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Speaker 2: People are saying, no mold, forget about it. In fact,
Speaker 2: if you were like me and you grew up poored,
Speaker 2: you didn't have lucky charms. You had something that was
Speaker 2: the equivalent like fortune totems, or you didn't have cheerios.
Speaker 2: You would have oat circles, and you didn't have fruit loops.
Speaker 2: You'd have fruit rings something like that. Right, you didn't
Speaker 2: have the actual stuff. We had knockoff cereals, and knockoff
Speaker 2: cereals were fine.
Speaker 3: It was good. In fact, in some cases you got
Speaker 3: so you like them better.
Speaker 2: I always hated the knockoff cheerios, but I thought that
Speaker 2: the knockoff wheaties were fine, Right, I mean, you just
Speaker 2: got so that you got used to it. There are
Speaker 2: other things that you can buy that are store bought,
Speaker 2: that are reasonable duplicates, and stores are getting better at
Speaker 2: this than they were when we were younger, which was
Speaker 2: so so many millennia ago. But Treehouse Foods is one
Speaker 2: of the country's largest manufacturers of private brands, they're the ones.
Speaker 2: So if you see something that is the equate brand
Speaker 2: from Walmart that may have come from Treehouse Foods. If
Speaker 2: you see the Safeway brand that may have come from
Speaker 2: Treehouse Foods. If you see which is like or excuse me,
Speaker 2: you see like the Safeway Albertson's. If you see the
Speaker 2: Kroger brand from like Ralph's, may have come from Treehouse Foods.
Speaker 3: They make a bunch of that stuff. However, we are
Speaker 3: seeing the whole.
Speaker 2: Egg thing going on, with the price of eggs going up,
Speaker 2: which certainly is not in any way, shape or form
Speaker 2: a money grabbed by the egg manufacturers capitalizing on the
Speaker 2: spike and prices due to the bird flu. Coffee prices
Speaker 2: are going up, and of course we may start seeing
Speaker 2: more prices jumping because of the threats of terrace tariffs.
Speaker 2: So here's what you're looking at. Prices on things like cookies, crackers, coffee,
Speaker 2: and other things are not only going up everywhere, but
Speaker 2: they are also going up for the store brought store
Speaker 2: bought brands, the store brand names, right, which we always
Speaker 2: think of as being generic. People have decided I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go and I don't know who does this I don't
Speaker 2: know who it is that is insane enough to do it,
Speaker 2: but some people say I will just go without coffee.
Speaker 3: Friends.
Speaker 2: We are in a bad spot. When inflation gets to
Speaker 2: the point where people are not having their morning drugs,
Speaker 2: that's gonna make things that work a whole lot more difficult.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know any coffee drinkers. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're you are a coffee drinker, but if the point
Speaker 2: comes where you have to start rationing coffee, things are
Speaker 2: gonna get ugly fast. They say that people are stressed. Treehouse,
Speaker 2: that's again they make the groceries. Their financial chief says,
Speaker 2: we don't have any strong indicators that consumers are going
Speaker 2: to be less stressed in the near term, and grocery
Speaker 2: retailers are relying on third parties like Treehouse to make
Speaker 2: their store brands.
Speaker 3: Is from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2: Giants like Kroger Albertson's Costco boosting investments in their branded products.
Speaker 2: Private labels are growing faster than name brand goods heading
Speaker 2: into the pandemic, and then consumers stuck at home with
Speaker 2: money to spend, went back to the national brands and
Speaker 2: low cost brands. We've seen now a resurgence for a
Speaker 2: couple of reasons. Because you have higher grocery prices, Retailers
Speaker 2: are expending their store brand offerings. Walmart is introducing a
Speaker 2: premium line of food called Better Goods along their Great
Speaker 2: Value brands. So you've got the Great Value and then
Speaker 2: you've got Better Goods, which is supposed.
Speaker 3: To be the step up.
Speaker 2: But now people are even saying we're just going to
Speaker 2: cut back on even the low cost stuff. To me,
Speaker 2: this is a bad omen. You've got consumer confidence. You
Speaker 2: may have see the report consumer confidence is down. With
Speaker 2: consumer confidence down, whether they have reason to or not.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's based on the news, maybe it's based on
Speaker 2: the worries over the tariffs. Maybe people have lost jobs.
Speaker 2: But at this point it doesn't look like we're in
Speaker 2: a recession. The fear of recession is so great that
Speaker 2: people are beginning to behave as.
Speaker 3: Though we are in a recession.
Speaker 2: We're priming for it, we're getting ready, we're pregaming.
Speaker 3: The next recession is what's happening, and so people.
Speaker 2: Are cutting back on things, even the store brand products,
Speaker 2: but they're also cutting back on this from the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal, US convenience store sales falling over four percent
Speaker 2: by volume.
Speaker 3: What are they cutting back on?
Speaker 2: Derrito's When you stop in at the Circle K or
Speaker 2: the shell station, there's no there's no big bag of chips.
Speaker 2: If you've bought a bag of chips at the at
Speaker 2: the gas stations lately, have you seen the price on that,
Speaker 2: it's seven bucks. Seven bucks for a bag of potato
Speaker 2: chips is not even the family size bag. I know,
Speaker 2: I sound like a grumpy old man. I understand, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be grumpy. I don't like it. So people
Speaker 2: are cutting back and what they're buying. That includes Doritos,
Speaker 2: that includes Twinkies. And I think we just saved Twinkies
Speaker 2: from the brink of extinction a decade ago. They were
Speaker 2: all ready to wrap up. But here's the really scary thing.
Speaker 2: While we have some people cutting back on things like
Speaker 2: coffee and other places, which is terrifying, sounds like some
Speaker 2: people are cutting back on cigarettes. Oh my, So now
Speaker 2: you've got people that are not gonna have their cigarettes
Speaker 2: or their coffee in the morning. That is uh, it's
Speaker 2: gonna get ugly fast, friends, This is gonna be very
Speaker 2: apocalyptic in a hurry.
Speaker 3: I don't have high hopes. So what can you.
Speaker 2: Do Could you turn to one of those dollar stores? Nope,
Speaker 2: because have you been to a dollar store lately? Nothing
Speaker 2: costs a dollar anymore. And now Dollar General says they're
Speaker 2: not even making an money and they're shutting up shop.
Speaker 4: Dollar General is closing nearly one hundred stores. The company
Speaker 4: says it plans to close ninety six locations by January
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: That's not too many, though. I think Dollar General opens
Speaker 2: more than one hundred a day. I'm exaggerating, but not
Speaker 2: by much. This is from Whas by the way, I
Speaker 2: believe this is in Louisville.
Speaker 4: Dollar General CEO says that the number of closings represents
Speaker 4: less than one percent of the company's overall store base.
Speaker 4: It also plans to close forty five of Dollar General's
Speaker 4: home to core stores popshelf.
Speaker 3: I think the Dollar General had home to course stores.
Speaker 5: Did you know then beds through a dollar.
Speaker 3: All right? The decision was quick, Amy, you get credit
Speaker 3: on that one. That was very quick.
Speaker 4: The decision came after a view of the store performance
Speaker 4: and conditions to determine which stores should be closed or
Speaker 4: maybe be rebranded. Now, as of now, it's not known
Speaker 4: which locations are set to close. There are more than
Speaker 4: thirty of those stores in the Louisville metrics.
Speaker 2: All right, so again I told you that it was
Speaker 2: from Louisville. Did he just say rebranded? Don't know if
Speaker 2: they're going to close or rebrand. So you rebrand from
Speaker 2: a Dollar General to what a dollar Lieutenant? I don't
Speaker 2: understand what the rebrand would be. You go more high
Speaker 2: end Dollar General. There's no lower end Dollar I mean,
Speaker 2: Dollar General is what it is. It's just cheap, cheap.
Speaker 2: All the dollar stores just cheap. Tell you man, I
Speaker 2: would think Dollar General will do really well as people
Speaker 2: are worried about inflation and recession. It has in the past.
Speaker 2: Walmart and Dollar General stores do well during recessions. They do,
Speaker 2: they do, and yet here they are saying they're going
Speaker 2: to close some shops. We'll find out how it plays out. Okay,
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Speaker 2: Big questions are coming up about the people being deported,
Speaker 2: especially when we find out that we're trying to deport
Speaker 2: people who have legal status in the United States, including
Speaker 2: green cards or well respected positions within major universities. It
Speaker 2: kind of started with this Machmud Khalil, who was a
Speaker 2: guy protesting at Columbia. Many many schools were protesting during
Speaker 2: the demonstrations over the warre in Gozar, right. Most of
Speaker 2: the protesters were pro Israeli protesters. And as we know,
Speaker 2: when it comes to protesting, you cannot be pro one
Speaker 2: side without being anti the other. That's how it works out.
Speaker 2: You can't say I love the Dodgers without people knowing
Speaker 2: that that means you hate the Yankees. Now, maybe you
Speaker 2: do hate the Yankees, But is it possible that you're
Speaker 2: just rooting for your team. Possible, But when it comes
Speaker 2: to the world of politics, and especially when it comes
Speaker 2: to something so significant as war and war where religion
Speaker 2: is involved, you have to be my side or the
Speaker 2: other side.
Speaker 3: You're either with me or you're against me.
Speaker 2: So Khalil and Khalil was in large part part of
Speaker 2: the demonstrations at Columbia. We saw those at UCLA, you
Speaker 2: see Irvine, Berkeley, Stanford, Santa Cruz. There's been a number
Speaker 2: of California schools. Of course, we're taking part in these protests.
Speaker 2: Some of them did feel distinctly anti Semitic. That doesn't
Speaker 2: mean everybody there was, but it wasn't like they were
Speaker 2: stopping it from being anti semitic either, So we know
Speaker 2: how this played up. However, as much as we despise
Speaker 2: that anti semitism is not illegal in the United States,
Speaker 2: you're allowed to be anti Semitic, you're allowed to be racist.
Speaker 2: You're not allowed to hire base on racism or anti semitism,
Speaker 2: but you are allowed to be an a hole in America.
Speaker 2: That hasn't changed in the last two hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 2: You can still be a total a hole in America.
Speaker 2: The line is when you're being an a hole and
Speaker 2: it starts to threaten other people if there is demonstrable
Speaker 2: harm being done, although did this guy, Makmu Khalil, actually
Speaker 2: demonstrate any harm. He was a negotiator that was representing
Speaker 2: the student protesters at Columbia. He is a permanent US resident.
Speaker 2: He was arrested March ninth at his apartment by Customs
Speaker 2: enforcement by ICE. According the AP agent said they were
Speaker 2: executing a State Department order to revoke his student visa.
Speaker 2: His lawyer says he didn't have a student visa. He's
Speaker 2: a Green card holder, He's a permanent legal US resident.
Speaker 2: They said, oh, we're taking that too.
Speaker 3: What this is.
Speaker 2: This is like when you were a kid and the
Speaker 2: bully came by and punched you and said give me
Speaker 2: your lunch money, and you said, I've got my lunch money,
Speaker 2: but please don't take my allowance.
Speaker 3: I just got it.
Speaker 2: And the bully goes, oh, can give me that allowance too.
Speaker 3: That's basically what's going on.
Speaker 2: So the State Department says, we want a student, we're
Speaker 2: taking away with the student visa. The lawyer says he
Speaker 2: didn't have he's a permanent US resident. Oh, we're taking
Speaker 2: that away too. And why is that? Because Trump has
Speaker 2: signed an order, signed an executive order to cancel and
Speaker 2: deport the students and all the student visas of any
Speaker 2: hamas sympathizers on college campuses.
Speaker 3: That's a tough one.
Speaker 2: And the reason it's tough is again, you're allowed to disagree.
Speaker 3: Even if your disagreement makes you.
Speaker 2: A total a hole in the eyes of the majority
Speaker 2: of people, you are still allowed to disagree.
Speaker 3: In America.
Speaker 2: You may remember after nine eleven there were a number
Speaker 2: of politicians who came out and they said.
Speaker 3: Look, nine to eleven was have home.
Speaker 2: It was a terrible chapter in American history and that said,
Speaker 2: you kind of understand why some people hate us, and
Speaker 2: they were lambassador. They were told, how dare you? You
Speaker 2: can't say such terrible things about America. Don't you know
Speaker 2: we're in a war against terrorism, and yet you're still
Speaker 2: allowed to say that. Even Congress persons were saying that
Speaker 2: they don't approve of nine to eleven, but they kind
Speaker 2: of understand why other countries, why other groups hate us.
Speaker 3: Now dare you do that?
Speaker 2: The real kicker on this case with the Khalil is
Speaker 2: that Marco Rubio, formerly known as Little Marco, did a
Speaker 2: press conference right after the arrest and he said, this
Speaker 2: is not about free speech. This is about people that
Speaker 2: don't have a right to be in the United States
Speaker 2: to begin with.
Speaker 3: But it sounds like by all accounts he did.
Speaker 2: He had a student visa, then he had a permanent
Speaker 2: green card, and now we're just claiming you don't have
Speaker 2: a right to be here because we're policing your eye
Speaker 2: ideas now.
Speaker 3: But it's not just him.
Speaker 2: There was also a doctor who was detained, now a
Speaker 2: highly regarded kidney doctor.
Speaker 3: Just after six pm six from ABC seventh.
Speaker 6: Saturday, planes carrying more than two hundred Venezuelan prisoners left
Speaker 6: the US after the administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act,
Speaker 6: a law from the late seventeen hundreds that allows the
Speaker 6: government to deport non citizens without due process during wartime.
Speaker 3: Are we at war with Venezuela? Anybody? Anybody? The answer
Speaker 3: is no.
Speaker 6: Less than an hour later, a federal judge temporarily blocked
Speaker 6: the president from invoking the law and ordered the planes
Speaker 6: to turn around, saying any plane containing these folks that
Speaker 6: is going to take off or is in the air
Speaker 6: needs to be returned to the United States. But the
Speaker 6: planes never turned around, and video shows the alleged gang
Speaker 6: members being marched into prison in El Salvador yesterday. Critics
Speaker 6: argue the administration defied the judge's orders, but the White
Speaker 6: House argues the judge has no jurisdiction over the president's
Speaker 6: conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act,
Speaker 6: and his core Article two powers to remove foreign alien
Speaker 6: terrorist staff.
Speaker 2: All right, So that is key. And I guess I
Speaker 2: thought there was more of this deported doctor. I want
Speaker 2: to talk about this deported doctor or the detained doctor.
Speaker 2: I'll do that here in a second. But also you
Speaker 2: just heard the report from ABC saying we didn't like
Speaker 2: what the judge had to say.
Speaker 3: The administration just says, hey, wait, what jurisdiction do judges have?
Speaker 3: What can federal judges?
Speaker 2: They don't really get to talk about us, and they
Speaker 2: have no jurisdiction over us. We're the White House for
Speaker 2: Pete's sake, which means that we no longer have checks
Speaker 2: and balances. We just have separate silos where judges issue
Speaker 2: rulings in vacuums that don't apply, and Congress writes laws
Speaker 2: that don't apply, and the White House executes laws.
Speaker 3: That they don't even have.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Could even my friends Chris Merrill KFI AM six forty
Speaker 2: on demand anytime the iHeart Radio App. And honored to
Speaker 2: be with you as always every Sunday, Sunday Sunday, my friends. See,
Speaker 2: I grew up in a rural area where I mean
Speaker 2: there was like one private school nearest. There was a
Speaker 2: Catholic school that was about twenty five miles away, but
Speaker 2: the public schools were fine ish. So there is a
Speaker 2: new trend that's happening. Parents are disillusioned with public school.
Speaker 2: There's arguments over charter schools. Some states are trying to
Speaker 2: fight to be able to use tax dollars to send
Speaker 2: their kids to private religious schools. Then you've got the
Speaker 2: parents to say, we're gonna homeschool our kids because we
Speaker 2: don't want them to be in doctor NATed by all
Speaker 2: that edumacation. There's a new trend, and that is what
Speaker 2: if the kids teach themselves? My mind is blown. Of course,
Speaker 2: these children will know what algebra is and know that
Speaker 2: they need to know that.
Speaker 3: It's called unschooling.
Speaker 7: Molly Bond's a former grade school teacher for a decade
Speaker 7: now is a twenty four to seven educator for her
Speaker 7: nine and eleven year old boys. They're being unschooled at
Speaker 7: their Ann Arbor area home.
Speaker 8: Homeschooling, you're educating your child at home. You're usually following
Speaker 8: a curriculum versus unschooling. You're actually following your child's desires,
Speaker 8: your child's interests.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should have done more of that in school
Speaker 2: because I was not interested in reading or writing or arithmetic.
Speaker 3: I was interested in kickball.
Speaker 2: Latin in elementary school, then dodgeball in junior high, and
Speaker 2: then screwing around in high school. Is there a class
Speaker 2: unscrewing around?
Speaker 8: So you may grab a curriculum to help you with that,
Speaker 8: but overall, you're really presenting like a feast for your child.
Speaker 8: Think about like a Shmorgas board, a Thanksgiving feast, and
Speaker 8: your child is picking and choosing what's interesting to them.
Speaker 2: Lynnett Heines, that's great for a well rounded education.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 7: Lynette Hines is on the other side of the state,
Speaker 7: near Grand Rapids.
Speaker 3: This is out of the Detroit by the way, ABC
Speaker 3: News in Detroit.
Speaker 7: But she's on the same page with her three kids.
Speaker 2: Schools.
Speaker 9: The structure of them is set up really well for
Speaker 9: certain students, certain learning styles and personalities, but there's a
Speaker 9: lot who don't really.
Speaker 5: Fit the box.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 7: Of school Michigan doesn't keep tags on how many kids
Speaker 7: are enrolled in any kind of homeschool program, and per
Speaker 7: the state Department of Education, there are no required tests
Speaker 7: for students to take. Giving grades and submitting them to
Speaker 7: the state are both voluntary.
Speaker 2: Well, that seems like a really good idea. No, not
Speaker 2: a great idea. How do you end up with an
Speaker 2: under educated society. It's simple, you don't educate them.
Speaker 5: Tada.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we were gonna educate our kids, but
Speaker 2: then we thought do the kids want to be educated?
Speaker 2: And then we said, kids, do you want to have
Speaker 2: to sit around and read books that you don't like
Speaker 2: all day about the things? And they were like no,
Speaker 2: and we were like, that sounds great to us. So
Speaker 2: we thought we would work on more of their education
Speaker 2: at the playground. It is interesting to me that you
Speaker 2: have trends like this, which honestly it's a few crackpots
Speaker 2: doing this sort of thing because most homeschoolers are going
Speaker 2: to follow a curriculum, so you got a few crackpots.
Speaker 2: But the reason that it picks up any attention, and
Speaker 2: in this case, it was a story in USA Today
Speaker 2: this week that was like, unschooling is the new way, Like, no,
Speaker 2: it's not. And it's always somebody who's like, I just
Speaker 2: want my kid. I mean, think of the weirdest hippie
Speaker 2: stereotype from the nineteen sixties that you can and then
Speaker 2: add a modern day twist to it, which usually involves
Speaker 2: more nose piercings. Those are the parents now that are
Speaker 2: like I'm vegan. Even my nose ring is vegan, and
Speaker 2: all of my I got. I got all these different
Speaker 2: like Japanese characters of tattoos on the inside of my
Speaker 2: armpit because I love that.
Speaker 3: And my kids don't want to learn like from the man.
Speaker 2: So we're not gonna We'll let my kids decide what
Speaker 2: they want. They're they're five now, and they want to
Speaker 2: be engineers, so we're gonna teach them to be engineers.
Speaker 2: The parents who are for these sorts of things are
Speaker 2: not the parents of the future CEOs of America.
Speaker 3: Generally speaking. Now, you may have someone, as they use
Speaker 3: the story, who used.
Speaker 2: To be a teacher, and that teacher, even though she says, well,
Speaker 2: you don't have a curriculum, that teacher has a general
Speaker 2: idea of what the kids need to learn.
Speaker 3: The reason is that was her job. She went to
Speaker 3: school for that.
Speaker 2: She actually has an education in child psychology. There's some
Speaker 2: child development in her educational background. She may not be
Speaker 2: a child psychologist, but she's had some courses on she
Speaker 2: understands the progress of the children. I'm far less concerned
Speaker 2: with the former first grade teacher. This says, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: homeschool my kids and we're gonna kind of have a
Speaker 2: loosey goosey curriculum because I have more faith that the
Speaker 2: teacher with the experience is more likely to understand the
Speaker 2: kids have to understand, have to know the basics AB's
Speaker 2: and c's.
Speaker 3: But a lot of these TikTokers.
Speaker 2: That are making this sort of thing popular now they're
Speaker 2: influencers and we're gonna ride our bikes through every RV
Speaker 2: park in America and that's their education.
Speaker 3: They're the most crackpot parents you could imagine.
Speaker 2: They have not been wildly successful in life until they
Speaker 2: found TikTok and then the fact that they are eccentric
Speaker 2: makes them interesting, and that's why people watch. And then
Speaker 2: they do eccentric things, and then people watch them do
Speaker 2: eccentric things.
Speaker 3: It's the same.
Speaker 2: Reason we watch reality shows on Bravo. Nutty people doing
Speaker 2: nutty things.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: And so all of a sudden, the nutting people find
Speaker 2: other nutty people, and then the nutting people create communities,
Speaker 2: and then the nutty people catch the attention of mainstream
Speaker 2: and then we all say, look at this new trend.
Speaker 2: This person is totally normal and had their butt cheeks
Speaker 2: pierced together. Is now teaching their kids how to be
Speaker 2: well adjusted. Adun'ts they don't poop because their butt scheeks
Speaker 2: are pierced together. It's called unpooping. That's not normal, it's
Speaker 2: not beneficial to society, it's not.
Speaker 3: Good for the child.
Speaker 2: And yet, because of the reach of social media and
Speaker 2: the entertainment aspect of everything in our lives now, it's
Speaker 2: become popular enough that we're giving it some sort of credence.
Speaker 2: So I guess what I'm saying is, please don't do
Speaker 2: that to your kids. Please, Dear God, don't don't do that. Look,
Speaker 2: I don't like all the things my kids are doing,
Speaker 2: and honestly, I'm a little concerned that for one of
Speaker 2: my three adult children, there's a chance they would try
Speaker 2: this because they're the kind of person that would be like,
Speaker 2: I'm doing this un thing because it's not normal, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be different, just like everyone else that's different.
Speaker 2: We're totally different than everyone else, all of us that
Speaker 2: are doing the same thing. We're different and the same,
Speaker 2: but different together as one. So I'm really hoping that
Speaker 2: she grows out of that before she starts procreating his
Speaker 2: fingers crossed.
Speaker 3: It's being honest with you. Just hoping the great Doctor
Speaker 3: Wendy Walsh and Doctor Wendy after.
Speaker 2: Dark will give us some insight into all things related
Speaker 2: to our relationships and uh maybe tell us bad parenting
Speaker 2: one on one, letting your kids watch porn and then
Speaker 2: blaming the porn.
Speaker 3: That is next.
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Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe if you're bill handled betting your dates
Speaker 2: just a couple of weeks after you get married, then
Speaker 2: that's problematic.
Speaker 3: But otherwise the wrong though it's called due diligence.
Speaker 2: Chris Merril CAFI AM six forty on demand anytime the
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Speaker 2: working with my friend every week. I look forward to that. Kayla,
Speaker 2: Hi Kayla, Tayla, Hi Kayla, Hi Kayla, Hi Kayla.
Speaker 3: Hike.
Speaker 5: She walked away as doctor Wendy.
Speaker 2: I'm getting to you, and of course Brooker in the
Speaker 2: hiszel tonight and I love I love me some Heather
Speaker 2: Brooker too.
Speaker 3: All right, Doctor Renney, you know I didn't know if
Speaker 3: you were there too.
Speaker 9: I am knowing I'm always here. I appreciate you got
Speaker 9: your women with you.
Speaker 5: Don't worry.
Speaker 3: That's the important stuff, right, all right.
Speaker 2: So doctor Weddy walls Doctor Wendy after dog starts at
Speaker 2: to seven o'clock. And as we know, I like to
Speaker 2: talk with doctor Wendy, and I like to pick her
Speaker 2: brain about things. I happen to see a story out
Speaker 2: of one of the states that I hold near and
Speaker 2: dear to my heart, the state of Kansas. I lived
Speaker 2: there for seven years and I loved every second of it.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful place, and I know Kansas gets a
Speaker 2: bad rap, has been a fly over state.
Speaker 3: It's a great place. Loved it.
Speaker 2: But there's a woman in Kansas who is suing porn
Speaker 2: sites now after her fourteen year old used an old
Speaker 2: laptop to watch adult content. She says, one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighteen times, I think she's underestimating it. Claims that porn
Speaker 2: sites violated Kansas age verification laws.
Speaker 3: So they're saying that the porn sites are the problem.
Speaker 2: And they didn't do what they were supposed to do.
Speaker 2: And Kansas law says that any site or adult content
Speaker 2: represents a quarter of total content can be held liable
Speaker 2: if they don't take measures to ensure that miners can't
Speaker 2: access their sites. They say, however, that the law essentially
Speaker 2: lumps other sites like Twitter together with porn sites, even
Speaker 2: if distributing porn is not their main mission. This has
Speaker 2: been my argument over the age verification stuff on some
Speaker 2: of these websites anyway, and other states continue to sign on,
Speaker 2: and I understand why they do. It's to limit the
Speaker 2: kids from accessing the pornography. But what's the point when
Speaker 2: you're only going to do it to the sites that
Speaker 2: have one third or one half or one quarter or pornography.
Speaker 2: And then you've got X And I mean, for Pete's sake,
Speaker 2: as we know from this, more than a quarter of
Speaker 2: what you find on Twitter X is pornography, Snapchat all
Speaker 2: these other sites that are easily accessible.
Speaker 3: And I just think we're blaming We're blaming.
Speaker 2: Penthouse for the kids looking at it back in the
Speaker 2: old days, in the nineteen hundreds, remember those days, doctor Wendy.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, if I got a hold of my.
Speaker 2: Dad's Playboy, it wasn't Hefner's fault. It wasn't the fault
Speaker 2: of the Zephyr station on the corner of Broadway in
Speaker 2: State which was the only place within walking distance.
Speaker 3: So that that that sold smut from my house.
Speaker 9: Oh wait wait, that's the difference, is that that your
Speaker 9: dad had to bring it into the house.
Speaker 5: Now it's available in every child's phone.
Speaker 2: It's well, well, who gave my kid the phone? I mean, ultimately,
Speaker 2: are your parents? Let me yes, I got three of
Speaker 2: them and I'm a terrible parent. Yeah, and you think
Speaker 2: you can control their use. Let me tell you the
Speaker 2: kids who came over to my in middle school who
Speaker 2: were not allowed to have phones. The first thing they
Speaker 2: do is pick up any device or walk to any
Speaker 2: computer and log onto all their accounts.
Speaker 5: They all still have accounts.
Speaker 9: It's worse for those parents because the parents didn't know
Speaker 9: that their kids had all these social media accounts.
Speaker 2: All right, I get that it's tougher to police the
Speaker 2: kid's activities right than it ever has been before. But
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that parents don't have any responsibility. It
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that the parents can be like, this is
Speaker 2: porn Hub's fault for my kid looking at So.
Speaker 9: Let's talk about the kind of pornography. There's one thing,
Speaker 9: but if their dad had some Playboy Soft porn, cute
Speaker 9: little air brushed young women.
Speaker 3: Right, you can't find that anymore.
Speaker 9: No, Now we see violence, we see misogyny. Young boys
Speaker 9: are growing up to believe that this is love and
Speaker 9: this is sex. They assume that young girls want to
Speaker 9: be choked all because of the messages being sent by porn.
Speaker 9: This is very, very serious and it's also highly addictive.
Speaker 2: I don't agree. I don't disagree with anything that you've
Speaker 2: just said.
Speaker 9: I fully understand and I'm a big believer that it
Speaker 9: takes a village now, having been a single mom for
Speaker 9: twenty years, and I see how our culture loves to
Speaker 9: pathologize parenthood, like, oh, it must be the parents terrible
Speaker 9: to parents. We are in a village together, and there
Speaker 9: are many things that influence our children. Parents only have
Speaker 9: so much influence. They yeah, they dropped the genetic bomb
Speaker 9: in the kid's head, but and they try to model
Speaker 9: being a good person, but they are It is so
Speaker 9: easy to undo good parenting through things like pal pressure
Speaker 9: and the internet.
Speaker 2: In a heartbeat, again, I agree with what you're saying.
Speaker 2: My issue is that this kid found an old laptop
Speaker 2: and then access the pornography in his own home.
Speaker 5: If it's a he accessed it, it's well it does.
Speaker 3: Matter in the same way that I had to find it.
Speaker 2: I had to find my dad's stuff under the bed,
Speaker 2: in the same way that this kid was able to
Speaker 2: find a laptop that his parents didn't didn't take care
Speaker 2: of it, but he.
Speaker 9: Was able to access it because the porn side opened
Speaker 9: the door and let him in.
Speaker 2: All right, if you are not adult enough to know
Speaker 2: how to set up restrictions on your own Internet, then
Speaker 2: you shouldn't be having kids.
Speaker 5: Flat out, you're pathologizing parenthood.
Speaker 3: I am a parent. I have to take accountability.
Speaker 2: What I'm not doing is shirking that responsibility as a parent.
Speaker 2: I will tell you the flaws in my children are
Speaker 2: largely my fault.
Speaker 3: Really, I do think that.
Speaker 9: I think our culture at large also has a huge impact.
Speaker 2: But I'm not going to blame other people for my forthcomings.
Speaker 5: Hypothetical question.
Speaker 9: In a few weeks, I'm having a UCLA's lead cannabis
Speaker 9: researcher on the show here, and he told me that
Speaker 9: up to two percent of Americans are addicted to THHC
Speaker 9: and cannabis and it is you know, we're talking about
Speaker 9: millions of people.
Speaker 5: It is legal.
Speaker 9: There are myths about it that cannabis for instance, isn't addictive,
Speaker 9: which is a myth. There are myths that because it's legal,
Speaker 9: it's safe. There are myths that it's not a gateway drug,
Speaker 9: it is, et cetera. We're going to talk to him
Speaker 9: about that. So if your kid became addicted to weed
Speaker 9: as a teenager, is that your fault?
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand this legal.
Speaker 5: It's available in every corner.
Speaker 3: It is not legal for children. So neither is porn.
Speaker 2: Neither are cigarettes. And yet somehow people get it right
Speaker 2: for the porn. But if I find, if I find
Speaker 2: my kid is smoking, I don't go sue Philip Morris.
Speaker 2: I correct that parentally, so you go. I don't say,
Speaker 2: my goodness, we're all victims here. I have problems with that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not saying that the porn didn't do wrong.
Speaker 3: They did. That's fine.
Speaker 9: I think that we all need to take responsibility as
Speaker 9: a society and as a culture to make the world
Speaker 9: safer for minders.
Speaker 3: Wholly agree.
Speaker 2: But I don't think that starts with saying not my fault,
Speaker 2: somebody else's fault.
Speaker 3: That's where that's where well.
Speaker 9: I think there's a difference between saying not my fault
Speaker 9: and saying shared responsibility.
Speaker 5: Let's work together to solve these problems.
Speaker 2: We'll look at you finding some nice middle down here
Speaker 2: being the adult in the room.
Speaker 3: I don't like it. I love talking to you, I
Speaker 3: really do. I love it.
Speaker 2: This is why I listen to Doctor Wendy after dark
Speaker 2: and she starts here at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3: Have a wonderful show. I hope I got you. Hope
Speaker 3: I got you. Warmed up a little bit.
Speaker 5: I'm warmed up. Good, go fired up?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: Love it all right.
Speaker 2: We will talk to you next week as well. Chris
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