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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, killing Nash, Good morning. It's tomorrow show today Tgif
it'll be the twelfth day of December, twelve more shopping days,
I guess, because that takes you to Christmas. Eve A,
you're going to be stopping off at the convenience store
on Christmas morning picking up something and a note again
to Santa if you won't or if Santa's going to
be bringing, bring Santa. If the elves are let me
(00:22):
put it that way, if the elves are making sure
you're packing some of those power wheels or the like, okay,
the little automobiles. You're right around the backyard.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
For all those things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You got to put the batteries on charge twenty four
hours in advance, so make sure the elves are charging
up the batteries.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So the poor kids just staring at it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You gotta wait till the twenty six to ride your
power wheels because the elves forgot to charge the batteries.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
That sucks exactly well, you know, speaking of buying gifts
like that, Jonathan, there's a question about a debate kind
of raging online. Is it better to tell your just
be honest with your young kids and say, mommy, and
Daddy just can't afford a big Christmas like we've normally
done in the past, so you're not going to get
the kinds of gifts you've gotten in the past. Or
(01:10):
is it better to just lie and say, uh, you know,
we're going to have a more traditional Christmas and celebrate
the true meaning of Christmas while not revealing that the
reality of the situation is we just can't afford this
stuff fright this year because mommy.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
With Jehovah's witness How about that we're converting to.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Jehovah's witnesses because mommy and Daddy you're having a tough
financial year. Is it better to be honest? Or is
this the time for where's tweed?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Just go look, just use the money you can put
it Christmas out the way you that you normally do,
and then don't don't even mention it. It's just Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, they're going to notice that it's significantly less than
they've gotten last year in the years previous.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, I guess you weren't good then, were you put
it on them? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Wow? So Jonathan says, keep the lie up, yeap, the
facade will lie absolutely. What does it cost to buy
some coal and put it in their stock.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
If you'd only been better, what did we tell you
all during the year. I didn't see you, but he
saw you. I saw you when you were awake, and
he saw you when you were sleeping, and you were
sleeping bad thoughts. Yeah, and that little elf I saw
him scurrying around.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I'm I'm a fan of just telling him the truth
and so they know about the reality of.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Is it Yes? When you're a kid, truth is so overrated.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
M all right, Jonathan says, make him feel bad. I say,
let him in on the truth. What say you tomorrow morning?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
This is good? Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Also tomorrow morning. Ligoria. Ligoria is our word of the
day for what you're talking about. If you know what
what that means, you'll get our final four pack of
winter Fest tickets. This is up at Caroin's where Santa
Claus will be specialty holiday food and drink. Of course,
the incredible lights and some rides will be open for
you as well.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Ligoria this is a garnish that she used typically on
Italian dishes.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's not a bad guess. I mean I was gonna
go with eva ligoria eva lagoria. It actually means excessive
often incoherent wordiness, because it's the way of describing a blowhard.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I think, yes, I can think of several people.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Because ligoria, diatribe or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
A typical consultant comes in.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh, we haven't had them around here for years.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But yeah, if you want to insult somebody, ligoria is
a great word to us. And the answer so you
don't have to remember it. The definition is on the
Morning Rush blog ninety seven to five w CUS dot com. Also,
when you get to the Morning Rush, you'll will see
the blog, I should say, you'll see this is this
is awkward? Jonathan, Oh my gosh. You know, I had
(03:57):
forgotten who Hillary Swank even was, and I don't think
I would even recognize her.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Incredible actress. I may not recognize her because she's I
haven't seen her. Probably in what last movie I saw
rian that I can remember that I can remember it
was Million Dollar Baby. She was great in that.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
She's rather full of herself, and was at an airport
at Lax and a woman came up was actually, according
to the woman was she was excited to see Eva,
excuse me, Hillary Swank, and she was trying to call
her husband. She has her phone out and she's holding
(04:35):
it in front of her trying to call her husband,
but she's definitely, I guess, obviously excited. Hillary Swank cops
an attitude and says, get it over with you got
what you came for, take it and be gone with you.
And the woman then posted about it on social media
(04:57):
and it made it back to Hillary Swank what she
was a trying to do? And b why was she
at that airport to begin with? Oh, she was at
the airport with her two children because she has two
children diagnosed with terminal cancer. Wow, they are both dying
(05:17):
and this was their Make a Wish Foundation trip to
Disney World in Florida, the final trip these two boys
were ever going to be on with their mom. And
Hillary Swank is copping an attitude. So Hillary Swank is
now reached out via social media with her humblest apologies
and anything I can do to make this feel better
(05:39):
for you? Do you want me to come buy the
house and take pictures with the kids? Could I make
you dinner at my home? Possibly? How don't I feel
like the horses ass not at all?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Kind of a large smile about her, kind of a
big mouth, But I don't think she could flit her
whole foot in there.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Good points, sir, that is a fantasy.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Quite fascinating the way you did that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Have you ever misinterpreted something that was happening and then
looked like it just as what they said in a
few good men? Don't I feel like the horse's ass?
Has it ever happened to you? I know it's happened
to me several times?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And uh oh, this is good. Perhaps about that experience.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, perhaps people would be open to sharing that idea
with us, like you to what what they did or
did not say in the wrong time.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
We had to learn to laugh at ourselves even after
the only after the awkward moments, not during.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And when's the last time you took a kid to
see Santa at the mall?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Uh? I took Sarah to see Santa at Segar Park
last year.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh nice? I mean Jordan hasn't been in probably twenty
five years, so it's been a while since I've been
to see the Santa at the mall. But they did
a poll of some people who have been Santa's for
a number of years at these malls and know that
they're not Santa, they're Santa's helpers. And pull them on
(07:05):
some of their favorite and or most unusual requests and
things of that nature. My son as for a Green
Bay packer one year, like an actual Green Bay packer.
Could you bring him to my house? He already had
a plan on how to feed him, take him outside
the exercise and things of that nature. Request. Let's see,
(07:33):
we had a five year old girl asked me for
a quote one of the loudest horns you could find.
She was making a gesture like those canned air horns
and she was making that I want that. And I said,
why would you want that? And she said because I
want to wake up my baby brother during his nap time.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Wow, this girl is evil. Then you look evil in
the eyes. Yes. They were sitting on my lap, said Santa.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah this This one said. I had a child who
just kept calling me a fake. You're a fake, you're
a fake. And he said, why would you say that?
And he says, where's the elves? Santa wouldn't leave without
the elves, You're a fake, and tried to ruin it
for all. And he's like, I'm trying to calm down.
All the kids in line waiting this. This girl just
(08:26):
wanted this girl's after your own heart. He said, what
would you like, sweetie, a hot dog?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Hot dog? A hot dog?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You want a doll or anything else? Nope, I just
want a hot dog. But I want it right now.
I want to wait till Christmas. I'm not waiting till Christmas.
I want a hot dog. And then this guy, he
must have been freaked out. One kid, who he estimated
to be eight, said I would like a human skull.
He said, excuse me, he goes, I want the skull
(08:56):
of a human being. Goodness, Graci was that was that
child's name, Jeffrey Dahmer?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, I mean this kid immediately gets off of my lap.
And now it call for the parents, I call for
the officer. Officer, you're gonna need to do some profiling
on this.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Need to go home with these kids, check in the
cross space. That is a bit crazy. You and I
were talking yesterday off the air, and I think that
that discussion is kind of worthy maybe of talking about
it on the air. The idea that Australia becomes the
first country on Earth to outlaw basically social media for
anyone under the age of sixteen fascinating. They've said that,
(09:35):
and I think We've seen that same research here that kids,
specifically under the age of twelve, when they get a
cell phone or exposed to social media, a lot of
bad things happen. The opportunity for depressions, suicidal thoughts, weight issues,
(09:55):
just everything happens.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's going to be really tough for little Thomas. Thomas
is okay, if you put your cell phone down, He's
headed towards it because he has to have it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I don't know what it is about a cell phone
or a remote control. Is he just the gadget guy already.
I don't know. But if you're missing your cell phone,
Thomas has had it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I heard a Billy Graham message the other day, and
I'm guessing this was in the nineties. I mean, because
he didn't sound like the elderly near the end Billy
Graham when he died like twenty fifteen something like that,
so it might have been right around the beginning of
the turn of the century there, like two thousand ish.
But he was talking about I would hate to be
(10:39):
a child today, and he said the dangers of the
Internet and how it's going to negatively affect all children,
and they're wanting to compare themselves to others, you know,
And he said, growing up as a child in the
mountains of North Carolina, it was horrible because I was
(10:59):
comparing myself to five or six other really great individuals.
But if I had to compare myself to everyone on
the internet in the world before I knew Jesus right,
how would you make it? He goes, I don't know
how anyone survives childhood. It's impossible to survive childhood if
you're comparing yourself to other people on the internet, because
(11:21):
they're not real people. But nobody knows that. Nobody under
the age of like eighteen recognizes that. You know. I'll
just use fake book as the example. But no, they're
not on Facebook anymore. But they're on other platforms like
Instagram and TikTok. But there's so many filters, there's so
many takes that they've done to get to that one.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Video, striving for perfection. I watched some video the other day.
It was a girl and she made it. The whole
thing was called don't try to be perfect, No, no,
if you want to be perfect on the Internet, and
she started taking out like things out of her braw.
Oh yep, yeah, and she took out something like her
(12:03):
cheeks of her but yeah, all these things, and then
she did something different to her hair.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, and I'm like, oh my god, it's not even
the same person.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
No, you just did like twenty things that all made
your figure look perfect. Yeah, just so you get that
perfect one shot. Yeah, and she still was a beautiful girl,
but she wasn't perfect. The never ending strides we make
to be perfect on the internet.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh my god, Well, how did you feel if we
made it? And again, apparently these companies have agreed to
make it so you can't sign up for an account
unless you're over the age of sixteen and you have
some sort of legal documentation to prove that. So like Facebook, Instagram,
those platforms and others are now offline, and they deactivated
(12:52):
the accounts of people they assumed were under the age
of sixteen, and they're making them reapply. Right just looking
at their photographs, I guess they they have like an
algorithm or something. They can look at them and figure
out the.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Difference we've already seen. Just taken the phones out of
the school day, Just put your phone in your locker.
Can't have your phone during school. Look at the difference
we've already seen in test scores and grades. Can you
imagine anticipation and people actually sitting down and talking and
looking at each other in the eye.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I'm thinking that the Australian Parliament passed this law like
several months ago, so these kids have known whatever yesterday was,
December tenth, whatever the day was, that that's it. You're
twelve years old, you're thirteen years old, this is your
last day on social media basically until you're a senior
(13:41):
in high school. You're going to lose it. And they
said that they're going to keep their like the YouTube
channels and all that, They're going to keep them the
way they were so that when they reactivate any followers
that they had created and all that stuff, it will
be waiting for you in four or five six years
where you come back.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Can you imagine if you're a parent right now in Australia,
it's the first day of no social media, That's what
I'm saying. And you you better keep an eye on
your kid. Some of these kids are so addicted to
social media they're going to go through with draw pains.
They're going to go through DT's.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, I imagine it's just a number. I mean, look,
drinking age when I was a kid was eighteen, but
nobody waited untill they were eighteen. I mean we all
got fake IDs at like thirteen. Yes, it's kind of
you had to find the kid with who was able
to grow a beard early in those types of things.
But you know, because you're thirteen and you're walking into
a liquor store, Ah, take a six pack of bush,
(14:40):
you know, right, and you know the voice is cracking.
But I mean, if we could find fake IDs back then,
these kids, yeah, find fake IDs now, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Know, we're going to facilitate some of these kids.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But the number one reason that the Australian Parliament did
it was not these suicides and all that sort of.
They said that they have found thousands of kids who
end up being trafficked. They're groomed and trafficked in Australia,
which is not It's just a fraction of the size
of America when it comes to population. So I imagine there's
probably millions of kids being abused here in America because
(15:17):
they don't know who they're talking to. They assume they're
talking to another sixteen year old person, but it's really
a forty seven year old with bad intent.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow, it's going to be interesting to see what the
study show in Australia. And I got a feeling that
we're going to be woefully embarrassed when we read that
Australians are leading the way and helping make sure that
our younger generation has a better opportunity to be social
as opposed to media social social media. Remember when you
(15:51):
we talked about this years ago when you had a
kid and they had the friends over, and I remember
I was, I think taking a nap on a Saturday
afternoon and a new Lee was going to have some
friends come over, maybe it was David, and they were
going to watch one of the games together. So I
wake up and the house is quiet. I'm like, hmm,
I thought they would be coming here by now because
(16:11):
the game kicks off in ten minutes. And I walked
into the living room. There's like ten guys sitting there
and they're all staring at their phones. Not a word
is being spoken.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I thought you were going to say, and there was
some pornography on of my television set.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No, No, they weren't. The game was about to they
weren't even watching the pregame and I just walked into
the room and looked at him and said, look at yourselves.
What the hell are you turning into? Yeah, talk, put
the phone down, talk, put the phone in your pocket.
You're together. This is a social event. You don't have
(16:47):
to be a social media You're the most anti social
people I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Give it some time, and now we've arrived at the
generation of the most antisocial people. But you know, another
interesting angle that you kind of brought up just a
second is what if, because there is no law in
Australia against the parents allowing the child to use their
social media, would you allow your child, your thirteen year old,
to go on your account. Now, obviously I can see
(17:14):
where you've been, I can I know what. But so
now you're still getting access to social media. You're still
getting access to seeing some of the influencers that you
like to watch and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Sure, they'll be parents that do that. We brought your
right to the doorstep of opportunity, and what did you do?
Slam the door.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But if my concern was my child is going to
be a trafficked, that's not going to happen. Because they
think I'm a sixty you know, fifty two year old dude,
nobody's trying to traffic A fifty two year old dude
got it? And then the but but the kid wanted
to see the funny videos, or the kid wanted to
see whatever it is the kids look at. I don't
even know what they look at, to be honest with you,
(17:53):
but you know you're you're you're thirteen and you like
watching these certain creators Instagram.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Now was the sweet spot on a TikTok video? How
many seconds?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
How long time?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
How long is the most successful videos? For seven and
a half seconds long?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Well, I think that something like ninety percent of videos
are turned off or switched after eight seconds.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's it. So seven and a half seconds, So you're
is bad enough with the kids attention span. You're only
accelerating that you're going to have the attention span of
a goldfish.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
But wouldn't they say, like people like Elon Musk say
that's actually beneficial because it's create like you and I
are in We're we're not compatible with the world. I
get it as to where it's going because we're not
a going to argue with Elon Musk. We can't shift.
We can't shift our focus quick enough.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's more successful. I'm not listen. I'm already way in
too deep on this, So I'll just stop right here.
Maybe we'll talk about that morning Rush regular as you
chime in, Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood? We
should be talking about you get a big weekend coming down,
what's happening over there, what you're doing, what you got
shopping what you're not shopping for? You're going to tell
your kids? No, we become Jehovah's witness? Are we Poe?
(19:05):
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Speaker 1 (19:19):
Thank god it's Friday tomorrow in the morning Rush
Hello, killing Nash, Good morning. It's tomorrow show today Tgif
it'll be the twelfth day of December, twelve more shopping days,
I guess, because that takes you to Christmas. Eve A,
you're going to be stopping off at the convenience store
on Christmas morning picking up something and a note again
to Santa if you won't or if Santa's going to
be bringing, bring Santa. If the elves are let me
(00:22):
put it that way, if the elves are making sure
you're packing some of those power wheels or the like, okay,
the little automobiles. You're right around the backyard.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
For all those things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You got to put the batteries on charge twenty four
hours in advance, so make sure the elves are charging
up the batteries.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So the poor kids just staring at it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You gotta wait till the twenty six to ride your
power wheels because the elves forgot to charge the batteries.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
That sucks exactly well, you know, speaking of buying gifts
like that, Jonathan, there's a question about a debate kind
of raging online. Is it better to tell your just
be honest with your young kids and say, mommy, and
Daddy just can't afford a big Christmas like we've normally
done in the past, so you're not going to get
the kinds of gifts you've gotten in the past. Or
(01:10):
is it better to just lie and say, uh, you know,
we're going to have a more traditional Christmas and celebrate
the true meaning of Christmas while not revealing that the
reality of the situation is we just can't afford this
stuff fright this year because mommy.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
With Jehovah's witness How about that we're converting to.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Jehovah's witnesses because mommy and Daddy you're having a tough
financial year. Is it better to be honest? Or is
this the time for where's tweed?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Just go look, just use the money you can put
it Christmas out the way you that you normally do,
and then don't don't even mention it. It's just Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, they're going to notice that it's significantly less than
they've gotten last year in the years previous.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, I guess you weren't good then, were you put
it on them? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Wow? So Jonathan says, keep the lie up, yeap, the
facade will lie absolutely. What does it cost to buy
some coal and put it in their stock.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
If you'd only been better, what did we tell you
all during the year. I didn't see you, but he
saw you. I saw you when you were awake, and
he saw you when you were sleeping, and you were
sleeping bad thoughts. Yeah, and that little elf I saw
him scurrying around.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I'm I'm a fan of just telling him the truth
and so they know about the reality of.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Is it Yes? When you're a kid, truth is so overrated.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
M all right, Jonathan says, make him feel bad. I say,
let him in on the truth. What say you tomorrow morning?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
This is good? Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Also tomorrow morning. Ligoria. Ligoria is our word of the
day for what you're talking about. If you know what
what that means, you'll get our final four pack of
winter Fest tickets. This is up at Caroin's where Santa
Claus will be specialty holiday food and drink. Of course,
the incredible lights and some rides will be open for
you as well.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Ligoria this is a garnish that she used typically on
Italian dishes.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's not a bad guess. I mean I was gonna
go with eva ligoria eva lagoria. It actually means excessive
often incoherent wordiness, because it's the way of describing a blowhard.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I think, yes, I can think of several people.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Because ligoria, diatribe or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
A typical consultant comes in.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh, we haven't had them around here for years.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But yeah, if you want to insult somebody, ligoria is
a great word to us. And the answer so you
don't have to remember it. The definition is on the
Morning Rush blog ninety seven to five w CUS dot com. Also,
when you get to the Morning Rush, you'll will see
the blog, I should say, you'll see this is this
is awkward? Jonathan, Oh my gosh. You know, I had
(03:57):
forgotten who Hillary Swank even was, and I don't think
I would even recognize her.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Incredible actress. I may not recognize her because she's I
haven't seen her. Probably in what last movie I saw
rian that I can remember that I can remember it
was Million Dollar Baby. She was great in that.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
She's rather full of herself, and was at an airport
at Lax and a woman came up was actually, according
to the woman was she was excited to see Eva,
excuse me, Hillary Swank, and she was trying to call
her husband. She has her phone out and she's holding
(04:35):
it in front of her trying to call her husband,
but she's definitely, I guess, obviously excited. Hillary Swank cops
an attitude and says, get it over with you got
what you came for, take it and be gone with you.
And the woman then posted about it on social media
(04:57):
and it made it back to Hillary Swank what she
was a trying to do? And b why was she
at that airport to begin with? Oh, she was at
the airport with her two children because she has two
children diagnosed with terminal cancer. Wow, they are both dying
(05:17):
and this was their Make a Wish Foundation trip to
Disney World in Florida, the final trip these two boys
were ever going to be on with their mom. And
Hillary Swank is copping an attitude. So Hillary Swank is
now reached out via social media with her humblest apologies
and anything I can do to make this feel better
(05:39):
for you? Do you want me to come buy the
house and take pictures with the kids? Could I make
you dinner at my home? Possibly? How don't I feel
like the horses ass not at all?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Kind of a large smile about her, kind of a
big mouth, But I don't think she could flit her
whole foot in there.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Good points, sir, that is a fantasy.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Quite fascinating the way you did that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Have you ever misinterpreted something that was happening and then
looked like it just as what they said in a
few good men? Don't I feel like the horse's ass?
Has it ever happened to you? I know it's happened
to me several times?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And uh oh, this is good. Perhaps about that experience.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, perhaps people would be open to sharing that idea
with us, like you to what what they did or
did not say in the wrong time.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
We had to learn to laugh at ourselves even after
the only after the awkward moments, not during.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And when's the last time you took a kid to
see Santa at the mall?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Uh? I took Sarah to see Santa at Segar Park
last year.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh nice? I mean Jordan hasn't been in probably twenty
five years, so it's been a while since I've been
to see the Santa at the mall. But they did
a poll of some people who have been Santa's for
a number of years at these malls and know that
they're not Santa, they're Santa's helpers. And pull them on
(07:05):
some of their favorite and or most unusual requests and
things of that nature. My son as for a Green
Bay packer one year, like an actual Green Bay packer.
Could you bring him to my house? He already had
a plan on how to feed him, take him outside
the exercise and things of that nature. Request. Let's see,
(07:33):
we had a five year old girl asked me for
a quote one of the loudest horns you could find.
She was making a gesture like those canned air horns
and she was making that I want that. And I said,
why would you want that? And she said because I
want to wake up my baby brother during his nap time.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Wow, this girl is evil. Then you look evil in
the eyes. Yes. They were sitting on my lap, said Santa.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah this This one said. I had a child who
just kept calling me a fake. You're a fake, you're
a fake. And he said, why would you say that?
And he says, where's the elves? Santa wouldn't leave without
the elves, You're a fake, and tried to ruin it
for all. And he's like, I'm trying to calm down.
All the kids in line waiting this. This girl just
(08:26):
wanted this girl's after your own heart. He said, what
would you like, sweetie, a hot dog?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Hot dog? A hot dog?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You want a doll or anything else? Nope, I just
want a hot dog. But I want it right now.
I want to wait till Christmas. I'm not waiting till Christmas.
I want a hot dog. And then this guy, he
must have been freaked out. One kid, who he estimated
to be eight, said I would like a human skull.
He said, excuse me, he goes, I want the skull
(08:56):
of a human being. Goodness, Graci was that was that
child's name, Jeffrey Dahmer?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, I mean this kid immediately gets off of my lap.
And now it call for the parents, I call for
the officer. Officer, you're gonna need to do some profiling
on this.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Need to go home with these kids, check in the
cross space. That is a bit crazy. You and I
were talking yesterday off the air, and I think that
that discussion is kind of worthy maybe of talking about
it on the air. The idea that Australia becomes the
first country on Earth to outlaw basically social media for
anyone under the age of sixteen fascinating. They've said that,
(09:35):
and I think We've seen that same research here that kids,
specifically under the age of twelve, when they get a
cell phone or exposed to social media, a lot of
bad things happen. The opportunity for depressions, suicidal thoughts, weight issues,
(09:55):
just everything happens.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's going to be really tough for little Thomas. Thomas
is okay, if you put your cell phone down, He's
headed towards it because he has to have it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I don't know what it is about a cell phone
or a remote control. Is he just the gadget guy already.
I don't know. But if you're missing your cell phone,
Thomas has had it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I heard a Billy Graham message the other day, and
I'm guessing this was in the nineties. I mean, because
he didn't sound like the elderly near the end Billy
Graham when he died like twenty fifteen something like that,
so it might have been right around the beginning of
the turn of the century there, like two thousand ish.
But he was talking about I would hate to be
(10:39):
a child today, and he said the dangers of the
Internet and how it's going to negatively affect all children,
and they're wanting to compare themselves to others, you know,
And he said, growing up as a child in the
mountains of North Carolina, it was horrible because I was
(10:59):
comparing myself to five or six other really great individuals.
But if I had to compare myself to everyone on
the internet in the world before I knew Jesus right,
how would you make it? He goes, I don't know
how anyone survives childhood. It's impossible to survive childhood if
you're comparing yourself to other people on the internet, because
(11:21):
they're not real people. But nobody knows that. Nobody under
the age of like eighteen recognizes that. You know. I'll
just use fake book as the example. But no, they're
not on Facebook anymore. But they're on other platforms like
Instagram and TikTok. But there's so many filters, there's so
many takes that they've done to get to that one.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Video, striving for perfection. I watched some video the other day.
It was a girl and she made it. The whole
thing was called don't try to be perfect, No, no,
if you want to be perfect on the Internet, and
she started taking out like things out of her braw.
Oh yep, yeah, and she took out something like her
(12:03):
cheeks of her but yeah, all these things, and then
she did something different to her hair.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, and I'm like, oh my god, it's not even
the same person.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
No, you just did like twenty things that all made
your figure look perfect. Yeah, just so you get that
perfect one shot. Yeah, and she still was a beautiful girl,
but she wasn't perfect. The never ending strides we make
to be perfect on the internet.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh my god, Well, how did you feel if we
made it? And again, apparently these companies have agreed to
make it so you can't sign up for an account
unless you're over the age of sixteen and you have
some sort of legal documentation to prove that. So like Facebook, Instagram,
those platforms and others are now offline, and they deactivated
(12:52):
the accounts of people they assumed were under the age
of sixteen, and they're making them reapply. Right just looking
at their photographs, I guess they they have like an
algorithm or something. They can look at them and figure
out the.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Difference we've already seen. Just taken the phones out of
the school day, Just put your phone in your locker.
Can't have your phone during school. Look at the difference
we've already seen in test scores and grades. Can you
imagine anticipation and people actually sitting down and talking and
looking at each other in the eye.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I'm thinking that the Australian Parliament passed this law like
several months ago, so these kids have known whatever yesterday was,
December tenth, whatever the day was, that that's it. You're
twelve years old, you're thirteen years old, this is your
last day on social media basically until you're a senior
(13:41):
in high school. You're going to lose it. And they
said that they're going to keep their like the YouTube
channels and all that, They're going to keep them the
way they were so that when they reactivate any followers
that they had created and all that stuff, it will
be waiting for you in four or five six years
where you come back.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Can you imagine if you're a parent right now in Australia,
it's the first day of no social media, That's what
I'm saying. And you you better keep an eye on
your kid. Some of these kids are so addicted to
social media they're going to go through with draw pains.
They're going to go through DT's.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, I imagine it's just a number. I mean, look,
drinking age when I was a kid was eighteen, but
nobody waited untill they were eighteen. I mean we all
got fake IDs at like thirteen. Yes, it's kind of
you had to find the kid with who was able
to grow a beard early in those types of things.
But you know, because you're thirteen and you're walking into
a liquor store, Ah, take a six pack of bush,
(14:40):
you know, right, and you know the voice is cracking.
But I mean, if we could find fake IDs back then,
these kids, yeah, find fake IDs now, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Know, we're going to facilitate some of these kids.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But the number one reason that the Australian Parliament did
it was not these suicides and all that sort of.
They said that they have found thousands of kids who
end up being trafficked. They're groomed and trafficked in Australia,
which is not It's just a fraction of the size
of America when it comes to population. So I imagine there's
probably millions of kids being abused here in America because
(15:17):
they don't know who they're talking to. They assume they're
talking to another sixteen year old person, but it's really
a forty seven year old with bad intent.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow, it's going to be interesting to see what the
study show in Australia. And I got a feeling that
we're going to be woefully embarrassed when we read that
Australians are leading the way and helping make sure that
our younger generation has a better opportunity to be social
as opposed to media social social media. Remember when you
(15:51):
we talked about this years ago when you had a
kid and they had the friends over, and I remember
I was, I think taking a nap on a Saturday
afternoon and a new Lee was going to have some
friends come over, maybe it was David, and they were
going to watch one of the games together. So I
wake up and the house is quiet. I'm like, hmm,
I thought they would be coming here by now because
(16:11):
the game kicks off in ten minutes. And I walked
into the living room. There's like ten guys sitting there
and they're all staring at their phones. Not a word
is being spoken.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I thought you were going to say, and there was
some pornography on of my television set.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No, No, they weren't. The game was about to they
weren't even watching the pregame and I just walked into
the room and looked at him and said, look at yourselves.
What the hell are you turning into? Yeah, talk, put
the phone down, talk, put the phone in your pocket.
You're together. This is a social event. You don't have
(16:47):
to be a social media You're the most anti social
people I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Give it some time, and now we've arrived at the
generation of the most antisocial people. But you know, another
interesting angle that you kind of brought up just a
second is what if, because there is no law in
Australia against the parents allowing the child to use their
social media, would you allow your child, your thirteen year old,
to go on your account. Now, obviously I can see
(17:14):
where you've been, I can I know what. But so
now you're still getting access to social media. You're still
getting access to seeing some of the influencers that you
like to watch and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Sure, they'll be parents that do that. We brought your
right to the doorstep of opportunity, and what did you do?
Slam the door.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But if my concern was my child is going to
be a trafficked, that's not going to happen. Because they
think I'm a sixty you know, fifty two year old dude,
nobody's trying to traffic A fifty two year old dude
got it? And then the but but the kid wanted
to see the funny videos, or the kid wanted to
see whatever it is the kids look at. I don't
even know what they look at, to be honest with you,
(17:53):
but you know you're you're you're thirteen and you like
watching these certain creators Instagram.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Now was the sweet spot on a TikTok video? How
many seconds?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
How long time?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
How long is the most successful videos? For seven and
a half seconds long?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Well, I think that something like ninety percent of videos
are turned off or switched after eight seconds.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's it. So seven and a half seconds, So you're
is bad enough with the kids attention span. You're only
accelerating that you're going to have the attention span of
a goldfish.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
But wouldn't they say, like people like Elon Musk say
that's actually beneficial because it's create like you and I
are in We're we're not compatible with the world. I
get it as to where it's going because we're not
a going to argue with Elon Musk. We can't shift.
We can't shift our focus quick enough.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's more successful. I'm not listen. I'm already way in
too deep on this, So I'll just stop right here.
Maybe we'll talk about that morning Rush regular as you
chime in, Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood? We
should be talking about you get a big weekend coming down,
what's happening over there, what you're doing, what you got
shopping what you're not shopping for? You're going to tell
your kids? No, we become Jehovah's witness? Are we Poe?
(19:05):
Are we Poe? Are you going to admit that right there?
And we'll give you a chance to win to six thirty.
You know the word and the answer to the phone
numbers eight oh three nine seven, eight nine two sixty seven,
And you can always email me at Rush at ninet
seventy five. But you see us dot.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Com Nation ninety seven five, serous dot com.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Thank god it's Friday tomorrow in the morning Rush
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