Radio Blogs: Keke's Nephew Is Growing Up!

Keke's nephew is growing up and she is not happy about it!

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Speaker 2 (00:33):
Tell men.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
These are the radio blogs on the Fread Show, like
running in our diaries, except we say them a loud.
We call the blogs Kiki's got one Go.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Dear blog. Shout out to all of the parents, because
I don't know how you guys do this whole thing,
Like right, Pete, I don't know, man. I think about
you often because you're you're on a real journey.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
My girl like you every day.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
No turn it back, because I've helped raise my nephew
and he really broke my heart the other day but
I couldn't. He doesn't know this, but it really did.
He texts the family group and he said, I want
a job, And I'm like, and hell does he sixteen?
He's sixteen? Yes, okay, good for him?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
No, no, I don't Why do you need a job?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
I don't know if parents feel this or have felt this.
You go through like I went through a stage of
like grief. I went through, like why does he want
a job? What are we not providing for you? Is
there something that we that you want that we haven't
gotten you? Like? Is it something you feel like you're lacking?
Why do you want a job? Then I go through
like what I remember at sixteen going to a job
and the people I met at that job, Right, you know,

(01:42):
it's alway sometimes you'll grow up fast.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
And I'm not I'm not judging anyone whatsoever. You know,
this is a judgment free zone. But you got this
the job that's really for sixteen year olds, but it's
like a thirty year old working there still. You know
what It's like, that's the one who's buying them booze
and teaching them things they don't need to know. It's like,
you know, this is this is for high school kids,
but you're still here and that's fine, but that's the
one you gotta watch out for. Because when I was

(02:06):
at Blockbuster, there was like a bunch of high school
kids and then there was like the grown adult that
worked the same shift that we did. No judgment, but
it was that was the one that we relied on.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
You for everything that to teach you all the bad Yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Is so.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I mean, I'm like, oh lord, oh my goodness, I
don't know who he's going to encounter.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
It do want to work?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
So he had an interview. He went on his first interview,
and I'm just boohoring, like at home, but I'm like
texting him like you got this, but I'm really crying.
He went to Taco Bell. Okay, that's his first interview,
and then he also applied at Chick fil A. And
I I don't know why I feel safer with him
at Chick fil A. It's probably just as bad, but
it's just like I don't I don't want him to

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have a job.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Good for him. No, I think it's great. And so
he didn't ask anybody about this. He just just said,
so he's taking the initiative. He wants he wants some
extra money, yes, and so and he wants some independence,
so he's gonna go get a job. But he didn't
ask anybody. He just did it. I love it.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
And I did the same thing at sixteen, literally did
the same thing, and I just think about it, like
it really matured me. I feel like a live was
a manager at sixteen, you know, like, why do you
want to put this stress on your life when you
can literally just live for free and ride this thing out?
Like and I really wish he would do that.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
You should be happy that he wants to do this.
You should be happy that he has the ambition. And
I know it. This is really about the fact that
he's needing you less and less, oh for sure, And
I'm in your mind, which is not true. He still
needs you a lot. But this is what this is about,
is that you are He no longer has to come
to you now because he's figuring out ways to do
things for himself, which is what you want.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's what you want, but it's also what I don't
want because like in my min I'm like, who taught
you your social Security number? Like how did you figure
that out to even put that on application? Like why
do you why do you need taxes? I don't need
you to need taxes right now. I need you to
just want to go to school, want to play your
video game and thrive.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I feel like, yeah, I feel you on that cause
I think about like Gigi right and my husband habbing,
I talk about this sometimes we're like, well, when she's
old enough to get a job, are we gonna let
her go push carts a jewel like I did? Or
do I want her to just focus on school, being
a kid doing sports. I didn't Like I did volleyball,
but I wasn't involved in sports like that. I would
love for her to like really just kind of be
a kid and grow, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Grow slowly sacrificing something to do this, Like, is it
is it that he can't, like he has an interest
in this, but he's not going to be able to
do that because he's too consumed with getting a job.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
No, but that's how it always starts. Because even for me,
like I got everything I do, I try to do
to the best of my ability. So when I got
a job, I took it very serious. So I was like, Oh,
I'm not hanging out with my friends anymore. I'm going
to work. I'm clocking in I'm you know, I got
a schedule to run. You know, it's like you just
hurw up so quick. You know, I want him, I
want him to slow it down. You don't need the job.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
What do you want?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Just text me?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Because I would say, like if he wants to play football,
he wants to play basketball or baseball, whatever, and and
but he feels like he has to get a job
because he needs extra money, and he's he's putting that
above right, you know other things. Then I would say,
if you have the luxury of not of being able
to supplement him so that he can do that, and
maybe you weren't able to that's one thing. But if
he's not sacrificing anything, he's just he's just branching out,

(05:10):
then I think you've got to reward this. This is good.
I know you get a monitory, right and who am I?
I'm not a parent. I don't know what I'm talking about,
but you gotta I think this is good.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I'm going to taco bail every day if he gets
a job, Like I meet your girl, hook it up?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Rights counter what