeah,
Speaker 3: there is a lot of power that I wield and
Speaker 3: I need to make sure that I do this carefully
Speaker 3: so as to not grind this government to a hall,
Speaker 3: even if I believe that it should because you want
Speaker 3: to control spending or whatever, but also because we are
Speaker 3: in a very precarious time internationally and we have to
Speaker 3: be able to have some semblance of normalcy, togetherness, cooperation whatever.
Speaker 3: We're talking crazy now, I know, But that's why everybody's
Speaker 3: so angry at him. At least the people in the
Speaker 3: fringes of his party are so angry with Mike Johnson
Speaker 3: because they're saying he's not sticking up for what Republicans
Speaker 3: want to stick up for. Angels blank the White Sox
Speaker 3: yesterday five to nothing. They will play an early afternoon
Speaker 3: game in Anaheim, a couple hours from now. Dodgers lost
Speaker 3: to the Marlins eleven to nine. But but Shoho Tani
Speaker 3: did hit his forty eight home run of the year
Speaker 3: on his way to his first what could be fifty
Speaker 3: to fifty season, anybody's fifty to fifty season, fifty home runs,
Speaker 3: fifty stolen bases. He also has forty eight stolen bases
Speaker 3: right now, but he cannot steal a base if he
Speaker 3: strikes out three times and only hits home runs.
Speaker 2: So they play again today.
Speaker 1: The Federal Reserve announced, as you word in Deborah's news,
Speaker 1: that it is lowering interest rates by half a percentage point,
Speaker 1: penciled in two more cuts before the end of the year.
Speaker 1: This is a larger then standard rate cut.
Speaker 3: A little more aggressive than a lot of people were
Speaker 3: suggesting would be necessary, but that they were not involved
Speaker 3: in the discussions by the Fed. So the reaction on
Speaker 3: Wall Street is been positive. Right now, the dall is
Speaker 3: up one hundred and eighty eight points NASDAK and S
Speaker 3: and P five hundred also up in positive territory where
Speaker 3: they had been below they'd been underwater most of the morning.
Speaker 1: It kind of shows that they're nervous about the labor market,
Speaker 1: which has been rather weak. Layoffs do remain low, but
Speaker 1: job opportunities have dwindled. Employment has been pushed up gradually,
Speaker 1: and a further rise in joblessness could be more painful
Speaker 1: and more swift.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they said that really there's one Gross domestic product
Speaker 3: is really the strongest economic indicator as of right now,
Speaker 3: should be at about a three percent annual pace for
Speaker 3: the third quarter. And if that's the case, then they're
Speaker 3: shying away from the calls that this is we are
Speaker 3: expected to get into a recession. They're saying if the
Speaker 3: GDP stays up at three percent as predicted, then we're
Speaker 3: going to be in good shape and that this could
Speaker 3: we could withstand whatever stress comes out on the economy
Speaker 3: as a result of these.
Speaker 1: But Senator Chuck Grassley has been investigating what happened in
Speaker 1: Butler County, Pennsylvania during that assassination attempt, and he says
Speaker 1: he has figured out that Secret Service agents assured the
Speaker 1: local law enforcement that they would secure that building that
Speaker 1: the would be assassin fired his weapon from Butler County.
Speaker 1: Law enforcement officials stated that at separate times during the walkthrough,
Speaker 1: when they reiterated their concerns to the agents and encounter
Speaker 1: sniper about securing that building, the agents responded, we will take.
Speaker 2: Care of it.
Speaker 3: So the Iowa Senator Grassley is trying to figure out
Speaker 3: whether the Butler Butler County law enforcement officials claim is
Speaker 3: true and if so, what did the Secret Service do
Speaker 3: to take care of it? To use their words, and
Speaker 3: he said, in the weeks after that first assassination should
Speaker 3: attempt that the interim had The acting head of the
Speaker 3: Secret Service told senators what was communicated is that the
Speaker 3: locals had a plan and that they had been there
Speaker 3: before in regard to the roof of that building, and
Speaker 3: this was directly disputed by the law enforcement officials. Interviews
Speaker 3: with Grassley staff, how do you determine? How do you
Speaker 3: how do you figure that out? You get all those
Speaker 3: guys that were involved in that pre rally briefing together
Speaker 3: in a room and say what exactly did you say?
Speaker 3: And now say it in front of the guy that
Speaker 3: you said it before to see if there's any conflict
Speaker 3: or confusion about what it was.
Speaker 1: So you know how we complain about sorry side note,
Speaker 1: you know how.
Speaker 2: We can you got you got very quiet, like someone's
Speaker 2: here that can hear you?
Speaker 1: Well, somebody came in. Oh, and you know how we
Speaker 1: complain about the temperature in our studio. How it gets
Speaker 1: really cold and there's no way to control it. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: they actually have a way to control the temperature in
Speaker 1: these studios, but apparently they're connected. So this guy comes
Speaker 1: in and I guess I have the thermostat in here.
Speaker 1: This guy comes in, he goes, I just oh sorry,
Speaker 1: I just gotta I gotta lower this because it gets
Speaker 1: really hot in my studio. So he lowers it like
Speaker 1: freaking ten degrees. So now it's like freezing in here.
Speaker 3: Why without regard to the fact that it's going to
Speaker 3: change your right right.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe I don't matter because I'm a visitor. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a bold move. Yikes, it's gonna be okay,
Speaker 1: we'll survive this. I brought a jacket for this very inevitability.
Speaker 2: The update on campaign stuff.
Speaker 3: Vice President Harris during an address today to the Congressionalist
Speaker 3: Panic Caucus Institute's Leadership Conference in DC, said if Donald
Speaker 3: Trump returns to office, there will be mass deportations and
Speaker 3: massive detention camps he gets back in office. Trump, like
Speaker 3: I said, is planning to hold a rally later tonight
Speaker 3: in Uniondale, New York the Nassau County Coliseum on Long Island.
Speaker 3: New York is not a swing state, but it is
Speaker 3: interesting he did hold a rally.
Speaker 2: There was it a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: I want to say it was just before the assassination
Speaker 3: attempt in New York and had a pretty great turnout
Speaker 3: for a state that is as blue as it is. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris is favored to carry New York handily when
Speaker 3: it comes to November, but there are several house districts
Speaker 3: in the state of New York that are still in
Speaker 3: play and could determine which party takes control of the
Speaker 3: house coming up in November, So that maybe at least
Speaker 3: one of the reasons why former President Trump is concentrating
Speaker 3: on New York.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior's apparent new squeeze that socialite Bettina Anderson
Speaker 1: can be seen in new video schmoozing with Donald Trump
Speaker 1: Junior and his ex wife and their daughter with no
Speaker 1: sign of fiance, Kimberly Gilfoyle. She was spotted locking lips
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump Junior last month. She's now been pictured
Speaker 1: rubbing elbows with other members of the Trump clan at
Speaker 1: an intimate party in Jupiter, Florida last month.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, what are we going to do now what
Speaker 3: if that? What if that love story doesn't finish correctly?
Speaker 3: What if there's no happy, happily ever after between Don
Speaker 3: and Kimberly?
Speaker 2: Careful?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 2: What a little close to the edge? Me? Yeah? What
Speaker 2: are you talking about? Did you hear yourself? No? Okay? Good?
Speaker 2: Never mind? Then did I say bad word? No? I'll
Speaker 2: tell you later, Okay.
Speaker 1: It said to be an open secret, this dalliance, an
Speaker 1: open secret in Palm Beach that they've frequently been spotted
Speaker 1: enjoying each other's company.
Speaker 2: I know what I said. I got it, Okay, I
Speaker 2: got Justin Warsham has joined us.
Speaker 3: We talked to Justin about things parenting because he is
Speaker 3: so neck deep in this right now.
Speaker 5: Oh it's my whole life. It's my Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: Me smile.
Speaker 4: Oh good, you're happy that I have teenagers. I'll be honest.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest. I've spent probably what last probably two
Speaker 4: or three months. I feel like I've been in a slump,
Speaker 4: especially with my younger son, who just turned thirteen in June,
Speaker 4: and a lot of that is like everything is so
Speaker 4: magical right now. Not to ruin this moment for you, Gary,
Speaker 4: because I know it's coming.
Speaker 5: Back around to come me wrong.
Speaker 4: But the older kid doesn't have a girlfriend. They split
Speaker 4: up over the over the summer break.
Speaker 2: I'm half said to hear.
Speaker 4: That, Yeah, it's I mean, I think, honestly, I think
Speaker 4: that my son went through I don't know if you
Speaker 4: experienced this, Gary or Shannon. You experienced it with maybe
Speaker 4: another guy or yourself in a relationship when you were younger.
Speaker 4: But it's like he was the very giving person and
Speaker 4: she needed more. This is not a slam on this
Speaker 4: young lady. I I think she's a fantastic young woman.
Speaker 4: I just I experienced this as a boyfriend in high school,
Speaker 4: where you would have these girls that they just they
Speaker 4: needed and needed. And I was also a good junk
Speaker 4: at the time, the needy one in.
Speaker 5: Relationship than for the.
Speaker 4: But that's really what it was, and it just wasn't working.
Speaker 4: And he did it very maturely, like took he met
Speaker 4: her at a coffee shop and like they had a
Speaker 4: conversation and he like at some point she even said like,
Speaker 4: do you think we could get back together later on?
Speaker 4: And shell no, he said, he goes, well, honestly, I
Speaker 4: think it's too early to make any kind of promise.
Speaker 5: One way or the other. He goes, but I would
Speaker 5: like for us to stay friends, and she.
Speaker 2: Just needed more of his attention and time.
Speaker 4: I think it was that he before this, months before this,
Speaker 4: he had had this conversation when we had a family
Speaker 4: dinner and he said he was just annoyed with something
Speaker 4: that he had gotten text and he said, you know,
Speaker 4: you know how he goes, You know how you have
Speaker 4: like a conversation and you feel like you've resolved the issue, right,
Speaker 4: And I go yeah, and he goes, well, then it
Speaker 4: like three weeks and it's like it's the same issue,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, we already resolved that. And my wife goes, oh,
Speaker 4: that goes away with age, and I kind of looked
Speaker 4: at does not.
Speaker 2: That's a woman. That's what women do. We do this routine.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but.
Speaker 2: I know my limitations. We oh boy, uh.
Speaker 3: Well, this is this is a very interesting story, this
Speaker 3: idea of co sleeping with your kids.
Speaker 4: Every once in a while I come across stories and
Speaker 4: this is a doubleheader today that I think just urry
Speaker 4: sweat a little of either anger or disappointment or all
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 5: Like at the same time.
Speaker 4: This makes me as happy as you are to be
Speaker 4: happy that I have teenagers when I bring these kinds
Speaker 4: of stories. Yes, sleeping with your kids, every kid is
Speaker 4: different and every kid needs different things as they're growing up.
Speaker 4: And I completely understand that I can count on one hand.
Speaker 4: I have two children, adult children. Now I can count on.
Speaker 3: One hand the number of times that they slept with
Speaker 3: us m hm h after the age of six months.
Speaker 2: Yep, one one hand.
Speaker 5: It just was not a thing.
Speaker 4: And by with would you even describe the bascinette that
Speaker 4: sits in the bedroom with you for like the first
Speaker 4: six months, because the American Academy of Pediatrics says that
Speaker 4: it should be the first six months you should keep
Speaker 4: an infant because it drastically reduces the chances of SIDS,
Speaker 4: which is interesting because they also say that there is
Speaker 4: no data to support that statement. They have no way
Speaker 4: of proving and equivocally that somehow you being in the
Speaker 4: same room limits the CIDs. That's the whole idea of it.
Speaker 4: It happened suddenly, Well, I was awful.
Speaker 1: My parents had to put a lock on their door
Speaker 1: because I was such a bad sleeper, and I you know,
Speaker 1: I was like six seven eight running down the hall
Speaker 1: with like a bad dream or something. And I would
Speaker 1: just remember one night and the door was locked and
Speaker 1: I was like pounded on the door like and they
Speaker 1: just like it was just like cold turkey. It was like, nope,
Speaker 1: we're not doing this anymore. Just bigre it out. If
Speaker 1: you can go self soothe, figure it out. You had
Speaker 1: a bad dream, what have you, Just deal with it
Speaker 1: and then and then it went away. But it was
Speaker 1: I remember that.
Speaker 4: In my house, if the door was locked, you did
Speaker 4: not want to go in there. That was something was happening,
Speaker 4: something was going down. Tommy and Daddy were moving furniture.
Speaker 4: Good for them, Good for them. I mean, there are
Speaker 4: I have. I have just beautiful memories.
Speaker 3: I I remember the times when I would I would
Speaker 3: go to bed, for example, infant child sleeping on my chest.
Speaker 5: That was grand.
Speaker 3: And I'd wake up and I'd have the saying for
Speaker 3: my ribs caving in on themselves. But I was I
Speaker 3: just remember that it was such a guttural, you know,
Speaker 3: basic so much oxytocin.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but after that six months, that thing goes in
Speaker 3: the in the bassinet or the crib or whatever.
Speaker 2: That's where it stays.
Speaker 5: The thing you said, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I had on the podcast A Bunch doctor Craig Cannaperry.
Speaker 4: He's the head of the Yale Sleep Center, and he's like,
Speaker 4: his whole life is studying sleep and he actually said,
Speaker 4: based on his research there, this is actual research that
Speaker 4: infants and adults are better off sleeping in entirely separate rooms,
Speaker 4: that both parties actually sleep better if they're not even
Speaker 4: in the same room. He's also very adamant that you
Speaker 4: do not sleep in the same bed. Obviously. The only
Speaker 4: reason I think that it was such a big deal
Speaker 4: for my wife and I is that my mom was
Speaker 4: a respiratory therapist, and her only advice, her only parental advice,
Speaker 4: she said, please, no matter how tired you get, no
Speaker 4: matter how much you think it helps, do not let
Speaker 4: the baby sleep with you in bed, because she had
Speaker 4: so many babies come in that had some parents had
Speaker 4: rolled over and suffocated them and then they were trying
Speaker 4: to save the baby. She goes, it's not worth it.
Speaker 4: And when you read through this article that I found,
Speaker 4: it's a lot of like.
Speaker 5: It's just easier, it's just better.
Speaker 4: And it really speaks to this kind of new modern
Speaker 4: movement of parenting of trying to take the path of
Speaker 4: least resistance regardless of what's better for the kid. We
Speaker 4: seem to be getting away from this idea that a
Speaker 4: big part of parenting is to prepare them to be
Speaker 4: on their own and to learn to deal with some
Speaker 4: difficulty and some strife. I think some other interesting facts
Speaker 4: that doctor Canna Perry brought up. He's a huge advocate
Speaker 4: on shifting back the high school start time to like
Speaker 4: nine or ten o'clock in the morning, because he says,
Speaker 4: according to the biology of it, that a teenager should
Speaker 4: not go to bed until probably between eleven PM and
Speaker 4: midnight because of just the way that their body works,
Speaker 4: and they should not be getting up at five AM.
Speaker 4: I know you're making a face, Gary, Maybe this is
Speaker 4: another example of what it should be a.
Speaker 3: Culturally imposed thing. I mean, when the sun goes down, yep,
Speaker 3: slow down.
Speaker 4: I think where all the parents would agree with doctor
Speaker 4: Craig Ketaperry. He thinks that daylight saving time should go away.
Speaker 4: All it does is ruin parents and children twice a year.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. We're not harvesting our feel I like the
Speaker 1: guy and the BJS. I like it for the novelty
Speaker 1: of it, but I could care less. Other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't couldn't care less. No, I could care but
Speaker 1: basis in point Yes. One of my buddies with the
Speaker 1: teams is what are you gonna do tonight? And I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm staying in. I want to watch the
Speaker 1: Golden Bachelorette. And the look he gave me was like
Speaker 1: what was he expecting an invite or something like? No,
Speaker 1: he was just like have fun with that? Like what
Speaker 1: who says that? Like who answers the question? I want
Speaker 1: to watch the Golden Bachelorette.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's just radio people in general, but I feel
Speaker 4: like it's You would be hard pressed to find any
Speaker 4: kind of radio show or personality that isn't into that show.
Speaker 4: It seems I heard SmartLess Howard Stern was on and
Speaker 4: he gets advanced.
Speaker 5: Copies of the episode.
Speaker 4: Really yeah, he gets some of the week before they
Speaker 4: come out. Like that's what he does because he loves
Speaker 4: it so much.
Speaker 2: Oh that must be nice, boy, can dream?
Speaker 5: Didn't you just pretend to remind yourself to record it?
Speaker 3: I actually had a fun I remember last year at
Speaker 3: this time, we were having a fun time going through the
Speaker 3: Golden Bachelor, just because it seemed it was so different
Speaker 3: from the you know the rest of that franchise. Is
Speaker 3: that I'll be interested because I like the Is there as.
Speaker 4: Much hooking up in the golden era of Bachelor and Bachelorette?
Speaker 2: Not as much?
Speaker 3: In a fact, I guess according to Shannon, the main
Speaker 3: contest and the Bachelorette has decided there will be no
Speaker 3: fantasy suite or there there will be no sky. So
Speaker 3: what's the what's the second game in our double header
Speaker 3: that you brought.
Speaker 4: This one is should you be tracking your teenager? That
Speaker 4: there's this big and so they literally did, in my
Speaker 4: opinion a bipartisan look, which is so funny to me
Speaker 4: about the benefits and downsides of tracking your teenager. And
Speaker 4: the downsides are is that if you do by tracking them,
Speaker 4: that you you're implying that you don't trust them, and
Speaker 4: and that can there can be impacts on the relationship.
Speaker 4: And all I keep thinking is like, who cares like
Speaker 4: if they don't trust if they know if they think
Speaker 4: you don't trust them, I don't trust them, Like nobody
Speaker 4: trusted themselves when they were teenagers. Why are we suddenly
Speaker 4: like it's just so weird. Today, We're supposed to let
Speaker 4: our kids have sex in our house and pretend like
Speaker 4: it's not happening. That is the prevailing parenting. I don't
Speaker 4: know the priority. What is the thing I'm thinking, like
Speaker 4: value in today's southern colg like the parents that I
Speaker 4: know of the freedom, Well, it's safer for them to
Speaker 4: have sex in the house than it is for them
Speaker 4: in a car somewhere.
Speaker 5: Like they're gonna do it no matter what.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 5: I don't understand that either.
Speaker 4: Shit, And I'm like, what do you mean, Like does
Speaker 4: the condoms stay on longer? I don't like, I don't understand, Like,
Speaker 4: who's who's accosting them?
Speaker 3: Well, I think you have the benefit of something I
Speaker 3: didn't have, which is the idea of tracking your kids
Speaker 3: is kind of baked in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's in the device.
Speaker 3: Ten years ago, when my kids got their phones and
Speaker 3: this was an option, you had to go to a
Speaker 3: vet and have them chipped. It was a whole process. Well,
Speaker 3: I did knock them out in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3: It was a part of the negotiation of the Yeah, okay, well,
Speaker 3: if I'm paying for it, at least I know exactly
Speaker 3: where that phone is. Also knowing that they're too dumb
Speaker 3: to put it down somewhere. And I'm sure that there
Speaker 3: are probably instances where I could say I knew where
Speaker 3: my kids were that they should not have been right,
Speaker 3: But I didn't break I mean, unless it was an issue,
Speaker 3: it was not something that I was going to I
Speaker 3: wasn't going to breach that trust.
Speaker 2: I guess if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: As of twenty twenty three, fifty percent of US families
Speaker 4: track the location of their teenager, and it's been on
Speaker 4: the consistent rise, probably due to technology. The thing that
Speaker 4: I think is maybe a violation of trust, but I've
Speaker 4: decided I don't care, and I'm a pretty like. I
Speaker 4: think maybe I'm being hypocritical or i'm a pretty like.
Speaker 4: I'll let you live your life to a certain extent,
Speaker 4: but I, like you said, if I'm paying for it
Speaker 4: and everything, there has to be a little bit of
Speaker 4: discomfort in the household because I don't want my children
Speaker 4: living with me until they're thirty five, no offense. If
Speaker 4: anybody does want that, or if it's a cultural thing.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying I don't personally, I don't see the benefit.
Speaker 4: Kids should be out of the house sometime between like
Speaker 4: eighteen and twenty two or by the time they graduate college,
Speaker 4: so they can start screwing up their life on their
Speaker 4: own and start picking up the pieces so that by
Speaker 4: the time they're in their thirties, they can have most
Speaker 4: of it, if not all of it kind of figured out.
Speaker 3: Smash cut to Shannon's parents locking her door, locking their doors,
Speaker 3: so she had to learn to self sue.
Speaker 5: That's called premature, Like that's learning, is there?
Speaker 2: Why rexted me?
Speaker 5: Oh? Which one? Who are you?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 5: Both We both got the exact same reaction and they
Speaker 5: went wait, I thought, I was like, does she have
Speaker 5: my wife's ce phone?
Speaker 2: Yes? I do. Yeah, this is Shannon.
Speaker 1: Your parents' door was locked because they were having sex.
Speaker 1: You were a and then I can't say the word
Speaker 1: that she wrote, and she wrote you're welcome, and I
Speaker 1: wrote back, they had sex.
Speaker 5: You Oh okay.
Speaker 3: I was trying to figure out my parents did not,
Speaker 3: And I remember approaching my parents' door and having the lock.
Speaker 5: Oh I did.
Speaker 4: It was Saturday morning, after I'd finished from the paper
Speaker 4: out and it was like time for break. When I
Speaker 4: was younger, i'd come back and I would go to
Speaker 4: just turn the door knob and the first time I did.
Speaker 4: I grabbed it and and I went, what the And
Speaker 4: then I kind of was like, and I listened to
Speaker 4: the door. Huge mistake, Tell me, I was.
Speaker 5: I was. I was like ten years old, Hoffman. I
Speaker 5: didn't know.
Speaker 3: I knew like something was wrong and you were gonna
Speaker 3: go save the day or something.
Speaker 4: It was just out of the ordinary, and your your
Speaker 4: lizard brain tells you to do a stupid thing sometime.
Speaker 2: I should have been there, Shannon Sharp behind that door.
Speaker 5: Wait, what how did you know my dad's thing? Oh
Speaker 5: my god, he loved to do pillow talk with a lisp.
Speaker 5: That was the thing.
Speaker 2: I am uncomfortable.
Speaker 5: You should be. I really hope that was a drop,
Speaker 5: because that was brilliantly played. Jacob. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Justin Yeah, track your kids, I guess guys, track your
Speaker 4: kids and read their text me.
Speaker 3: And again it's easy because it's baked in. Don't don't
Speaker 3: be a d about it. Don't you don't have it's
Speaker 3: more and.
Speaker 2: This is not the Uh.
Speaker 5: This may be.
Speaker 3: Contrary to what I have said before about you know,
Speaker 3: being in your kids' lives, but it's.
Speaker 5: Better to I think what you're trying to articulate.
Speaker 4: Yes, like it gives you a leash, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, an invisible leash that you can look and go, Okay,
Speaker 4: I know what's happening. So I'm I'm parenting, right, I'm
Speaker 4: but I'm not the complete helicopter. I'm a helicopter with
Speaker 4: a cloaking device essentially, right, Like, I just check in
Speaker 4: and then I go, yeah, okay, you're there.
Speaker 3: That if necessary, you can plug on that leash and say, hey,
Speaker 3: where are you right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could decloak and then drop in a specialist
Speaker 4: for an Xville.
Speaker 3: Real quick, pull them out to camp and Utah somewhere
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 5: All Right, you guys are the best. Thank you appreciate it.
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