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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, what do you make of Rob's suggestion the previous
caller that maybe it's time to take away their phones,
their iPhones, let's say, if they're under sixteen, or even
under eighteen. You now have country after country. Australia led
the way, but it's now being followed by dozens of
countries where they are banning teenagers from accessing social media.
(00:24):
Many countries are saying, don't even allow them to have
a phone an iPhone period. I mean, they can have
a flip phone they need to call somebody for an emergency,
or their parents. But you know the iPhone with the
videotaping and the YouTube and the Instagram and you know
the social media. No, no, no, And Rob is saying,
(00:46):
you take away that iPhone in which these teenage punks
can't keep filming each other wrecking at Chipotle or beating
up an eighty five year old woman or destroying a
CVS one of these teenage takeovers, and you're gonna see
this problem drop like you know, collapse like a stone,
(01:06):
drop like a stone. That this problem is just gonna
you know, by itself. Once they can't get fame and
notoriety on social media, you're gonna see this problem dwindle
very quickly, decrease very quickly. Is it time to take
away the phone? Is it time to ban the iPhone
(01:30):
for say those seventeen or sixteen and younger? What say you?
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
Susie in the Peach State, Georgia. Thanks for holding Susie,
and welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Good morning, Jeff, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
My pleasure.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It is is this has become a mutilated, mutated flash
mob and now they mixed in and men a. There's
no excuse for this, and that's what the problem is.
There's no accountability, and everybody blames somebody else. That's somebody
else's fault. My kid is a monster. I've agreed with
(02:15):
every one of your collars, and Janine Shapiro has a
good idea, But I feel that instead of putting them
in jail, sentenced them to have to work off to
pay to repay for all the vandalism and to compensate
these victims who are forced to witness this. This is awful,
(02:41):
This is horrible behavior. There's no excuse for this. You
had somebody, oh maybe it was Janie Shapiro that said,
there's seventeen hundred programs out there for these kids to
get into, but they're choosing not to. Well, you know
what their choice is now, not their choice. They should
(03:01):
be forced to get jobs, not a job, actually to
work to reholl all of this vandalism. This is vandalism.
This is what they've done. Is back in the day,
they had flash mobs where they'd break out the music
and everybody be dancing. It'd be inconvenient, but everybody would.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Get a laugh.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Blah blah blah, Oh that's cute. Now they've mixed in,
they've changed it, and they've mixed in the mma. Everybody's
getting beaten up, everybody's getting humiliated, hurt, hospitalized, and the vandalism,
the destruction from this is inexcusable.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And well, Susie, what I'm going to do is this,
just to bounce off of what you're saying, I'm going
to play the cut again. I'm urging everybody please see
the video, this viral video, because you really get a
sense of the horror, the terror that these customers and
patrons are experiencing what you were talking about, not just
(04:03):
the savage violence that you see, which is like really
what are we in Ukraine? Like, what are seriously, what
is this Iran? I mean it's just the savagery, the
way they're just hitting each other and tearing into each other,
and you know, to take a look. To take a
(04:25):
wooden chair which also has you know, it's got medica
like metal legs, and to smash it over somebody's head
at full full power. You're crazy, man. You could kill somebody.
You could legitimately split their head open and kill them,
(04:45):
like what is wrong with you? And they're just emotionless
like this is nothing. It's like picking their nose. So
I just want to play this is the sound Mike,
roll cut eleven please, Okay. So the yelling are these
(05:18):
little kids that are in the corner who are there
with their parents. One of them was I think a
two to three year old girl from the high chair
and the father takes the poor you know, the poor
trundled off the high chair and the kids like, you know, crying,
I mean the kids crying, they're yelling, they're screaming. You
gotta see the video. You see them shaking and terrorized
in the corner. And then the other which you're like
(05:40):
tunk tum tum tum tum tum tum, tump tump, tump tump.
Those are chairs being thrown all over the place. I mean,
the furniture is flying left, right and center. I mean, honestly, man,
look again, in the old days, a couple of beat
cops would have shop, they would have pulled out their
(06:01):
baton and I'm telling you they would have smashed some heads.
I mean, they never do this again, believe me.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Of course, the police can get a lawsuit and your
career is over and end up going to jail. The
criminals don't, but the cops will go to jail. Susie,
do me a favor. Can you please hang on because
you've touched on something and I want to come back
to you and take more of your calls should parents
be held accountable? Okay, I'm gonna go right back to
(06:30):
Susie in Georgia. Susie, I thought you made a really
good point about how you know these these teenage thugs
need to be taught. You can't just destroy property. You
can't just destroy someone's business. You have to show respect
for what someone else has worked for and earned. And
(06:51):
I want to run this by you, and you're saying
they should work. Make them work, make them work, and
make them pay it off, make them pay off everything
that they destroy. And I'm with you all the way, Susie,
but I want to ask you this because actually, and
I want to give a hot tip to Sandy, because
Sandy made this point to me off air. If you
look at our education system heay, whether it's high school, college, university, obviously,
(07:18):
but you look at Hollywood, you look at popular culture,
you look at social media influencers, you at liberal leftist
social media influencers. You look at AOC, you look at
Bernie Sanders, you look at Kamala Harris, you look at
Mom Donnie. In other words, you look at the Democratic
Party as it is noway, a Marxist, socialist radical party.
(07:41):
There's no question what are they all really pushing. It's communism.
And what does communism stand for the destruction of the family,
which is what we're seeing happen in our eyes, which
(08:01):
is leading now to this social crisis of these teenage
takeovers and all the violence and the chaos and the bedlam.
But what also communism pushes is what the destruction eradication
of religion, of faith. We've taken faith now out of
the home, out of the school, out of the public square,
(08:24):
and the destruction of private property. To your point, have
you noticed there's a sea change now in opinion, especially
on the left, but it is including young people, where
vandalizing something is no big deal, Destroying a CBS or
(08:47):
a Walgreens is no big deal. In fact, you have
all of these district attorneys, progressive liberals who will not
prosecute if you steal up to one thousand dollars, who
will not prosecute if you will vandalize or destroy a
Chipotle or a McDonald's or a grocery store. It's like, well,
(09:10):
it's just property, It's no big deal. Who cares? As
if property is nothing, as if property has no value
or no meaning. I don't believe that's an accident or
a byproduct. I think that's the intent. And I'm just
going to say one last thing, and then I want
(09:30):
to go to you, Susie and get your reaction. A
lot of people are saying, well, we're electing soft on
crime district attorneys. That's true, but I don't know if
soft on crime is the right description, and it's not.
I'm not trying to haggle or you know, argue over nuances. No,
I don't think they're soft on crime. I think they
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want crime, and part of that crime is to destroy
private property, which is the essence of communism. When you
say no, no, we're not gonna prosecute anybody who steals
up to one thousand dollars, well you're basically saying you're
(10:14):
a decriminalizing theft.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
No, if you want to smash up a restaurant or
let's just say a Chipotle, we're not going to prosecute
because we don't care. You can wreck it, we don't care.
The insurance will take care of it, so we don't care.
What you're really saying is destroying private property is okay,
(10:37):
it's fine, and I think that's deliberate. I don't think
it's just quote unquote soft on crime. I think what
they want is they want a culture like you see
in South Africa, by the way, like you see in
every communist country, especially before they take power. You attack
business owners, you attack businesusinesses, You show the least amount
(11:04):
of respect for property, private property, business property, because ultimately
it's all theft. According to Marxist theory, it's all theft.
Capitalism is theft. Business is theft. Having a private business
that's a form of thievery. And so I'm sure if
(11:25):
you spoke to any of these teenagers, well don't you
feel bad? A person owns a business, works hard, employs people,
has got to keep this thing open seven days a week,
around the clock, put blood, sweat in tears, probably years
and years of savings and investment and work. And you're
(11:46):
going to come in there and just destroy it and
trash it. To the point if this keeps happening, he's
going to have to close down his business, because that's
what happens in these high crime areas. What would they say,
We don't care, so what he's rich care. So what
I'm asking you, Susie, is this. Are we now starting
(12:07):
to see the manifestation the science of living in a
communist country or a communist society. Religion is attacked and denigrated,
the family is being systematically dismantled and destroyed, and private
property increasingly is under assault. Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Great?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I agree with you. Create chaos, create anarchy, bring in communism.
Here here's the problem. Now we have a solution. We
created the problem, but now we have a solution. We're
going to bring in the communism, the socialism. I agree,
it's disgusting, its repulsive, and you know what, communism is
(12:57):
not compatible with our constitution. Again, let's start at the
foundation religion first foremost, family first foremost, and start holding
them accountable responsible for their bad behavior. It's simple, It's
(13:20):
that simple. These these kids, I'm sick of the excuses.
Everybody's sick of the excuses. And again, these crimes should
also shouldn't be expunged once they turn eighteen. They know
full well what they're doing. They're creating chaos, they're creating anarchy,
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they're creating terror, they're vandalizing, they're hurting, they're injuring people.
And then you were talking about the babies that were crying,
So they're creating psychological damage to these children. They're terrifying
these children that they've never been exposed to this, and
(14:02):
now they go out for a simple dinner or a lunch,
or or they're going shopping, and now they're being exposed
to this violence. Inexcusable, and I'm set up with all
the excuses. Oh amen, trying to hold them account.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You are so on point. Susie dyed on my call
thank you very much for that call. Roman in Boston.
Thanks for holding Roman and welcome.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
If How are you good?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Good? How were you Roman?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Okay, Jeff, I just wrapped up last month or thirty
career in law enforcement. I'm retired now, from the mid
nineties until the mid twenty twenties. I've basically seen it all.
I've seen the change. I've seen how kids have changed. Okay,
and you know, every kid there's no for kids, and
(14:56):
I use that term has got forty year old as
a kid to me. But when you get kids that
told everything is okay, and what they see the riots,
Kamala Harris coming out and saying, Gavin newsm oh, you know,
let them shoplift the insurance company's will Land little look. Inevitably,
(15:16):
who ends up paying for it is us, the ones
who pay the premiums. And it reflects them that. But
you know, these kids need an audience constantly. They constantly
need an audience, and with the advent of social media
is it's like a big show. I mean even FIV
(15:38):
notice a group of kids walking down the street and
they're so loud and obnoxious. Oh that's the way they talk.
That's the normal talking. Octave. It's ridiculous. I have been
in the middle of thirty thirty kid fights, you know
what I mean, in a poking lot after school, big
giant fight. And in the old days, those kids would
(16:02):
have been dealt with right and it wouldn't have happened again.
Now you got now, like you had mentioned earlier, police
are handcuffs, the state handcuffs, the city, the city. It
doesn't happen here because we're just so bood that everything
goes and it's fine. And society's children and all that.
(16:24):
So they're just kids and it's not my kid. And
when Michael Brown went after that cop, you know, they
posted his fifth grade picture when he was six five,
three hundred pounds in reality, and society should be charged
with aid to the delinquency of miners. Uh. The toxic
(16:45):
masculinity is it only applies to white niles. That's it,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Roman, Listen, I'm up against the break. I want to
come back to you. I want to take many more calls.
I want to ask you this because you've been thirty
years law enforcement. You said the kids are different today,
they've changed. I mean, you know, teenagers in particular, and
I want to ask you this, what specifically has changed?
Six one seven two, six, six sixty eight sixty eight
(17:18):
is the number. Okay, let's go right back to Roman
in Boston. Roman, thirty years of law enforcement experience. You
said you've broken up a lot of fights at schools,
what maybe twenty five thirty thirty five of them over
the years. In the past, it would be dealt with
the school cared, the principal cared, the parents cared. Now
(17:43):
you're saying, nothing happens, no one is held accountable, no
one is punished. So I've got to ask you, what
is the difference now among teenagers today that get in
trouble compared to say, criminal teenagers of twenty years ago.
What is the one thing that really stands out to
you as a law enforcement person?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Jeff, the one thing that stands out to me the most,
and it's been talked about all morning, So I'm just
I'm preciing to the choir. Is if I picked up
a kid and yeah he had me, I had a
fresh mouth. But they never stepped up to you, but
they'd mutter some take them home. Their parents would handle
it right, And it was mortifying to have the police
(18:27):
show up at people's houses and disrespecting cops teaches any adult.
The big thing that sticks out to me is I
just don't understand how the parents look at an eighteen
year old thug and still see the four year old
boy that they coddled, and it's never my son. Do
(18:50):
you know how many times I run into that in
the past fifteen years. And this is relatively new, because
fifteen years ago it was still the same as mid
nineties eighties. It was still the same. Kids were good,
kids were fine. There's many factors as to what happened
as a product of what they see. So if the
(19:13):
kid is acting like the parents, then you know what's
going on in that house. But in a lot of
other cases, the state will not allow parental discipline. I've
had numerous calls of kids calling the police that I've
showed up. One quick story, just one quick one, Jeff.
(19:34):
I get a call right, maybe ten years ago, I
got a call. Girl called the called this for her
father pushing her well. The father said one day that
they were going to go get her cell phone. Fine,
the credit card got declined, it couldn't get her cell phone.
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She gets home, stops throwing a hissy thick grabbed, pins
her mother up against the wall, well cocks her fist
stack like she's gonna plant her. The father grabs her
by the heir and throws her back. She called the police.
The father is ready to go to jail, put his
hands behind his back. I'm like, I'm not arresting you.
His parents are discipline. If she deserved that right. If
(20:17):
I did that today, I'd lose the job. I would
have had to arrest that. That pur my supervisor, whether
I want it to or not. So there's a million reasons.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But I parents interesting Roman. This is a real eye
opening call. So basically parents, now, you know, unlike in
the past, you bring home your child, you bring home
their child. They just committed a crime. Not my Jimmy,
not my Jenna. No no, no, I believe them. I
(20:54):
don't believe you. So they're coddling the child. There's no punishment,
there's no consequences, there's no responsibility, there's no nothing. So
they take the side of the child when they should be,
you know, helping to punish the child. And you're right now,
you just you know, you whack a child in the
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bomb or in the you know whatever, anything you touch them,
and that's that's abuse, that's domestic abuse, and they can
call the police on you. So what are you gonna do.
You try to discipline your child and you're the bad
guy or the bad girl, you know, the bad mom,
the bad mother. That again, the state is getting involved
in parental authority and the family and it's making it
(21:38):
infinitely worse. It's undermining the authority of the parents, which
is now creating this crisis among us that we have people. Look,
you have to look at the video, you know, and
other videos like it. There is Look, you're talking about
a human being lying on the ground, a thirty five
forty forty five year old woman or man, a father
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or a mother with a child crying, and they kick
that person in the head, right in the head. Whoa
Like it's fun Like, it's funny. And the teenage thugs
are laughing. Aha, do it again, Hey, Jimmy, do it again.
(22:20):
And you got women, girl, teenage girls filming this laughing
as well. They're chuckling. So kicking somebody in the head
is funny, it's a joke. That's morality, my friends, that's
something is there's no right and wrong, there's no conscience.
(22:42):
There's no sense that's a human being on the ground
that you're kicking in the head. You could give that
person permanent brain damage. That could be a concussion. You
could kill them or her, You could kill the woman.
No sense whatsoever that that is another human being in
the image and likeness of God. No sense of bad, good, right, wrong,
(23:07):
none of it. None of it. Now, if they can
do that, are you shocked in five or ten years
that they pull out a gun and just shoot somebody
for no reason, or start dealing drugs and start killing
I don't know how many people because they're injecting it
with lacing it with fentanyl. I'm just saying, I mean,
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you want to understand what's happening around you. It's pretty
obvious it starts at home. Roman, Thank you very very
much for that call. Okay, very quickly, I want to
go to Heather and Wareham Kooner Country Pole. Question of
the Day sponsored by Marios Marios Quality roofing, siding and windows.
(23:50):
Should age restrictions be put on cell phone use? Basically,
should teenagers be banned from having self phones or iPhones?
To be more specific, I don't think we're talking about
the flip phone here, but you know on iPhone where
they are on social media all the time, they're recording
everything like these teenage takeovers. So should age restrictions whatever?
(24:15):
Sixteen and under, fifteen and under seventeen and under. Countries
are doing it around the world, and there's a push
now to do it here in the United States. So
should age restrictions be put on cell phone? Use a yes,
(24:36):
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Heather in Wareham. Thanks for holding Heather, and welcome.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Hi Jeffrey, thank you for taking my call. Some really
good UH calls today. I just want to answer you
answer your question real quick. I say yes to her
poll question, but I wanted to. I think the guy's
name was Mark, and then he was right before Maggie
the caller, and he made some really really good points
(25:32):
and about the you know, the father and not not
having the father in the home. He just made some
they all made really, all the callers made some good points.
But I just want to say one and another thing.
I think this all a couple of things. I think
this all boils down to the lack the lack of
(25:54):
family values like that I mean back you know, mat
palents were divorced. But let me tell you, if I
got in trouble at school, like I would be punished.
And I didn't really get in trouble, but if something
happened at school like my mother would and father would
punish me, like it wasn't like oh Heather, it's just
(26:15):
you know, such a good girl and want to do
anything bad. No, we would, We would get in trouble.
And and I think it's all on how you raise
your kids and and the other thing I want to
say too, is this this you know, how society has changed.
And I and I've always mentioned I've always had an
opinion about this, but like, like how it's okay. It
(26:36):
seems like it's okay today for people to just like
have kids and not get married, like oh, well, you
know it doesn't matter. I'll just have a kid. And
you know, we don't have to get married. We can
just raise a kid, and then you get these like
you know, like boyfriends moving in. You know, mother said,
have boyfriends moving in and out of the house, and
you know, there's no stability whatsoever. I think that adds
(26:59):
to it. But it's it's definitely comes down to parenting.
But I also have to I do have to say this.
I don't know, I don't think there's an easy solution,
Like I don't know if the parents should automatically be
my my initial reaction would be, yes, they should be.
(27:20):
It should be reprimanded, you know, for the for the
child's behavior. However, I think there's so many other things
that go into this, like mental illness, not just you know,
could be the parents, but not on the child. And
there's a couple of calls that said, like you know
(27:41):
that you could have awesome parents but a bad seat.
So that's not necessarily the parenting.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
So there's no easy no.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
No, I agree, Heather, I agree. It's it's it's not
cut and dried. You're completely right. No, look, Heather, just
to piggyback off of your point to me, Look, it's
always a tragedy when there's a divorce, but sometimes it's necessary. Okay,
we had Grace's older sister, my sister in law. I
love her to death. And Marie I begged her for
(28:11):
years to leave her husband because he was abusive, not
physically but emotionally psychologically. And I said, look, please, it's
not a suicide pact, you know, for you, for the
good of the child. Frankly, just wasn't good for Maria,
my niece. So anyway, eventually they did separate and divorce,
and everybody's much better. He's happier, She's much happier. Maria's happier.
(28:33):
So look, sometimes you have to have a divorce. I'm sorry,
it just is. It's sad. Obviously, when you get married,
you're not wanting to get divorced. It aims to be
together forever. But sometimes it happens. I get it. When
I talk to teachers, in particular, I always principles and teachers.
Let me tell you. I asked them this, I said,
(28:54):
what's changed. I go, you know, many of them have
been around twenty years, thirty years, forty years. They go,
what's changed that you've really noticed in the last thirty
forty years. To a man and woman, I don't care
if it's elementary school, middle school, high school. I don't care.
(29:15):
If it's a principal, if it's a teacher's aide, if
it's a teacher, it doesn't matter. The vice principal. I'm
telling you, it doesn't matter. They all tell me. The
biggest change, Jeff. Parents just don't care, and they go again.
(29:37):
It's what Rowan said. It's been about ten fifteen years.
They said, until about fifteen years ago, like roughly twenty ten,
twenty eleven, twenty twelve around there. They go, No, it
was like it was in the nineties and the eighties
and the seventies. You know what we had when we
first started out, or my mentors who taught me or
taught us, you know, and so it was similar. If
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the child wasn't doing well in school, the parents got
involved right away. They were not happy. They weren't happy
if their grades were slipping. They weren't happy. If they
were misbehaving, never mind, if they were getting violent or
god forbid, drinking or doing drugs. They go. The parents care. Now,
some parents were better, some parents were a little worse.
(30:20):
But the parents cared, they were parenting, they were engaged.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
They go.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
The last fifteen years, they go, it's the weirdest thing.
They just don't care, And I go, what do you
mean they don't care? How could they not care as
their child we call them, nobody calls back. They're too
busy working. Both of them are working. One's got a boyfriend,
(30:46):
the other one's got a girlfriend. The child's going from
one home to another. The parents just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but they don't do anything. They throw their kid in
front of a televison. They throw their kid in front
of a computer. The computer the screen is now raising
their child. They don't want to be bothered with school,
(31:08):
like and everything is no big deal. It doesn't matter
what they do, it's no big deal. They bring a
gun to school, it's no big deal. They kick somebody
in the head, it's no big deal. Like they do drugs,
it's no big deal. Or the school is to blame,
like somehow their children are always blameless. To the point
(31:31):
they say, in the past, we used to call, and
you know, the parents would be like, thank you for
telling me, I'm going to take care of this. Now
to the teachers listening, am I wrong? I've heard this
hundreds of times.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
They go.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Now, they're like, what are you bothering me? For no, no, Timmy,
he wouldn't do that. Don't true blame Timmy. They're like
it's hostile, arguing with us, like we're the problem. So
they're saying the kids aren't being parented, that's the biggest problem.
(32:11):
That's Janine Piro's point. But it's almost like there's no
sense of right or wrong. There's no sense of morality,
there's no sense of shame, there's no sense of by
the way, and the parents are saying, like, look, if
your child is doing drugs, don't you care the child
may become a drug addict or is a drug addict,
or is doing alcohol and abusing alcohol and is an alcoholic,
(32:34):
or if they're failing at school, like aren't you worried
that the child, I don't know it won't be able
to go to skirl I don't college, university or a
trade school, or like this is hurting your child's future,
Like don't you care? And either they don't care because
they're doing whatever they're doing, or they blame the school.
(32:56):
It's always the school's fault, it's never their child's fault.
They've become so child centric it's everybody gets a trophy,
everybody gets a trophy. And if you tell them no,
I'm sorry your child's failing, they're offended, like, no, no,
give my child the trophy, but your child can't play.
(33:20):
Give them the bloody trophy. So dismantality now and it's
been about ten fifteen years, and the teachers say, look,
we don't want to teach. I mean, we teach, but
it's demoralizing the principles. I'm happy. I'm about I can't
tell you anytimes I hear this, I'm happy I'm about
to retire because if I had to start all over again,
(33:41):
I wouldn't want to be a principal because the students
disrespect us openly in a way they never would have
even fifteen twenty years ago. The parents disrespect us, and
we just feel whatever we do we're criticized. So he goes,
you're damned if you do, if you're damned if you don't.
(34:01):
So what they're describing is a social crisis. It's a
crisis of parenting. It's a crisis of society how we're
raising our children. And I don't know that. It's like
these children are so entitled that they're never told whatever
they do is wrong, and that there are consequences, and
(34:22):
they're going to be held responsible and accountable. It's like
they go through life, nothing will ever happen to them,
nothing should happen to them, and any little inconvenience it's
your fault and my honest opinion, I'm going to come
right back to you on this. Other people are saying
couples now, like the you know, the the whatever gen
(34:44):
Z whatever it's called, those in their twenties, they say, well,
they don't. They can't live together, they can't stay married,
they can't stay in a relationship. I can't tell you
how many times I hear now from managers and owners
and saying they don't they don't assimilate the workforce. Like
you tell them, look what you just did now is
(35:04):
wrong And they start crying, and you're like, what's wrong
with you? Like they can't be I'm not wrong. How
could you tell me I'm wrong. It's okay, you didn't
murder somebody. I'm just telling you, please don't do this.
You have to do it like this, they start crying.
I don't want to name names. I'm telling you I
have seen people in their late twenties, early thirties. These
(35:25):
are fully grown adults that walk around at work in
their pajamas in the middle of the day, and that's
in many companies. So I want you to think, oh,
kooner Man's bashing, iHeart far from it. With a comfy
blanket as they call it, because they need a blanket
to be comforted. If they're ever told by their boss
(35:47):
or supervisor, well, I don't think you should have done
it this way, or you know what, I think you
didn't you miss this. I think you needed to do this.
And they're so brittle that it's like a micro they
run the human resources. It's a microaggression. So you're you're
raising children that can't function. They can't hold down a job,
(36:10):
they can't hold down a relationship, they can't ever be
told that they're wrong or they've done something wrong. You're
not doing your kids any favors. You're literally crippling and
destroying your child. And I'm telling you you got teachers
and principles and the police will say the same thing.
I'm just happy I'm about to retire because that's the
(36:32):
world that we now live in. Heather, final word to.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
You, So two things what you said about the divorce,
I totally agree, but What I mean is you have
these couples like, oh, well, you know, we can just
have kids and it doesn't matter. You know, we don't
need to get married. What I'm saying is I don't
believe you should bring kids into a situation like you
(36:57):
should start with the stable.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
This is me.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
I don't have children, but this is my opinion. I've
always thought this. It doesn't make sense. You bring children
into a stable foundation. If something happens, that's different, but
at least you brought them into a stable foundation, you know,
by having kids and just not being married. It's just
oh wow, it doesn't matter like that just and just
(37:23):
never did. But the other thing is a real quick
story is you know, my sister, this is a couple
of months ago, my old my middle nephews abolt to
graduate and he's like the sweetest kid ever. Like I'm
not just saying that, because my nephew really is like
the kindest, most sweetest kid. But she got a call
from the school, from the principal and she had to
go down at the principal And I'm like, well, why
(37:44):
would they be calling calling you, like you have to
go down there for they're probably going to tell you
how great Eric is and how good of a study.
And she's like, no, how, that's not why. And he
did something bad. Of course she she grounded him and
punished him and reprimanded him when he got home, as
(38:04):
she should have.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
But it was just, oh, I agree with you, and
I bet it was a shock to the principal. I
guarantee it. It was like, oh, you're mad, really, Oh
what well, Eric's actually going to get punished.
Okay, what do you make of Rob's suggestion the previous
caller that maybe it's time to take away their phones,
their iPhones, let's say, if they're under sixteen, or even
under eighteen. You now have country after country. Australia led
the way, but it's now being followed by dozens of
countries where they are banning teenagers from accessing social media.
(00:24):
Many countries are saying, don't even allow them to have
a phone an iPhone period. I mean, they can have
a flip phone they need to call somebody for an emergency,
or their parents. But you know the iPhone with the
videotaping and the YouTube and the Instagram and you know
the social media. No, no, no, And Rob is saying,
(00:46):
you take away that iPhone in which these teenage punks
can't keep filming each other wrecking at Chipotle or beating
up an eighty five year old woman or destroying a
CVS one of these teenage takeovers, and you're gonna see
this problem drop like you know, collapse like a stone,
(01:06):
drop like a stone. That this problem is just gonna
you know, by itself. Once they can't get fame and
notoriety on social media, you're gonna see this problem dwindle
very quickly, decrease very quickly. Is it time to take
away the phone? Is it time to ban the iPhone
(01:30):
for say those seventeen or sixteen and younger? What say you?
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
Susie in the Peach State, Georgia. Thanks for holding Susie,
and welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Good morning, Jeff, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
My pleasure.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It is is this has become a mutilated, mutated flash
mob and now they mixed in and men a. There's
no excuse for this, and that's what the problem is.
There's no accountability, and everybody blames somebody else. That's somebody
else's fault. My kid is a monster. I've agreed with
(02:15):
every one of your collars, and Janine Shapiro has a
good idea, But I feel that instead of putting them
in jail, sentenced them to have to work off to
pay to repay for all the vandalism and to compensate
these victims who are forced to witness this. This is awful,
(02:41):
This is horrible behavior. There's no excuse for this. You
had somebody, oh maybe it was Janie Shapiro that said,
there's seventeen hundred programs out there for these kids to
get into, but they're choosing not to. Well, you know
what their choice is now, not their choice. They should
(03:01):
be forced to get jobs, not a job, actually to
work to reholl all of this vandalism. This is vandalism.
This is what they've done. Is back in the day,
they had flash mobs where they'd break out the music
and everybody be dancing. It'd be inconvenient, but everybody would.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Get a laugh.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Blah blah blah, Oh that's cute. Now they've mixed in,
they've changed it, and they've mixed in the mma. Everybody's
getting beaten up, everybody's getting humiliated, hurt, hospitalized, and the vandalism,
the destruction from this is inexcusable.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And well, Susie, what I'm going to do is this,
just to bounce off of what you're saying, I'm going
to play the cut again. I'm urging everybody please see
the video, this viral video, because you really get a
sense of the horror, the terror that these customers and
patrons are experiencing what you were talking about, not just
(04:03):
the savage violence that you see, which is like really
what are we in Ukraine? Like, what are seriously, what
is this Iran? I mean it's just the savagery, the
way they're just hitting each other and tearing into each other,
and you know, to take a look. To take a
(04:25):
wooden chair which also has you know, it's got medica
like metal legs, and to smash it over somebody's head
at full full power. You're crazy, man. You could kill somebody.
You could legitimately split their head open and kill them,
(04:45):
like what is wrong with you? And they're just emotionless
like this is nothing. It's like picking their nose. So
I just want to play this is the sound Mike,
roll cut eleven please, Okay. So the yelling are these
(05:18):
little kids that are in the corner who are there
with their parents. One of them was I think a
two to three year old girl from the high chair
and the father takes the poor you know, the poor
trundled off the high chair and the kids like, you know, crying,
I mean the kids crying, they're yelling, they're screaming. You
gotta see the video. You see them shaking and terrorized
in the corner. And then the other which you're like
(05:40):
tunk tum tum tum tum tum tum, tump tump, tump tump.
Those are chairs being thrown all over the place. I mean,
the furniture is flying left, right and center. I mean, honestly, man,
look again, in the old days, a couple of beat
cops would have shop, they would have pulled out their
(06:01):
baton and I'm telling you they would have smashed some heads.
I mean, they never do this again, believe me.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Of course, the police can get a lawsuit and your
career is over and end up going to jail. The
criminals don't, but the cops will go to jail. Susie,
do me a favor. Can you please hang on because
you've touched on something and I want to come back
to you and take more of your calls should parents
be held accountable? Okay, I'm gonna go right back to
(06:30):
Susie in Georgia. Susie, I thought you made a really
good point about how you know these these teenage thugs
need to be taught. You can't just destroy property. You
can't just destroy someone's business. You have to show respect
for what someone else has worked for and earned. And
(06:51):
I want to run this by you, and you're saying
they should work. Make them work, make them work, and
make them pay it off, make them pay off everything
that they destroy. And I'm with you all the way, Susie,
but I want to ask you this because actually, and
I want to give a hot tip to Sandy, because
Sandy made this point to me off air. If you
look at our education system heay, whether it's high school, college, university, obviously,
(07:18):
but you look at Hollywood, you look at popular culture,
you look at social media influencers, you at liberal leftist
social media influencers. You look at AOC, you look at
Bernie Sanders, you look at Kamala Harris, you look at
Mom Donnie. In other words, you look at the Democratic
Party as it is noway, a Marxist, socialist radical party.
(07:41):
There's no question what are they all really pushing. It's communism.
And what does communism stand for the destruction of the family,
which is what we're seeing happen in our eyes, which
(08:01):
is leading now to this social crisis of these teenage
takeovers and all the violence and the chaos and the bedlam.
But what also communism pushes is what the destruction eradication
of religion, of faith. We've taken faith now out of
the home, out of the school, out of the public square,
(08:24):
and the destruction of private property. To your point, have
you noticed there's a sea change now in opinion, especially
on the left, but it is including young people, where
vandalizing something is no big deal, Destroying a CBS or
(08:47):
a Walgreens is no big deal. In fact, you have
all of these district attorneys, progressive liberals who will not
prosecute if you steal up to one thousand dollars, who
will not prosecute if you will vandalize or destroy a
Chipotle or a McDonald's or a grocery store. It's like, well,
(09:10):
it's just property, It's no big deal. Who cares? As
if property is nothing, as if property has no value
or no meaning. I don't believe that's an accident or
a byproduct. I think that's the intent. And I'm just
going to say one last thing, and then I want
(09:30):
to go to you, Susie and get your reaction. A
lot of people are saying, well, we're electing soft on
crime district attorneys. That's true, but I don't know if
soft on crime is the right description, and it's not.
I'm not trying to haggle or you know, argue over nuances. No,
I don't think they're soft on crime. I think they
(09:54):
want crime, and part of that crime is to destroy
private property, which is the essence of communism. When you
say no, no, we're not gonna prosecute anybody who steals
up to one thousand dollars, well you're basically saying you're
(10:14):
a decriminalizing theft.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
No, if you want to smash up a restaurant or
let's just say a Chipotle, we're not going to prosecute
because we don't care. You can wreck it, we don't care.
The insurance will take care of it, so we don't care.
What you're really saying is destroying private property is okay,
(10:37):
it's fine, and I think that's deliberate. I don't think
it's just quote unquote soft on crime. I think what
they want is they want a culture like you see
in South Africa, by the way, like you see in
every communist country, especially before they take power. You attack
business owners, you attack businesusinesses, You show the least amount
(11:04):
of respect for property, private property, business property, because ultimately
it's all theft. According to Marxist theory, it's all theft.
Capitalism is theft. Business is theft. Having a private business
that's a form of thievery. And so I'm sure if
(11:25):
you spoke to any of these teenagers, well don't you
feel bad? A person owns a business, works hard, employs people,
has got to keep this thing open seven days a week,
around the clock, put blood, sweat in tears, probably years
and years of savings and investment and work. And you're
(11:46):
going to come in there and just destroy it and
trash it. To the point if this keeps happening, he's
going to have to close down his business, because that's
what happens in these high crime areas. What would they say,
We don't care, so what he's rich care. So what
I'm asking you, Susie, is this. Are we now starting
(12:07):
to see the manifestation the science of living in a
communist country or a communist society. Religion is attacked and denigrated,
the family is being systematically dismantled and destroyed, and private
property increasingly is under assault. Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Great?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I agree with you. Create chaos, create anarchy, bring in communism.
Here here's the problem. Now we have a solution. We
created the problem, but now we have a solution. We're
going to bring in the communism, the socialism. I agree,
it's disgusting, its repulsive, and you know what, communism is
(12:57):
not compatible with our constitution. Again, let's start at the
foundation religion first foremost, family first foremost, and start holding
them accountable responsible for their bad behavior. It's simple, It's
(13:20):
that simple. These these kids, I'm sick of the excuses.
Everybody's sick of the excuses. And again, these crimes should
also shouldn't be expunged once they turn eighteen. They know
full well what they're doing. They're creating chaos, they're creating anarchy,
(13:40):
they're creating terror, they're vandalizing, they're hurting, they're injuring people.
And then you were talking about the babies that were crying,
So they're creating psychological damage to these children. They're terrifying
these children that they've never been exposed to this, and
(14:02):
now they go out for a simple dinner or a lunch,
or or they're going shopping, and now they're being exposed
to this violence. Inexcusable, and I'm set up with all
the excuses. Oh amen, trying to hold them account.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You are so on point. Susie dyed on my call
thank you very much for that call. Roman in Boston.
Thanks for holding Roman and welcome.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
If How are you good?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Good? How were you Roman?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Okay, Jeff, I just wrapped up last month or thirty
career in law enforcement. I'm retired now, from the mid
nineties until the mid twenty twenties. I've basically seen it all.
I've seen the change. I've seen how kids have changed. Okay,
and you know, every kid there's no for kids, and
(14:56):
I use that term has got forty year old as
a kid to me. But when you get kids that
told everything is okay, and what they see the riots,
Kamala Harris coming out and saying, Gavin newsm oh, you know,
let them shoplift the insurance company's will Land little look. Inevitably,
(15:16):
who ends up paying for it is us, the ones
who pay the premiums. And it reflects them that. But
you know, these kids need an audience constantly. They constantly
need an audience, and with the advent of social media
is it's like a big show. I mean even FIV
(15:38):
notice a group of kids walking down the street and
they're so loud and obnoxious. Oh that's the way they talk.
That's the normal talking. Octave. It's ridiculous. I have been
in the middle of thirty thirty kid fights, you know
what I mean, in a poking lot after school, big
giant fight. And in the old days, those kids would
(16:02):
have been dealt with right and it wouldn't have happened again.
Now you got now, like you had mentioned earlier, police
are handcuffs, the state handcuffs, the city, the city. It
doesn't happen here because we're just so bood that everything
goes and it's fine. And society's children and all that.
(16:24):
So they're just kids and it's not my kid. And
when Michael Brown went after that cop, you know, they
posted his fifth grade picture when he was six five,
three hundred pounds in reality, and society should be charged
with aid to the delinquency of miners. Uh. The toxic
(16:45):
masculinity is it only applies to white niles. That's it,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Roman, Listen, I'm up against the break. I want to
come back to you. I want to take many more calls.
I want to ask you this because you've been thirty
years law enforcement. You said the kids are different today,
they've changed. I mean, you know, teenagers in particular, and
I want to ask you this, what specifically has changed?
Six one seven two, six, six sixty eight sixty eight
(17:18):
is the number. Okay, let's go right back to Roman
in Boston. Roman, thirty years of law enforcement experience. You
said you've broken up a lot of fights at schools,
what maybe twenty five thirty thirty five of them over
the years. In the past, it would be dealt with
the school cared, the principal cared, the parents cared. Now
(17:43):
you're saying, nothing happens, no one is held accountable, no
one is punished. So I've got to ask you, what
is the difference now among teenagers today that get in
trouble compared to say, criminal teenagers of twenty years ago.
What is the one thing that really stands out to
you as a law enforcement person?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Jeff, the one thing that stands out to me the most,
and it's been talked about all morning, So I'm just
I'm preciing to the choir. Is if I picked up
a kid and yeah he had me, I had a
fresh mouth. But they never stepped up to you, but
they'd mutter some take them home. Their parents would handle
it right, And it was mortifying to have the police
(18:27):
show up at people's houses and disrespecting cops teaches any adult.
The big thing that sticks out to me is I
just don't understand how the parents look at an eighteen
year old thug and still see the four year old
boy that they coddled, and it's never my son. Do
(18:50):
you know how many times I run into that in
the past fifteen years. And this is relatively new, because
fifteen years ago it was still the same as mid
nineties eighties. It was still the same. Kids were good,
kids were fine. There's many factors as to what happened
as a product of what they see. So if the
(19:13):
kid is acting like the parents, then you know what's
going on in that house. But in a lot of
other cases, the state will not allow parental discipline. I've
had numerous calls of kids calling the police that I've
showed up. One quick story, just one quick one, Jeff.
(19:34):
I get a call right, maybe ten years ago, I
got a call. Girl called the called this for her
father pushing her well. The father said one day that
they were going to go get her cell phone. Fine,
the credit card got declined, it couldn't get her cell phone.
(19:55):
She gets home, stops throwing a hissy thick grabbed, pins
her mother up against the wall, well cocks her fist
stack like she's gonna plant her. The father grabs her
by the heir and throws her back. She called the police.
The father is ready to go to jail, put his
hands behind his back. I'm like, I'm not arresting you.
His parents are discipline. If she deserved that right. If
(20:17):
I did that today, I'd lose the job. I would
have had to arrest that. That pur my supervisor, whether
I want it to or not. So there's a million reasons.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But I parents interesting Roman. This is a real eye
opening call. So basically parents, now, you know, unlike in
the past, you bring home your child, you bring home
their child. They just committed a crime. Not my Jimmy,
not my Jenna. No no, no, I believe them. I
(20:54):
don't believe you. So they're coddling the child. There's no punishment,
there's no consequences, there's no responsibility, there's no nothing. So
they take the side of the child when they should be,
you know, helping to punish the child. And you're right now,
you just you know, you whack a child in the
(21:16):
bomb or in the you know whatever, anything you touch them,
and that's that's abuse, that's domestic abuse, and they can
call the police on you. So what are you gonna do.
You try to discipline your child and you're the bad
guy or the bad girl, you know, the bad mom,
the bad mother. That again, the state is getting involved
in parental authority and the family and it's making it
(21:38):
infinitely worse. It's undermining the authority of the parents, which
is now creating this crisis among us that we have people. Look,
you have to look at the video, you know, and
other videos like it. There is Look, you're talking about
a human being lying on the ground, a thirty five
forty forty five year old woman or man, a father
(22:00):
or a mother with a child crying, and they kick
that person in the head, right in the head. Whoa
Like it's fun Like, it's funny. And the teenage thugs
are laughing. Aha, do it again, Hey, Jimmy, do it again.
(22:20):
And you got women, girl, teenage girls filming this laughing
as well. They're chuckling. So kicking somebody in the head
is funny, it's a joke. That's morality, my friends, that's
something is there's no right and wrong, there's no conscience.
(22:42):
There's no sense that's a human being on the ground
that you're kicking in the head. You could give that
person permanent brain damage. That could be a concussion. You
could kill them or her, You could kill the woman.
No sense whatsoever that that is another human being in
the image and likeness of God. No sense of bad, good, right, wrong,
(23:07):
none of it. None of it. Now, if they can
do that, are you shocked in five or ten years
that they pull out a gun and just shoot somebody
for no reason, or start dealing drugs and start killing
I don't know how many people because they're injecting it
with lacing it with fentanyl. I'm just saying, I mean,
(23:27):
you want to understand what's happening around you. It's pretty
obvious it starts at home. Roman, Thank you very very
much for that call. Okay, very quickly, I want to
go to Heather and Wareham Kooner Country Pole. Question of
the Day sponsored by Marios Marios Quality roofing, siding and windows.
(23:50):
Should age restrictions be put on cell phone use? Basically,
should teenagers be banned from having self phones or iPhones?
To be more specific, I don't think we're talking about
the flip phone here, but you know on iPhone where
they are on social media all the time, they're recording
everything like these teenage takeovers. So should age restrictions whatever?
(24:15):
Sixteen and under, fifteen and under seventeen and under. Countries
are doing it around the world, and there's a push
now to do it here in the United States. So
should age restrictions be put on cell phone? Use a yes,
(24:36):
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At the Cooner Report k U h n E R.
Heather in Wareham. Thanks for holding Heather, and welcome.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Hi Jeffrey, thank you for taking my call. Some really
good UH calls today. I just want to answer you
answer your question real quick. I say yes to her
poll question, but I wanted to. I think the guy's
name was Mark, and then he was right before Maggie
the caller, and he made some really really good points
(25:32):
and about the you know, the father and not not
having the father in the home. He just made some
they all made really, all the callers made some good points.
But I just want to say one and another thing.
I think this all a couple of things. I think
this all boils down to the lack the lack of
(25:54):
family values like that I mean back you know, mat
palents were divorced. But let me tell you, if I
got in trouble at school, like I would be punished.
And I didn't really get in trouble, but if something
happened at school like my mother would and father would
punish me, like it wasn't like oh Heather, it's just
(26:15):
you know, such a good girl and want to do
anything bad. No, we would, We would get in trouble.
And and I think it's all on how you raise
your kids and and the other thing I want to
say too, is this this you know, how society has changed.
And I and I've always mentioned I've always had an
opinion about this, but like, like how it's okay. It
(26:36):
seems like it's okay today for people to just like
have kids and not get married, like oh, well, you
know it doesn't matter. I'll just have a kid. And
you know, we don't have to get married. We can
just raise a kid, and then you get these like
you know, like boyfriends moving in. You know, mother said,
have boyfriends moving in and out of the house, and
you know, there's no stability whatsoever. I think that adds
(26:59):
to it. But it's it's definitely comes down to parenting.
But I also have to I do have to say this.
I don't know, I don't think there's an easy solution,
Like I don't know if the parents should automatically be
my my initial reaction would be, yes, they should be.
(27:20):
It should be reprimanded, you know, for the for the
child's behavior. However, I think there's so many other things
that go into this, like mental illness, not just you know,
could be the parents, but not on the child. And
there's a couple of calls that said, like you know
(27:41):
that you could have awesome parents but a bad seat.
So that's not necessarily the parenting.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
So there's no easy no.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
No, I agree, Heather, I agree. It's it's it's not
cut and dried. You're completely right. No, look, Heather, just
to piggyback off of your point to me, Look, it's
always a tragedy when there's a divorce, but sometimes it's necessary. Okay,
we had Grace's older sister, my sister in law. I
love her to death. And Marie I begged her for
(28:11):
years to leave her husband because he was abusive, not
physically but emotionally psychologically. And I said, look, please, it's
not a suicide pact, you know, for you, for the
good of the child. Frankly, just wasn't good for Maria,
my niece. So anyway, eventually they did separate and divorce,
and everybody's much better. He's happier, She's much happier. Maria's happier.
(28:33):
So look, sometimes you have to have a divorce. I'm sorry,
it just is. It's sad. Obviously, when you get married,
you're not wanting to get divorced. It aims to be
together forever. But sometimes it happens. I get it. When
I talk to teachers, in particular, I always principles and teachers.
Let me tell you. I asked them this, I said,
(28:54):
what's changed. I go, you know, many of them have
been around twenty years, thirty years, forty years. They go,
what's changed that you've really noticed in the last thirty
forty years. To a man and woman, I don't care
if it's elementary school, middle school, high school. I don't care.
(29:15):
If it's a principal, if it's a teacher's aide, if
it's a teacher, it doesn't matter. The vice principal. I'm
telling you, it doesn't matter. They all tell me. The
biggest change, Jeff. Parents just don't care, and they go again.
(29:37):
It's what Rowan said. It's been about ten fifteen years.
They said, until about fifteen years ago, like roughly twenty ten,
twenty eleven, twenty twelve around there. They go, No, it
was like it was in the nineties and the eighties
and the seventies. You know what we had when we
first started out, or my mentors who taught me or
taught us, you know, and so it was similar. If
(30:00):
the child wasn't doing well in school, the parents got
involved right away. They were not happy. They weren't happy
if their grades were slipping. They weren't happy. If they
were misbehaving, never mind, if they were getting violent or
god forbid, drinking or doing drugs. They go. The parents care. Now,
some parents were better, some parents were a little worse.
(30:20):
But the parents cared, they were parenting, they were engaged.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
They go.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
The last fifteen years, they go, it's the weirdest thing.
They just don't care, And I go, what do you
mean they don't care? How could they not care as
their child we call them, nobody calls back. They're too
busy working. Both of them are working. One's got a boyfriend,
(30:46):
the other one's got a girlfriend. The child's going from
one home to another. The parents just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but they don't do anything. They throw their kid in
front of a televison. They throw their kid in front
of a computer. The computer the screen is now raising
their child. They don't want to be bothered with school,
(31:08):
like and everything is no big deal. It doesn't matter
what they do, it's no big deal. They bring a
gun to school, it's no big deal. They kick somebody
in the head, it's no big deal. Like they do drugs,
it's no big deal. Or the school is to blame,
like somehow their children are always blameless. To the point
(31:31):
they say, in the past, we used to call, and
you know, the parents would be like, thank you for
telling me, I'm going to take care of this. Now
to the teachers listening, am I wrong? I've heard this
hundreds of times.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
They go.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Now, they're like, what are you bothering me? For no, no, Timmy,
he wouldn't do that. Don't true blame Timmy. They're like
it's hostile, arguing with us, like we're the problem. So
they're saying the kids aren't being parented, that's the biggest problem.
(32:11):
That's Janine Piro's point. But it's almost like there's no
sense of right or wrong. There's no sense of morality,
there's no sense of shame, there's no sense of by
the way, and the parents are saying, like, look, if
your child is doing drugs, don't you care the child
may become a drug addict or is a drug addict,
or is doing alcohol and abusing alcohol and is an alcoholic,
(32:34):
or if they're failing at school, like aren't you worried
that the child, I don't know it won't be able
to go to skirl I don't college, university or a
trade school, or like this is hurting your child's future,
Like don't you care? And either they don't care because
they're doing whatever they're doing, or they blame the school.
(32:56):
It's always the school's fault, it's never their child's fault.
They've become so child centric it's everybody gets a trophy,
everybody gets a trophy. And if you tell them no,
I'm sorry your child's failing, they're offended, like, no, no,
give my child the trophy, but your child can't play.
(33:20):
Give them the bloody trophy. So dismantality now and it's
been about ten fifteen years, and the teachers say, look,
we don't want to teach. I mean, we teach, but
it's demoralizing the principles. I'm happy. I'm about I can't
tell you anytimes I hear this, I'm happy I'm about
to retire because if I had to start all over again,
(33:41):
I wouldn't want to be a principal because the students
disrespect us openly in a way they never would have
even fifteen twenty years ago. The parents disrespect us, and
we just feel whatever we do we're criticized. So he goes,
you're damned if you do, if you're damned if you don't.
(34:01):
So what they're describing is a social crisis. It's a
crisis of parenting. It's a crisis of society how we're
raising our children. And I don't know that. It's like
these children are so entitled that they're never told whatever
they do is wrong, and that there are consequences, and
(34:22):
they're going to be held responsible and accountable. It's like
they go through life, nothing will ever happen to them,
nothing should happen to them, and any little inconvenience it's
your fault and my honest opinion, I'm going to come
right back to you on this. Other people are saying
couples now, like the you know, the the whatever gen
(34:44):
Z whatever it's called, those in their twenties, they say, well,
they don't. They can't live together, they can't stay married,
they can't stay in a relationship. I can't tell you
how many times I hear now from managers and owners
and saying they don't they don't assimilate the workforce. Like
you tell them, look what you just did now is
(35:04):
wrong And they start crying, and you're like, what's wrong
with you? Like they can't be I'm not wrong. How
could you tell me I'm wrong. It's okay, you didn't
murder somebody. I'm just telling you, please don't do this.
You have to do it like this, they start crying.
I don't want to name names. I'm telling you I
have seen people in their late twenties, early thirties. These
(35:25):
are fully grown adults that walk around at work in
their pajamas in the middle of the day, and that's
in many companies. So I want you to think, oh,
kooner Man's bashing, iHeart far from it. With a comfy
blanket as they call it, because they need a blanket
to be comforted. If they're ever told by their boss
(35:47):
or supervisor, well, I don't think you should have done
it this way, or you know what, I think you
didn't you miss this. I think you needed to do this.
And they're so brittle that it's like a micro they
run the human resources. It's a microaggression. So you're you're
raising children that can't function. They can't hold down a job,
(36:10):
they can't hold down a relationship, they can't ever be
told that they're wrong or they've done something wrong. You're
not doing your kids any favors. You're literally crippling and
destroying your child. And I'm telling you you got teachers
and principles and the police will say the same thing.
I'm just happy I'm about to retire because that's the
(36:32):
world that we now live in. Heather, final word to.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
You, So two things what you said about the divorce,
I totally agree, but What I mean is you have
these couples like, oh, well, you know, we can just
have kids and it doesn't matter. You know, we don't
need to get married. What I'm saying is I don't
believe you should bring kids into a situation like you
(36:57):
should start with the stable.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
This is me.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
I don't have children, but this is my opinion. I've
always thought this. It doesn't make sense. You bring children
into a stable foundation. If something happens, that's different, but
at least you brought them into a stable foundation, you know,
by having kids and just not being married. It's just
oh wow, it doesn't matter like that just and just
(37:23):
never did. But the other thing is a real quick
story is you know, my sister, this is a couple
of months ago, my old my middle nephews abolt to
graduate and he's like the sweetest kid ever. Like I'm
not just saying that, because my nephew really is like
the kindest, most sweetest kid. But she got a call
from the school, from the principal and she had to
go down at the principal And I'm like, well, why
(37:44):
would they be calling calling you, like you have to
go down there for they're probably going to tell you
how great Eric is and how good of a study.
And she's like, no, how, that's not why. And he
did something bad. Of course she she grounded him and
punished him and reprimanded him when he got home, as
(38:04):
she should have.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
But it was just, oh, I agree with you, and
I bet it was a shock to the principal. I
guarantee it. It was like, oh, you're mad, really, Oh
what well, Eric's actually going to get punished.
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