Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, Michael, I'm looking out the window on the observation deck.
Got my popcorn handy. I'm pretty much monitoring all the
fishing boats out here. It seems like all the fishing
boats are just fishing. But I'm waiting because I hear
these fishing boats are really in for trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I hope you have a I hope you have a
camera set up so that you're just constantly recording so
we can get like amateur video.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Of a kaboom kaboom.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I got a call, uh, but I actually got an
email last night from mister Redbeard, and so I just
want to get this out. It's up to you, but
I'd like to get it out of the way right
now if we can. Do you want to do that?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I mean, your name is on the show, so I
mean we can, I know, but you know what we
can do.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
As much as I am, as much as I really
hate to admit this, uh, I have a real affinity
not for you, but for Lance and the other kids,
and of.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Course missus Redbeard. Right.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
So that's that's that's the only reason I'm doing this
for Lance and Nicholas my grandkid. Yes, yes, and of course.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Missus Redbeard and all the other family members that I've
never met my entire life, but all of them.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yes, but you know, no, that sounds about right.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, Well, just go to Michael says, go here dot com.
There's a Lance and Nicholas's other grandfather, my daughter in
law's father. He's having some troubles right now and kind
of the little medical issues that are going on. To
get the proper skilled care, he would need to go
out of state to get these procedures done, and their
(01:34):
insurance doesn't cover out of state procedures. So Michael says,
go here dot com. There's a quick little link right there.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That that's let's just say, that's the end of that conversation,
all right, But can I can I talk about something else?
I know, I know what we were told, but I
have interests because I find this kind of stuff fascinating me.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
If if you want to take up dance on the line,
that's fine, Michael.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The Dragon's done all that he's told he's allowed to do.
But now I'm just curious because there apparently are surgeons
here correct that can do one aspect that they can
do what needs to be done, But they've never done
what needs to be done because of the other stuff
(02:26):
that's going on.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Right Because for those that may not remember and those
who are new to the show, there was a very
large concern when my daughter in law gave birth to
both my grandson Lance and Nicholas, because of an underlying
medical condition that they found out that she had that
was genetic from her father, that if you are have
(02:48):
this condition and you overly exert yourself, you could quite
literally die. So because of his condition and because of
the procedure that he needs, the surgeons here in Colorado
don't deal with both that are not knowledgeable in both right, where.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You found one, but you found one? Are they found one?
They found one at the both right. So there's one
surgeon in the entire country that can do this particular procedure.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's confidence enough do this procedure.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I mean, it worse comes to worse, you you could
go with. I mean, I don't know. They'd be up
to the doctor whether they want to try it or not.
But I just find it fascinating that out of three
hundred and fifty million Americans, whatever the number of doctors
that is, that we that you not we, but you
have found or the family has found one surgeon and
one little place up in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That can do this. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Wow, Now did they do that by researching and researching
or did they get referral by referral by referral.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Referrad by by referral by referral. And they have gone
to the Mayo Clinic for underlying care for this.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh, so they've been there before. They've been there before.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And like I said, just the Colorado guys like we
can do the procedure. It's an easy procedure. It's life threatening.
You know, any surgery is life threatening, but more so here.
But with his condition, it makes it a whole lot
scarier right.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Now because we've been and I understand why the management
didn't want us to spend a lot of time on this.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I understand that.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But it's a great segue I think into a somewhat
shortened but nonetheless I think important discussion about healthcare in
this country because, as I told you before, Tamer's dad
was a general surgeon. He's a general practitioner. He was
an old country doctors. What he was he could do
anything and everything. And he had his classmates at the
(04:48):
University of Oklahoma School of Medicine back in when he graduated,
like in nineteen forty something, whatever it was, It was him,
this one Protestant, and I think they were all other Jews.
I mean I think it was. It was it was
one Gentile and you know, like out of a class
of forty doctors that graduated in nineteen forty one gentile
and thirty nine Jews, and they all specialized in everything,
(05:12):
and they all were adamant.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I mean because we used a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I used one of his classmates as a general practitioner
when tam and I first got married, and then we
used another one of his classmates as our pediatrician. And
I think even Tamma may have used one of the
doctors as an obgyn doctor, but I'm not I don't
really recall. But these guys were just smart as heck,
and they could do anything in everything, and they weren't
afraid to try anything. Now we've become so specialized, and
(05:42):
because the insurance companies have become so regulated and so
intertwined with government, which is again why whenever you say
to me something about a public private partnership, I immediately
think ripoff. I immediately think the summary, somebody somewhere is going
to get screwed, and somebody somewhere is going to make
(06:03):
a lot more money than they would if it was
just a private enterprise. And I think that's what's happened
with the insurance companies. And here we have, here, we
have a situation where somebody needs this particular kind of surgery. Now,
let's stop and think about just that. Probably nowhere else
in the world do we have the quality of medicine
(06:27):
that we have in this country. And trust me, I've
been to doctors all over the world in my travels
as the Indersecretary. And while I was fortunate many times
to be seen by a you know, a naval medical
officer at an embassy and Azerbaijan or somewhere, that was great.
But if you have to go see a doctor at
the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, well sucks
(06:51):
to be you. They'll put you on a gurney and
when your passport expires, they'll be like, oh, maybe we
should have taken care of this guy earlier. And now
we have a situation where there is one doctor in
one state, not Colorado, that can form this particular kind
of surgery. Yet the insurance is not portable and will
(07:14):
not cover that because it is out of state. Now,
think about how ludicrous ludicrous that is. It's It's much
like in some ways, I'll make it. I'll make it.
Not a perfect analogy, but somewhat of an analogy to
auto insurance. Think about this, if you bought auto insurance
(07:34):
and it was only good within the confine, the geographical confines,
or the jurisdiction of the state of Colorado, which would
mean that for me, like loading up the Lienburgers and
driving down to the undisclosed location in in Way.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Home, Mexico, I would have to have a separate.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Outomobile policy to cover, you know, any liability or collision
coverage that I might need if I were traveling in
New Mexico, or if I go to Oklahoma see my mom,
or if I you know, as I said, we were
going on Friday to our grandson's college graduation. I'm so
damn proud of him to his college graduation up in Missoula, Montana,
University of Montana, and I, you know, I'm not I said,
(08:14):
I'm not going to rent a car. I just I'll
just uber around. But maybe I should check to see
if my you know, needed a policy from my Uber
in Montana and I used Uber and you know stuff
in New York City? Do I need an Uber policy there?
It just shows that. And when and when you go
back and you think about the government shut down, what
(08:37):
was the government shut down about? It was about the
fact that, oh, the Obamacare subsidies have expired, something that
was not supposed to continue anyway. But like any of
the government program, it metastasized. And now Republicans are just
falling over themselves, not doing anything. They're just like a
bunch of Keystone cops. But there are clowns in a
(08:58):
clown car. There are clowns in the v in a
Volkswagen Beetle, and they and they just they can't They're frozen.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
They can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And all they need to do is just stand up
and say the smartest, wisest, the best economic decision is
to kill that bill, Obamacare. If you like your doctor,
you can keep your doctor. Wait, find out that's not true. Oh,
you know, the average premium for a family of four,
(09:27):
I forget it was at twelve hundred and fifteen hundred dollars.
I forget which one it was going to be. But
you know, Obama led and led and lied to us
about Oh you know with this, the average you know
family be able to get a policy for fifteen hundred
dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Where the hell is that?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And you know why, it's because the government is subsidizing it,
and so you're getting what crap, You're just getting crap.
And so they're putting in a position where they're policy and.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I have no clue and I'm not asking I'm not.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Asking Dragon to chime in on this because this is
my this is my time, not Dragon's time. You think
about they have a policy. I don't care who it is,
but the policy says, oh, yeah, we'll cover it if
you do it here, but if you do it there,
we won't cover it. Well, there is not like you're
going to use Bakistan. Uh well, well, you know, come
(10:17):
to think of it, you are going to Minnesota and
maybe it's a Somali doctor.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's going to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And so they don't. They don't cover a Smali trained doctor.
You might wa s take you into that Dragon to
make sure that the doctor really is not Somali and
that there really is something there. But it's just a
great example of how how we we do two things.
We love private, well, somebody loves private partnerships public private partnerships.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And people don't understand stand that you subsidize something. College
tuition is a great example. So the government takes over
college tuition. It's subsidizing college tuition. So the colleges and
universities know that they're not going to a private bank,
they're not going to a private lender, They're going to
the taxpayers for these student loans. So why don't we
(11:08):
just keep jacking up slowly tuition because we know there's
a fountain of dollars just flowing over there. And it's
the same with healthcare. As they know that government's going
to pay for that, and government's going to subsidize those
insurance policies. Way, they'll just keep jacking up the cost
(11:28):
at the same time that they limit the coverage. You
pay more for less thanks to government intervention. Oh my gosh,
you guys mean nuts. So I've got three or four
books that I've I've got a book about William F.
Buckley that I'm reading right now. I've got another book
on the American Revolution I'm reading. I really do have
ADHD And I've got way too many books that I'm reading,
(11:52):
and in addition to that, I'm slowly, I'm very very
slowly getting through them because I'm spending way too much
time online. And I'm spending too much time online because
that's how I do my show prep. I don't you know,
I don't walk out to the driveway in the mornings
or in the afternoons, you know, God bless the Rocky
(12:13):
Mountain News and pick up a newspaper and peruse through
the newspaper and say, oh, there's some really good stories. No,
I'm reading whatever newspapers exist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
What else do I read online?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And then of course I'm going to different websites, and
then I'm going to social media. And I had discovered
for myself that doing that you can easily slip, like
if you start, you know, like maybe you're I tend
to do this sometimes at lunch if I meet, if
I'm meeting lunch by myself, I'll do a little show
prep while I'm doing lunch. And pretty soon what am
(12:50):
I really doing? I'm dead scrolling. I'm just dead scrolling
through everything and I have found that, and I, you know,
I've not had a neurologist check I wonder what they'd
find if I had a neurologist check me cognitive decline
that started decades ago.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
They wouldn't find the brain. They wouldn't there is.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
No cognitive decline because there is nothing there to do
any cognition to begin with.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So it's just like it's just not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But I have found myself at times just literally dead scrolling,
mindlessly scrolling through I don't have a TikTok account, but
mindlessly scrolling through ex or Facebook or Instagram or whatever.
And then this morning I wake up and I quickly
(13:38):
turn on KATVR because I'm, you know, the most accurate
weather forecast in the history of mankind, and so I
see what the weather forecast is going to be. And
then I flip over real quickly at precisely seven am,
just to see what the headlines are, the leading stories
on Fox and Friends, which I despise that program, and
(14:00):
Low in the Hold. They catch my attention today because
they're talking to Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, and
the Secretary Transportation has decided that one he's been for
several weeks now, talking about if you're going to be flying,
like take your pajamas off and put on some real clothes,
(14:22):
and don't wear flip flops. Don't trim your toenails, you
know while you're sitting, you know, there in your seat.
Don't hard haug the arm rest, try to bathe, you know,
before you take a flight. And don't get me wrong,
I'm all for that. I think people really ought to.
I'm not saying you got to put a suit and
tie on to fly, but how about just a clean
(14:44):
pair of jeans, you know, a nice collared shirt, and
some real shoes, you know, boots, sneakers, loafers, something, and
not flip flops. I don't want to see your crusty, old, yellow,
nasty toenails.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Can we also add bringing food, oh my god, even
if it is the standard McDonald's or Burger king from
from the terminal.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Just just don't just don't just eat before you get
on the plane.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Most once it's three four hour plane ride, right, You'll
be fine.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Take the next they give you.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And if you don't like that, you know what I
would one exception that dragon if you want to buy
like some candy bars or snacks or something that don't
give off the the aroma of an Indian curry kitchen
or a Himalayan or Ethiopian kitchen, and dear God, no,
or a Chinese or a Thai restaurant.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
But if you want to, you know, grab some peanuts
or some popcorn or whatever, that's fine with me.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I don't care do that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But despite as I mean, air travel is just a commodity.
It's no longer a luxury. It's no longer. And I
don't know what the percentage is. Maybe somebody can tell me.
I don't want the percentage of three hundred and fifty
million Americans is that takes one or more airline trips
(16:07):
a year? My guess is it's very, very small. And
you can always see them too. You always recognize them
because they're they're like people who've the first time in DC,
or the first time in New York City, or the
first time outside and they're like, you know, they've been
herbit's their entire life. And they walk outside and they're like, oh,
what's that big bright thing in the sky. Oh, it's
(16:29):
the sun. And they're just looking around and they're bumping
into people. They have no clue what they're doing or
where they're going, or how to get their way, or
how to behave or do anything. It drives me, Baddy.
We are truly an uncivilized nature nation, and we've reached
the point now where the Secretary of Transportation is trying
to tell people how to dress on airlines.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But it's even worse. He wants to put in.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Like they called little micro gyms or micro exercises where
you're going to do You can do some pull ups,
you can do any Why why don't you give me
more security to make security go faster. Why don't you
give me some comfortable seats to sit on? Well, you know,
while I'm sitting around waiting for the gate to open
(17:19):
or something. Why don't you do things like that? We
are really stupid in this country.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I didn't realize the King was running for president again.
Turned on Fox News and looked like a campaign rally.
Everyone had a great day.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We're going to get to that campaign rally in a
little bit, not the rally itself, but the messaging. We're
going to talk about that. So back to my routine
about doing show prep. What I'm finding and I'm really
trying to figure out a consistent methodological way of counter this.
(18:01):
But it really easy is it's very easy to get
hooked online and before you know it, you spent hour
upon hour immersed in it. Now, don't get me wrong,
I think that, you know, the the internet has very
good uses, but like anything, it has a bad side too.
(18:21):
And learning to stay in control of your social media
life is difficult enough as an adult, but if you're
a kid, it can be especially a very dangerous world
in which to live and operate.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And I think there are.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You know, one of the things that Sean Duffy talked
about in terms of travel that again piqued my curiosity
was let's get kids off screens. And you know, because
parents take them to airports and they pop them down
in a chair and they put a you know, an
iPad in front of them and tell them to watch that.
(18:56):
And Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary's answer was no, let's
build little playgrounds for them. And my first vision in
my head was the McDonald's playground. And I'm like, really,
I'm stressed out enough at the FAM airport and you
want to put a McDonald's playground in the middle of
the concourse somewhere and have a bunch of rugrats screening.
(19:20):
How about instead, parents learn to teach their kids, Hey,
you're in a public space, set your little butt down
and be quiet. And if that means watching your iPad
and watching a movie, give them a headset and let
them watch their you know, let them watch the movie.
Let's let them watch you know, Frozen or whatever the
crap they're watching.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Without being overly paranoid. I believe that would be probably
the worst idea out there to put one of those
little McDonald's playgrounds inside the freaking airport, because they're in malls.
And I can't speak for everybody, but I know that
in my family and my niche no, they're they're freaking filthy,
they're disgusting. I don't know how often they're cleaned. You
(20:00):
go to the Aura mall, so you take that with
the grand of salt.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It's the Aura Mall.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Nobody was ever playing on any of that crap.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Now.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I don't know about any of the bigger, nicer malls
that are out there, but no, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Let if you're comparing a mall to an airport, which
is worse. Which is worse exactly, It's gonna be worse.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yes, And so now you you know, you've got the
cards going to beat beep beep, you know, trying to
you know, get everybody out of the way, and then
you're gonna have to walk around, you know, the plate,
the little mini playground and all that. No, stop that insanity.
Teach your kids to behave now. I know that kids
are off in glued to their phones and their devices.
(20:40):
They're staring, they're scrolling, They're disengaged from the world around them.
And I know that kids get exposed to online harm.
Some get bullied, there's grooming, there's shaming going on, and
I know a lot of kids are emotionally and psychologically
damaged from social media exposure. There are days but I
think un damage from social media. And we know, and
(21:04):
I'm not laughing about this, but we know that kids
have some teenagers have actually taken their own lives as
a result of what has happened to them while.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
They were online.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Well, in Australia, a campaign has started with parents who
lost their teams to online related suicides and is now
backed by the Australian Cabal, has led to something for
the first time in the entire world. Australia's government has
(21:36):
implemented age restrictions, a de facto ban on rugrats under
sixteen being able to access social media platforms. Those restrictions
came into force yesterday, and of course.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
The whole world is watching. We're all watching.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
What I find fascinating is talk about not wanting to
engage in parenting. I know the ban is immensely popular.
A major poll in Australia found that seventy percent of
Australian voters backit and only fifteen percent expressly oppose it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Now you got.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Numbers like that, we talked about eighty twenty issues. Well,
here's a seventy fifteen issue. So of course the Australian
Prime Minister and even his opposition counterparts all endorsed the
let Them Be Kids campaign that was promoted heavily by
the Murdochs Yes News Court. You know, owners of Fox
(22:38):
News committed to the ban before last May's Australian general election.
Both sides. Both sides considered it good politics to be
on board, but each also sincerely believed that doing so
was the right thing by parents and children.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
The Nanty State really is alive and well. I have
a visceral reaction to this band. Do I understand the
downside of social media for Rugrats? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I do.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It kind of bugs me when now my daughter, now
my teenage grandkids are a different matter. But my six
year old granddaughter soon to be seven, she's learned how
to behave in a restaurant. But sometimes that does involve
an iPad, and I've learned to. When I first saw it,
(23:34):
I was like, oh no, but I kept my mouth shut.
But then I watched, and maybe I'm just trying to
rationalize it, but I find that my daughter and my
son in law are really trying to do a balance. Hey,
here's how you behave in a restaurant. And if you
do behave well in a restaurant, if you finish eating early,
we'll give you the iPad and you can sit quietly
(23:56):
and watch something with your headphones on, or you can
play a game without sound while we finished dinner. And
maybe I'm just rationalizing, but I find that to be
a reasonable compromise. Now, the Australian ban isn't directly aimed
at under sixteens. It's directed as the prescribed social media
(24:19):
platforms and the companies that run them. So as far
as Australia is concerned, those proscribed platforms, they are required
to remove identifiable accounts for under sixteens and then to
take so called you know, lawyers will love this, every
reasonable step to verify that users are old.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Enough to be on it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Now, if you just simply asked the question on the
terms of service or when you download the app, are
you sixteen or over, that's not good enough. The platforms
themselves now have to weed out the under sixteens. So
it's even now even the parents don't have to do anything.
The government has stepped in and said no, parents, we're
not going to tell you to enforce this. We're going
(25:03):
to tell the platforms to enforce this. So I don't
know how this is going to work, but the platforms
are being told you've got to figure out who's under
the age of sixteen, then you have to boot them off,
and you've got to keep them off, and then you
have to ensure that your algorithms comply with Australian law,
and if you don't, you're going to face pil These
up to thirty three million dollars about forty nine or
(25:24):
fifty million Australian dollars and what's that, Well, that that's
probably just a grab to you know, trying to grab
Mark Zuckerberg's or Elon Musk's attention. Now, their companies and
their supporters in the Australian Congress, and some supporters in
this Congress have been vocal in their opposition now here.
(25:47):
Our case is predicated on free speech. And it's kind
of ironic that Australia's E Safety Committee of an E
safety commissioner who an E Safety commissioner is an ex
patriot American that ostensibly was taught to revere the First Amendment.
You know, the intentions may be good, but what about
(26:07):
the reality.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I got a crazy idea.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
How about you reinstate the penalties for airlines delaying and
canceling your flights, and then you won't have to entertain
everybody while they're waiting. No, I can't do that because
airlines have lobbyists, so we're we're not gonna allow that
to happen. Wow, I'd be a rich man if I
(26:32):
got paid for every time the flight was delayed or canceled,
I'd be It'd be pretty damn nice.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
You know what. I really miss.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Can I make a confession I really miss And I
know this is horrible considering that I never abused it,
but you know what I really miss Gulf Streams and
Air Force one. Just going out to Andrews and you know,
(26:59):
getting on a G five or a G six and
taking off somewhere and having the Air Force feed me
a really nice meal.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Why don't you rub it in?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And they'd asked me the day before, like what would
you like to eat on the flight? Mister secretary? Yeah,
I kind of I kind of missed that. Yeah. Now
I'm just Now I'm just a plead, like you dragon,
just going out there, you know, not one to touch
anything because everything's Germany. If everybody's out there hawk hacking
and coffin and you know, puking and kids are running
around and people are screaming gate agents and it's just
(27:32):
total chaos.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
We don't have to take our shoes off anymore. So yay, But.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You still get the Rattel examination. True, Yeah, you still
get that. Uh Gooble number six zero eight five Michael
regarding parenting in the Australian band for kids Blow sixteen
on the internet. I knew we were losing the good
parenting gene when several years ago moms were trying to
get the McDonald's Happy Meal discontinued because it was too
hard to tell the kid no, you can't have that. Well,
(28:01):
that's your job as a parent. You have to tell
them no and raise them to make good decisions. If
that's too hard for you, then don't have kids. Can
you say that on air?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Can I make a quick confession when when the kills?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Is this like the confession hour?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Why not? Okay?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
When my boys were growing up and they would ask
for something, sometimes I would literally just tell them no,
just so that they heard no.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Whether you would have willingly done that, but you just
wanted to hear no, yeah, and then you just went
on yep and then get whatever I.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Wanted them to get used to being, you know, having
a rejection. Being told no is something that everybody is
going to hear. When you apply for a job, you're
gonna get told no. While you're working at a job,
you're gonna get told no, while you any number of things,
you're gonna get told no. So you're gonna need to
get used to that. You're gonna need to cope with that.
So I tried to build that from a younger age.
(28:56):
If they asked for something and I said no, why, Well,
because the answer there is no.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Excuse me, right, the answer, the answer to the why
is because I said no. You don't owe them an explanation, correct, now,
I think this Sometimes an explanation helps them understand that
you can teach a lesson. Of course, you know, we
have a budget and the budget is X, and to
get that messes up the budget and you won't.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Eat for a week. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yes, Now, let's go back to Australia for a moment,
because I think that think about the kids themselves. I
don't know about your kids, but when I think about
my grandkids, you're the smartest grand kids in the entire world.
All of your grandkids are just below them. If they're
determined enough, they're going to find a way in. They're
(29:46):
gonna find a way under that social media. Now, back
when innocent times, you know, not that I would know
anything about this because I never did smoke. But alcohol
might be another thing. Teenagers were very They had a
lot of ingenuity when it came to obtaining alcohol or
cigarettes despite being underage. Now, if you have a tech
(30:08):
savvy teenager, which thank God for them because they can
help me figure stuff out, and the adults of betting
them it's all going to beat the band. So anticipating
today's band kids have been on social media swamping ideas
about how they're going to get around the band, from
how to fool the age detecting facial recognition technology to
(30:29):
then using oh, a virtual private network. Just let's just
buy a VPN, a monthly VPN, and we can deceive
the platform into thinking that we're in another country.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
If you go on Reddit, which is also captured by
the band.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Questions are being asked about how the band can be
beaten are now being taken down in Australia as of yesterday,
but there's a long string of helpful answers that are
still there.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Where there's a will, there absolutely is a way
Hey, Michael, I'm looking out the window on the observation deck.
Got my popcorn handy. I'm pretty much monitoring all the
fishing boats out here. It seems like all the fishing
boats are just fishing. But I'm waiting because I hear
these fishing boats are really in for trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I hope you have a I hope you have a
camera set up so that you're just constantly recording so
we can get like amateur video.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Of a kaboom kaboom.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I got a call, uh, but I actually got an
email last night from mister Redbeard, and so I just
want to get this out. It's up to you, but
I'd like to get it out of the way right
now if we can. Do you want to do that?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I mean, your name is on the show, so I
mean we can, I know, but you know what we
can do.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
As much as I am, as much as I really
hate to admit this, uh, I have a real affinity
not for you, but for Lance and the other kids,
and of.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Course missus Redbeard. Right.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
So that's that's that's the only reason I'm doing this
for Lance and Nicholas my grandkid. Yes, yes, and of course.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Missus Redbeard and all the other family members that I've
never met my entire life, but all of them.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yes, but you know, no, that sounds about right.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, Well, just go to Michael says, go here dot com.
There's a Lance and Nicholas's other grandfather, my daughter in
law's father. He's having some troubles right now and kind
of the little medical issues that are going on. To
get the proper skilled care, he would need to go
out of state to get these procedures done, and their
(01:34):
insurance doesn't cover out of state procedures. So Michael says,
go here dot com. There's a quick little link right there.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That that's let's just say, that's the end of that conversation,
all right, But can I can I talk about something else?
I know, I know what we were told, but I
have interests because I find this kind of stuff fascinating me.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
If if you want to take up dance on the line,
that's fine, Michael.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The Dragon's done all that he's told he's allowed to do.
But now I'm just curious because there apparently are surgeons
here correct that can do one aspect that they can
do what needs to be done, But they've never done
what needs to be done because of the other stuff
(02:26):
that's going on.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Right Because for those that may not remember and those
who are new to the show, there was a very
large concern when my daughter in law gave birth to
both my grandson Lance and Nicholas, because of an underlying
medical condition that they found out that she had that
was genetic from her father, that if you are have
(02:48):
this condition and you overly exert yourself, you could quite
literally die. So because of his condition and because of
the procedure that he needs, the surgeons here in Colorado
don't deal with both that are not knowledgeable in both right, where.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You found one, but you found one? Are they found one?
They found one at the both right. So there's one
surgeon in the entire country that can do this particular procedure.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's confidence enough do this procedure.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I mean, it worse comes to worse, you you could
go with. I mean, I don't know. They'd be up
to the doctor whether they want to try it or not.
But I just find it fascinating that out of three
hundred and fifty million Americans, whatever the number of doctors
that is, that we that you not we, but you
have found or the family has found one surgeon and
one little place up in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That can do this. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Wow, Now did they do that by researching and researching
or did they get referral by referral by referral.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Referrad by by referral by referral. And they have gone
to the Mayo Clinic for underlying care for this.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh, so they've been there before. They've been there before.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And like I said, just the Colorado guys like we
can do the procedure. It's an easy procedure. It's life threatening.
You know, any surgery is life threatening, but more so here.
But with his condition, it makes it a whole lot
scarier right.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Now because we've been and I understand why the management
didn't want us to spend a lot of time on this.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I understand that.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But it's a great segue I think into a somewhat
shortened but nonetheless I think important discussion about healthcare in
this country because, as I told you before, Tamer's dad
was a general surgeon. He's a general practitioner. He was
an old country doctors. What he was he could do
anything and everything. And he had his classmates at the
(04:48):
University of Oklahoma School of Medicine back in when he graduated,
like in nineteen forty something, whatever it was, It was him,
this one Protestant, and I think they were all other Jews.
I mean I think it was. It was it was
one Gentile and you know, like out of a class
of forty doctors that graduated in nineteen forty one gentile
and thirty nine Jews, and they all specialized in everything,
(05:12):
and they all were adamant.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I mean because we used a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I used one of his classmates as a general practitioner
when tam and I first got married, and then we
used another one of his classmates as our pediatrician. And
I think even Tamma may have used one of the
doctors as an obgyn doctor, but I'm not I don't
really recall. But these guys were just smart as heck,
and they could do anything in everything, and they weren't
afraid to try anything. Now we've become so specialized, and
(05:42):
because the insurance companies have become so regulated and so
intertwined with government, which is again why whenever you say
to me something about a public private partnership, I immediately
think ripoff. I immediately think the summary, somebody somewhere is going
to get screwed, and somebody somewhere is going to make
(06:03):
a lot more money than they would if it was
just a private enterprise. And I think that's what's happened
with the insurance companies. And here we have, here, we
have a situation where somebody needs this particular kind of surgery. Now,
let's stop and think about just that. Probably nowhere else
in the world do we have the quality of medicine
(06:27):
that we have in this country. And trust me, I've
been to doctors all over the world in my travels
as the Indersecretary. And while I was fortunate many times
to be seen by a you know, a naval medical
officer at an embassy and Azerbaijan or somewhere, that was great.
But if you have to go see a doctor at
the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, well sucks
(06:51):
to be you. They'll put you on a gurney and
when your passport expires, they'll be like, oh, maybe we
should have taken care of this guy earlier. And now
we have a situation where there is one doctor in
one state, not Colorado, that can form this particular kind
of surgery. Yet the insurance is not portable and will
(07:14):
not cover that because it is out of state. Now,
think about how ludicrous ludicrous that is. It's It's much
like in some ways, I'll make it. I'll make it.
Not a perfect analogy, but somewhat of an analogy to
auto insurance. Think about this, if you bought auto insurance
(07:34):
and it was only good within the confine, the geographical confines,
or the jurisdiction of the state of Colorado, which would
mean that for me, like loading up the Lienburgers and
driving down to the undisclosed location in in Way.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Home, Mexico, I would have to have a separate.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Outomobile policy to cover, you know, any liability or collision
coverage that I might need if I were traveling in
New Mexico, or if I go to Oklahoma see my mom,
or if I you know, as I said, we were
going on Friday to our grandson's college graduation. I'm so
damn proud of him to his college graduation up in Missoula, Montana,
University of Montana, and I, you know, I'm not I said,
(08:14):
I'm not going to rent a car. I just I'll
just uber around. But maybe I should check to see
if my you know, needed a policy from my Uber
in Montana and I used Uber and you know stuff
in New York City? Do I need an Uber policy there?
It just shows that. And when and when you go
back and you think about the government shut down, what
(08:37):
was the government shut down about? It was about the
fact that, oh, the Obamacare subsidies have expired, something that
was not supposed to continue anyway. But like any of
the government program, it metastasized. And now Republicans are just
falling over themselves, not doing anything. They're just like a
bunch of Keystone cops. But there are clowns in a
(08:58):
clown car. There are clowns in the v in a
Volkswagen Beetle, and they and they just they can't They're frozen.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
They can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And all they need to do is just stand up
and say the smartest, wisest, the best economic decision is
to kill that bill, Obamacare. If you like your doctor,
you can keep your doctor. Wait, find out that's not true. Oh,
you know, the average premium for a family of four,
(09:27):
I forget it was at twelve hundred and fifteen hundred dollars.
I forget which one it was going to be. But
you know, Obama led and led and lied to us
about Oh you know with this, the average you know
family be able to get a policy for fifteen hundred
dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Where the hell is that?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And you know why, it's because the government is subsidizing it,
and so you're getting what crap, You're just getting crap.
And so they're putting in a position where they're policy and.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I have no clue and I'm not asking I'm not.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Asking Dragon to chime in on this because this is
my this is my time, not Dragon's time. You think
about they have a policy. I don't care who it is,
but the policy says, oh, yeah, we'll cover it if
you do it here, but if you do it there,
we won't cover it. Well, there is not like you're
going to use Bakistan. Uh well, well, you know, come
(10:17):
to think of it, you are going to Minnesota and
maybe it's a Somali doctor.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's going to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And so they don't. They don't cover a Smali trained doctor.
You might wa s take you into that Dragon to
make sure that the doctor really is not Somali and
that there really is something there. But it's just a
great example of how how we we do two things.
We love private, well, somebody loves private partnerships public private partnerships.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And people don't understand stand that you subsidize something. College
tuition is a great example. So the government takes over
college tuition. It's subsidizing college tuition. So the colleges and
universities know that they're not going to a private bank,
they're not going to a private lender, They're going to
the taxpayers for these student loans. So why don't we
(11:08):
just keep jacking up slowly tuition because we know there's
a fountain of dollars just flowing over there. And it's
the same with healthcare. As they know that government's going
to pay for that, and government's going to subsidize those
insurance policies. Way, they'll just keep jacking up the cost
(11:28):
at the same time that they limit the coverage. You
pay more for less thanks to government intervention. Oh my gosh,
you guys mean nuts. So I've got three or four
books that I've I've got a book about William F.
Buckley that I'm reading right now. I've got another book
on the American Revolution I'm reading. I really do have
ADHD And I've got way too many books that I'm reading,
(11:52):
and in addition to that, I'm slowly, I'm very very
slowly getting through them because I'm spending way too much
time online. And I'm spending too much time online because
that's how I do my show prep. I don't you know,
I don't walk out to the driveway in the mornings
or in the afternoons, you know, God bless the Rocky
(12:13):
Mountain News and pick up a newspaper and peruse through
the newspaper and say, oh, there's some really good stories. No,
I'm reading whatever newspapers exist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
What else do I read online?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And then of course I'm going to different websites, and
then I'm going to social media. And I had discovered
for myself that doing that you can easily slip, like
if you start, you know, like maybe you're I tend
to do this sometimes at lunch if I meet, if
I'm meeting lunch by myself, I'll do a little show
prep while I'm doing lunch. And pretty soon what am
(12:50):
I really doing? I'm dead scrolling. I'm just dead scrolling
through everything and I have found that, and I, you know,
I've not had a neurologist check I wonder what they'd
find if I had a neurologist check me cognitive decline
that started decades ago.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
They wouldn't find the brain. They wouldn't there is.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
No cognitive decline because there is nothing there to do
any cognition to begin with.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So it's just like it's just not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But I have found myself at times just literally dead scrolling,
mindlessly scrolling through I don't have a TikTok account, but
mindlessly scrolling through ex or Facebook or Instagram or whatever.
And then this morning I wake up and I quickly
(13:38):
turn on KATVR because I'm, you know, the most accurate
weather forecast in the history of mankind, and so I
see what the weather forecast is going to be. And
then I flip over real quickly at precisely seven am,
just to see what the headlines are, the leading stories
on Fox and Friends, which I despise that program, and
(14:00):
Low in the Hold. They catch my attention today because
they're talking to Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, and
the Secretary Transportation has decided that one he's been for
several weeks now, talking about if you're going to be flying,
like take your pajamas off and put on some real clothes,
(14:22):
and don't wear flip flops. Don't trim your toenails, you
know while you're sitting, you know, there in your seat.
Don't hard haug the arm rest, try to bathe, you know,
before you take a flight. And don't get me wrong,
I'm all for that. I think people really ought to.
I'm not saying you got to put a suit and
tie on to fly, but how about just a clean
(14:44):
pair of jeans, you know, a nice collared shirt, and
some real shoes, you know, boots, sneakers, loafers, something, and
not flip flops. I don't want to see your crusty, old, yellow,
nasty toenails.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Can we also add bringing food, oh my god, even
if it is the standard McDonald's or Burger king from
from the terminal.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Just just don't just don't just eat before you get
on the plane.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Most once it's three four hour plane ride, right, You'll
be fine.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Take the next they give you.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And if you don't like that, you know what I
would one exception that dragon if you want to buy
like some candy bars or snacks or something that don't
give off the the aroma of an Indian curry kitchen
or a Himalayan or Ethiopian kitchen, and dear God, no,
or a Chinese or a Thai restaurant.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
But if you want to, you know, grab some peanuts
or some popcorn or whatever, that's fine with me.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I don't care do that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But despite as I mean, air travel is just a commodity.
It's no longer a luxury. It's no longer. And I
don't know what the percentage is. Maybe somebody can tell me.
I don't want the percentage of three hundred and fifty
million Americans is that takes one or more airline trips
(16:07):
a year? My guess is it's very, very small. And
you can always see them too. You always recognize them
because they're they're like people who've the first time in DC,
or the first time in New York City, or the
first time outside and they're like, you know, they've been
herbit's their entire life. And they walk outside and they're like, oh,
what's that big bright thing in the sky. Oh, it's
(16:29):
the sun. And they're just looking around and they're bumping
into people. They have no clue what they're doing or
where they're going, or how to get their way, or
how to behave or do anything. It drives me, Baddy.
We are truly an uncivilized nature nation, and we've reached
the point now where the Secretary of Transportation is trying
to tell people how to dress on airlines.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But it's even worse. He wants to put in.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Like they called little micro gyms or micro exercises where
you're going to do You can do some pull ups,
you can do any Why why don't you give me
more security to make security go faster. Why don't you
give me some comfortable seats to sit on? Well, you know,
while I'm sitting around waiting for the gate to open
(17:19):
or something. Why don't you do things like that? We
are really stupid in this country.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I didn't realize the King was running for president again.
Turned on Fox News and looked like a campaign rally.
Everyone had a great day.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We're going to get to that campaign rally in a
little bit, not the rally itself, but the messaging. We're
going to talk about that. So back to my routine
about doing show prep. What I'm finding and I'm really
trying to figure out a consistent methodological way of counter this.
(18:01):
But it really easy is it's very easy to get
hooked online and before you know it, you spent hour
upon hour immersed in it. Now, don't get me wrong,
I think that, you know, the the internet has very
good uses, but like anything, it has a bad side too.
(18:21):
And learning to stay in control of your social media
life is difficult enough as an adult, but if you're
a kid, it can be especially a very dangerous world
in which to live and operate.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And I think there are.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You know, one of the things that Sean Duffy talked
about in terms of travel that again piqued my curiosity
was let's get kids off screens. And you know, because
parents take them to airports and they pop them down
in a chair and they put a you know, an
iPad in front of them and tell them to watch that.
(18:56):
And Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary's answer was no, let's
build little playgrounds for them. And my first vision in
my head was the McDonald's playground. And I'm like, really,
I'm stressed out enough at the FAM airport and you
want to put a McDonald's playground in the middle of
the concourse somewhere and have a bunch of rugrats screening.
(19:20):
How about instead, parents learn to teach their kids, Hey,
you're in a public space, set your little butt down
and be quiet. And if that means watching your iPad
and watching a movie, give them a headset and let
them watch their you know, let them watch the movie.
Let's let them watch you know, Frozen or whatever the
crap they're watching.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Without being overly paranoid. I believe that would be probably
the worst idea out there to put one of those
little McDonald's playgrounds inside the freaking airport, because they're in malls.
And I can't speak for everybody, but I know that
in my family and my niche no, they're they're freaking filthy,
they're disgusting. I don't know how often they're cleaned. You
(20:00):
go to the Aura mall, so you take that with
the grand of salt.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It's the Aura Mall.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Nobody was ever playing on any of that crap.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Now.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I don't know about any of the bigger, nicer malls
that are out there, but no, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Let if you're comparing a mall to an airport, which
is worse. Which is worse exactly, It's gonna be worse.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yes, And so now you you know, you've got the
cards going to beat beep beep, you know, trying to
you know, get everybody out of the way, and then
you're gonna have to walk around, you know, the plate,
the little mini playground and all that. No, stop that insanity.
Teach your kids to behave now. I know that kids
are off in glued to their phones and their devices.
(20:40):
They're staring, they're scrolling, They're disengaged from the world around them.
And I know that kids get exposed to online harm.
Some get bullied, there's grooming, there's shaming going on, and
I know a lot of kids are emotionally and psychologically
damaged from social media exposure. There are days but I
think un damage from social media. And we know, and
(21:04):
I'm not laughing about this, but we know that kids
have some teenagers have actually taken their own lives as
a result of what has happened to them while.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
They were online.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Well, in Australia, a campaign has started with parents who
lost their teams to online related suicides and is now
backed by the Australian Cabal, has led to something for
the first time in the entire world. Australia's government has
(21:36):
implemented age restrictions, a de facto ban on rugrats under
sixteen being able to access social media platforms. Those restrictions
came into force yesterday, and of course.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
The whole world is watching. We're all watching.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
What I find fascinating is talk about not wanting to
engage in parenting. I know the ban is immensely popular.
A major poll in Australia found that seventy percent of
Australian voters backit and only fifteen percent expressly oppose it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Now you got.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Numbers like that, we talked about eighty twenty issues. Well,
here's a seventy fifteen issue. So of course the Australian
Prime Minister and even his opposition counterparts all endorsed the
let Them Be Kids campaign that was promoted heavily by
the Murdochs Yes News Court. You know, owners of Fox
(22:38):
News committed to the ban before last May's Australian general election.
Both sides. Both sides considered it good politics to be
on board, but each also sincerely believed that doing so
was the right thing by parents and children.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
The Nanty State really is alive and well. I have
a visceral reaction to this band. Do I understand the
downside of social media for Rugrats? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I do.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It kind of bugs me when now my daughter, now
my teenage grandkids are a different matter. But my six
year old granddaughter soon to be seven, she's learned how
to behave in a restaurant. But sometimes that does involve
an iPad, and I've learned to. When I first saw it,
(23:34):
I was like, oh no, but I kept my mouth shut.
But then I watched, and maybe I'm just trying to
rationalize it, but I find that my daughter and my
son in law are really trying to do a balance. Hey,
here's how you behave in a restaurant. And if you
do behave well in a restaurant, if you finish eating early,
we'll give you the iPad and you can sit quietly
(23:56):
and watch something with your headphones on, or you can
play a game without sound while we finished dinner. And
maybe I'm just rationalizing, but I find that to be
a reasonable compromise. Now, the Australian ban isn't directly aimed
at under sixteens. It's directed as the prescribed social media
(24:19):
platforms and the companies that run them. So as far
as Australia is concerned, those proscribed platforms, they are required
to remove identifiable accounts for under sixteens and then to
take so called you know, lawyers will love this, every
reasonable step to verify that users are old.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Enough to be on it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Now, if you just simply asked the question on the
terms of service or when you download the app, are
you sixteen or over, that's not good enough. The platforms
themselves now have to weed out the under sixteens. So
it's even now even the parents don't have to do anything.
The government has stepped in and said no, parents, we're
not going to tell you to enforce this. We're going
(25:03):
to tell the platforms to enforce this. So I don't
know how this is going to work, but the platforms
are being told you've got to figure out who's under
the age of sixteen, then you have to boot them off,
and you've got to keep them off, and then you
have to ensure that your algorithms comply with Australian law,
and if you don't, you're going to face pil These
up to thirty three million dollars about forty nine or
(25:24):
fifty million Australian dollars and what's that, Well, that that's
probably just a grab to you know, trying to grab
Mark Zuckerberg's or Elon Musk's attention. Now, their companies and
their supporters in the Australian Congress, and some supporters in
this Congress have been vocal in their opposition now here.
(25:47):
Our case is predicated on free speech. And it's kind
of ironic that Australia's E Safety Committee of an E
safety commissioner who an E Safety commissioner is an ex
patriot American that ostensibly was taught to revere the First Amendment.
You know, the intentions may be good, but what about
(26:07):
the reality.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I got a crazy idea.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
How about you reinstate the penalties for airlines delaying and
canceling your flights, and then you won't have to entertain
everybody while they're waiting. No, I can't do that because
airlines have lobbyists, so we're we're not gonna allow that
to happen. Wow, I'd be a rich man if I
(26:32):
got paid for every time the flight was delayed or canceled,
I'd be It'd be pretty damn nice.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
You know what. I really miss.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Can I make a confession I really miss And I
know this is horrible considering that I never abused it,
but you know what I really miss Gulf Streams and
Air Force one. Just going out to Andrews and you know,
(26:59):
getting on a G five or a G six and
taking off somewhere and having the Air Force feed me
a really nice meal.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Why don't you rub it in?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And they'd asked me the day before, like what would
you like to eat on the flight? Mister secretary? Yeah,
I kind of I kind of missed that. Yeah. Now
I'm just Now I'm just a plead, like you dragon,
just going out there, you know, not one to touch
anything because everything's Germany. If everybody's out there hawk hacking
and coffin and you know, puking and kids are running
around and people are screaming gate agents and it's just
(27:32):
total chaos.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
We don't have to take our shoes off anymore. So yay, But.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You still get the Rattel examination. True, Yeah, you still
get that. Uh Gooble number six zero eight five Michael
regarding parenting in the Australian band for kids Blow sixteen
on the internet. I knew we were losing the good
parenting gene when several years ago moms were trying to
get the McDonald's Happy Meal discontinued because it was too
hard to tell the kid no, you can't have that. Well,
(28:01):
that's your job as a parent. You have to tell
them no and raise them to make good decisions. If
that's too hard for you, then don't have kids. Can
you say that on air?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Can I make a quick confession when when the kills?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Is this like the confession hour?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Why not? Okay?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
When my boys were growing up and they would ask
for something, sometimes I would literally just tell them no,
just so that they heard no.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Whether you would have willingly done that, but you just
wanted to hear no, yeah, and then you just went
on yep and then get whatever I.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Wanted them to get used to being, you know, having
a rejection. Being told no is something that everybody is
going to hear. When you apply for a job, you're
gonna get told no. While you're working at a job,
you're gonna get told no, while you any number of things,
you're gonna get told no. So you're gonna need to
get used to that. You're gonna need to cope with that.
So I tried to build that from a younger age.
(28:56):
If they asked for something and I said no, why, Well,
because the answer there is no.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Excuse me, right, the answer, the answer to the why
is because I said no. You don't owe them an explanation, correct, now,
I think this Sometimes an explanation helps them understand that
you can teach a lesson. Of course, you know, we
have a budget and the budget is X, and to
get that messes up the budget and you won't.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Eat for a week. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yes, Now, let's go back to Australia for a moment,
because I think that think about the kids themselves. I
don't know about your kids, but when I think about
my grandkids, you're the smartest grand kids in the entire world.
All of your grandkids are just below them. If they're
determined enough, they're going to find a way in. They're
(29:46):
gonna find a way under that social media. Now, back
when innocent times, you know, not that I would know
anything about this because I never did smoke. But alcohol
might be another thing. Teenagers were very They had a
lot of ingenuity when it came to obtaining alcohol or
cigarettes despite being underage. Now, if you have a tech
(30:08):
savvy teenager, which thank God for them because they can
help me figure stuff out, and the adults of betting
them it's all going to beat the band. So anticipating
today's band kids have been on social media swamping ideas
about how they're going to get around the band, from
how to fool the age detecting facial recognition technology to
(30:29):
then using oh, a virtual private network. Just let's just
buy a VPN, a monthly VPN, and we can deceive
the platform into thinking that we're in another country.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
If you go on Reddit, which is also captured by
the band.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Questions are being asked about how the band can be
beaten are now being taken down in Australia as of yesterday,
but there's a long string of helpful answers that are
still there.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Where there's a will, there absolutely is a way
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.