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Free-Range Parenting, Mike Tyson, & Reddit Drama!
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It's Sibling Happy Hour! Join Bruce and J. Aundrea for another episode of Unsolicited Perspectives, where they tackle the hot topic of free-range parenting. A Georgia woman gets arrested for letting her son walk to the store ALONE – is that neglect or smart parenting? They share their own wild childhood experiences (getting lost in the woods?!) and debate the pros and cons of giving kids more freedom. Plus, they react to Mike Tyson's latest fight, rant about social media memes, and dive into a juicy Reddit story about sibling rivalry. Grab a drink and join the conversation! 🍻 #FreeRangeParenting #OverprotectiveParents #MikeTyson #RedditStories #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🔥💥
00:36 It's Sibling Happy Hour! 🍷🤫
02:21 Meme Mania: When Social Media Goes Wild! 🤪
13:23 Iron Mike Tyson: Thoughts on Fight! 🥊💥
18:49 Georgia Woman Arrested for Letting Son Walk Alone 😲
32:56 Raising Independent Kids: Are You Doing Too Much? 🤔
34:17 Lost in a Theme Park! My Childhood Nightmare! 🎢😱
36:09 Free-Range Kids: What's The Truth! 🐓🌳
37:46 Unlocking Your Child's Potential! 🔑💪
39:03 Sibling Dynamics and Bullying 😠😡
41:54 Boomers vs. Zoomers: The Responsibility Clash! 💥👴👶
50:05 Reddit Story: Am I a Jerk? 🤔
01:05:36 Closing Thoughts and Self-Care
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Introduction and Podcast Promotion
00:00:10
Speaker
Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics in the shape of today's society. to Join the conversation to follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our video podcasts. Rate,
00:00:34
Speaker
On today's episode, it's the sibling happy
Sibling Banter and Current Events
00:00:37
Speaker
hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be dilly-dallying a little bit. Then we're going to be talking about a woman getting arrested for letting her son walk to the store. And then we're going to do another, am I the asshole segment? But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
00:01:00
Speaker
What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. This is one of the days where I'm not hungover and squiggling. You look bright-eyed and man to clear-eyed and yeah ready to go. And so I'm excited. I'm hoping that you'll you know carry the conversation, because I'm super busy right now. It's finals, and all of my classes are projects.
00:01:26
Speaker
<unk> simultaneous group projects happening right now and also a final exam to prepare for so a lot a lot's going on you know this is a busy time of year for me so i i have had the privilege of carrying it so the last three episodes Oh, hold on now.
Social Media and Political Climate
00:01:50
Speaker
You ain't carrying the last three episodes. That's some bull. You've been partying for the last three Saturdays. I have. But I've been, hey, look, when it comes to doing the show, I'm with it. I'm there. Yes. I'm actually the most. You're always tuned in. Yeah, I'm tuned in. Yeah. But it's like, you got one of the rundowns today that was one of my usual rundowns. It was a lot of information on the rundown. Yes, yes. And I did the rundown, so it was just reaction, because I found
00:02:16
Speaker
When you carry the conversation, obviously people really love that. But they really love when you react to me. Because I've been posting a little bit more on social media. We're going to be posting a lot more on social media in 2025. So there's going to be a lot of more reels, a lot of more. A lot of more. A lot of more. A lot of more reels. A lot of more reels. No, not more. Mo.
00:02:40
Speaker
There, folks, a lot of mole reels and a lot of mole tic-tac, tic-tac. and think example watch what's not fun Listen, we're going to be on the line a lot. ah We're definitely going to be putting things on the interwebs, the tic-tacs, the the face grams, all of that. We're going to be all on it. Oh my God, that sounded so old. It was a slip up. I know it's tic-tac.
00:03:09
Speaker
yeah But that's such an old person thing to say, yo, on that tic-tac.
00:03:18
Speaker
I'm a girl, let me put something on that tic-tac, you won't. and They were good. Do that little dance I saw on all them tiktoks you can be showing me. We gonna get our tiktok game together. Right. Oh, my God. Anyway, for as long as tiktok is still available in the the United States, we're gonna be posted. Because a lot of the feedback I've been getting is your reaction to the ridiculous stuff that I sent.
00:03:50
Speaker
yeah Yes. That's our daily lives. That really is. Most of our conversations are me reacting to the things do thanks Bruce says. It's been all our lives. And yeah and typically typically, I do that on purpose because i i use the love I used to love so much irritating our mom with just simple stuff. Just being like, go wash your dishes. Well, how do I turn on the water?
00:04:20
Speaker
What? I know you're not this stupid. Yes. I actually got a very interesting call from our mother yesterday. She said it was fine that I talk about it. Okay. She dropped, let me tell you, the reactions that people are having to our, as far as I'm going to say, is political climate. I'm not going to get too deep into that because I don't want to.
00:04:44
Speaker
ah has definitely been a lot of anger. And in this particular conversation, it was pretty much just our mother venting as she dropped about 48 F-bombs. And if you know our mother, she doesn't cuss like she doesn't. She used to spell it out. She used to spell it out. Yeah, she used to spell out, but sit your ASS down. Like that's how that's how our mother curses. So for her to just be dropping very clear F-bombs, and but like not in a not in her usual way of like they sound very proper. like It sound like she curses all the time. And I was like, I i wish I could record this conversation because
00:05:32
Speaker
This is amazing, but it was basically, you know she had gotten the advice that you have to release your stress, you don eat not just deal with it, not just cope with it, but certain things you have to release it. She's just like, how the eff am I supposed to do that?
00:05:50
Speaker
with the world being in the way that it is. And I was like, you're doing it right now. This venting session that you're that you're doing it right now, you're releasing right now. You have to do this more often. You have to talk more. Sign that person in your life. That's a space for you to just let go and let your
Parenting Norms and Free-Range Parenting Debate
00:06:10
Speaker
emotions out. you Sometimes you just gotta to You just got to cuss. Like, you just got to do it. And so it was a very good conversation. That is good. Because taking in consideration what you just said, I'm going to vent right now. Do it. This is a safe space. For all those people that are friendly or friends,
00:06:35
Speaker
that blow up my DMs with meme after meme after meme after meme after meme. Now, I know I can do it too, but if I don't do it to you, that doesn't mean that you got the right to do it to me. put This has to be reciprocal. Right, okay. We both have to be participating. And if I'm bombarding you with memes, it's okay to bombard me with memes, because that's the relationship that we have. Right.
00:06:59
Speaker
If you bombard me with memes and I don't respond back, you're sending too many damn memes. You don't do much. You're doing too much. I got a person. I'm not even going to say what gender they are.
00:07:14
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right This person has sent me eight memes today already. Yeah, that's a lot. And I haven't responded to not a one. Yeah. And they're not funny. Yeah. That's another thing that pissed me off. If the memes, if you bombard me with memes and they funny.
00:07:31
Speaker
Then OK. I had a friend every now and then he'll throw me a meme. It's like a meme every two weeks. Yeah. And it'll have me cracking up. and i'm And that wants me one more. I'm like, I know your meme game is strong. Sing me more memes. Sing me more memes. Yeah. There'll be people that that will say, hey, I sent you some DMs. They'll be standing right in front of my face. And they're like, hey, I sent you some DMs. And I'm like, oh, for real?
00:07:55
Speaker
Yeah. I saw them. Yeah. Or I saw the big guy sit. I haven't opened them yet. Yeah. And so they're like, yeah, check them out. And I'm like, OK. I don't have no poker face. No. So when I open them up and I don't laugh, because one, if you know me, I like to laugh. he Yes. So if I don't laugh, I really don't find it funny at all. Because at least most stuff makes me chuckle. Right. If I was a little snicker. A little smirk. Yeah. Smirking.
00:08:24
Speaker
Then don't do it. Another thing is, um because I have a person like that in my life who is a face me, me. It's not you. No, i don't I don't. I try to respond with an LOL every once in a while, yeah just not to leave you on red for the rest of your life. But like also, i don't I don't know. This is a person that watches my stories faithfully. So you know my humor.
00:08:53
Speaker
like Why would you think I will find best this this anti-trans joke funny? Like I don't know. Yeah. Like I don't. Why would you think I will find that funny? Were you always talking about trans issues? Yeah. What? I want to find an anti-trans.
00:09:08
Speaker
me one ah I figured it was up your alley. No, it's actually not. you know And I had somebody reach out. Somebody just sent me a meme and I was like, oh, that's funny. I was like, that's cool. you know and And they were like, you never send me any memes. If I don't send you a meme,
00:09:32
Speaker
It is, but you know, sometimes it's because maybe I just don't mess with you like that. But also I have to know your sense of humor. So I don't really know this person's sense of humor that well. So I don't send them any memes and they don't send a lot. So it's like, I can't even really get gauge like what your sense of humor is. So that's another thing. I might not send you memes because I just don't know well enough whether you would think this particular thing is funny. right So that also will hinder me from sending stuff. But I do send out me, I have like maybe half a dozen people that are my go-tos, like I know what they think is funny, they know what I think is funny, and we're just going back and forth with these memes. Anybody outside that tight group? and was That's your MySpace Six?
00:10:26
Speaker
Yes, that's my top six. Anybody outside that core group are probably not sending you stuff unless I come across something and I'm like, okay, this person used to be a former coworker, so they might find this work-related meme funny, and I'll send out things every once in a while. But outside that core group,
00:10:46
Speaker
I'm really not sending many memes out. I'm just not doing it. You know, follow my stories for for funny stuff. So sometimes people, because you know, I post a lot of stories, especially like if I'm at home yesterday, I think it was a prime example. I think I posted, I don't know, seven or eight stories. If I'm sitting at home, I'm bored and I've been drinking, I'm going to go through and post a lot of Instagram stories. And so when people respond to that,
00:11:12
Speaker
laughing or getting on, I'm like, okay, you get that type of sense of humor. I might open myself up to send you a meme or two to test out our meme friendship. Because meme friendships are kind of important. They are very important in this damn age because a lot of our friendships are just meme based. Like, especially the older you get,
00:11:32
Speaker
Damour is just, I'm sending you messages through social media and we're every three or four months saying we're going to get together, but then that doesn't happen. So that's just, then the relationship is memes back and forth and canceled plans. Like a lot of our relationships are bad.
00:11:50
Speaker
Is it canceled plans, both sides, or is it canceled? It's both sides. It's both sides. You know, it's both sides. I love receiving canceled plans. That's pretty much my favorite thing. One of my friends actually gave me canceled plans for my birthday, and I just, it was the best gift I ever received. Wait a minute, what? She was gonna take, she was gonna take me out for drinks for my birthday, and I was like, yeah, it's gonna be fun. Okay, yeah, we can do that. But she called me the damn, she's like,
00:12:20
Speaker
We're not going. And I said, oh my god, thank you, because I really didn't want to do it. She was like, we were never going. And I was like, yes. This is the best gift anyone's given me. Yo, I have meme friends that I haven't saved for five years, but we contact every day. I have meme friends that I'm not 100% sure that I'm real life.
00:12:48
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like they're like they' friends of friends and a maybe i maybe I've met them, but literally our entire relationship exists in the DMs. And I don't know, sometimes i come I get DMs from people and I'm like,
00:13:06
Speaker
I didn't know this person. I don't know. But you know what? Their meme game is strong, and they think I'm funny, and that's it. That's all I need in a relationship. That's all you need. Yeah. Speaking of memes, we're going to get into this, and then we're going to get into the show. I know you didn't watch the Mike Tyson fight, because I already asked you about that. You didn't ask me. I didn't? No. No, I haven't talked to you since then. We talked last night, but I didn't ask you about that. OK. Yeah.
00:13:35
Speaker
I saw it, not all of it. I you know i started watching it. I was like, why is this even happening? I didn't want to watch it in the first place. and they can I'm watching it and I was just like, why is this happening? Mike, you don't have to do this. i cut I have a different perspective on it after he said what he said. So like leading up to the fight, when they first announced it, I don't know, a year ago, I was like, we ain't gonna whoop that ass. And then as we got closer, Vegas released their odds and made Mike Tyson
00:14:10
Speaker
a real big underdog and that veil of Iron Mike Tyson from 40 years ago and evaporated. And I was like, wait a minute, he is 58 years old. Of course he's not going to win this fight. Yes. And then as I was watching, I was like, man, this is real sad because he can barely move and everything like that. Then Mike Tyson said,
00:14:29
Speaker
Yo, don't feel so it's sad for me. Like, I almost died a few months ago for me and being a 58-year-old man to get there, get back in the ring, to compete with somebody half of my age, to go the distance, just so that my kids could see me in there, because my kids... Most of my kids have never ever seen me in a fight that was something yeah that I wanted to show them, hey, that I could do it. And I went the distance. I'm really proud of myself. And I was like, yo, yeah it ain't about how we perceive him. It's about how he feels in himself. And yeah, we could think it was sad, but he said it wasn't sad. I just made an accomplishment. And then I thought about it.
00:15:07
Speaker
He did absolutely make a hell of an accomplishment. 60 years old, getting in the ring, looked good. Like, it looked funny. Well, I mean, physically, your body weight. Yeah. Physically, like, didn't look bad, you know, was moving slow, but I mean. It was so slow.
00:15:24
Speaker
So slow, but I mean, still, I think he knocked them down once. No, he didn't. He tricked. Yeah, I don't think there was no knockdown. Well, part of the problem is Netflix, you know, get your service right, because there was a lot of buffering. Yes. A lot of buffering. But there was two things. But I heard this fight between the, oh, God, I forgot. The women. The women, yeah, I heard that was a really good fight. It was a really good fight, and it was stolen from my bawika. Bawika. Bawika.
00:15:54
Speaker
Look, I'm having a really tough time today. First it was pink tech, and then I can't say Puerto Rican, right? Y'all gotta watch the YouTube, see my face. Trying to say boricua. Like, I'm just, y'all gotta watch that.
00:16:11
Speaker
What? because not You was close. Each time you said it, you got closer. And then you got further away. It got further away. It was good and terrible. But it was two things from that fight. I knew it was going to be bad when ah when he was walking out and he almost tripped.
00:16:37
Speaker
I was like, wait a minute, and he got a knee brace on? What is he, Stone Cold Steve Austin? But there was an interview he did before the fights. And it was his interview, like a woman was just interviewing him. And he turned around and walked away. He basically had on chaps. Brett Chinks was out. And that's been like a meme to me.
00:16:57
Speaker
the whole weekend, the man's booth. You got to see this. I have to see it. I have not seen it. Because as you know, i've I've just not been on social media. So I have not seen it. And I have to see it. Why? Mike was in the serious interviews. Like, yeah, you know, I'm really here to compete. And I'm really ready to go. And and then the announcer was like, all right, guys. And back to you. And Mike ties and turns. And then walks away. You see his chest.
00:17:25
Speaker
That's all you see is his ass out. So what did I just see? Does he do that on purpose? I can't. Don't be funny. Because the thing is, Mike Tyson is hilarious. Mike Tyson is hilarious, both intentionally and unintentionally. Yes, but if you ever see his Broadway show, very good. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Very good. Very funny. So I just want to know what's that intentional. He'll pretend to be serious and then walking away with his asses out. I'm going to send you the video. yeah It is comedically hilarious. The timing of everything is just like, is this am i is this an SNL skit? SNL has to do something with it. They have to. They have to do something with it. But you know shout out to Mike Tyson. You're not on Mike from when I was a young kid, but you're also 58 years old. Right. And you went out there, you took some shots,
00:18:16
Speaker
You gave some shots, and you went the distance. Yeah. And ah you're proud of yourself, and I'm proud of you. Yeah. Shout out, Cryer and Mike. Now, we're gonna get into a Georgia woman being arrested for letting her son walk to the store. We're gonna get into that next.
00:18:43
Speaker
ah a j Brittany Patterson, a 41-year-old mother from Georgia, was arrested on October 30, 2024, after her 10-year-old son, Soren, walked alone into the and into into town. Patterson had taken one of her children to the doctor's appointment, and during that time, Soren decided to walk less than a mile from their home In rural mineral mineral bluff Georgia, yes um while Soaring was out, Paterson received a call from the sheriff's department expressing concern that her son was walking alone. Paterson wasn't worried because she believed it was a short and safe walk. Deputies found Soaring and brought him home.
00:19:20
Speaker
About five hours later, they returned to arrest Patterson for reckless endangerment. Patterson was charged with reckless conduct, which could carry a sentence of up to one year in jail. The arrest warrant claimed she willingly and knowingly did endanger the bodily safety of her juvenile son.
00:19:38
Speaker
ah Authorities offered to drop the charge if Patterson signed a safety plan and included using the GPS tractor on her son's phone, but she refused, stating that she didn't believe her actions were unsafe. She's currently out on bond and awaiting a sea of prosecutors will indict her on the reckless conduct charge. Just to be clear.
00:19:57
Speaker
This walk was less than a mile from the Patterson home, and he was just walking to the gas station. yeah Before I get into ah other cases that are similar to this, and then the new thing about free range parenting, what is your initial response to this story?
00:20:18
Speaker
It's crazy. Because it makes me think about my own childhood and I remember being seven in second grade and I walked about a half a mile to school to and from school by myself.
00:20:33
Speaker
like Oh, we lived in Maryland. Yeah. Okay, I'll tell you. I walked to school and I walked home. I was getting into all kinds of shenanigans and stealing gum from the corner store, but I was seven years old, you know?
00:20:49
Speaker
you know But but i did I did. I walked to school. I would walk to the store. i will you know There was a like a like a little path, like a back way path to that highs. you know so Just in case y'all don't know, Highs was a store in Columbia, Maryland. and There was a convenience store, much like 7-Eleven, but it was called Highs and it had all the candy. yeah It was not far from the school. nope um There was a whole neighborhood right there and there were direct paths that led where we were living to Highs and to the school. and yes Everybody in the neighborhood did that.
00:21:20
Speaker
Yes, and i and all all of our aunts, like their friends all lived along the route, so I would stop at their houses. if they were you know so i just remember and i I never had a problem. I always felt very safe. you know It seems like I don't know where Mineral Bluff is, but if it's rural, it could be anywhere, but in Georgia. But it definitely seems like a town where at the sheriff sees Saw Soar and walking by himself, like, let me call his mama. Like, it's definitely a small town. People know each other. and
00:21:57
Speaker
She has to save. And you know they went back to the station, OK, but probably three or four of them that worked there. And they talked about it for hours. Like, should we charge her with something? We should. Well, my maid just walked us through. He was fine. I don't know. i but And they talked about it for several hours. And they decided to do it. And i i hope I hope the state does not bring charges. that In what way does she endanger her child?
00:22:28
Speaker
But I also get it because when I was walking to school at seven years old, it was the early 90s and, you know, it just the world was different. The world wasn't different. We just didn't. The world wasn't as big.
00:22:45
Speaker
we didn't have as much information. Like, were kids getting snatched? Yeah, there was always a story about kids getting snatched in the 90s. But these movies scared parents to the point where they became overprotective and granted. Like, I don't want to be a parent one day and then my kid gets snatched. I can't imagine that, right? But also, and I'm going to get into this free range parenting, also,
00:23:12
Speaker
You hovering, being a helicopter parent is not good for your kid. No. We had freedom. Did we do some dangerous stuff? Yeah, but we survived. but We survived. We survived, most of us. I felt like we had a lot of freedom. I said, well, we were country kids, first of all. So going outside, playing, being outside all day, that's that was the norm. yeah you You let your kids out the door. Like you let your pets out the door, you just let them go.
00:23:41
Speaker
Like, you know what I'm saying? Like kids. Go outside and play. Go outside. Go and stay out there. Like, now nowadays you got the kids. Kids are always on the game. They in the house. They're not out there being country kids. In-home video games started in our generation. I had Nintendo. I had Sega Genesis. I had, uh, uh, what was next? oh Sega Dream Care and yeah PlayStations and all that stuff.
00:24:09
Speaker
But you went outside. I went outside. You know, I'm saying those games got played when outside was too hot, too cold, or raining. Right. Or sleepover. Sleepover time. secondary being outside.
00:24:22
Speaker
Because outside was a ball. o Outside. There was so do. Everything was secondary to outside. We could have watched TV. We could have played video games. But all of that was secondary to.
00:24:41
Speaker
going outside and going and and me and our brother, we would intentionally try to get lost. We would pack little lunches and we would go into the woods and try to you know get lost. And when we were hungry, we would sit down on a log and eat our lunch and like that one make sure we tuck our pants into into our socks so we didn't get no
Childhood Memories and Sibling Dynamics
00:25:00
Speaker
poison ivy, even though he got it every single time.
00:25:03
Speaker
You and our brother. See, ladies and gentlemen, there is an age difference. I'm four years older than my sister and five and a half years older than my brother. And that is not big of a difference when you're older, but when you're younger, that is a dramatic difference. It's a difference between eight and four, 12 and eight, 16 and 12. And so them being so close in age, they would have adventures that I'm just still finding out about. Case in point, what? You're trying to get lots of the ones. Yeah, it was just going on an adventure. When were what will we living? Well, there was the woods across the street when we lived on a West Haven place. There was like a- So in Virginia? Yeah, in Virginia. Yeah, this is where we were little kids. Across the street was the grocery store. Yeah, behind that was woods. And then there was a neighborhood.
00:25:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah, you're right. And then there was also that big field where it was like a lake. you You ride your bike real fast down the hill. I do not remember that. That was on the other side of the street. See, you got to go on adventures. When you got to go on adventures? We moved into the house. I was turned to 13 years old. I was not going on any more adventures. No, we were still going on adventures. We was playing football ball and boxing in the backyard. And then it was girls. And then Boonsboro, there was the big lake. And then there was the woods behind the apartment buildings. Now, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you how stupid we were. Because this is when I was outside playing. We were living in Lynchburg, and that big, the woods and everything, the big lake, the lake would freeze over in the summertime. yeah And all of our young dumbasses would be out there on that lake. Wait, the lake will freeze over in the summertime, in the wintertime. Yes, in the wintertime. Look, between Tic-Tacs and Boruigua and... But it took me a minute to catch that one, so I'm... You said it very... You know what? I think it's better when I am hungover. Honestly, it might be yeah less of a mush mouth.
00:27:10
Speaker
It might actually be. Let's test it out. Test it out next week. Go out on a Saturday. We'll see you Sunday. I ain't going out no more. I ain't going out no more. And next time I go out is when you in town and me, you and our brother go out. But anyway, it's the winter time and the lake will freeze over. Yeah. We just out there not, not.
00:27:32
Speaker
skating on a lake, just taking our shoes and flying. Because we didn't have skates. Nobody had no skates. We was all poor. We was out there sliding on that lake. And I remember one time, I was like, this ice ain't real solid. And that lake, hey, man, if we fell down there, that was it. That was the postman. That was it. That was your ass. That was it. That was your ass. But it was the adventures. It taught us survival skills. Yes. You know? I mean, we got plenty of poison out of it. We got stung by bees. We lived.
00:28:01
Speaker
We live. I fell off that wall that time I got that nail stuck in my hand. yeah We lived. We survived. I came out of that with a lot of old fractures on my nose.
00:28:16
Speaker
I don't care about childhood and a lot of scars on my legs and stuff, but ah we had a fun country ass childhood. And that's what Sorin is having. A fun a fun country ass childhood. He lives in mineral bluff, Georgia, and a half mile from his house is the gas station. He was going to get on some candies. 10 years old. 10 years old.
00:28:40
Speaker
like He's double digits. He can make that walk by himself. He can make that walk. All right, so are there other cases that are like this? Matter of fact, there are. Debra Harrell, a mother from South Carolina, was arrested and charged with unlawful conduct toward a child after she let her nine-year-old daughter play at a park while she worked at McDonald's. Harrell's daughter had a key to the home and a cell phone, but authorities deemed it unsafe for the child to be alone.
00:29:10
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Then there's Danielle and Alexandra. I'm not going to even try to not say their last name, but this couple was from Maryland. Yeah, some. ah But this couple was from Maryland where and they were investigated multiple times by CPS for allowing their children aged 10 to 6 to walk home from the park unsupervised. The case gained national attention and sparked debates about free range parenting.
00:29:35
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And then another mother from New York faced backlash and was investigated by the CPS after she let her nine-year-old son ride the subway alone. She once again was talking about these free range took kids. Now, I will say this. It is a certain age where your kid is too young to be riding the subway alone.
00:29:54
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well Yeah, I don't know that I would let my nine-year-old ride the subway a lot. Yeah, that that that little it feels like a lot. But you know in other countries, in other cultures, they do get the kids out there very early in Japan, not uncommon to send your five-year-old to the market that's right around the corner. They can walk and they can pick up whatever item you need and walk back. There's actually a reality show that follows little kids on their first little outings alone to go and run these errands and learn responsibility and things like that. I mean, you know obviously, again, these are these are towns and things where
00:30:40
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You know everybody, right? like So I get it, i did the one in New York, okay, I would've given her a side after that. Yeah, I mean, but yeah see, here's the thing, like New York,
00:30:53
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because I used to go to New York almost every summer to spend in the Bronx with family at least a week or two. And that's where I first learned about tabs. You can go to the store and go get some candies. They put it on my tab. Did I plan on paying the tab at the end of the summer? No. Somebody was going to have to pay the tab. It was not going to be me. And I ran up a heavy tag on some now later and and some gobstoppers. When I first learned about bodegas, you'd have told me something new.
00:31:25
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And yeah yeah listen, you done told me something new that you should not have told me. But New York is so busy. I mean, obviously, things happen to kids and people in New York. But most of the time, the streets are so packed. Ain't nobody just trying to snatch kids off the street in a busy street in New York. right And New Yorkers,
00:31:50
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Look, even when I was growing up, New Yorkers were accused of being rude. They're not rude, they're just blunt. They're just straightforward. They're straightforward and their' blu and they're quick-witted, and they have a little smart comment real quick, but that's how I find that funny. yeah But one thing that you can do with any New Yorker is mess with kids. No matter if they like kids, they can hate kids, but you ain't gonna mess with kids. I think universally,
00:32:15
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I think universally for people- You don't mess with kids. Right. They do those little hidden camera shows where they set up a scenario where somebody looks too friendly with a child just to see what the people around will do. And every time somebody steps up, do you know them? Right. Do you know this person? Okay, sir, you don't need to be talking to them no more. Rebecca, everybody, I think people and Which is probably why a lot of these parents that are free range parents get charged because people are so overprotective with children. And I get it. Obviously, we ah our main job as adults is protecting children. We don't do a good job of it in this country, but our main ah one of our main jobs as adults is protecting, guiding, leading, nurturing children. That's... that that's
00:33:05
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who we should be as a community, right? but But also they need to learn independence. They need to learn how to operate in society without you. That's part of the job of raising a child is so that they can be a functional member of society without you, because they're not going to have you forever. And so I get both sides of it of like, yeah, I want my kid to be out there and see the world, experience the world.
00:33:33
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know, you know, how to operate in the world. But I also want to keep them safe. So I make sure that they have a cell phone with GPS on it. And, you know, I make sure they know, like, it was drilled in us to learn our phone number and address is especially for me. I got drilled because my our mother knew I'd like to walk off. Ladies and gentlemen, y'all don't understand. We was that great America. The year is 1987.
00:34:03
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And Great America later becomes Six Flags, if you're all wondering what that is. Well, this is 87, 88. You are three or four years old. We're at an an amusement park. And you walk off. that i That was the first time I saw Mom frantic. Yeah.
00:34:19
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walked smooth off. I just walked off. She was just, we were, me and our younger brother were in one of those double strollers and she just took me out to adjust him, went back to pick me up and I was gone. Gone.
00:34:35
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But you know, ah one thing that there I don't know if you know this, but there's like this unspoken thing that is being spread around by parents of parents who are not black, and parents who who have kids that ah might be of color or might be white, is if you get lost, find a black man. Yeah.
00:34:58
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Because a black man is going to make sure, hey, are you OK? Yeah. Are you safe? Let me, let me, let's, let's get you somewhere. Let's get you safe. And I think that that's. If a black man comes across a lost white child, they're going to figure out how to get that white c child back to their parents home safely. Because the left, because we cannot. We cannot. Because we. Do you understand? Cannot. Because some lost white child.
00:35:28
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When I contacted every authority. Every authority. You look at ATF swine. What we called it. A black rat ain't called shit quite. lost white child when I contacted every authority.
00:35:46
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All right, we've been talking about this free range parenting and then a lot of people are like, are y'all gonna explain it? All right, let me explain it. Free range parenting is a as his style of child rearing that encourages children to gain independence and self-reliance by allowing them to have greater freedom and responsibility. This approach is based on the belief that children learn best through direct experiences and that over-protecting them can hinder their development. Here are some key aspects of free range parenting.
00:36:13
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Some of the key principles is independence. Encourages children to take it on task and responsibility of their own, such as walking to school or playing outside with without consistent supervision. Trusting the children's abilities. Believes that the child children are capable of handling various situations and making good decisions. You gotta learn through experience. It emphasizes that children learn through grow and learn and grow by encountering and overcoming challenges.
00:36:43
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And there is a balanced risk that allows children to engage in activities that have a manageable risk, helping them develop problem solving skills and resilience. Yeah. That's real key right there.
00:36:54
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and And the thing is, it's not like these parents are just saying, go do whatever. There are very specific rules. you are not a la You have to stay on the sidewalk. You are only allowed to go to the park and come back. You're not allowed to go anywhere else. You have to keep your phone on you and your GPS location. You're not allowed to talk to strangers. The kids are guided.
00:37:18
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with but they also have independent responsibility. Like, i think I think it's good. I don't know, you know, how free range I will be, but I would definitely subscribe to the Believe The Kids, need to get out there without you and have the confidence to be able to walk to the park and back without you.
00:37:41
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And be safe. like Kids need to build up that confidence. Because I'm going to tell you if you, if you don't, then you got a kid that struggles making friends. You got a kid that struggles taking initiative or you know raising their hand in class and stuff because they don't feel confident enough in themselves. Building up that confidence, I think, is extremely important.
00:38:04
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Yeah, what I mean, it can still happen. We grew up with some free-range children ah that that still was quiet and shy and things like that. We had anxiety, so that's... would And also, I didn't know this at the time, but I had ADHD, so I had attention issues. So a lot of time, I didn't know what was going on because my mind drifted Well, I wasn't talking about us specifically, but I was talking about other kids. But yes, they may have had those same issues that just never got developed. I liked us. I'm putting ourselves on the back here. I liked us because
00:38:42
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Even when those kids, we knew those shy kids, and maybe they might get picked on. We never really, we never picked on people. No, we weren't pleased. Well, from our perspective, other people may have been like, why are you always joking on me? And I would have been like, well, just joking me back, because that's that's what I want. yeah that's my That's my love language, just joke of you. I don't pick on you, then I don't really like it. It's not malicious. Yeah, it's not malicious. But if we saw other people being malicious to those kids, then we attack those kids that way. That's your ass. We attack those bullies. yeah Because it's like, hey, man, we do things out of jokes here. why yeah Because we're trying to bring them in in our own little way. yeah We're not trying to ostracize them. why said they're right okay I OK. Yes, OK. Getting Getting it done off your shoe, all right. You was a little stuck.
00:39:39
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A little bit? Yeah, a little bit. Loosen it up. I'm loosening it up now. All right. We didn't ostracize them. We were like, hey, bring this in. this is yeah This is part of what we do. But then we would see other kids being malicious. Like, hold up. Hold up. That's not what we're doing. You misinterpreted what we were doing. Right. And since that's the way you want to carry it.
00:39:58
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right Now let's have at it. It wasn't like we were like, hey, we're having a good time here. You all are doing too much. It wasn't like we didn't say that before we went in on you, but just know that the the three of us were very quick and we played the dozens very well. Well, that's because our dad told us taught us at a very young age.
00:40:27
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The dozens, forget all that, go straight for the juggler. Yes. And my boys would still talk about it right now. It was just a couple of weeks ago. We were all joking on the group chat. And they was like, all right, let's not go too hard on Bruce because he going to start to get personal. And I was like, what does that mean? He was like, you always go for the juggler. You always say the things that nobody else is supposed to say. And you say it. Well, I'm going to give you a warning. Things are going too far. Right.
00:40:52
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And then when you piss me off, it's like, OK, that's the reason why your breath stinks and your wife left you. Right.
00:41:01
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But I mean, it's true. Like, I gave it a warning. But no, we were always taught to allow anybody to bully you. And we took it to the next logical step, which is don't let anybody be bullied around you. Like, right that's that's never, I've never been a bully. And I don't suffer bullies at all.
00:41:21
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and And that's all a part of being a free-range kid. You got to go out there. and And I feel sorry for the next generation. We just saw it. and I know we didn't want to talk about politics, but we just saw it in this last election with a lot of Gen Z males voting for Trump.
Family Dynamics and Parenting Approaches
00:41:40
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And It's a lot of Gen Z males out there. It's a lot of males out there in general that are complaining about, you know, we don't have the opportunities. They feel left behind. And the reason why they feel left behind is because you're not good enough. Let me just make that clear. If women are passing men in
00:41:57
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in education and in job advancement, it's because they're going out there and getting it. Not because they were handing anything. You were so used to getting everything handed to you, now you don't know how to work for nothing. And now you think the world gets you because you don't know how to work for nothing. And now you sitting there complaining, talking about, I don't get this, I don't get that, instead of calling up your bootstraps and going out there and fighting that non-situation. Literally the advice that you give to us. Right. So literally that non-free range generation is soft, but these men out here want to blame everybody else. And the menosphere and the manosphere is just piling on top of that. They found people. There's always been men like this, but now they found each other and they have a voice online. They want to blame everybody else for their problems. Guess what?
00:42:48
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Your idea of a man is not what you are living up to you because a man stands up, handles his business and forges ahead and don't make no excuses for his lot in life. He just goes and gets stuff done. Y'all ain't men out here. And that's because they weren't free range kids.
00:43:08
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Yeah, they didn't get... And they everybody got trophies. Yeah, everybody got participation trophies. Nobody nobody had to... And it's not like I'm really... and Not like I'm endorsing part of what us as older generations and even generations before us, some of the things like that I'm not endorsing some of the things we lived right. like There was a lot of yeah beatings. I'm not saying us specifically, but like corporal punishment was a thing in households where you really don't have that now or you shouldn't
00:43:46
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No. Right down there. can't. mean, you gotta beat a kid. No, they love to do the spare to rise, boil the chow. No, you do not have to beat anyone to get them to learn something. I'm putting me in quote takes. I don't really mean beat them.
00:44:02
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But I mean, a little smack on the butt. Sometimes kids are bad. And sometimes kids throw temper tantrums and be like, well, I'm not having no temper tantrum just because you're not going to get this cereal. No, we ain't getting this cereal. Get up. But this is a three-year-old that does not know how to articulate. No, this an eight-year-old. It's an eight-year-old. But again, an eight-year-old that does not know how to articulate their emotions, are they throwing a temper tantrum because they're a, quote unquote, bad child? Or are they throwing a temper tantrum because they don't know how to emotionally regulate because you didn't teach them that?
00:44:31
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Well, they're bad. That's what I say. No. there I refuse. Be the king. there There are some children who are who who act up and else for various reasons, and they know they're being bad, and they're doing it anyway. like that ok you you did There is such a thing. Us. You should discipline a child. No, I never did anything knowingly knowing that, well, no, that's not true. I played with fire a lot. And I mean that literally, y'all, not figuratively. I played with fire. yeah i long I was a little pyromaniac, played with pyromaniac a lot. This fool, we had a gas tank that we used for gas for the lawnmower. This fool put a paper towel in the little holes of the gas tank. That's not what I did.
00:45:21
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Somebody did it. It was you or our brother. I poured the gas on the grass and lit the grass on fire. And then I didn't know that our father was coming home early. And when I heard him in the house, I'm trying to stamp out the fire. But it keeps growing. And he comes to the back door. And all I could do is just, I'm literally standing in the flames and staring at him. And he's staring at me. And he just goes, get in the house.
00:45:52
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And I got so much trouble for playing with fire. well So, OK. But I believe that kids are a product of us. So whatever you teach your child is what they're going to learn. like And what you don't teach them is what they're not going to know. It's just that damn simple. and But you know people can work with the toolbox that they have. you know Not every adult.
00:46:22
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knows how to emotionally regulate themselves. Most of us don't. So how are you going to teach your kid? So you're going to have a kid that throws tantrums. Guess what? You throw tantrums too. It's just in your adult way.
00:46:34
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That is true. You ain't lying when you said that because I threw a tantrum the other night. Some of the benefits of free range parenting is self-confidence, problem-solving skills, resilience, and physical activity. Yeah. There was a lot of time kids, you know, gained a lot of weight sitting there and they're playing video games, kick them, kick them in the butt, send them outside to go play.
00:46:53
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physical activity. Some of the criticisms are safety concerns and then legal issues. you know Critics argue that free range parenting can expose children to unnecessary risks. I mean, I guess so. you got to I mean, you just don't, like you said, you just don't let your kids just run anywhere. There are certain rules and parameters. Now, are kids going to break those rules and parameters? Yes, because we did. Yes. My parents told me in the house in Illinois, do not go down to that drug store down that back alley.
00:47:23
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It had penny candy. Yeah. Dad was leaving chains around the house. I could find quarters, nickels, dimes. I could gather 100, not 100, 100 pennies. Yes. It was 100 pieces of candy that I could buy. Yeah.
00:47:39
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All I got to do is go down this alley. Yeah. And I'm going to go down that alley. Now, did I pay the price? I paid the price because I saw a dead body and it's haunting me still to this day. Yes, because I told you not to go down that damn alley. But you know what? I got that candy. You still went to get the candy? Look, I made it at this point. I made it at this point. I still went to go get the candy. I mean, the body was off to the corner.
00:48:05
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That's not okay. I know we're laughing, ladies and gentlemen, but realize this is a, it's like a laugh anxiety. Like that was not okay. No, I mean, I think it was, I think it was an OD. It may have been a gunshot. I mean, it was living in a rough area and they told me not to go down this alley, but you know what? I was playing in the backyard and the backyard was connected to the alley anyway. So it was all dangerous. It was dangerous out there in these streets.
00:48:30
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yeah and Don't worry, ladies and gentlemen, I got therapy. I've gotten to see that dead body. Yeah. Good lord. ah Anyway, speaking of free range children.
00:48:44
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that's going to lead us to our next topic. Yeah. And it's the story of a young guy and his little brother. And he asked the question already, am I a jerk? Not asshole, because we've got to stop saying asshole so we can be monetized. So we're going to change the name of the segment to am I a jerk? Yeah. Because we want some money. Right. But we're going to get into that. We're going to get into that next.
00:49:18
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All right, Jay. Am I a jerk? I went back on Reddit because it's good content. Yeah. Went back on Reddit, and this 14-year-old male posted a post about a situation that happened between him and his younger brother. He wanted to know, is he a jerk? It was literally posted yesterday, so the ages are correct. okay And I'm just going to read it for you, ladies and gentlemen. So title of it. Am I a jerk for slapping my brother?
00:49:52
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ah I am a 14 year old male and I have a younger brother that let's call him Jason. So Jason was born in 2015, which would make him around eight or nine and had a loop in his intestines. Luckily he recovered, but since then I have felt like I'm not even wrote um relevant. They give him gifts on my birthday. They let him cut the cake.
00:50:15
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with me and then all this is a 14 year old writing this ladies and gentlemen so I'm trying to read his handwriting and im he's writing like a 14 year old so bear with me. So basically they let him you know they give him gifts on his birthday letting them cut the cake on his birthday with them they all are just spoiling him but this incident happened just last week.
00:50:36
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So I was playing Call of Duty on my PC when Jason came storming into my room and pulled my hair to the point where a few hairs came out and he ran out of the room, then screamed to my mom. She came, but she said, nothing is wrong. So I got mad and went to the washroom. When I came back, I found Jason had deleted my newest save, essentially deleting all of my progress on the story mode of the game.
00:51:03
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by the time but by that time started to see okay By that time, I started to see red, and I had put in five hours into the game, so I grabbed him by the collar with all my pent-up raids. I lifted my hand and slapped him.
00:51:18
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Then my mom heard the commotion, rushed into the room and started screaming at me, basically saying, how dare you hit my angel and went on a rant about how I'm not responsible. But then my dad came home and he's kind of a gamer himself. So when he came and he told my mom that what I did was justified, but I still feel a little guilty as I'm mostly a calm guy, what should I do?
00:51:43
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Ladies and gentlemen, I tried to read that as best I could, have but once again, it's a fortune roll. There was no punctuation. No punctuation at the best I could, but basically, the long short of the story is, his little brother was born with a defect. He recovered with a defect.
00:52:02
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His little brother gets baby, much like the younger siblings do. He feels it's not fair. He got legitimate great because they give him presents on his birthday and let him cut the cake. Let his brother help him cut the cake on his birthday. He playing Call of Duty. He said he would put in five hours, which by the way, go outside and play. All right? yeah Five hours on Call of Duty. And his little brother deleted the same game that he just did. So he slapped him across the face. Yeah. Now, is he a jerk?
00:52:34
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it I mean, you ain't got to slap him across the face. Maybe, like, ah how hard was a slap? That's when I went after him. No, it doesn't matter. Listen, I distinctly remember it was mostly between me and our younger brother. When we would play or do something, and he would win, he was a sore winner. And so he would make little faces and taunt. And this happened twice. This is an incident that happened twice.
00:53:02
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i say I would say, because I always give a warning, you keep doing that, I'm going to punch you in the face. He would continue. And twice in my life, I've hauled off and punched him directly in the face. be Because let me tell you something.
00:53:22
Speaker
Life is gonna slap you in the face. Okay, that's a life lesson now. Okay, turn it down. Life is gonna slap you in the face. You cannot be a spoiled brat as an adult. I mean, you can. If you're spoiling yourself, that's different. Well, then you can be a spoiled brat and become president of the United States. I don't know that anybody's learning this lesson right now. Right, but the point is you shouldn't be able to be a spoiled brat and an adult Like, because life just doesn't work like that for most people. Does it work like that for rich white men? Yes. But does it work like that for most people? No. So, most people, if you try to throw a tantrum or something at work, you go into HR. Like, you're going to get slapped in the face. If you try to throw a tantrum with your partner, you're gonna get broken up with. Like, you're gonna get slapped in the face. So, you need... First of all, a 14-year-old didn't do a damn thing.
00:54:21
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Nope. Just chilling in his room. Just chilling in his room playing call. Do you come in? You pull my hair. Then you go screaming like I did something to you. I did nothing. I still trying to chill in my room. I go to the bathroom, come back and you didn't delete them. For what?
00:54:40
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Life needs to smack you in the face. Probably accident. that I'm going to assume the younger brother accidentally deleted it by trying to just play the game. This is the reason why I'm going to assume it. Because this situation, the reason why I picked it, is eerily similar to things that I experienced in my own life. Right.
00:54:58
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You just in your room chilling and your younger siblings come knocking on your door or sometimes don't even not just walk in and they don't even want nothing. They just want to bother you. Yes. They actually want to just be around you, but they just want to bother you. So they'll come in to annoy you. They'll come in, they'll open the door, they'll leave the door open and then run over yeah out right away. Turn off the light and leave, yeah you know, like the little things. And then when you start to chase them, they yell and they're screaming.
00:55:28
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And then that involves your parents. And your parents are like, what you doing? look This is what they came in to do. Just leave them alone. They just planned. No, they're not planning. They disrupted my peace. And so my man had worked five hours. yeah Which, by the way, once again, go outside and play.
00:55:43
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But even still, the way time works for children, five hours was a lot of time. It's a lot of time period, but for a 14-year-old, five hours is a lot of time to dedicate to something. And it was a new save. Yes. And you said, I had to swag his brother. Now, going back to our brother and him teasing you, yes he got that honestly. From you. Yes, he got that from me. Yes, I know. Because you are also a sore winner.
00:56:12
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no No, I used to. No. If I win, I win. But if you're a sore loser, I'm going to rub that in. So our brother was a sore winner and a sore loser. He's a sore. He's a sore. All the way around. You? But you need to understand that you made him that way. Probably, yeah. No, I did. Yes. I did. I would be beating him so bad, he'd be quiet. And he's sure to lose. And you didn't have to do that. I didn't have to. There's two kinds of people.
00:56:42
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The kind of person that lets the child win no now to build their confidence, and the kind that just destroys the place for real against a child. Okay, you were second. I used to taunt him, not even sometimes by words, but just the way I played the game. I used to taunt him to give him a chance, but not really give him a chance. He's sitting over there crying. And then, to this day, he hates this song. Na, na, na, na. Yeah. Na, na, na, Some controllers got broke. He pushed me into a wall one time. There was a big dent in the wall that mom and dad had to fix. Hey, look, that's all the part of growing up. But also, sometimes, you got a smacking of younger siblings in the face. But this, the ultimate jerk in the so whole situation are the parents. And the reason. The mom. The mom. The mom, it seems like. But the dad is not stepping in and saying, hey,
00:57:43
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you don't get to be celebrated also on your brother's birthday. Like that's a fault. That's a fault of both the parents. I got an odd feeling just by reading the story of how his dad responded and told the mom like, no, it was justified. I got an odd feeling that in that marriage, he's just like,
00:58:02
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The mother is doing this and it's like, this is not a fight I'm willing to have. Because when you're married, you got to pick your battles with the fight. You can't fight all of them. I'm just trying to live my life. but I also don't want to just strictly blame the mother. That's the that's a lack on the father's part also.
00:58:20
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yeah like He doesn't get a pass just because he's letting her do these things. you write He doesn't get a pass for that. so is That was real misogynist of me, wasn't it? It really was. but that's a that I mean, that's like you know people who always blame single mothers and never the fathers that are not there. I'd say it's a fault of both the parents. You have to make your kids feel like they're special to you on an individual level. Like it's true that we each have different parents because we each have different personalities and your parents are parent to you at different moments in their lives and different things going on. So we're not all going to have the same parent, even though we're all in the same house, right? But you have to build those
00:59:10
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relationships on an individual level with your kid. Like, having your birthday is the one day a year where everybody shouts you out singularly. So to to make him take on this role of like, you have to be the bigger person and let your brother also blow out your candles and also cut your cake. No, I don't. I'm a kid.
00:59:38
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you have to be the parent and tell him whether he throws a tantrum or not, you can be a part of the situation and cheer on your brother or you can go to your room. e Those are the two options that you have. right Like that's the role that the parent is supposed to play so that this 14 year old can feel like he's special for that day.
00:59:58
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You ain't lying. You was right when you said what you said. So if they're constantly putting him in a position where he can be terrorized by his younger brother even physically, and you do nothing, then guess what? If you're making me that responsible, then I'm also responsible for disciplining him, and I'm gonna slap him in the face when he comes into my room without my permission, touches my stuff without my permission, deletes my five hours of work,
01:00:28
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I'm slapping him in the face because you put me in the position where I have to be responsible for how he feels and his conduct and all that stuff. So I also get to discipline him. And if you don't want me to have that role, then take on the role as the parent like you supposed to do oh and get your kid in check. Because he's not my kid.
01:00:47
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Right. Yours. Well, now... So the jerk is the parents. And I know we've been digging into parents a lot as two people without children. But we are someb... I always say this, I'm like, I can't give you advice as a parent because I'm not one, but I can give you advice as somebody's child and as a sibling. Mm-hmm.
01:01:09
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That's all we trying to do. That's it. No, young man, no, you were well within your, I'm sorry, ah even for people who are like, no, you should never get physical. No. You sound to me like that that little boy could have used that slam. Look, ah but I want to get back to the story of when you punched our brother twice. What happened after you punched him?
01:01:37
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That was the end of it because I punched him in the face. I never got to punch y'all in the face. No. So I don't know what that's like. Yeah. I didn't feel good about it. It's not something I wanted to do. I gave the warning of like, hey, I don't want you to go out in the world and taunt people when you win. Like, that's not OK. I'm telling you. And worst case scenario is somebody punches you in the face. And I would rather it be me as your sibling. No, worst case scenario is you get shot. Because I know that is.
01:02:10
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Well, as children. I'm talking, we were kids. 13, 12. No, we were kids. One of them was on the elementary school bus. OK, all right. Yeah, one of them we was at home playing, I think Lakers versus South. Wait a minute, timeout. You punched him in the face in public? On the school bus. Look, the school bus fights supposed to be people that's really fighting, not siblings. I ain't never seen two siblings fight on the school bus. We didn't fight. I punched them in the face, and that was the end of it.
01:02:39
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Because when as I said that I was going to do it. al and the And then the one, the school bus punch, that was after the first punch where I've already set a precedent of if you keep doing this, I'm going to punch you in the face because life's going to punch you in the face. And I need if you our would rather you know that it's coming from your sister with love. And then I really try to teach you something as your older sister.
01:03:08
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as opposed to somebody out on the street who might just punch you once like me, or they might punch you several times, okay? This is a lesson. And guess what? After the second time, we didn't have that problem ever again. Because you heavy-handed and you hit hard. Yeah, I punched him in the face. It wasn't like I didn't slap, I didn't punch him in the arm. I drew my fist back.
01:03:36
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And I punched him directly in the face. That's what happened. I'm surprised he didn't come back when it attacked, because at the time I hit him, he would always come charging back at me. No, it didn't. it It never turned into a fight. I think it was just always, he kind of accepted. Yeah, you said you were going to do it, and you did it. And I i really don't have no comeback for that. like it was It was kind of like that. like You're kind of like, OK, I accepted my lump kind of situation. Yeah.
01:04:05
Speaker
So this all goes back to the glow hands and why I should be given the power to smack people in the face. It's a convoluted superpower, first of all. Second of all, it's again, you thinking that your way of thinking is superior to us. Not superior, just right.
01:04:27
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It's the same difference. It is not the same difference. It's the same difference. I don't think I'm superior. I just think my point of thinking is right. No, you don't think you're superior. I said you think what you think is superior to what everybody else thinks. It's right. Not everybody else. A lot of people out there agree with me. A lot of people say, Bruce, you're right. People say that all the time.
01:04:51
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It's a stupid, to bit stupid, superpower. And I'm not going to get back into this. Ladies and gentlemen, if y'all want to know what that superpower is, check out After Hours with our sister, where we talked about it. But anyway, Jay, what do you want to lead the people with? Hmm.
01:05:09
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That's a good question. I don't know. I mean, I ask that question. See, I ask the question every episode. You do. I don't know why you're surprised about it. I know. I'm not surprised about it, but usually I have something, and I can't think of anything right now because I'm incredibly busy and tired. OK. So I guess I will say, you know, take time for some care. Try not to make decisions where you overload yourself and get overstimulated and shut down because I'm very, very close to that.
01:06:21
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