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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This hour of programming on seven ten Doubar. He's sponsored
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County Executive brob Astrea on seven ten.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Ah, Yeah, a rainy, rainy, crappy Saturday, and you know what,
I'm kind of happy. And you know me, I hate
walking in the rain. But when I got on the
train this morning, I saw so many of these seventy
year old ladies with their placards coming down to the
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Hands Off rally in New York City. They're doing this
all over the country, and this is the resistance. This
is the I hate Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Let's
get together and bang drums about nothing. And that's what
they were doing. They had all these ridiculous placards. I'm
reading them on the train and I looked at this
one woman like, are you serious? I mean, how old
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are you? Obviously she's a leftover hippie from the sixties
with nothing better to do, so she's coming down to
the city today to have the fun. And it's just
the most silly placards. Hands off my body nobody's touching you.
Trust me, nobody's touching you. It's just everything is just
like they're flipping out again. Now, all right, this wasn't
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a great week. I almost threw up when I saw
my four oh one K and I saw my stocks yesterday.
Not good. And obviously you know if you need your
stocks in your four oh one k right now, that's
it was a bad week for you. I have more time,
so I know it'll recover overtime. And this is like
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when COVID hit and the market crashed. If you had
some cat on the side, you made money over the
last five years because you bought stocks. If you were
smart like I was for once, you bought stocks that
you knew were sold at a complete discount and over
time they were going to get strong. Yeah, so I
have those now.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I should have been smarter because knowing it wasn't like
Trump just threw these tariff things on us. He's been
talking about it and he was making this big announcement.
They told you for the last week or so. So
what should have been done and I didn't do and
I'm stupid, is I should have dumped some of my
stocks the last week, had all this cash on hands,
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sitting on the side and now scoop up some good stuff.
That's why I'm so I'm still doing a radio show
on Saturday, and for anyway, it really is good to
be with you every Saturday. So I have a really
important question to ask you in a little while, and
but before I get to that, I want to I
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want to go over some interesting things that have been happening.
And then I want to get into this topic about
kids who are now young adults and whether or not
parents still have the right or should track your children
adult children, young adult children on their phones and where
they're at. And I had a conversation with somebody and
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I'm going to get into that with you because I'm
really interested to hear what you think about this, because
it's kind of interesting. Anyway, we'll get to that in
just a few minutes. But a couple things first. So
the one thing, and I don't know how this tariff
thing is going to play out. I really don't. I mean,
the short term hit not good. But the butt here
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is Trump is the first president that I can remember
who actually was campaigning on things that he's now doing.
He said I'm going to do tariffs. People knew that,
and they voted for him, and he went through X,
Y and Z. I'm gonna do it, and he's doing it,
and he's had a firm belief about Look, if we're
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getting screwed and we have for generations now, then it's
time to kind of reset things. And he's playing the
long game, which never happens. I don't know of any
politician anymore who actually says, you know what, five ten
years from now, you're gonna thank me. I won't be around.
I mean, hopefully he's alive, but he's not gonna be
in office, but you're gonna thank me about the jobs
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that have come back and how well we're doing now. Look,
it's a roll of the dice, but it's a firm
belief of his and maybe it will work out, maybe
it won't. But the point I'm making here is he's
putting it all on the line. He's putting all his
chips in the middle of the table and resetting things. Now,
this could be it could be a gamble to have
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other countries say all right, look we don't want to
lose either, what do you want and they negotiate new
trade deals, or it could be no, uh huh. It's
either everyone is zero or everyone's going to be twenty
five percent period, because we're getting shut out of your market.
We're allowing you here, we're charging you basically nothing. You're
not allowing us there. So you know what's wrong here.
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That's basically what it is. Now you can agree with
it or not. We'll see, We'll see how it plays out.
We'll see how the market responds over time. But the
big picture is we finally have a president who's looking
long term, and that's what all this doge stuff is.
I mean, we are swimming in red ink. We are drowning.
We're right up to our nose by the way in
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the water. And unfortunately, if you look back at other
countries in the same predicament, they did not do anything
to reverse course and they went under period. Look at
what happened in Greece about ten years ago. Look what
happened in Venezuela. I mean, so many countries have just
plunged economically because they didn't. They didn't stop the spending spree,
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they didn't stop the borrowing spree. They were so far
in debt. He's saying, look, folks, hey, this is it man,
I'm gonna take control and put us in the right direction.
And unfortunately some of us, and too many of us,
are like no, no, no, no, no, no no, don't
do that. I like it the way it is. I
want to drown, so I don't know. We'll see, we'll see.
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I want to get into locally for a second too.
There was a new poll that came out about the
mayor's race. Andrew Cuomo, you know who I've said all along,
is likely to win this. He's gotten stronger, he's done nothing.
He's running a rose garden strategy. He ain't talking, he's
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doing no media, he's avoiding everything, and he's going up.
So if I'm him, I'd be doing the same thing.
Why should I take a risk with a microphone in
front of my face and I say something stupid or
somebody you know gets under his skin. And this guy's
got a short fuse. Trust me, I know he has
a very short fuse. He's not used to being challenged,
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he's not used to losing, and he doesn't want to
take that chance. And obviously he's susceptible to all the issues, right,
you know, killing Grandma, the whole COVID thing, signing signing
the bill that made us sanctuary, made us have all
no cash, no bail, with all the crime that it's
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definitely on his hands. No, I mean, stop it. Congestion pricing,
this is all Andrew Cuomo, period. But he's going to
get away with it. So there was a new poll
that just came out and he's gone from last month
being at thirty three percent in a Democratic primary to
thirty eight percent. So he's going up this other guy, ma'am, Donnie,
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who I've warned you about. This guy wants city runs supermarkets,
free buses for everybody, free health care, free child care,
free everything. You know what free means, It means you're paying.
This guy is outright scary. But as I've said, he
presents himself so well. He will fool you. He will smile.
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He's young, he's good looking on TV. He's well spoken.
He is the wolf in sheep's clothing. This guy is
downright scary, and he's now in second place. Remember I
told you a month ago, watch this guy. He was nowhere.
This guy raised a ton of money. He's at ten
percent right now, and then all the other ones you
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know are in like six percent or less. Eric Adams
is at eight percent, So in the poll, there were
some interesting things though on Cuomo. The older you get,
the more you love Mario. That's why, because you think
it of Maria Croomo. But the older you are in
the city as a Democrat, the more you like Andrew Cuomo.
So I guess it's like, yeah, I don't care if
you touch my daughter. Forty four percent of voters over
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seventy like him. Black and Hispanic voters are his biggest percent,
and support with Blacks forty five percent with Hispanics. And
then like the general election because now Eric Adams said
I'm not running at a primary he was never gonna win,
so he's got a chance now in a in a
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head to head, you know there'll be two other people though,
and the Working Families Party they're crazy. You don't know
who they're gonna go with. But Eric Adams now running
as an independent, he better shed all his crap and
just run strong. Say anything you want, don't be reckless,
but you know it can be empowering to not have
to deal with the lunatics and owe the people. Everybody
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you know in the party go after Clomo. I mean,
he's in a heap of trouble Adams. But there is
a I think by doing this a little light at
the end of tunnel for him. But here's the you know,
this is the center of the resistance, right. Sixty three
percent of New York City Democratic voters want the mayor
to stand up to Trump. Well, twenty eight percent only
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would want the mayor to work with Trump, meaning just
we don't. We could burn down the city, we could
care less, Just don't work with that guy. It's how
stupid they are. And congestion pricing, forty four percent say
it should not continue. Forty two percent said it should.
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And you know who are the most supportive of congestion pricing,
White voters, of course, because they probably have a higher
income and they love less traffic. Black and Hispanic are
strongly opposed to it. Good for them. Smart. Uh all right,
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So I just want to here, here's what I got
to talk to you about for a second. And I
think this is interesting because I was in a conversation
with somebody my age parent. They have kids, one kid
is in high school still, and so on the phones,
the parents, you know, the parents are buying the phones, right,
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the parents are buying the iPhones or and you know,
giving them to the kids so the fit. You know,
the sixteen year old in school still has the Life
three sixty app or find a phone, right, so the
parent can always watch the where the kid is. That's fine.
By the way, these kids who have been growing up,
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they're on Snapchat, They're on everything. They are always always
knowing where their friends are. To me, this is crazy,
like I don't want anyone to know where I am
other than my wife or whomever.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I don't need everybody tracking me. But that's what they
do now. And then they look at their phones like,
oh my god, my friend was invited to my other
friends Asian. I wasn't. I mean, this is deally, this
is seriously what they're dealing with now. This is like,
this is why I said I think I agree with
Hochel taking away the phones, which, by the way, maybe
maybe New York state law soon because it is in
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the budget and they've kind of agreed on that to
take away the phones during school. But so now these
kids are growing up with it doesn't matter who who
knows where I am because that's kind of what we do.
So you have the one kid in high school no
issue with that underage next kid in college legally an
adult parents still owns the phone. Parents still kind of
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watching where the kid is on Life three sixty or
find a Phone or whatever. Kid in college, eh, okay,
probably knows about it, doesn't really care as much either.
Not a big issue even though they're an adult. Okay.
Now we get into an older kid in like in
their twenties, let's say twenty three, twenty four, whatever, twenty two.
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Parents still owns the phone, technically paid for it. Kid
is on like health insurance. The kid is on the
phone plan. Kid may not realize any more that this
app is active and parents are still watching the adult
child everything. Here, she does the question, though, is is
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it right for the parent to still be tracking their
adult kid if they're paying for the phone without the kid,
I say, kid, without the young adult knowing anymore. And
I guess that. So we had this interesting back and
forth because I'm like, well, I definitely for the younger kid,
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no question. The college kid, Yeah, I guess that I
would agree with that because they're a way to college.
You know, there's still home in many senses, and they're
you know, they're young, they're stupid, you just want to
make sure, especially a girl. I know that sounds stupid,
but you know, you know what I mean. But the
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young adult who is off on his or her own,
out of college now the way, working and not living
at home anymore, does the and have the right to
still know where that kid is their kid if the
kid doesn't know it. And I was like, I don't
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think so. I don't think you really have the right
anymore to do that. They were pushing back, saying, I'm
paying for the phone. They you know, he or she
can get his or her own phone and that's it.
But as long as this app is still active and
they've never turned it off or never said anything, I
kind of like to know where they are still. And
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I guess it's a sense of comfort. I mean, as
a parent, you're you're always kind of worried about your kids,
no matter how old they are, right, little kids, little problems,
big kids, big problems. But it's it's one of those
dilemmas I think for parents if is it right or
is it wrong? Maybe it's neither, I don't know. And
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maybe if you didn't buy the phone, but you're snuck
the app and that's like totally different, but if it
was already existing. So I don't know. I thought i'd wanted.
I really wanted to get your opinion on this, because
it's one of those things where I don't know where
to fall on this. My instinct is no, I don't
think so anymore. If that kid is old enough to,
you know, drink, old enough to certainly drive clearly, but
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to legally drink rent a car, maybe you know, do
a dull things. Oneted hundred three two one zero seven ten,
wanted hundred three two one zero seven ten. I'm interested.
And this is one of those topics where you know,
sometimes people I have so many people who have come
up to me and said, oh, I love your show.
(15:37):
I listened to your radio show, and I say, oh, great,
call in. Oh I don't I don't always like to
talk politicize. I agree with what you say, but I'm
afraid to talk political. Well, this is your chance now
for something non political. That's why I do some of
these things too, to mix it up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
This, One woman, Barbara came up to me. I was
at the Pleasantville dinner and she came up to me.
I love your show. I said, well, call in so,
Barbara or whomever. Now there's your chance. One eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten. One eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. I think there might be
a divide here too, between parents and grandparents. Grandparents might
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be like, I don't think so. Parents might be like, yes, oh,
let's see one hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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I don't know if that's fair, and you're laughing too.
I guess it is. I mean, that's what happens when
you do lab Radio one hundred and three two one
zero seven ten one eight hundred and three two one
zero seven ten. Love your take on that. Whether or
not parents should be able to still track where their
adult kids are. I guess the question is without their knowledge.
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But you know, even if the kid says, yeah, you
can do that, should we I don't know. Come right
back rob Astorino Show with your calls hats.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
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Speaker 2 (18:26):
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it still Saint Patrick's No, this is the Scott's time.
Liro's point to point. If you are going to the
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I'm gonna meet my son who's in the Air Force,
and we're gonna go and have great Memphis barbecue. Memphis
is well known, by the way for their barbecue, Southern barbecue.
So we're gonna go and find a great joint to eat,
and then walk around Bele Street. Maybe I have a
couple of drinks, and then head back to Little Rock,
which is about a two hour drive, and spend a
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day or so there with him, and then come home.
And of course, how am I coming home from the airport.
How am I getting to the airport? Well, there's only
one way Liro's point to point, and my time is valuable.
I like to either sleep in the car a little
bit if it's really early, or you know, look on
my phone or do some work, and that's what I
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Speaker 5 (20:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, phones are lit up like crazy, so let's get
to them. One hundred and three two one zero seven ten.
The question on the table does a parent have the writer?
Should a parent still monitor via these apps on your
kid's phone when your kid is now an adult out
of college, like you know, twenty something years old, twenty three,
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twenty four whatever, without the kid's knowledge. That's kind of
it because you own the phone. All right. Let us
start with Andy in Yonkers Hi, Andy.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh ha, Hi, Uh how'd it go?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
My man?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm good?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Oh man?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Great show man. I love it every Saturday afternoon. Make
the afternoon go good. The thing is the tariffs and everything.
The first thing is, let's remember Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
My question that I asked was about the phones. So
now Andy, I have to let you go because I gotta,
I gotta, I gotta teach. It's a teaching moment. Let's
stick to the topic. One hundred three two one zero
seven ten. You know what it is. It's like if
you're having a conversation with somebody at dinner or whatever,
and all of a sudden they do in a in
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the middle of a sentence, they changed the topic. You
would be like, what do you huh? That's kind of
like what we're doing here. Yeah, I mean, we're all
family here, but we don't have to be dysfunctional right now.
You could be dysfunctional. At five o'clock when doctor Liederman
comes on, why does he talk in the third person?
By the way, he's always doctor Leederman. Doctor rob Asreno
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doesn't like when people talk in third person. All right,
let's go to the phone. One it under three two
one zero seven ten. Sandra, you know I should have
led you should lead it off because you know what
to do. Go ahead, Sondra, how are you?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Oh okay, fine, mar how are you? I guess if
you want me to stick to the topic. Mind, you
would have never had an issue about having her locations
on my phone. In fact, she said, it's okayme on gossip.
Bit I get lost or I get in trouble, at
least you know where I am. And even for myself,
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I wouldn't mind having my husband have me on his
phone or my daughter have me on what happens if
something happens to me, at least I have a better
chance of being saved if my family members know where
I am.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yep, that's how I feel about that.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Thank you, Sondra. Now, either it's raining out or you're
marching in that Tartan parade because I can hear the wipers.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I know, I know, but I have to say one thing, Lob.
If I did it without my daughter knowing, she might
not like that. Yeah, So I think we have to
be upfront and honest.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah. So that's the point. Good, good call, Thanks Sondra.
One hundred and three two one zero seven ten Tom
in Hawaii listening on seven ten WR or the iHeart
app because I know our signal doesn't go that far.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Aloha Tom, Yes, thank you and I listened to you
on my my Alexa. And so my four kids are
part Hawaiian, three are on the mainland. When I was
paying for all their phones when they were in college,
I kept tabs in them. And being a former marine
and the retired police officer, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
For your service. God bless you.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You know you think you think what you use your
critical thinking, and you hope that your kids you'll use
their critical thing, but sometimes they don't. So it's great
to have those tabs on your kids. When and it
happened to me, I mean I got I got a
FaceTime one day or one evening and my daughter it
was last call for alcohol in this club in Manhattan,
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and I'm like, who the heck is this? And she
mistakenly facetimed me at last call for alcohol And it
was like I was able to find some people that
she knew to find her to make sure that she
was okay. I knew her location and you know, and
in the military they're just saying called security is three
hundred and sixty degrees and continuous, right, It's great, Like
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Sondra just said, it's great to have it worked both ways.
I was out in my garden last Labor Day and
I had a stroke and my daughter, my oldest daughter,
found out I was having a stroke because she was
checking out on her dad. So it works both ways.
Yeah and yeah, so survive ability these days, especially when
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you live in a city like Manhattan or Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
But here's my question, Tom, did your daughter know that
you were you had the app and that it was
active and you were you you could keep tabs on her?
Or did she not?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Not at first? Again, I divulged that to her later,
and that was after she began paying her own phone.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Ah, say that's the marker, Tom, thank you for the call.
And uh, yeah, what a great place Hawaii, She's I've
never been there. I wanted maybe Tom will, maybe he's
got a spare room. I go, see that's the marker.
Maybe that's the marker, And that's the That is the
rationale that my friend said. I'm paying for the phone.
It's technically my phone, So if they want my phone
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to use, then that's the rule. I get. But again,
it's the rule if you know it. If they don't
know it, is that right? I don't know one hundred
and three two one zero seven ten h What do
you think, Maria and Tarrytown.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
I think Rob, it's perfectly fine. You're doing it for
their safety, especially if they're flying a lot or going
places in the city, because god forbid they're in danger.
You've got to know where to start looking or tell
somebody that they know. I know I even know her friends,
some of her friends and phone numbers. So you know,
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it's a matter of safety. And you're not going to
constantly do it to be nosy, but you're not going
to be constantly throwing it in their face, why did
you go here, there or anywhere? So it's it's for
and it works both ways. They'll know where.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You are too, right, unless you have yours turned off,
it could be one way, and I know people who
do that. Maria, thanks for the call. Yeah, I mean,
so you what you do is you have to download
these apps. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
Like if you have an iPhone, they have the find
a Friend. I think it's fine a friend or find
a phone, whatever it is, and so, but both have
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to basically accept. Now you can forget over time that
you have that, and you know people could be looking
or not, but you know that that's your choice. What
I'm saying here is if the kids don't know about it,
I mean, at some point, look, we all grew up
and we're out of the house and nobody knows where
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you are. You check in my phone or say hi.
But now it's like you don't need to check and
they know where you are. And I don't know if
that is I don't know if that's right or wrong.
And that's that's why I'm asking you. One eight hundred
and three two one zero seven ten Judy in Connecticut.
You're on the Rob Aster Reno Show. Hi Judy, Hey, Rob.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
I hope you're having a good day today. And my
feeling is if you pay for the phone, you should
know where it is at all times.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
So it's about the phone.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
I did come from a large extended family, and unfortunately
most of the has passed on at this point. But
if you were saying with somebody before cell phones, you
made if they were there, you told them where you
were going when you expected to be back. If they
were not there at the time, you left them a note.
It was you know, so people knew where where everyone was.
(28:17):
I still have to call one of my.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Cousins every morning, why to check in.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Yeah, to let to let her know I'm.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
And you know I'm not going to tell you how
old I am, but i am over sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I appreciate the call, Tody, and you could.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Call it any time and thank you, and you have
a safe day.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Take here now, Bob, I too, one hundred three two
one zero seven ten. One in one hundred and three
two one zero seven ten, the rob Askerino Show on
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A couple more calls here, let's uh, if you want
to call in one eight hundred and three to two
one zero seven ten. So it seems to me it's
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if you own the phone, if you're paying. I just
saw a study too. It's it's kind of remarkable. Fifty
percent fifty percent of kids who are adults now are
still financially dependent on their parents for some way, and
(29:48):
the phone is listed as one of them. So if
you're paying, and I'm paying for all of my kids,
they're under my plan. So yes, they all have their
their own I iPhones, but it's my account. So do
I have the right to demand even on like my
(30:08):
adult son who's going to be twenty two? Do I
have the right to demand certain things because I have
the phone and I'm paying for it. I don't know.
One zero seven ten. Let's go to Beth Page on
the Island.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Hey, Chris, Hey Rob, Yeah, definitely. Now I have a
twenty three year old son and losing Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, and uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
He graduated from you to Roskie Buffalo. Now he has
a engineering job for the State of New York. So
thank you, Kathy Huckle.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The only thing she did right, right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 10 (30:44):
I finally said, I go, I'm finally getting some out
of my tax money. But anyhow, Rob, he knows that
I you know, like you. The one thing I do
is he's self sufficient, thank god. He pays for everything
on his own, but he's on my plan, so he's
fine with it.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Like he's he knows.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
That I can track him in all times. And it's funny.
You know, the other day and him and his buddies
went to Toronto for the for a basketball game, and
I called him up. I go, what are you doing
in Toronto?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
You know? And he goes, oh, how do you know that?
Speaker 10 (31:17):
I go, I haven't tracking yet, and he goes, oh,
I forgot But anyhow, yes, it's interesting and he's fine
with it. But like the previous call said, God took fit.
Something happens to him, you know, wherever, and you know,
I can track where he is and then call people
locally up there and they can go find out what's wrong.
Speaker 11 (31:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, no, good call, thanks Chris. So I mean what
did we used to do when we when we didn't
have that instant connectivity and know where they were. I mean,
you got the call and somebody came to the rescue
and so that. But the person I was talking to,
so their kid broke their phone and they were getting
(32:02):
a new phone, and they're still paying for the new phone,
and they didn't know what to do, Like if if
because this switch of phones, if the app became inactive
and they couldn't couldn't find him or couldn't didn't have
I think it was like three or sixty. If that
was not active, still, what would they do? And I
(32:25):
guess it did transfer over because they said it's still there.
But I guess that that's how it sparked the conversation
I had with them. Let's go to Patricia in Bluebell, Pennsylvania.
You're on seven to ten wor Patricia. Where is Bluebell?
Speaker 12 (32:39):
It's the suburb of Philly.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 12 (32:44):
I was listening to the other callers, and I believe
they do have a valid point. However, it's an invasion
of privacy.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Well that's what I'm getting at that. That's exactly what
I'm wondering, Like if they don't know, even if they do,
but if they consent to it, there's no issue. But
if they don't know, then is it sort of an
invasion of privacy?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Right?
Speaker 12 (33:08):
And there's the reason why they don't want you to
be able to track them. Perhaps it's a relationship problem.
And perhaps these people that want to track their child
without their child's permission, perhaps they need a little bit
of therapy.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well you know what, a little bit Yeah, Well, I
think what happens like any parent, And I thank you
for the call, Patricia, please call again. Most you just
you know, before you go to bed, you just want
to know your kids are safe, you know, when they're home,
living at home, when they walk in the door. Okay, fine,
we can go to bed now we know everybody is safe,
tucked in. When they're not living with you anymore, they're
(33:51):
away at college, you're wondering, like, Okay, it's a Saturday
night at one in the morning, I just hope they're okay. Well,
with the app you can see they're back in their
dorm room and you're assuming they're all right. But when
they're past that, that's the question, like, all right, I
mean they could do whatever they want to do legally,
do you still have that right? I guess that's you know,
(34:14):
let's go to Scott in the Bronx on seven to
ten WR.
Speaker 11 (34:18):
All right, so before I get to my comment, so
pretty much, Yeah, there's an interesting article talking about just
this topic or you're incidentally, it's at unz dot com
and they're talking about safety in terms of you know,
criminality and cell phones. And I think that's that's the
(34:39):
one thing that would lead me towards saying yes that
the parents do have the right to track their children
because God forbid, they're in a situation whereby they're kidnapped
or they're in a public place and some lunatic comes
in shooting, some mass shooter comes into either a campus
or some other venue where people are being in are
(35:00):
put in the harm's way. They can you can, you
could have an account of that. And or if you
know less less dramatically, let's say your child, whether he's
an adult young adult child or not, UH, is in
a situation whereby he's uh witnessed to a crime and
you he might he might be you know, somewhat hesitant
(35:23):
uh to you know, say that he actually witnessed the crime.
But nevertheless, you have evidence of it, you know, and
you might want to you know, turn that into authorities
to help apprehend some deviant miscreant uh mutant on the
street praying on people. So I think it's a safety issue.
Uh So it's largely a safety issue. And and final
(35:44):
and finally, uh you know, the economic issue in so
far as that if you're paying for the plan and
many many phone companies uh cell phone providers will give
you discounts if you have lines that extend a family
and friends you're paying for it out of your pocket,
so I mean, you know you mind as well. I mean,
take advantage of it, and you know you're You're absolutely right.
(36:05):
A large percentage of young adults are living at home
with their parents.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah because yeah, or financially dependent in something. They might
be living on their own, but the parent is paying
for rent or partially paying for rent or the phone
plan or whatever. So yeah, I mean that all gets
into it. Kathy in North Carolina, you're on seven to
ten wor Hi, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Hi, Rob No long time, no yet.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I thought you left me. Kathy.
Speaker 11 (36:32):
No, you're like.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Too popular you guys.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
Come on anyway.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
My children, my girls always accuse me of watching forty
eight hours and twenty twenty two months. But I want
to tell you that I've got a five fans fascinating
now is my one? I blinked my eyes and my
daughters are now forty, which is freaky. Yeah, but one
is single and she does a lot of you know,
(36:57):
online dating, and to my chagrin, but it's a good
way to meet some people. It's a good way to
also whatever hookup, I guess. But I started noticing that
my she wouldn't have be opposed to be tracking. But
what I let my do with my other daughter track
her and she'll let me know, I mean literally track
(37:19):
her like she can see if she's at the bar.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Oh yeah, exactly know exactly where you are. You can
see them walking, I mean you could track them walking.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Well.
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Also if you you know, if you have the iPhone,
it's much better. I don't own one, so I'm off
on that. But but just even in today's society, my
one daughter doesn't mind. She just lets her sister do it,
and then the sister reports to me, which is great.
And because it's always you know, the young women, college
kids or whatever that are getting scooped up, and I
don't have to deal with that. So that's not gonna
(37:52):
I'm not going to be that mom basically.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Ye, Kathy, it's good to hear your voice again.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yours too.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Thank you, all bless.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Thank you all right. Oh I'm at the I'm at
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where it will haunt you for the rest of the night.
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I'll tell you what show I'm watching right now on
one of those great streaming services, and why it's annoying me.
I like it, but it's really freaking annoying me. And
if you heard George Santos, by the way, he uh,
he's getting ready to go to prison. I'll let you
know about that too, So don't go away. Rob Astino Show,
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rob One Jen wore. While we're drawing the callers from
all over the world today, all over the country. At
least we'll get to Terry in Michigan in just a moment.
But we had a call from Hawaii and Pennsylvania, New York,
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call because I've never had a call from Michigan. So
let's go to Terry. How are you, Terry? Where in
where in Michigan are you?
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Well? You know how you guys advertised Hillsdale College. Yeah,
I'm about an hour from there.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Oh okay, So, like, what part is that the Detroit
area in Arbor? Where are you, Jackson?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
It's like south of Lansing.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Okay, Lansing. So Michigan State, not territory, East State.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
To the north Michigan to the East about the same
distance either way.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
All right, So what do you think about the whole
phone thing.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Well, I'm not real crazy about it. My wife and
my son like they do that. And he lives in
Grand Rapids, which is like an hour and a half away,
and so like when he's traveling down here, we can
kind of keeps tracking to know when he's going to
show up. And he does the same thing when we're
heading up to visit him. So I mean, that's that's
(42:41):
kind of cool. But I don't like knowing him knowing
where we're at all the time. He doesn't seem to
care about it. What he was doing in high school
and stuff, you know, in college, it was like, does
he just want to know where we're at so, you know,
for some other reason, or does he want to you know?
But and then and then my father in law he's
(43:03):
eighty four, and he's got an iPhone and he's on
our plane and so she put it on his phone.
So he still drives and we're worried about them, and yeah,
wherever he's going.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
And I that's different. I agree with that. You know,
someone who's a little more either elderly or you could
keep track of them for same reasons. But it's funny, Terry,
and thank you for the call. Feel free to call
on any week. It's you know, it's like, Okay, I'm
going to watch you, but you ain't watching me, And
(43:35):
certainly as an adult, I'm like, no, I don't want
my kids knowing where I am. Not that my wife
and I are like, you know, gallivanting and wherever s
and m clubs or something. But you know, it's like, no,
I don't want you to know where we are a
couple of things. So I'm watching. I think, is it Netflix? Yeah?
Is Netflix? Or no? No, it's Max. It's on Max.
(43:56):
The Pit, The Pit Noah while who used to be
on Er. Basically it's a similar it's about the emergency
room I guess Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, and the
Pit is what they call like the Er, and it's
really done well. I mean it's so good and each hour,
(44:18):
each episode is an hour of their shift, so I
think they do like it might be ten episodes or
maybe a few more, and it's just it's constant, and
I mean it is totally. It moves, it's fast paced,
there's always different cases and people being rushed in for
this that or the other thing some of it is.
I mean, I could not believe they show I mean,
(44:39):
I still think this was an actual berth that they
were showing. There was a pregnant woman who was close
to dying and their watch you're literally seeing a baby.
I mean, this was a baby. This was not if
they did if they fooled me, if it wasn't, but
they have a shot of the baby coming out. I mean,
the whole thing they're showing, and the baby was stuck
in the shoulder was stuck in and they had to
(45:02):
get that very good. I mean, they deal with some
really serious stuff. I mean it's not like uplifting, it's
kind of emotional. But I love the show and I
would just like them to entertain me and not shove
all their woke crap down my throat. And this is
(45:22):
what they're doing, and I'm getting I'm kind of laughing
it off, but it's kind of annoying me now. And
like the first couple episodes, you know, all of a sudden,
there was a transgender woman who's a guy. Of course,
a transgender woman comes into the emergency room. I forget
what the issue was, but you know, then the nurse
(45:45):
says something like, oh, you know, I'm glad you're living
your true life, and oh, thank you, honey, and then like, oh,
I'm sorry, I see your name in the computer. You've
been misgendered. I'm so sorry. I'm like, give me a
freaking break. And then it's you know, there's an abortion.
Of course, it's got to be abortion. So this fifteen
(46:08):
or sixteen year old girl comes in with what you
think is her mother, and you know she's pregnant. They
don't want the baby, so the nurses, of course are pushing,
will take mithipristone, take these pills, you know, get rid
of the baby. Blahlah blah blah, you'll have an abortion.
Then it turns out it's not her mom. It's it's
(46:28):
her aunt, and her mother comes running in, you know,
exc and like, wait a minute, what are you doing
with my sixty my underage kid. I'm still the parent here,
and I don't want my child to have an abortion.
And so you know, the whole show is like this woman,
this mother, who does not want her child to have
an abortion for religious reasons, ethical reasons, whatever, is such
(46:52):
a horrible human being. How could you do this? And then,
of course it. It got to all right, let's have
the daughter and the mom put them in a room together.
And then of course the mom comes out enlightened, comes
out later like, Okay, the kid can have an abortion.
I mean, it's just it's so stupid. And then of
course it's like a checklist. Oh, there's your gay couple,
(47:15):
there's your interracial couple, there's and then they have this
whole scene where white guilt. And now I said to us,
so I'm like my wife and I are like chuckling.
Each time they do this, they every episode has to
have something like this from the left. And I'm like,
you know, I think we've seen everything, but we have,
and I'm sure there's things that were missing. And I'm like, guns,
(47:36):
they haven't gone after guns yet. And wouldn't you know it,
that's gonna be the final episode because doctor Robbie, who
is Noah while he I don't know if it's his
kid or what the relationship, but anyway, kid came into
the hospital and he gave him tickets to see some
outdoor concert in Pittsburgh, and I said, I guarantee you
(47:58):
there's gonna be a mass shooting. And then of course
that's the way they leave off the episode where one
we're gonna watch the final episode, I think tonight, and
it it is a mass shooting because guns are bad.
Of course, anyone has a gun is bad. So it's
just like, you know what, can you just let me
enjoy something for once without this ridiculousness. But the left
(48:20):
is going to be the left? But it is a
good show, the pit, it is a good show. I
do enjoy it. But I just thought I would throw
that out there. What a week we had at news Max.
You know, we went public on Monday, and the stock
it was like a meme stock for a while. It
opened to ten dollars a share, that was the IPO.
It went to two hundred and fifty dollars. Everyone thought
(48:41):
I was rich. I was getting calls from people like
wealth managers. You work on Newsmax, right, You're probably made
ten million dollars today. No, no, But of course the
stock went down to where, well, it's like sixty dollars now,
whatever it is. But it was a crazy week and
I got to do something I had never done. I
was on the New York Stock Exchange floor for the
(49:02):
opening bell on Thursday for Newsmax. We opened the bell.
It was really it was a lot of fun. It
was very cool. Anyway, I'll be back here next Saturday,
four o'clock. Love all the new callers, lover our usuals.
Make sure you tune in listen to the podcast if
you want to send it to somebody else about the phones.
(49:22):
Thanks for being with me. I will talk to you
next Saturday, four o'clock right here on the Rob Astrino
Show on seven ten WR.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Ah, Yeah, a rainy, rainy, crappy Saturday, and you know what,
I'm kind of happy. And you know me, I hate
walking in the rain. But when I got on the
train this morning, I saw so many of these seventy
year old ladies with their placards coming down to the
(00:46):
Hands Off rally in New York City. They're doing this
all over the country, and this is the resistance. This
is the I hate Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Let's
get together and bang drums about nothing. And that's what
they were doing. They had all these ridiculous placards. I'm
reading them on the train and I looked at this
one woman like, are you serious? I mean, how old
(01:09):
are you? Obviously she's a leftover hippie from the sixties
with nothing better to do, so she's coming down to
the city today to have the fun. And it's just
the most silly placards. Hands off my body nobody's touching you.
Trust me, nobody's touching you. It's just everything is just
like they're flipping out again. Now, all right, this wasn't
(01:32):
a great week. I almost threw up when I saw
my four oh one K and I saw my stocks yesterday.
Not good. And obviously you know if you need your
stocks in your four oh one k right now, that's
it was a bad week for you. I have more time,
so I know it'll recover overtime. And this is like
(01:56):
when COVID hit and the market crashed. If you had
some cat on the side, you made money over the
last five years because you bought stocks. If you were
smart like I was for once, you bought stocks that
you knew were sold at a complete discount and over
time they were going to get strong. Yeah, so I
have those now.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I should have been smarter because knowing it wasn't like
Trump just threw these tariff things on us. He's been
talking about it and he was making this big announcement.
They told you for the last week or so. So
what should have been done and I didn't do and
I'm stupid, is I should have dumped some of my
stocks the last week, had all this cash on hands,
(02:39):
sitting on the side and now scoop up some good stuff.
That's why I'm so I'm still doing a radio show
on Saturday, and for anyway, it really is good to
be with you every Saturday. So I have a really
important question to ask you in a little while, and
but before I get to that, I want to I
(03:00):
want to go over some interesting things that have been happening.
And then I want to get into this topic about
kids who are now young adults and whether or not
parents still have the right or should track your children
adult children, young adult children on their phones and where
they're at. And I had a conversation with somebody and
(03:23):
I'm going to get into that with you because I'm
really interested to hear what you think about this, because
it's kind of interesting. Anyway, we'll get to that in
just a few minutes. But a couple things first. So
the one thing, and I don't know how this tariff
thing is going to play out. I really don't. I mean,
the short term hit not good. But the butt here
(03:46):
is Trump is the first president that I can remember
who actually was campaigning on things that he's now doing.
He said I'm going to do tariffs. People knew that,
and they voted for him, and he went through X,
Y and Z. I'm gonna do it, and he's doing it,
and he's had a firm belief about Look, if we're
(04:06):
getting screwed and we have for generations now, then it's
time to kind of reset things. And he's playing the
long game, which never happens. I don't know of any
politician anymore who actually says, you know what, five ten
years from now, you're gonna thank me. I won't be around.
I mean, hopefully he's alive, but he's not gonna be
in office, but you're gonna thank me about the jobs
(04:28):
that have come back and how well we're doing now. Look,
it's a roll of the dice, but it's a firm
belief of his and maybe it will work out, maybe
it won't. But the point I'm making here is he's
putting it all on the line. He's putting all his
chips in the middle of the table and resetting things. Now,
this could be it could be a gamble to have
(04:49):
other countries say all right, look we don't want to
lose either, what do you want and they negotiate new
trade deals, or it could be no, uh huh. It's
either everyone is zero or everyone's going to be twenty
five percent period, because we're getting shut out of your market.
We're allowing you here, we're charging you basically nothing. You're
not allowing us there. So you know what's wrong here.
(05:13):
That's basically what it is. Now you can agree with
it or not. We'll see, We'll see how it plays out.
We'll see how the market responds over time. But the
big picture is we finally have a president who's looking
long term, and that's what all this doge stuff is.
I mean, we are swimming in red ink. We are drowning.
We're right up to our nose by the way in
(05:34):
the water. And unfortunately, if you look back at other
countries in the same predicament, they did not do anything
to reverse course and they went under period. Look at
what happened in Greece about ten years ago. Look what
happened in Venezuela. I mean, so many countries have just
plunged economically because they didn't. They didn't stop the spending spree,
(05:55):
they didn't stop the borrowing spree. They were so far
in debt. He's saying, look, folks, hey, this is it man,
I'm gonna take control and put us in the right direction.
And unfortunately some of us, and too many of us,
are like no, no, no, no, no, no no, don't
do that. I like it the way it is. I
want to drown, so I don't know. We'll see, we'll see.
(06:16):
I want to get into locally for a second too.
There was a new poll that came out about the
mayor's race. Andrew Cuomo, you know who I've said all along,
is likely to win this. He's gotten stronger, he's done nothing.
He's running a rose garden strategy. He ain't talking, he's
(06:36):
doing no media, he's avoiding everything, and he's going up.
So if I'm him, I'd be doing the same thing.
Why should I take a risk with a microphone in
front of my face and I say something stupid or
somebody you know gets under his skin. And this guy's
got a short fuse. Trust me, I know he has
a very short fuse. He's not used to being challenged,
(06:57):
he's not used to losing, and he doesn't want to
take that chance. And obviously he's susceptible to all the issues, right,
you know, killing Grandma, the whole COVID thing, signing signing
the bill that made us sanctuary, made us have all
no cash, no bail, with all the crime that it's
(07:20):
definitely on his hands. No, I mean, stop it. Congestion pricing,
this is all Andrew Cuomo, period. But he's going to
get away with it. So there was a new poll
that just came out and he's gone from last month
being at thirty three percent in a Democratic primary to
thirty eight percent. So he's going up this other guy, ma'am, Donnie,
(07:43):
who I've warned you about. This guy wants city runs supermarkets,
free buses for everybody, free health care, free child care,
free everything. You know what free means, It means you're paying.
This guy is outright scary. But as I've said, he
presents himself so well. He will fool you. He will smile.
(08:08):
He's young, he's good looking on TV. He's well spoken.
He is the wolf in sheep's clothing. This guy is
downright scary, and he's now in second place. Remember I
told you a month ago, watch this guy. He was nowhere.
This guy raised a ton of money. He's at ten
percent right now, and then all the other ones you
(08:29):
know are in like six percent or less. Eric Adams
is at eight percent, So in the poll, there were
some interesting things though on Cuomo. The older you get,
the more you love Mario. That's why, because you think
it of Maria Croomo. But the older you are in
the city as a Democrat, the more you like Andrew Cuomo.
So I guess it's like, yeah, I don't care if
you touch my daughter. Forty four percent of voters over
(08:52):
seventy like him. Black and Hispanic voters are his biggest percent,
and support with Blacks forty five percent with Hispanics. And
then like the general election because now Eric Adams said
I'm not running at a primary he was never gonna win,
so he's got a chance now in a in a
(09:15):
head to head, you know there'll be two other people though,
and the Working Families Party they're crazy. You don't know
who they're gonna go with. But Eric Adams now running
as an independent, he better shed all his crap and
just run strong. Say anything you want, don't be reckless,
but you know it can be empowering to not have
to deal with the lunatics and owe the people. Everybody
(09:38):
you know in the party go after Clomo. I mean,
he's in a heap of trouble Adams. But there is
a I think by doing this a little light at
the end of tunnel for him. But here's the you know,
this is the center of the resistance, right. Sixty three
percent of New York City Democratic voters want the mayor
to stand up to Trump. Well, twenty eight percent only
(10:01):
would want the mayor to work with Trump, meaning just
we don't. We could burn down the city, we could
care less, Just don't work with that guy. It's how
stupid they are. And congestion pricing, forty four percent say
it should not continue. Forty two percent said it should.
(10:21):
And you know who are the most supportive of congestion pricing,
White voters, of course, because they probably have a higher
income and they love less traffic. Black and Hispanic are
strongly opposed to it. Good for them. Smart. Uh all right,
(10:41):
So I just want to here, here's what I got
to talk to you about for a second. And I
think this is interesting because I was in a conversation
with somebody my age parent. They have kids, one kid
is in high school still, and so on the phones,
the parents, you know, the parents are buying the phones, right,
(11:03):
the parents are buying the iPhones or and you know,
giving them to the kids so the fit. You know,
the sixteen year old in school still has the Life
three sixty app or find a phone, right, so the
parent can always watch the where the kid is. That's fine.
By the way, these kids who have been growing up,
(11:25):
they're on Snapchat, They're on everything. They are always always
knowing where their friends are. To me, this is crazy,
like I don't want anyone to know where I am
other than my wife or whomever.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I don't need everybody tracking me. But that's what they
do now. And then they look at their phones like,
oh my god, my friend was invited to my other
friends Asian. I wasn't. I mean, this is deally, this
is seriously what they're dealing with now. This is like,
this is why I said I think I agree with
Hochel taking away the phones, which, by the way, maybe
maybe New York state law soon because it is in
(12:00):
the budget and they've kind of agreed on that to
take away the phones during school. But so now these
kids are growing up with it doesn't matter who who
knows where I am because that's kind of what we do.
So you have the one kid in high school no
issue with that underage next kid in college legally an
adult parents still owns the phone. Parents still kind of
(12:23):
watching where the kid is on Life three sixty or
find a Phone or whatever. Kid in college, eh, okay,
probably knows about it, doesn't really care as much either.
Not a big issue even though they're an adult. Okay.
Now we get into an older kid in like in
their twenties, let's say twenty three, twenty four, whatever, twenty two.
(12:49):
Parents still owns the phone, technically paid for it. Kid
is on like health insurance. The kid is on the
phone plan. Kid may not realize any more that this
app is active and parents are still watching the adult
child everything. Here, she does the question, though, is is
(13:10):
it right for the parent to still be tracking their
adult kid if they're paying for the phone without the kid,
I say, kid, without the young adult knowing anymore. And
I guess that. So we had this interesting back and
forth because I'm like, well, I definitely for the younger kid,
(13:30):
no question. The college kid, Yeah, I guess that I
would agree with that because they're a way to college.
You know, there's still home in many senses, and they're
you know, they're young, they're stupid, you just want to
make sure, especially a girl. I know that sounds stupid,
but you know, you know what I mean. But the
(13:51):
young adult who is off on his or her own,
out of college now the way, working and not living
at home anymore, does the and have the right to
still know where that kid is their kid if the
kid doesn't know it. And I was like, I don't
(14:12):
think so. I don't think you really have the right
anymore to do that. They were pushing back, saying, I'm
paying for the phone. They you know, he or she
can get his or her own phone and that's it.
But as long as this app is still active and
they've never turned it off or never said anything, I
kind of like to know where they are still. And
(14:32):
I guess it's a sense of comfort. I mean, as
a parent, you're you're always kind of worried about your kids,
no matter how old they are, right, little kids, little problems,
big kids, big problems. But it's it's one of those
dilemmas I think for parents if is it right or
is it wrong? Maybe it's neither, I don't know. And
(14:52):
maybe if you didn't buy the phone, but you're snuck
the app and that's like totally different, but if it
was already existing. So I don't know. I thought i'd wanted.
I really wanted to get your opinion on this, because
it's one of those things where I don't know where
to fall on this. My instinct is no, I don't
think so anymore. If that kid is old enough to,
you know, drink, old enough to certainly drive clearly, but
(15:16):
to legally drink rent a car, maybe you know, do
a dull things. Oneted hundred three two one zero seven ten,
wanted hundred three two one zero seven ten. I'm interested.
And this is one of those topics where you know,
sometimes people I have so many people who have come
up to me and said, oh, I love your show.
(15:37):
I listened to your radio show, and I say, oh, great,
call in. Oh I don't I don't always like to
talk politicize. I agree with what you say, but I'm
afraid to talk political. Well, this is your chance now
for something non political. That's why I do some of
these things too, to mix it up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
This, One woman, Barbara came up to me. I was
at the Pleasantville dinner and she came up to me.
I love your show. I said, well, call in so,
Barbara or whomever. Now there's your chance. One eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten. One eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. I think there might be
a divide here too, between parents and grandparents. Grandparents might
(16:22):
be like, I don't think so. Parents might be like, yes, oh,
let's see one hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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He's cracking up in the control room, loves playing that. No,
(17:51):
I don't know if that's fair, and you're laughing too.
I guess it is. I mean, that's what happens when
you do lab Radio one hundred and three two one
zero seven ten one eight hundred and three two one
zero seven ten. Love your take on that. Whether or
not parents should be able to still track where their
adult kids are. I guess the question is without their knowledge.
(18:13):
But you know, even if the kid says, yeah, you
can do that, should we I don't know. Come right
back rob Astorino Show with your calls hats.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
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Speaker 2 (18:26):
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(18:48):
I was walking across town from Newsmax, I thought it
was like, Oh my god, is it still March? Is
it still Saint Patrick's No, this is the Scott's time.
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I'm gonna meet my son who's in the Air Force,
and we're gonna go and have great Memphis barbecue. Memphis
is well known, by the way for their barbecue, Southern barbecue.
So we're gonna go and find a great joint to eat,
and then walk around Bele Street. Maybe I have a
couple of drinks, and then head back to Little Rock,
which is about a two hour drive, and spend a
(19:34):
day or so there with him, and then come home.
And of course, how am I coming home from the airport.
How am I getting to the airport? Well, there's only
one way Liro's point to point, and my time is valuable.
I like to either sleep in the car a little
bit if it's really early, or you know, look on
my phone or do some work, and that's what I
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Speaker 5 (20:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, phones are lit up like crazy, so let's get
to them. One hundred and three two one zero seven ten.
The question on the table does a parent have the writer?
Should a parent still monitor via these apps on your
kid's phone when your kid is now an adult out
of college, like you know, twenty something years old, twenty three,
(20:57):
twenty four whatever, without the kid's knowledge. That's kind of
it because you own the phone. All right. Let us
start with Andy in Yonkers Hi, Andy.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh ha, Hi, Uh how'd it go?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
My man?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm good?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Oh man?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Great show man. I love it every Saturday afternoon. Make
the afternoon go good. The thing is the tariffs and everything.
The first thing is, let's remember Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
My question that I asked was about the phones. So
now Andy, I have to let you go because I gotta,
I gotta, I gotta teach. It's a teaching moment. Let's
stick to the topic. One hundred three two one zero
seven ten. You know what it is. It's like if
you're having a conversation with somebody at dinner or whatever,
and all of a sudden they do in a in
(21:50):
the middle of a sentence, they changed the topic. You
would be like, what do you huh? That's kind of
like what we're doing here. Yeah, I mean, we're all
family here, but we don't have to be dysfunctional right now.
You could be dysfunctional. At five o'clock when doctor Liederman
comes on, why does he talk in the third person?
By the way, he's always doctor Leederman. Doctor rob Asreno
(22:10):
doesn't like when people talk in third person. All right,
let's go to the phone. One it under three two
one zero seven ten. Sandra, you know I should have
led you should lead it off because you know what
to do. Go ahead, Sondra, how are you?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Oh okay, fine, mar how are you? I guess if
you want me to stick to the topic. Mind, you
would have never had an issue about having her locations
on my phone. In fact, she said, it's okayme on gossip.
Bit I get lost or I get in trouble, at
least you know where I am. And even for myself,
(22:44):
I wouldn't mind having my husband have me on his
phone or my daughter have me on what happens if
something happens to me, at least I have a better
chance of being saved if my family members know where
I am.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yep, that's how I feel about that.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Thank you, Sondra. Now, either it's raining out or you're
marching in that Tartan parade because I can hear the wipers.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I know, I know, but I have to say one thing, Lob.
If I did it without my daughter knowing, she might
not like that. Yeah, So I think we have to
be upfront and honest.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah. So that's the point. Good, good call, Thanks Sondra.
One hundred and three two one zero seven ten Tom
in Hawaii listening on seven ten WR or the iHeart
app because I know our signal doesn't go that far.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Aloha Tom, Yes, thank you and I listened to you
on my my Alexa. And so my four kids are
part Hawaiian, three are on the mainland. When I was
paying for all their phones when they were in college,
I kept tabs in them. And being a former marine
and the retired police officer, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
For your service. God bless you.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You know you think you think what you use your
critical thinking, and you hope that your kids you'll use
their critical thing, but sometimes they don't. So it's great
to have those tabs on your kids. When and it
happened to me, I mean I got I got a
FaceTime one day or one evening and my daughter it
was last call for alcohol in this club in Manhattan,
(24:17):
and I'm like, who the heck is this? And she
mistakenly facetimed me at last call for alcohol And it
was like I was able to find some people that
she knew to find her to make sure that she
was okay. I knew her location and you know, and
in the military they're just saying called security is three
hundred and sixty degrees and continuous, right, It's great, Like
(24:41):
Sondra just said, it's great to have it worked both ways.
I was out in my garden last Labor Day and
I had a stroke and my daughter, my oldest daughter,
found out I was having a stroke because she was
checking out on her dad. So it works both ways.
Yeah and yeah, so survive ability these days, especially when
(25:01):
you live in a city like Manhattan or Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
But here's my question, Tom, did your daughter know that
you were you had the app and that it was
active and you were you you could keep tabs on her?
Or did she not?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Not at first? Again, I divulged that to her later,
and that was after she began paying her own phone.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Ah, say that's the marker, Tom, thank you for the call.
And uh, yeah, what a great place Hawaii, She's I've
never been there. I wanted maybe Tom will, maybe he's
got a spare room. I go, see that's the marker.
Maybe that's the marker, And that's the That is the
rationale that my friend said. I'm paying for the phone.
It's technically my phone, So if they want my phone
(25:44):
to use, then that's the rule. I get. But again,
it's the rule if you know it. If they don't
know it, is that right? I don't know one hundred
and three two one zero seven ten h What do
you think, Maria and Tarrytown.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
I think Rob, it's perfectly fine. You're doing it for
their safety, especially if they're flying a lot or going
places in the city, because god forbid they're in danger.
You've got to know where to start looking or tell
somebody that they know. I know I even know her friends,
some of her friends and phone numbers. So you know,
(26:22):
it's a matter of safety. And you're not going to
constantly do it to be nosy, but you're not going
to be constantly throwing it in their face, why did
you go here, there or anywhere? So it's it's for
and it works both ways. They'll know where.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You are too, right, unless you have yours turned off,
it could be one way, and I know people who
do that. Maria, thanks for the call. Yeah, I mean,
so you what you do is you have to download
these apps. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
Like if you have an iPhone, they have the find
a Friend. I think it's fine a friend or find
a phone, whatever it is, and so, but both have
(27:02):
to basically accept. Now you can forget over time that
you have that, and you know people could be looking
or not, but you know that that's your choice. What
I'm saying here is if the kids don't know about it,
I mean, at some point, look, we all grew up
and we're out of the house and nobody knows where
(27:22):
you are. You check in my phone or say hi.
But now it's like you don't need to check and
they know where you are. And I don't know if
that is I don't know if that's right or wrong.
And that's that's why I'm asking you. One eight hundred
and three two one zero seven ten Judy in Connecticut.
You're on the Rob Aster Reno Show. Hi Judy, Hey, Rob.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
I hope you're having a good day today. And my
feeling is if you pay for the phone, you should
know where it is at all times.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
So it's about the phone.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
I did come from a large extended family, and unfortunately
most of the has passed on at this point. But
if you were saying with somebody before cell phones, you
made if they were there, you told them where you
were going when you expected to be back. If they
were not there at the time, you left them a note.
It was you know, so people knew where where everyone was.
(28:17):
I still have to call one of my.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Cousins every morning, why to check in.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Yeah, to let to let her know I'm.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
And you know I'm not going to tell you how
old I am, but i am over sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I appreciate the call, Tody, and you could.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Call it any time and thank you, and you have
a safe day.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Take here now, Bob, I too, one hundred three two
one zero seven ten. One in one hundred and three
two one zero seven ten, the rob Askerino Show on
seven ten WR or of course on seven ten WR
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A couple more calls here, let's uh, if you want
to call in one eight hundred and three to two
one zero seven ten. So it seems to me it's
(29:25):
if you own the phone, if you're paying. I just
saw a study too. It's it's kind of remarkable. Fifty
percent fifty percent of kids who are adults now are
still financially dependent on their parents for some way, and
(29:48):
the phone is listed as one of them. So if
you're paying, and I'm paying for all of my kids,
they're under my plan. So yes, they all have their
their own I iPhones, but it's my account. So do
I have the right to demand even on like my
(30:08):
adult son who's going to be twenty two? Do I
have the right to demand certain things because I have
the phone and I'm paying for it. I don't know.
One zero seven ten. Let's go to Beth Page on
the Island.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Hey, Chris, Hey Rob, Yeah, definitely. Now I have a
twenty three year old son and losing Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, and uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
He graduated from you to Roskie Buffalo. Now he has
a engineering job for the State of New York. So
thank you, Kathy Huckle.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The only thing she did right, right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 10 (30:44):
I finally said, I go, I'm finally getting some out
of my tax money. But anyhow, Rob, he knows that
I you know, like you. The one thing I do
is he's self sufficient, thank god. He pays for everything
on his own, but he's on my plan, so he's
fine with it.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Like he's he knows.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
That I can track him in all times. And it's funny.
You know, the other day and him and his buddies
went to Toronto for the for a basketball game, and
I called him up. I go, what are you doing
in Toronto?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
You know? And he goes, oh, how do you know that?
Speaker 10 (31:17):
I go, I haven't tracking yet, and he goes, oh,
I forgot But anyhow, yes, it's interesting and he's fine
with it. But like the previous call said, God took fit.
Something happens to him, you know, wherever, and you know,
I can track where he is and then call people
locally up there and they can go find out what's wrong.
Speaker 11 (31:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, no, good call, thanks Chris. So I mean what
did we used to do when we when we didn't
have that instant connectivity and know where they were. I mean,
you got the call and somebody came to the rescue
and so that. But the person I was talking to,
so their kid broke their phone and they were getting
(32:02):
a new phone, and they're still paying for the new phone,
and they didn't know what to do, Like if if
because this switch of phones, if the app became inactive
and they couldn't couldn't find him or couldn't didn't have
I think it was like three or sixty. If that
was not active, still, what would they do? And I
(32:25):
guess it did transfer over because they said it's still there.
But I guess that that's how it sparked the conversation
I had with them. Let's go to Patricia in Bluebell, Pennsylvania.
You're on seven to ten wor Patricia. Where is Bluebell?
Speaker 12 (32:39):
It's the suburb of Philly.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 12 (32:44):
I was listening to the other callers, and I believe
they do have a valid point. However, it's an invasion
of privacy.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Well that's what I'm getting at that. That's exactly what
I'm wondering, Like if they don't know, even if they do,
but if they consent to it, there's no issue. But
if they don't know, then is it sort of an
invasion of privacy?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Right?
Speaker 12 (33:08):
And there's the reason why they don't want you to
be able to track them. Perhaps it's a relationship problem.
And perhaps these people that want to track their child
without their child's permission, perhaps they need a little bit
of therapy.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well you know what, a little bit Yeah, Well, I
think what happens like any parent, And I thank you
for the call, Patricia, please call again. Most you just
you know, before you go to bed, you just want
to know your kids are safe, you know, when they're home,
living at home, when they walk in the door. Okay, fine,
we can go to bed now we know everybody is safe,
tucked in. When they're not living with you anymore, they're
(33:51):
away at college, you're wondering, like, Okay, it's a Saturday
night at one in the morning, I just hope they're okay. Well,
with the app you can see they're back in their
dorm room and you're assuming they're all right. But when
they're past that, that's the question, like, all right, I
mean they could do whatever they want to do legally,
do you still have that right? I guess that's you know,
(34:14):
let's go to Scott in the Bronx on seven to
ten WR.
Speaker 11 (34:18):
All right, so before I get to my comment, so
pretty much, Yeah, there's an interesting article talking about just
this topic or you're incidentally, it's at unz dot com
and they're talking about safety in terms of you know,
criminality and cell phones. And I think that's that's the
(34:39):
one thing that would lead me towards saying yes that
the parents do have the right to track their children
because God forbid, they're in a situation whereby they're kidnapped
or they're in a public place and some lunatic comes
in shooting, some mass shooter comes into either a campus
or some other venue where people are being in are
(35:00):
put in the harm's way. They can you can, you
could have an account of that. And or if you
know less less dramatically, let's say your child, whether he's
an adult young adult child or not, UH, is in
a situation whereby he's uh witnessed to a crime and
you he might he might be you know, somewhat hesitant
(35:23):
uh to you know, say that he actually witnessed the crime.
But nevertheless, you have evidence of it, you know, and
you might want to you know, turn that into authorities
to help apprehend some deviant miscreant uh mutant on the
street praying on people. So I think it's a safety issue.
Uh So it's largely a safety issue. And and final
(35:44):
and finally, uh you know, the economic issue in so
far as that if you're paying for the plan and
many many phone companies uh cell phone providers will give
you discounts if you have lines that extend a family
and friends you're paying for it out of your pocket,
so I mean, you know you mind as well. I mean,
take advantage of it, and you know you're You're absolutely right.
(36:05):
A large percentage of young adults are living at home
with their parents.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah because yeah, or financially dependent in something. They might
be living on their own, but the parent is paying
for rent or partially paying for rent or the phone
plan or whatever. So yeah, I mean that all gets
into it. Kathy in North Carolina, you're on seven to
ten wor Hi, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Hi, Rob No long time, no yet.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I thought you left me. Kathy.
Speaker 11 (36:32):
No, you're like.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Too popular you guys.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
Come on anyway.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
My children, my girls always accuse me of watching forty
eight hours and twenty twenty two months. But I want
to tell you that I've got a five fans fascinating
now is my one? I blinked my eyes and my
daughters are now forty, which is freaky. Yeah, but one
is single and she does a lot of you know,
(36:57):
online dating, and to my chagrin, but it's a good
way to meet some people. It's a good way to
also whatever hookup, I guess. But I started noticing that
my she wouldn't have be opposed to be tracking. But
what I let my do with my other daughter track
her and she'll let me know, I mean literally track
(37:19):
her like she can see if she's at the bar.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Oh yeah, exactly know exactly where you are. You can
see them walking, I mean you could track them walking.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Well.
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Also if you you know, if you have the iPhone,
it's much better. I don't own one, so I'm off
on that. But but just even in today's society, my
one daughter doesn't mind. She just lets her sister do it,
and then the sister reports to me, which is great.
And because it's always you know, the young women, college
kids or whatever that are getting scooped up, and I
don't have to deal with that. So that's not gonna
(37:52):
I'm not going to be that mom basically.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Ye, Kathy, it's good to hear your voice again.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yours too.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Thank you, all bless.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Thank you all right. Oh I'm at the I'm at
the point where we get that chorus, that famous chorus
where it will haunt you for the rest of the night.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
A Williams pain a G. Williams painting to be william.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Job, to do the job right, A G. Williams painting
God I love these folks. Third generation, family owned and
operated business since nineteen oh six. Nineteen oh six, Joe
Biden was a what was he in his first term
in the Senate. Then if you need your house painted,
(38:40):
insider out, or your business, these are the guys you
need to call.
Speaker 11 (38:45):
A G.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Williams painting. I mean, look, there are no fly by nights.
They've been around since nineteen oh six. They've got expert craftsmen,
wonderful painters, good people. You can go with El Chiapo.
You'll be not You'll be just so unhappy later where
you could just pay for the right company to come
in and do it once their license, they're insured, they're certified.
(39:10):
They really are the people you trust to do the
job right. They're in the Westchester County Business Hall of Fame,
for God's sakes, AG Williams Painting, ag Williams Painting dot com,
Agwilliams Painting dot Com because a G.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Williams painting, a G. Williams painting the people you just to.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Do the job right.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I'll tell you what show I'm watching right now on
one of those great streaming services, and why it's annoying me.
I like it, but it's really freaking annoying me. And
if you heard George Santos, by the way, he uh,
he's getting ready to go to prison. I'll let you
know about that too, So don't go away. Rob Astino Show,
(39:58):
rob One Jen wore. While we're drawing the callers from
all over the world today, all over the country. At
least we'll get to Terry in Michigan in just a moment.
But we had a call from Hawaii and Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey. Of course, Nissan City in port Chester, right
(40:18):
on the Connecticut line. If you're looking for a Nissan,
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does kind of sound a little stinky and smelly. I
don't know. I don't want someone's used underwear. I don't
(40:40):
want someone to use car. I want to pre owned
sounds nicer. They're a little more affordable, although the cost
of pre owned cars has gone up a lot since
COVID because in COVID everyone was, you know, some people
were out of work and everything, so they were going
(41:01):
for pre owned cars, and the prices of pre owns
went up a lot, so it almost makes sense sometimes
to buy a new car. So if you're gonna get
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over to Nissan City in Portchester. I'll take one last
(41:44):
call because I've never had a call from Michigan. So
let's go to Terry. How are you, Terry? Where in
where in Michigan are you?
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Well? You know how you guys advertised Hillsdale College. Yeah,
I'm about an hour from there.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Oh okay, So, like, what part is that the Detroit
area in Arbor? Where are you, Jackson?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
It's like south of Lansing.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Okay, Lansing. So Michigan State, not territory, East State.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
To the north Michigan to the East about the same
distance either way.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
All right, So what do you think about the whole
phone thing.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Well, I'm not real crazy about it. My wife and
my son like they do that. And he lives in
Grand Rapids, which is like an hour and a half away,
and so like when he's traveling down here, we can
kind of keeps tracking to know when he's going to
show up. And he does the same thing when we're
heading up to visit him. So I mean, that's that's
(42:41):
kind of cool. But I don't like knowing him knowing
where we're at all the time. He doesn't seem to
care about it. What he was doing in high school
and stuff, you know, in college, it was like, does
he just want to know where we're at so, you know,
for some other reason, or does he want to you know?
But and then and then my father in law he's
(43:03):
eighty four, and he's got an iPhone and he's on
our plane and so she put it on his phone.
So he still drives and we're worried about them, and yeah,
wherever he's going.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
And I that's different. I agree with that. You know,
someone who's a little more either elderly or you could
keep track of them for same reasons. But it's funny, Terry,
and thank you for the call. Feel free to call
on any week. It's you know, it's like, Okay, I'm
going to watch you, but you ain't watching me, And
(43:35):
certainly as an adult, I'm like, no, I don't want
my kids knowing where I am. Not that my wife
and I are like, you know, gallivanting and wherever s
and m clubs or something. But you know, it's like, no,
I don't want you to know where we are a
couple of things. So I'm watching. I think, is it Netflix? Yeah?
Is Netflix? Or no? No, it's Max. It's on Max.
(43:56):
The Pit, The Pit Noah while who used to be
on Er. Basically it's a similar it's about the emergency
room I guess Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, and the
Pit is what they call like the Er, and it's
really done well. I mean it's so good and each hour,
(44:18):
each episode is an hour of their shift, so I
think they do like it might be ten episodes or
maybe a few more, and it's just it's constant, and
I mean it is totally. It moves, it's fast paced,
there's always different cases and people being rushed in for
this that or the other thing some of it is.
I mean, I could not believe they show I mean,
(44:39):
I still think this was an actual berth that they
were showing. There was a pregnant woman who was close
to dying and their watch you're literally seeing a baby.
I mean, this was a baby. This was not if
they did if they fooled me, if it wasn't, but
they have a shot of the baby coming out. I mean,
the whole thing they're showing, and the baby was stuck
in the shoulder was stuck in and they had to
(45:02):
get that very good. I mean, they deal with some
really serious stuff. I mean it's not like uplifting, it's
kind of emotional. But I love the show and I
would just like them to entertain me and not shove
all their woke crap down my throat. And this is
(45:22):
what they're doing, and I'm getting I'm kind of laughing
it off, but it's kind of annoying me now. And
like the first couple episodes, you know, all of a sudden,
there was a transgender woman who's a guy. Of course,
a transgender woman comes into the emergency room. I forget
what the issue was, but you know, then the nurse
(45:45):
says something like, oh, you know, I'm glad you're living
your true life, and oh, thank you, honey, and then like, oh,
I'm sorry, I see your name in the computer. You've
been misgendered. I'm so sorry. I'm like, give me a
freaking break. And then it's you know, there's an abortion.
Of course, it's got to be abortion. So this fifteen
(46:08):
or sixteen year old girl comes in with what you
think is her mother, and you know she's pregnant. They
don't want the baby, so the nurses, of course are pushing,
will take mithipristone, take these pills, you know, get rid
of the baby. Blahlah blah blah, you'll have an abortion.
Then it turns out it's not her mom. It's it's
(46:28):
her aunt, and her mother comes running in, you know,
exc and like, wait a minute, what are you doing
with my sixty my underage kid. I'm still the parent here,
and I don't want my child to have an abortion.
And so you know, the whole show is like this woman,
this mother, who does not want her child to have
an abortion for religious reasons, ethical reasons, whatever, is such
(46:52):
a horrible human being. How could you do this? And then,
of course it. It got to all right, let's have
the daughter and the mom put them in a room together.
And then of course the mom comes out enlightened, comes
out later like, Okay, the kid can have an abortion.
I mean, it's just it's so stupid. And then of
course it's like a checklist. Oh, there's your gay couple,
(47:15):
there's your interracial couple, there's and then they have this
whole scene where white guilt. And now I said to us,
so I'm like my wife and I are like chuckling.
Each time they do this, they every episode has to
have something like this from the left. And I'm like,
you know, I think we've seen everything, but we have,
and I'm sure there's things that were missing. And I'm like, guns,
(47:36):
they haven't gone after guns yet. And wouldn't you know it,
that's gonna be the final episode because doctor Robbie, who
is Noah while he I don't know if it's his
kid or what the relationship, but anyway, kid came into
the hospital and he gave him tickets to see some
outdoor concert in Pittsburgh, and I said, I guarantee you
(47:58):
there's gonna be a mass shooting. And then of course
that's the way they leave off the episode where one
we're gonna watch the final episode, I think tonight, and
it it is a mass shooting because guns are bad.
Of course, anyone has a gun is bad. So it's
just like, you know what, can you just let me
enjoy something for once without this ridiculousness. But the left
(48:20):
is going to be the left? But it is a
good show, the pit, it is a good show. I
do enjoy it. But I just thought I would throw
that out there. What a week we had at news Max.
You know, we went public on Monday, and the stock
it was like a meme stock for a while. It
opened to ten dollars a share, that was the IPO.
It went to two hundred and fifty dollars. Everyone thought
(48:41):
I was rich. I was getting calls from people like
wealth managers. You work on Newsmax, right, You're probably made
ten million dollars today. No, no, But of course the
stock went down to where, well, it's like sixty dollars now,
whatever it is. But it was a crazy week and
I got to do something I had never done. I
was on the New York Stock Exchange floor for the
(49:02):
opening bell on Thursday for Newsmax. We opened the bell.
It was really it was a lot of fun. It
was very cool. Anyway, I'll be back here next Saturday,
four o'clock. Love all the new callers, lover our usuals.
Make sure you tune in listen to the podcast if
you want to send it to somebody else about the phones.
(49:22):
Thanks for being with me. I will talk to you
next Saturday, four o'clock right here on the Rob Astrino
Show on seven ten WR.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
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