The Wet Beaver Lifestyle

The idealized nuclear family of the 1950s – with its working dad, homemaking mom, and 2.5 children – has become increasingly rare in today's world. But what exactly constitutes a "family" now, and who gets to define it?

We tackle this question head-on, examining how family structures have evolved beyond the "Leave It To Beaver" model into something far more diverse and inclusive. From blended families and same-sex parents to chosen family connections and co-parenting arrangements, we explore how "nuclear family" has transformed into "whatever configuration provides love and support."

Social media adds another fascinating dimension to this conversation. Those perfect vacation photos flooding your feed? Total lies. We discuss the exhausting performance of family perfection online and how it creates unrealistic expectations for everyone. What if we all started posting the messy, chaotic reality instead of the curated highlight reel?

The power dynamics within families have shifted dramatically as well. Children now often possess technological knowledge their parents lack, leading to situations where six-year-olds run family meetings with PowerPoint presentations. We share hilariously real emails from listeners navigating these strange new waters, including one from a parent whose child drafted a co-parenting agreement between them and their spouse!

Throughout our conversation, we return to one central truth: a nuclear family is exactly what you make of it. The configuration matters far less than the connection. Whether related by blood, marriage, choice, or circumstance, what makes a family "nuclear" is the central role these relationships play in our lives.

Subscribe now and join our conversation about modern family life in all its beautiful, complicated glory. And please share your own "real" family photos – messy hair, sunburns, arguments and all!

Transcript

Introduction to Nuclear Family Topic

Speaker 2 0:09

Hey everybody, welcome to.

Speaker 1 0:15

Saki Tumi.

Speaker 2 0:17

Hey everybody, welcome back to Saki Tumi, where we connect people to people, even if it means that my family is better than yours. I'm here with t-bot hey, hey and today we're going to talk about the nuclear family okay, yeah you know those two old. That old time show was it? I don't know it was on tv.

Speaker 3 0:36

It was beaver's cleaver or something like that no, no, no, it was leave it to beaver. That's what it was right leave it to beaver.

Speaker 2 0:41

His name was beaver, cleaver though, wasn't? It sounds like you're just to hurt the midsection of a young lady?

Speaker 3 0:45

I can't believe that one.

Speaker 2 0:46

Yeah, how did he let that get away?

Speaker 3 0:47

Well, that was back a long time ago. Wouldn't let that happen nowadays. No, definitely not.

Speaker 2 0:53

The ideals of that are twisted by opinions of this day and age. Right, right, would you have your kid named Beaver?

Speaker 3 1:02

Oh Jesus, no, you might as well just kill him before he even gets to school.

Speaker 2 1:06

Well, I don't know that you really want to go ahead and do that. That sounds a little yeah, but just the name.

Speaker 3 1:10

I mean, come on, no one in their right mind, no. No one in their right mind Beaver Cleaver.

Speaker 2 1:14

It sounds like a kitchen instrument that you use to just destroy stuff. Oh, Sure does.

Speaker 1 1:25

He sounds like a serial killer. He does sound like a serial killer. That's what he sounded like Then there's Eddie. Haskell.

Speaker 2 1:27

Oh yeah, he was just a piece of junk, that guy oh man, oh no. Anyway. So in today's day and age, is the nuclear family still A existent and B the way it's supposed to be?

Speaker 3 1:40

I'm going to go with a no on both.

Speaker 2 1:43

Well, what's your thought?

Speaker 3 1:44

Well, come on. What exactly is the representation of a nuclear family?

Speaker 2 1:51

What? Mother, father, daughter, son. A disgusting piece of ideology that was lost probably three decades ago.

Speaker 3 1:56

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean, now we've got stepdads, half-brothers, half-sisters. I mean there's girlfriend, boyfriend, they're're not even married and they're still raising families. So what exactly is the definition of a nuclear family?

Speaker 2 2:09

a nuclear family is a is an ideology that people want to try and portray, and the rest of the world is looking at them like you're an idiot. Yeah, exactly, but this is not the way it works anymore but those, unfortunately, that though that's their nuclear family.

Speaker 2 2:26

And kudos to them, right, like I want to give props to them. Good for you guys for doing it Correct, because it's very hard to do in this day and age and it's just so easy to hate somebody else, like even the people that do have these so-called nuclear families where the parents are still married, the kids are growing up well and right and all that stuff. They hate each other. They freaking hate each other. Yeah, that's true. So we're getting in now. Well, we're actually in it.

Speaker 3 2:54

Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:55

I mean, we're in July, so vacation season.

Speaker 3 2:58

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 2:59

And now you see all these pictures.

Speaker 3 3:00

Oh yeah, oh, these people are having a great time.

Speaker 2 3:06

Oh, my life's so wonderful. No smiles. No, it's not. You hate the person next to you. You freaking hate them, so true it's like even the people with you know broken homes and you know divorces and all that stuff. They're looking at the people next. I hate you too.

Vacation Photos vs. Reality

Speaker 3 3:17

It's just the way today's life is and they post so much and that's how I know they got problems. You see, all these posts and posts and posts. Oh, my family's great. It was a great vacation, come on yeah.

Speaker 2 3:28

Stop it.

Speaker 3 3:29

Yeah, who are you trying to impress? Just stop it.

Speaker 2 3:32

Those are the mental health issues that nobody really dives into, it's true. It's like if you have to post so much on Instagram or Facebook or anything like that, you might want to seek counseling Professional help. Because it's not that cool every day, no, like today. I was soaking wet from the rain at work. I came home. There's no way I'm taking pictures of that, putting it up there. What am I? Ridiculous.

Speaker 3 3:55

That would be pretty funny.

Speaker 2 3:57

And at the beach. Let's say you take your family to the beach. Not every second of that day is perfect. No, you just put up these stupid pictures and make it look like that.

Speaker 3 4:06

Yeah, I have a perfect family and a perfect vacation. It was so much fun, yay, okay.

Speaker 2 4:11

You were stuck in beach traffic for four hours on the way home. You didn't take any pictures of that did you?

Speaker 3 4:14

You almost kill each other because the kids are like I gotta go to the bathroom. Dad Shut up. How come there's no more snacks? I'm hungry. Susie took the last water. Shut the fuck up. Yeah, let's take the perfect picture after that trip.

Speaker 2 4:31

Yeah, nobody takes those pictures.

Speaker 3 4:33

It's freaking hilarious.

Speaker 2 4:34

You know what happens to everybody.

Speaker 3 4:36

It happens to everyone.

Speaker 2 4:38

It's just like oh my God, Stop this weird race you've created for yourself. Yep, I dare everyone that listens to the show to start posting pictures that are awful.

Speaker 3 4:48

Oh, that would be actually fun.

Speaker 2 4:50

Because, yeah, it would be. And I'm going to start Because that's real. After we're done with this, I'm going to have you go downstairs and take a picture of me in my I don't know oversized self right now on my new exercise bike. Oh, no people, this is so funny exercise like oh, and I'm gonna start off, I'm gonna post pictures that are like daily life yeah they're like ridiculously embarrassing. Okay, because that is actually real life.

Speaker 3 5:17

That's real life, right, and that's your family.

Speaker 2 5:19

Yeah, exactly so now there's this whole fad that's going on. I don't know if it's I. I call it a fad because I don't know how long it'll last. Trad families where the woman is trying to be the stay-at-home mom with the apron and the hair done, makeup all set ready and then making cookies.

Speaker 3 5:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:34

Husband gets home. Here's your loafers, here's the paper, here's your pipe. You know, sit down.

Speaker 3 5:46

I know you had a hard day at work. I'm making dinner, yeah, okay, that's a very small percentage.

Speaker 2 5:48

Yeah, that's never gonna last. I've done a lot of things wrong in my life to get to where I am now, but the one thing I do know for sure is it takes a village in this day and age it takes a village to raise children, sure does to have families, and no family is five people anymore, two and a half, you know, two. Anywhere between two and three people, right, two and three children. Yep, it's not like that.

Speaker 1 6:06

And no family is five people anymore, two and a half.

Speaker 2 6:07

Anywhere between two and three people, right, two and three children. Yep, it's not like that anymore. No, like I have my son's mother. That's family.

Speaker 1 6:13

Right.

Speaker 2 6:13

Right, I have all of you around with me now helping me raise my son. Yeah, because of everything that happened, right, that's my life, right, and it's not just a nuclear thing anymore, if you can do it nuclearly, if that's even an adjective I don't even know what that is good for you, good for you, right.

Speaker 2 6:34

It's difficult because most people have been divorced already oh yeah, a good percentage yeah so, even if you're on your second one, it's a blended family that's not nuclear no no right, because you still have to deal with the others.

Speaker 3 6:46

Exactly Now. You've mixed in all kinds of other people.

Speaker 2 6:48

Which brings us back to vacation photos. Now are you fighting with the other?

Speaker 3 6:52

Oh, right, do you?

Speaker 2 6:52

know what I mean.

Speaker 3 6:53

Do you want to be in this picture with them?

Speaker 2 6:54

No, Not even that.

Speaker 3 7:10

Do set the bar.

Speaker 2 7:10

Oh yeah, the second person's got, I'll do it. Oh, I remember those days. Oh, my kid had way better time on our vacation than yours. I remember those days. You people are so dumb. Oh yeah, constant competition. Stop posting shit, period. Yeah, start posting stuff that's embarrassing and real, not this fake crap where you had the beach or your kids hit a home run or some shit congratulations if you're having a good time at the beach, yeah.

Speaker 2 7:23

And or your kid hits a home run. Good for you, right. Good for your, your kid, your son, whatever daughter, uh-huh. But post the other shit too. Post them. How about them? How about them beating the crap out of each other with pillows and feathers flying over the house?

Speaker 3 7:35

post that stuff right, or the beach and the wave takes them under and they got hair and sandal over their bodies and they're crying hysterical or the sunburn because you put sunscreen on stingrays, get them, or the jellyfish, the real shit. Oh yeah, or they have a mental breakdown because the wave took out their sandcastle.

Speaker 2 7:55

They're on the beach and they got to poop. Yes, oh man, oh yeah. Yeah that's the kind of stuff. I mean there is no war in June Cleaver anymore.

Speaker 3 8:04

No, there isn't, oh God, no.

Speaker 2 8:06

And it's gone so far by that the trad people, the traditional family stuff, they're trying to bring it back.

Speaker 3 8:14

Yeah, you said that, which I commend, by the way, let me tell you I'm not knocking it in any way. No, correct, if that happens, that's great, yes great, yes, well, it won't happen.

Speaker 2 8:24

It won't happen because it's not set up like that anymore. Definitely not, but the ideal, the idea of it, them trying to bring it back in in dress, like because you see all these people posting these things by these old cars, yeah, and they're all dressed up with the you know cigarettes in their sleeves and stuff and the big cuffs with the black shoes.

Speaker 3 8:38

I think it's like your greaser. Yeah, yeah yeah, it's awesome right, I love seeing it, me too, I think. I think it's great Right.

Speaker 2 8:44

But it's not real. No, it's not real. No, it is a nice thing to do.

Speaker 3 8:48

Right, it's fun Right.

Speaker 2 8:49

But it's just like putting on those big what do they call those? Those bustiers where they shove up your boobs and you're dressed like you're of the old west. That's all you're doing. It's not real. No, it's not real, definitely not. So I did get some emails, okay, and questions, okay, and I want to read at least three of them on here. All right, okay, because they were all right. Dear Ditto, is it normal that in our modern nuclear family, my nine-year-old daughter is the only one with a job? She's a slime influencer on TikTok. My husband identifies as a stay-at-home crypto visionary and I hide in the pantry pretending to fold sheets just to avoid them both. Asking for a friend, oh no, a very tired friend that's from Burned Out in Boise. I read that one.

Speaker 3 9:49

I was like oh holy shit, that really is today, that is totally today there are kids.

Speaker 2 9:52

They're just making these. Yes, these giant companies right because of youtube tiktok and everybody's going this way yeah and so parents probably are able to quit their jobs wouldn.

Speaker 3 10:04

Wouldn't that be great. Yeah, wouldn't that be fantastic.

Speaker 2 10:07

Yeah, but let's Look, you're here with me when we do this podcast. Yep, this is not freaking easy. No, it isn't. So it's not Put those pictures up, and that's why you're going to catch me on the exercise bike.

Speaker 3 10:18

Be prepared people.

Speaker 2 10:20

This ain't easy, sitting here through all hours of the night trying to edit everything oh, I know put it up like I gave up. Work got so busy, yeah, that I had to give up even promoting this thing and we've suffered a lot of listener loss, right, well, but we'll get back there because I will figure out something sure, the solution will present itself exactly, I won't be back there, but I thought that one was funny that was pretty pretty funny. I mean, you just came back from Georgia.

Speaker 3 10:46

Correct.

Speaker 2 10:47

Explain to me your kind of situation. Explain to everybody, not just me, your kind of situation and what went on in Georgia.

Speaker 3 10:56

Oh, why I go to Georgia. I go to Georgia for my job. I have a job that is in Georgia, so I need to be there every month, month and a half, to work a week there. It's actually fun. I do have one of my daughters there and my other daughter lives in South Carolina, so I get to see them. I get to see my family. I've got friends there, so it actually is a nice little getaway, especially when it's really cold here in the winter or rainy or whatever. It's hot, it's very hot.

Modern Definition of a Nuclear Family

Speaker 3 11:20

But I have to tell you something that I went to a concert when I was there and it's so funny. We had gone to a concert and they set up on the golf course and and it was electric violins and I don't know, did it rain? Yeah, no, we should have. It would have been better. Let me tell you, I don't know what idiot set this whole thing up, but they put the sprinklers came on. They didn't come on all at once, they came on in one area. So there's this guy picture this running out putting a chair on it to try to stop it from getting everyone soaked who were sitting also on the green.

Speaker 3 11:58

Okay, wait so as and then the big ones that just go over so you can see them kind of coming at us and we're like no, no, it's not going to come at us, it's not going to come at us, yeah, yeah. So we get up and move. One shoots over us one chair. The guy comes over the chair, puts it down. One other one comes almost behind the people. Someone gets this one puts a chair over it. The last one hits the guy with the violin right in his back, soaks him, soaks his partner, soaks all the equipment. Everyone is dying. They are just soaked, soaked, soaked. We're like holy shit, is this absolutely happening? Ruined all of his equipment, couldn't even go on a picture or keep going. I was dying. I'm like what idiot absolutely did this?

Speaker 2 12:45

No one got a picture of it.

Speaker 3 12:47

Oh, there's pictures. Oh, it's all over Facebook. Okay, all right, good, I don't know, it is so funny.

Speaker 2 12:51

Because that's the kind of stuff you want to get up to. Exactly Because that's the kind of stuff you want to get up to Exactly.

Speaker 3 12:55

But, like I was saying, people come to see this on their vacations and then this is what happens. And then the guys are still trying to play, they're still trying to work through the equipment. They felt so bad, everything's staticky, they can't play anything. They were like, oh my God, you need to stop. We feel really bad.

Speaker 2 13:10

You just need to stop. It was so, so bad. That's hilarious that no one thought to shut off the sprinklers.

Speaker 3 13:15

No, that's the point the manager comes out. I'm like, wasn't someone supposed to be in charge of shutting off the sprinkler system? After a while I end up doing it. But I'm like, oh my god, are you serious right now? I mean seriously. But people came on vacation to see this. They went on vacation to see this and it got ruined. Everyone soaked. It was so funny, but it wasn't. It was awful.

Speaker 2 13:39

I had to drop my violin and just left. It's like the Happy Gilmore Nine on the ninth or whatever it is. Yeah, just where are you Sunday? Best Meet us on the ninth green Nine o'clock sharp.

Speaker 3 13:51

Oh exactly, Sprinklers go on. That's pretty much exactly what happened.

Speaker 2 14:00

Oh God, and now exactly, it's pretty much exactly what happened. Oh god, you see, that's because everybody's, and now you know there's people that hate the person that did jump. Oh yeah, the sprinklers, exactly. I'm glad those pictures are up there. Yeah, it was funny, it was funny so I asked you about georgia, because your girls are down there correct.

Speaker 3 14:13

Well, one's in south carolina, one's in georgia.

Speaker 2 14:15

Yes, yes, but they're down there. They're down there. Yes, right, so that's your family situation. Yeah, right, did you get to see them?

Speaker 3 14:23

I got to see one of them okay yep, all right, yep, um, but that's hard because they're not here. That's my, this is my idea of family. If I want to see them, they'll come up here. They were here for two weeks now recently.

Speaker 2 14:35

I go there now to know for everyone listening they're adults they're adults. They're not like no they're adults, they're adult children. Yes, yeah, and they both have jobs and they both have their lives correct, burgeoning and, yes, they're getting, they're doing their own thing, they're doing their own thing. So it's not like you have like a four and a five year old.

Speaker 3 14:51

No, no, oh no no run, no, no, no, no. But they are doing very well and I'm very proud of them. Yes, but that's my family because and they're not here, so and that's going to happen. Anyway, I know they move and I'm very, you know, whatever, but I mean my mom and dad are still here, my brother's still here, but I can see why. Yeah.

Speaker 2 15:13

Kids are the best thing in the world.

Speaker 3 15:14

They are.

Speaker 2 15:15

Except for when they're bitchy, when you want to kill them, yeah. They're not like that anymore, though Do you think that nuclear family is more popular in pop culture nowadays or less popular?

Speaker 3 15:29

It depends on what their idea of a nuclear family is. Like I said, so I don't know. I mean, there are so many half sisters, half brothers, stepdads, stepmoms. You know different families going with divorce now too. Well, that's my point is that option is higher and higher and all this stuff.

Speaker 2 15:47

So a nuclear family can be anything, shouldn't be isolated to. A man meets a woman, they get married, they have kids, that's it. That's right, right, right. Two women fall in love and want to adopt a child, nuclear family, that's a nuclear family. Correct, right, right. So is it more popular because of the, finally, the ability for people to be out of the closet or to be able to be themselves and say the things they want to say?

Speaker 3 16:12

if that's the direct yes, that's what you're, that's what they're saying about nuclear family, correct? So many people could hit all that couldn't be themselves. Now that the tao yeah, I think it is more popular nowadays so what is the idea of a nuclear family?

Speaker 2 16:26

and that's why that show, modern family, was so fantastic. Oh correct, they covered everything. Yeah, they did, and, and they were hilarious.

Speaker 3 16:32

Yes, well, exactly, yeah, they were.

Speaker 2 16:38

Oh, philosophies, so funny. It just was so funny, yeah, that is funny. They did a great job with that show.

Speaker 3 16:44

They really did, but yeah, but to them that was their family, but they had like what Dads, moms, there was a gay couple. I mean, there was a lot going on in that one.

Speaker 2 16:57

That could be a nuclear family, right. But now is there more pressure on same sex marriages in a nuclear family to put on like a perfect presentation, like do they feel more scrutinized? Do you think that they want to try, not want to try harder? I take that back immediately. I'm not trying to be offensive to anybody.

Speaker 3 17:12

They feel like they have to try harder because yeah, and then what actually is a nuclear family?

Speaker 2 17:16

they feel like they have to try harder. Oh, they have to try to fit into the norm, yeah.

Speaker 3 17:22

And then what actually is a nuclear family? Yeah, I mean I would say that they probably will try to make it seem like they have to work a little harder because of what people think about them.

Speaker 2 17:29

Is that self-induced, probably, or is it?

Speaker 3 17:33

really happening.

Speaker 2 17:34

It's probably a combination of both, I would say's an easy way out it is pick a side and go with it.

Speaker 3 17:39

Dude okay, well, you asked a question I did okay and I'm telling you a very vanilla answer I want to give a vanilla answer oh, that was probably a little bit of both, because if they have someone at them all the time, then they're going to feel like, oh my gosh, we need to try harder. And or then there people like is that really a nuclear? That's not a nuclear family, because there's two people that are same sex.

Speaker 2 17:59

That's why this is such a weird conversation, because what is a nuclear family? That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 18:03

I don't think you could. Is it war cleaver Not?

Speaker 2 18:07

Yeah, is that what it is?

Speaker 1 18:08

Is that what we're basing this?

Parents vs. Children in Today's World

Speaker 2 18:09

on.

Speaker 3 18:18

Is that what we just consider? A nuclear family? Beaver, cleaver, midsection, smasher oh god, you have to stop saying that, jesus.

Speaker 2 18:22

Think about it, I am, that's why I'm saying stop saying it anyway but it's like in this day and age, now, with everything that has transpired over the last 30 years.

Speaker 3 18:34

Right.

Speaker 2 18:35

And all the advancements we as a society have made and where we stand right now. A nuclear family is exactly modern family.

Speaker 2 18:44

No a nuclear family is what you make of it. That's what I'm saying, right, it's exactly what you make of it. What you make of it, whatever your situation is, is your nuclear family. Is your nuclear family and, like I was saying, saying my son's mother is family, right, whether I get like I could not get along with my brother, right, my blood brother, right, right, I I do, but I could not get along with him, right, he's still my family, exactly right, right same. So, no matter what I have this child with this woman, she is my family, simple as that, right, nothing I'm gonna do about it. I don't have to talk to her every day, but don't be rude.

Speaker 3 19:17

Right, like you're family, right. Well, now that's another thing too. You slept your way into it. Oh God, I'm just kidding. Here we go.

Speaker 2 19:24

Sorry about that one.

Speaker 3 19:25

Oh, jesus, sorry about that one, oh God. But there's also the nuclear family, where there's best friends who have grown up with the kids who they call aunt, uncle, whatever that's considered family.

Speaker 2 19:41

That's kind of like what I've got right this moment. Correct, yes, right. After all these years.

Speaker 3 19:46

Right After all that. So there's that end of their nuclear family. So it's what you make of it.

Speaker 2 19:51

It's what you make of it, correct? I don't think so. No, there isn't an image for a nuclear family. A nuclear family is when you consider everyone family, like if you get divorced, if you go through a divorce and you have children together, it doesn't matter, you're in family.

Speaker 1 20:14

You ain't got to live together anymore.

Speaker 2 20:15

You don't have to do things together anymore but you're family and that's it, and you have to be family. That is nuclear family, right? So I guess the only way you could really put a picture or an image on that is, honestly, the very last scene not scene, but the very last image in the opening theme of Modern Family, when they're all just standing there.

Speaker 3 20:38

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 20:39

Right, right, that's a nuclear family, right, that's my opinion anyway right no yeah, it's like everybody. Every single person on this planet has their, has the ability to live their life, of course, they do whatever way they want to exactly no, if, and their butts free will yeah and don't worry about whatever, but don't put up something that is stupid. That you know isn't really happening. You got no money. Why are you at disney world?

Speaker 3 21:05

we know you're broke jesus christ now you're just lying, yeah but I think people in that situation want to fit in so badly into the norm that they miss the real issue. But and that's what they do that for they just want to fit in of what they think is normal and they don't want anyone making fun of them saying that's what breaks down to mental health well right, because they're trying to keep up this race. That doesn't even exist.

Speaker 2 21:31

Exactly right, the best thing you can do in life is just to live your life the way that makes you happy, because what people will really see is you being happy right other than that?

Speaker 3 21:41

nobody, that nobody cares, no one cares, nobody freaking cares. And if everyone's own personal issues, first of all they hate you.

Speaker 2 21:47

Right, everyone hates everyone. Nobody likes anybody Nope. So if you're trying to put these pictures up to prove to everyone else that you live this great life, you're a liar. And none of us do it, so we and none of us do it, so we know you're lying. Exactly. What the hell are you doing? Cut the shit, I know. So, all right, let me get to at least one more.

Speaker 3 22:10

Oh, okay, go.

Speaker 2 22:11

Ready Go. All right, dear Ditto. We tried a family meeting last night and it ended with my 12-year-old drafting a co-parenting agreement between me and my husband. By the way, it's my husband and I.

Speaker 3 22:23

Yes, and the door dash driver.

Speaker 2 22:25

Oh what? Are we still considered a functioning nuclear unit if we outsource all meals and all emotional support to AI and carbs? Emotionally unavailable and well-fed Wow, these people really like these things.

Speaker 3 22:47

It's fucking funny.

Speaker 2 22:47

I wish I got more of them.

Speaker 3 22:48

Yeah right, I only get about maybe 12 yeah, yeah, that's all right, I take the best three. Yeah, it's funny but this one.

Speaker 2 22:54

We tried a family meeting last night and it ended with my 12 year old drafting a co-parenting agreement. They're married, yeah, why? How does a 12 yearold already know about this?

Speaker 3 23:05

I know that's what's scary. How does he already know about that Right?

Speaker 2 23:08

And if he really is drafting it and this isn't just like a gag whoa.

Speaker 3 23:12

Oh right, Whoa.

Speaker 2 23:14

Although I got to say my son threatens to call Child Resources and stuff all the time, all the time, go ahead, hit me all the time.

Speaker 1 23:26

Go ahead, hit me, go ahead, hit me, I'll call child services on you, you know then, you'll never see me again.

Speaker 2 23:29

Why would you say that, dude?

Speaker 3 23:30

you're the one that's gonna lose that, not me, well, I mean we both will, well, but still you did it to yourself, stupid idiot.

Speaker 2 23:37

Oh my gosh and honestly, I have noticed and this is true story, I have noticed that there is more door dashing in this house now than there has ever been. Yeah, and I am no kidding. That's why I got that exercise bike. There's just too much fast food around here. It's too much. I am way over my limit. I got to slim down. I want to look good. I want to look good for all the listeners.

Speaker 3 24:00

Oh boy, I want to look good for all the listeners. Oh boy, I want to look like a sex kitten. Oh God, hold on people.

Speaker 1 24:05

I want to be a beaver cleaver.

Speaker 3 24:07

I can't believe you just said that.

Speaker 2 24:12

It's funny. It's funny. It's funny, we are getting to the end. So I'm going to read the last one now. We'll go over everything we talked about and we'll get out of here here and these people can go on with their lives. So this one says dear sake to me.

Speaker 3 24:32

My six-year-old called a family meeting to ban ipad use at the dinner table. While presenting a powerpoint on his ipad, oh wow kudos to him.

Speaker 2 24:35

Should I be concerned about our household power dynamic or just accept that he's now the ceo of our nuclear family?

Speaker 3 24:41

I would just accept it it.

Speaker 2 24:43

It is and we already touched on that like it is crazy how kids are becoming.

Speaker 3 24:48

They're smarter than us Wicked, smarter than us Kids are watching kids.

Speaker 2 24:51

Yes, it started out with kids opening presents, right, and what they were going to get. Yep, like, who's got that time to wrap all those presents?

Speaker 3 24:57

Yeah.

Speaker 2 25:10

What kind of team you got going on and how'd you get started like? Are you, june cleaver, just rabbit shit in the closet after you're done folding the?

Speaker 3 25:13

fitted sheets right, holy shit. And everything is about. I saw this tiktok is literally really killing everything. It's awful it is awful.

Speaker 2 25:16

It's awful. I saw it on tiktok. Oh, it's got to be real.

Speaker 3 25:18

Oh, definitely listen to that.

Speaker 2 25:21

Shit's definitely true right there. I'll tell you that for free, so listen here. Demoted to intern dad. No, you're about on the same page as everyone else when your six-year-old starts telling you what to do. You've lost control. You've lost control. You have lost control.

Speaker 3 25:38

Yeah pretty much. You need to reel that shit in real quick.

Speaker 2 25:42

You know, I was watching this one thing that popped up the other day and he said he was talking about raising children. In this day and age and I've said it before I ever heard this guy speak you have to be mean once to show them that you're going to do it. You never have to do it again, Correct. If you don't do it and then you try and bring the hammer down after years of not doing it, you are screwed, Yep.

Speaker 3 26:03

I'm going to laugh all over you.

Speaker 2 26:05

So he said his exact words are a little mean, a lot of love. Exactly Right A little mean, a lot of love. Most parents are not mean yeah.

Speaker 3 26:14

Most parents can't do it. They can't do it, they just don't want to deal with it.

Speaker 2 26:24

Me. You know you got no problem. I was hit with stuff, shoes, Spoons. My mom threw the pool at me once. I don't know how she got out of the ground, chucked it right at me, tried to drown me.

Kids, Sports, and Growing Up Today

Speaker 3 26:29

Yeah, that's funny, oh my God. Yeah, parents got to get on top of that. They can't have these kids run amok. They lose control, and that is it. That is it.

Speaker 2 26:40

I was telling you a little bit earlier about a person I know that was complaining about Little League Baseball. Little League Baseball is out of control. Sports period are out of control it's great to see dude, your kid ain't making it he's not, she's not there's not really very far for women to go, unless you're basketball true, yeah true.

Speaker 3 27:02

There's no professional. There's soccer, there's lacrosse too.

Speaker 2 27:03

I think there's not really very far for women to go, unless you're basketball, true, right, yeah, true.

Speaker 3 27:05

I mean there's no professional.

Speaker 2 27:06

There's soccer.

Speaker 3 27:07

There's lacrosse too, I think Women's lacrosse.

Speaker 2 27:10

Is there, I think college yeah, no not college Professional, professional, professional basketball, and there's professional soccer.

Speaker 3 27:17

Correct, I know those two exist. That's maybe his fit for women's sports as far as professional though.

Speaker 2 27:27

Okay, right, yeah, and very few of them make it. Yeah, it's true, right. And then your kid, all you want from sports is teamwork, understanding your role, doing the best you can, playing hard and understanding how to lose if you can't understand how to lose and you get a damn participation trophy because you showed up. Shut up, go sit down, you're a pansy.

Speaker 3 27:51

That's a hard thing that parents gotta teach their kids.

Speaker 2 27:53

And the craziest thing is where we live. It's big in sports. It's big in sports In this town. There's a few people that have won the World Series. That's how big this town is there's a few people that have won the World Series. Yeah Right, that's how big this town is Correct the way we push kids now. They don't even have childhoods. I want to get the e-bikes too. It just dawned on me. Oh, but kids don't even have childhoods. Yeah, they're constantly playing a sport. People are paying $500,000 to put these kids on teams.

Speaker 3 28:22

Yep, just let them go ride a bike, just let them have fun, let them be a kid.

Speaker 2 28:26

And let them figure it out.

Speaker 3 28:27

Right, they will, they will and if they're good, they'll be found.

Speaker 2 28:30

Exactly Simple as that.

Speaker 3 28:32

Right.

Speaker 2 28:32

But what do I know? I'm just a giant idiot. Well, true, Didn't really have to you know? Yeah, oh, I rendered him speechless no, I have mean things to say. My mother told me if I have anything that's not nice to say, to not say it at all. That's right, all right, everybody. We are at the end. I got some editing to do, t-bot yeah, thanks for being here no, it's good to have you back home.

Speaker 3 28:58

Thank you, did you miss me a little?

Speaker 2 29:00

with, with, every bullet.

Speaker 3 29:02

Yeah, there it is All right, all right everybody.

Closing Thoughts and Outro

Speaker 2 29:05

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Speaker 1 29:34

Saki to me hey everybody.

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Speaker 1 29:59

All right, as always, everybody, you do me.