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Speaker 2: There's some other quick political things outside of the United States.
Speaker 2: To mention that one of them is in South Korea,
Speaker 2: the opposition parties have now submitted a motion to impeach
Speaker 2: the President of South Korea over that short lived martial
Speaker 2: law that was declared drew heavily armed troops to encircle
Speaker 2: Parliament before lawmakers literally climbed walls to re enter the
Speaker 2: building and unanimously vote to lift his order. He could
Speaker 2: be impeached, it would require two thirds of Parliament at
Speaker 2: least six justices of the nine member Constitutional Court would
Speaker 2: have to endorse it and then remove him from office.
Speaker 2: And also in France, a no confidence vote backed by
Speaker 2: the far right and the far left in France expected
Speaker 2: to gather enough votes to bring down the Prime Minister there,
Speaker 2: Michelle Bonnier, would be the shortest living, sorry shortest serving
Speaker 2: government in modern French Republic and the first in six
Speaker 2: decades to be taken out by no confidence vote.
Speaker 3: And then the problem is there's nothing behind it.
Speaker 2: There's no obvious cast of politicians that would form any
Speaker 2: sort of a stable government, which could decimate the economy
Speaker 2: of Europe.
Speaker 1: Bill Maher says he may quit real time because he's
Speaker 1: tired of talking about Trump. He says, I did Trump.
Speaker 1: I did all the Trump stuff before everybody. I called
Speaker 1: him a con man before everybody. He's a mafia boss.
Speaker 1: I was the one who said he wasn't going to
Speaker 1: concede the election. I've done it, said. He's very hostile
Speaker 1: to me. He tweets about me every week. Every week
Speaker 1: he accidentally watches my show and then writes low ratings, loser.
Speaker 3: Your impression. It's time for swamp watch. Swamp is horrible.
Speaker 3: The government doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Man, gonna make this like a reality TV show.
Speaker 3: A bad doos.
Speaker 5: Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: Hey, Joe, A town all too clearly built on a
Speaker 1: swamp and in so many ways still a swamp.
Speaker 3: I have to watch a malwarkey. What he said, drained
Speaker 3: the swamp. I said, Oh, that's so I'll keep you happen.
Speaker 6: Man. You know the thing.
Speaker 2: Well, The uncomfortable conversations continue on Capitol Hill today. It
Speaker 2: is nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who has
Speaker 2: been going around having conversations with senators who would then
Speaker 2: decide on his confirmation. The issues right now surround a
Speaker 2: couple of different things. We've talked about the allegation that
Speaker 2: he sexually assaulted a woman seven years ago. He says
Speaker 2: it was consensual, no charges Wherever brought other reports about
Speaker 2: abuse in his marriages, not physical necessarily, but mental and
Speaker 2: verbal abuse in his marriages, extramarital activities. One of the
Speaker 2: reasons he got divorced is he knocked up a producer
Speaker 2: at Fox News while he was working there. Drinking habits
Speaker 2: was also one of the things that has come out
Speaker 2: that people that used to work with him at Fox
Speaker 2: were concerned about how much he was drinking.
Speaker 1: See, this is the same problem I have with a
Speaker 1: sitting president Biden, you call him at four in the morning,
Speaker 1: what you going to get?
Speaker 5: And now he's not drunk.
Speaker 1: But again with Pete haig Seth, you when your secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense, you've got to be able to take that
Speaker 1: call at four in the morning and just be completely
Speaker 1: clear headed. We don't have that for a sitting president,
Speaker 1: which is awful. But the secretary of Defense is another
Speaker 1: person who needs to be on his or her game
Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day, or just ready to answer
Speaker 1: that call.
Speaker 2: And that's the kind of thing that we would see
Speaker 2: with the confirmation hearing and I like beer well, we
Speaker 2: did talk about that when we talk about Matt Gates
Speaker 2: and whatever confirmation hearing he was going to go through
Speaker 2: was going to make the Brett Kavanaugh hearings look, you know,
Speaker 2: childish in comparison. And if Pete Haigseth is taken, is
Speaker 2: continues in his nomination, is put before the Senate, it's
Speaker 2: going to get uncomfortable for him and for all of us.
Speaker 2: We also told you The New York Times published an
Speaker 2: email that his mother had sent him during one of
Speaker 2: his divorces, where she just ripped into him, I mean
Speaker 2: just talked about her disappointment and his character and the
Speaker 2: way he was treating women and his wives, and she
Speaker 2: had In the New York Times article, they did point
Speaker 2: out that she said she had apologized to him, that
Speaker 2: she wrote the email in a very passionate moment in
Speaker 2: her life, that she was very angry, and then she
Speaker 2: went on Fox Today to talk more about her.
Speaker 4: They were going through Pete and his wife at the
Speaker 4: time were going through a very difficult divorce. It was
Speaker 4: a very emotional time, and I'm sure many of you
Speaker 4: across the country understand how difficult divorce is on a family.
Speaker 4: There's emotions, we say things, and I wrote that in haste.
Speaker 4: I wrote that with deep emotions. I wrote that as
Speaker 4: a parent, and about two hours later I should I should.
Speaker 4: My husband tells me I should think through things a
Speaker 4: little bit more, but Pete and I are both very
Speaker 4: passionate people.
Speaker 5: I wrote that out of love.
Speaker 4: About two hours later I retracted it with an apology email.
Speaker 4: But nobody's seen that.
Speaker 2: Somebody had commented that if we had a similar instance
Speaker 2: where Joe Biden, for example, had written something to Hunter
Speaker 2: about his decisions that he was making and the way
Speaker 2: he was treating his wives and his kids and etc.
Speaker 2: That we would be all over publishing that. This is no,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I don't like airing out a familial dirty laundry like
Speaker 1: that in the New York Times especially, but really anywhere.
Speaker 1: I think it's below the belt, and I think it's
Speaker 1: playing dirty. And like I said earlier, we have a
Speaker 1: right to know, the public has a right to know.
Speaker 1: But to a point, and this guy running around on women.
Speaker 5: It does not.
Speaker 1: It's not even relevant when you think about the job
Speaker 1: of Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 5: It's not our business. The drinking thing is our business.
Speaker 1: If that's truly a problem, because that means he can't
Speaker 1: take that phone call of twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean senators would have the because they have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to advise and consent. You know that the
Speaker 2: idea that a person's character is important to that decision
Speaker 2: making process. So I wouldn't say it doesn't. I would
Speaker 2: say it doesn't. It's not that it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But look at JFKA, look at Martin Luther King Junior.
Speaker 1: That had great character, but they also ran around on
Speaker 1: their wives.
Speaker 3: But that means they didn't have great character.
Speaker 5: But that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can have great character in certain areas,
Speaker 1: certain areas.
Speaker 2: Yes, and listen, we're not centators, so we don't get
Speaker 2: to ask that quest God.
Speaker 3: So with all of this going on, there's.
Speaker 2: A chance that Donald Trump asks Ronda Santis to be
Speaker 2: the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 1: Also, the White House Press Corps is losing its mind
Speaker 1: over what Trump may do to shake up the briefing room.
Speaker 3: What he may do, what he will do.
Speaker 1: The CEO of the nation's largest tell Santa the nation's largest,
Speaker 1: it's like.
Speaker 5: God, bit different. Now you're gonna make people well, reverence
Speaker 5: just having reverence. Okay, that's all I met.
Speaker 1: The CEO of the nation's largest health insurance Why am
Speaker 1: I laughing through this? Now?
Speaker 5: You made me laugh And I was trying to deliver.
Speaker 1: Sad news, bad news. Was murdered in New York City.
Speaker 1: A targeted attack. Manhunt underway. They're using dogs, they're using drones. Everything.
Speaker 1: This was a like I said, targeted. He was in
Speaker 1: a ski mask, took off on an e bike, and
Speaker 1: they say he may currently be in Central Park, which
Speaker 1: is massive.
Speaker 5: As you know.
Speaker 1: His wife, the CEO's wife, says he had been the
Speaker 1: target of threats recently about being denied coverage or not
Speaker 1: not covered or what have you.
Speaker 2: Back to swamp Watch and we talked about Pete hag
Speaker 2: Seth and the the pantload of baggage that he brings
Speaker 2: with him to this nomination for Secretary of Defense, and
Speaker 2: it's looking less and less likely that he would be
Speaker 2: not that he would be confirmed. In fact, South Carolina
Speaker 2: Senator Lindsey Graham said today, I think some of these
Speaker 2: articles are very disturbing. He told CBS. Hegseeth obviously has
Speaker 2: a chance to defend himself here being the Senate, but
Speaker 2: some of this stuff is going to be difficult. So
Speaker 2: apparently Trump has been floating the idea of replacing his
Speaker 2: nominee with Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida. Source familiar
Speaker 2: with the conversation talked to NBC News. Wall Street Journal
Speaker 2: was the first that reported that DeSantis was under consideration,
Speaker 2: and they said that a couple of others, including Senators
Speaker 2: Jony Ernst out of Iowa and Bill Haggerty, Republican out
Speaker 2: of Tennessee, could be named as replacements as well. They
Speaker 2: said originally that Mike Wallas, who was a congressman out
Speaker 2: of Florida, could be a possible pick, although he has
Speaker 2: already been chosen to become the next National Security Advisor. Now,
Speaker 2: in terms of how serious this is, it's hard to tell,
Speaker 2: because apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, these were
Speaker 2: simply conversations that Trump was having with guests at mar
Speaker 2: A Lago, like, Hey, if Pete can't do it, what
Speaker 2: do you think about Ron?
Speaker 1: I just there's something more here because they don't have
Speaker 1: a cozy relationship. And Ron de Santis has said that
Speaker 1: he's going to be holding interviews extensive vetting, which means
Speaker 1: Ronda Santis right now is in the big chair and
Speaker 1: is waiting for people to come kiss the ring and
Speaker 1: pat his pockets and do all the things to get
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio's seat. So if you give if you give
Speaker 1: Ronda Santis this job, you're kind of taking away his
Speaker 1: power in Florida.
Speaker 5: To be a senator picker, a nighter.
Speaker 1: Right now. He's Donald Trump on the Apprentice, right Like,
Speaker 1: he gets to sit in the chair and have everyone
Speaker 1: come in and tell me how much she loved me,
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And if ron DeSantis doesn't have that
Speaker 1: power of naming the Knights senator, then he kind of
Speaker 1: doesn't have the same power that he was wielding.
Speaker 2: No, but it would put him on the fat It
Speaker 2: would jump him up a couple of spots to be
Speaker 2: the Republican nominee in twenty eight if he was the
Speaker 2: secretary of Defense. I mean, in terms of if he's
Speaker 2: trying to think for himself why he would do it,
Speaker 2: that would be one reason for him to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know who has more power in that situation,
Speaker 1: a kingmaker or Secretary of Defense, which can be buried
Speaker 1: depending on the administration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Trump does say he's going to replace the top
Speaker 2: US diplomat that is in charge of hostage releases a
Speaker 2: new US Special Presidential Envoy for hostage affairs, which means
Speaker 2: he's probably going to fire the guy who did a
Speaker 2: couple of recent prisoner swaps with Russia and who Trump
Speaker 2: himself appointed to that position. But Trump wrote on truth
Speaker 2: Social today that he's going to appoint Adam Boehler, former
Speaker 2: CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation, to this role.
Speaker 2: Bohler said Buller, according to Trump, was a lead negotiator
Speaker 2: on the team that broker the Abraham Accords, this deal
Speaker 2: that saw a bunch of Arab countries normalized relations with
Speaker 2: Israel back in the day. They said that this would
Speaker 2: elevate an experienced negotiator to one of the most sensitive
Speaker 2: roles within the US government. Also, this means that Roger Carstons,
Speaker 2: who had been praised for his work in securing hostage releases, would.
Speaker 3: Probably be out of a job.
Speaker 2: It also follows on the post that former President Trump,
Speaker 2: President elect Trump made regarding a message to Hamas, which is,
Speaker 2: if they don't release all of their hostages by inauguration day,
Speaker 2: there will be all hell to pay. In terms of
Speaker 2: the House, Republicans have a narrow majority because Democrats were
Speaker 2: able to flip the Great thirteenth District. Democrat Adam Gray
Speaker 2: finally defeated Congressman John Dwarte, and when all the votes
Speaker 2: were counted in yesterday, Dwarty did call and concede the
Speaker 2: race last night.
Speaker 1: People close to Trump said in recent days he could
Speaker 1: or he should dramatically change who gets access to the president,
Speaker 1: suggesting that podcasters, internet personalities, and media deemed more friendly
Speaker 1: to him could replace outlets like major TV networks, The
Speaker 1: New York Times and the Washington Post. In the White
Speaker 1: House press briefing rooms front rows front rows though they'll
Speaker 1: still be there, they'll just not have the front row seating.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 2: I wonder if he would give a seat to the
Speaker 2: Call Her Daddy podcast, the one that did the interview
Speaker 2: with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: I don't know her name. It's a kids thing.
Speaker 5: Do you want your Jeopardy question? Why donkeys? For one
Speaker 5: thousand dollars?
Speaker 3: I wanted to name my dog donkeyth did you really? No?
Speaker 3: But after I saw Shrek the other night, I thought
Speaker 3: that would have been a great name.
Speaker 5: Yeah, why did you watch Shrek the other night?
Speaker 3: Because he was on TV?
Speaker 5: Okay, you're just flipping around and you saw it.
Speaker 2: Well, it was the night before Thanksgiving, no night of Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: I think it was.
Speaker 3: And my nephew.
Speaker 2: I had to watch a show that my daughter and
Speaker 2: my nephew and I and my wife and in laws
Speaker 2: and everything.
Speaker 5: And you didn't want to watch one of Deborah's sex shows.
Speaker 3: And I haven't seen Shrek in a long time, and
Speaker 3: it was really a great show.
Speaker 5: It is great. I need a good sex show, Shannon.
Speaker 3: Okay, keep it in your pants.
Speaker 1: Well we'll get to that in what you watch on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Here's your answer. In a book by Marguerite, Henry Brady
Speaker 1: is a burrow who roams the high cliffs of this
Speaker 1: Arizona landmark.
Speaker 3: The Grand Canyon. Yes was, but he was I guess
Speaker 3: he was a donkey who did say it was a burrow? Burrow.
Speaker 7: Justin Warson has joined us like eight different shows going
Speaker 7: on in his dark secret.
Speaker 2: Place, Parentsy with Justin. Here's a question for you before
Speaker 2: we get stuff that you brought us. I'm throwing you
Speaker 2: a curveball. Yeah ball humped at Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 6: Hey, this is more for Justin for you guys's Wednesday talks.
Speaker 6: But what's his thoughts or if he has any background
Speaker 6: information on say, Sanna giving a kid a piece of
Speaker 6: coal for Christmas. Now, not saying the kid's bad one
Speaker 6: hundred percent of the time, but knowing, Hey, Sanna's watching
Speaker 6: throughout the year and knowing, hey, you got a piece
Speaker 6: of coal for you know something you know Sanna does
Speaker 6: know throughout the year that hey, you know, you can't
Speaker 6: just be good in a matter of six weeks when
Speaker 6: you're elf on the shelf shows up. You've got to
Speaker 6: be good for the remainder, you know, the whole part
Speaker 6: of the year, you know, doing your chores. Not talking back,
Speaker 6: but just want to see what Justin's perspective of interesting
Speaker 6: a piece of showing up at Christmas rather than your
Speaker 6: kid expecting, you know, getting gifts up the wazoo.
Speaker 2: Now, my understanding of it is he's talking about like
Speaker 2: a piece of cord, not the only thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, like maybe you as you as mom
Speaker 7: and dad, like Santa may drop a lump a hole,
Speaker 7: but mom and Dad could pepper in a few things.
Speaker 5: Kind of what's a little darkness on Christmas morning?
Speaker 3: Though, well, I did see something when I heard this
Speaker 3: this morning.
Speaker 2: It reminded me of a friend showed a picture of
Speaker 2: an ornament when there's regular glass balls, the ball blown
Speaker 2: balls ornament, you know what.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. But clip Ship and Jacob.
Speaker 2: It had a fake camera lens on it and they
Speaker 2: wrote Santa Cam ornament so that the kids would always
Speaker 2: feel like Santa's watching or could see what they were
Speaker 2: doing or whatever.
Speaker 5: Isn't just a reminder throughout the year Santa's watching.
Speaker 3: It doesn't fly, and it doesn't.
Speaker 7: But well here's the Really, I think what anybody who
Speaker 7: is asking about this is really saying like there needs
Speaker 7: to there needs to be a delivery on the because
Speaker 7: what all of us throughout our childhood, right, we all
Speaker 7: know that he has a list, He's checked it at
Speaker 7: least twice, right, and so you don't but nobody ever
Speaker 7: comes back to school and go, hey, what did you get?
Speaker 7: And you're like, Diddley, evidently I'm not a good person.
Speaker 7: You don't hear that story. But I would argue as like,
Speaker 7: so I'll give I'll give two answers to that. Number One,
Speaker 7: I would say that the experts that I've talked to
Speaker 7: over the years of doing the Dad podcast would probably
Speaker 7: suggest that you do some suggesting or write a letter
Speaker 7: to Santa yourself to kind of maybe discourage that kind
Speaker 7: of a thing. But me personally as a father, like,
Speaker 7: I think it also depends on the age of your kid.
Speaker 7: I think the older they are sure have at it.
Speaker 7: The younger they are. If you think you need it
Speaker 7: to deliver a message, that message will be delivered strong.
Speaker 3: It's just gonna say.
Speaker 2: That's like they open up a package and it's someone's
Speaker 2: a severed finger.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and they're like, you could be next. I feel
Speaker 7: like this is a moral and ethical hot wire, you
Speaker 7: know what I mean. Like they get shocked, like that's
Speaker 7: a hot stove and you touched it, and that there's
Speaker 7: a there's a there's a great viral video. I don't
Speaker 7: know if you guys seen it. This kid, who I
Speaker 7: think is like somewhere in Britain and his dad's telling
Speaker 7: him like you I've talked to Santa, You're not You're
Speaker 7: on the naughty list, and he's no, He's like no,
Speaker 7: and it looks very adorable until the kid goes if
Speaker 7: he if he if I'm on the naughty list, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna uppercut Santa. And I'm like, there it is dad's
Speaker 7: talking about, like he minds punching Santa claus In.
Speaker 3: He goes, I'm gonna knock his beard right off, is
Speaker 3: what his kid says. So maybe that kid should get
Speaker 3: a lump of coal. I hope. I genuinely answer that,
Speaker 3: like I think you Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't feel comfortable endorsing it as like a blanket
Speaker 7: statement for parents to suggest Santa give a lump of coal.
Speaker 3: But if you think you need to send a message,
Speaker 3: I'm all for it.
Speaker 5: Just a kid have a good sense of humor, and
Speaker 5: I'll don't even care if you have a.
Speaker 3: Sense of humor.
Speaker 7: You genuinely think that that is something that your kid
Speaker 7: needs and it just has to has to feel or
Speaker 7: taste or whatever, then I say go for it, and
Speaker 7: I listen, I.
Speaker 5: Don't you also are in hitting your kids?
Speaker 3: Yeah, heavily. That's how I show affectionately. Did I not
Speaker 3: make that clear when I started this whole thing multiple
Speaker 3: years ago? Most of the time, not today. They've actually
Speaker 3: been listening this week. But the point is the holidays
Speaker 3: are coming, I get in touch with your family. It's
Speaker 3: about staying connected.
Speaker 2: It is an interesting look at a potential warning shot
Speaker 2: that you're firing. But again I think he's saying, you know,
Speaker 2: could I give one of the packages, could be a
Speaker 2: lump of holes, this with a little note that says.
Speaker 5: And in March you done aft up.
Speaker 7: I will say this, and I hope I don't get
Speaker 7: choked up because then you guys will laugh at me.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it helps this pair.
Speaker 7: But the greatest to this day, the greatest Christmas gift
Speaker 7: I received was when I was about six years old,
Speaker 7: maybe seven, and I had started to maybe not believe
Speaker 7: in Santa, and so my parents had just gotten separated.
Speaker 7: And so in my letter, I said, hey, a lot
Speaker 7: of kids at school are saying that you're not real.
Speaker 7: So I don't need really a ton of presents, but
Speaker 7: if you could just give me a piece of your
Speaker 7: sleigh bells so I would know we had to have
Speaker 7: like just read the Polar Express at school or something.
Speaker 7: And that's where I got the idea. I just remember
Speaker 7: writing that in my letter, and I gotten a few gifts.
Speaker 3: Not a lot.
Speaker 7: It was that first divorce Christmas where my mom made
Speaker 7: it rain because she got a lot of money and
Speaker 7: had not so but my gifts from Santa at my
Speaker 7: dad's house. And I distinctly to this day remember picking
Speaker 7: up that little tiny box and having it ring like
Speaker 7: it jingled.
Speaker 3: And I still have that to this day in my
Speaker 3: in my drawer. Yeah it was. It had probably the
Speaker 3: biggest impact on me.
Speaker 1: The fact that Santa got your letter, read it and
Speaker 1: remembered to deliver that. Dude's incredible all I.
Speaker 3: Like I had.
Speaker 7: I remember at least eight toys around me and I
Speaker 7: just sat there holding that thing like this is insane,
Speaker 7: like and it was.
Speaker 3: It's just a simple piece of leather with the bells
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 2: Like, did you squirrel it away so that nobody could
Speaker 2: see it or touch it or look at it or
Speaker 2: take you.
Speaker 5: Wanted to keep Santa's Magic tears myself?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I will well. I always kept it in a drawer,
Speaker 7: in a safe place. It was I'm not saying, I'm
Speaker 7: not exaggerating. It was one of my most valued possessions
Speaker 7: for most of my life. Like sure it's been knocked
Speaker 7: down now that I have a wife and kids and
Speaker 7: stuff like that. Possession, running a close third.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, trust it's definitely nicer to me than they are. Sorry,
Speaker 3: this is so rude to people.
Speaker 7: Listen, but he told me after him and his girlfriend
Speaker 7: broke up that being single in this new choir was different,
Speaker 7: with a smirk on his face like he was definitely
Speaker 7: see he appreciated being on the maps.
Speaker 3: But this is a part of it.
Speaker 7: I'm not saying it's to marry this girl, but just
Speaker 7: go have a meal or a cup of coffee with her.
Speaker 5: It's a forty five minute drive.
Speaker 7: It's a twenty to thirty minute drive drive if you
Speaker 7: hit all right, we're opening up the phone lines. Would
Speaker 7: you your kid go on a date with a girl
Speaker 7: who came up to him and said that she thought
Speaker 7: he was cute.
Speaker 5: But we're talking, we're killing so bad Valencia. Yes, that's
Speaker 5: it's kids. Someone to drop put that time.
Speaker 7: Here's the other creepy thing that came out of this
Speaker 7: count What happened was this girl flirted with my son,
Speaker 7: said she was interested. They exchanged numbers, and he's kind
Speaker 7: of shy about going on on date with her. I'm like,
Speaker 7: you should at least go on a date. I go,
Speaker 7: when you were talking to her? Was she fun to
Speaker 7: talk to? And he was like, oh, yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was fun.
Speaker 7: And I go, do you not like find her attract
Speaker 7: He's like, no, no, she's super cute. I'm like, well,
Speaker 7: then what's the what's the hang up?
Speaker 1: And my thing is, I'm sure he has interests locally
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have to drive to Valencia for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we've talked.
Speaker 7: There's nothing. I've asked him that too, Blake. I'm like,
Speaker 7: is there somebody else that you're more interested? He's like, no, no,
Speaker 7: I'm fine just a moment.
Speaker 5: He's keeping his options open again.
Speaker 7: He doesn't have to marry her, just go on a date,
Speaker 7: have a maybe you don't. Maybe you find out after
Speaker 7: a meal or a cup of coffee you're like, oh,
Speaker 7: never mind.
Speaker 1: You know what would be a good lesson is if
Speaker 1: he doesn't and then it is like, you know what,
Speaker 1: that girl was really cool and he reaches out and
Speaker 1: texts her and she's like, I'm seeing someone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it would be a good lesson.
Speaker 3: I don't want him to learn that lesson though, Shannon,
Speaker 3: I want him lesson.
Speaker 7: But here's the part that bothered me and I don't
Speaker 7: know if this is I'm just I have two sons,
Speaker 7: so I don't know. Everybody that I've told this story to,
Speaker 7: they've always well, she cute, which is I don't know why,
Speaker 7: but that bothers me.
Speaker 5: That bothers me.
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 3: I mean this sincerely.
Speaker 7: I have zero opinion on whether or not this probably
Speaker 7: sixteen year old girl is cut, right, I have, I've
Speaker 7: seen a picture of her. That What matters to me
Speaker 7: is if he thinks that she's cute. Like, if you
Speaker 7: think she's cute, why why would you not do this?
Speaker 7: I spend way too much time thinking about this. Clearly
Speaker 7: that's a year old dude, Like, what if this is
Speaker 7: the love of your life? I met your mother in
Speaker 7: high school?
Speaker 2: Oh boy, always looking for you. He wants to hear that,
Speaker 2: he wants to hear how you guys fell in love.
Speaker 7: No, he doesn't like it when we sit down on
Speaker 7: our anniversary and retail the tale and what make him?
Speaker 3: Watch?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Gary, he's gonna And then one time
Speaker 2: the kisses well they just got.
Speaker 3: And that's when you came Jacob, now.
Speaker 2: Mommy and referred to as tickle time. Tickle time, Oh god,
Speaker 2: how do you? How do you avoid overspending at Christmas
Speaker 2: with kids.
Speaker 7: This comes up every year. It's my way of dealing
Speaker 7: with it has always been that we've had a budget.
Speaker 7: The reason why this struck home to me is that
Speaker 7: this year the usual budget for Christmas for our gifts
Speaker 7: that we give to the kids has almost doubled because
Speaker 7: they're thirteen and sixteen. Like the things that they want
Speaker 7: have transitioned from toys to like furniture and electron My
Speaker 7: kids aren't even asking for phones, but it's still costing
Speaker 7: me close to one thousand dollars a.
Speaker 3: Nice French door.
Speaker 1: You get.
Speaker 7: One of my kids wants a dorm fridge in his
Speaker 7: room and I'm like, no, you we have a we
Speaker 7: have tool fridge.
Speaker 3: Go to a dorm if you want a dorm fridge.
Speaker 3: I told him, I said, get an apartment, you can
Speaker 3: have your own fridge.
Speaker 5: Must be Jack, yep, I adore how well you know
Speaker 5: my kids?
Speaker 7: Jack, he's trying to annex himself inside my own home,
Speaker 7: like he's trying to become a sovereign nation in that little.
Speaker 1: Roof of quarterback Josh something ever went to U C.
Speaker 1: L A And put like a hot tub in his room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would be jackular man.
Speaker 7: He's trying to get a new desk, and he's selling
Speaker 7: me on the idea of this new desk because it's
Speaker 7: a standing desk, so it'll go up and down. And
Speaker 7: he's got a he wants to get a monitor that's
Speaker 7: better for gaming, but he said I could also use
Speaker 7: it for my homework. And I had to stop selling me.
Speaker 7: I don't need to be sold and I don't like it.
Speaker 7: I just I just want to have a conversation with
Speaker 7: my son. But were kissing is a special kid?
Speaker 5: Stop interrupting and then I put my hand.
Speaker 7: You're being selfish, which is also what your mother said
Speaker 7: on our way anyway, Oh, and we had a good run.
Speaker 3: We did it. It took the holidays that we broke her.
Speaker 3: Why is that growth? Oh, dare you love?
Speaker 7: But one of the things that my niece pitched that
Speaker 7: we're doing, and it was mentioned in this article, is
Speaker 7: doing like kind of a gift exchange where everybody only
Speaker 7: buys a gift and brings it to the to the gathering.
Speaker 3: It's hard when you have kids. I think I don't.
Speaker 7: I I've always had and I know I've told this
Speaker 7: story before on the show, but there's this family. There's
Speaker 7: a comic that I used to open for when I
Speaker 7: was a stand up and I got invited to his
Speaker 7: sister's house. We were in on the road around the holidays,
Speaker 7: and she her in laws do a Christmas but they
Speaker 7: have never done lavish gifts. Like their idea of gifts.
Speaker 7: They don't do a gift exchange. They buy, but what
Speaker 7: they buy is literally things that you could find at
Speaker 7: a grocery store. So they buy you your favorite chips,
Speaker 7: they buy you your favorite gum, or they buy you
Speaker 7: something like you got a house. Like one time, this guy,
Speaker 7: one of the family members was over the moon because
Speaker 7: he got a slow closing toilet lid for Christmas from
Speaker 7: like a niece. Those are nice, and I just I
Speaker 7: love the simplicity of it because I feel like the
Speaker 7: sap in me likes the idea that now it's more
Speaker 7: about hanging out and being together and just opening gifts
Speaker 7: that it doesn't matter how much they cost or anything.
Speaker 3: And they're very thoughtful, right the pile of goods that
Speaker 3: you received exactly, it's not about.
Speaker 7: The hall, it's about you know, And this is what
Speaker 7: kind of sad me. And I'm glad we're doing it
Speaker 7: because I told my family. I said, oh, by the way,
Speaker 7: we're doing like a gift exchange, so everybody's going to
Speaker 7: buy a gift that's fifty dollars or less. My older son,
Speaker 7: not the younger one. The older one was like, well,
Speaker 7: that's garbage. I want some gifts.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I failed you. I failed you
Speaker 3: so much. You're sixteen.
Speaker 7: I said, well, it's not like you're not going to
Speaker 7: get anything from us, but in regards to the family, like,
Speaker 7: we're all going to just get together and hang out.
Speaker 7: They also did some research and found that thrift store
Speaker 7: shopping is really popular amongst kids. So if that's a
Speaker 7: way that you can save some money that Evidently kids
Speaker 7: don't mind getting things secondhand as long as.
Speaker 2: They're our kids. We just had this conversation the other night.
Speaker 2: We used to get our kids their presence from garage sales. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then they never cared.
Speaker 3: They didn't care.
Speaker 2: So's some of the best gifts that they had were
Speaker 2: from garage sales. Yeah, it's just colder, that's all old grin.
Speaker 2: How early before Christmas would you be getting these gifts July? Oh, well,
Speaker 2: that's impressive. Good for you, guys.
Speaker 3: Wife is a planners, a plan. This is to a plan.
Speaker 3: I wish my wife plans. Oh, everything's fine, guys, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to start a new segment with Justin
Speaker 2: called u how to keep your marriage at hacked.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 2: Can't wait to listen. It's gonna she'll be a p
Speaker 2: one because I help. Thank you as always, Justin Worsham.
Speaker 5: I are not revisiting a dirty joke which I could
Speaker 5: have just revisited.
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