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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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All rise, The Honorable Kikileik is here. Judge Kiki, if
you would present your case?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, let's get into the courtroom. The gavel has
been hit, it says Judge Kiki. Am I wrong for
skipping my sister's baby shower?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
My younger sister is pregnant with her fifth child by
her second husband, and she's living back at my parents' house.
Her ex is a deadbeat, her current husband can't hold
a job, and my parents have basically been carrying her
financially for years. We're talking school fees, medical bills, lawyer bills,
you name it. Now she's having another baby and expects
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yet another baby shower. My mom is upset that I
won't help decorate or hosts like I've done in the past,
But honestly, I feel like going would just be me
co signing her irresponsible choices. My parents are supposed to
be enjoying retirement, not raising her kids and paying her bills.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I love my niece and nephews, but enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Someone in the family has to draw the line, and
it looks like that person is me. So am I
a jerk for refusing to go to the baby shower?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
First of all, how many? How many baby showers?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
How many crib?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I guess you need another crib because you go, But
I mean, don't you have enough stuff by now?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I would think so, like what happened to baby number four?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Stuff?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
How about baby number one? Baby number one's in college
now you know? Yes, what do you think? Kiki?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, you know y'all get mad at me when I
don't have sympathy for people who make terrible decisions in life.
Damn will take all the smoke on this one, because
I do not think she is wrong.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
At some point, when.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You are not finance where you need to be, you
need to close your legs because I let me tell
you something, when my money is funny, I don't even
have the urge to do what you do to make babies.
Like I don't even come one talk to nobody. I'm
not in a joyful spirit. You know, you go through
a hard time. I understand that you went through a
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bad divorce. I understand that it's okay to move back
sometimes you have a husband. Okay, somebody need to go
to work and keep a job. And then if you
can't keep a job and you can't go to work,
then you need to stop having children because who's paying
for this? And then the poor parents? You know, and
I have. I come from a family of my sister.
You know, she loves her grandchildren down She'll do anything
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for her grandchildren. But if I was to ever see
one of my siblings taking advantage of her in her retirement,
I'm absolutely gonna speak up. You should it's not the pay,
it's not our parents' responsibility to raise your children. The loud,
but you you know, it's that's not fair to.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Down's Yeah, you should have used someone that money she
borrowed from her parents and gotten some birth control.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Hello, I mean.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
That's responsible, that's real. Listen. I've always said this too, Like,
if you are not in a good place, Like, I
think having a child maybe isn't the best decision we're
making right now.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Is always saying that she's always she always walking around saying, hey, you,
you don't look like you're in a spot for this.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
As a mother, I can tell you firsthand, it is expensive.
It is hard. It is everything you can think of. Okay,
it is beautiful, but it is hard. And I also
feel like maybe she should work on picking her man correctly, Like,
I think that's another thing we gotta.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Work out with this girl.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Hello, you guys are the journey though eight five five
five nine one three five. You have to call it
today because the text is down because we've got to
pay the bill. I guess, but we call now, don't.
I don't think that's unfair. I really don't. And I
know that accidents happened. I realize that it's possible, very
possible to have a kid when you're not when you're
as you would say, when your money is funny mm hmm.
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But I mean when we're on the fifth one. Come on,
at what point do we need to take responsibility for ourselves?
It was probably four kids ago, you know, when we're
not having our parents pay our bills. What is this
dude doing, who's knocking you up? Why is he not
doing this? I mean, I feel terrible for these kids, honestly,
because there's no accountability here. You know, I'm sure their
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quality of life is affected by the fact that that
the resources aren't there. And now you got grandma and
grandpa having to pay for all this, and then I guess,
you know, another baby shower, so we're it's just more
people enabling I'm with you, Kiki, I'm sorry, but you know,
you can call up here and you can say what
you want, but this stuff does happen, but it doesn't
happen five times.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Right, and you're at home with our parents.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
They have worked hard to enjoy their retirement and I'm
sure they love having the kids there, but they should
not be taken on the financial burden of raising your children.
You know, they should be enjoying themselves, going on vacations,
going you know, to travel and do things, not raising
your kid paying for school fees and oh my good.
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It just seems like you're just irresponsible and everybody in
the family is like enabling this because they keep having
parties for these kids.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
That you keep bringing it to the family financially supporting, and.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
To your point earlier, Kiki, there are two adults involved here,
right right, So if one needs to stay and raise
the kids, understandable because now you've got five of them.
But well, what's the other person doing? Like, and.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
I mean clearly they're good at making babies. So and
where are his parents? Where are you're in laws? Maybe
you stay over their house a couple of months? Yeah, Alison,
good morning, Alison. There Hi, Hey, Alison Keky's court. So
just to recap here, this woman is on you know,
working on child number five.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well, she already worked on it. It's already done, it
was worked on, it's on the way. There's another baby shower,
another baby shower, except this woman who who is reaching
out to judge Kiki is like, I don't think I
should have to support this because my parents support this
whole family, we've all been supporting this. What do you think.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I completely agree that it's irresponsible for her to continue
to have children, But I also think that once that
child is born and grows up, they might feel some
type of way about the sister not attending her baby
shower and she went to all the other kids' baby showers.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You know what I mean, my niece nephew type get that.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, yeah, because if my aunt didn't go to mind,
but once all my.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Other siblings, I'd be like, you know who kind of
stringled out.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I hear what you're saying, Alison, But almost nobody who
is at my mom's baby shower for me is still
in the picture. Dad's not even in the picture. So
I mean she has she has the right to be
frustrated by this. I agree. I guess that the sentiment
of this child coming and and you sort of not
celebrating that. At the same time, though, I can understand
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why everybody in the family is exasperated. It's like, especially
when it's her parents having to pay for all this,
and I guess in some ways the rest of the
family too is supplementing this behavior. And again, I'll say
it again, I know that this stuff just happens sometimes,
but how many times has it happened and you're not
able to be responsible about it and provide for it
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before you come up with another way?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, that is true, But then I also think she's
looking out for her parents. Then it's just going to
stress the terms out more and she's not going to
help them at all, because then they're going to have
to do it all by themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Well, and these poor parents and what are they supposed
to do?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You know?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I mean, I don't have to go back to work.
This is I know, it's terrible. Alison. Thank you, have
a good day. Love you. Normally I wouldn't I'm not
sure that I would do this, but but I would
really like to hear from Hadley. Now, Hadley is ten
years old. Hadley, all Hi, Hadley, Hi, Hi? Now you
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are ten years old. Now you you hold it and
you feel a certain kind of way about it. Now,
what did you want to say? Hadley?
Speaker 8 (08:05):
I want to just say that I think it's okay
that she skipped out on this one because this is
their first kid. They they should have gone to the
other ones. And if you're financially not okay and you
have your parents helping you, you shouldn't be able to
have another baby and then have another baby shower.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That's exactly right, Cali, that is fantastic. Now you is
your mom there with you? Or did you just are
you listening about yourself? You just called on your own.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
My dad's here with me?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Can I talk to your dad. Yeah, let me talk
to your dad.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I just want to I want to give you a
random A plus. That is a ten year old that
knows what's up. Random A plus santastic. How happy were
you to hear that from your ten year old? You
shouldn't have a baby unless you can afford it. How
happy did that make you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
When I heard that, I was like, well, I have
anything to worry about them.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
This sounds good to me. That's right. You could start
planning your retirement because your daughter, Hadley knows what's up. Hey,
thank you, guys, have a great day.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
All right. That's the kind of responsible Yeah, that's the
kind of responsibility we need to hear it in today's youth.
Just you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
It's more responsible than our own girl over there, eat
our own old girl.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, you remember that, Hadley, You remember that you called
up here and said that, Okay, hey, Rebecca, good morning,
Good morning, Rebecca. You got to follow up a ten
year old who just educated all of us. But what
would you like to say in Tiki scored?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I would just like to say that I fill hardly
agree with Tiki. I have actually found myself in a position.
I am forty, married for almost twenty years. I have
a fourteen year old son, and I felt pregnant recently,
not expected, but you know, with the economy in today's age,
it's really expensive to raise children, and I don't know
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how anybody can do five children. That is outrageous. It's
ridiculous to think and expect your parents and your family
members to help you raise these kids nowadays. And so,
you know, my husband and I had to sit down
look at our finances and can we give the life
we want to give to our fourteen year old if
we have a second child. Now I also have medical conditions,
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and it was like, do we want to put myself
through that just to risk you know, my life and
the baby's life. So, you know, ultimately we came to
the decision that it wasn't for us, you know, because
my health problems and financially, we didn't think we could
give our fourteen year old the life he you know,
deserves to have. So, you know, like tough decisions do
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have to be made, but we were very responsible and
knew that like it just wasn't in the future for us.
It's not in our plans, and it's about time that
woman was sat down by family members and she's informed
of how stressful this is for the rest of them.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well, Rebacca, I said, that's a heavy situation. And I
you know, I respect you calling and sharing your story. Uh,
you know, I hope your health is okay and uh
and all of that. But yeah, I mean, it's uh,
it's it's a responsibility when you pull that thing out.
So uh, Rebecca, thank you.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Good day.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Glad you called. Yeah. I mean, I all I can
say is every time my sister, you know, asked my
parents for something, I'm just thinking, this is my inheritance. Okay,
you know every time. Every time, it's every single time,
it's you know, what do you buy those kids?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Now?
Speaker 8 (11:34):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know that's that's coming out of my piece, you
know what I mean. And that's all I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You're not wrong when my brothers keep having kids, I
do add it up.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
What's left Forlox?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know what I'm saying, Like, come on, no, I'm kidding,
but you know it's whatever my mom is with Polly,
it's just like a total free for all, you know,
and all the stuff that we never got to do,
Like we went to somewhere recently went to a bowling
alley and Polly's like, I want to play video games
and my mom's just whipping twenties like it's nothing. I'm like,
where were those when I was ten years old? You
wouldn't give me nothing. And every time I see this
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little girl come back with all these little tickets and
all this stuff, I'm like, you know, I could retire earlier,
but no, they know probably had to play the little game,
so I understand. But I think when it comes down
to Kiki, is that you know, how many times do
you have to do do you make decisions that affect
your family before? And I know these things happen, and
what are you supposed to do? But like maybe address
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alternatives like birth control or abstinence. I don't know. I
really don't know what the answer is, but like, how
many times do you get to have other people fulfill
your obligations before they have a right to just say
I can't help you anymore, Like it's time for me
to retire. It's time for me. I already did this,
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you know. If I'm her parents, I'm like, I already
raised you guys, and now I'm raising for your kids.
I can't do five right?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And when do you start to feel some type of
self accountability, like when do you feel bad? You know,
when do you apologize? When do you get up and
try to go get a job to help out with
all the children you're creating.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I don't understand all right, well, Kiki, Close ladies,