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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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In the force, historic rainfall North Carolina has flooded home,
stranded vehicles, and forced water rescues, probably the worst flooding
than any of us have ever seen in Carolina Beach.
According to the town manager, there eighteen inches of rain
fell there in twelve hours at one station. It's a
once in a thousand year rainfall event. According to the
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National Weather Service in Wilmington. A recent survey has found
in Miami, Florida is the rudest city in America, worse
than New York. I think everyone thinks New York is
probably the rudest city, but no. The study conducted by
some sort of language learning platform. I'm not sure why
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they get to decide, but they found that locals in
the Magic City rank their fellow residents a nine point
eighty eight out of ten for being the rudest people
in America. This is based on a variety of factors,
including lack of awareness in public noisiness and shared places,
and rudeness to service staff. Coming in second and third
were Philadelphia and Tampa. Man they route in Florida, the
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ladder of which was named the Rudest City in twenty
twenty two. Tampa was I had no idea and this
story is a very slow news day today, guys, I
have to tell you. But police in Bedford, Ohio, said
an eight year old girl stole her parents' suv and
drove ten miles to go shopping at Target.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Hell yeah, girl.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Her worried parents reported her missing from their home at
about seven am, and they said that the twenty twenty
niece on Roague that they owned was gone too. A
neighbor told police that their home security camera caught the
girl getting inside the suv with nobody but herself and
driving off. Cops and receive reports of a small child
behind the wheel of an suv miles away. Eventually, the
police in a nearby town located the runaway vehicle in
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the parking lot of a local Target about ten miles away,
twenty five minutes away, driving from the girls sow where
they find her inside shopping.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's what she was doing. Why what else would you do?
You go to Target? I go shopp him police, She
should have done the pickup.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, police called her parents, but she know what she wanted,
you know, she wanted to browse, maybe get herself a
little coffee.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You don't walk around.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Police called her parents but said that she would not
be charged with a crime due to her age. They
did have a confession to make. She smashed into a
mailbox somewhere along the way, leaving a tent in her
parents vehicle. Nobody was injured though, so she was okay,
eight years old driving around eight years old, driving ten
miles like on a major road. Wow, that sounds like
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something Rufio was doing at eight years old. It's something
Action is going to do when he's eight years old.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I mean, what was it? When did you start stealing
your parents' car? I was under age.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I didn't have a license for sure, Yeah fourteen, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And you just cruise around.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And they never knew you did it. No, they never
knew you did it.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
No, not that I no, my stepdad knew because.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You were the one telling me that you used to
like put the car in neutral and then push it
out of the garage so.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I would pull the you know, the little red handle
in the garage, right, you pull it so you could
open the garage yourself quietly, and then I would put
the car in neutral and push it down the driveway
and push it down the block and then start it
and then and then leave.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Smart. Wow skills.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
How did you guys scam your parents?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Wait? Eight five five five three five. You can call him,
text the same number. I'm looking at you.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Pull space is a safe I'm still a safe space?
Are you talking about the statue limitations? Is?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh my dad knows now if he's listening. Yeah, thirty,
it all happened, you know, twenty years ago. It's fine,
that's true.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yes, I would do my mom's car because I was
the only one that like really had access to a car.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
But my mom's car would go to house parties. I'd
pick everybody up. My best friend Claudia would jump out
the window. I had to catch her because her house
was like a branch kind of stile, So I shed
hop out the window.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I'd grab her. We would go and return the car.
I would.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
What I would do is I go through all the basement.
But I would have the dryer and the washer running
at she in the morning. So that's believable. But my
mom didn't buntion it. But I would sleep down there.
But you know I'm going to sleep down here, why
because the TV was there, so I'm watching TV. We'd
go out that door, come right back in about.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Like five am.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And you don't think she knew, or you think she
knew and just was like whatever. She didn't get in trouble.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So fine.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yeah, she caught me one time, and I think I
told this because my sister I took her chips or whatever,
and she got really upset with me.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So then she snitched on me pretty much and it
didn't cover for me.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
She took her potato chips.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, it was Funnians and she had a sleepover and
I took her funny and so they didn't have any
fun ye I know right.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I'm'm worth it looking feet yeah, Grandpaffee, Yeah yeah, sorry,
old man fee.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
So I was like I got caught that night. But
my stepdad had this. We called it like a it
was a beer, right, we called it something else. But
I can't sit on the radio because it's the S word.
But basically I would take that car. When I was younger,
it's like fifteen, I'd go to my friend Nikki's house.
She lived well, like maybe five minutes down the road.
I would go there. We would engage in activities.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Not like the two of us, but just like yeah, yeah,
the double or that.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
I did.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
With nik.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I have a lot of questions for her.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Nikki had like the house that was like the cool parents,
like they did not care what.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Went down, Like yeah, I remember those parents.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, like but this was like time's time.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
In my opinion now looking back at it, I was like,
but we would just smoke and hang out whatever. Then
my stepdad caught me doing that with his beater he car, so, like,
you know, that was my little scam. In my cigarette sale,
I did that too. I would sell those.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I remember the parents. It wasn't really that they didn't care.
There were some of those, but a lot of them
just weren't there. They were just never home, and so
it was like did anything goes and like I went
to school with some rich kids and like so some
of these houses were stupid sick, like just amazing, and
I just I guess because I grew up with it,
I didn't think too much of it. But now in retrospect,
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there's no freaking way I would let my kids just
run them up in my really you know, fancy house.
There's just no way. No, there's no it, which is
I couldn't believe, and like thinking back on it, I
just can't. Maybe it was just a different time. I mean,
it wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
But no, I would never. I want to be a
cool mom, but not that cool.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Honestly, I think I would do it now because I
got cameras everywhere I could.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
There's no way in hell I could do it now,
like sneaking out or any of that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh yeah, it's a lot of stuff has been.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Waiting for the kids.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Yeah, it's like Mexican security at my house, everything, all
the alarms, And I grew up with that, so like
today my daughter could.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Not light three sixty you know when they leave come home. Yeah,
it's it's not going to happen for them. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Text from seven o eight.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We had a fire escape window in the basement, the
window wells, and we would wait till our parents went
to bed and then pull out the fire escape windows
and sneak out of the house. Smart Jason, you were
the rule follower. Did you ever do anything like this?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
No, like, not not until college, which sounds really cool.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You lived at home in college? No, so that's actually
the thing.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
So I went to Loyola, but I hated my roommate,
but I didn't want to tell my parents that I
didn't want to stay there anymore. So I went and
lived in a girl's dorm of another college for a
semester until I could go home, and my parents didn't
know where I was.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
But that was that. So you weren't really doing anything wrong. No,
I never took the car.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
I didn't do any of that stuff like in high school.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
No, I know you did, Kalin Kiki.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Now, who were you scamming in high school? Would have
been your sister at this point?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yes? Okay? And were you scamming her?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
No, because my brother did a lot of scamming to
the point where, like his crimes were so intricate that
I was able to get away with everything because she
was busy, Like she was busy attending to all of
his shenanigans, and so he was more of the big,
big scammer and I was just like, I mean, I
had all the This is a thing I think parents
should take he too. When you give your kids a
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lot of freedom, the desire to want to commit crimes
is less in my experience, Like I could have gotten away,
I could have done a lot of things, but because
I knew that I could do it, I had no
desire to do it. I was like, why do I
need to sneak a boy? And like if I want
to have a boy, it was just so eag Like
I don't know. I just never had the desire to
really do crime. And one time he tried to bring
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me in on his crime. He stole the car and
we started driving and I saw a car that looked
similar to my sister's car, and I was like, that's her.
Oh my god, they're on to us. And so I
got out at the light and left him in the
car and he was like that. He's like, you can
never commit a crime with me, So you were a
liability yeah, to his crime.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
So I didn't. I didn't have the desire really.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
To do much.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I never did anything. I never did anything like my
parents always thought I was up to something. I was
never up to anything. But I do agree with you
about I didn't have a necessarily lot of freedom, but
my parents would let us for me, and I guess
my sister too. We want vacation, they let us have
like a drink or something or alcohol, and maybe they
let us go a little too far sometimes, And I
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know that's controversial, I guess, But the thing is, I
went to college, and I'd show up day one and
everyone's going balls to the wall because no one had
been allowed to do any of this stuff. I mean,
a lot of the kids, like literally the first time
they were just on their own completely, didn't have to
check in with anybody, was their first day in college.
And I've told the story before, but like within a
day or two, there were parents coming back picking up
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their kids and moving them back because they were already
you know, passed out in the hallway or or in
the hospital for alcohol, you know, intoxication, you know, drinking
too much or whatever else. And I don't necessarily say
that it's because they didn't let them do it, but
I don't know. I just wasn't. There was no temptation
to go buck wild because I knew. I already knew, right,
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that's yeah. So I thought that was smart. But a
lot of people listening to that and going, no way,
I'd never let my kid drink, you know, I'd never
lived I mean it was like they were letting the
other kids come over and get hammered too, or like enabling.
It was just more like, hey, all right, you want
you want to have a drink, have a drink, fine,
but you're not going anywhere, and you're doing it in
front of us.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I got to college, yeah okay, it was everywhere and
I'm like, oh, okay, yeah. I mean there was a
lot of other stuff too that they didn't let me do, right,
I had no interest in that.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Plus I didn't have any money.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That was another way that my parents were able to
curtail my illicit activities. I didn't have any money, so
I couldn't buy any of it, and nobody was willing
to share. So all right, well we got a bunch
of cameras in our midst and not surprisingly, Jason really
didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
God I agree, though. I mean my parents were very
much just like go yeah, you know, but like I
don't know. Maybe that's why I didn't want to do anything.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
And my friends who had really strict parents, like you know,
they had to sneak and do everything, so they wanted
to do everything like they were just wild and I'm like,
you have a crazy mother and you are really out
here Wiley and me, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I just don't have to desire.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I don't know. It was me too, rule follower, Jason.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
But that's what's interesting to me is you're telling me
now that your parents weren't that strict, but you still
felt the need to follow the rules because a lot
of people I know who were rule followers, it's because
they had to.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Yeah, It's almost like whatever they did, I think it
was more like they didn't like lead by like aggression.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It was more like I don't want to disappoint them exactly.
That it was like guilt. That was That was my
parents too.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Yeah, so it wasn't like, oh my god, I'm gonna
get grounded, Like I was never ground dead like my sister.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
On the other hand, she was always scheming. But they
were tired. This was eight years later. They were tired.
They were like whatever. I just couldn't believe it. I
was because I'm a grown ass man. Now she's in
high school. I come back. I'm like, you know, to wait,
she's doing what. I'm sorry what she's like got a
bong and two dudes. You know, I'm like you guys
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totally gave up