Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
Speaker 1: I A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
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Speaker 1: Padres friends this morning, how those say? How those Padres doing?
Speaker 1: They don't The Padres fans do not like s talking.
Speaker 1: No response, there's no. They're not good at it. They're
Speaker 1: not good at it. They beat the Giants, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they're still in third place.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Uh, you'd have to check that, but yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they are behind them. Listen, Padres fans, I mean they're
Speaker 1: they're good. They're when they're right and high, they're they're
Speaker 1: a love delightful people, lovely people. But when they're losing, man,
Speaker 1: and I'm listen, I can't.
Speaker 3: Take the heat. Get out of the NLS.
Speaker 4: As a Giants fan, it's hard to exist in southern
Speaker 4: California because all you're surrounded by Dodgers fans. And but
Speaker 4: there's that good friendly teta tet, if you will, the
Speaker 4: friendly given.
Speaker 3: Tet, the old ballpark, the fun testing of each other's.
Speaker 4: Jibes against each o, the jibes.
Speaker 3: A gentlemanly sport.
Speaker 4: Ah, Man, you tangle some of those Padres fans from
Speaker 4: there in third place.
Speaker 5: You don't mess a out with those people.
Speaker 6: I can only imagine how said Jeff olrich Is over
Speaker 6: that one hundred thousand dollars. I remember how said my
Speaker 6: dad was when I called a nine hundred number once
Speaker 6: and it was like five bucks, right, it was like
Speaker 6: thirty years ago, and I still never.
Speaker 1: Heard the Yeah, my dad would get mad if I
Speaker 1: stayed on too long with my grandma, his mother because
Speaker 1: of the long distance charge. You know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: dads don't play when it comes to money. Even if
Speaker 1: you had a career in the NFL and you have
Speaker 1: a bunch of money. And I don't know how much
Speaker 1: Jeff Olbrick made, but he had a pretty substantial career
Speaker 1: from what I remember, didn't make the nearly the money
Speaker 1: they make now. But I mean, dads do not play
Speaker 1: when it comes to money. Like it could be five dollars,
Speaker 1: it could be wasting. It's the wasting of the money.
Speaker 1: And this is an enormous waste of one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: This isn't your kid wanted to go to Duke and
Speaker 1: you paid a bunch of money and you paid tuition.
Speaker 5: Then the kids like I'm not into it.
Speaker 3: Years ago puppetry degree. Yeah, and then you just got
Speaker 3: to eat it like that's that's different.
Speaker 1: This is an enormous waste of a hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Where do those fines generally go? Do they go to
Speaker 4: like NFL Foundation or something?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, I know, I'm just curious the dynamic duo.
Speaker 3: I really think you guys should market that T shirt
Speaker 3: that's saying.
Speaker 5: You have an acceptable face.
Speaker 3: I like it, you guys an acceptable face.
Speaker 1: I gotta say that just is not for a throwaway comment.
Speaker 1: That is not going away anytime.
Speaker 3: Soon, is it? It's time for swamp. I got a
Speaker 3: politician that one. Yeah, that's all right. You're going to
Speaker 3: confuse el Murphy. I mean, that's all right. Politicians. We
Speaker 3: did a different time yesterday. And when I'm not kissing beat,
Speaker 3: I'm stealing that we.
Speaker 7: Got the real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 5: The other side never quits.
Speaker 3: So what I'm not going anywhere? So that now you train.
Speaker 1: The swat, I can imagine what can be and be
Speaker 1: unburdened by what has been, you know, have.
Speaker 3: Always been gone a president, they're not stupid.
Speaker 8: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3: Have the people voted for you were not swap watch
Speaker 3: they're all counting on.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well, what were you going to say? It's
Speaker 1: not real important. Trump's cabinet. He had a cabinet meeting
Speaker 1: today at the White House. Uh, They're doing this on
Speaker 1: a very regular basis. He starts with comments.
Speaker 4: Today's comments had to do with the GDP numbers that
Speaker 4: came out this morning for GDP.
Speaker 7: And this is you know, you probably saw some numbers today,
Speaker 7: and I have to start off, I say, that's Biden.
Speaker 3: That's not because we came in on January. Just a
Speaker 3: quarterly numbers.
Speaker 4: Now, what he does is he's saying that when you
Speaker 4: take out some of the extraneous numbers, the economy still
Speaker 4: has some strength to it. Peter Navarro, the Trade advisor,
Speaker 4: also put quite the spin on it this morning.
Speaker 9: This was the best negative print, as they say in
Speaker 9: the Trade for GDP, I have ever seen in my life.
Speaker 9: It really should be very positive news for America.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know about that, but it is the
Speaker 4: three tenths of a percent drop in GDP for the
Speaker 4: first quarter of the year. Trump blamed it on Biden.
Speaker 4: And said as much in a truth social post. It
Speaker 4: was one of the issues that came up last night,
Speaker 4: very long one hundred day interview, with a very long
Speaker 4: interview to mark one hundred days in office. He did
Speaker 4: it with ABC News as Terry Moran, did you hear
Speaker 4: the line?
Speaker 3: He said?
Speaker 4: As to he, Trump apparently got to choose who did
Speaker 4: the interview. That was part of the deal that they struck, okay,
Speaker 4: and he said he chose Terry Moran and not David
Speaker 4: Muir or George Stephanopolis because he had never heard of him.
Speaker 4: He had never heard of Terry Moran, which was a
Speaker 4: of course, it was a dig. Of of course, it
Speaker 4: was quite the line. But anyway, Terry Moran had asked him,
Speaker 4: things are not going well economically, at least, you know,
Speaker 4: tariff wise. Stock markets are down, people are losing money
Speaker 4: in their four oh one k's. We're not seeing the relief,
Speaker 4: the general price relief that we were expecting, although egg
Speaker 4: prices have gone down, gas prices have gone down and
Speaker 4: things like that. So Terry Moran asked him, did people
Speaker 4: sign up for this when they voted for you?
Speaker 7: Well, they did sign up for it, actually, And this
Speaker 7: is what I campaigned on I said that we've been
Speaker 7: abused by other countries at levels that nobody's ever seen before.
Speaker 7: I could have left it that way, and at some
Speaker 7: point that would have been an implosion like nobody's ever seen,
Speaker 7: but I said no, we have to fix it.
Speaker 1: Also on Capitol Hill today, the Senate Commerce Committee has
Speaker 1: appeared poised to advance that bill to make daylight saving
Speaker 1: time permanent. It seems lawmakers are coalescing around the idea
Speaker 1: of ending the practice of changing the clocks twice a year.
Speaker 1: The panel is deeply divided over whether to embrace permanent
Speaker 1: daylight saving time or standard time.
Speaker 3: However, they don't.
Speaker 5: So they're in agreement to some.
Speaker 1: Degree to stop f and with the clocks just pick
Speaker 1: a time, but they can't decide on the time. Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz is a committee chair. He said, there are times
Speaker 1: when you have a hearing on a bill and you're
Speaker 1: trying to move forward with a bill and you think
Speaker 1: there's a clear right answer. This is not one of
Speaker 1: those times, at least for me.
Speaker 5: He says.
Speaker 1: The testimony we're heard at the beginning persuaded me that
Speaker 1: we should lock the clock. The practice of springing forward
Speaker 1: and falling backward every year. Doesn't make sense. He went
Speaker 1: on to vote to advance the legislation. This is from
Speaker 1: Rick Scott, which would move to make daylight saving time
Speaker 1: the default. That would result in the more daylight in
Speaker 1: the evening hours with less in the morning.
Speaker 3: It would stay.
Speaker 4: Well, you get into late mid late December and you're
Speaker 4: driving to work at eight in the morning and it's
Speaker 4: still dark, that'd be weird. Not eight, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: pretty close. D eight o'clock it would still be dark.
Speaker 3: No, yes, maybe seven. We did the math on this before.
Speaker 4: It's still dark at seven when you drive now, and
Speaker 4: it's not Yeah it is.
Speaker 3: No, it's not.
Speaker 5: It's light.
Speaker 1: It is light when I'm in my ballet zoom class
Speaker 1: at sixteen twenty right now.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm talking about December. December.
Speaker 4: In December, when you're driving to work at seven in
Speaker 4: the morning, it's still dark outside.
Speaker 3: Not eight though. But if we change the clock.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to die on this hill. It's not like.
Speaker 3: Old But here's what's funny. Here's not funny.
Speaker 5: The State Commerce Committee to me, this.
Speaker 4: Is like I don't I could care just choose, I
Speaker 4: don't care.
Speaker 3: To choose, and then let's stopping with the clock. It's
Speaker 3: one one.
Speaker 1: They both come with their benefits and their and their detractions.
Speaker 3: I'm angry that there's that much of an argument. Angry.
Speaker 3: I am also out of Washington, d c.
Speaker 4: They Supreme Court today was hearing arguments on a bid
Speaker 4: to create the nation's first tax payer funded religious charter school.
Speaker 4: All right, this one is down in Oklahoma. Some unusual
Speaker 4: things about it. In that Justice Amy Cony Barrett has
Speaker 4: recused herself apparent least she's very close friends with somebody
Speaker 4: who wants to represent Saint Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.
Speaker 4: Chief Justice round John Roberts is considered to be going
Speaker 4: to be this wing vote because with the three traditionally
Speaker 4: liberal justices and now the five conservative justices. At the
Speaker 4: onset of the argument, he was questioning some of the
Speaker 4: positions that were advanced by the Catholic School, but by
Speaker 4: the time the two hour argument concluded, he seemed a
Speaker 4: little bit more open to siding with the school. So
Speaker 4: we'll see exactly how that plays out. But one of
Speaker 4: those big Supreme Court cases that's going to get a
Speaker 4: lot of attention when it's decided later in the spring.
Speaker 1: Coming up next the Netflix CEO says movie theaters are outdated. Well, no,
Speaker 1: s Do they have a plan on how to move
Speaker 1: them into the future or are we just going to
Speaker 1: get rid of them.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 3: Gary and Shannon will continue.
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Speaker 1: Ted Sarandos is the Netflix CEO, and he did an
Speaker 1: interview recently. It started with this question, have you sorry?
Speaker 1: Have you destroyed Hollywood?
Speaker 11: Things do not look so good in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 11: The box office is down, the LA film business is shaky,
Speaker 11: people are out of work. Your competitor's market share is sinking.
Speaker 11: But Netflix business is thriving. Have you destroyed Hollywood?
Speaker 2: Now we're saving Hollywood.
Speaker 3: You're saving Hollywood. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, what's the big difference of everything you just listed
Speaker 2: there is that Netflix is a very consumer focused company.
Speaker 2: We really do care that we deliver the program into
Speaker 2: you in a way you want to watch it, that
Speaker 2: it's programming that you love and desire, So we don't
Speaker 2: let you know, a lot of other outside forces get
Speaker 2: in the way of that. So an example, I think
Speaker 2: is that you mentioned the box office being down, just
Speaker 2: by way of example, what does that say. What is
Speaker 2: the consumer trying to tell us that they'd like to
Speaker 2: watch movies at home, thank you? And the studios and
Speaker 2: the theaters are duking it out over trying to preserve
Speaker 2: this forty five day window that is completely out of
Speaker 2: step with the consumer experience of just living a movie.
Speaker 3: He makes some great points there.
Speaker 4: The idea of this forty five day window, by the way,
Speaker 4: is that theater owners want to keep exclusivity. They want
Speaker 4: to be able to say that first run movies are
Speaker 4: only available in movie theaters for the first forty five days,
Speaker 4: and even then. The way it's working now is the
Speaker 4: movie can have that exclusivity, or the theaters can have
Speaker 4: that exclusivity. But then once it goes to streaming, you
Speaker 4: can get relatively recent movies if you're willing to pay
Speaker 4: nineteen bucks for him. In some cases you wait a
Speaker 4: little bit longer the priceper is down.
Speaker 3: Going to the movie and sitting with the crooks, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the crooks.
Speaker 5: I just assume everyone's a crook.
Speaker 3: What I met the crowds and it gave out crooks.
Speaker 3: I don't know why, But sitting with a Brooks on
Speaker 3: the I don't know.
Speaker 5: Why said that.
Speaker 1: Sitting with the crowds and their noises and their bodiliest situations.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not a fan.
Speaker 1: And that's one thing that did not make a comeback
Speaker 1: from you post pandemic. I used to love going to
Speaker 1: the theater, movie theater, and I just cannot watch a
Speaker 1: movie with strangers.
Speaker 4: And I worked in a movie theater for a couple
Speaker 4: of summers and it was the greatest time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it never took away.
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes people, if you get a little too
Speaker 4: close to something that mad joy, then you start to
Speaker 4: see how bad. I never lost it. I always loved
Speaker 4: about that with football. I love the smell of the
Speaker 4: popcorn and the stickiness of the floor.
Speaker 3: There was always something about it.
Speaker 4: And part of the part of the allure was you
Speaker 4: could never even come close to mimicking that experience at home. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and now you can. I mean now you can get
Speaker 4: a TV that's too big for your wall, and you
Speaker 4: can get a sound system that and you can.
Speaker 5: Get the popcorn in the M and M.
Speaker 3: I need get the popcorn. You get it all. You
Speaker 3: can get the whole thing, and the probably the biggest one.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's one. Oh right here, the pause button.
Speaker 3: You can pee and you don't have to race to
Speaker 3: the pisser.
Speaker 4: Yeah, say that, and you can answer the door or
Speaker 4: the phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you choose all sorts of things. You can
Speaker 1: get ice cream. How did you know that that you
Speaker 1: go and get ice cream? It's not and it was
Speaker 1: because what's better than a movie at home with ice cream?
Speaker 5: Ice cream?
Speaker 4: He did say that there are limited theatrical releases. Again,
Speaker 4: this is Ted Sarandos, the CEO at at Netflix. One
Speaker 4: of the things because they are not just a they're
Speaker 4: not just a clearing house for movies, they're a producer
Speaker 4: as well. Is they have produced movies that then go
Speaker 4: into the movie theaters. First Knives Out, Glass Onion Emilia
Speaker 4: Perez was a Netflix movie that started in the theaters
Speaker 4: and then made its way to the street service. And
Speaker 4: he referred to some of the rules for the Academy
Speaker 4: Awards are that you have to have at least some
Speaker 4: movie theater exposure before that show would be eligible for awards,
Speaker 4: and that was one of the things that he has
Speaker 4: talked to. But he said one of the things that
Speaker 4: he encourages each of the directors that work with Netflix
Speaker 4: now is give the audience what they want. If it
Speaker 4: is a big action movie that they want to go
Speaker 4: see in a theater, yeah, let's open it in a
Speaker 4: movie theater.
Speaker 3: Let's make it a theatrical release.
Speaker 4: But if it's something that's a little quieter, a little slower,
Speaker 4: maybe a little more dramatic that you don't need a
Speaker 4: giant screen for, throw it on Netflix and make it
Speaker 4: available to everybody.
Speaker 3: Amen. Brother, you say that again. Amen, brother, say you
Speaker 3: with your chest? Amen? Brother? All right?
Speaker 1: Justin Wisham's coming up next. How did it get to
Speaker 1: be eleven thirty? Where did the day go?
Speaker 3: I do not know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we were talking about escape kangaroos and the laws.
Speaker 1: We learned that we can and have a kangaroo without
Speaker 1: a permit in South Carolina. Other than that, I don't
Speaker 1: remember what else we've talked about today.
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Speaker 1: Don't forget to let us know what you are watching.
Speaker 1: It is a what you watch on Wednesday. We have
Speaker 1: been into what I've been into Friends and Neighbors with
Speaker 1: John ham Hacks Season four, I'm trying to get into
Speaker 1: that ballet Amazon Prime show at twelve. There's moments where
Speaker 1: I love it and there's moments where I'm like, eh,
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to see if it's one.
Speaker 5: Of those just wait till episode four situations.
Speaker 3: And it's a whole series. I thought it was a movie.
Speaker 5: This is a series.
Speaker 4: I thought I was going to leave my wife for
Speaker 4: one night and let her get it out of her system, and.
Speaker 1: Now it's she she's not impressed by it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: haven't been either. I mean, there's parts of it that
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's well done. There's actual ballet dancers, actual
Speaker 1: dancing going on, which is odd. It's usually they kind
Speaker 1: of fake their way through that if it's going to
Speaker 1: be a show about dancing.
Speaker 3: But that's my favorite.
Speaker 8: Thing whenever there's dancing, and I always ask my wife,
Speaker 8: I'm like, are they really good?
Speaker 3: Ever?
Speaker 10: Good?
Speaker 5: And these ones are really good.
Speaker 8: She's got she's more of a hip hop dancer pretending
Speaker 8: to be a ballerinas like.
Speaker 5: Save the Last Man?
Speaker 3: All right, nailed it. Justin Morsham has joined us takes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we talked with you.
Speaker 1: Don't get me started on center stage because that's a
Speaker 1: whole other thing.
Speaker 4: Justin is probably the most popular multi hyphen it here.
Speaker 3: It's how does that work?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 4: We talk about parenting on Wednesdays and on Sundays you
Speaker 4: roll in and talk about real estate.
Speaker 3: These are renaissance to talk about adulting.
Speaker 4: Uh, let's talk about successful kids that working on one
Speaker 4: key emotion.
Speaker 8: And this was I gotta be honest, I was taken
Speaker 8: aback by this that the key emotion for your kids
Speaker 8: to grow up successful is awe.
Speaker 3: And I if I'm reading.
Speaker 8: This correctly based on the information of the study, is
Speaker 8: that the parents need to be in awe of their children.
Speaker 6: What.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was going to be keep the
Speaker 1: awe in your kids as long as possible, so where
Speaker 1: your kids are like, oh, that's wonderful or that's great,
Speaker 1: or that's beautiful or that's cool or you know, so
Speaker 1: your kids aren't jaded quicker than they should be.
Speaker 8: And that could because there's other parts of it where
Speaker 8: they allude to the fact that the parents who were
Speaker 8: also experiencing awe. So what my general takeaway from it
Speaker 8: was is that if your bar is very low, then
Speaker 8: you tend to be happier in general and maybe more successful.
Speaker 3: I think parents should be in awe of their kids.
Speaker 5: Don't give it the kids. The power, isn't it?
Speaker 3: I mean, don't get me wrong, My kids have there.
Speaker 8: Each of them have had two moments or one each
Speaker 8: where I was genuinely, insincerely in awe of what they
Speaker 8: decided to do. So I was proud of them that
Speaker 8: the proud pride is the second in this study. So
Speaker 8: you the number one emotion for the predictor of success
Speaker 8: is awe, and pride is number two, which I thought
Speaker 8: was all.
Speaker 5: When I think of in awe of something, I think like.
Speaker 1: Delighted or surprised by the magnitude.
Speaker 8: They did the thing, and I'll try and pull it
Speaker 8: up here. They did the thing of they gave you like.
Speaker 8: The Webster's Dictionary defines all as and uh and a
Speaker 8: different one the Merriam Webster Dictionary. An emotion variously combining dread, veneration,
Speaker 8: and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the
Speaker 8: sacred or sublime.
Speaker 4: Now hit the second one if you don't mind a
Speaker 4: strong now this one from dictionary dot com. An overwhelming
Speaker 4: feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, et cetera, produced by what
Speaker 4: produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful or
Speaker 4: the light.
Speaker 3: Something that should be revered is not your child. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that's what.
Speaker 8: So again, this just kind of threw me off my
Speaker 8: balance because I'm like, am I supposed to be admire
Speaker 8: And there's a lot again, there's a lot of ways
Speaker 8: that I genuinely, sincerely do admire my kids. But I
Speaker 8: don't know, I don't know that you know, like to
Speaker 8: me the equivalent of like, you know, who rescued who?
Speaker 1: Well amazed if this kid does something kind or de know, wonderful,
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine being a base because your kid does
Speaker 3: something kind? So true, but my kids are selfish, little being.
Speaker 8: Kids made me dinner last night while I was on
Speaker 8: like a zoom meeting. And that's really like he was
Speaker 8: sick or he was inhabited by an alien.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you're doing that.
Speaker 1: That is when awe comes in conversation.
Speaker 4: So along those lines, when when you say awe, I
Speaker 4: think of the context of like, this is the most
Speaker 4: beautiful sunset I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 3: I can't wrap my head around what is going on
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 4: If you if you are in awe of your kids,
Speaker 4: maybe it's not because of what they've done, but you're like,
Speaker 4: I can't believe that two human beings can get together
Speaker 4: and create another human being.
Speaker 3: I'm in awe of that person, and.
Speaker 5: You're in awe of yourself, not the kid.
Speaker 3: It did say.
Speaker 8: The author of the article said, when I read things
Speaker 8: like this, it reminds me, if I needed it to,
Speaker 8: that being a parent really is an almost comprehensible gift,
Speaker 8: which I do not feel that being a parent is
Speaker 8: an incomprehensive gift.
Speaker 5: It sounds like I feel like it's a.
Speaker 8: Job that I signed up for that I didn't know
Speaker 8: what I was getting into.
Speaker 3: But I do enjoy like that's how I like from
Speaker 3: time to time. That's a better way to say, I
Speaker 3: enjoy it from time to time. I do not find
Speaker 3: joy in it every day. I don't. I probably am
Speaker 3: through big swaths of it. I didn't.
Speaker 8: I could say I did not find enjoyment from it
Speaker 8: most of the time. Right there, it's fleeting moments of joy,
Speaker 8: and I have enjoyed.
Speaker 5: It moment it's worth it.
Speaker 8: They do that, But again, I don't know if this
Speaker 8: is like an evolutionary thing that we've just had, Like
Speaker 8: it has to be ingrained in us that we have
Speaker 8: to psychologically think that because he smiles after he farts
Speaker 8: when he's.
Speaker 3: Kept me up all night, but that makes it all
Speaker 3: worth it. Maybe it is, but it's still there's a.
Speaker 8: Little bit of, like I don't know, sociopathic aspects to it,
Speaker 8: that you have to like trick yourself into finding the
Speaker 8: fun and being beat on and vomited on.
Speaker 3: That's fine, it's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, parents do make allowances for their kids a lot.
Speaker 3: And then they get older and all they do is not.
Speaker 8: Appreciate you and become generally annoyed by you and don't
Speaker 8: want you around. Like so, I'm just when I see this,
Speaker 8: it's a thing that's very conflicting for me because obviously
Speaker 8: I come to here, I cry about my kids.
Speaker 3: I love them dearly.
Speaker 8: I could not imagine my life being any different than
Speaker 8: what it is, but I did not. I do not
Speaker 8: think I would use awe to describe how I feel
Speaker 8: a good chunk of the time. And maybe we'll see,
Speaker 8: maybe my kids will be less successful because of it.
Speaker 5: No, that is not true, you know, because.
Speaker 3: Listen, you're a successful guy. I thank you. Clearly I
Speaker 3: have hyphens.
Speaker 4: Your dad would not be in awe of you. No,
Speaker 4: and if he was, he would never admit it. Which
Speaker 4: is a funny thing because I feel like this is
Speaker 4: the push towards telling your kids that you're in awe
Speaker 4: of them, and that I think puts a very that's
Speaker 4: a bad move.
Speaker 1: That's awful. It's so stupid. I think it's really stupid.
Speaker 1: I feel like the thing that I've strived for is
Speaker 1: to hear that my parents are proud of me.
Speaker 5: That's like the number one thing.
Speaker 3: And I think, and.
Speaker 1: It's never changed throughout my entire life, like that's what
Speaker 1: I want.
Speaker 3: You want that?
Speaker 8: And there's this weird I think high wire tuggle war
Speaker 8: whatever where it's like because if they give the pride
Speaker 8: too fast and easy, then it's like it doesn't feel earned.
Speaker 3: They've got to pay attention to.
Speaker 5: You for thirty five years.
Speaker 3: Exactly right, like you can't. But isn't it funny how
Speaker 3: we all we all have these similar vibes like I
Speaker 3: have this one, and you should want that as a kid.
Speaker 1: You should want to make your parent proud and your
Speaker 1: parents should want to be proud of you.
Speaker 5: You know all of these things.
Speaker 1: The awe thing is just like give me that's a
Speaker 1: little too new parent age foo food to me be
Speaker 1: in awe of your check coming back.
Speaker 8: This right here is my biggest feared anxiety I've always
Speaker 8: had as a parent is that I've always felt exactly
Speaker 8: like we're all saying we feel yeah, but I'm like,
Speaker 8: what if everybody else who is blowing that much sunshine
Speaker 8: up their kids a that like that's they're actually the one.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of friends, most of my friends
Speaker 1: have kids, and that that is never a conversation I
Speaker 1: was in of my daughter and like, that's not a thing.
Speaker 3: I've never heard somebody keep that much praise on that.
Speaker 4: But let me go back to what I said earlier,
Speaker 4: when I said that when you think of awe, of
Speaker 4: being in awe of something this bigger than you, I'm
Speaker 4: in awe of the skyscraper that I would never be
Speaker 4: able to design or build or anything.
Speaker 3: If you.
Speaker 4: Display that, if you show that to your kids, not
Speaker 4: directed towards them, but you show them that you are
Speaker 4: still capable of being impressed by something that I think
Speaker 4: is a good quality today exactly because then that gives
Speaker 4: that gives the kid the ability to not be a
Speaker 4: giant jade, like you said earlier, a jaded a hole
Speaker 4: through the rest of their life.
Speaker 1: One of my least favorite things when a child is
Speaker 1: not impressed by something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. I mean they should all be impressed
Speaker 3: by you. No no, no, no, not me.
Speaker 1: I mean by you know, even if it's just like
Speaker 1: a meal out or they got for Christmas.
Speaker 4: Like, they can't wrap their head around the fact they
Speaker 4: don't deserve it. You gave it to them because you
Speaker 4: you love them, right whatever, right, But they don't get
Speaker 4: the awe that should be involved with Yeah, you spent
Speaker 4: how much money on a game system that's gonna eat
Speaker 4: my brain out?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it, Thank you. Yeah, I'm at all
Speaker 3: of you. I'm in awe of that. I mean that
Speaker 3: I pulled a fast one on.
Speaker 1: I will get the you know, text messages from friends
Speaker 1: like can you believe they're you know, thirteen and fifteen?
Speaker 1: Can you believe I made these kids? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean kind of thing, and and.
Speaker 3: That I get the awe there of like you.
Speaker 1: Know, like we were talking about, I can see that like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I did this, we did this, We've
Speaker 1: all done this, the family has done this. Look at them.
Speaker 1: They're they're grown up and they're not broken.
Speaker 8: So here's one last bit of perspective is that it
Speaker 8: also says there was a twenty twenty study that found
Speaker 8: that if you spent fifteen minutes in a walk out
Speaker 8: in nature where the things you were seeing were things
Speaker 8: that you would be considered to be in awe of,
Speaker 8: you were significantly more likely to feel pro social emotions.
Speaker 8: So what if like, let's just say the parent is
Speaker 8: very easily find finds themselves in a state of awe
Speaker 8: and that somehow begets this perspective for the kid because
Speaker 8: they're modeling it to also just appreciate what.
Speaker 3: They have for around them.
Speaker 8: That's really what because they they're also maybe that removes
Speaker 8: a little bit of like the insecurity obstacles that you
Speaker 8: usually have to overcome to achieve stuff. Yes, and that
Speaker 8: you just like you just have a more positive mindset
Speaker 8: and it's more about a law action.
Speaker 1: Birds, Yeah, feather, it's it's it's the same thing with
Speaker 1: the people you surround yourself, even as adults, Like if
Speaker 1: you're surrounding yourself with people are like, oh it's beautiful today,
Speaker 1: Like look do you see those flowers? Those are incredible?
Speaker 1: How bright they're the ones right outside the door. You know,
Speaker 1: I suppose to someone who's like my life this day.
Speaker 8: My favorite study is the one that said my grandparents'
Speaker 8: generation was happier than all of us because their bar
Speaker 8: for happiness was so low.
Speaker 3: Yes, they expect keep the bar low. Justin will continue.
Speaker 5: It's like the kids.
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Speaker 12: Justine works joined us and we're talking about parenting issues,
Speaker 12: and so new research talks about the importance of reading.
Speaker 8: I have a feeling when I read this, I was
Speaker 8: gobspec like, I was like, what the hell?
Speaker 3: And I have a feeling.
Speaker 5: You guys are like, oh, no, that's important.
Speaker 8: No, nothing, But fifty of us adults read below a
Speaker 8: sixth grade level.
Speaker 4: Not surprised, really surprised. You've been to Target, Yeah, but.
Speaker 13: Watch your mouth about Target. I just dealing with people, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 13: And I also think that reading reading ability can regress.
Speaker 13: I mean you get out of the practice, just like handwriting, right,
Speaker 13: your handwriting now is nowhere what it was, nowhere near
Speaker 13: what it was like probably when you were junior senior
Speaker 13: in high school because you were constantly writing. I don't
Speaker 13: write things down, I mean chicken scratch numbers here and there.
Speaker 13: I don't write things down every day. I'll go days
Speaker 13: without using a pen or a pencil.
Speaker 3: I've always had third grade level handwriting.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, Really write me something right, I like, well, you're.
Speaker 3: Right with the wrong hand. Is that the problem? It
Speaker 3: gets even worse.
Speaker 1: Wow, they didn't beat that out. Uh huh, you're my age.
Speaker 1: There were no left handing. That's perfectly you do right
Speaker 1: like you're right handed, though, oh I do.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just always like people.
Speaker 8: When I signed my niece's like certificate because I like
Speaker 8: a left hander, I officiated her wedding and like both
Speaker 8: her and her now husband were like, whoa dude?
Speaker 3: Like when it was just writing my name, I didn't
Speaker 3: realize you had palsy exactly. You should have been a doctor.
Speaker 5: But look at how lame that is.
Speaker 3: When I write with my left hand would be legible.
Speaker 5: That's a joke.
Speaker 8: I can't turn hers off for a second. Good for you,
Speaker 8: you found my limit. Evidently, I didn't even know I
Speaker 8: had one. The other part, so my kids, I've seen
Speaker 8: them like read aloud. They mess up words constantly, which
Speaker 8: drives me up a wall. I was never like, I
Speaker 8: imagine both of you enjoyed reading. I know Shannon does
Speaker 8: a lot. I have never been a person who enjoyed reading.
Speaker 8: I like listening to like business books, like audio books.
Speaker 3: I like that. I'm I will read a book if
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 8: I read like Ready Player one and the Harry Potter
Speaker 8: book said there was stuff like that, but sixth grade
Speaker 8: level exactly.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying is and I've been I'm the
Speaker 3: guy who's shocked.
Speaker 5: When you say your kids mix up words?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 8: They say it like they'll say something like, uh, I
Speaker 8: can't even give the example because it's such a poor grammar,
Speaker 8: Like I just feel like I'm constantly.
Speaker 3: Going it's us.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's magnification, like I would say mess up,
Speaker 1: could care less versus no, No, we're.
Speaker 3: Not even at that high level.
Speaker 8: And it's like blatantly like I don't think the words
Speaker 8: you just put together, they're like I understood you on
Speaker 8: this show.
Speaker 1: I understood that every day people lose their freaking minds.
Speaker 3: No we're not there, then they should.
Speaker 8: Definitely, we could desensitize these people by having them have
Speaker 8: dinner with my family, okay, because it's me constantly going, no,
Speaker 8: it's this word, and my jack loves to drive me
Speaker 8: a ball.
Speaker 3: He goes same difference. I'm like, no, no, it's not
Speaker 3: the same difference that you can't. If it was, then
Speaker 3: I would understand. I go, I can't send you into
Speaker 3: a job interview using words like this that is not
Speaker 3: too screw it. Oh yes, I know. That's the one
Speaker 3: time that I know I'm being the victim of it.
Speaker 3: Still can't stop, it can't stop.
Speaker 8: It's it's how he communicates, Like communication is very important.
Speaker 8: The other part that shocked me about this is like
Speaker 8: how much it's directly correlated to like earnings. People will
Speaker 8: read at a sixth grade level on average in US
Speaker 8: make sixty three thousand dollars a year. If you're at
Speaker 8: a fifth grade level, dips all the way down to
Speaker 8: forty eight. And I was like, wow, like especially, I mean,
Speaker 8: I guess today we're all on computers.
Speaker 3: But just pick of books, I guess. But it's pick.
Speaker 4: It's not just the book, it's the kind of book.
Speaker 4: It's the style of book. It's the language of the book.
Speaker 4: And I think of different writing styles. The most outlandish
Speaker 4: writing style that I can think of that of a
Speaker 4: book that I enjoyed was The Road by Cormick McCarthy
Speaker 4: because there, I mean, he was missing punctuation in that book,
Speaker 4: but it was so I mean, you got to know
Speaker 4: the rules to break the rules. So clearly he knows
Speaker 4: how to use punctuation, but he didn't in this book.
Speaker 4: That to me, is a well above a sixth grade
Speaker 4: level book because of that kind of knowledge.
Speaker 3: Not just the big words, not just.
Speaker 4: The the technical aspects potentially of a book that you're reading,
Speaker 4: but the way the language is used is probably the
Speaker 4: best indicator of the level of book. You don't get
Speaker 4: that anywhere. I mean even you know, you could read
Speaker 4: the New York Times online or in print, whatever you
Speaker 4: want to do. It's not written. You know, you're always
Speaker 4: taught in journalisms the newspaper writings. It's not written that way.
Speaker 4: It's written to be consumed by the I wouldn't say
Speaker 4: the lowest common denominator, but a pretty low common denominator.
Speaker 4: And there's no challenge after you get past sixth grade.
Speaker 4: You read science books, biology or something like that in
Speaker 4: high school, but after that there's no more. There's no
Speaker 4: challenge unless you bring it upon yourself where you work
Speaker 4: in an industry where that's going to be a required reading.
Speaker 3: It's just not out there.
Speaker 8: And I also always wonder, like Chicken or the egg, like,
Speaker 8: are people who naturally inclined to read are just gonna
Speaker 8: also they're just going to naturally want to improve, right
Speaker 8: like Schmuck's like me, Like I like to improve in business.
Speaker 8: Like that's interesting to me. But I very rarely will
Speaker 8: read a piece of fiction or something like that. It's
Speaker 8: not my jam. I don't like it. I would much
Speaker 8: rather watch the movie an somebody else figure out all
Speaker 8: the visuals for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I paint the picture for me and I break
Speaker 8: it down like what a flip book?
Speaker 5: Very male. We will talk trenday.
Speaker 3: Only time I've been called that only time. It is
Speaker 3: the only time I've done that.
Speaker 13: About you just getting good not a good right there
Speaker 13: it all.
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