May 30, 2025 • 17 mins
Did your parents not teach you life skills? Don't worry, you're not alone. And Jason's boyfriend is asking him to dress him now and it's making Jason feel old!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was reading about this thing, Adulting one o one courses.
This is how it was written, the story gen Z
Young Adults gen Z Young Adults gens are that is
what it says. It kind of sounds like a redundant,
but a gen Z young adult. That's like saying six
fourteen am in the morning. In case we're unclear about that,
(00:22):
gen Z Young adults are enrolling in Adulting one oh
one courses to learn basic life skills like budgeting, cooking,
doing laundry, and navigating everyday responsibilities. Unlike previous generations, many
gen Z members lack these practical skills, which is attributed
to over protective parenting, prolonged financial dependency on parents, and
(00:42):
educational gaps where economics classes have become obsolete. One teacher notes,
this is a psychology professor rather, I shouldn't say just
a teacher, that these young adults often enter university without
fundamental decision making skills, making the transition to independence challenging.
Whether you're a parent, it might be more interesting to hear, like,
(01:03):
if you're a parent and you think about your kids
and what they don't know how to do, you probably
should teach them.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
If you're driving to work.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Right now, you're like, oh, my kid is not gonna
survive then, I mean, maybe we should think about that
a little bit. But I'm curious, like in kind of
a tongue in cheek funny way, but like, what is
something that they are not teaching kids these days that
they definitely need to know if they're gonna go out
in the real world. You know, you can teach them
all kinds of other fancy stuff, common core math and
whatever else.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I guess you got to. You have to know math,
Believe it or not. Kids, math will come in handy someday.
Maybe not Geometry, Yeah, not all that X y Z
that that was such a waste of time that I
will never get back.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Never. What is that considered?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Uh? Not? Statistics? Is trigonometry? Algebra algebra? Excuse my dear
and sally algebra?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Algebra algebra?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So you don't use the pasagoramic THR theory.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You don't use that? Yeah that one? Never? I mean
I do you don't blow out your.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Ti whatever whatever number we're on now, t I one thousand,
and I know.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
How to spell things upside down.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah right right? Eight five five five three five. But
what comes to mind? You think about your kid, or
maybe you're the kid, and you're like, you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Know what, Well, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I'm gonna do when this time happens in my life
because I don't know how to do it, Like I
don't know how I'm gonna serve out. Do you remember
do you remember anything like that it happens in your
every day, every day life.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Can I talk today? I don't know. Let me just
ship my coffee while you guys talk.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Can you think of anything that's just like I didn't
know how to do that, and I wish somebody had
taught me.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, Jason, I until I moved in with Mike, I
moved out of my parents.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I was moved in with Mike. I didn't know how
to do laundry. I didn't either. I didn't either. He
had to show me.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I didn't know how to like fold like towels or
like I mean, I could probably figure it out, but
like I never had to do it, so like he
had to like teach me.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But that was post college, right, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah?
So how did you get that far?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I just I only lived out of my parents' house
for a semester. And I would bring my laundry home.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It. Yeah, see all your parents loved you, guys.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The laundry happened for me when I got to I
got to college. My parents moved me in. They gave
me detergent and everything. Like my mom would like set
me up. Like she left and I had snacks and
detergent and you know, a bad you know, I don't know.
She made the bed nice and like she got me
a little yeah right, that was nice summer. You know
the door the dorm happened to have a bed. She
let me keep it this time.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm like, I'm like it home. When I wasn't allowed
to have a bed, bring on the floor.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
My parents they're like, if you have a bed, then
you're gonna do it, you know, so sleep on the floor.
Get no, still do it on the floor. But she
set me up all nights whatever. And then I like
a week later, I'm out of clothes, and I'm like,
oh my god. Because because my mom did the laundry.
I think because she thought either one you're gonna screw
it up, or two it's just kind of more efficient
because the house is full of people and it's like
just put it all in and just whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's laundry day. Get it out together right right.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And even now when I go back, she's like, don't
just because it got a big, gigantic washing machine, I
just put it in there.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So I had to call her like, well, how do
I do this? Like what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And this wasn't like they didn't have little pods, you know.
It's like, well, you gotta pour this much in. And
then she's explaining this to me over the phone. I'm like, okay, well,
I'm eighteen years old. I was embarrassed. I'm a little
less embarrassed now I'm a little bit less embarrassed. Now,
what about you, I'd.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Say for me to be like cooking, I know my
mom tried to teach me as a kid. I had
no interest and no care to do it. But if
they enforced it in school or something, I probably would
have taken it more serious. Like my poor husband hasn't
had a good meal in five years. Like it's not
great over here, but I'm learning and I'm trying. And
I have a kid now, so I have to feed
her and a husband and a dog.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And I know you don't have to be emeral Leagasi
over here, like you know, bammit it up.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
No, it's bad.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
So Jason actually inspires me a lot because he'll teach
me some quick recipes that are legit, like some pastaff.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I mean, it's basic. We're not, you know, Michelin star.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I'm still learning though, but that's my basic training right there. Yeah, yeah,
so I do that honestly. Any financial I wish I
took more serious or I was taught more serious.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
My mom did a really good job.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I'll give her that, but I didn't listen, like I'm
maxed out credit cards.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I've done it all, you know what I mean, even.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Though she A financial aspect is that most will probably
move number one. Oh yeah, I mean yes, feeding yourself
and you know, cleaning your clothing. Yeah, sure, but like
finding some sort of financial literacy, you know, I don't
have it, but I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Know that a lot of people's parents have.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Like I don't know that it's necessarily just inherent in
people to know or are quite frankly, to have enough
money to know what to do with extra money. Right,
But you know, stuff like the credit card will catch
up with you. You know, stuff like I don't know
if you don't have Like I heard one the other
day it was pretty good, if you don't have twice
as much money than the item that you're buying, then
you can't have it now.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And granted if that's well, I think that's.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
A luxury item, was what they're talking about, like, don't
go buy you know, you're looking at a hat in
the store and you're like, I want that. It's like, well,
if you don't have it, if you don't have double
the money, then you shouldn't buy that because it's like
then you have no money, yep.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And I think a lot of people, if you think
about your spending, there's a lot in excess of what
you actually need. I'm not talking about a place to
live or food or you know, the stuff that's like
sadly people don't make enough to pay for a lot
of that either. But I mean, if you're talking about
I'm going to the mall and I'm going to buy
a bunch of crap, if you don't have double the money,
then you probably can't afford to have it, you know.
I mean, but now people don't want to hear that,
(06:35):
you know, because they want they're like, oh, that's entitled,
that's elitist. It's like, no, I think if you talk
to a lot of people who are very wealthy, many
of them came from nothing, and one of the reasons
they're wealthy is because they didn't spend all their money
on crap, you know what I mean. Like, then think
about him, Think about how much stuff you have and
how much stuff you actually use. Another good one I
heard the other day was like, and I feel like,
now I'm that not Gordon Ramsey, Dave Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I'm Dave Ramsey. You can't ford it live in a hole,
he screaming me. He really is.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
He is. He's not wrong about some stuff, but he's
also very out of touch.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Out of touch. He's like, you know, wildly wealthy. What
was the other one I heard?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
If you want to buy a luxury item and wait
one week and if you're not thinking about the item
a week later.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Then you didn't need it. I started doing that, Yeah,
and it works.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I did.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It works because in the moment, you know, on Amazon
or whatever, you're like, I got to have that, and
then you realize you didn't need to have that, and
then a week later you'll remember what it was you
thought you had to have.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
What was it for you, Kiki that you wish you knew?
Oh definitely.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
And they're saying it's on the text taxes and four
h one k and in that type of stuff. Because
I got into the workforce early. You know, I was
a manager. You know this business woman? Yes, no, I
know you used to wear a business suit. You were
the only one in KFC history that would make chicken
in a business suit.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But you took it very.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Seriously, like I didn't. I didn't know any of that.
I still don't know. So it's like, you know, if
somebody could have taught me that piece but life skills
massage out my sister heley Man, she made sure I
knew how to clean iron, laundry, cook.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, that's because she was taking you guys in left
and right. She was like, you know what you right?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Honestly, I was out here living my life care free
and I got all these kids. You need to take
care of your own self. Yeah, no, I mean yeah,
I mean being able to cook basic meals, being able
to take care of your body and self. That also
amazes me, by the way, not that we don't have
(08:31):
to get too much into this, but the number of
people men and women, and the one that always blows
me away is the female component, the number of women
whose parents' moms or whatever. And I'm not trying to
be rude, but it's like they didn't really tell them
anything about anything, and stuff just kind of started happening
and they were like, oh, And I don't know if
there was just no communication or if it's because there
was embarrassment. They didn't They never went and asked the question.
(08:54):
But like I know, people who were coddled in that department,
like prepared for what was coming, and other people who
it was like it happened and went and has been happening,
and we never discussed it. Nobody ever knew And it's
just like, why is it? Why is no one helping
you with that? Hey, Ricky, Ricky, your parents didn't teach
(09:15):
you how to save money?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No, No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And I mean I filed for bankruptcy at a very
early age. I mean to just bad financial decisions, you know,
so you just you just sent money you didn't have, correct, yeah, correct,
and think they didn't need things they didn't need. So
I wi financial literacy is a big one that my
(09:40):
parents didn't teach me that I paid the ultimate price
growing up.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So and so, what would you like, just in a
few sentences, what if you have kids, or if you're
going to have kids, Ricky, Like, what are some things
that so you would teach them specifically, like no high
interest rate credit cards, like no spending money on stuff
you don't have the cash for kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Right, And I do have three kids. I have a
seventeen year old of my own. I had a child
at a very young age.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
He's bankrupt already. Was just sad. But I mean it's.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Ricky forgot to tell him, you know, but he'll never
make that mistake again, Willie.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Right right, right, No, that kind.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Of stuff, like, yes, absolutely, So I taught my daughter.
She's seventeen now. I mean, she's got a savings account
she got I explained to her, like what a five
to two nine college savings account is?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I love it? How doing bad?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You know?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
So, so those are some of the things that you know,
I had to learn myself and literally find people to hey,
can you please sit down and like walk me through
how like I want to retire at an early age,
whether it's sixty five, sixty five whatever it is, how
do I do that?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You know?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And people took the time to sit with me and
educate me, and they loved on me in the way
that I didn't like I wasn't taught, you know. So
those are the things that I'm like, it's critical that
my kids know that because I want them to be successful,
like life skills man, man, Like my parents didn't teach
me a lot, and I had to learn the hard
(11:14):
way through life. But being able to like learn through
that and then teach that to the next generation, like man,
that's crucial for me, and I'm trying to do my
best to do that.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
For my kids. Good for you, Ricky, I like it.
Have a good day YouTube.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Thanks? Did you call me someone's in the female parts cultural?
It's definitely cultural.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I was to say, it can be absolutely it could
be like you should I mean as a woman, as
a mom, like you should talk to your daughter about
certain parts your kids are not going to learn they
live from their friends.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Is that the best source to go to?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Really?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Not or YouTube or YouTube now?
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Yeah, which is some good information out.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
There on TikTok.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I think now they have access to a lot more
than we did. But I mean for you're a mom.
I think it's you know, you should talk to your
daughter about certain things.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've built a new home on YouTube. You should see it.
It's great, eighty four thousand square feet. I built it
myself with my own answer. Every time I was like,
is this is this a load bearing structure?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And then I have looked on YouTube and they told
me it was fine. Jeb and I know there are
teachers that listen a lot of teachers who listen to
us are driving and to work, and they're probably like
rolling their eyes because it's like, well, I'm supposed to
teach all the stuff they tell me to teach, and
then you're telling me that no, I'm not sure it's
not the teacher's responsibility, but I'm a lot of teachers.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Are doing that work too. Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's like, well, so I'm supposed to teach to this
test they have to take to see if I'm a
good teacher. But then also you're telling me that I
got to teach them life skills too. That shouldn't be
the expectation, but it probably is. The Other thing is
I somehow got on car salesman TikTok algorithm.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yes, have you been on there?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh, yes, there's a few guys Russ flips whips, there's
a bow tie guy's and they do. Now they're doing
little skits for brand deals and it's like cheesy. But
before it was like behind the scenes of car deals.
It is amazing. And I know that the industry has
changed a lot with all the Internet and all the
availability of information whatever else, But like you don't know
how to buy a car, no, and like they don't
(13:02):
realize that the tricks and like this number looks good,
but do you know what the numbers behind all that are?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You know, it's okay, you know what do you want
your payment to be? That's the worst game you can
play because they'll make your payment whatever you want. Oh
you want one hundred and fifty dollars payment, Okay, you're
going to be paying for this car in twenty eighty seven,
you know. But people don't. They don't care. It's like
I want it now, and they appeal to that. But
like I didn't know then, I didn't know the questions
to ask. I probably got unscrewed on one hundred card
(13:30):
deals because I don't I don't know the numbers look fine,
and the interest rate looks fine, and the terms look fine.
I'm like, okay, but maybe they sold me some sort
of under undercarriage ice wax protection from my car that
you know in Arizona or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Like, I don't, I don't know. I didn't know what
to look for. But this is all the kind of
stuff that people they're not being taught. We'll do headlines next.
The entertainment reportant blogs. This our Fred show is It's
Friday back game too.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
These are the radio blogs on a friend like you're.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Running in our diaryes, except we said him aloud. We
call him blogs Jason Brown. Yes, go, thank you, dear blog.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So I reached a point in my relationship recently which
I never thought I would be in. So Mike and
I have been together. It'll be fifteen years this year,
which is nuts for me to think of fifteen years. Yes,
that crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So you met him right around the time I met you, probably, Yeah,
So what could have been? You know what could have
been between us? Miss It's said you would have moved
You would have moved right into my home? Yes, oh yeah,
myself being a way different. Yes, it's true.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
So we were getting ready to go to dinner, and
so he showered and I was, you know, getting dressed
and changing my clothes whatever. And he walks in the
bedroom and he's like, so what am I wearing. I'm like, oh,
I guess like I'm mere stylists now, So like I
to go in the closet, like these jeans, go with
(15:03):
this shirt, here's a belt. I'm like, wait, I'm like
my parents now, like my mom has to dress my dad,
Like my mom has to like pull out his you know,
nice clothes when they're going out somewhere.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You know, yes, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I'm like wait, And I know some people probably be
annoyed of it, but I was like the fact that
you trust me to dress you like kind of nice?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Right, Yeah, You've become your parents, I literally have. And
it was one of those moments where I'm like, wow,
I'm old.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Do you guys do this? I mean, I'm not in
a relationship. Did you dress you dressim? This is my dream? Actually, Jason,
this is my dream.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
So you wanted I want to do this so bad
because I love my man, you know, and he's a
great guy, but he has his own sense of fashion.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, okay, what is a giveing?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
It's given, not what I would do. His own sins
a fashion, you know, and I will love. I love
trying to dress him. He is like, but he's rebellious.
So the moment I say look, I got you this
nice sweater and here's these jeans, He's like, oh, actually,
(16:14):
I'm gonna wear my work boots and my vest.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
A leather vesta, always the leather vest, taking a Harley somewhere.
That's what I've heard about. I never met the guy.
Peek hides him from me. But when I see the
guy walking.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
With a leather vest, lots of leather boots, you know.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
So if he was to come into the house and
say what am I wearing? Baby, I would be like,
oh honey, let me storry.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Because I love to dress me and I think it's
so okay you have a whole supper closet.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He won't.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
What do you do? Just like you do?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Do you try and trick him, like with reverse psychology
or something and be like, you know, it would look
really ugly.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yep. Is this sweater and these jeans? Yep? That is
my entire relationship.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
And I don't know if because we're the same zodiac sign,
it's it's very much. I have to play this game
of that's so ugly. I would never want you to
wear that. He's coming outside in the full house. Okay,
I have to say this restaurant sucks.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We should never go to this restaurant. He has a reservation.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
To do the opposite of what I say.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You know what sucks is engagement. Engagement sucks. I don't
want to get married one person in the rest of
my life. Sounds like the worst idea ever. Diamonds so heavy,
I never know what.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
That sucks are big diamond Yeah it's terrible today. You
should Yeah, big diamonds. Marriage all sucks. Waiting, let the
phone new and next after Lula Young
I was reading about this thing, Adulting one o one courses.
This is how it was written, the story gen Z
Young Adults gen Z Young Adults gens are that is
what it says. It kind of sounds like a redundant,
but a gen Z young adult. That's like saying six
fourteen am in the morning. In case we're unclear about that,
(00:22):
gen Z Young adults are enrolling in Adulting one oh
one courses to learn basic life skills like budgeting, cooking,
doing laundry, and navigating everyday responsibilities. Unlike previous generations, many
gen Z members lack these practical skills, which is attributed
to over protective parenting, prolonged financial dependency on parents, and
(00:42):
educational gaps where economics classes have become obsolete. One teacher notes,
this is a psychology professor rather, I shouldn't say just
a teacher, that these young adults often enter university without
fundamental decision making skills, making the transition to independence challenging.
Whether you're a parent, it might be more interesting to hear, like,
(01:03):
if you're a parent and you think about your kids
and what they don't know how to do, you probably
should teach them.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
If you're driving to work.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Right now, you're like, oh, my kid is not gonna
survive then, I mean, maybe we should think about that
a little bit. But I'm curious, like in kind of
a tongue in cheek funny way, but like, what is
something that they are not teaching kids these days that
they definitely need to know if they're gonna go out
in the real world. You know, you can teach them
all kinds of other fancy stuff, common core math and
whatever else.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I guess you got to. You have to know math,
Believe it or not. Kids, math will come in handy someday.
Maybe not Geometry, Yeah, not all that X y Z
that that was such a waste of time that I
will never get back.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Never. What is that considered?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Uh? Not? Statistics? Is trigonometry? Algebra algebra? Excuse my dear
and sally algebra?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Algebra algebra?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So you don't use the pasagoramic THR theory.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You don't use that? Yeah that one? Never? I mean
I do you don't blow out your.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Ti whatever whatever number we're on now, t I one thousand,
and I know.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
How to spell things upside down.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah right right? Eight five five five three five. But
what comes to mind? You think about your kid, or
maybe you're the kid, and you're like, you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Know what, Well, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I'm gonna do when this time happens in my life
because I don't know how to do it, Like I
don't know how I'm gonna serve out. Do you remember
do you remember anything like that it happens in your
every day, every day life.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Can I talk today? I don't know. Let me just
ship my coffee while you guys talk.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Can you think of anything that's just like I didn't
know how to do that, and I wish somebody had
taught me.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, Jason, I until I moved in with Mike, I
moved out of my parents.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I was moved in with Mike. I didn't know how
to do laundry. I didn't either. I didn't either. He
had to show me.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I didn't know how to like fold like towels or
like I mean, I could probably figure it out, but
like I never had to do it, so like he
had to like teach me.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But that was post college, right, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah?
So how did you get that far?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I just I only lived out of my parents' house
for a semester. And I would bring my laundry home.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It. Yeah, see all your parents loved you, guys.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The laundry happened for me when I got to I
got to college. My parents moved me in. They gave
me detergent and everything. Like my mom would like set
me up. Like she left and I had snacks and
detergent and you know, a bad you know, I don't know.
She made the bed nice and like she got me
a little yeah right, that was nice summer. You know
the door the dorm happened to have a bed. She
let me keep it this time.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm like, I'm like it home. When I wasn't allowed
to have a bed, bring on the floor.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
My parents they're like, if you have a bed, then
you're gonna do it, you know, so sleep on the floor.
Get no, still do it on the floor. But she
set me up all nights whatever. And then I like
a week later, I'm out of clothes, and I'm like,
oh my god. Because because my mom did the laundry.
I think because she thought either one you're gonna screw
it up, or two it's just kind of more efficient
because the house is full of people and it's like
just put it all in and just whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's laundry day. Get it out together right right.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And even now when I go back, she's like, don't
just because it got a big, gigantic washing machine, I
just put it in there.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So I had to call her like, well, how do
I do this? Like what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And this wasn't like they didn't have little pods, you know.
It's like, well, you gotta pour this much in. And
then she's explaining this to me over the phone. I'm like, okay, well,
I'm eighteen years old. I was embarrassed. I'm a little
less embarrassed now I'm a little bit less embarrassed. Now,
what about you, I'd.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Say for me to be like cooking, I know my
mom tried to teach me as a kid. I had
no interest and no care to do it. But if
they enforced it in school or something, I probably would
have taken it more serious. Like my poor husband hasn't
had a good meal in five years. Like it's not
great over here, but I'm learning and I'm trying. And
I have a kid now, so I have to feed
her and a husband and a dog.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And I know you don't have to be emeral Leagasi
over here, like you know, bammit it up.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
No, it's bad.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
So Jason actually inspires me a lot because he'll teach
me some quick recipes that are legit, like some pastaff.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I mean, it's basic. We're not, you know, Michelin star.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I'm still learning though, but that's my basic training right there. Yeah, yeah,
so I do that honestly. Any financial I wish I
took more serious or I was taught more serious.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
My mom did a really good job.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I'll give her that, but I didn't listen, like I'm
maxed out credit cards.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I've done it all, you know what I mean, even.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Though she A financial aspect is that most will probably
move number one. Oh yeah, I mean yes, feeding yourself
and you know, cleaning your clothing. Yeah, sure, but like
finding some sort of financial literacy, you know, I don't
have it, but I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Know that a lot of people's parents have.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Like I don't know that it's necessarily just inherent in
people to know or are quite frankly, to have enough
money to know what to do with extra money. Right,
But you know, stuff like the credit card will catch
up with you. You know, stuff like I don't know
if you don't have Like I heard one the other
day it was pretty good, if you don't have twice
as much money than the item that you're buying, then
you can't have it now.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And granted if that's well, I think that's.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
A luxury item, was what they're talking about, like, don't
go buy you know, you're looking at a hat in
the store and you're like, I want that. It's like, well,
if you don't have it, if you don't have double
the money, then you shouldn't buy that because it's like
then you have no money, yep.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And I think a lot of people, if you think
about your spending, there's a lot in excess of what
you actually need. I'm not talking about a place to
live or food or you know, the stuff that's like
sadly people don't make enough to pay for a lot
of that either. But I mean, if you're talking about
I'm going to the mall and I'm going to buy
a bunch of crap, if you don't have double the money,
then you probably can't afford to have it, you know.
I mean, but now people don't want to hear that,
(06:35):
you know, because they want they're like, oh, that's entitled,
that's elitist. It's like, no, I think if you talk
to a lot of people who are very wealthy, many
of them came from nothing, and one of the reasons
they're wealthy is because they didn't spend all their money
on crap, you know what I mean. Like, then think
about him, Think about how much stuff you have and
how much stuff you actually use. Another good one I
heard the other day was like, and I feel like,
now I'm that not Gordon Ramsey, Dave Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I'm Dave Ramsey. You can't ford it live in a hole,
he screaming me. He really is.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
He is. He's not wrong about some stuff, but he's
also very out of touch.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Out of touch. He's like, you know, wildly wealthy. What
was the other one I heard?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
If you want to buy a luxury item and wait
one week and if you're not thinking about the item
a week later.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Then you didn't need it. I started doing that, Yeah,
and it works.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I did.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It works because in the moment, you know, on Amazon
or whatever, you're like, I got to have that, and
then you realize you didn't need to have that, and
then a week later you'll remember what it was you
thought you had to have.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
What was it for you, Kiki that you wish you knew?
Oh definitely.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
And they're saying it's on the text taxes and four
h one k and in that type of stuff. Because
I got into the workforce early. You know, I was
a manager. You know this business woman? Yes, no, I
know you used to wear a business suit. You were
the only one in KFC history that would make chicken
in a business suit.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But you took it very.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Seriously, like I didn't. I didn't know any of that.
I still don't know. So it's like, you know, if
somebody could have taught me that piece but life skills
massage out my sister heley Man, she made sure I
knew how to clean iron, laundry, cook.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, that's because she was taking you guys in left
and right. She was like, you know what you right?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Honestly, I was out here living my life care free
and I got all these kids. You need to take
care of your own self. Yeah, no, I mean yeah,
I mean being able to cook basic meals, being able
to take care of your body and self. That also
amazes me, by the way, not that we don't have
(08:31):
to get too much into this, but the number of
people men and women, and the one that always blows
me away is the female component, the number of women
whose parents' moms or whatever. And I'm not trying to
be rude, but it's like they didn't really tell them
anything about anything, and stuff just kind of started happening
and they were like, oh, And I don't know if
there was just no communication or if it's because there
was embarrassment. They didn't They never went and asked the question.
(08:54):
But like I know, people who were coddled in that department,
like prepared for what was coming, and other people who
it was like it happened and went and has been happening,
and we never discussed it. Nobody ever knew And it's
just like, why is it? Why is no one helping
you with that? Hey, Ricky, Ricky, your parents didn't teach
(09:15):
you how to save money?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No, No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And I mean I filed for bankruptcy at a very
early age. I mean to just bad financial decisions, you know,
so you just you just sent money you didn't have, correct, yeah, correct,
and think they didn't need things they didn't need. So
I wi financial literacy is a big one that my
(09:40):
parents didn't teach me that I paid the ultimate price
growing up.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So and so, what would you like, just in a
few sentences, what if you have kids, or if you're
going to have kids, Ricky, Like, what are some things
that so you would teach them specifically, like no high
interest rate credit cards, like no spending money on stuff
you don't have the cash for kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Right, And I do have three kids. I have a
seventeen year old of my own. I had a child
at a very young age.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
He's bankrupt already. Was just sad. But I mean it's.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Ricky forgot to tell him, you know, but he'll never
make that mistake again, Willie.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Right right, right, No, that kind.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Of stuff, like, yes, absolutely, So I taught my daughter.
She's seventeen now. I mean, she's got a savings account
she got I explained to her, like what a five
to two nine college savings account is?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I love it? How doing bad?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You know?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
So, so those are some of the things that you know,
I had to learn myself and literally find people to hey,
can you please sit down and like walk me through
how like I want to retire at an early age,
whether it's sixty five, sixty five whatever it is, how
do I do that?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You know?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And people took the time to sit with me and
educate me, and they loved on me in the way
that I didn't like I wasn't taught, you know. So
those are the things that I'm like, it's critical that
my kids know that because I want them to be successful,
like life skills man, man, Like my parents didn't teach
me a lot, and I had to learn the hard
(11:14):
way through life. But being able to like learn through
that and then teach that to the next generation, like man,
that's crucial for me, and I'm trying to do my
best to do that.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
For my kids. Good for you, Ricky, I like it.
Have a good day YouTube.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Thanks? Did you call me someone's in the female parts cultural?
It's definitely cultural.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I was to say, it can be absolutely it could
be like you should I mean as a woman, as
a mom, like you should talk to your daughter about
certain parts your kids are not going to learn they
live from their friends.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Is that the best source to go to?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Really?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Not or YouTube or YouTube now?
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Yeah, which is some good information out.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
There on TikTok.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I think now they have access to a lot more
than we did. But I mean for you're a mom.
I think it's you know, you should talk to your
daughter about certain things.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've built a new home on YouTube. You should see it.
It's great, eighty four thousand square feet. I built it
myself with my own answer. Every time I was like,
is this is this a load bearing structure?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And then I have looked on YouTube and they told
me it was fine. Jeb and I know there are
teachers that listen a lot of teachers who listen to
us are driving and to work, and they're probably like
rolling their eyes because it's like, well, I'm supposed to
teach all the stuff they tell me to teach, and
then you're telling me that no, I'm not sure it's
not the teacher's responsibility, but I'm a lot of teachers.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Are doing that work too. Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's like, well, so I'm supposed to teach to this
test they have to take to see if I'm a
good teacher. But then also you're telling me that I
got to teach them life skills too. That shouldn't be
the expectation, but it probably is. The Other thing is
I somehow got on car salesman TikTok algorithm.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yes, have you been on there?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh, yes, there's a few guys Russ flips whips, there's
a bow tie guy's and they do. Now they're doing
little skits for brand deals and it's like cheesy. But
before it was like behind the scenes of car deals.
It is amazing. And I know that the industry has
changed a lot with all the Internet and all the
availability of information whatever else, But like you don't know
how to buy a car, no, and like they don't
(13:02):
realize that the tricks and like this number looks good,
but do you know what the numbers behind all that are?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You know, it's okay, you know what do you want
your payment to be? That's the worst game you can
play because they'll make your payment whatever you want. Oh
you want one hundred and fifty dollars payment, Okay, you're
going to be paying for this car in twenty eighty seven,
you know. But people don't. They don't care. It's like
I want it now, and they appeal to that. But
like I didn't know then, I didn't know the questions
to ask. I probably got unscrewed on one hundred card
(13:30):
deals because I don't I don't know the numbers look fine,
and the interest rate looks fine, and the terms look fine.
I'm like, okay, but maybe they sold me some sort
of under undercarriage ice wax protection from my car that
you know in Arizona or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Like, I don't, I don't know. I didn't know what
to look for. But this is all the kind of
stuff that people they're not being taught. We'll do headlines next.
The entertainment reportant blogs. This our Fred show is It's
Friday back game too.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
These are the radio blogs on a friend like you're.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Running in our diaryes, except we said him aloud. We
call him blogs Jason Brown. Yes, go, thank you, dear blog.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So I reached a point in my relationship recently which
I never thought I would be in. So Mike and
I have been together. It'll be fifteen years this year,
which is nuts for me to think of fifteen years. Yes,
that crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So you met him right around the time I met you, probably, Yeah,
So what could have been? You know what could have
been between us? Miss It's said you would have moved
You would have moved right into my home? Yes, oh yeah,
myself being a way different. Yes, it's true.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
So we were getting ready to go to dinner, and
so he showered and I was, you know, getting dressed
and changing my clothes whatever. And he walks in the
bedroom and he's like, so what am I wearing. I'm like, oh,
I guess like I'm mere stylists now, So like I
to go in the closet, like these jeans, go with
(15:03):
this shirt, here's a belt. I'm like, wait, I'm like
my parents now, like my mom has to dress my dad,
Like my mom has to like pull out his you know,
nice clothes when they're going out somewhere.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You know, yes, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I'm like wait, And I know some people probably be
annoyed of it, but I was like the fact that
you trust me to dress you like kind of nice?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Right, Yeah, You've become your parents, I literally have. And
it was one of those moments where I'm like, wow,
I'm old.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Do you guys do this? I mean, I'm not in
a relationship. Did you dress you dressim? This is my dream? Actually, Jason,
this is my dream.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
So you wanted I want to do this so bad
because I love my man, you know, and he's a
great guy, but he has his own sense of fashion.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, okay, what is a giveing?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
It's given, not what I would do. His own sins
a fashion, you know, and I will love. I love
trying to dress him. He is like, but he's rebellious.
So the moment I say look, I got you this
nice sweater and here's these jeans, He's like, oh, actually,
(16:14):
I'm gonna wear my work boots and my vest.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
A leather vesta, always the leather vest, taking a Harley somewhere.
That's what I've heard about. I never met the guy.
Peek hides him from me. But when I see the
guy walking.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
With a leather vest, lots of leather boots, you know.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
So if he was to come into the house and
say what am I wearing? Baby, I would be like,
oh honey, let me storry.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Because I love to dress me and I think it's
so okay you have a whole supper closet.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He won't.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
What do you do? Just like you do?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Do you try and trick him, like with reverse psychology
or something and be like, you know, it would look
really ugly.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yep. Is this sweater and these jeans? Yep? That is
my entire relationship.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
And I don't know if because we're the same zodiac sign,
it's it's very much. I have to play this game
of that's so ugly. I would never want you to
wear that. He's coming outside in the full house. Okay,
I have to say this restaurant sucks.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We should never go to this restaurant. He has a reservation.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
To do the opposite of what I say.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You know what sucks is engagement. Engagement sucks. I don't
want to get married one person in the rest of
my life. Sounds like the worst idea ever. Diamonds so heavy,
I never know what.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
That sucks are big diamond Yeah it's terrible today. You
should Yeah, big diamonds. Marriage all sucks. Waiting, let the
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