October 15, 2025 • 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's daily highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, during the song God, he was talking about
this trend. We should look into this, And I want
to see if anyone listening is the subject of this trend,
the stay at home hub son. That's like the tradwives
of twenty twenty five. Yeah, and mothers could not be
more thrilled. Yeah, some mothers. I'm reading this story out
(00:25):
of a New York Post as a matter of fact,
talk about it. What did you get out of what
you learned about the HUBSN?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, I found it shocking, but I guess I can
kind of understand it. So the hubsn is basically a
son who has decided, you know what, I don't feel
like working in this crazy rat race anymore. I'm going
to stay home and I'm going to take care of
everything in the household as though I was a husband,
minus the romantic parts. So he cooks, he cleans, he
(00:51):
takes out the trash, he does everything he needs to do.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
But he's living at home rent free with mama.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Right Mama's taking care of him. He's taking care of Mama.
So I'm looking it up up pulls the AI search
here Financial support. In many cases, the mother is the
primary breadwinner, while the son is supported financially by the parents.
Also factors UH contributing to this trend include economic pressures
like inflation and high housing costs. Also, some guys get
(01:17):
burned out in work. They're like, I don't want to
be in the corporate world anymore. I'm gonna stay home.
I'm gonna run the house for mom. She'll take care
of me financially, and you know all things moms do,
and he will be the hub son. And I know
there's got to be a hub son. Listening to us somewhere.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
This sounds like marriage. You basically do everything around the
house that you're supposed to do, but you don't get
any sex. Is I'm doing that now?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Are Lisa's Are you Lisa's hub son?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah, I'll just move back to my mom to be
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
She is a little older than you, So I guess
maybe you're My mom actually likes me, so that would
actually be even better. So maybe I'll be back home
with mo. So yeah, it's uh okay, Well, I mean
it's done unusual for sons and daughters to some of
them live at home with their parents, right of course not.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And sometimes after college they come back for a little
while and stuff like that. I mean, which I would love,
but right, yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
You know what. I used to be the opposite Danielle.
I used to always say, like once Kid was out
in the college, like no, but he's done, Like I
was always out of the house. But now that when
I see him, I always think, like, man, I wish
Kaid could live at home again. I would love to
have Kid back at home. He's my best friend.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, but this is like a working relationship. It's more
than just loafing and mooching, right, it's actually contributing.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, well, I'm assuming Froggy.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You want him to come home, but you still want
him to work and get out of the house and
you want him to live at home.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Yeah, I don't want him to come back home and
take care of everything. I don't want HM to be
the man of the house.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And I get.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I totally get if there's you know, a situation with
a husband and a wife where the wife is a
breadwinner and they decide, hey, this guy's going to stay
home and take care of the things at home, because
it makes more sense that way.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
The part that's a little weird to me is that
you're doing it at home with your parents, And maybe
it shouldn't be weird to me.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
It doesn't affect me in any way. I'm just like, huh,
seems like you would want to get out of the house.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And I just think it's I mean, maybe if you
need to do it for a little while, but if
you do that long term, where are you finding your
life skills out there in the world to actually get
a job, Because eventually, I think you're gonna have to
get a job. I mean, you can't do that forever.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But then again, as I was saying Danielle, there are
some guys who are just burnt out in corporate work,
the corporate world. They just don't they don't want to
do it anymore. This is this is their way of
not having to work. That way. Also, it could be
just a son who wants to mooch off mom. Right,
But now it has a title.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Now now it's a quote unquote trend, so it's more
it's more acceptable because now it's gonna end up in
the Webster's Dictionary next year.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's a brand. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
People are texting in saying, yeah, my cousin's a hubsn
Another textasy sounds like a bunch of losers. Ah, but
wait here, but listen to one. I am this, but
I have a young child that mom helps with and
the child's mother is not around, but I do work. Okay,
that's not the same, Hubson. The most unattractive thing I've
ever heard of sounds unhealthy, this person says. But here,
(04:14):
maybe this is what you find kind of odd. This
person said, whoa wa, wait a minute. They're supposed to
be romanticism with being a husband. Okay, it's different, that's right.
Another text, grow up, get a job, get out. My
husband was to stay at home son working a night job,
and she helped with his kids when kids are involved. Okay,
(04:34):
that's another element. That's another level of something. Right.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And jobs are a totally different element of this too.
If you have a job and you're living at home,
that's wildly different than not having a job and staying
at home and just taking care of everything for your parents.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right, your job is being at home and taking care
of the household.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
God, you know what, I wish my mom was alive.
I would I would quit this job and do that, right,
I would be a help son.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Did you see the texts at the gays call this houseboy?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh my god, I need a houseboy. Too late for
me to be one, so I get one. Yeah, scary.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I feel like this goes against everything I've ever learned
that to strive for the best, to get out there,
be on your own. And I mean, I understand if
you want to temporarily come back to the nest and
maybe do all these things. But to do that and say,
all right, I give up, this is life. There are
no jobs out there. I think that's a bad, bad move.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't know, okay, And a lot of people agree
with you, but you know you're saying just giving up.
We know now it has a trend name. It's not
giving up. It has a place in our culture.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So text with how oh listen to this? With how
high mortgages are in the cost of living, to me,
it makes perfect sense. And maybe it's time men learn
how to take care of the home and take take
a little pressure off the eldest daughter. Maybe I don't know.
This person says Elvis Hubsn sounds very unhealthy. In this
next texterter, I live to be a Hubsn. And someone
(06:01):
says that. God, you would know this. This is very
giving ed Gean, Oh god, no.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It is is he worked with Oh he worked.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, he was a murdering hub son that worked.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah, you know, he kept the farm running well.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So we're saying that he had it more together. He's
a traditional hubsn. Maybe my brother lives with our mom
and my dad lives with his mom. Neither cooks nor clean's.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Okay, that's not a HUBSND.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's a mooch.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
This person says this is a dumbestryt never this other text.
Just the title is weird. Alone husband's son made my
husband lazy, spoiled with old school wife expectations. He admits
to it. I have a family friend who is mooching
off his mom. He's thirty six. This generation just wants
to play video games.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Oh yeah, see this is.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Weird all right, So the hubsn trend, I.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Would like to know how that works in the dating world.
If you are a hubsn.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Come on, yeah, hold on, let me tuck my mom
in first, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Danielle, Look, you know the last thing I want to do.
Don't call me, don't call me too soft to this.
I don't want to sit here and like downplay it
for everyone because there could be situations where it needs
to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
If your mom is sick and your mom really needs you,
or she's down on her luck or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
There's, of course there's reasons for things.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But oh well, but let's say I've i'm so burnt
out doing this morning show and you know, the big
corporation whatever. My mom says, Okay, Elvis, you quit your job,
you come live with me. You take care of this
house and me and everything that's involved there, and I
will make sure you have finances coming in and you're covered.
(07:43):
Mm hmm
It's daily highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, during the song God, he was talking about
this trend. We should look into this, And I want
to see if anyone listening is the subject of this trend,
the stay at home hub son. That's like the tradwives
of twenty twenty five. Yeah, and mothers could not be
more thrilled. Yeah, some mothers. I'm reading this story out
(00:25):
of a New York Post as a matter of fact,
talk about it. What did you get out of what
you learned about the HUBSN?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, I found it shocking, but I guess I can
kind of understand it. So the hubsn is basically a
son who has decided, you know what, I don't feel
like working in this crazy rat race anymore. I'm going
to stay home and I'm going to take care of
everything in the household as though I was a husband,
minus the romantic parts. So he cooks, he cleans, he
(00:51):
takes out the trash, he does everything he needs to do.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
But he's living at home rent free with mama.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Right Mama's taking care of him. He's taking care of Mama.
So I'm looking it up up pulls the AI search
here Financial support. In many cases, the mother is the
primary breadwinner, while the son is supported financially by the parents.
Also factors UH contributing to this trend include economic pressures
like inflation and high housing costs. Also, some guys get
(01:17):
burned out in work. They're like, I don't want to
be in the corporate world anymore. I'm gonna stay home.
I'm gonna run the house for mom. She'll take care
of me financially, and you know all things moms do,
and he will be the hub son. And I know
there's got to be a hub son. Listening to us somewhere.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
This sounds like marriage. You basically do everything around the
house that you're supposed to do, but you don't get
any sex. Is I'm doing that now?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Are Lisa's Are you Lisa's hub son?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah, I'll just move back to my mom to be
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
She is a little older than you, So I guess
maybe you're My mom actually likes me, so that would
actually be even better. So maybe I'll be back home
with mo. So yeah, it's uh okay, Well, I mean
it's done unusual for sons and daughters to some of
them live at home with their parents, right of course not.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And sometimes after college they come back for a little
while and stuff like that. I mean, which I would love,
but right, yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
You know what. I used to be the opposite Danielle.
I used to always say, like once Kid was out
in the college, like no, but he's done, Like I
was always out of the house. But now that when
I see him, I always think, like, man, I wish
Kaid could live at home again. I would love to
have Kid back at home. He's my best friend.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, but this is like a working relationship. It's more
than just loafing and mooching, right, it's actually contributing.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, well, I'm assuming Froggy.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You want him to come home, but you still want
him to work and get out of the house and
you want him to live at home.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Yeah, I don't want him to come back home and
take care of everything. I don't want HM to be
the man of the house.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And I get.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I totally get if there's you know, a situation with
a husband and a wife where the wife is a
breadwinner and they decide, hey, this guy's going to stay
home and take care of the things at home, because
it makes more sense that way.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
The part that's a little weird to me is that
you're doing it at home with your parents, And maybe
it shouldn't be weird to me.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
It doesn't affect me in any way. I'm just like, huh,
seems like you would want to get out of the house.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And I just think it's I mean, maybe if you
need to do it for a little while, but if
you do that long term, where are you finding your
life skills out there in the world to actually get
a job, Because eventually, I think you're gonna have to
get a job. I mean, you can't do that forever.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But then again, as I was saying Danielle, there are
some guys who are just burnt out in corporate work,
the corporate world. They just don't they don't want to
do it anymore. This is this is their way of
not having to work. That way. Also, it could be
just a son who wants to mooch off mom. Right,
But now it has a title.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Now now it's a quote unquote trend, so it's more
it's more acceptable because now it's gonna end up in
the Webster's Dictionary next year.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's a brand. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
People are texting in saying, yeah, my cousin's a hubsn
Another textasy sounds like a bunch of losers. Ah, but
wait here, but listen to one. I am this, but
I have a young child that mom helps with and
the child's mother is not around, but I do work. Okay,
that's not the same, Hubson. The most unattractive thing I've
ever heard of sounds unhealthy, this person says. But here,
(04:14):
maybe this is what you find kind of odd. This
person said, whoa wa, wait a minute. They're supposed to
be romanticism with being a husband. Okay, it's different, that's right.
Another text, grow up, get a job, get out. My
husband was to stay at home son working a night job,
and she helped with his kids when kids are involved. Okay,
(04:34):
that's another element. That's another level of something. Right.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And jobs are a totally different element of this too.
If you have a job and you're living at home,
that's wildly different than not having a job and staying
at home and just taking care of everything for your parents.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right, your job is being at home and taking care
of the household.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
God, you know what, I wish my mom was alive.
I would I would quit this job and do that, right,
I would be a help son.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Did you see the texts at the gays call this houseboy?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh my god, I need a houseboy. Too late for
me to be one, so I get one. Yeah, scary.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I feel like this goes against everything I've ever learned
that to strive for the best, to get out there,
be on your own. And I mean, I understand if
you want to temporarily come back to the nest and
maybe do all these things. But to do that and say,
all right, I give up, this is life. There are
no jobs out there. I think that's a bad, bad move.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't know, okay, And a lot of people agree
with you, but you know you're saying just giving up.
We know now it has a trend name. It's not
giving up. It has a place in our culture.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So text with how oh listen to this? With how
high mortgages are in the cost of living, to me,
it makes perfect sense. And maybe it's time men learn
how to take care of the home and take take
a little pressure off the eldest daughter. Maybe I don't know.
This person says Elvis Hubsn sounds very unhealthy. In this
next texterter, I live to be a Hubsn. And someone
(06:01):
says that. God, you would know this. This is very
giving ed Gean, Oh god, no.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It is is he worked with Oh he worked.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, he was a murdering hub son that worked.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah, you know, he kept the farm running well.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So we're saying that he had it more together. He's
a traditional hubsn. Maybe my brother lives with our mom
and my dad lives with his mom. Neither cooks nor clean's.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Okay, that's not a HUBSND.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's a mooch.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
This person says this is a dumbestryt never this other text.
Just the title is weird. Alone husband's son made my
husband lazy, spoiled with old school wife expectations. He admits
to it. I have a family friend who is mooching
off his mom. He's thirty six. This generation just wants
to play video games.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Oh yeah, see this is.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Weird all right, So the hubsn trend, I.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Would like to know how that works in the dating world.
If you are a hubsn.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Come on, yeah, hold on, let me tuck my mom
in first, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Danielle, Look, you know the last thing I want to do.
Don't call me, don't call me too soft to this.
I don't want to sit here and like downplay it
for everyone because there could be situations where it needs
to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
If your mom is sick and your mom really needs you,
or she's down on her luck or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
There's, of course there's reasons for things.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But oh well, but let's say I've i'm so burnt
out doing this morning show and you know, the big
corporation whatever. My mom says, Okay, Elvis, you quit your job,
you come live with me. You take care of this
house and me and everything that's involved there, and I
will make sure you have finances coming in and you're covered.
(07:43):
Mm hmm
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