March 31, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did your parents lie to you growing up?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Because I've had this, I've had this on my Okay,
all right, well i'll see in therapy. No, but I've
had this on my list for a while and we
just haven't gotten to it. But what was the lie
that your parents told you growing up? And this is
this is this sit with you to this day. Eight five, five, five, nine,
(00:25):
one one three five you can call it text the
same number, because this list is coming from the perspective
of your parents did a great job with you if
you believed these lies. Okay, it's it's kind of funny actually,
But I'll go through this list and then we can
talk about the ones that I think are probably more
common for people.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
But or maybe you're the parent and you're doing the
lying now.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I would love to hear about it, because you probably
like you were like I would never do that to
my kids, and then you're doing it now because it's
just easier. I think sometimes my sister lies to my
niece because it's just easier. It's a lie, you know,
the toy stores closed, the ice cream stores out of
ice cream or whatever. And by the way, probably and
(01:08):
I had a very long talk yesterday about and she
just kept asking the same question over and over again,
and I kept answering the same question. But apparently she's
having a hard time being a big sister because may
who was one Polly's for Mayve is one Polly's Maybe
is boring?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I guess Polly tries to body slammer all the time.
It's like wwe except Maybe is not, you know, really
able to move her let limb, so so it's an
unfair advantage. And my sister and brother in law are like, hey,
you gotta like chill out. And then she's like, well,
this is boring, and then my sister says, well, why
don't you call Bubba? She calls me Bubba, why don't
you call bubb and asked him what it was like
to be a big sibling. But she calls me what's
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it like to be a big sibling? And then I
tell her and then she asked me the same question again,
and I'm like why I just told you, And then
she'd but Bubba, and it was almost like she was
proud she did the sentence, which she should because she's brilliant,
but it was no, but what's it like to be
a big sibling. I'm like, PAULI, I just told you.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And so.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, so you know what, Now there's a reception issue
with the phone. Go figure it out by nobody slam
the kid. I don't care. That's what it's like. You
know what it's like. Being a big sibling is like
body slamming somebody all the time. That's that's what being
a big sibling is like. Nonetheless, here are the lies
that you were told growing up, and if you believe them.
According to this author, your parents did a great job.
(02:28):
Number one, you can do anything you want.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Why a big, old lie.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Complete and total lie. However, parenting experts are saying that
if you believed that that your parents did a nice job,
telling that your kids that they can do anything is
a classic parenting technique. It might be deceptive, but it
serves a noble purpose. It's meant to inspire hope, encouraging
kids to embrace the world instead of counting themselves out.
(02:55):
Of all the lies you can tell your kids, Of
all the lies I was told, that is not the worst. Sure,
why not? You cant do anything you put your mind to. Okay, great,
even if it's a lie. You got to eat your
vegetables to grow up big and strong. Not sure if
there's really even any proof of that, but yeah, you're
supposed to eat your your vegetables. However, if you were
able to convince your kids that was a good idea
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and they like broccoli and asparagus, now, then I guess
you were a good parent. I won't be specific here,
but if your kids believed, or if you believe as
a kid, that certain things that aren't real were real,
are you picking up what I'm putting down? Oh? Yes,
if you believe that certain things that are not actually
real or real, that means that you were raised by
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good parents, because it means that the parents were able
to keep their kids' sense of wonder alive.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yes, I agree with that. So why don't you even
a lie?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I know they say white lie, but is it even
is that even a lie? If you tell your kids
that certain things are real when they or not, when
you're just trying to get them to be excited about
you know, I don't know how today isn't that kind
of thing doesn't hurt anybody?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
No, And it's like giving that magic, you know, like
that holiday magic for kids, because once you grow up buddy,
it's over.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, it's not. It's not magical. This is anything about magical.
It's always a miserable kid that ruins it for the
happy key.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah. Oh, I remember the kid that went around running
around telling everybody about this and that. I remember, And
I'm being careful because about this and that. I mean, yeah,
just like just like Klein's being careful with the words
she's using this early in the entertainment report, I'm being
early about the things that I ruined for anybody. These
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are the are lies that if you believed, if your
parents told you them, and you believe them, then your
parents did a good job. You're the smartest kid in school.
My parents never told me that, and they never that
would have been a lie, So that's nice. They didn't
tell me that if you work hard, all of your
dreams will come true.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That's the one I'm like, mom my dreams, Like, I
get it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
You should always work hard, like do your best. But
I don't think it always pays off in that way.
You know what I means? That makes sense because like
be life, and that's not like anyone's fault.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's just how life works.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I would argue that you have no shot at anything
if you don't you know, have a dream and then
work really hard to trying to inspire the dream. So
it's possible that it won't come true. But I mean,
I guess as a parent, that's why I would tell
my kid too, because if I'm like, nah, it ain't happening, well,
then you know, then what's the point of even attempting it.
So yeah, I guess I don't have it. I mean,
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what do you what are you supposed to say? I
guess there's a I mean, no, you're not going to
go to the NBA. I remember I thought I was
going to the NBA when I was in like middle school,
even though I was absolutely completely and totally uncoordinated in
average like two points a game in my basketball games.
But I remember I'm like, I'm going, I'm going to
the NBA, and my parents had to be like, you
were absolutely not going to the NBA, so like do
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your homework because you're not getting bailed out. So I
guess there's a there's realism. But then like not crushing
a kid's dream, I guess, right, So there's more here.
You know your art is good, you know you're good
at singing at the recitals when you really weren't oh good.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Now, how do you do that as a parent? Do
you think?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Now, I mean, the only one who's a parent is
Paulina and Gigi's just not one. But how do you
do that? Like if your kid is terrible at something
like really bad and really there's not a whole lot
of hope and I don't know how you know that. Like,
if your kid's a bad singer at like ten but
wants to be a professional singer, can you tell your
kid like em, maybe we should try something else?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Or do you let them do.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It and keep telling them that they're good at it
even when they're not because they might get good at it,
or do you like steer them towards something else, Like
if they're terrible with soccer but they think they're going
to be the next David Beckham or whatever, then do
you say, like, yeah, at what point do you tell them?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Like I don't think so, Yeah, I'm all for like rerouting.
Obviously Ggi's only one.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But I think about this all the time because I'm like, well,
if she sucks at this, like I don't want to
encourage her and for like a de Lulu mindset, because
sometimes I feel like that works out for people. But
I also don't want her to walk around thinking she's
that girl and she's not.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know what I mean, No.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Like in the sense of like, oh I can sing,
listen to me sing, guys, and everybody makes fun of her,
Like then I'm being a bad parent, right, Like I'm
not doing her any good with that in my opinion,
So I feel like re routing maybe, like lean into
her strengths, whatever those.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Are going to be.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
But my kid of kind has an attitude already. She's
only one, so she might fight me that. Imagine that
I birth myself. I birth myself.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeahttitude of my sister instead to a lot of people.
And I'm I'm I'm sorry, Hovey. I love you deeply, Paulina,
but two of you. Oh, same with my brother in law.
I love my sister, but three of them, Oh my god,
it's hard. I can only hope that Maye is a
complete and total opposite like a pothead.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And uh, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Only.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Honestly, because Paulie is going to be a princess. A
man is kind of a it says, I think, you know,
cola needs the other end of the spectrum, like some
going to listen to death metal with and smoke a
joint as early as possible. I don't know if that's
a nice thing to say. Hey, Jessica, good morning, Jessica,
how are you hi? Good morning ys? Okay, so let's
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get to the real eye. Like, okay, So your parents
told you, oh, you're gonna be great in life, and
you believed it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, that's a good thing. If you're a parent, you
can convince your kids of that now.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But there were a whole series of lies that we
were told growing up that were simply a matter of convenience.
For example, Jessica.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
My parents told me that if we turned on the
lights in the backseat of the car that we would
go to jail the immediate same, yes, yes, with the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Now, we weren't toild we're gonna go to jail, Jessica,
But we were told that it was against the law.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I guess something about it. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Like, and if you turn the dome lights on in
the car while you were driving at night, that that
was against the law. I honestly believed you weren't allowed
to do that. Until not that long ago.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It made me wonder why they existed.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
If it's against the law, why do they exist?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Now, if you ever tried to drive with the dome
lights on at night, it does change the visibility a
little bit, but like, it's not against the law. But
I think it was mainly because as a kid, when
you figured out that light was there, you were just
turning it on and off, and it was probably really annoying.
So that was the reason why. But it turns out, Jessica,
you won't go to jail for that.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Yeah, well now I know.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Now I have my own kids that had me to jail.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Do you tell that you tell them the same thing?
I assume yep. Yeah, Jessica, thank you, thanks for listening.
Have a great day. You're too glad you call uh
heinikoll Good morning.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Hi, good morning, Good How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is this your parents lied to you about this?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
So my parents lied to me for years to tell
me that I was allergic to dogs and cats because
they did not want the responsibility of taking care of them.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And as I got.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Older in grammar school and was around owned like friends,
houses and animals and I was like, something seems a
little suspicious. And then I got a dog in my
twenties and found out I wasn't allergic.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So damn I had to call them out. Yeah they
told you had a health condition.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
But now I have a dog who's thirteen and my
mom's obsessed with him, so it's kind of it's kind
of funny.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yah, take the dog over there, just rub it all
over your face and be like, hey, look see everything.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Oh yeah, I still call her out all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Thank you, Nicle, have a good day you too.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I remember a lot of years ago I had a
friend speaking of the pet thing and the lies you
tell your kids. They got like a fish at a
pet store or whatever, or I don't even think it
was a fancy fish.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It was just a fish. Maybe it was a carnival
or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It was a little tank, and I don't think there
was a lot of investment made in preserving the fish,
Like I don't think they went and got the proper
tank and the aerration, and I think it was kind
of just like, okay, look it was in a bowl.
It died and the kid, and their kid was young
and so they went to the store and they got
another fish that looked just like it and dump that
in there because they just weren't They weren't in the mood,
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nor were they ready to have to explain to their
child what happened and that, you know, fish go to heaven.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
They just weren't in the mood to have to do this,
so they just kept replacing the fish until finally the
kid was no longer interested in the fish, and then
the fish just kind of, I don't know, was given
away or something, but I remember I was like, no,
you can't use this as a teachable moment like it
you know, we're gonna lie. I mean, how long are
we going to keep this this not fish alive, not
the same fish alive, before we actually may like seventeen
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eighteen twenty, I mean, how long you had to be
before we actually explained like, yeah, fish don't live forever,
and it's sad, but you know, this is life and
this is what happens. I don't know when you teach
a kid about that, that's.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
A good question.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I would just replace that fish because it was kind
of traumatizing once you figured out what happens after the
fish died.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I will never forget that watching his spin in the toilet. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I never had to do the disposal of the dead animals.
That was my dad's job. Poor guy. That is that
that that continues to be his job. He has to
do all the all the hard stuff in the family.
I'm not doing it. I refuse. Hey, Samantha, Hi, this
is a good one. So this is uh you lie
to your kid about this?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, so I lie to her saying that Chuck E
Cheese has to invite us. We can't just go whenever
we want to.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I've heard that. No, I've heard that. I've heard that.
Don't think you can just pull up on a Chuck
E Cheese and walk in. Absolutely not. That's not how
it works. You got to know somebody to talk to
mister cheese man, and he's got to be like, all right,
Samantha's kids can come this week, but not all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yep, I tell her. Oh, he called me, he said
we can come this weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That He's amazing. That is a that's a really good one.
Thank you, Samantha. Have a good day.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Thank you too.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I get cheese. He said we can go this week,
but you better be a good girl, because you.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Know you want to get in my Iraq.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Right, he gets to decide, Hey, Shannon, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Okay, So this is a lie? That is it what
you were told or what you tell your kids that I.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Was told my whole life by my parents and my grandpa.
So my grandpa came here from Croatia when he was
twenty years old. And every time when you're learning, like
when you're in second grade learning about immigrants and you
know Elis, I would everyone would tell me and my family, oh,
Papa swam here from Croatia, That's how he got here.
So why would I ever think that my strong Croatian
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grandfather would ever lie to me.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
So it wasn't until.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
I was twenty years old that I was swimming in
the Adriatic Seat with my cousins and I thought, hmmm,
I don't think Papa actually swam And no one knew
that I was still believing Yeah, no one, No one
knew I was still believing this tale.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah wow, yeah no he yeah, he in fact did
not swim from Croatia, but that would have been quite
a few exactly.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
He still calls himself the Adriatic seat champ.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So there you go, let him have it. Have a
good good morning, Yeah, you too, appreciate you. Hey's Steve,
Good morning, Steve. You a lot of your kids about this?
What is it?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well, we used to tell him that if they told
us a lot, a dot would tramp on their tongues,
but only adults could see it. Well, they couldn't lie
to each other, but that way we could touch them
when they're.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
A lot I see, Yeah, our eyes in the back
of the head. I'm trying to think of some of
the other ones that had to do with lies. Yeah, right,
but your parents had lie to detect their ability.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah. Well, do you think they still lie to you
or no?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
They didn't believe you. Thank you, Steve. Have a good day. Okay,
wait a minute, Nicole, Hey Nikole, good.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Morning, Hello, good morning. Uh what if your parents tell
you this is a lie? Your parents told you?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, so, like it was ever like an event going
on or anything, and the weather it was like really bad,
or it was raining, like it always forecasted, like rain
on my birthdays. My dad would always say, oh, they don't.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Worry about it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I called the weatherman, like the weather's going to be perfect.
And I seriously thought that the weatherman could control the
weather when I was younger.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And so sweet.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
But lo and behold, my dad just kind of looked
at the forecast and like he knew it was going
to be sunny later.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, he didn't call the wedding man. He didn't call
Chuck e Cheese, he didn't call anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I don't think he did. On Nicole, thank you, have
a good day.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Thank you too.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Bye. Here's some of the other, like more classic ones
that I think we were probably all told at one
point or another, as kids, reading in the dark will
ruin your eyes. Not true. According to eye doctors at Harvard.
It might cause a headache because it causes strain, but
I guess it does not actually damage your eyesight, which
I can tell you. I was today years old when
I learned that, because I read in dim light all
the time, and I'm convinced that that's why my eyes
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it's going if it is, and I just now learned
that's not true.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Knuckle cracking leads to arthritis, it does not. Apparently, Swallowing
gum takes seven years to digest Apparently it does not.
In fact, your parents didn't want you to chew that
chocolate milk come or swallow it. Rather, chocolate milk comes
from brown cows. Never believe that cross eyes crossed eyes
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will get stuck that way. They won't. In case you're wondering,
swim too soon after eating and you'll cramp up and drown.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
By the drowned part, no one ever told me that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
They did say you have to wait ninety minutes after
chowing down or something might happen. But according to the
American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Red Cross, that
is not true. If you finish swallowing at least before
jumping in, then you'll be okay. The hour weight was
just made up completely. Watermelons will grow in your stomach
if you swallow the seeds.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
True.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Sitting too close to the TV will cause eye damage
not true. Apparently, touch a toe you'll get warts. Not true.
I'm trying to think of some I'm skipping over some
of these.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't. It's too early for this.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Keep your eyes open when sneezing and they'll fall out.
It's terrifying what parent was teaching their kid that that
is terrifying. Oh, the family pen's living happily on a
farm up stair. Yeah, that one goes back to the U.
Sometimes it's just easier. I guess drinking coffee will stunt
your growth, It won't the toy the candy story is closed.
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Eating Carris will let you see in the dark.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Really.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh and here's the most classic one. And I grew
up in Arizona, where everybody had a pool. If you
pee in the pool, the water will turn blue. The
water will turn red. There's some kind of a chemical
in there that will make it so people can tell
if you pee in the pool or not. That is
not true, and in fact it's okay, Caitlyn, it is true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
More Fred Show.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Next.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, everyone, what did I think of the
Did your parents lie to you growing up?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Because I've had this, I've had this on my Okay,
all right, well i'll see in therapy. No, but I've
had this on my list for a while and we
just haven't gotten to it. But what was the lie
that your parents told you growing up? And this is
this is this sit with you to this day. Eight five, five, five, nine,
(00:25):
one one three five you can call it text the
same number, because this list is coming from the perspective
of your parents did a great job with you if
you believed these lies. Okay, it's it's kind of funny actually,
But I'll go through this list and then we can
talk about the ones that I think are probably more
common for people.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
But or maybe you're the parent and you're doing the
lying now.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I would love to hear about it, because you probably
like you were like I would never do that to
my kids, and then you're doing it now because it's
just easier. I think sometimes my sister lies to my
niece because it's just easier. It's a lie, you know,
the toy stores closed, the ice cream stores out of
ice cream or whatever. And by the way, probably and
(01:08):
I had a very long talk yesterday about and she
just kept asking the same question over and over again,
and I kept answering the same question. But apparently she's
having a hard time being a big sister because may
who was one Polly's for Mayve is one Polly's Maybe
is boring?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I guess Polly tries to body slammer all the time.
It's like wwe except Maybe is not, you know, really
able to move her let limb, so so it's an
unfair advantage. And my sister and brother in law are like, hey,
you gotta like chill out. And then she's like, well,
this is boring, and then my sister says, well, why
don't you call Bubba? She calls me Bubba, why don't
you call bubb and asked him what it was like
to be a big sibling. But she calls me what's
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it like to be a big sibling? And then I
tell her and then she asked me the same question again,
and I'm like why I just told you, And then
she'd but Bubba, and it was almost like she was
proud she did the sentence, which she should because she's brilliant,
but it was no, but what's it like to be
a big sibling. I'm like, PAULI, I just told you.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And so.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, so you know what, Now there's a reception issue
with the phone. Go figure it out by nobody slam
the kid. I don't care. That's what it's like. You
know what it's like. Being a big sibling is like
body slamming somebody all the time. That's that's what being
a big sibling is like. Nonetheless, here are the lies
that you were told growing up, and if you believe them.
According to this author, your parents did a great job.
(02:28):
Number one, you can do anything you want.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Why a big, old lie.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Complete and total lie. However, parenting experts are saying that
if you believed that that your parents did a nice job,
telling that your kids that they can do anything is
a classic parenting technique. It might be deceptive, but it
serves a noble purpose. It's meant to inspire hope, encouraging
kids to embrace the world instead of counting themselves out.
(02:55):
Of all the lies you can tell your kids, Of
all the lies I was told, that is not the worst. Sure,
why not? You cant do anything you put your mind to. Okay, great,
even if it's a lie. You got to eat your
vegetables to grow up big and strong. Not sure if
there's really even any proof of that, but yeah, you're
supposed to eat your your vegetables. However, if you were
able to convince your kids that was a good idea
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and they like broccoli and asparagus, now, then I guess
you were a good parent. I won't be specific here,
but if your kids believed, or if you believe as
a kid, that certain things that aren't real were real,
are you picking up what I'm putting down? Oh? Yes,
if you believe that certain things that are not actually
real or real, that means that you were raised by
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good parents, because it means that the parents were able
to keep their kids' sense of wonder alive.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yes, I agree with that. So why don't you even
a lie?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I know they say white lie, but is it even
is that even a lie? If you tell your kids
that certain things are real when they or not, when
you're just trying to get them to be excited about
you know, I don't know how today isn't that kind
of thing doesn't hurt anybody?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
No, And it's like giving that magic, you know, like
that holiday magic for kids, because once you grow up buddy,
it's over.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, it's not. It's not magical. This is anything about magical.
It's always a miserable kid that ruins it for the
happy key.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah. Oh, I remember the kid that went around running
around telling everybody about this and that. I remember, And
I'm being careful because about this and that. I mean, yeah,
just like just like Klein's being careful with the words
she's using this early in the entertainment report, I'm being
early about the things that I ruined for anybody. These
(04:34):
are the are lies that if you believed, if your
parents told you them, and you believe them, then your
parents did a good job. You're the smartest kid in school.
My parents never told me that, and they never that
would have been a lie, So that's nice. They didn't
tell me that if you work hard, all of your
dreams will come true.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That's the one I'm like, mom my dreams, Like, I
get it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
You should always work hard, like do your best. But
I don't think it always pays off in that way.
You know what I means? That makes sense because like
be life, and that's not like anyone's fault.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's just how life works.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I would argue that you have no shot at anything
if you don't you know, have a dream and then
work really hard to trying to inspire the dream. So
it's possible that it won't come true. But I mean,
I guess as a parent, that's why I would tell
my kid too, because if I'm like, nah, it ain't happening, well,
then you know, then what's the point of even attempting it.
So yeah, I guess I don't have it. I mean,
(05:30):
what do you what are you supposed to say? I
guess there's a I mean, no, you're not going to
go to the NBA. I remember I thought I was
going to the NBA when I was in like middle school,
even though I was absolutely completely and totally uncoordinated in
average like two points a game in my basketball games.
But I remember I'm like, I'm going, I'm going to
the NBA, and my parents had to be like, you
were absolutely not going to the NBA, so like do
(05:51):
your homework because you're not getting bailed out. So I
guess there's a there's realism. But then like not crushing
a kid's dream, I guess, right, So there's more here.
You know your art is good, you know you're good
at singing at the recitals when you really weren't oh good.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Now, how do you do that as a parent? Do
you think?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Now, I mean, the only one who's a parent is
Paulina and Gigi's just not one. But how do you
do that? Like if your kid is terrible at something
like really bad and really there's not a whole lot
of hope and I don't know how you know that. Like,
if your kid's a bad singer at like ten but
wants to be a professional singer, can you tell your
kid like em, maybe we should try something else?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Or do you let them do.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It and keep telling them that they're good at it
even when they're not because they might get good at it,
or do you like steer them towards something else, Like
if they're terrible with soccer but they think they're going
to be the next David Beckham or whatever, then do
you say, like, yeah, at what point do you tell them?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Like I don't think so, Yeah, I'm all for like rerouting.
Obviously Ggi's only one.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But I think about this all the time because I'm like, well,
if she sucks at this, like I don't want to
encourage her and for like a de Lulu mindset, because
sometimes I feel like that works out for people. But
I also don't want her to walk around thinking she's
that girl and she's not.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know what I mean, No.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Like in the sense of like, oh I can sing,
listen to me sing, guys, and everybody makes fun of her,
Like then I'm being a bad parent, right, Like I'm
not doing her any good with that in my opinion,
So I feel like re routing maybe, like lean into
her strengths, whatever those.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Are going to be.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
But my kid of kind has an attitude already. She's
only one, so she might fight me that. Imagine that
I birth myself. I birth myself.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeahttitude of my sister instead to a lot of people.
And I'm I'm I'm sorry, Hovey. I love you deeply, Paulina,
but two of you. Oh, same with my brother in law.
I love my sister, but three of them, Oh my god,
it's hard. I can only hope that Maye is a
complete and total opposite like a pothead.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And uh, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Only.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Honestly, because Paulie is going to be a princess. A
man is kind of a it says, I think, you know,
cola needs the other end of the spectrum, like some
going to listen to death metal with and smoke a
joint as early as possible. I don't know if that's
a nice thing to say. Hey, Jessica, good morning, Jessica,
how are you hi? Good morning ys? Okay, so let's
(08:16):
get to the real eye. Like, okay, So your parents
told you, oh, you're gonna be great in life, and
you believed it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, that's a good thing. If you're a parent, you
can convince your kids of that now.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But there were a whole series of lies that we
were told growing up that were simply a matter of convenience.
For example, Jessica.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
My parents told me that if we turned on the
lights in the backseat of the car that we would
go to jail the immediate same, yes, yes, with the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Now, we weren't toild we're gonna go to jail, Jessica,
But we were told that it was against the law.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I guess something about it. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Like, and if you turn the dome lights on in
the car while you were driving at night, that that
was against the law. I honestly believed you weren't allowed
to do that. Until not that long ago.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It made me wonder why they existed.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
If it's against the law, why do they exist?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Now, if you ever tried to drive with the dome
lights on at night, it does change the visibility a
little bit, but like, it's not against the law. But
I think it was mainly because as a kid, when
you figured out that light was there, you were just
turning it on and off, and it was probably really annoying.
So that was the reason why. But it turns out, Jessica,
you won't go to jail for that.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Yeah, well now I know.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Now I have my own kids that had me to jail.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Do you tell that you tell them the same thing?
I assume yep. Yeah, Jessica, thank you, thanks for listening.
Have a great day. You're too glad you call uh
heinikoll Good morning.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Hi, good morning, Good How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is this your parents lied to you about this?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
So my parents lied to me for years to tell
me that I was allergic to dogs and cats because
they did not want the responsibility of taking care of them.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And as I got.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Older in grammar school and was around owned like friends,
houses and animals and I was like, something seems a
little suspicious. And then I got a dog in my
twenties and found out I wasn't allergic.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So damn I had to call them out. Yeah they
told you had a health condition.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
But now I have a dog who's thirteen and my
mom's obsessed with him, so it's kind of it's kind
of funny.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yah, take the dog over there, just rub it all
over your face and be like, hey, look see everything.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Oh yeah, I still call her out all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Thank you, Nicle, have a good day you too.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I remember a lot of years ago I had a
friend speaking of the pet thing and the lies you
tell your kids. They got like a fish at a
pet store or whatever, or I don't even think it
was a fancy fish.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It was just a fish. Maybe it was a carnival
or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It was a little tank, and I don't think there
was a lot of investment made in preserving the fish,
Like I don't think they went and got the proper
tank and the aerration, and I think it was kind
of just like, okay, look it was in a bowl.
It died and the kid, and their kid was young
and so they went to the store and they got
another fish that looked just like it and dump that
in there because they just weren't They weren't in the mood,
(11:12):
nor were they ready to have to explain to their
child what happened and that, you know, fish go to heaven.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
They just weren't in the mood to have to do this,
so they just kept replacing the fish until finally the
kid was no longer interested in the fish, and then
the fish just kind of, I don't know, was given
away or something, but I remember I was like, no,
you can't use this as a teachable moment like it
you know, we're gonna lie. I mean, how long are
we going to keep this this not fish alive, not
the same fish alive, before we actually may like seventeen
(11:39):
eighteen twenty, I mean, how long you had to be
before we actually explained like, yeah, fish don't live forever,
and it's sad, but you know, this is life and
this is what happens. I don't know when you teach
a kid about that, that's.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
A good question.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I would just replace that fish because it was kind
of traumatizing once you figured out what happens after the
fish died.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I will never forget that watching his spin in the toilet. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I never had to do the disposal of the dead animals.
That was my dad's job. Poor guy. That is that
that that continues to be his job. He has to
do all the all the hard stuff in the family.
I'm not doing it. I refuse. Hey, Samantha, Hi, this
is a good one. So this is uh you lie
to your kid about this?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, so I lie to her saying that Chuck E
Cheese has to invite us. We can't just go whenever
we want to.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I've heard that. No, I've heard that. I've heard that.
Don't think you can just pull up on a Chuck
E Cheese and walk in. Absolutely not. That's not how
it works. You got to know somebody to talk to
mister cheese man, and he's got to be like, all right,
Samantha's kids can come this week, but not all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yep, I tell her. Oh, he called me, he said
we can come this weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That He's amazing. That is a that's a really good one.
Thank you, Samantha. Have a good day.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Thank you too.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I get cheese. He said we can go this week,
but you better be a good girl, because you.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Know you want to get in my Iraq.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Right, he gets to decide, Hey, Shannon, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Okay, So this is a lie? That is it what
you were told or what you tell your kids that I.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Was told my whole life by my parents and my grandpa.
So my grandpa came here from Croatia when he was
twenty years old. And every time when you're learning, like
when you're in second grade learning about immigrants and you
know Elis, I would everyone would tell me and my family, oh,
Papa swam here from Croatia, That's how he got here.
So why would I ever think that my strong Croatian
(13:39):
grandfather would ever lie to me.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
So it wasn't until.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
I was twenty years old that I was swimming in
the Adriatic Seat with my cousins and I thought, hmmm,
I don't think Papa actually swam And no one knew
that I was still believing Yeah, no one, No one
knew I was still believing this tale.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah wow, yeah no he yeah, he in fact did
not swim from Croatia, but that would have been quite
a few exactly.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
He still calls himself the Adriatic seat champ.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So there you go, let him have it. Have a
good good morning, Yeah, you too, appreciate you. Hey's Steve,
Good morning, Steve. You a lot of your kids about this?
What is it?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well, we used to tell him that if they told
us a lot, a dot would tramp on their tongues,
but only adults could see it. Well, they couldn't lie
to each other, but that way we could touch them
when they're.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
A lot I see, Yeah, our eyes in the back
of the head. I'm trying to think of some of
the other ones that had to do with lies. Yeah, right,
but your parents had lie to detect their ability.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah. Well, do you think they still lie to you
or no?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
They didn't believe you. Thank you, Steve. Have a good day. Okay,
wait a minute, Nicole, Hey Nikole, good.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Morning, Hello, good morning. Uh what if your parents tell
you this is a lie? Your parents told you?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, so, like it was ever like an event going
on or anything, and the weather it was like really bad,
or it was raining, like it always forecasted, like rain
on my birthdays. My dad would always say, oh, they don't.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Worry about it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I called the weatherman, like the weather's going to be perfect.
And I seriously thought that the weatherman could control the
weather when I was younger.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And so sweet.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
But lo and behold, my dad just kind of looked
at the forecast and like he knew it was going
to be sunny later.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, he didn't call the wedding man. He didn't call
Chuck e Cheese, he didn't call anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I don't think he did. On Nicole, thank you, have
a good day.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Thank you too.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Bye. Here's some of the other, like more classic ones
that I think we were probably all told at one
point or another, as kids, reading in the dark will
ruin your eyes. Not true. According to eye doctors at Harvard.
It might cause a headache because it causes strain, but
I guess it does not actually damage your eyesight, which
I can tell you. I was today years old when
I learned that, because I read in dim light all
the time, and I'm convinced that that's why my eyes
(16:00):
it's going if it is, and I just now learned
that's not true.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Knuckle cracking leads to arthritis, it does not. Apparently, Swallowing
gum takes seven years to digest Apparently it does not.
In fact, your parents didn't want you to chew that
chocolate milk come or swallow it. Rather, chocolate milk comes
from brown cows. Never believe that cross eyes crossed eyes
(16:27):
will get stuck that way. They won't. In case you're wondering,
swim too soon after eating and you'll cramp up and drown.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
By the drowned part, no one ever told me that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
They did say you have to wait ninety minutes after
chowing down or something might happen. But according to the
American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Red Cross, that
is not true. If you finish swallowing at least before
jumping in, then you'll be okay. The hour weight was
just made up completely. Watermelons will grow in your stomach
if you swallow the seeds.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
True.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Sitting too close to the TV will cause eye damage
not true. Apparently, touch a toe you'll get warts. Not true.
I'm trying to think of some I'm skipping over some
of these.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't. It's too early for this.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Keep your eyes open when sneezing and they'll fall out.
It's terrifying what parent was teaching their kid that that
is terrifying. Oh, the family pen's living happily on a
farm up stair. Yeah, that one goes back to the U.
Sometimes it's just easier. I guess drinking coffee will stunt
your growth, It won't the toy the candy story is closed.
(17:36):
Eating Carris will let you see in the dark.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Really.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh and here's the most classic one. And I grew
up in Arizona, where everybody had a pool. If you
pee in the pool, the water will turn blue. The
water will turn red. There's some kind of a chemical
in there that will make it so people can tell
if you pee in the pool or not. That is
not true, and in fact it's okay, Caitlyn, it is true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
More Fred Show.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Next.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, everyone, what did I think of the
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