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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the freashshell. This is what's trending, all right, So
Pauline and Rufio. The cost of childcare OH has increased
nearly twenty percent between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty one,
the latest year for which the complete data is available.
According to lending Tree, excluding tax exemptions or credits.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It'll cost twenty one.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Thousand dollars a year to raise a child at minimum.
That means the typical family spending about two hundred and
thirty seven four hundred and eighty two thousand dollars over
the course of eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
To raise a kid.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And that is excluding excluding the cost of college.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
M h is that college right?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh? No, moddath Yeah what college.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's wild because people want to give me backlash or
like whatever. Have an opinion about having one kid only,
but it's like, do you see the numbers, Like it
doesn't make sense for me and my family to have
for other reasons too, but to have one kid. I mean,
I feel like a lot of people are doing that
these days, and I don't blame them. It's really expensive.
I can't even afford myself. Like, what the hell is
giving you backlash? Listen Listeners people, Yeah, like grand people.
(01:08):
My own mom has said, like you sure you don't
want another? And I said, Mom, I know you're coming
from a good place. You know you're just asking because
this is like your grandkid, and I love that for you.
But we're not doing this again. We're one and done.
We love it here.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, you'd posted a question the other day. We didn't
get to it, but I am curious. Eight five five,
five one one oh three five? Do you ever wish
you only had one kid?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Some of your kids?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I guess I could answer the I could ask the question.
I'm going to call it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, no, depends.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
On the day, I think, mind us for sure?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I Okay, more importantly, did you only have one kid?
Or did you strongly consider only having one kid? And
do you wish that you'd had more? That's that will
ask the question that way. Okay, that's probably a better.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Way that which kid would you erase from your history?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean that we can answer it that way too.
It really it's potato, potato tomato to moto.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, if you had to say one kid, right.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Perfect, Jason Brown one and done, Linda one and done.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well, that might be something to do with it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But like my sister did.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I mean, honestly, I don't know that she was like,
Gong ho, let's go have another one. I don't think
she loved the process of having a child. I don't
think she loved being pregnant. But she was afraid that
Polly would be weird if she didn't have a sibling.
And that's a quote, that's a direct quote.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I've heard that before. I don't know. I feel too
like I've be getting a lot of d ms about this.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I think there's pros and cons to everything, right or
so when it comes to like having more than one kid.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I mean, you've got.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Your pros, your cons. It's just whatever works for your family.
But I think for me, I want to put my energy,
my finances, my very little finance, everything that I have,
just into Gabriella.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's all I want to do.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I want to raise her the best I can, because
it's it doesn't be the best I can. She's got,
you know, her family, the village, everyone's there for her.
I think she'll be okay. And if she's a little
she's just like me, then we're all a little.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Weird, right.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I wonder why my sister thinks she's going to get
two hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars. That's the shoe.
So that's uh, you know, basically five hundred and ten grand.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
But you don't look at like I've never looked at
that like before having kids, like, oh, gotta have twenty
one thousand dollars a year to have kids.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You just you just have kids. It's like part of life.
You just make it work. Yeah, he's right, make it work.
It is expensive, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I bought formula yesterday. I bought diapers and wipes. I
was like, you spent I spent two hundred dollars wipes.
Is that like a like monthly? Would you say you
spend two hundred bucks a weekly.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Weekly on formula?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Roughly, wow, two three hundred dollars and Ruvio.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You seemed a little bit surprised. Apparently you're having like
four and you didn't know this well.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I mean the three would be ideal. I mean, uh,
two is ideal as well too.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, you did have no choice right up to me.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
There just she came from a family of three siblings,
so and then her sister has three kids. So I
wouldn't mind three, but I would like to do if
we have another one closer to an age to the second.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Child, Like, hey, Jess, twins would have been nice.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I mean, I know it's happening next month, but like
if you could figure out a way to culture up
another one somehow or you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I would like a girl. I would like a girl.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But yeah, I would love to see what you're would say.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I would love Yeah, yeah, he'd be a good girl. Yeah,
they would be for Jess.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Just give just because she's raising two boys right now
and then she's gonna get a third in less than
a month.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So just don't do the thing where you keep going
back to the well. Because like my a buddy who
did that, he had he and in fact his family
I don't understand the story completely, but they really, let's
just put this way, they really wanted a son from him.
I think there was a financial incentive even like I
think there was, like yeah, and so they kept going back.
Three daughters, four women in that house, three daughters, and
(04:55):
they're all within like two years of each other. So
he's screwed. I mean, my brother laws. Yeah, he's going
to have Pollyu's three may of who's three months. They're
both going to be in high school the same time. Right,
He's had to put them both in college at the
same time. And if you think that he's raising these
kids on two hundred and thirty seven thousand, whatever, not
my sister's white.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Now, hello, Christina, good morning, How you doing, Good morning?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How are you very well? So you have two kids,
and that's enough for you? You wish you had more,
you wish you had fewer? Which one would you eliminate?
Speaker 8 (05:26):
So I had two kids.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
They're four years apart, not by design, but are not
by choice but by design. And if my husband and
I could have had more kids, we would have well,
we have what's called secondary infertility. So it just was
never in our cars, okay, And I mean like we
had means, we just didn't, you know, just nature did
not provide, you know what I mean? And like I
(05:50):
would have had my kids closer together. But now that
you know my son's in high school and my daughter's
in middle school, it's like, thank God that they're four
years apart, because then again what you were saying before,
you know, at least my kids will not be going
to college and university at the same time.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, my god, I mean, we know some other people
like that who have several kids in college at the
same time. And then when when you think you're done that,
he's got like another young one, like a random straggler
young one. It's just still coming up. And it's like,
oh god, we thought we were done. No, we got
this other one. We're going to put through college, and
you put the other ones through college. You can't tell
the last one like you know what, I give up
on this, like you know what, you figure it out,
(06:26):
like top over it. Thank you, Christina, have a great day.
Can I just add one thing, yes, of course.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
And Pauline, I know you just had a baby.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
My sister in law, she said that she was she
was one and done. See and now she's got too. Yeah,
she now got two hundred two. So you never know.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Oh wow, well I got my you never know. You
checked yesterday.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So I actually don't call it an I owe you
because that's like there's one still coming. I mean, like,
well we'll get you one of these days.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Christina, have a good day, A good one. Well good,
I'm glad everything's still there.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It's still there. I thought it fell out for five minutes.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I was fell out I did.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I was like, I don't think it's in there. So
when they checked, we're good.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, good, Well, I mean I know they do come out,
but anyways they fell out. But you know, hey whatever,
you know, however it works. Hey Wendy, Hey Wendy, good morning.
Just one kid and it's perfect. It's lovely. You love
it every single second.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Okay, that's it. Just like, hey, I had one. I'm happy.
That's all. That's all you wanted to say.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
Yep, yep, one and done. Never regret it was.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That always the plan.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Weird, Actually no, we were going to have to and
we were at the threshold of making that decision, and
we babysat our dear friends. Little nearborn cried for five hours.
My husband walked down the hall asking for dinner. My
child was on my leg saying you love the baby
more than me, and I decided in that very.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Moment, no, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
But you're saying, do you have a son or a daughter.
I have a daughter and she's not weird.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
No, normal shares caring. One of the nicest people. Actually,
you know, a lot more well adjusted than kids that
come from a family of five.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Sometimes Okay, that's all right, there you go secret.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Oh my god, Ashley without a sibling, I think would
be dangerous.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I am so.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Scared when this, when his brother comes, I don't know
how he's gonna act. I'm really scared because his beautiful
life is coming to an end.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Beautiful life.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Ashly is four and a half. So he he understands,
you know, he understands. But we'll see, he says, he understands,
but I don't know when that attention goes to somewhere
else will see what happens.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, Wendy, thank you the day here too, thank you for.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Listening or not here we're going to here comes to honesty. Julian.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Hello Julian, you've got a son and twin girls. Yes,
and if you had it to do over again, what
would you do?
Speaker 10 (09:07):
Well?
Speaker 11 (09:08):
I had three of them in college at one time.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Okay, so one of them has to go. Basically what
you're saying, one of them's got to go.
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Yeah. I probably would have had my son and stopped
if I had known I was going to have twins.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Oh wow.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
The girls are much harder to raise.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Than boys are O kindly, and how old are the twins.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
They're twenty eight and my son's now thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
One, and they're still hard to raise at twenty eight.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
Yes, they are.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
For the twins would have been like y'all sharing this tuition,
You guys could switch days and go to whatever super
want to range it right.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
The other thing is when they were babies, you don't
think about it, but when your kid is drinking four
bottles of formula at eight ounces in a day, that
is sixty four ounces between two kids.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Wow, whoa wow.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So what I'm hearing you say is you I love
your kids, but there's an asteris there's a caveatea thank you, Julian,
have a great day. I'm sure my mom will hear
this later because she listens to the podcast later when
she wakes up, and she'll probably tell you that she's
still raising me at forty three, and she is basically
we talk all the time. I think maybe she at
(10:19):
this point now, that's what reasons she's gottenless selective about
who I marry, because it's like somebody else, please, like,
will somebody manage this guy? Like anybody? Like when I
was in my twenties, it had to be the perfect woman.
Now I think it's just like and now.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I think she doesn't. I think she doesn't want you to.
She likes, you know, having conversations with you every day.
Well I do think she likes that, right, Yeah, you
could still do that. Oh and trust me, she still
manages to make sure I know who she doesn't like.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh boy, what a bad life that would be.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh yeah, No, It's like, honestly, if Amanda, if you're
out with Amanda and Amy, sister and mom, respectively, there's
no turning back. I think my sister would tolerate. I
think she would pretend, but she would make you miserable,
like you'd know, like she would pretend, but you'd know.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
My mom would not.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I can't like, and we've talked about this before, my
mom and she gets older, like I just physically can't
take her certain places because she'll just tell people what
she really thinks and she just doesn't care. I don't
know if that's just like you just earned that, yes,
you do. You just earn your stripes at a certain
point in life. But the problem is, like she can
be liberated in that way. I'm the one who has
to pay for it. I'm the one who has to
(11:28):
be know your mom doesn't like me. You're right, she
just told you that.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Since moving here, have you ever brought anyone home to
meet your mom?
Speaker 10 (11:39):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
How you doingway? Save me?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Immediately? You were an only child, You had an only
sibling the minute, So what are we talking about you?
Or are we talking about your Like how many kids
you're gonna have?
Speaker 8 (11:56):
About myself? So I am the oldest, is true? My
brother and I are four years apart. And honestly, I
wish I either had an older sibling or I was
an only child because with me, my parents were super strict,
super hard on me, also gave me the most attention
till I was four my brother came along. Once my
(12:18):
brother came along, I had like no attention. I was
kind of like pushing aside.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And I mean, I know how.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
To do everything.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
I know how to wipe my own butt. I could
do summersaults and he just kind of laid there and
then they slept and pooped all day.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, you have to be more important wiping your butt
of the summersaults, because I'm not sure I can't do
a summer result, so you can.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I don't think so. I think I hurt myself.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I would say probably wiping your own butt. You don't
want to have a rash.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
No, you don't want to, but yeah, I don't know. Yeah, Holly,
you have a great day. Oh no, and then what
and then what finish your thought?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 8 (12:53):
And then I feel like my little brother kind of
they gave up and they were just like, do whatever
you want, go wherever you want, super strict on me.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
But he could do no wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well that was my sister. She could do all the wrong.
She could do all the wrong. But she they let
her do whatever she wanted. But then again with eight
years apart, so it was just like, forget about it.
I think they were just done. Thank you, Holly, have
a good day.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I kind of got only child. I got only child
for a little while, and then I then she came along.
But see now that and then when she was really
young and I was like a teenager, that was annoying.
But now that we're the you know, as you get older,
the age gap I think sort of becomes less and
less prevalent. I mean, she's in her mid thirties and
I'm in my early forties, and so like now we're
the same basically, you know what I mean? As far
(13:36):
as like maturity and interests and stuff like that. So
now it's good. It was never bad, but it was
just annoying. I had nothing in common with her. You know,
I'm in high school and she's eight, you.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Like I'm trying to, like, you know what I was
trying to do unsuccessfully, and she's like looking through the cracks,
trying to catch me, tell on me.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
And then you're trying to tell on her. Yeah, came home,
you damn right. Yeah, that's what you get. Payback, guys.
It is misunderstanding here with NASA. They've delayed the return
to Earth for their Boeing Starliner aircraft crew thing. I
think it's not called a crew thing, but whatever. NASA
astronauts of the International Space Station. They guess up there
(14:14):
for at least another week or so. Butch and Sony
are up there. Butch Willmore, that's an astronaut right there,
and he's a real astronaut. He's in the space station,
as you know from the Fred Show. Constitution that constitutes
a real astronaut.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Not Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Not.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Hey, I'm up here in space. I've floated around for
like thirty seconds. No now, no, Butch is a real astronaut,
so is Sony Williams. They launched them Cape Canaveral on
board Boeing Starliner spacecraft last Wednesday. This marked the capsule's
first crude mission. NASA and Boeing gave an up to yesterday,
saying the astronauts will we return to Earth no later
than June eighteenth, so that engineers can keep an eye
on a couple of small helium leaks that they're having
(14:53):
up there. So I'm sure they I'm sure they screwed
everything in. Honestly, this is miss this is a miscommit case.
Everything's fine, it's Boeing, It's of course it's fine. At
this point, I'd be like, yo, bezos, let me hitch
a rock. Yeah, yeah, I know you're Can you get
that thing up here? I wonder if they can send
(15:13):
like another if they have a backup. They have to
have a backup ship of some kind. They can't just
keep them up there forever like one of those things.
What if it doesn't work, they got to get some
other uber to go up there and get them. I mean, honestly,
but yeah, that would make me nervous. The thing was
broken to get up there, and now it's broken to
come back. They probably even think about that, right, They're like, wow,
I got to fix Now we're here, everything's good. Oh no,
(15:35):
now we got to go back. Boy, I wonder if
Spirit can go get them. Do you think spirit mean,
Spirit could absolutely get the job done?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, Spirit goes.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I mean it would cost a lot, because I mean
they probably have things they have to bring back.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
They should have took Spirit to get up there.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
They probably should have.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
You.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Apple has to reveal to push into AI a bunch
of new features for their iPhones, Max and iPads. People
are making a big deal out of this Apple intelligence
that will be integrated into Siri, allowing the assistant to
retain context from previous requests and improve its language comprehension.
So we're excited about that. I guess, oh yeah, I
don't know. And when it comes to ranking cities for staycations,
(16:12):
Orlando is number one out of one hundred and eighty
two cities. Wallet Hub use a number of metrics, including
things to do, restaurant costs, parks, spas, massage costs, summer weather,
et cetera. Why trying to go to Orlando in the summer.
Maybe it's cheaper at Disney. But is it cheaper at
Disney in the summer.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
It's more expensive, really it is, Yeah, because everyone's on
summer the game God Miserable.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I would think they'd make it more expensive in the
winter when it's like more tolerably.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
No, they make you more affordable because no one wants
to go. You know, they got people got this all wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, you want to go to Florida in the wintertime,
that's what you are You sure about that?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I am sure about because I've gone in the summer
twice and it's expensive. Spring break that's expensive too. Yeah,
I mean it's cold. In a lot of places you
go there, the weather's nicer. I would think they would
charge more.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But anyway, Orlando is uh the top place for a
staycase in Honolulu, Cincinnati, Ohio, Okay, Las Vegas, Tampa, Chicago,
San Diego, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Tucson. In Tucson, Arizona
top ten for staycations. I guess you gotta remember you're
already living there for the most part. I mean, I
don't know who's like you're not it's not a staycation.
(17:17):
I guess if you fly there and stay in a hotel.
That would then be a vacation. I guess, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Old timy like Western Town in Tucson.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It was on Jersey Shore. Family vacations.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
There's a few of them. But yeah, what was it called?
I want to watch anythink of Jerome.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It's been around since like the night that one.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Jerome's the one on the hill on the you gotta
climb to drive up the hill, had the mine.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
There are several of them, and then there's some fake
ones too. There used to be called raw Hide. We
used to go to as a kid. Oh yeah, please
go Rawhide for your birthday?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Was yep?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, Christopher's eight. Let's celebrate in nineteen eighty eight. Yeah,
red shirt to the sheriff. Yes, everyone got a shirt.
They're collectible now, yeah, hope, I hope. I'm sure kids
held onto those.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, they were rare. Doesn't have an extra one.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I don't know if she does. And they had like
a red sheriff's thing on it. Oh yeah, well I
was still an only child when I was eight.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So what was the name of raw Hide?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You could you could mind for gold. They had like
painted little rocks gold rocks you could mind from you.
They had like an old like a western town. They
had a western show that a petting zoo at raw Hide.
Oh yeah, no, it's a big deal. Yeah, you get
like a saloon. You go to the saloon, get like
a steak or something. I think they tore it down
and put condos there, sadly, But Santa Ana, California. Moreno Valley, Laredo,
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Texas is the worst places, by the way. Santa Clarita, Yonkers,
New York one of the worst places for a staycation.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Pearl City, Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I didn't know you could have a bad time in Hawaii,
but you know, I guess you don't want to have
a staycation in Pearl City. Irving, Texas. In Fremont, California. Oh,
one more AI story for you. Researchers are exploring how
AI will someday be able to interpret dog vocalizations, possibly
distinguishing between playful barks and aggressive growls, and even identifying
aracteristics such as age, breed, and gender of the dog.
(19:03):
So someday with about so far they have fifty percent accuracy,
But someday they're saying that you'll be able to use
AI to understand what your dog is saying.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Maybe my dream.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Well, but I prefer just to do I prefer to
just translate myself, like I have the dialogue already with
my dog, Like we just we talk to each other,
and I say what she's gonna say, and then I
already know she's doctor Doolittle.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I can't say. She'll text me and be like, Chance
wanted you to know this and this and this. I'm like, girl,
I can't understand him.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, no, you know we didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I called the house, Lily says, Hi, she's asking about you. Yeah,
she wants to know where you've been. No, and she
probably doesn't want to know where I've been. I believe them.
It's National Call your doctor Day, so do that, and
everyone the well Polina did yesterday, and everything's in her
io used in places always well
It's the freashshell. This is what's trending, all right, So
Pauline and Rufio. The cost of childcare OH has increased
nearly twenty percent between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty one,
the latest year for which the complete data is available.
According to lending Tree, excluding tax exemptions or credits.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It'll cost twenty one.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Thousand dollars a year to raise a child at minimum.
That means the typical family spending about two hundred and
thirty seven four hundred and eighty two thousand dollars over
the course of eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
To raise a kid.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And that is excluding excluding the cost of college.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
M h is that college right?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh? No, moddath Yeah what college.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's wild because people want to give me backlash or
like whatever. Have an opinion about having one kid only,
but it's like, do you see the numbers, Like it
doesn't make sense for me and my family to have
for other reasons too, but to have one kid. I mean,
I feel like a lot of people are doing that
these days, and I don't blame them. It's really expensive.
I can't even afford myself. Like, what the hell is
giving you backlash? Listen Listeners people, Yeah, like grand people.
(01:08):
My own mom has said, like you sure you don't
want another? And I said, Mom, I know you're coming
from a good place. You know you're just asking because
this is like your grandkid, and I love that for you.
But we're not doing this again. We're one and done.
We love it here.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, you'd posted a question the other day. We didn't
get to it, but I am curious. Eight five five,
five one one oh three five? Do you ever wish
you only had one kid?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Some of your kids?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I guess I could answer the I could ask the question.
I'm going to call it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, no, depends.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
On the day, I think, mind us for sure?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I Okay, more importantly, did you only have one kid?
Or did you strongly consider only having one kid? And
do you wish that you'd had more? That's that will
ask the question that way. Okay, that's probably a better.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Way that which kid would you erase from your history?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean that we can answer it that way too.
It really it's potato, potato tomato to moto.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, if you had to say one kid, right.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Perfect, Jason Brown one and done, Linda one and done.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well, that might be something to do with it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But like my sister did.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I mean, honestly, I don't know that she was like,
Gong ho, let's go have another one. I don't think
she loved the process of having a child. I don't
think she loved being pregnant. But she was afraid that
Polly would be weird if she didn't have a sibling.
And that's a quote, that's a direct quote.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I've heard that before. I don't know. I feel too
like I've be getting a lot of d ms about this.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I think there's pros and cons to everything, right or
so when it comes to like having more than one kid.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I mean, you've got.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Your pros, your cons. It's just whatever works for your family.
But I think for me, I want to put my energy,
my finances, my very little finance, everything that I have,
just into Gabriella.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's all I want to do.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I want to raise her the best I can, because
it's it doesn't be the best I can. She's got,
you know, her family, the village, everyone's there for her.
I think she'll be okay. And if she's a little
she's just like me, then we're all a little.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Weird, right.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I wonder why my sister thinks she's going to get
two hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars. That's the shoe.
So that's uh, you know, basically five hundred and ten grand.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
But you don't look at like I've never looked at
that like before having kids, like, oh, gotta have twenty
one thousand dollars a year to have kids.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You just you just have kids. It's like part of life.
You just make it work. Yeah, he's right, make it work.
It is expensive, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I bought formula yesterday. I bought diapers and wipes. I
was like, you spent I spent two hundred dollars wipes.
Is that like a like monthly? Would you say you
spend two hundred bucks a weekly.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Weekly on formula?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Roughly, wow, two three hundred dollars and Ruvio.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You seemed a little bit surprised. Apparently you're having like
four and you didn't know this well.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I mean the three would be ideal. I mean, uh,
two is ideal as well too.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, you did have no choice right up to me.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
There just she came from a family of three siblings,
so and then her sister has three kids. So I
wouldn't mind three, but I would like to do if
we have another one closer to an age to the second.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Child, Like, hey, Jess, twins would have been nice.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I mean, I know it's happening next month, but like
if you could figure out a way to culture up
another one somehow or you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I would like a girl. I would like a girl.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But yeah, I would love to see what you're would say.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I would love Yeah, yeah, he'd be a good girl. Yeah,
they would be for Jess.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Just give just because she's raising two boys right now
and then she's gonna get a third in less than
a month.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So just don't do the thing where you keep going
back to the well. Because like my a buddy who
did that, he had he and in fact his family
I don't understand the story completely, but they really, let's
just put this way, they really wanted a son from him.
I think there was a financial incentive even like I
think there was, like yeah, and so they kept going back.
Three daughters, four women in that house, three daughters, and
(04:55):
they're all within like two years of each other. So
he's screwed. I mean, my brother laws. Yeah, he's going
to have Pollyu's three may of who's three months. They're
both going to be in high school the same time. Right,
He's had to put them both in college at the
same time. And if you think that he's raising these
kids on two hundred and thirty seven thousand, whatever, not
my sister's white.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Now, hello, Christina, good morning, How you doing, Good morning?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How are you very well? So you have two kids,
and that's enough for you? You wish you had more,
you wish you had fewer? Which one would you eliminate?
Speaker 8 (05:26):
So I had two kids.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
They're four years apart, not by design, but are not
by choice but by design. And if my husband and
I could have had more kids, we would have well,
we have what's called secondary infertility. So it just was
never in our cars, okay, And I mean like we
had means, we just didn't, you know, just nature did
not provide, you know what I mean? And like I
(05:50):
would have had my kids closer together. But now that
you know my son's in high school and my daughter's
in middle school, it's like, thank God that they're four
years apart, because then again what you were saying before,
you know, at least my kids will not be going
to college and university at the same time.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, my god, I mean, we know some other people
like that who have several kids in college at the
same time. And then when when you think you're done that,
he's got like another young one, like a random straggler
young one. It's just still coming up. And it's like,
oh god, we thought we were done. No, we got
this other one. We're going to put through college, and
you put the other ones through college. You can't tell
the last one like you know what, I give up
on this, like you know what, you figure it out,
(06:26):
like top over it. Thank you, Christina, have a great day.
Can I just add one thing, yes, of course.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
And Pauline, I know you just had a baby.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
My sister in law, she said that she was she
was one and done. See and now she's got too. Yeah,
she now got two hundred two. So you never know.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Oh wow, well I got my you never know. You
checked yesterday.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So I actually don't call it an I owe you
because that's like there's one still coming. I mean, like,
well we'll get you one of these days.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Christina, have a good day, A good one. Well good,
I'm glad everything's still there.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It's still there. I thought it fell out for five minutes.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I was fell out I did.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I was like, I don't think it's in there. So
when they checked, we're good.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, good, Well, I mean I know they do come out,
but anyways they fell out. But you know, hey whatever,
you know, however it works. Hey Wendy, Hey Wendy, good morning.
Just one kid and it's perfect. It's lovely. You love
it every single second.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Okay, that's it. Just like, hey, I had one. I'm happy.
That's all. That's all you wanted to say.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
Yep, yep, one and done. Never regret it was.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That always the plan.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Weird, Actually no, we were going to have to and
we were at the threshold of making that decision, and
we babysat our dear friends. Little nearborn cried for five hours.
My husband walked down the hall asking for dinner. My
child was on my leg saying you love the baby
more than me, and I decided in that very.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Moment, no, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
But you're saying, do you have a son or a daughter.
I have a daughter and she's not weird.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
No, normal shares caring. One of the nicest people. Actually,
you know, a lot more well adjusted than kids that
come from a family of five.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Sometimes Okay, that's all right, there you go secret.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Oh my god, Ashley without a sibling, I think would
be dangerous.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I am so.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Scared when this, when his brother comes, I don't know
how he's gonna act. I'm really scared because his beautiful
life is coming to an end.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Beautiful life.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Ashly is four and a half. So he he understands,
you know, he understands. But we'll see, he says, he understands,
but I don't know when that attention goes to somewhere
else will see what happens.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, Wendy, thank you the day here too, thank you for.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Listening or not here we're going to here comes to honesty. Julian.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Hello Julian, you've got a son and twin girls. Yes,
and if you had it to do over again, what
would you do?
Speaker 10 (09:07):
Well?
Speaker 11 (09:08):
I had three of them in college at one time.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Okay, so one of them has to go. Basically what
you're saying, one of them's got to go.
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Yeah. I probably would have had my son and stopped
if I had known I was going to have twins.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Oh wow.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
The girls are much harder to raise.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Than boys are O kindly, and how old are the twins.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
They're twenty eight and my son's now thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
One, and they're still hard to raise at twenty eight.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
Yes, they are.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
For the twins would have been like y'all sharing this tuition,
You guys could switch days and go to whatever super
want to range it right.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
The other thing is when they were babies, you don't
think about it, but when your kid is drinking four
bottles of formula at eight ounces in a day, that
is sixty four ounces between two kids.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Wow, whoa wow.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So what I'm hearing you say is you I love
your kids, but there's an asteris there's a caveatea thank you, Julian,
have a great day. I'm sure my mom will hear
this later because she listens to the podcast later when
she wakes up, and she'll probably tell you that she's
still raising me at forty three, and she is basically
we talk all the time. I think maybe she at
(10:19):
this point now, that's what reasons she's gottenless selective about
who I marry, because it's like somebody else, please, like,
will somebody manage this guy? Like anybody? Like when I
was in my twenties, it had to be the perfect woman.
Now I think it's just like and now.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I think she doesn't. I think she doesn't want you to.
She likes, you know, having conversations with you every day.
Well I do think she likes that, right, Yeah, you
could still do that. Oh and trust me, she still
manages to make sure I know who she doesn't like.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh boy, what a bad life that would be.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh yeah, No, It's like, honestly, if Amanda, if you're
out with Amanda and Amy, sister and mom, respectively, there's
no turning back. I think my sister would tolerate. I
think she would pretend, but she would make you miserable,
like you'd know, like she would pretend, but you'd know.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
My mom would not.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I can't like, and we've talked about this before, my
mom and she gets older, like I just physically can't
take her certain places because she'll just tell people what
she really thinks and she just doesn't care. I don't
know if that's just like you just earned that, yes,
you do. You just earn your stripes at a certain
point in life. But the problem is, like she can
be liberated in that way. I'm the one who has
to pay for it. I'm the one who has to
(11:28):
be know your mom doesn't like me. You're right, she
just told you that.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Since moving here, have you ever brought anyone home to
meet your mom?
Speaker 10 (11:39):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
How you doingway? Save me?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Immediately? You were an only child, You had an only
sibling the minute, So what are we talking about you?
Or are we talking about your Like how many kids
you're gonna have?
Speaker 8 (11:56):
About myself? So I am the oldest, is true? My
brother and I are four years apart. And honestly, I
wish I either had an older sibling or I was
an only child because with me, my parents were super strict,
super hard on me, also gave me the most attention
till I was four my brother came along. Once my
(12:18):
brother came along, I had like no attention. I was
kind of like pushing aside.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And I mean, I know how.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
To do everything.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
I know how to wipe my own butt. I could
do summersaults and he just kind of laid there and
then they slept and pooped all day.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, you have to be more important wiping your butt
of the summersaults, because I'm not sure I can't do
a summer result, so you can.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I don't think so. I think I hurt myself.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I would say probably wiping your own butt. You don't
want to have a rash.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
No, you don't want to, but yeah, I don't know. Yeah, Holly,
you have a great day. Oh no, and then what
and then what finish your thought?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 8 (12:53):
And then I feel like my little brother kind of
they gave up and they were just like, do whatever
you want, go wherever you want, super strict on me.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
But he could do no wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well that was my sister. She could do all the wrong.
She could do all the wrong. But she they let
her do whatever she wanted. But then again with eight
years apart, so it was just like, forget about it.
I think they were just done. Thank you, Holly, have
a good day.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I kind of got only child. I got only child
for a little while, and then I then she came along.
But see now that and then when she was really
young and I was like a teenager, that was annoying.
But now that we're the you know, as you get older,
the age gap I think sort of becomes less and
less prevalent. I mean, she's in her mid thirties and
I'm in my early forties, and so like now we're
the same basically, you know what I mean? As far
(13:36):
as like maturity and interests and stuff like that. So
now it's good. It was never bad, but it was
just annoying. I had nothing in common with her. You know,
I'm in high school and she's eight, you.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Like I'm trying to, like, you know what I was
trying to do unsuccessfully, and she's like looking through the cracks,
trying to catch me, tell on me.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
And then you're trying to tell on her. Yeah, came home,
you damn right. Yeah, that's what you get. Payback, guys.
It is misunderstanding here with NASA. They've delayed the return
to Earth for their Boeing Starliner aircraft crew thing. I
think it's not called a crew thing, but whatever. NASA
astronauts of the International Space Station. They guess up there
(14:14):
for at least another week or so. Butch and Sony
are up there. Butch Willmore, that's an astronaut right there,
and he's a real astronaut. He's in the space station,
as you know from the Fred Show. Constitution that constitutes
a real astronaut.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Not Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Not.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Hey, I'm up here in space. I've floated around for
like thirty seconds. No now, no, Butch is a real astronaut,
so is Sony Williams. They launched them Cape Canaveral on
board Boeing Starliner spacecraft last Wednesday. This marked the capsule's
first crude mission. NASA and Boeing gave an up to yesterday,
saying the astronauts will we return to Earth no later
than June eighteenth, so that engineers can keep an eye
on a couple of small helium leaks that they're having
(14:53):
up there. So I'm sure they I'm sure they screwed
everything in. Honestly, this is miss this is a miscommit case.
Everything's fine, it's Boeing, It's of course it's fine. At
this point, I'd be like, yo, bezos, let me hitch
a rock. Yeah, yeah, I know you're Can you get
that thing up here? I wonder if they can send
(15:13):
like another if they have a backup. They have to
have a backup ship of some kind. They can't just
keep them up there forever like one of those things.
What if it doesn't work, they got to get some
other uber to go up there and get them. I mean, honestly,
but yeah, that would make me nervous. The thing was
broken to get up there, and now it's broken to
come back. They probably even think about that, right, They're like, wow,
I got to fix Now we're here, everything's good. Oh no,
(15:35):
now we got to go back. Boy, I wonder if
Spirit can go get them. Do you think spirit mean,
Spirit could absolutely get the job done?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, Spirit goes.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I mean it would cost a lot, because I mean
they probably have things they have to bring back.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
They should have took Spirit to get up there.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
They probably should have.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
You.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Apple has to reveal to push into AI a bunch
of new features for their iPhones, Max and iPads. People
are making a big deal out of this Apple intelligence
that will be integrated into Siri, allowing the assistant to
retain context from previous requests and improve its language comprehension.
So we're excited about that. I guess, oh yeah, I
don't know. And when it comes to ranking cities for staycations,
(16:12):
Orlando is number one out of one hundred and eighty
two cities. Wallet Hub use a number of metrics, including
things to do, restaurant costs, parks, spas, massage costs, summer weather,
et cetera. Why trying to go to Orlando in the summer.
Maybe it's cheaper at Disney. But is it cheaper at
Disney in the summer.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
It's more expensive, really it is, Yeah, because everyone's on
summer the game God Miserable.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I would think they'd make it more expensive in the
winter when it's like more tolerably.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
No, they make you more affordable because no one wants
to go. You know, they got people got this all wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, you want to go to Florida in the wintertime,
that's what you are You sure about that?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I am sure about because I've gone in the summer
twice and it's expensive. Spring break that's expensive too. Yeah,
I mean it's cold. In a lot of places you
go there, the weather's nicer. I would think they would
charge more.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But anyway, Orlando is uh the top place for a
staycase in Honolulu, Cincinnati, Ohio, Okay, Las Vegas, Tampa, Chicago,
San Diego, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Tucson. In Tucson, Arizona
top ten for staycations. I guess you gotta remember you're
already living there for the most part. I mean, I
don't know who's like you're not it's not a staycation.
(17:17):
I guess if you fly there and stay in a hotel.
That would then be a vacation. I guess, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Old timy like Western Town in Tucson.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It was on Jersey Shore. Family vacations.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
There's a few of them. But yeah, what was it called?
I want to watch anythink of Jerome.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It's been around since like the night that one.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Jerome's the one on the hill on the you gotta
climb to drive up the hill, had the mine.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
There are several of them, and then there's some fake
ones too. There used to be called raw Hide. We
used to go to as a kid. Oh yeah, please
go Rawhide for your birthday?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Was yep?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, Christopher's eight. Let's celebrate in nineteen eighty eight. Yeah,
red shirt to the sheriff. Yes, everyone got a shirt.
They're collectible now, yeah, hope, I hope. I'm sure kids
held onto those.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, they were rare. Doesn't have an extra one.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I don't know if she does. And they had like
a red sheriff's thing on it. Oh yeah, well I
was still an only child when I was eight.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So what was the name of raw Hide?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You could you could mind for gold. They had like
painted little rocks gold rocks you could mind from you.
They had like an old like a western town. They
had a western show that a petting zoo at raw Hide.
Oh yeah, no, it's a big deal. Yeah, you get
like a saloon. You go to the saloon, get like
a steak or something. I think they tore it down
and put condos there, sadly, But Santa Ana, California. Moreno Valley, Laredo,
(18:32):
Texas is the worst places, by the way. Santa Clarita, Yonkers,
New York one of the worst places for a staycation.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Pearl City, Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I didn't know you could have a bad time in Hawaii,
but you know, I guess you don't want to have
a staycation in Pearl City. Irving, Texas. In Fremont, California. Oh,
one more AI story for you. Researchers are exploring how
AI will someday be able to interpret dog vocalizations, possibly
distinguishing between playful barks and aggressive growls, and even identifying
aracteristics such as age, breed, and gender of the dog.
(19:03):
So someday with about so far they have fifty percent accuracy,
But someday they're saying that you'll be able to use
AI to understand what your dog is saying.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Maybe my dream.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Well, but I prefer just to do I prefer to
just translate myself, like I have the dialogue already with
my dog, Like we just we talk to each other,
and I say what she's gonna say, and then I
already know she's doctor Doolittle.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I can't say. She'll text me and be like, Chance
wanted you to know this and this and this. I'm like, girl,
I can't understand him.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, no, you know we didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I called the house, Lily says, Hi, she's asking about you. Yeah,
she wants to know where you've been. No, and she
probably doesn't want to know where I've been. I believe them.
It's National Call your doctor Day, so do that, and
everyone the well Polina did yesterday, and everything's in her
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