December 2, 2025 • 18 mins
Fred just spent $200 on his nieces for the holidays and wants to know what expensive things your kids have asked for Christmas!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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I did something I never thought I would do yesterday,
truly in my life. I bought a Barbie dream House.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I feel like I contributed to a pivotal moment in
my niece's lives. I feel like I I mean, there
are certain things in life that happen. The Barbie dream
House for some, and I know not everybody. I know
it's an aspirational thing. And it's only the uncle with
no kids and no real financial obligations. It's able to
do something like that. You know, if I had kids
(00:56):
or a four oh one K then guaranteed ge human,
then I wouldn't be able to do this. But I
and I was able to buy the Barbie dream House.
Now I was told yesterday that they wanted one by
my sister. Because that's another thing now she's decided is
that if it's expensive, then she'll just recommend that I
buy it, right, And I can't well, you know this, Kiki,
(01:17):
and I can't wait until the girls fully understand that,
because I do think at some point my sister, who
I love dearly, I think she'll I think she'll use it.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I think she'll just tell.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Them like, oh, you wanted you want you know, these
dance lessons, or you want this thing?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Then I whytn't you ask Baba?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Like I think at some point they're just gonna have
phones and they're gonna have my number and then they're
just gonna call me and then I'm gonna have to
tell them no. But right now we know there's a
they have. My nieces have people where they have middle
people who are you know, handlers, who are facilitating all.
I guess they're called parents. But so I got a
text it was the girls would like a Barbie dream
house for Christmas. However, if you don't want to spend
(01:57):
two hundred dollars, you can get that. And then it
was like in lesser annunciate, like you know I don't know,
like it was like a lesser thing. You can get
them in the Barbie town home.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, So I didn't. I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I didn't know that they have a more affordable option
now with the Barbie dream House.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's the Barbie town Home. It's one hundred dollars less,
stop it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, and it's it's a town home instead of a mansion.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's everyone.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Right, her dream home.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's a Barbie tiny house. It's what it is. And
it's like, I don't yeah right, and I'm not. It's
too early for those girls to understand how life really works,
that you hope for a mansion but you wind up
in a town home like that's not you know, or
or not or less. And so I decided to spring
for it, especially after watching Polly's little video of her
singing Happy Birthday to me. I probably watched that thirty
(02:54):
times yesterday when Amanda says, because you know, Amanda is
a therapist, my sister, so every thing is consent. So
she would have asked the four year old, and it
was even alluded to in the video if it's on
our social Friendshire radio. She spoke with Polly ahead of
time to make sure she was okay to make a
video for my birthday. So then when in the video,
(03:17):
you can hear her say, now we're gonna do the
thing that we talked about before because you already agreed
to it. But my favorite part of the whole video
is she says, Okay, now you're gonna sing Bubba happy
birthday because they called me Bubba because my sister called
me Bubba. And then she goes, I'm gonna sing happy birthday.
She she then states what she's gonna do because even
though we established it like, we're gonna state it again
(03:38):
because we are we are intentional, you know about what
we do. But because of that video that I sprung
for the Barbie Dream Home House or whatever it's called,
I don't really know what I bought and I'll never
see it. At least I won't see it until after
Christmas because they do Christmas in Texas. So the nice
thing is, I just sent this gigantic box of their house.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I think it.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I would assume it's a gigantic box. It looks like
a gigantic structure. And because and then my sister has
to deal with that, she has to wrap it and
then they'll have to put it together. Colin will have
to put it together, and then I guess I just
get the glory. So it's really it's it's it's on theme,
it's on brand for what this uncle gig is and
I just love it. You know, it's here, Here's here's
(04:22):
a here's a Barbie dream house. Bubba got it for you. You.
They have to put it together, they have to manage
like how the girls get to play with it and
the whole thing, and I just I get to be
the hero.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's a great job, it is.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I hope I hope that they don't put the photo
on the box, because I have seen kids know what
they're getting so many different times because stupid companies will
put like a picture of a big bike on the
side of a box and then it arrives and they're like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh my godsh oh yeah. No, I'm hoping that. I
don't know where they're going to hide this thing. But
I think in the attic they don't listen, so they
listen to another morning show in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
They'll listen to me.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think they listen ability to kid. They don't listen
to me, so it's far I can talk yeah, no,
Seri's a friend. It's fine, But why would they Before
that it was kid Cratick. I got to hear what
kid Cratic show used to do. I'm like, well, you
know I do this for a living, right, you know
it's available on the art great deal, right exactly? You
want to Barbie Dree, you know why you get the
townhome now? Forget about it. Forget about it. I'm returning
(05:20):
the dream house. You get the townhome now. I think
the townhome is pretty brilliant marketing though, because it's uh.
I think the dream house was one hundred and eighty
bucks and I think the townhome is like eighty. So
somebody at Mattel was like, guys, look, we're not selling
up of these houses. We got to really adapt to
the times here, so let's downsize and and we'll make
it up. But I know we've talked about it before,
(05:42):
but what other other pivotal toys if you had the money.
And I get that a lot of people didn't have
the money for this stuff, but you know, there was
always the kid on the block that had the money somehow,
and even though you were all in the same neighborhood,
like somehow, you know, Jimmy's parents. I don't know if
they were all buying everything on credit or what. I
have no idea, but like somehow there was that one
(06:02):
kid that had the trampoline. There was the one kid
that had the Barbie Jeep or the or whatever the
male equivalent was, like a little little battery operated corvette
or I don't remember what what what the eighties version
was for a young Fred. But what else? What else
can you guys think of? Like the toys that like
the pivotal toy. The bicycle was one.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Oh yeah, the Razor scooters. When those first came out,
everybody wanted that first.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Roller blades were a thing in the nineties. I think
they tried to make them come back. I'm not sure
if they had.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
A pivotal toy for you, Kalin tickle Melmo.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Do you not remember how hard they were to get?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Well yeah, but I mean did that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I feel like the bicycle changed the game like that,
Like now I can get on my bike and I
can ride either the sunset and never come back. You know,
it was the ultimate freedom. Tickle me Elmo didn't didn't
really provide me with the same enjoyment.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Well, damn.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean, uh, my furbies
did everything, and I wanted it all so bad. I
wanted my bar I wanted the Barbie car I wanted. Obviously,
my parents always bought.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Me the I mean, the Barbie Gee was a.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Real equivalent of everything.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But I was like, wait, like, I don't want the tractor, I.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Want the.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
About the pink jew Wagons might not tell me nothing
in my Barbie Gee.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'm sure for some.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Kids' phones, I would guess, like video game systems, I
would guess computers, yeah, are like real game changers, like
you remember, I would imagine you remember when you got
your first phone, when you got your first you know,
computer or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But yeah, so I'm excited for this now.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I just know it's going to get more expensive from here,
which is where I was really going with this because
Kiki I saw and I alluded to it a couple
of times yesterday. But if you follow her on social
media that you took your nephews to dinner, was it
red lobsters that where you were?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yes? Yes, their choice, mm hmmm, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I'm sure. And I noticed were there three of them?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And I noticed there were like lobster tails on the table.
I think I saw like crab legs.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yes, there were filays.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
There was a seafood I didn't know they had a
seafood tower at Lobster, but they did.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I mean, but I was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We're probably three hundred bucks worth the food on the
table for these kids, which what are you with?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Thirteen? And then the other ones are under ten, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yes, And the problem is starting to be that now
they're like they're tight, so they hang out, they talk
all day on their phone. So before I would take
the littles out and then I would take the older
ones out, and I would do it separately, you know,
one check, we'll go to the littles, the other one
goes to the Now they're starting to communicate with each other,
so they're like, well, aren't you gonna pick up you know,
cam Ari, And I'm like, well, Jackson, no, I.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Was just trying to take you.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You know, like it's like now you have.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
To take them as a group because they ride for
each other, so you can't even like just sneak out
and take one.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You gotta take some.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Oh yeah, it's getting crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Oh, I have noticed that Paul's doing that for May
and I mean, she's a big sister. But it will
be like, I'll bring Polly something because Mayve is what
is she two and a half.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So it's not that she doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
If we've already had this debate on this show whether
the kids at that age even know if you gave
them the gift versus someone else. Polly absolutely knows if
it came from me and that I gave it to her,
and whatever may I I don't know yet, Like for example,
the Barbie house is coming, and Amanda is like, it'll
be good for both of them, like you don't need
to get two of them or something like it'll be fine.
(09:29):
But Polly will say, I'll bring Polly a present when
I come to see her. I'll usually get on Amazon
and I'll ship it to the house and then i'll
give it to you know it's there already, and then
I give it to her as a surprise, and and
then the first thing she'll say now is what did
you get from May? Which is very nice of you,
but I'm like, you know, what, mind's your business?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Okay, like giving my back because why you are rat?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Why you are rat Polly like, what are you doing
in this economy? Like, look, why are you snitching? Don't
go tell her?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
She's like, what about my sister?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You know?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And does not know what's going on? Like I tanks
the prices for Gigi and she doesn't know. I bring
her like a bunch of hand I don't know. Yeah,
they're happy like they don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Well, I'm sure you remember a couple of years ago
we had the debate when Polly was much younger. I'm like,
what why am I buying a bunch of toys for
this kid because she's two years old? Like, she doesn't
know they came from me, and she's gonna get a
bunch of toys. I mean, so fine. And then you
guys were like, no, you have to buy her toys,
and I did. But the fact is the satisfaction. I mean, yes,
of course she was happy to get something new, but
she I mean, there was no like way for her
(10:33):
to have taken inventory of of how much she had
or where it came from. So the joy really is
is in you watching you know, you get like you
get whatever. However many minutes it takes for them to
open the toy and then throw it to the side,
like it's really about me at that point, like and
so is this Barbie house. To be honest with you,
I can totally see why parents do stuff like this
where it's like, you know, why does why does he
(10:54):
have that? It's like because I there's no Polly is
not getting the town hall, which she can have. We're
not I'm not on these streets. People aren't going to
be talking about me like that. You know, They're not
going to be like I heard Fred was only a
townhouse guy. I heard he wouldn't do the four He
wouldn't do the four payments for the for the whole thing,
you know, So no, I did the four payments for
(11:14):
the whole thing because I I can't have my nieces
because but that's about me, right, It's not even about
them absolutely.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I mean, I you know I would have sat in both.
But you know, I want, I want about the barb
kolele sack.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But you know what do they need a town home
and and mansion for. If you got the mansion, you
don't need the town home is vacation Homeme.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, oh lord, that says And then when when Polly
doesn't want to share with me, if she did say,
go play with the townhouse. You know, the big house
is fine. That is smart, So go ahead and put
that in the car.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Uncle for it. Thank you. I'm curious though, quickly before
we get to the headlines.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The biggest stories of the day eight five, five, five, nine,
one one oh three five, there was a point to
all of them. Well one, it was to brag that
I sprung for the for the I was really proud
of myself because I'm like, I can get out of
this for I really can, and they would be they'd
be very happy with it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But no, I went for the bigger item.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But in light of the lobster tails at Red Lobster
for the for the eight year old, what is the
super expensive thing that your kid has asked for? And
you're like, where did you come up with that? Because
that's another thing we've learned from Kiki's nephews. Yep is
like I know in this generation now and it's smart
(12:25):
and I wish we could have done this, but but
you know, making like in fact, I talked to a
friend of mine about this last night. Her niece sent
her like a I guess there's a shared document that
this teenager made and has all of the gifts different
price ranges. It's all organized by price range, and then
there's like some aspirational gifts in there too, like it's
(12:45):
I don't know what a seventeen year old wants now,
but it's you know, some clothes appear and at this
price point with a link, so all you got to
do is click on the link and then hit by
and then like the addresses in there, and.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Just I love it. Yeah, my sister she has links.
It's all right there, like we need to do more
of this, help each other out.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But yeah, so I guess this girl it's like, you know,
here's some clothes, I want, some gift cards, and then
all the way to the bottom, it's like being w
and Gucci.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right, It's like it's all the way down here.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's like, you know, just in case you're feeling really generous,
you know, a fifteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Dollars back down year this year.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Smart And I guess the mom of this teenager was like,
what are you doing putting a you know, fifteen hundred
dollars handbag on this list? And it was like, well,
you know, aunt so and stone might be feeling a
little generous and so I, you know, I got to
put something in there for all price ranges. But I'm
just curious if what you know what it was for
you guys like that that your your sister or your
nieces or nephews or whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's like, where where did you?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You want? What you want flying lessons? You're eight years old?
Like you what are you talking? You want to you
want to a private jet? Like what do you mean designer?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Like why are you asking for designer at your young
tender age?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Wow, you know, like they want.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Gucci, they want shoes, they want to marry exactly. I'm
not even warning I have on fashion Novu. Right, how
do you you expect me to pay for this? But
that's the stuff that they ask for.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, that's gonna be. But that's gonna be where I
come in.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is Paul's gonna say, or may it's gonna say, I
want this thing that's expensive, and then my sister's just
gonna punt it off on me. So I said, but
it's cheaper than college. So fine, you know, here you go,
here's here, you're whatever you want because I don't have
to pay for college. Now let me see her friend.
Have you've seen the fifty plus parking garage from Matchbox
for boys. God, that's brilliant because I would imagine it
(14:41):
doesn't come with fifty cars. So you know, if you
buy the fifty car which I guess this is the
equivalent of the Barbie dream House, But if you buy
the fifty car garage from Matchbox, then you probably have
to buy fifty cars because you can't have the thing
like empty, you know what I mean. Like, so Matchbox
is smart because it you know, I would imagine over
time you got to keep buying the kid cars to
(15:04):
fill the thing up because nobody wants like two cars
in their fifty car garage, right, that's pretty smart. Power
wheels were it in the nineties? Big wheels?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That those were like that was like the big wheel
in the front and the little one in the back,
like kind of like a first bike, right, Is that
what that is?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I remember those, the big wheels.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah. I haven't had one of those in a few years,
so I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
It's one big wheel and two little ones in the back.
Oh yeah, a little.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Tricycle all about keeping up with the Jones is Yeah, No,
that's I agree. I think a lot of this stuff
is about the parents and not the kids, and then
the kids benefit from it because you know, it was
like when I was growing up and my mom bought
me a Nintendo and it came with a game that
had three games on it, and it was like, fine, here,
play with this. And then the neighbor kid that she
(15:51):
didn't like I came home. I'm like, well, you know,
whatever his name is, Trey or whatever his name was,
he has ten games. And my mom looks at me.
Trey has ten games. Yeah, he has ten, ten of them. Yeah,
get in the car and we went to Toys r US
and we bought nine more games because there was no
way the tray and his parents that were drunks, There
(16:12):
was no way that they that you know then, that
were very rude and that there's sprinklers sprayed our house whatever.
There was no way that Trey was gonna have more
games than us. There was just no way. So I
think maybe that's I'm teaching people now that I'm teaching
children this morning who are listening. Exploit your parents' desire
to not be the parents that don't give.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Absolutely, um, let me see here my daughter's text. My
daughter's grown, but when she was a teenager, she found
in a box my Christmas list from I was a kid.
It had things on it like a Rubik's cube, a necklace,
a clock, radio, and some other little things. She said,
what is this? That's all you wanted? And now, of
(16:51):
course the list are super elaborate. It's right, I mean
think about that, like, you know, Legos or whatever. But
now Legos are two hundred bucks. Uh, and you can't
just have like the a bucket of Legos like we got.
I gotta have the Lego Eiffel Tower. It's three hundred
and ninety nine dollars lighting kit that goes with it.
My fifteen year old son won't give me a Christmas
(17:13):
list for what he wants. He plays video games in hockey.
It's super he's super smart. But he doesn't want all
kinds of stuff. I guess that's that's good. But I mean, yeah,
you probably want some ideas of something. I asked for
an easy bake oven. When I was a kid, I
thought that was too extravagant in terms of price, And
now they're back, by the way, I think, I think
(17:36):
they're doing better than a light bulb.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Now is a heating element.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's an air fryar.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I'm convinced.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh god, Now people are sending me other Barbie things.
That Barbie camper. There's a Barbie camp campus.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
My mom had that. It's still in the garage.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
She needs this may and probably they need that.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, can you stop it right now?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They need They got a mansion, Okay, then that get
They don't get a camper.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Davis needs at home. Man, you got it. Whatever,
This is the press show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Dan is taking over Las Vegas this January for his
seven night Presidenty Adobe Live at Park MGM. And we've
got a trip for two to the January twenty fifth
show to night Hotel State at Park MGM January twenty
fourth through the twenty sixth and round trip airfare. Text
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I did something I never thought I would do yesterday,
truly in my life. I bought a Barbie dream House.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I feel like I contributed to a pivotal moment in
my niece's lives. I feel like I I mean, there
are certain things in life that happen. The Barbie dream
House for some, and I know not everybody. I know
it's an aspirational thing. And it's only the uncle with
no kids and no real financial obligations. It's able to
do something like that. You know, if I had kids
(00:56):
or a four oh one K then guaranteed ge human,
then I wouldn't be able to do this. But I
and I was able to buy the Barbie dream House.
Now I was told yesterday that they wanted one by
my sister. Because that's another thing now she's decided is
that if it's expensive, then she'll just recommend that I
buy it, right, And I can't well, you know this, Kiki,
(01:17):
and I can't wait until the girls fully understand that,
because I do think at some point my sister, who
I love dearly, I think she'll I think she'll use it.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I think she'll just tell.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Them like, oh, you wanted you want you know, these
dance lessons, or you want this thing?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Then I whytn't you ask Baba?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Like I think at some point they're just gonna have
phones and they're gonna have my number and then they're
just gonna call me and then I'm gonna have to
tell them no. But right now we know there's a
they have. My nieces have people where they have middle
people who are you know, handlers, who are facilitating all.
I guess they're called parents. But so I got a
text it was the girls would like a Barbie dream
house for Christmas. However, if you don't want to spend
(01:57):
two hundred dollars, you can get that. And then it
was like in lesser annunciate, like you know I don't know,
like it was like a lesser thing. You can get
them in the Barbie town home.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, So I didn't. I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I didn't know that they have a more affordable option
now with the Barbie dream House.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's the Barbie town Home. It's one hundred dollars less,
stop it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, and it's it's a town home instead of a mansion.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's everyone.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Right, her dream home.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's a Barbie tiny house. It's what it is. And
it's like, I don't yeah right, and I'm not. It's
too early for those girls to understand how life really works,
that you hope for a mansion but you wind up
in a town home like that's not you know, or
or not or less. And so I decided to spring
for it, especially after watching Polly's little video of her
singing Happy Birthday to me. I probably watched that thirty
(02:54):
times yesterday when Amanda says, because you know, Amanda is
a therapist, my sister, so every thing is consent. So
she would have asked the four year old, and it
was even alluded to in the video if it's on
our social Friendshire radio. She spoke with Polly ahead of
time to make sure she was okay to make a
video for my birthday. So then when in the video,
(03:17):
you can hear her say, now we're gonna do the
thing that we talked about before because you already agreed
to it. But my favorite part of the whole video
is she says, Okay, now you're gonna sing Bubba happy
birthday because they called me Bubba because my sister called
me Bubba. And then she goes, I'm gonna sing happy birthday.
She she then states what she's gonna do because even
though we established it like, we're gonna state it again
(03:38):
because we are we are intentional, you know about what
we do. But because of that video that I sprung
for the Barbie Dream Home House or whatever it's called,
I don't really know what I bought and I'll never
see it. At least I won't see it until after
Christmas because they do Christmas in Texas. So the nice
thing is, I just sent this gigantic box of their house.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I think it.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I would assume it's a gigantic box. It looks like
a gigantic structure. And because and then my sister has
to deal with that, she has to wrap it and
then they'll have to put it together. Colin will have
to put it together, and then I guess I just
get the glory. So it's really it's it's it's on theme,
it's on brand for what this uncle gig is and
I just love it. You know, it's here, Here's here's
(04:22):
a here's a Barbie dream house. Bubba got it for you. You.
They have to put it together, they have to manage
like how the girls get to play with it and
the whole thing, and I just I get to be
the hero.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's a great job, it is.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I hope I hope that they don't put the photo
on the box, because I have seen kids know what
they're getting so many different times because stupid companies will
put like a picture of a big bike on the
side of a box and then it arrives and they're like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh my godsh oh yeah. No, I'm hoping that. I
don't know where they're going to hide this thing. But
I think in the attic they don't listen, so they
listen to another morning show in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
They'll listen to me.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think they listen ability to kid. They don't listen
to me, so it's far I can talk yeah, no,
Seri's a friend. It's fine, But why would they Before
that it was kid Cratick. I got to hear what
kid Cratic show used to do. I'm like, well, you
know I do this for a living, right, you know
it's available on the art great deal, right exactly? You
want to Barbie Dree, you know why you get the
townhome now? Forget about it. Forget about it. I'm returning
(05:20):
the dream house. You get the townhome now. I think
the townhome is pretty brilliant marketing though, because it's uh.
I think the dream house was one hundred and eighty
bucks and I think the townhome is like eighty. So
somebody at Mattel was like, guys, look, we're not selling
up of these houses. We got to really adapt to
the times here, so let's downsize and and we'll make
it up. But I know we've talked about it before,
(05:42):
but what other other pivotal toys if you had the money.
And I get that a lot of people didn't have
the money for this stuff, but you know, there was
always the kid on the block that had the money somehow,
and even though you were all in the same neighborhood,
like somehow, you know, Jimmy's parents. I don't know if
they were all buying everything on credit or what. I
have no idea, but like somehow there was that one
(06:02):
kid that had the trampoline. There was the one kid
that had the Barbie Jeep or the or whatever the
male equivalent was, like a little little battery operated corvette
or I don't remember what what what the eighties version
was for a young Fred. But what else? What else
can you guys think of? Like the toys that like
the pivotal toy. The bicycle was one.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Oh yeah, the Razor scooters. When those first came out,
everybody wanted that first.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Roller blades were a thing in the nineties. I think
they tried to make them come back. I'm not sure
if they had.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
A pivotal toy for you, Kalin tickle Melmo.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Do you not remember how hard they were to get?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Well yeah, but I mean did that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I feel like the bicycle changed the game like that,
Like now I can get on my bike and I
can ride either the sunset and never come back. You know,
it was the ultimate freedom. Tickle me Elmo didn't didn't
really provide me with the same enjoyment.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Well, damn.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean, uh, my furbies
did everything, and I wanted it all so bad. I
wanted my bar I wanted the Barbie car I wanted. Obviously,
my parents always bought.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Me the I mean, the Barbie Gee was a.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Real equivalent of everything.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But I was like, wait, like, I don't want the tractor, I.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Want the.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
About the pink jew Wagons might not tell me nothing
in my Barbie Gee.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'm sure for some.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Kids' phones, I would guess, like video game systems, I
would guess computers, yeah, are like real game changers, like
you remember, I would imagine you remember when you got
your first phone, when you got your first you know,
computer or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But yeah, so I'm excited for this now.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I just know it's going to get more expensive from here,
which is where I was really going with this because
Kiki I saw and I alluded to it a couple
of times yesterday. But if you follow her on social
media that you took your nephews to dinner, was it
red lobsters that where you were?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yes? Yes, their choice, mm hmmm, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I'm sure. And I noticed were there three of them?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And I noticed there were like lobster tails on the table.
I think I saw like crab legs.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yes, there were filays.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
There was a seafood I didn't know they had a
seafood tower at Lobster, but they did.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I mean, but I was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We're probably three hundred bucks worth the food on the
table for these kids, which what are you with?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Thirteen? And then the other ones are under ten, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yes, And the problem is starting to be that now
they're like they're tight, so they hang out, they talk
all day on their phone. So before I would take
the littles out and then I would take the older
ones out, and I would do it separately, you know,
one check, we'll go to the littles, the other one
goes to the Now they're starting to communicate with each other,
so they're like, well, aren't you gonna pick up you know,
cam Ari, And I'm like, well, Jackson, no, I.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Was just trying to take you.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You know, like it's like now you have.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
To take them as a group because they ride for
each other, so you can't even like just sneak out
and take one.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You gotta take some.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Oh yeah, it's getting crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Oh, I have noticed that Paul's doing that for May
and I mean, she's a big sister. But it will
be like, I'll bring Polly something because Mayve is what
is she two and a half.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So it's not that she doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
If we've already had this debate on this show whether
the kids at that age even know if you gave
them the gift versus someone else. Polly absolutely knows if
it came from me and that I gave it to her,
and whatever may I I don't know yet, Like for example,
the Barbie house is coming, and Amanda is like, it'll
be good for both of them, like you don't need
to get two of them or something like it'll be fine.
(09:29):
But Polly will say, I'll bring Polly a present when
I come to see her. I'll usually get on Amazon
and I'll ship it to the house and then i'll
give it to you know it's there already, and then
I give it to her as a surprise, and and
then the first thing she'll say now is what did
you get from May? Which is very nice of you,
but I'm like, you know, what, mind's your business?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Okay, like giving my back because why you are rat?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Why you are rat Polly like, what are you doing
in this economy? Like, look, why are you snitching? Don't
go tell her?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
She's like, what about my sister?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You know?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And does not know what's going on? Like I tanks
the prices for Gigi and she doesn't know. I bring
her like a bunch of hand I don't know. Yeah,
they're happy like they don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Well, I'm sure you remember a couple of years ago
we had the debate when Polly was much younger. I'm like,
what why am I buying a bunch of toys for
this kid because she's two years old? Like, she doesn't
know they came from me, and she's gonna get a
bunch of toys. I mean, so fine. And then you
guys were like, no, you have to buy her toys,
and I did. But the fact is the satisfaction. I mean, yes,
of course she was happy to get something new, but
she I mean, there was no like way for her
(10:33):
to have taken inventory of of how much she had
or where it came from. So the joy really is
is in you watching you know, you get like you
get whatever. However many minutes it takes for them to
open the toy and then throw it to the side,
like it's really about me at that point, like and
so is this Barbie house. To be honest with you,
I can totally see why parents do stuff like this
where it's like, you know, why does why does he
(10:54):
have that? It's like because I there's no Polly is
not getting the town hall, which she can have. We're
not I'm not on these streets. People aren't going to
be talking about me like that. You know, They're not
going to be like I heard Fred was only a
townhouse guy. I heard he wouldn't do the four He
wouldn't do the four payments for the for the whole thing,
you know, So no, I did the four payments for
(11:14):
the whole thing because I I can't have my nieces
because but that's about me, right, It's not even about
them absolutely.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I mean, I you know I would have sat in both.
But you know, I want, I want about the barb
kolele sack.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But you know what do they need a town home
and and mansion for. If you got the mansion, you
don't need the town home is vacation Homeme.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, oh lord, that says And then when when Polly
doesn't want to share with me, if she did say,
go play with the townhouse. You know, the big house
is fine. That is smart, So go ahead and put
that in the car.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Uncle for it. Thank you. I'm curious though, quickly before
we get to the headlines.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The biggest stories of the day eight five, five, five, nine,
one one oh three five, there was a point to
all of them. Well one, it was to brag that
I sprung for the for the I was really proud
of myself because I'm like, I can get out of
this for I really can, and they would be they'd
be very happy with it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But no, I went for the bigger item.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But in light of the lobster tails at Red Lobster
for the for the eight year old, what is the
super expensive thing that your kid has asked for? And
you're like, where did you come up with that? Because
that's another thing we've learned from Kiki's nephews. Yep is
like I know in this generation now and it's smart
(12:25):
and I wish we could have done this, but but
you know, making like in fact, I talked to a
friend of mine about this last night. Her niece sent
her like a I guess there's a shared document that
this teenager made and has all of the gifts different
price ranges. It's all organized by price range, and then
there's like some aspirational gifts in there too, like it's
(12:45):
I don't know what a seventeen year old wants now,
but it's you know, some clothes appear and at this
price point with a link, so all you got to
do is click on the link and then hit by
and then like the addresses in there, and.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Just I love it. Yeah, my sister she has links.
It's all right there, like we need to do more
of this, help each other out.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But yeah, so I guess this girl it's like, you know,
here's some clothes, I want, some gift cards, and then
all the way to the bottom, it's like being w
and Gucci.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right, It's like it's all the way down here.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's like, you know, just in case you're feeling really generous,
you know, a fifteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Dollars back down year this year.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Smart And I guess the mom of this teenager was like,
what are you doing putting a you know, fifteen hundred
dollars handbag on this list? And it was like, well,
you know, aunt so and stone might be feeling a
little generous and so I, you know, I got to
put something in there for all price ranges. But I'm
just curious if what you know what it was for
you guys like that that your your sister or your
nieces or nephews or whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's like, where where did you?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You want? What you want flying lessons? You're eight years old?
Like you what are you talking? You want to you
want to a private jet? Like what do you mean designer?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Like why are you asking for designer at your young
tender age?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Wow, you know, like they want.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Gucci, they want shoes, they want to marry exactly. I'm
not even warning I have on fashion Novu. Right, how
do you you expect me to pay for this? But
that's the stuff that they ask for.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, that's gonna be. But that's gonna be where I
come in.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is Paul's gonna say, or may it's gonna say, I
want this thing that's expensive, and then my sister's just
gonna punt it off on me. So I said, but
it's cheaper than college. So fine, you know, here you go,
here's here, you're whatever you want because I don't have
to pay for college. Now let me see her friend.
Have you've seen the fifty plus parking garage from Matchbox
for boys. God, that's brilliant because I would imagine it
(14:41):
doesn't come with fifty cars. So you know, if you
buy the fifty car which I guess this is the
equivalent of the Barbie dream House, But if you buy
the fifty car garage from Matchbox, then you probably have
to buy fifty cars because you can't have the thing
like empty, you know what I mean. Like, so Matchbox
is smart because it you know, I would imagine over
time you got to keep buying the kid cars to
(15:04):
fill the thing up because nobody wants like two cars
in their fifty car garage, right, that's pretty smart. Power
wheels were it in the nineties? Big wheels?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That those were like that was like the big wheel
in the front and the little one in the back,
like kind of like a first bike, right, Is that
what that is?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I remember those, the big wheels.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah. I haven't had one of those in a few years,
so I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
It's one big wheel and two little ones in the back.
Oh yeah, a little.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Tricycle all about keeping up with the Jones is Yeah, No,
that's I agree. I think a lot of this stuff
is about the parents and not the kids, and then
the kids benefit from it because you know, it was
like when I was growing up and my mom bought
me a Nintendo and it came with a game that
had three games on it, and it was like, fine, here,
play with this. And then the neighbor kid that she
(15:51):
didn't like I came home. I'm like, well, you know,
whatever his name is, Trey or whatever his name was,
he has ten games. And my mom looks at me.
Trey has ten games. Yeah, he has ten, ten of them. Yeah,
get in the car and we went to Toys r US
and we bought nine more games because there was no
way the tray and his parents that were drunks, There
(16:12):
was no way that they that you know then, that
were very rude and that there's sprinklers sprayed our house whatever.
There was no way that Trey was gonna have more
games than us. There was just no way. So I
think maybe that's I'm teaching people now that I'm teaching
children this morning who are listening. Exploit your parents' desire
to not be the parents that don't give.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Absolutely, um, let me see here my daughter's text. My
daughter's grown, but when she was a teenager, she found
in a box my Christmas list from I was a kid.
It had things on it like a Rubik's cube, a necklace,
a clock, radio, and some other little things. She said,
what is this? That's all you wanted? And now, of
(16:51):
course the list are super elaborate. It's right, I mean
think about that, like, you know, Legos or whatever. But
now Legos are two hundred bucks. Uh, and you can't
just have like the a bucket of Legos like we got.
I gotta have the Lego Eiffel Tower. It's three hundred
and ninety nine dollars lighting kit that goes with it.
My fifteen year old son won't give me a Christmas
(17:13):
list for what he wants. He plays video games in hockey.
It's super he's super smart. But he doesn't want all
kinds of stuff. I guess that's that's good. But I mean, yeah,
you probably want some ideas of something. I asked for
an easy bake oven. When I was a kid, I
thought that was too extravagant in terms of price, And
now they're back, by the way, I think, I think
(17:36):
they're doing better than a light bulb.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Now is a heating element.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's an air fryar.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I'm convinced.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh god, Now people are sending me other Barbie things.
That Barbie camper. There's a Barbie camp campus.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
My mom had that. It's still in the garage.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
She needs this may and probably they need that.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, can you stop it right now?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They need They got a mansion, Okay, then that get
They don't get a camper.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Davis needs at home. Man, you got it. Whatever,
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