July 15, 2025 • 10 mins
Aly and Mike are fired up! Why do their parents spoil the grandkids with ice cream for dinner, new toys every week, and zero rules. Listeners call in with their stoires!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the V ninety three Morning Show. I'm Ali
Mack and Mike. I've noticed something over the past couple
of weeks here, oh right now, I don't have kids.
My sisters both have kids, so my parents do have grandkids, right,
And what I've noticed is that all of a sudden,
the money comes out of the woodwork. What do you
(00:22):
mean my growing up, we never celebrated half birthdays.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I've never celebrated a half birthday, correct.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I don't think most people normally do. And like, you know,
there's one part of me that like, absolutely loves this.
I love to see my nieces and my nephews celebrate
their half birthday because it's weird and not a lot
of people do it, and you can just see that
they feel so special when it happens, and I'm like, yes,
that is I almost forgot that. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Right, Yeah, that's what I mean. And that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Grandparents will find any excuse, yeah, any excuse to buy something.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Bingo. Yep, where was that when I was a kid.
I didn't get one half birthday celebrated when I was
a kid.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
What's up with that?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
My niece got a bike for her half birthday bike.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
That's a birthday birthday gift.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now, that was from her parents. That wasn't from my parents.
But my parents took her to like the high Ropes course,
they took her out to lunch. They took her to
the dollar store, I think, and like bought her a
few things. And I was like, Uh, what's the deal.
I can't recall one single I'm thirty three at my
big age. I cannot recall one time my half birthday
being celebrated in our household growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I wonder too, if that's a bigger thing now too,
because I do remember over the weekend my daughter and
her friend talking about how her half birthday was actually
her friend's birthday, and I thought that was the biggest
deal in.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The entire world. I don't know if half birthdays are making.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Like a are becoming a thing now, yeah, but I
think you're onto something definitely. With grandparents spending way more
money on grandkids than they ever spent on us, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Hey, remember me, I'm the one that literally came out
of you. Yeah, these ones are a walk on what's
going on? I it's not too late, I'm still here.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I noticed this with my mom.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Not as much my my mother in law, because she
is the person that will show up because she stopped
somewhere and was just thinking of the kids. Yeah, but
my mom, we never had McDonald's money growing up.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Exactly. This is exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
If we wanted to go to McDonald's, it was a thing,
it was special. We only did it once in a while.
It was it was an experience. You get to get
a happy meal. It was you. It made your whole month.
Every time my kids go stay with my mom. All
of a sudden, all this McDonald's money comes up. All
of a sudden, we're constantly we're making it rain McDonald's money.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, what is the thing that, like you know,
was not noticeably absent, but that when you were a kid.
But now that they have grandkids, just like you've noticed
a few things. Yeah, money just like comes out of
the woodwork. First off, if.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
We really want to go down this path, I feel
like there's a lot, Like there's my bob.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
All of a sudden, My bob wasn't a baker growing up.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
She would cook, right, she would make meals, would we
would eat obviously, and we were we were just happy
and healthy and fine. My dad would do the grilling,
she would do the cooking. My mom all of a sudden,
is taken on baking. Or she makes these extravagant cakes. Yeah, extravagant.
And every time my kids go over there, there's a
themed cake. Every birthday they have, there's a I never
(03:34):
got theme birthday cakes? Where's my themeed birthday cake?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Six one, six, two four two ninety three, ninety three.
The things that like maybe you didn't have as a kid,
but now all of a sudden, the grandkids are here,
and it's like, oh, stop traffic, gotta go to McDonald's,
gotta celebrate the half birthday. Has anybody else noticed this?
Be ninety three? What is something that your parents never
(04:00):
did when you were a kid, but now they do
all the time for the grandkids, or we will even
extend this to the grand pets.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Okay, that's a good one, because.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I also saw a video on TikTok of a woman
who was watching her daughter's dog for her while she
was away, and she sent a video to her daughter
of her stopping the ice cream truck so she could
get her grand dog an ice cream trade. She didn't
even get one for herself, and the girl was basically like,
(04:31):
you know what's funny is that we never had ice
cream truck money when I was growing up, and now
my dog gets a Ninja Turtle ice cream pop every
single day from the ice cream truck.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
There was a period where they used to my parents
would tell me that the music on the ice cream
truck was then telling you that they're done. They're not
taking any more orders, because that's why they have the
music on.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So for the longest time, I thought every time you
heard the music, they were done.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now now my son came go to my in laws place,
his grandparents' place, without having his own special granola bar
just for him, just for him.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That is funny that you say that, because Tyler from
Wyoming messaged he said, I got yelled at for eating
more than one fruit snack pouch as a kid, and
now my dad has a snack drawer at his house
labeled four grandkids only.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah. Oh, there's a specific cupboard.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes, yes, yeah, if I eat more than one Swiss
cake roll, oh, I was in trouble. But now my
mom's making full Swiss cake roll cakes, like making them handmade.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh yeah, the kids all of a sudden, she's got
the time, she's got the time, and she's got the
opportunity something that you never got as a kid. But
now the grandkids get all the times. We're talking about
those rules that you had as kids, or maybe just
like stuff that you were allowed to do, stuff that
you weren't allowed to do, stuff that maybe we're like
(05:56):
purchased for you or not purchased for you as a kid. Now,
all of a sudden, the grandkids come on the scene
and it's like, throw the rule book out the window.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
We my mom never had mcdal I don't know if
your parents did this. Like where McDonald's was like you
were going out to eat. It was like a luxury.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was a treat.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, my mom never had McDonald's money. Never you want McDonald's.
Do you have McDonald's money, Mike, No, I don't. I'm
a kid. I don't have McDonald's money.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
My kids go over, they want McDonald's. Absolutely. How many
hats you want? Chocolate milk or regular milk?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Chocolate milk?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You want fries and nuggets and a cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Okay, oh you didn't get the toy you wanted. Let
me go back in there and see if they have
the other kind.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Because I noticed this very recently. My parents are all
of a sudden making half birthdays for my nieces and
nephews like a huge deal. And I'm like, excuse me.
I never got to go to the high ropes course
and go to the dollar store and go out to
lunch for my half birthday. And you groomy, you literally
(06:59):
groom me and your tummy. And I know my mom
is listening because she texted me, Oh did she really? Yes,
she did. She said, First of all, we only do
this because their birthdays are right after Christmas. And second
of all, it was actually meyer for the shopping trip,
and it was whatever they wanted. You knowing my.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Point, you know, it's good what a parent starts it with.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
First of all, First of all, first six one, six,
two four, two, ninety three, ninety three, Good morning, b
ninety three? Who's this? And where are you from?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Alexis Clarksbill?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, something that you never got as a kid. And
now all of a sudden, the grandkids come on the
scene and they get this all the time.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So we never got to even eat in the living
room or how furniture. You literally have to sit at
the kitchen table. Uh huh any every meal and you
had to clean all the grand kids can walk away
with like full plates, eat in the living room. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the
carpet doesn't matter as much.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Huh uh huh, not at all.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Have you ever asked them about this, like, hey, uh,
you know, this is quite a change up from how
we were raised.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Grand babies, and so like I see them ice stream,
and so I let them kind of do whatever they want,
so I kind of get it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, fair enough, Thanks for the call. This morning,
we stream the Morning Show live on TikTok from six
thirty to eight thirty. You can find on air Mic
and Ali Mack on air on TikTok. We're talking about
those things that you never got as a kid, but
now all of a sudden, there's you know, half birthday
money for the grandkids, and I don't even know that
was a thing. High ropes, course money for the grandkids
(08:33):
and all the things. I just got a comment on TikTok.
It says my parents took my nieces on a cruise
for their birthdays and didn't even ask if anyone else
wanted to go a crow.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, you guys are adults. You have cruise money, not.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
A cruise Rachel in Muskegan, she messaged. She said, you know,
we weren't allowed to touch the thermostat when we were kids.
And now my dad adjust sit for the dog when
he's babysitting the dog.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, the dog's gotta be comfy.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Right, six one six two four to two ninety three
ninety three, Good morning, b ninety three? Who's this and
where are you from?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Michelle?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
From Michelle, what didn't you get as a kid, but
now the grandkids get?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
It was when we were out somewhere, you know, you know,
you try to get a quarter just for a gumball machine,
and they didn't have a quarter. And now as soon
as you know, the grandkids are around, they've got dollars
coming out of their pockets to play crane games and
everything else.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Where'd you get all that change from?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Yeah, they got endless quarters.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Just walking around with like seven rolls of quarters in
their pockets. Of course, exactly. Thanks thanks Michelle. Yep, bye,
We've got more tickets to get you in to see
John Party at Fanandel Arena. Oh, there's the concert ticket money.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
All of a sudden, Grandma's got concert ticket money.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
To wait until I was like thirteen to go to
my first concert. But my nieces have been to place concerts, movies,
you know, like it just it comes out of the woodwork,
and I'd just like that to be noted on the record.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Go ahead, morning, Welcome, there be ninety three Morning show.
What's your naming where you're from?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm from cost County, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
All right, what is the thing that you never got
as a kid? But the grandparents definitely give the kids.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Oh, I got a good one for you. I got
I got tickets to Disney on ice.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And the parents would have never done.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
That for you, Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And you know they're gonna get because they always have
those light up things there and like eight million other
toys there.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know they're coming home with all that.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Oh yeah, absolutely, they come home with all of it,
and I never got to go.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's just funny how that seems to happen.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Oh I know,
It is the V ninety three Morning Show. I'm Ali
Mack and Mike. I've noticed something over the past couple
of weeks here, oh right now, I don't have kids.
My sisters both have kids, so my parents do have grandkids, right,
And what I've noticed is that all of a sudden,
the money comes out of the woodwork. What do you
(00:22):
mean my growing up, we never celebrated half birthdays.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I've never celebrated a half birthday, correct.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I don't think most people normally do. And like, you know,
there's one part of me that like, absolutely loves this.
I love to see my nieces and my nephews celebrate
their half birthday because it's weird and not a lot
of people do it, and you can just see that
they feel so special when it happens, and I'm like, yes,
that is I almost forgot that. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Right, Yeah, that's what I mean. And that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Grandparents will find any excuse, yeah, any excuse to buy something.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Bingo. Yep, where was that when I was a kid.
I didn't get one half birthday celebrated when I was
a kid.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
What's up with that?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
My niece got a bike for her half birthday bike.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
That's a birthday birthday gift.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now, that was from her parents. That wasn't from my parents.
But my parents took her to like the high Ropes course,
they took her out to lunch. They took her to
the dollar store, I think, and like bought her a
few things. And I was like, Uh, what's the deal.
I can't recall one single I'm thirty three at my
big age. I cannot recall one time my half birthday
being celebrated in our household growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I wonder too, if that's a bigger thing now too,
because I do remember over the weekend my daughter and
her friend talking about how her half birthday was actually
her friend's birthday, and I thought that was the biggest
deal in.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The entire world. I don't know if half birthdays are making.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Like a are becoming a thing now, yeah, but I
think you're onto something definitely. With grandparents spending way more
money on grandkids than they ever spent on us, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Hey, remember me, I'm the one that literally came out
of you. Yeah, these ones are a walk on what's
going on? I it's not too late, I'm still here.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I noticed this with my mom.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Not as much my my mother in law, because she
is the person that will show up because she stopped
somewhere and was just thinking of the kids. Yeah, but
my mom, we never had McDonald's money growing up.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Exactly. This is exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
If we wanted to go to McDonald's, it was a thing,
it was special. We only did it once in a while.
It was it was an experience. You get to get
a happy meal. It was you. It made your whole month.
Every time my kids go stay with my mom. All
of a sudden, all this McDonald's money comes up. All
of a sudden, we're constantly we're making it rain McDonald's money.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, what is the thing that, like you know,
was not noticeably absent, but that when you were a kid.
But now that they have grandkids, just like you've noticed
a few things. Yeah, money just like comes out of
the woodwork. First off, if.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
We really want to go down this path, I feel
like there's a lot, Like there's my bob.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
All of a sudden, My bob wasn't a baker growing up.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
She would cook, right, she would make meals, would we
would eat obviously, and we were we were just happy
and healthy and fine. My dad would do the grilling,
she would do the cooking. My mom all of a sudden,
is taken on baking. Or she makes these extravagant cakes. Yeah, extravagant.
And every time my kids go over there, there's a
themed cake. Every birthday they have, there's a I never
(03:34):
got theme birthday cakes? Where's my themeed birthday cake?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Six one, six, two four two ninety three, ninety three.
The things that like maybe you didn't have as a kid,
but now all of a sudden, the grandkids are here,
and it's like, oh, stop traffic, gotta go to McDonald's,
gotta celebrate the half birthday. Has anybody else noticed this?
Be ninety three? What is something that your parents never
(04:00):
did when you were a kid, but now they do
all the time for the grandkids, or we will even
extend this to the grand pets.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Okay, that's a good one, because.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I also saw a video on TikTok of a woman
who was watching her daughter's dog for her while she
was away, and she sent a video to her daughter
of her stopping the ice cream truck so she could
get her grand dog an ice cream trade. She didn't
even get one for herself, and the girl was basically like,
(04:31):
you know what's funny is that we never had ice
cream truck money when I was growing up, and now
my dog gets a Ninja Turtle ice cream pop every
single day from the ice cream truck.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
There was a period where they used to my parents
would tell me that the music on the ice cream
truck was then telling you that they're done. They're not
taking any more orders, because that's why they have the
music on.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So for the longest time, I thought every time you
heard the music, they were done.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now now my son came go to my in laws place,
his grandparents' place, without having his own special granola bar
just for him, just for him.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That is funny that you say that, because Tyler from
Wyoming messaged he said, I got yelled at for eating
more than one fruit snack pouch as a kid, and
now my dad has a snack drawer at his house
labeled four grandkids only.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah. Oh, there's a specific cupboard.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes, yes, yeah, if I eat more than one Swiss
cake roll, oh, I was in trouble. But now my
mom's making full Swiss cake roll cakes, like making them handmade.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh yeah, the kids all of a sudden, she's got
the time, she's got the time, and she's got the
opportunity something that you never got as a kid. But
now the grandkids get all the times. We're talking about
those rules that you had as kids, or maybe just
like stuff that you were allowed to do, stuff that
you weren't allowed to do, stuff that maybe we're like
(05:56):
purchased for you or not purchased for you as a kid. Now,
all of a sudden, the grandkids come on the scene
and it's like, throw the rule book out the window.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
We my mom never had mcdal I don't know if
your parents did this. Like where McDonald's was like you
were going out to eat. It was like a luxury.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was a treat.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, my mom never had McDonald's money. Never you want McDonald's.
Do you have McDonald's money, Mike, No, I don't. I'm
a kid. I don't have McDonald's money.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
My kids go over, they want McDonald's. Absolutely. How many
hats you want? Chocolate milk or regular milk?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Chocolate milk?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You want fries and nuggets and a cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Okay, oh you didn't get the toy you wanted. Let
me go back in there and see if they have
the other kind.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Because I noticed this very recently. My parents are all
of a sudden making half birthdays for my nieces and
nephews like a huge deal. And I'm like, excuse me.
I never got to go to the high ropes course
and go to the dollar store and go out to
lunch for my half birthday. And you groomy, you literally
(06:59):
groom me and your tummy. And I know my mom
is listening because she texted me, Oh did she really? Yes,
she did. She said, First of all, we only do
this because their birthdays are right after Christmas. And second
of all, it was actually meyer for the shopping trip,
and it was whatever they wanted. You knowing my.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Point, you know, it's good what a parent starts it with.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
First of all, First of all, first six one, six,
two four, two, ninety three, ninety three, Good morning, b
ninety three? Who's this? And where are you from?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Alexis Clarksbill?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, something that you never got as a kid. And
now all of a sudden, the grandkids come on the
scene and they get this all the time.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So we never got to even eat in the living
room or how furniture. You literally have to sit at
the kitchen table. Uh huh any every meal and you
had to clean all the grand kids can walk away
with like full plates, eat in the living room. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the
carpet doesn't matter as much.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Huh uh huh, not at all.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Have you ever asked them about this, like, hey, uh,
you know, this is quite a change up from how
we were raised.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Grand babies, and so like I see them ice stream,
and so I let them kind of do whatever they want,
so I kind of get it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, fair enough, Thanks for the call. This morning,
we stream the Morning Show live on TikTok from six
thirty to eight thirty. You can find on air Mic
and Ali Mack on air on TikTok. We're talking about
those things that you never got as a kid, but
now all of a sudden, there's you know, half birthday
money for the grandkids, and I don't even know that
was a thing. High ropes, course money for the grandkids
(08:33):
and all the things. I just got a comment on TikTok.
It says my parents took my nieces on a cruise
for their birthdays and didn't even ask if anyone else
wanted to go a crow.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, you guys are adults. You have cruise money, not.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
A cruise Rachel in Muskegan, she messaged. She said, you know,
we weren't allowed to touch the thermostat when we were kids.
And now my dad adjust sit for the dog when
he's babysitting the dog.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, the dog's gotta be comfy.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Right, six one six two four to two ninety three
ninety three, Good morning, b ninety three? Who's this and
where are you from?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Michelle?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
From Michelle, what didn't you get as a kid, but
now the grandkids get?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
It was when we were out somewhere, you know, you know,
you try to get a quarter just for a gumball machine,
and they didn't have a quarter. And now as soon
as you know, the grandkids are around, they've got dollars
coming out of their pockets to play crane games and
everything else.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Where'd you get all that change from?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Yeah, they got endless quarters.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Just walking around with like seven rolls of quarters in
their pockets. Of course, exactly. Thanks thanks Michelle. Yep, bye,
We've got more tickets to get you in to see
John Party at Fanandel Arena. Oh, there's the concert ticket money.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
All of a sudden, Grandma's got concert ticket money.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
To wait until I was like thirteen to go to
my first concert. But my nieces have been to place concerts, movies,
you know, like it just it comes out of the woodwork,
and I'd just like that to be noted on the record.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Go ahead, morning, Welcome, there be ninety three Morning show.
What's your naming where you're from?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm from cost County, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
All right, what is the thing that you never got
as a kid? But the grandparents definitely give the kids.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Oh, I got a good one for you. I got
I got tickets to Disney on ice.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And the parents would have never done.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
That for you, Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And you know they're gonna get because they always have
those light up things there and like eight million other
toys there.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know they're coming home with all that.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Oh yeah, absolutely, they come home with all of it,
and I never got to go.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's just funny how that seems to happen.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Oh I know,
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