Jailing Mom and Dad?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
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You're building a big beautiful ballroom?

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No?

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First of all, by the way, is you can't you know?
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You know, he's he's enjoying his second term. I mean,
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(01:37):
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(02:00):
guys can be as comfortable as possible. No, I don't
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would build a big, beautiful press room after he's done
building the new White House ballroom. He said no, Why

(02:23):
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having a little bit of fun at their expense. A.
He's telling the truth. B he's trolling them. I think
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but I think he's like, no, why would I do

(02:45):
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Kooner Report. Kuh And is in national Er, Larry in
lemonster Larry. If my Ashton decides to bust up a
local playground or decides to have one too many drinks

(03:28):
with his buddies in public and he's publicly intoxicated. Should
I should I spend ninety days in the can? Should
I go ninety days in the slammer? I mean, should
they throw the you know, throw me behind bars? Larry?

Speaker 3 (03:41):
What say you, Jeff? I'll bake your cake? How about that? Personally?
I say, Happy International left handed Day, left hander day,
being left handed that's important to me. Uh yeah, it
was great. I had Sandy laughing so hard I got
to hurt a snort.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It was funny.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
So listen, I am going to play Devil's advocate on
this because now I don't have children, right, I think
there's a petition petition in the nineties to prevent me
from reproducing. That's another story. So Listen, what did we
just hear from judge Janine? Janine Perrot, DC is a

(04:22):
mess and she can't arrest any of these kids. She
gave a great example. One kid shoots another kid in
the chest on a bus. He got probation, or he'll
get probation because everything is so lax and lenient. So
now they're going to hold parents are responsible. Do you

(04:45):
remember the Crumbles? Is that name Ranga Bell?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
No, Larry, can you can you say that name again?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
The Crumbles?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Oh no, could you?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah? Their son shot up a school. They're doing time
as well as him.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, right, there's precedent, yes,
all right.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
And so now if they're going to enact these laws,
and I think it could be a good idea of
done right, because what's going to happen is parents are
going to start to say, hey, we can't control our kids,
We're not allowed to discipline our kids. And it's going
to make them take a strong look at like when
you and I were raised. When we were brought up,
your father would have killed you if you did something stupid.

(05:33):
My dad was a cop in my hometown, a big
cop in my hometown. The advantage I had was the
younger cops made it their mission to find kids of
the supervisory cops doing something stupid just so they could

(05:54):
embarrass the boss legitimately. So I was on my best
behavior because I knew what happened if I got caught
by any one of my father's officers doing something dumb.
They need to go back. They need to stop with this.
You know, parents getting arrested because their kid walked to
the seven eleven by themselves. Parents getting arrested because a

(06:16):
kid walked to the park by himself. Parents are afraid
to discipline their kids. Their kids know it. They'll go
right to their face and they'll say, hit me, I'll
call CPS. The whole thing. This has been a social
experiment here for last i'd say forty years, and it's
an utter failure. So I don't say if you're jaywalking

(06:42):
your parents should get, you know, arrested or anything. But
think about this. You gave it set an example of
you go away for the weekend and he has friends
over and they're drinking and stuff. What if one of
them gets hurt or paralyzed. What if they destroy your
neighbor's property because drunk? For a restitution or you should

(07:08):
it be on your hands because you have to have
a little bit of responsibility and discipline.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well, Larry, you're making, as always, a really fascinating point. Larry. Look,
here's what I would say if a child was hurt.
Say I, Grace and I and Ava go on a
weekend vacation. Ashton says, he can be alone. We let
him be alone. He throws this, you know, this crazy
big party. I'm just doing the hypothetical. And one of

(07:36):
his friends gets drunk and you know, woo and you
know whatever, jumps from the you know, into the pool
and smashes his head and then gets paralyzed, say from
the neck down or the waist down. I would probably
be held responsible, but that would be for civil damages, right,
or if say one of them damages my neighbor's property.

(08:00):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, We're going to go right back
to Larry and Leminster. But let me just quickly reset
because we have a lot of new listeners that come
in at this time. There was a major law passed
in By the way, this is a big story in
the New York Post. Again, hat tip to them for

(08:21):
breaking it. So there is now a national trend, especially
in blue states, blue cities, blue towns, in which there
are laws being passed, And one of the latest is
in Gloucester Township in New Jersey. It's about eight or
nine miles away from Philadelphia, right on the New Jersey
border with Pennsylvania, in which literally now the law is

(08:44):
it's it's it's official that if at your teenager commits crimes,
and there's about twenty eight of them that they put
in the list, from muggings to assault, to vandalism, to
drug dealing, to vandalizing a playground, to public drunkenness, to

(09:07):
even something they call immorality, just quote unquote immorality, that
the parents will be held liable. They won't do it
for the first offense, but if there's a second or
third offense, either the mother or the father or both
will go to jail for up to ninety days or

(09:29):
pay a two thousand dollars fine. And this stem from
a massive brawl last year in which five hundred teenagers
engage in an all out fight. Eleven people were arrested,
including nineteenagers. Three police officers were injured, and they say
that teen violence, teen misbehavior, that a teenage, a teenage

(09:59):
illegal behavior, is out of control. And they're saying it's
because of horrible parenting, that the parents aren't disciplining their children,
that they're not restraining their children. And so they say
they want to put an incentive now for parents to
finally parent and reign in their kids. So this is
now the question before the House. Should parents be jailed

(10:23):
or fined for the actions of their children, especially if
their children break the law? I say absolutely not. This
is an ominous, very dangerous precedent that goes against personal responsibility,
strips away parental rights and parental authority and parental freedom.

(10:44):
And to me, think about it, you just see the
consequences of this. Say you have one bad child, you
have three, four kids. One of them turns out not
to be good and they get in trouble with the
law a few times as a teenager. So now you
the parent, are going to go to jail, which means
you can't go to work, which means you can't feed

(11:05):
your family, you can't pay the mortgage, you can't put
food on the table. You're going to be away from
your other kids. They're not going to have a parent
as well. I mean, I mean, these people are crazy
just on every level. This is to me a bad idea.
But let's go back to Larry and Lemonster. Because Larry

(11:25):
makes an excellent point, say my ashtionon. We're just using
Ashen as an example. He doesn't drink. He's a very
good kid. But say you know, he's fifteen, he's going
to be sixteen soon, and you know, you can stay
home alone. He likes to play video games with his friends.
And he says, you know, Dad, you and mom go
on a vacation. I'll stay home, I'll guard the fort.
And before you know it, he has a party hypothetically

(11:50):
and they come over and they drink. And you know
how teenagers are when they drink and some kid gets
hurt in the home or god forbid, they go to
a neighbor house and do damage. Well, Larry's point, and
it's an excellent one. Who's responsible? While I am now
the point I was making to Larry, and I'd love
for him to you know, to hear is his answer.

(12:12):
But that would be for civil damages. Right, if a
child gets hurt, god forbid, paralyzed or whatever, h in
an injury, well, then I'd be responsible civilly if they
damaged my you know, my neighbor's car or my neighbor's fence. Yes,
I'm responsible for civil damages, but not to go to jail.

(12:34):
In other words, their civil liability, but not criminal liability. Larry,
Am I wrong.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Ar Jip, because you're only looking at the civil part.
If those kids did that damage, there's going to be
criminal charges too. You cannot forget that. That's it's not
you and the other parents saying hey, let's work this
out on the side. But you said something in the
coming back into it. You said, it takes away parental rights,
parental authority, and all that right. They took that away

(13:06):
forty years ago. Think about it. Can you discipline your
children the way your parents disciplined you. No, that's half
the problem. There's a great expression also that raise your kids,
spoil your grandkids. If you don't raise your kids, you're

(13:26):
going to raise your grandkids. It's got to be two ways.
It's like I was saying, the only way this would work,
and how I think it would work is let's make
an example out of a few parents' worst case scenarios.
Other parents are going to say, hey, listen, we want
our rights back to start disciplining children. This is ridiculous.

(13:48):
You don't let us discipline our children, and then you're
punishing us for when they act out. It's got to
be a two way street. And maybe the whole culture
just needs to shift. I don't mean beating your kids.
I don't mean, you know. I had a laugh the
first time I went to Arkansas. When I got stationed
down there, I was floored that schools still had corporal punishment.

(14:13):
Teachers were allowed to paddle unruly students, and I thought
to myself that they tried that up in Boston to
get thrown out the window. I had that attitude at eighteen.
Now it's fifty five. I'm like, oh, it might not
be a bad idea, you know, again, not beating a kid,
not abusing a kid. But I think if more kids

(14:34):
growing up had their tans hide, you know, tanning the hide,
they'd be less of this crap going on in like
DC and these cities. I was told, you know, I'm
searching for a house in Arkansas. Don't go back to
where I lived in a town called Jacksonville. Jacksonville is
the host town of the Air Force Base it has

(14:55):
gotten bad as Philadelphia Pittsburgh, and it's only like a
thirty strong town and it has gotten too dangerous and
because that culture has shifted so much and the kids,
and I partly blamed the school system who taught all
these kids to call cps, who taught all these kids

(15:18):
that you have rights as a kid, and you let
your parents know that, the school system, the liberal mindsel.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh, you're dead on, Larry, you've been telling you're absolutely
I mean, you are on fire today, man, Larry, you
are dead on.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
No.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Look, I mean she said it tongue in cheek. This
was about a year ago. Okay, my Eva, my younger one,
my younger daughter. Now, she said it tongue in chic.
She was misbehaving, she was teasing her brother or whatever
it was. And I said, ava, knock it off, or
I'm going to send you to to your room. And
she hates being sent to a room. And this is
what she said to me. Yeah, daddy, and if you
do that, I'm gonna call social services. I said, what

(15:59):
she started laughing, just kidding, daddy. But that's what they
tell us in school. That's what you told me. The
teachers tell us in school. That if your parents mistreat you,
you can call social services on your mom and dad.
Ha ha ha. Now you know. And then now she
was joking. I mean she would never call social services
and you know for what sending her to a room.
But my point is, I'm like, buy, so look at them.

(16:24):
Look how they're indoctrinating the kids to turn on the parents,
and now they're being fed all this garbage. Well, your
parents can't discipline you. What's spanking. They can't even send
you to your room or send you to the corner.
And look, Larry, I think you really put your finger
on it. The very same liberals who said you can't
spank your children, don't touch them, you can't touch a

(16:47):
hair on their head. Now turn around and say, well,
your kids are running wattled. We're going to send you
to jail. Well, and the parents are all turning around saying,
but you're telling us we weren't allowed to spank our kids,
so we weren't able to spend or discipline our kids.
Now that we've created these monsters, suddenly you want to
send us to jail. Like, no, I don't think so.

(17:10):
Now I'm like you, Larry, Look, I'm not saying use
your kid, or you don't take a baseball batter beat
your children, but you know, a little whack on their
rear end never killed anybody, you know, you know whatever,
Send the kid to the corner, send the kid, the
kid a timeout, Send the kid to the room. You know,
I don't know, go to bed. No dinner for you tonight?

(17:32):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay. So let me ask all of
you at a fairness level, at the most basic fairness level,
how can say this town in New Jersey, and just
using Gloucester Township as an example, how can you hold

(17:53):
parents accountable if their children misbehave or out of control
when you're literally tying their hands when it comes to
disciplining them and rearing them at home. So if you're
not able to spank them, and you're not able to
hold them accountable, if they you know, misbehave or unruly

(18:16):
or whatever, then suddenly then I but I'm responsible if
they go out and start getting drunk, or if they
smoke weed in public, or if they I don't know
what graffiti on the school walls or whatever, destroy or
whatever with their friends, they tear up a school playground.

(18:36):
Suddenly I'm going to go ninety days in jail, so
you tie my hands as a parent, and then you
hold me responsible when after your your failed policy of
the last forty years has created these spoiled, entitled children
who feel there are no consequences to anything they do,

(18:57):
and suddenly they're running wild, and now you're going to
send me to jail or find me two thousand dollars.
I don't think so. I don't think so. Now this
is an absolutely really good message I got. It's from Joe,
and this is so true. Same thing with me when

(19:18):
I was growing up as well, Jeff. Back when I
grew up, and to give you an idea, I will
be fifty in September. Back when I grew up, cops
wouldn't even take you to jail, they would just take
you home. Back then, I was more scared of my
parents and what they would do than what the cops

(19:42):
wouldn't do. The left teaching these kids that they have
more rights than their parents is what's causing all of this.
If I ever said to my parents, I will charge
you for assault if you touch me, then I'd probably
need the call in Ambu. At the same time, we

(20:02):
have taken the parents's power away from them. I remember
coming home from school one day and explained to my
father how the gym teacher cracked me upside the head,
in other words, a whack to the head. He asked why,
I said, because I was talking when he was What
do you think happened? My father smacked me upside the

(20:27):
head as well. This is the issue. Like you just said,
kids need tough discipline and that's the bottom line. Well,
that's the thing. Now, you can't discipline your kid, you
can't give him a firm hand. And now they're telling us, well,
they're the kids are monsters. Your kids don't know how

(20:48):
to behave Oh okay, well you told us we were
abusing our children every time we smacked them a little
you know whatever, a whack on the head, or a
whack on the bomb, or a whack on the fire whatever.
You know, I'm destroying their self esteem when I send
them to the corner, when I do a time out,
I'm destroying the psyche of my child. That's what they

(21:11):
kept telling us. Give them a hug, listen to them,
understand them, Indulge them. Now you see the consequences of
this and now you want to put me in jail. No, no,
absolutely not. And by the way, there's in the New
York Post article there's another great point under a specific law.

(21:37):
And this is all across New Jersey. This is not
just Gloucester Township. Listen to this. If your child identifies
as transgender, okay, whatever, a boy wants to be a girl,
girl wants to be a boy, they want to be
a ay, and it whatever. Schools now are not acquired.

(22:00):
In fact, they're urged not to even inform the parents.
And so what many of the parents are saying is
again it's another assault on parental rights. They're saying, so
let me And by the way, it's not just on
transgender kids. They're now keeping certain things confidential. They what
are called confidential files. This is by law. So don't

(22:25):
inform the parents if their children are misbehaving in the schools,
not just to protect them regarding transgenderism, but god knows
what other issues they're involved in. So the parents are saying,
so they're blocking information deliberately from being related to us
about our own kids in school. But then we're supposed

(22:49):
to know so much about our child that we're going
to prevent them from committing possible crimes or vandalism or
misbehavior in public. At the point of a ninety day
jail sentence, they go, you see, so we're damned if
we do we're damned if we don't. So they want

(23:09):
to keep a lot of information from the parents, but
then they want to blame the parents if their children
do something wrong. That's liberalism for you. In a nutshell.
Dave in Framingham, thanks for holding Dave, and welcome.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
Money. Jeff, Hi, Dave, Jeff, I'll tell you what happened
to when little kids were getting mouthy and mouthy and mouthy, Jeff.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
When I was growing up, my mother was from the
old school growing up. She washed my mouth out with
soap and a half a minute if I was saying
the long Woods. You can't even do that today with kids,
because kids today, Jeff, have no respect for the authority
of anything else. And Jeff, what they do need, which

(24:00):
I don't know if they still have it going on.
Remember the show Skids Straight where they take all these
little punks who act like, you know, they're all tough guys,
and they stick them in jail for a couple of
hours in front of all the ex cons and up
in their face, and they're telling the little kids everything
they've done wrong and if you don't smile up, you're
gonna be here too. They don't even have that going

(24:23):
on anymore, Jeff. What they do need not putting the
parents away, Jeff, but bring back the days of when
they used to have detention centers for youths, for teenagers
like the movie Bad Boys, Jeff with Sean Penn, the
original movie. Okay, that's what they need today. Don't put

(24:45):
the parents, think because the parents are doing the best
they can, Jeff. To race they kids, it's not the
Palent's fault that's going on, and act like a bunch
of idiots and they get locked up and you know,
going on the football field, you drinking the bat. That's
morning long or all afternoon after winning an our football game.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
But Jeff, the beat is a very good ale.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
By the way, No, I know I've been told, but no, Dave,
look you're completely right, and just piggyback off of what
you're saying. And I'd love to get your take on this.
To me, what I've also noticed, and it's been about
fifteen twenty years now, and this I think this is
literally unprecedented in civilized history. Okay, this is I'm talking.

(25:33):
You're going back at least two three thousand years. This
has never been done before, where kids address adults by
their first name. It's it's odd. Like I've noticed this
with Ashton's friends, Ava's friends. It doesn't matter. Like Ava's
got a very good friend. She walks up to me

(25:55):
and says, Hi, Jeff. I'm like, Jeff, couldn't at least
call me mister Jeff. You know what I mean? I mean,
I prefer mister Kooner, but that's okay, But how about
mister Jeff. And they're like, no, it's Jeff. All the
parents talk about it all, you know, they refer to
their teachers by their first name, like whatever, Hey Laurie,

(26:17):
Hey John, the principal, the principal, he's Dennis. I'm just
gonna make up a name now, you know, Dennis Smith.
He's not mister Smith or Principal Smith. No, he's Denny.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Denny.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
How are you now? An eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve
year old kid. That's how they talk to adults. That's
how they talk to authority. That's how they talk to
their principal and teachers. Now, just that alone, just that alone,
there's no respect for authority. A it's just polite to

(26:55):
refer to someone who's older than you, especially if you're
a kid, if you're a minor, by the you know,
by their you know, mister or missus or miss or
whatever and their last name. That's actually just a sign
of respect. But more than that, I'm just telling you culturally,
the reason why it's done in every culture in the world,
it's to instill respect for authority, like you know, the parents,

(27:20):
the uncles, the aunts, the teachers, police officers, nurses, doctors, whatever,
just society in general. What we are doing now is
we're creating a child centric world where everything, if you've noticed,

(27:40):
everything revolves around the child. Everything. It's unbelievable. A child
will determine everything. And I can't tell you how many
times we've had this discussion with our kids. I mean,
I listen to my kids, what they say. I take
into account obviously, but you don't run this home. This
is a lot of democracy. I don't know what you

(28:02):
what you do are thinking. Mommy makes the big decisions,
and Daddy will weigh in if Daddy needs to weigh in,
if mommy needs daddy to weigh in. I mean, that's
just how it is. So you're not gonna tell us
when curfew is, when you go to bed, what we
eat for dinner. You guys would have junk food every day.

(28:23):
You're not gonna tell us where we go on vacation.
I mean, I'm just giving you example after example. You
know you're not gonna tell us what we do on
the weekends. You're not gonna tell us how we spend
our money. But you look at so many parents today.
It's unbo. The children run them, literally run them.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Look, one of Ashton's very dear friends, and I like him.
He's a good kid. He will not eat anything but
macaroni and sheese. And you know, we know the mother.
She's a very nice mother, a very nice woman. Nothing
against her personally, but she's like, I'm just gonna make
up a name. You know, Tim doesn't like anything else
but mac and cheese. Well, Grace says to her, Yeah,

(29:07):
but that's not healthy. It's not me, it's not healthy
for Tim. Look, you're the mother, you can do whatever
you want, but you know, he needs fruits, he needs vegetables,
he needs protein. It's it's mac and cheese for lunch
and dinner, lunch and dinner, lunch and dinner, and cereal
for breakfast. It's not good for him. It's just it's
not healthy. It's up to you. You're the parent. I'm
not gonna tell you how to parent. But your child

(29:29):
needs nutrient. No, if Tim wants only mac and cheese,
they only serve on mac and cheese. No, it's this
is not a dictator. I'm sorry. It's not a democracy.
You don't get a vote now. Okay, my son or
daughter likes mac and cheese maybe once a week, health
twice a week for lunch here or there. Okay, fine,

(29:50):
but every meal all the time. Now, that's just a
small example. I see it again and again and again.
But here, my daughter just graduated from elementary school. This
was a couple was it maybe a month ago? Two
months ago? We go to the graduation ceremony. All the
kids refer to everyone else's parents there, you know, their

(30:11):
friends as parents by their first name. At first, I thought,
is this only aveas friends? No, they all do it, John, Jane, Frank.
It doesn't matter, Jennifer, that doesn't matter, and it's just
considered normal. So you go to a little kid, you know, hi, Bobby,

(30:32):
and then Bobby says to the grown up, you know,
this is a forty five fifty year old woman, you know,
and that comes, you know, goes back and says, you
know whatever, Hi, you know, hi Jenny. If I went around,
if I called my principal by his first name, if
I called my teacher by their first name, if I
called my uncle my aunt, never mind my dad. If

(30:57):
I walked up to my dad his name was Jack,
Hey Jack, Bang, are right there? Bang? Just bang, nothing,
there's no explanation, just bang. Then my mother would pylon
and say, how dare you talk to your father like that?
It's just it's disrespectful. So again, now I know these

(31:19):
idiot liberals, I can. I already got the emails coming in.
Oh you sound like such an old fogy. Look at you. Oh,
it was so much better in the old days. Actually
it was a hell of a lot better. The classrooms
were better, the schools were better, the crime rate was
a hell of a lot lower. I could go on
and on. It was better. But we're not talking now.

(31:43):
You know, this is not some middle aged fogy saying,
you know, back in my day, I'm talking now about
the basics of living in a civilized society. I'm talking
about eat with a fork and knife. I'm talking about mister, miss,
miss sir ma'am, just basic forms of respect. Nothing. It's

(32:11):
all breaking down. And they wonder, these idiots, wonder why
these kids are running wild. If they don't respect their parents,
why will they respect you? If they don't respect the police.
You think they're going to respect the teacher. You think
they're going to respect the law. So you can keep

(32:33):
throwing parents in jail. It's not going to fix the problem. Dave,
Am I wrong? Final word to you.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
Die, Jeff, You're not wrong. And the whole thing is today, Jeff,
it's kids raising kids. Bill's going out getting tagulan at
seventeen years old, and the fatally of who knows where
and everything else. So they're not learning respect, Jeff, like
we had to learn and when you were growing up.
And that's the whole thing to The kids are mountainkof anyway.

(33:02):
They want a mouth off and think they're gonna get
away with it. And if they get arrested, let the
kid go to a youth service board like the at
back in the old days when I was a kid
because they had youth detention centers, like I said, like
the movie Bad Boys. They had them all over the
place in Massachusetts back in the day. Jeff and the
kitchen could be how responsible. Dose six minds and think

(33:25):
you think about what you just.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Did, Dave.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
You're a one thousand percent on thousand percent correct, Dave.
Thank you very much for that call again, just super quick, okay,
super I mean, I could give you example after example.
But this is the the culture. It's it's like an
acid pool. It's like a pool of acid that is
just destroying all these fundamental bonds that used to hold

(33:53):
us together. So here, let me just give you example. Ashton.
I forget what it was, but I met it was
somebody on our street. It was a neighbor. And Ashton
referred to this neighbor in the like, Dave, whatever it was,
you know whatever, Jim. And he said, yeah, hi Jim,

(34:14):
And I said, Ashton, it's mister. Now he doesn't know
Jim's last name, so I said, at least call him
mister Jim. And the man was, you know, the guy
that my neighbor on the street was saying to me,
You know, Jeff, I gotta tell you. Everywhere I go, Now,
everywhere I go. He has a two sons, they're both teenagers.

(34:39):
He goes, No one ever calls me mister. No one
calls me sir. The young like the teenagers. It's all
first name like I don't know, like we're bud, like
I'm their age. And so what's happening is he says
that he's noticing it on the workforce that they called
their bosses by their first name. They have no respect

(35:03):
for their bosses. And not only do they not have
respect for their bosses, because they don't respect any kind
of authority. They think they're entitled to everything. In other words,
how dare you fire me? How dare you reprimand me?
How dare you say what I'm doing is wrong? How
dare you not pay me what I think I'm worth? Like,

(35:26):
for example, offering them twenty bucks an hour, it's an insult, Like, no,
I'm worth fifty dollars an hour. Well, you may think
you're worth fifty, but I'm telling you that's what you're worth,
that's what this job pays. No, and then literally it's
like no, Jim, I'm sorry, No, Jim, absolutely not Jim
I'm telling you I'm worth fifty dollars an hour, and
if you don't like it, I'm right out that door.

(35:48):
So the point is they're saying on the workforce. They're
saying we can't socialize them to work. They don't know
how to behave in an office setting. They, by the way,
having them shake hands, now it's a miracle. Everybody talks
about it. They don't shake hands. I've never seen they here.
This is common in every office now in America. You

(36:11):
will have a colleague at work, the young I'm talking
about the twenty somethings whatever they are, Generation Z, whatever
generation it is, and you know them, you talk to
them in the office, and yet you're walking down the
hallway and they don't acknowledge you. They look down, they
look away, they're in their phone. They it's as if, well,

(36:32):
if I don't need to speak to you, I just
won't speak to you. And so I'm talking people now
thirty five, forty and above are saying, So you say
hi to someone that you know that you work with
three feet away from you, and they don't say hi back.
It's weird. It's just weird. It's like they're unsocialized. They're

(36:56):
anti social, as superior as people who are like bosses
or superiors or whatever. Say I got someone coming in
for a job interview, and I say, come on in,
and they don't like they don't shake their hand, they
don't extend their hand and say pleasure to meet you.
I don't know, mister Johnson or missus Smith, pleasure to

(37:18):
meet you. Nothing. I'm telling you nothing. They walk in
and it's high Jim and they just sit down and
there's no greeting. There's no acknowledgment, there's no handshake, there's
no nothing. So what I'm saying is they don't even
have the basic forms of respect to shake your hand.

(37:40):
You're going to be their boss to me, my boss
is it's mister this mister of course you're my boss.
I'm showing respect to you by the way I address you. No,
they're entitled to everything. And they all comment on this
final point interviewing them. They're interviewing you because we've never

(38:04):
seen anything like this. They're if you're lucky, they're straight
out of college, no experience, and they need the job.
They're even telling you they've got mountains of student debt. No, no, no, no,
they're interviewing you. No, twenty dollars, that doesn't cut it.
They have wild expectations, unrealistic expectations of salary. Oh they

(38:27):
have to work remote. No, I don't do the office.
But what do you mean you don't do the office. Like,
I'm sorry, you're applying for a job. Here, we set
the terms. Now if we want you in the office,
you're going to be in the office. Well then you're
just not for me. And everyone's like what And they
need the job? They need that. I mean, you know,

(38:51):
the applicant will tell you I need the job. It
doesn't matter. They're out, it's social media, it's their upbring,
it's I mean, there's a lot of factors, but this
is what I'm being told. And this is liberals, conservatives, independents, Republicans, Democrats,
it's it's an age. It's if you're thirty five or

(39:12):
forty years old and above. And everybody who's hearing this
is like shaking, you know, nodding their head up and down,
like oh yeah, Jeff, we hear you.