June 15, 2026 • 28 mins
Fred wants to know what should be included un the price when you buy something. And Judge Keke weighs in on some family drama on an all new Keke's Court!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What do you think should be free?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That is not I mean, and I'm sure that's a
that's a loaded question. So eight five five five nine
one three five What are this is a video that
Kiki sent me this morning from TikTok from a creator
the Morgan Gordon. What are things that should be included
in the price. So it's not even it should be free,
(00:23):
it's that if I buy something, I'm not paying extra
for this, like.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Should be included in the price.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'll go first.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Number one.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
If I buy a ticket to a concert, I should
automatically get merged. I should have a little voucher that
gets me.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
A free sher That's not happening, okay, because I mean
a little trinket or something the key chain, Like I
paid three hundred dollars to come to you, under twenty
five dollars for parking.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Now that's one thing that should be included. Parking. Oh yeah,
that's true. I agree, you got me.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
No, but you've got everybody. I mean, it's it would
be nice, but you know, the parking people that's a
different usually different company than the arena people. So these
are all people with their hand in this. They're all
making money in different ways.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Well, you need to put the money all in one
pot and include it in my ticket price, and that's it.
I mean, I shouldn't have to pay for the concert ticket.
Paid ticket mats are seventy five dollars. On top of
that sixty dollars to part. Can't get a popcorn or
a shrink it when I get to the bgu I
need like.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
A shrink You want a drinket? Damn. Yes, Well they
were doing that for a while, weren't they.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Where they would like package stuff to make it seem
like it wasn't as bad, Like, all right, well it's
three hundred and fifty bucks for a ticket, but you
also get you know, a shirt and a hot dog
when you get there or something, and you still paid weight.
You paid for it, right, but you felt like you
were getting a value.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Right, Make me feel it okay?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Because I literally just paid to you give me the
I just.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Feel like, even if it's not even if you're not
paying for it, you're paying. If you don't think you're
paying for it, you're paying for it, you know. So
it's okay, the contous tickets three hundred bucks. So then
the next route it will be four hundred bucks. But
they'll give you something, but you didn't necessarily need it,
because you know I would have paid the three hundred
bucks and then I bought this, You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So I don't. I don't think anything's gonna be free.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It works, I'm telling you, wait, but it's a my trick.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Just like Southwest Airlines used to give us two free bags.
Everybody ran at that, like, oh my god, two freebacks.
Now you're probably paying for the bags included in the price,
but it made me want to buy. There, give me something.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Make me think it's free.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They're so greedy.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Number two sauce. I should never have to pay fifty
cents extra for a sauce. I don't care if you
make her own sauce, and I don't care if it's
just the regular catchup packet from the store. I shouldn't
have to pay for it. Just give me the sauce.
I don't need to pay extra for that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I agree with this, and so does Krista Christa. Dipping
sauces should be included with the meal at no extra charge.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I mean, okay, so make it twenty five cents more.
I guess.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Sneak it in there if you have to. But yeah,
you're right, I don't want it. Okay, So I got
chicken fingers. What sauce do you want? I want ranch
extra fifty? Said no, what do you mean?
Speaker 8 (02:55):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I was supposed to I was supposed to row these things.
Of course I was. Yes, CHRISA, it's brilliant. When's the
last time you can think of that? You were charged
extra for sauce? And did you throw it back at
the they're face face yesterday?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Where'd you try and go?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So?
Speaker 9 (03:14):
Actually I went to Rosati's Pizzauce.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Okay, you went to a pizza place and I yes,
And I ordered a large pizza and then I ordered,
you know, the chicken tungers.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
And as I'm ordering them.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I want that buffalo.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
I want that. I want that start with parmesan.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It was fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Cents extra each.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think the problem is is you got the people
who took like eighty seven sauces for their meal and
threw most of them away. It's kind of like do
you ever notice it? Subway? I think they still do this.
I haven't eat a subway in a long time, but
they would give you two napkins. That's they give you
two napkins as part of the deal. And there aren't
napkins in the store. They're not just little dispensers everywhere,
(03:54):
because if you ever think about the last time you
went to get napkins, you probably took four times more
napkins than you needed. You just keep taking them out
of the thing, the little dispenser, right, and then.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You threw most of them away.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So Subway says, no, we'll tell you how many napkins
you can have, and if you want more, I guess
you can probably go up there and ask them for it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But I bet you.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They saved millions of dollars a year across all their
restaurants by rationing the napkins because people take this crap
and they wasted. So I guess we have those people
to thank Chris for this sauce to the sauce Shenanigans.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And you know what's the worst part is I paid
for it and I didn't get in.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh now that's.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Criminal, Yes it is, boy, we got a problem christ
to thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Have a good day. Well, she just used done. She
hung up.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Hey Cheryl, Hey, Hey, good morning. Credit card fees at restaurants. Wait,
tell me about this.
Speaker 10 (04:46):
Okay, it's started in COVID. Everybody was penny pension and
they're putting on their credit card fee whatever. Well guess what.
It's six years later and they're still doing it. And
I will not go to a restaurant if you're gonna
not just put it in your feet.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Interesting to the taco I'm not sure if I've ever
seen it that bladant.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Oh oh yeah, look at the receipts. Oh, it's on there.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
They don't tell you like, if you use your card,
we're gonna put an extra three percent or whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Tell you the cash prices this price at the card
prices this.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But the other problem is a lot of places won't
take cash, Like a lot of places don't know what
to do with your cash. So like you can't be
but make up your mind, like what is there we're
using cash? Were not using cash because there are some
places where you go with your cash and they're like, huh,
like I don't know what we're gonna do with that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
We can't give you change. We don't have any change exactly.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
So it's like there was a local little taco place
that we frequented probably twice a week, kind of upscale.
You're paying four or five dollars a taco, and so
we were regulars and they still are doing it till
this day and we have not gone back. We have
they're like, oh, well, we'll remove it, and it's like,
so we don't. We don't freak, We don't go there anymore.
(05:56):
But to stop it, yeah, three cents my taco somewhere.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
I I do.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Thank you, Cheryl, have a great day. Thanks for listening too.
I do think a credit card fee is kind of
the cost of doing business. Another thing, and this is unrelated,
but just because I've been traveling lot lately. If you
if you accept tips, if you're someone who accepts tips,
so you're I don't know, you're a valet guy or
whatever you need. If you don't have an easy way
for someone to tip you digitally, you need to have change.
(06:26):
You You are responsible for your own change. Don't look
at me crazy when I should be giving you a
five dollars tip would be generous, and I hand you
at twenty and you look at me like I don't
know what to do with this, and then I'm the
jackass walking away without having the money to tip you like,
I'm not going to give you. I don't. I can't
just hand out twenties. Okay, I'm not made. I'm on
(06:46):
the radio, guys, Okay, like it if I run, you know,
maybe cable or something would be different. I don't know,
Netflix be way different. But like if you if you
know what an appropriate tip is, and you gotta have change.
And this has nothing to do with the topic, but
it bothers me because it's like, I want to tip you,
but it's hard. It's actually if you go to an ATM,
usually it spits out twenties, right, and so like it's
(07:08):
kind of on you as the person taking the tip
to be able to accommodate the tip and give me
some money back. And if you can't, then you can't
get mad about you gotta be like, oh, you know,
you know what I mean absolutely like having a few
dollars with you, you know, on hand, to be.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Able to just shift right have exactly yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I think that's fair, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah? Or what else is she mad about it?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
In the price of my ten dollar meal? Number three
makeup brushes. If I'm buying a blush, I should get
a brush. If I'm buying a foundation, I should get
a brush. Whatever product I'm buying, you should come with
an applicator.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Median range of makeup now is thirty to forty dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
You can spare a little one dollar brush because it's
only gonna cost them like one dollar.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Okay, so they may they may do that, but it's
gonna be cheap. It's not gonna be nice brush. You're
gonna wind up one to buy a better one.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Aren't you.
Speaker 11 (07:53):
I feel that way, But I know people love free
stuff and it changes the game for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I think, yeah, card fees, that has the cost of
doing business. Air for your tires.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That is insane that we just pay that, We just
we just let them charge us for.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That air for the tires. That is insane.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I know some places will have free air, like the
gas station, because they want you to go to that
gas station. I mean, how much does that really cost
you to be able to do?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Like if I if I had a gas station and
I give if I give you free air and you're
already there, you might buy something else, right, So I
guess charging you a dollar for that doesn't I mean,
how much is that really really cost to up keep
that little air compressor thing.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Moving into a building?
Speaker 11 (08:32):
I should not have to pay an elevator fee to
use an elevator that's going to be there regardless, you
have to pay a fee, uh huh. And then sometimes
you have to pay well, you always have to pay
for the application just to see if you can get
the apartment. Oh no that okay, now, yes, Ryan about that?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Why are we paying application fees for you to determine
if you want to take my money? Like girl, no,
I mean they are charging to try on wedding dresses
right now, and I'm yes, wait really, oh yeah, it's
it's fifty dollars or more to book an appointment at most places.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What I have to pay you to try on the
dress that I might buy for an exorbitant amount of money.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Really?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And it's like I understand because women and influencers are
out here booking appointments, just going to shoot content, dreaming
of a wedding that's never happening whatever, and you're wasting
people's time. And I understand it's an industry that may
not Actually no, I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You know, I am making excuses for them.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
No, actually, never mind, that was real.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That was real work. The other thing was hotel parking.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
If I booked a room at this hotel, where do
you want me to put my car?
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What are we doing at apartments too? Oh yeah, girl,
give me the spot. Yeah. I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't like the hotel thing, where like I'm going
to go in and I'm going to spend money at
this hotel, or I'm going to go in and spend
money at to bar the hotel or whatever. You and
I got to pay you to park there, Like, you
need to provide parking. You got to have a place
for me to put my car so I can carry
my wallet in there and spend some money with you.
I fired up about it.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Parking spaces.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't like that either, unless it's like a major, huge,
crazy big city, and then I guess it's sort of
you have.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
To plan ahead for that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But yeah, yeah, okay, good, I'm glad we came to
a consensus on this. We need napkins, we need dipping sauces,
we need parking spaces for our cars. Stop charging a
stop charging for air wedding dress tryouts.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I gotta know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I would love to see the economics on that, Like
how many people are not going to your store because
you charge for the appointment versus the number of dresses
that you could have sold?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Like it, does it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Really work out better such that you charge Okay, it's
fifty bucks for me to try and dress and then
I'm not going to go there because I'm not gonna
hit a fifty bucks. How many sales are you missing
out on with the profit margin being larger than fifty bucks?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's gotta be a.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Lot, a lot like this is why are people wire
business is inconvenienced by doing their own business. I don't understand.
This is why you have a store.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Order.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It's a fresh show. It's Kiki's court, all right, the
honorable is here, Judge Kiky? What say you?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
All right, let's get in the courtroom.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
It says, hey, ki Key, am I wrong for refusing
to split my daughter's money with my step son? I've
been saving for my daughter's college since the day she
was born, and thanks to her grandparents, over the years,
the account has grown to a really nice amount of
money for college. However, I married my second husband when
she was ten years old, and he also came into
(11:46):
the marriage with the son the same age as my daughter,
and now that they're both preparing to go to college,
my husband believes that we should split my daughter's college
fund between the two of them so that they can
start adulthood on equal footing.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I refused.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Every dollar in that account was saved specifically for my daughter,
years before I even met him. Now, my husband says,
I'm showing his son that I never truly considered him family.
And my step son overheard this argument. It is hurt.
I feel bad, but it's a no. Am I wrong?
We Why didn't Dad save?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Hello? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Sorry Joe s Ki. I mean, I hate to bury
the headline. I'm not trying to bury the headline here,
but like, why is it?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Don't do that?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I mean, so you would not you would not share
with your step so on, I want to be sure
I'm clear on this.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So she saved for years and years and years for
her own child, prior to even knowing this man or
the child the step son even existed. Yes, okay, well
then what was he doing during that time to prepare
for his child's future?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I'm sorry, but like, that's not how these works.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You don't just after a couple of years go, okay,
that all that money that I saved for my kid's future,
Now we're splitting it in half, and now good. I'm sorry.
It has nothing to do with love, it has nothing
to do with me. It's sure, it's your thing. Now
I'm all fired up about this.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
The true you said forget them kids, you're not pay.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I think parents have response to individual responsibility for their
children when in blended families, and this isn't a matter
of them saving together for years and years and years
and then giving it to one.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
This is her savings. She this is.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This should have been ironed out ahead of time. This
is has nothing to do with them and has nothing
to do with love or anything else. It's I saved
for my kid's future. That was my job. I did it.
Here it is. I'm sorry, but I don't have to.
Maybe I can help a little bit, but I don't
have to split this dead in half when I didn't
even have any of that in mind before then.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
There it is. I agree with you on that.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I mean I feel bad because they She's obviously known
this child, and he's been a part of her life.
Since he was ten years old. That's when they got married,
so that's eight to there are seven years ago where
you maybe could have said, hey, you know, I do
have a college one for my daughter. What do you
have in place for our son? It doesn't seem like
that conversation ever had been. But I think it's wrong
for the dad to just wake up today and assume, like, oh, well,
(14:04):
we must split this money for both of them because
they're both going to college. Like, no, maybe you and
your ex wife should have thought of something when you
had a child.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Did he put any money into this account? I'm assuming
he didn't.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
It doesn't sound like it, but I can't be sure.
I mean, over they've been together for like eight years now, so.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I would think that would be an and key part
of the story where she would say, you know, hey,
he did contribute to this for the last eight years
one which case, then he should be entitled to half
of whatever he put in or all of what whatever
it is. But like, if he didn't put anything in this,
why all of a sudden is it you're responsible for
my kid's future too, when you've been planning.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
For this forever.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I eight five five five one oh three five, you
can call him text the same number. I know it sounds,
you know, hurtful, but you got to be responsible for
your kid in a blended situation, like you can't expect
someone else to do it for you, Like why was
this something you thought about when the kid was little
(15:02):
and you saved incrementally a little bit at a time. Yeah,
it's on him.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I mean, we agree on that, but I feel like
it can get tricky because you are a blended family
and you should consider his son your son, and you know,
ten years ago, maybe you guys should have come up
with the plan for both of the kids, but that
didn't happen clearly, and now we're facing this. So I
feel bad for the son, especially that he heard this argument.
And you know, I never want a child to feel
(15:29):
left out of anything. So if I was step mom,
I would I don't know what I would do. Actually,
I would try to help him out, but like I
can't give you my daughter's fun like that her grandparents
have helped.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Put it's the thing people have contributed to this with
her and mind yeah who maybe had nothing to do
with this other you know, with the way that the
family has sort of evolved. I guess this lady could
have said, hey, look, you know, i'm saving every month
for so and so's college.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Something like should we be thinking about that? Maybe she
assumed that he did. Maybe he did, but it's not
as much. I don't know, But like, this is not this,
This isn't necessarily a reflection on the love she has
for her stepchild when she had a plan for her
own kid and that's her responsibility, and that plan started
way before this family evolved into what it is. And
(16:20):
it involves other people's money that that were earmarked for
their family, right, you know, and I know I know
it sounds mean, but hey, Sophie.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Good for you?
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Love you so much?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Well, thank you, Sophie. So what do you think?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So basically this this this woman and her husband are
fighting over a college fund that was intended for her
kid when there's no money saved for her step son.
And now the step son hears and he's heard, and
then the dad husband's like, well wait a minute, I
want half of that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Well, that wasn't intended for you. What do you think?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Well, I know this is Kicky's court and not stay
or go, but I still think she should leave that
bum and his entitled son because he has agree this
is personal, like he had all that time, and he
can't just expect that this that she would pitch in
like all this money, when he had all this time.
User since spurts red flag, you know, he said have
(17:21):
been singing that up if it really was his priority,
but he because he got lazy about it. I don't
think he should have put it all on me on
his life. That's not fair to her.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, And I also think that when you get into
a relationship or you get married in this case, I
have to think that you sit down responsibly and say, okay,
here's how much I make here, so much you make?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
What are you going to pay for? What am I
going to pay for?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And part of that conversation should probably have been, hey,
I've set aside this much money for her. What are
we doing for him? What are you doing for him?
But it seems like he never even thought about that,
And now all of a sudden it's well, you're a
bad person for not giving me half of yours. It's like, no,
but you should have been thinking about that on your own, right,
(18:00):
Like that's you should have had a plan before that
had nothing to do with her, because well, it's your child.
And yes, I realized they're sharing that responsibility in some
ways because you know, hopefully step kids aren't viewed as
as less than or secondary. But like when it comes
to the money, that probably should have been something that
he should have brought up or should have been discussed
if he had any expectation of it being a joint commitment.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Right, Yeah, he.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Shouldn't have procrastinated. He left this also last minute, so
he should come up with the money, so they didn't
talk about it earlier.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, thank you, Thank you, Sophie. I'm glad you called.
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Great, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I eight five five five one three five high back you.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Good morning, Hi, good morning.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
And oh man, this is a tricky one. But at
the same time, it's not right. What do you think, No, it's.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Definitely not a tricky one. First, I want to say
I love you guys. I listened to you every day,
even in the summer.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Understand the assignment. Okay, listen, we make a commitment to
each other, all right, it's it's we're here for you,
you know. We don't take the summers all just because
the teachers and whomever else just choose not to wake
up in the morning anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Exactly, I have to get work every day, so do you,
guys I'm.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
In the Olympus.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Well, you don't want the teachers want to teach for
all of us. You guys have earned the right that
those of you to sleep in. But then that doesn't
mean you can't listen to the podcast later on the
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what you think.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Yeah, so definitely she's in saving for her daughter all
of this time. If it was important for him, he
would have been saving for his son or like that
should have been a conversation that they had when they
got together, of hey, let's put some extra aside and
say for both of them. But as it is, no,
that's her daughter's money.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
The fact that he didn't even know that this account
existed means that this was never a conversation that they
had now because if he knew it existed, then he
might have said, okay, well I need to contribute to
this so that or I need to have one of
my own. But that was ever discussed obviously, which also
makes me think their finances must be separate. And if
(20:05):
that's because if she's putting money away and he's unaware
of it, then it's not as though she's taking community
funds and earmarking them for one kid and not the
other right exactly, so he don't even know about this.
And now he's all, wait, there's money there, give me
half of that. And the fact that the kid feels
bad about this. I hate that because it's the kid's fault.
(20:25):
It's the dad's responsibility.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Trust.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Thank you, Becky, have a good day. Hold on somebody
disagree with me? Then he hung up. No, I was,
I was, Mike, I don't know where you.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
Know.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'll take the dissenting opinions and I'll just tell you
that you're wrong. It's fine. I don't know what happened
to Mike though. Let me see here. Oh hell no,
those funds do not need to be split. The funds
were there before.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Ye see.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
That's my other thing is we got other family members
involved who didn't know. Aaron Hiring, good morning, good morning, Okay,
thanks for calling, doing great.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
This happened to you.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
This is something that happened to me. Actually okay, So okay,
So my parents have been a more since I was four,
and my mom put away money for.
Speaker 12 (21:25):
Me and my older sister and.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Also my dad, and then my.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Stepmom came into the picture, and she was wonderful, but
she also like they had to put away money for them,
but they didn't have the money as much as they
did when I was younger because of whatever circumstances. And
so that was one thing that they had talked about,
(21:53):
was splitting up the money between all of us because
I have four sisters.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
So yeah, that's hard, That's that's hard. I'm sorry that
happened to Aaron. Thank you have a good day. No,
it's tough because you don't want you don't want the
kids to because I mean, look, I was part of
a situation where I was I had step brothers, and
I guess I have stepsisters now.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I don't know. You'd have to ask somebody else.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But there's always an effort to make everybody feel equal.
But then in this particular case, you're talking about something
that wasn't intended for everybody, right, So this should be
a conversation that never should have taken place. The kids
should never have known about this because the kids are
not This isn't having to do with them, you know
(22:43):
what I mean? So the kids, I feel bad for
the step son who now feels less than and who
maybe isn't told enough to understand how this all worked
right and how it does work and how this isn't personal.
But hey, your dad should have been doing that's you
guys should have been handling this. Hey Taylor, here, what's up? Hey,
good morning. Just happen to you too, Yeah, it happened
(23:04):
to me. Yeah, sure, explain please?
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Yeah all right. So, uh, stepdad and my mom got together.
Me and my stepmother were the same age, and so
I was really good, really good academically, loved school just
like you know, three point nine GPA. In high school.
I had a bunch of had a bunch of college offers.
My mom properly planned. Step dad did not properly plan,
(23:28):
which is totally fine, it happens. And my stepfather wanted
to go to college, but he didn't have any money,
and so I forfeited my my bible with a five
O one she plan whatever that is. I forfeited my plan
to him, and then I ended up getting scholarships, and
so you know, it all kind of worked out, and eventually, honestly,
(23:50):
whenever I need some cash and for whatever reason right
invest in stuff, He's always there for me.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So it really kind of worked out.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Even though our parents are no longer together, we're very
close and as a family, you make things work. So
there's definitely a solution here, whether it's hey, we'll forfit
the first.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Semester, see how you do.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
If you do well in college, then we'll continue to
kind of figure that out and have a love the
scholarships and you know, a line up in place. But
there's over millions of dollars of scholarships, you know what
any of these students can get. So I'll always say,
see how the first semester goes. If they excel in college,
they can excel getting a scholarship. Well, you don't forfeit
all the money. And Taylor, I'm glad it works out
for you.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
But in this case, you know, you you were able
to earn your tuition to be paid for such that
the money you didn't need the money. But had you
needed the money, I think it probably should have been
yours to take first, and there should have been no
obligation that it'd be given to anyone else. Now, I
think it would have been one thing if you got
a full ride scholarship and then you kept the cash
and prevented someone else's blessing. But you didn't do that,
(24:50):
so it worked out. But in this case, let's assume
there is no scholarship money. That's kind of not on her.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Yeah, no, it kind of is.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Though as a parent, as a parent.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
You want to do well for your children, even though
you're a step mom or a stepdad. The biggest thing
you can do is provide your children with a good
setup for their future. And when it comes to these
kind of plans, it isn't about just like again you
can say, hey, look we're not giving up half the
money for whatever reason. You can send someone to college
for a semester for a year and see how it goes,
(25:21):
and you could earn scholarships along the way. This isn't
a you know, a make one decision and it's all
set or done. And so as the parents, what I
was suggest them to do is say, hey, look again,
we're not gonna I'm not gonna give you half of this,
but what I will do is see how your child
does or our child, our child does as a first
semester as their first year, right, and then from there
(25:42):
you can get scholarship. Me this, there are a thousand
ways to get paid to the student when once you're
in the.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Door, were on that. Dad should be focused on that.
Dad should be Why doesn't Dad take out the loan then?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Like is why?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I guess I just don't know why this why we're
focused in on the money that's in hand, when when
I don't necessarily think anyone's entitled to that or entitled
to have to give it away except for the people
who saved it and who's and who it's supposed to before,
you know, I mean, like Dad needs to take some
responsibility here. I didn't save so now I'm gonna have
to take the hit on this. And she did prepare
(26:17):
and I don't know where I was for this, but
like maybe that's a separate conversation, is Hey, if we
have future goals in this relationship and we're splitting things
and we need to be more aligned with you know,
contributing equally to that, not oh wait, I forgot give
me half of someone else's.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Yeah, I guess the difference is now and now we're
talking about who owns what in a relationship and it's
a marriage, obviously I assume yes. So you know now
it's like, all right, well is it dad? Or who's
funding you? Who's panklingm morgage to the house, who's spanking
the car notes, who's taking care of the camps? All
this stuff kind of comes an equation and the dad
is taking care of a lot of that and saying, hey, well, look,
you know I'm paying for this, so therefore I would
(26:54):
like something for that. That's totally okay in a relationship,
but it should not all or nothing. There are other solutions.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That are non binary. Sure for people to talk about
divorced on this crap. They haven't been married.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
They don't know what a relationship takes, and obviously how
will the effect that has no kids or we're talking
about kids future.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I will do whatever it takes.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
I will cross any road for any kid that I
have in my possession.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
Every day.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Look at you. Good for you, Taylor. I appreciate you. Man.
Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yes, she's look at look at Taylor.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
He made some really good points.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
It is a good point if the dude is paying
for everything, and all she's been doing is saving for college.
If one percent of her salary is going to college
tuition and he's paying for one hundred percent of everything else,
then maybe in that case you could say, well, at
least some of that probably should be split. Maybe not
all of it, but for the last seven years, you
haven't paid one single bill and so now I need
(27:46):
your help with this. That's one thing. But if everything,
I gotta think everything is separate. Otherwise he'd know about
this account, he would have known about it before.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Well, I don't know if everything is separate, but I
do think that they she should hold some responsibility to
her steps on his future as well.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's just that comes with parenting.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
So you may not give him your daughter's money, but
you probably will be signing alone with your husband to
help him get through college as well.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So yeah, and I think just one more this is
the kind of stuff that has to be discussed. Oh yeah,
in relationships, right, like you, you got to sit down
from the very beginning so that the expectations are set,
you know, for this. If this was something that he
didn't even know about, and it appears it's like, oh,
look pile of money over here, half of that's mine,
not how that works. So the fact that he didn't
even know he is a little bit strang
What do you think should be free?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That is not I mean, and I'm sure that's a
that's a loaded question. So eight five five five nine
one three five What are this is a video that
Kiki sent me this morning from TikTok from a creator
the Morgan Gordon. What are things that should be included
in the price. So it's not even it should be free,
(00:23):
it's that if I buy something, I'm not paying extra
for this, like.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Should be included in the price.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'll go first.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Number one.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
If I buy a ticket to a concert, I should
automatically get merged. I should have a little voucher that
gets me.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
A free sher That's not happening, okay, because I mean
a little trinket or something the key chain, Like I
paid three hundred dollars to come to you, under twenty
five dollars for parking.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Now that's one thing that should be included. Parking. Oh yeah,
that's true. I agree, you got me.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
No, but you've got everybody. I mean, it's it would
be nice, but you know, the parking people that's a
different usually different company than the arena people. So these
are all people with their hand in this. They're all
making money in different ways.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Well, you need to put the money all in one
pot and include it in my ticket price, and that's it.
I mean, I shouldn't have to pay for the concert ticket.
Paid ticket mats are seventy five dollars. On top of
that sixty dollars to part. Can't get a popcorn or
a shrink it when I get to the bgu I
need like.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
A shrink You want a drinket? Damn. Yes, Well they
were doing that for a while, weren't they.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Where they would like package stuff to make it seem
like it wasn't as bad, Like, all right, well it's
three hundred and fifty bucks for a ticket, but you
also get you know, a shirt and a hot dog
when you get there or something, and you still paid weight.
You paid for it, right, but you felt like you
were getting a value.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Right, Make me feel it okay?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Because I literally just paid to you give me the
I just.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Feel like, even if it's not even if you're not
paying for it, you're paying. If you don't think you're
paying for it, you're paying for it, you know. So
it's okay, the contous tickets three hundred bucks. So then
the next route it will be four hundred bucks. But
they'll give you something, but you didn't necessarily need it,
because you know I would have paid the three hundred
bucks and then I bought this, You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So I don't. I don't think anything's gonna be free.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It works, I'm telling you, wait, but it's a my trick.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Just like Southwest Airlines used to give us two free bags.
Everybody ran at that, like, oh my god, two freebacks.
Now you're probably paying for the bags included in the price,
but it made me want to buy. There, give me something.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Make me think it's free.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They're so greedy.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Number two sauce. I should never have to pay fifty
cents extra for a sauce. I don't care if you
make her own sauce, and I don't care if it's
just the regular catchup packet from the store. I shouldn't
have to pay for it. Just give me the sauce.
I don't need to pay extra for that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I agree with this, and so does Krista Christa. Dipping
sauces should be included with the meal at no extra charge.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I mean, okay, so make it twenty five cents more.
I guess.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Sneak it in there if you have to. But yeah,
you're right, I don't want it. Okay, So I got
chicken fingers. What sauce do you want? I want ranch
extra fifty? Said no, what do you mean?
Speaker 8 (02:55):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I was supposed to I was supposed to row these things.
Of course I was. Yes, CHRISA, it's brilliant. When's the
last time you can think of that? You were charged
extra for sauce? And did you throw it back at
the they're face face yesterday?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Where'd you try and go?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So?
Speaker 9 (03:14):
Actually I went to Rosati's Pizzauce.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Okay, you went to a pizza place and I yes,
And I ordered a large pizza and then I ordered,
you know, the chicken tungers.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
And as I'm ordering them.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I want that buffalo.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
I want that. I want that start with parmesan.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It was fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Cents extra each.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think the problem is is you got the people
who took like eighty seven sauces for their meal and
threw most of them away. It's kind of like do
you ever notice it? Subway? I think they still do this.
I haven't eat a subway in a long time, but
they would give you two napkins. That's they give you
two napkins as part of the deal. And there aren't
napkins in the store. They're not just little dispensers everywhere,
(03:54):
because if you ever think about the last time you
went to get napkins, you probably took four times more
napkins than you needed. You just keep taking them out
of the thing, the little dispenser, right, and then.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You threw most of them away.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So Subway says, no, we'll tell you how many napkins
you can have, and if you want more, I guess
you can probably go up there and ask them for it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But I bet you.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They saved millions of dollars a year across all their
restaurants by rationing the napkins because people take this crap
and they wasted. So I guess we have those people
to thank Chris for this sauce to the sauce Shenanigans.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And you know what's the worst part is I paid
for it and I didn't get in.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh now that's.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Criminal, Yes it is, boy, we got a problem christ
to thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Have a good day. Well, she just used done. She
hung up.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Hey Cheryl, Hey, Hey, good morning. Credit card fees at restaurants. Wait,
tell me about this.
Speaker 10 (04:46):
Okay, it's started in COVID. Everybody was penny pension and
they're putting on their credit card fee whatever. Well guess what.
It's six years later and they're still doing it. And
I will not go to a restaurant if you're gonna
not just put it in your feet.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Interesting to the taco I'm not sure if I've ever
seen it that bladant.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Oh oh yeah, look at the receipts. Oh, it's on there.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
They don't tell you like, if you use your card,
we're gonna put an extra three percent or whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Tell you the cash prices this price at the card
prices this.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But the other problem is a lot of places won't
take cash, Like a lot of places don't know what
to do with your cash. So like you can't be
but make up your mind, like what is there we're
using cash? Were not using cash because there are some
places where you go with your cash and they're like, huh,
like I don't know what we're gonna do with that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
We can't give you change. We don't have any change exactly.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
So it's like there was a local little taco place
that we frequented probably twice a week, kind of upscale.
You're paying four or five dollars a taco, and so
we were regulars and they still are doing it till
this day and we have not gone back. We have
they're like, oh, well, we'll remove it, and it's like,
so we don't. We don't freak, We don't go there anymore.
(05:56):
But to stop it, yeah, three cents my taco somewhere.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
I I do.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Thank you, Cheryl, have a great day. Thanks for listening too.
I do think a credit card fee is kind of
the cost of doing business. Another thing, and this is unrelated,
but just because I've been traveling lot lately. If you
if you accept tips, if you're someone who accepts tips,
so you're I don't know, you're a valet guy or
whatever you need. If you don't have an easy way
for someone to tip you digitally, you need to have change.
(06:26):
You You are responsible for your own change. Don't look
at me crazy when I should be giving you a
five dollars tip would be generous, and I hand you
at twenty and you look at me like I don't
know what to do with this, and then I'm the
jackass walking away without having the money to tip you like,
I'm not going to give you. I don't. I can't
just hand out twenties. Okay, I'm not made. I'm on
(06:46):
the radio, guys, Okay, like it if I run, you know,
maybe cable or something would be different. I don't know,
Netflix be way different. But like if you if you
know what an appropriate tip is, and you gotta have change.
And this has nothing to do with the topic, but
it bothers me because it's like, I want to tip you,
but it's hard. It's actually if you go to an ATM,
usually it spits out twenties, right, and so like it's
(07:08):
kind of on you as the person taking the tip
to be able to accommodate the tip and give me
some money back. And if you can't, then you can't
get mad about you gotta be like, oh, you know,
you know what I mean absolutely like having a few
dollars with you, you know, on hand, to be.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Able to just shift right have exactly yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I think that's fair, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah? Or what else is she mad about it?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
In the price of my ten dollar meal? Number three
makeup brushes. If I'm buying a blush, I should get
a brush. If I'm buying a foundation, I should get
a brush. Whatever product I'm buying, you should come with
an applicator.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Median range of makeup now is thirty to forty dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
You can spare a little one dollar brush because it's
only gonna cost them like one dollar.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Okay, so they may they may do that, but it's
gonna be cheap. It's not gonna be nice brush. You're
gonna wind up one to buy a better one.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Aren't you.
Speaker 11 (07:53):
I feel that way, But I know people love free
stuff and it changes the game for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I think, yeah, card fees, that has the cost of
doing business. Air for your tires.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That is insane that we just pay that, We just
we just let them charge us for.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That air for the tires. That is insane.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I know some places will have free air, like the
gas station, because they want you to go to that
gas station. I mean, how much does that really cost
you to be able to do?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Like if I if I had a gas station and
I give if I give you free air and you're
already there, you might buy something else, right, So I
guess charging you a dollar for that doesn't I mean,
how much is that really really cost to up keep
that little air compressor thing.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Moving into a building?
Speaker 11 (08:32):
I should not have to pay an elevator fee to
use an elevator that's going to be there regardless, you
have to pay a fee, uh huh. And then sometimes
you have to pay well, you always have to pay
for the application just to see if you can get
the apartment. Oh no that okay, now, yes, Ryan about that?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Why are we paying application fees for you to determine
if you want to take my money? Like girl, no,
I mean they are charging to try on wedding dresses
right now, and I'm yes, wait really, oh yeah, it's
it's fifty dollars or more to book an appointment at most places.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What I have to pay you to try on the
dress that I might buy for an exorbitant amount of money.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Really?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And it's like I understand because women and influencers are
out here booking appointments, just going to shoot content, dreaming
of a wedding that's never happening whatever, and you're wasting
people's time. And I understand it's an industry that may
not Actually no, I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You know, I am making excuses for them.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
No, actually, never mind, that was real.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That was real work. The other thing was hotel parking.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
If I booked a room at this hotel, where do
you want me to put my car?
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What are we doing at apartments too? Oh yeah, girl,
give me the spot. Yeah. I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't like the hotel thing, where like I'm going
to go in and I'm going to spend money at
this hotel, or I'm going to go in and spend
money at to bar the hotel or whatever. You and
I got to pay you to park there, Like, you
need to provide parking. You got to have a place
for me to put my car so I can carry
my wallet in there and spend some money with you.
I fired up about it.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Parking spaces.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't like that either, unless it's like a major, huge,
crazy big city, and then I guess it's sort of
you have.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
To plan ahead for that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But yeah, yeah, okay, good, I'm glad we came to
a consensus on this. We need napkins, we need dipping sauces,
we need parking spaces for our cars. Stop charging a
stop charging for air wedding dress tryouts.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I gotta know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I would love to see the economics on that, Like
how many people are not going to your store because
you charge for the appointment versus the number of dresses
that you could have sold?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Like it, does it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Really work out better such that you charge Okay, it's
fifty bucks for me to try and dress and then
I'm not going to go there because I'm not gonna
hit a fifty bucks. How many sales are you missing
out on with the profit margin being larger than fifty bucks?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's gotta be a.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Lot, a lot like this is why are people wire
business is inconvenienced by doing their own business. I don't understand.
This is why you have a store.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Order.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It's a fresh show. It's Kiki's court, all right, the
honorable is here, Judge Kiky? What say you?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
All right, let's get in the courtroom.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
It says, hey, ki Key, am I wrong for refusing
to split my daughter's money with my step son? I've
been saving for my daughter's college since the day she
was born, and thanks to her grandparents, over the years,
the account has grown to a really nice amount of
money for college. However, I married my second husband when
she was ten years old, and he also came into
(11:46):
the marriage with the son the same age as my daughter,
and now that they're both preparing to go to college,
my husband believes that we should split my daughter's college
fund between the two of them so that they can
start adulthood on equal footing.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I refused.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Every dollar in that account was saved specifically for my daughter,
years before I even met him. Now, my husband says,
I'm showing his son that I never truly considered him family.
And my step son overheard this argument. It is hurt.
I feel bad, but it's a no. Am I wrong?
We Why didn't Dad save?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Hello? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Sorry Joe s Ki. I mean, I hate to bury
the headline. I'm not trying to bury the headline here,
but like, why is it?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Don't do that?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I mean, so you would not you would not share
with your step so on, I want to be sure
I'm clear on this.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So she saved for years and years and years for
her own child, prior to even knowing this man or
the child the step son even existed. Yes, okay, well
then what was he doing during that time to prepare
for his child's future?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I'm sorry, but like, that's not how these works.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You don't just after a couple of years go, okay,
that all that money that I saved for my kid's future,
Now we're splitting it in half, and now good. I'm sorry.
It has nothing to do with love, it has nothing
to do with me. It's sure, it's your thing. Now
I'm all fired up about this.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
The true you said forget them kids, you're not pay.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I think parents have response to individual responsibility for their
children when in blended families, and this isn't a matter
of them saving together for years and years and years
and then giving it to one.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
This is her savings. She this is.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This should have been ironed out ahead of time. This
is has nothing to do with them and has nothing
to do with love or anything else. It's I saved
for my kid's future. That was my job. I did it.
Here it is. I'm sorry, but I don't have to.
Maybe I can help a little bit, but I don't
have to split this dead in half when I didn't
even have any of that in mind before then.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
There it is. I agree with you on that.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I mean I feel bad because they She's obviously known
this child, and he's been a part of her life.
Since he was ten years old. That's when they got married,
so that's eight to there are seven years ago where
you maybe could have said, hey, you know, I do
have a college one for my daughter. What do you
have in place for our son? It doesn't seem like
that conversation ever had been. But I think it's wrong
for the dad to just wake up today and assume, like, oh, well,
(14:04):
we must split this money for both of them because
they're both going to college. Like, no, maybe you and
your ex wife should have thought of something when you
had a child.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Did he put any money into this account? I'm assuming
he didn't.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
It doesn't sound like it, but I can't be sure.
I mean, over they've been together for like eight years now, so.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I would think that would be an and key part
of the story where she would say, you know, hey,
he did contribute to this for the last eight years
one which case, then he should be entitled to half
of whatever he put in or all of what whatever
it is. But like, if he didn't put anything in this,
why all of a sudden is it you're responsible for
my kid's future too, when you've been planning.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
For this forever.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I eight five five five one oh three five, you
can call him text the same number. I know it sounds,
you know, hurtful, but you got to be responsible for
your kid in a blended situation, like you can't expect
someone else to do it for you, Like why was
this something you thought about when the kid was little
(15:02):
and you saved incrementally a little bit at a time. Yeah,
it's on him.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I mean, we agree on that, but I feel like
it can get tricky because you are a blended family
and you should consider his son your son, and you know,
ten years ago, maybe you guys should have come up
with the plan for both of the kids, but that
didn't happen clearly, and now we're facing this. So I
feel bad for the son, especially that he heard this argument.
And you know, I never want a child to feel
(15:29):
left out of anything. So if I was step mom,
I would I don't know what I would do. Actually,
I would try to help him out, but like I
can't give you my daughter's fun like that her grandparents
have helped.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Put it's the thing people have contributed to this with
her and mind yeah who maybe had nothing to do
with this other you know, with the way that the
family has sort of evolved. I guess this lady could
have said, hey, look, you know, i'm saving every month
for so and so's college.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Something like should we be thinking about that? Maybe she
assumed that he did. Maybe he did, but it's not
as much. I don't know, But like, this is not this,
This isn't necessarily a reflection on the love she has
for her stepchild when she had a plan for her
own kid and that's her responsibility, and that plan started
way before this family evolved into what it is. And
(16:20):
it involves other people's money that that were earmarked for
their family, right, you know, and I know I know
it sounds mean, but hey, Sophie.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Good for you?
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Love you so much?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Well, thank you, Sophie. So what do you think?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So basically this this this woman and her husband are
fighting over a college fund that was intended for her
kid when there's no money saved for her step son.
And now the step son hears and he's heard, and
then the dad husband's like, well wait a minute, I
want half of that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Well, that wasn't intended for you. What do you think?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Well, I know this is Kicky's court and not stay
or go, but I still think she should leave that
bum and his entitled son because he has agree this
is personal, like he had all that time, and he
can't just expect that this that she would pitch in
like all this money, when he had all this time.
User since spurts red flag, you know, he said have
(17:21):
been singing that up if it really was his priority,
but he because he got lazy about it. I don't
think he should have put it all on me on
his life. That's not fair to her.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, And I also think that when you get into
a relationship or you get married in this case, I
have to think that you sit down responsibly and say, okay,
here's how much I make here, so much you make?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
What are you going to pay for? What am I
going to pay for?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And part of that conversation should probably have been, hey,
I've set aside this much money for her. What are
we doing for him? What are you doing for him?
But it seems like he never even thought about that,
And now all of a sudden it's well, you're a
bad person for not giving me half of yours. It's like, no,
but you should have been thinking about that on your own, right,
(18:00):
Like that's you should have had a plan before that
had nothing to do with her, because well, it's your child.
And yes, I realized they're sharing that responsibility in some
ways because you know, hopefully step kids aren't viewed as
as less than or secondary. But like when it comes
to the money, that probably should have been something that
he should have brought up or should have been discussed
if he had any expectation of it being a joint commitment.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Right, Yeah, he.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Shouldn't have procrastinated. He left this also last minute, so
he should come up with the money, so they didn't
talk about it earlier.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, thank you, Thank you, Sophie. I'm glad you called.
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Great, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I eight five five five one three five high back you.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Good morning, Hi, good morning.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
And oh man, this is a tricky one. But at
the same time, it's not right. What do you think, No, it's.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Definitely not a tricky one. First, I want to say
I love you guys. I listened to you every day,
even in the summer.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Understand the assignment. Okay, listen, we make a commitment to
each other, all right, it's it's we're here for you,
you know. We don't take the summers all just because
the teachers and whomever else just choose not to wake
up in the morning anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Exactly, I have to get work every day, so do you,
guys I'm.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
In the Olympus.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
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those of you to sleep in. But then that doesn't
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Speaker 4 (19:24):
Yeah, so definitely she's in saving for her daughter all
of this time. If it was important for him, he
would have been saving for his son or like that
should have been a conversation that they had when they
got together, of hey, let's put some extra aside and
say for both of them. But as it is, no,
that's her daughter's money.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
The fact that he didn't even know that this account
existed means that this was never a conversation that they
had now because if he knew it existed, then he
might have said, okay, well I need to contribute to
this so that or I need to have one of
my own. But that was ever discussed obviously, which also
makes me think their finances must be separate. And if
(20:05):
that's because if she's putting money away and he's unaware
of it, then it's not as though she's taking community
funds and earmarking them for one kid and not the
other right exactly, so he don't even know about this.
And now he's all, wait, there's money there, give me
half of that. And the fact that the kid feels
bad about this. I hate that because it's the kid's fault.
(20:25):
It's the dad's responsibility.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Trust.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Thank you, Becky, have a good day. Hold on somebody
disagree with me? Then he hung up. No, I was,
I was, Mike, I don't know where you.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
Know.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'll take the dissenting opinions and I'll just tell you
that you're wrong. It's fine. I don't know what happened
to Mike though. Let me see here. Oh hell no,
those funds do not need to be split. The funds
were there before.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Ye see.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
That's my other thing is we got other family members
involved who didn't know. Aaron Hiring, good morning, good morning, Okay,
thanks for calling, doing great.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
This happened to you.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
This is something that happened to me. Actually okay, So okay,
So my parents have been a more since I was four,
and my mom put away money for.
Speaker 12 (21:25):
Me and my older sister and.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Also my dad, and then my.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Stepmom came into the picture, and she was wonderful, but
she also like they had to put away money for them,
but they didn't have the money as much as they
did when I was younger because of whatever circumstances. And
so that was one thing that they had talked about,
(21:53):
was splitting up the money between all of us because
I have four sisters.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
So yeah, that's hard, That's that's hard. I'm sorry that
happened to Aaron. Thank you have a good day. No,
it's tough because you don't want you don't want the
kids to because I mean, look, I was part of
a situation where I was I had step brothers, and
I guess I have stepsisters now.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I don't know. You'd have to ask somebody else.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But there's always an effort to make everybody feel equal.
But then in this particular case, you're talking about something
that wasn't intended for everybody, right, So this should be
a conversation that never should have taken place. The kids
should never have known about this because the kids are
not This isn't having to do with them, you know
(22:43):
what I mean? So the kids, I feel bad for
the step son who now feels less than and who
maybe isn't told enough to understand how this all worked
right and how it does work and how this isn't personal.
But hey, your dad should have been doing that's you
guys should have been handling this. Hey Taylor, here, what's up? Hey,
good morning. Just happen to you too, Yeah, it happened
(23:04):
to me. Yeah, sure, explain please?
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Yeah all right. So, uh, stepdad and my mom got together.
Me and my stepmother were the same age, and so
I was really good, really good academically, loved school just
like you know, three point nine GPA. In high school.
I had a bunch of had a bunch of college offers.
My mom properly planned. Step dad did not properly plan,
(23:28):
which is totally fine, it happens. And my stepfather wanted
to go to college, but he didn't have any money,
and so I forfeited my my bible with a five
O one she plan whatever that is. I forfeited my plan
to him, and then I ended up getting scholarships, and
so you know, it all kind of worked out, and eventually, honestly,
(23:50):
whenever I need some cash and for whatever reason right
invest in stuff, He's always there for me.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So it really kind of worked out.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Even though our parents are no longer together, we're very
close and as a family, you make things work. So
there's definitely a solution here, whether it's hey, we'll forfit
the first.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Semester, see how you do.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
If you do well in college, then we'll continue to
kind of figure that out and have a love the
scholarships and you know, a line up in place. But
there's over millions of dollars of scholarships, you know what
any of these students can get. So I'll always say,
see how the first semester goes. If they excel in college,
they can excel getting a scholarship. Well, you don't forfeit
all the money. And Taylor, I'm glad it works out
for you.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
But in this case, you know, you you were able
to earn your tuition to be paid for such that
the money you didn't need the money. But had you
needed the money, I think it probably should have been
yours to take first, and there should have been no
obligation that it'd be given to anyone else. Now, I
think it would have been one thing if you got
a full ride scholarship and then you kept the cash
and prevented someone else's blessing. But you didn't do that,
(24:50):
so it worked out. But in this case, let's assume
there is no scholarship money. That's kind of not on her.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Yeah, no, it kind of is.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Though as a parent, as a parent.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
You want to do well for your children, even though
you're a step mom or a stepdad. The biggest thing
you can do is provide your children with a good
setup for their future. And when it comes to these
kind of plans, it isn't about just like again you
can say, hey, look we're not giving up half the
money for whatever reason. You can send someone to college
for a semester for a year and see how it goes,
(25:21):
and you could earn scholarships along the way. This isn't
a you know, a make one decision and it's all
set or done. And so as the parents, what I
was suggest them to do is say, hey, look again,
we're not gonna I'm not gonna give you half of this,
but what I will do is see how your child
does or our child, our child does as a first
semester as their first year, right, and then from there
(25:42):
you can get scholarship. Me this, there are a thousand
ways to get paid to the student when once you're
in the.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Door, were on that. Dad should be focused on that.
Dad should be Why doesn't Dad take out the loan then?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Like is why?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I guess I just don't know why this why we're
focused in on the money that's in hand, when when
I don't necessarily think anyone's entitled to that or entitled
to have to give it away except for the people
who saved it and who's and who it's supposed to before,
you know, I mean, like Dad needs to take some
responsibility here. I didn't save so now I'm gonna have
to take the hit on this. And she did prepare
(26:17):
and I don't know where I was for this, but
like maybe that's a separate conversation, is Hey, if we
have future goals in this relationship and we're splitting things
and we need to be more aligned with you know,
contributing equally to that, not oh wait, I forgot give
me half of someone else's.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Yeah, I guess the difference is now and now we're
talking about who owns what in a relationship and it's
a marriage, obviously I assume yes. So you know now
it's like, all right, well is it dad? Or who's
funding you? Who's panklingm morgage to the house, who's spanking
the car notes, who's taking care of the camps? All
this stuff kind of comes an equation and the dad
is taking care of a lot of that and saying, hey, well, look,
you know I'm paying for this, so therefore I would
(26:54):
like something for that. That's totally okay in a relationship,
but it should not all or nothing. There are other solutions.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That are non binary. Sure for people to talk about
divorced on this crap. They haven't been married.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
They don't know what a relationship takes, and obviously how
will the effect that has no kids or we're talking
about kids future.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I will do whatever it takes.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
I will cross any road for any kid that I
have in my possession.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
Every day.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Look at you. Good for you, Taylor. I appreciate you. Man.
Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yes, she's look at look at Taylor.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
He made some really good points.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
It is a good point if the dude is paying
for everything, and all she's been doing is saving for college.
If one percent of her salary is going to college
tuition and he's paying for one hundred percent of everything else,
then maybe in that case you could say, well, at
least some of that probably should be split. Maybe not
all of it, but for the last seven years, you
haven't paid one single bill and so now I need
(27:46):
your help with this. That's one thing. But if everything,
I gotta think everything is separate. Otherwise he'd know about
this account, he would have known about it before.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Well, I don't know if everything is separate, but I
do think that they she should hold some responsibility to
her steps on his future as well.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's just that comes with parenting.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
So you may not give him your daughter's money, but
you probably will be signing alone with your husband to
help him get through college as well.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So yeah, and I think just one more this is
the kind of stuff that has to be discussed. Oh yeah,
in relationships, right, like you, you got to sit down
from the very beginning so that the expectations are set,
you know, for this. If this was something that he
didn't even know about, and it appears it's like, oh,
look pile of money over here, half of that's mine,
not how that works. So the fact that he didn't
even know he is a little bit strang
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