April 21, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fred's show is on fribe's Biggest Stories of the Day.
As we mentioned, Pope Francis has passed away. He was
eighty eight years old. The Vatican's announcement comes less than
a day after the Pope made a high profile appearance
in public. Just before that, he held a brief meeting
with the Vice President JD.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Vance.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
His death will prompt a period of morning after which
all cardinals under the age of eighty will convene to
pick the next leader of the Catholic Church. Typically takes
between two and three weeks for a new pope to
be chosen, and if you're not Catholic, they all go
into this like house, the castle, I don't know what
it is, the Vatican, and when they decide, white smoke
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comes out of this chimney thing, and that's when we
know we have a new pope. I guess they decide
amongst themselves, which.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I was just talking off the air.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I've been in one fraternity recruitment bid session where we
decided who was going to get in the fraternity and
who wasn't, And I have to imagine this is no different.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Didn't you feel awful about yourself? Because I certainly did.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh my god, it was so nasty. Yeah, like we
we voted not to let some guy's brother in an
actual relative, Like it was so bad.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, I mean a bunch of twenty years.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I mean, if you wanted a fraternity or sorority, you
know there's and it's different for sorority different from fraternities.
It's probably even different based on the fraternity. But at
my college it was Deferred Russia. It was January, so
you'd go there, you know, Frenchman year, you did first semester,
and then January you'd come back and everybody pretty much
had a good idea where they were going because you'd
been sort of recruited the whole first semester and you know,
they'd buy your beer and stuff and tell you that
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you were cool, so you know whatever, and then you'd
go where your buddies went or whatever. So usually they
would like like my fraternity went after like a whole
group of us, like fifteen of us, and there was
like we'll take all we want all of you, like
if you'll all whatever, and we all went because it
was like, well, this guy lived across the hall and
this guy was my roommates. We all like, but they meet,
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and it's like it's like a week long thing, so
like everybody gets to come the first day and then
they whittle it down to where you're only now getting
invites and by the end of the week. I think
it was a Saturday morning or Friday morning. You go
to the student center and they give you an envelope
and there's either an invitation to be in a fraternity
or there isn't. And for some people there was there,
weren't you open? There's nothing in there that was embarrassing.
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I've heard for the girls now they'll call and tell
them ahead of time, like, hey, there's no bid for you.
Don't come out here, I hope, so it'll be embarrassing.
And at my college, if people didn't get into the sorority,
the sorority specifically that they wanted, this was it was
not uncommon to see a moving van man in back
of the of the dorm at about eleven am on
mid day, which for girls was Saturday, and it was
here's dad schlepping all their stuff out. If they're transferring,
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oh yeah, transferring, Oh yeah. If they didn't, if they
didn't get into the best sorority or whatever. I think
at SMU was Kappa at the time, it was like,
you know, I'm a fifth Legacy Kappa. I have to
be a Kappa. I have to I have to be
a Kyle, I have to be a whatever. I have
to be a Theta. And then if you don't get it,
then if you go call dad, yeahs a moving van
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and like, you know, it's like some guy you know
in his Lulu Lemon outfit, just you schlepping all these
toach full of stuff out because we're going home because
it's over. But yeah, and then but I don't know
if it was like this in the sororities, but the
final meeting was like we'd all sit around and we
came down to I don't know, let's say they were
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forty guys and we could take thirty. And so we'd
sit there and we'd go name by name and some
were like universally yes, we want them. And then there
was always there, always three or four five that it
was contentious, and then people like would vote with like
it was like it was like political, Like there'd be
guys going hey, before the meeting, Hey, look I need
your vote on we don't want this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't even know who it was.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But like if an elder in the fraternity was like, hey,
I need your vote, and I was on like that camp.
I was like in that little facet of the fraternity.
Then I would vote with that guy. And people would
stand up with like tears in their face and be like, no,
we got to have him, Like he's my he's my cousin,
or like he's my best friend's brother from you know,
wherever and al Passo.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And we got to have him.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You know, it's like I gotta get him in here.
And then we'd vote the guy out. I think all
it took was like two or three no votes and
then they weren't in. They were gone next. It was
so bad.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It's not great.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No no, But I think I bet you that's what
this cardinal thing is like, where they all get together
and then they they somehow decide among them which one
of them is being called upon by God. But I
gotta think more than one of them is thinking they're
getting the message.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, who gets the message? We decide like once we all.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Got to figure in a group of however many men
that is cardinals. You know, there's a few that probably
think they're better than everybody else. And they're probably coming in.
They be like, I'm the Cardinal of New York City,
you know. And then the other guy's like, no, we
never pick an American, so no, you know, and then
the other guys like, I am the Cardinal of I'm
already Cardinal of Rome. Guy, I already live here. You
don't have to pay for my relocation, you know, just
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move me over.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Wait.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
So there's no like board of directors for this, Like
it's literally amongst whatever, ten people.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Look this up. Just that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
There's a new movie too that's getting a lot of one.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Uh it's a show or a movie.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's a movie about cardinals. I thought that one at
the Awards shows.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Hold On the Catholic Church follows the centuries old process
to elect a new pope known as papal conclave, which
occurs after the pope dies or resigns.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Following the death of the Pope.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The Catholic Church Conclave is the movie. By the way, they.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Do this, Oh whatever, Yeah, they get all the cardinals together.
I'm trying to get the exact process. Here's just so
that word somewhat accurate about this. Anyway, they get all
they get all the cardinals together and they somehow choose
amongst themselves who needs to be the most powerful religious figure.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
And I'm gonna say this now on record. We would
say this on this radio show for years. Now is
the time for a rebranch. So if you're listening Vatican,
now is the time.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
A lot of people would tell you that Francis was
like the first step in that she was. It's pretty
open minded about things that have traditionally not the Catholic
Church has not been open minded about.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yes, and he's a great first step. So now let's
take it another step further.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Jason Brown Gay, Yes, Jason Brown Gay is the guy. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Anyway, he passed away, so very sad. Two injured over
the weekend in Norfolk, Norfolk State University is shooting. Another shooting.
This is the second last week. It happened on the
campus in Virginia on Saturday, leaving two men injured. The
incident took place around eleven thirty pm Presidential Parkway known
as Greek Row on campus. So that was the second
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one last week. At least twenty seven states in America
are now impacted by the ongoing measles outbreak. So guys,
now we got measles sick in ten with Louisiana, Virginia,
and Missouri have reported their first measles case of twenty
twenty five. All three cases were linked to international travel
at least twenty seven states in America and are now
impacted by the outbreak. Measles is a contagious virus that
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compromises the immune system, making those infected more susceptible to
subsequent infections like pneumonia. Vaccination significantly reduces the risk of
contracting the disease, with the vaccine showing ninety three percent
effectiveness after one dose, rising a ninety seven percent effectiveness
after a second dose. The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame the fan voting ends today. Apparently, Mariah Carey is
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among the artists that are sitting outside the safe zone.
Mariah Carey's not going to get in. Wow, how could
this be? A Fish is in first place with over
three hundred thousand votes, making up the top six. Bad Company,
Billy Idols, Cindi Lauper, Soundgarden, and Joe Cocker.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Fifties Legend.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Chubby Checker is in seventh place, which does not guarantee
induction into the Hall of Fame. Mariakh Carrey is among
the artists that are sitting outside the safe zone. The
inductees will be announced next month. Wendy's was seemingly among
the haters of the recent all female Blue Origin spaceflight.
So was Kiking Yes, posting some snark on social media
after it touched back down. So Wendy's posted on x
(08:05):
U let me see here They posted can we send
her back? Referring to Katy Perry like to space And
apparently now the fast food chain is being ascid to
offer an apology to Katy Perry because Katy Perry is
very upset that they said it. Now. Wendy's is known
to be snarky on the socials. Wendy's has the social
media account that everybody needs to have, Yes, that every corporate,
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every corporation needs wants to hire whoever writes Wendy's tweets
because they're on top of it. And now we're talking
about Wendy's, right, So it's perfect. We always bring a
little spice to our socials, says Wendy's in response. But
Wendy's has a ton of respect for Katy Perry and
her out of this world talent.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So they had to get it in there again.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They're so funny.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I love these people.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They also posted a joke about Perry kissing the ground
upon her return to Earth, but this was their statement.
Someone close to Perry told People magazine this wasn't harmless banter.
This was a billion dollar brand using its platform to
publicly to meet a woman. When billion dollar brands join in,
it's irresponsible. Wendy should do the right thing in the
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name of their core values, apologize and do better in fairness,
Wendy's makes fun of everybody, man included. Yes, and we
all made fun of Jeff Bezos when he did this,
by the way. Yeah, so let's let's just for the record,
this was not necessarily all about I don't think. I
don't think anything to do with being a woman as
much as it did with everyone talking about being astronauts.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And no, it's cause Katie's annoying. Let's just call a
space space.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I'm gonna seemed like she was on something.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I mean, good for her for being whatever whatever sort
of euphoria she found after visiting space for twelve seconds,
is an azer or whatever she visited. No, it's great,
but it's like it did seem a little off, and
then he got Gail King over here, going, well, why
don't you try it?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Okay, yes, Gail, Kay, Gail, two o'clock today, it's weer welby.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Okay, Okay, Gail. I'd be happy to sign.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Me up if you put yourself in that kind of position,
right like you're doing doing this like crazy, never been
done kind of thing. And this is so wild, like
you have to be ready for either the backlash or
the memes, like you know it's all coming, Like come on,
are you that not self aware?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Especially when you land and it appears that you're cracked out.
I'm sorry, but she was. It didn't make sense. It
was just babble.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It didn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Still, so anyway, we all love Katie Perry around here,
but it was and I'm sure Wendy's would be happy
to make it nice frosty and make it all right.
And I don't know why this is even a discussion
or who had the balls to even say this, but
it turns out that women are not dumber or more
mentally unstable during that time of the month. Women's cognitive
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abilities remain stable during your menstrual cycle. Throughout history, popular
narratives have often portrayed menstruation as a condition that in
pairis thinking or decision making, but according to a recent study,
no significant or consistent differences were found in attention, creativity,
executive function, intelligence, or motor performance during that time. And
whoever tried to question that, I pray for you. You're
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going where the pope is? Well, actually, well you're going away.
You're probably not going where the Pope is if you're
dumb enough to say something like that. It's National Kindergarten
Day today. The Entertainer Report will do blogs new waiting
by the Phone money which show Miss Kiky all coming up,
fresh shows, a fresh show.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
It's Kiki's Court, Okay, all right, is the honorable Kiki
is here? Judge Kiki take it away?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
All right, let's get in the courtroom. The gabble has
been hit. It says, hey, Kike, my name is Margaret.
I need to know if you think I'm wrong for
telling my daughter that she's not a doctor and her
kids should come first. My daughter has been an er
nurse for ten years. She's a divorced, single mom of two,
and I feel like she has allowed her career as
a nurse to ruin her life. Since her husband left
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three years ago, she has completely allowed her kids to
become door dash kids, meaning there's never a home cooked
meal on a stove, but instead they're being forced to
live off of food delivery services because she's always at work.
I reached my breaking point when she almost missed my
granddaughter's award ceremony. Luckily, her ex husband made time to
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be there with me, but my daughter, on the other hand,
came running in late and completely missed my granddaughter's name
being called. I was furious. I told her, you're not
a damn doctor, You're just a nurse. Stop trying to
save the world and be there for your family. Well,
my daughter hasn't spoken to me since, and even stopped
communication between me and my grandkids. I feel bad, but
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I think it was the hard truth that she needed
to hear.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The just a nurse thing I don't like. So let's
just fix that. The just a nurse, I mean nurses
the backbone of all of them. I mean doctors, of course,
you know, but nurses are out here right alongside the doctors,
helping them. In fact, in many ways, you know, facilitating
a lot of the things that the doctors, you know,
tell them to do double checking that kind of thing,
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So just a nurse thing, I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
The second thing I would ask you, Kiki, judge Kiki,
is are.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
They in a position where she she could work lessons
still provide? I wonder exactly, because that's my question, like,
is she in a position as a single mom where
she doesn't need to work this much she's choosing to
or is this what it takes in order to support
the family.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I don't know many people who work just to work.
I don't know many people who would sacrifice time with
their children just because. And Margaret, I love you, but
I feel like.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
You are wrong.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Okay, Instead of reprimanding your daughter in front of her
ex husband by the way, and saying you're not a doctor,
you need to put your kids first, how about you
give give a little grace, a little understanding, offer a
little help. If you're tied of your grandkids eating DoorDash
every day, why don't you cook my home cooked meal.
You see your daughter busting her butt to go to work,
and clearly she needs to work, and now you're praising
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him saying he made time to be there for his daughter.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
He's a parent, that's what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Oh, thank you, like't he doesn't get an award or
a trophy because he made time to be there.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Like, you have to be understanding on both parts.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And until you made me, you weren't a single mother,
so you don't know the struggle that comes along with that.
And I just feel like in this case, as a mother,
you should have extended your daughter a little grace. And yes,
you can have a conversation with her and say, hey,
we got to find a work life balance. I don't
want you sacrificeing the time you're with the kids help
her through that. But to just tell her you're not
a doctor, you're just a nurse. That is insane to me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You know, I don't like that angle.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I wouldn't talk to you either, Miss Margaret. Not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
No, I don't like that angle.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
No, there's a constructive way to say, I know that
your job is important to you. I know that you're
doing important work, but you know you're missing a lot
of stuff with your kids and you're gonna regret that, yes,
And so you know, is there a way to make
sure that you you know, don't You may not be
able to make it do everything. And that's also, by
the way, why there's you got mom and dad in
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this situation, so dad can cover sometimes, Yes, Dad can
come to some things that mom can't come to. Not
everybody can be at everything all the time.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Can dad cook a meal for the kids during the week,
and can Dad pick them up and be at their
activities insteads since he has all this time in the world, Like,
it's just hard for it's just hard to say, you know,
you're just this and I don't understand why you're doing that.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
And anybody who knows.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
A nurse, if you've ever dated a nurse, if you've
ever been raised by a nurse, it's not easy for
them to just get off the clock. It's not a
job where you can just go in and the next
person comes in it's like okay, bye. No, there's checks
and balances, there's patients that need things, and nurses work
extremely hard. I don't want to I don't want to
fight the doctors, but when I go to the anything medical,
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I see the nurses more than I see the doctors.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
It's different.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But you can't discount the work that's being done by
nurses because they're not doctors. It's incredibly important to the process.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yes, No, And.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
I think what really beicks my heart too in the
situation is that when you said, you know, she ran
in laid and saw her daughter, but she missed her
daughter's name being called at the award ceremony. I think
what for me broke my heart was that that mom
already felt so much guilt when she was on her
way there trying to make it on time.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
And I think mom guilt is so real.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
So I think, you know, grandma or in this case,
her other is really just piling onto the mom guilt
and the frustration that we feel as working moms in
my opinion, and I.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Think it's it's messed up.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
And I think this is a situation where, yeah, people
have to step in and help.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
What do I always say, guys, it takes a village.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
And being a single mom like my hats off to you,
close off to whatever, everything off to you, everything, they're
taking it close off for single moms.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's my job. I laid my body down. I'm here
give us support all single moms for their plighted.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Man, it can't be easy.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
No, it's tough. I'm eight three five. You guys are
the Jerry. What do you think? Yeah, I don't know.
I uh, I.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Think maybe there's there's some kind of constructive conversation that
might that might need to be had here because we've
talked about this before. You know, growing up, I had
a good friend when I was a little kid. His
dad was a doctor, and they used to joke like
that the doctor's kid is the least cared for because
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doctors have this, it's like this out outward calling. It's
like I gotta take care of my patients, take care
of my patients, and they come home look at their kid.
And he didn't not love his kid, but it was
like you're fine. You know. He'd look at him and
be it wasn't he didn't care, but it was just
like you're fine, right, you know what I mean, Like
I don't I'm not gonna I'm not gonna come home
and oh you're you're good, like you're not sick. Whatever,
move on, move along. And I do think there's like
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a there's probably a complex if you want to call
it that, or wherever, where whatever, where doctors feel this
need to constantly It's like, I don't know how you
leave that behind right, you know what I mean? Like,
I don't know how you do a shift and then
just leave and then you're I mean, I feel like
I would be there all the time trying to save everybody,
you know, and you can't. Yeah, I can't do that
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because I gotta go home and now be a family
guy too. You know, I'm caring for my patients all
the time. Then I'm coming. I'm sure it's a very
difficult balance.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
And an er nurse's non stop I'm sure, like you
see all types of crazy stuff happening all day, and
I'm sure it's just not hard to get off. And
I just I could never see myself mom shaming my
daughter who is the single trying to make it with
two kids.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
My grandma pick up some of the slick well, and you.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Can encourage her to maybe make sure her priorities are
in order. Yeah, but I also think that minimizing what
she does in an effort to do that is not
the way to go about it. You're just a nurse, no, no, no.
If you want her to reorganize and reconsider, hey, look,
i think you're working a little too much over time
and you're missing a little too much stuff. Now again,
the question that we don't know the answer to is
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does she have to work the overtime? Like, is that
what is required for her to provide a life for
her family? Is the dad not contributing? We don't know
any of these things, right. Is she choosing to work
because she doesn't want to be at home, because she
doesn't want to be a mom, because she wants someone
else to handle that, Then there's probably a caring conversation
that could be had, you know, to address that, not yeah,
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what you do is not that important. Hey, Nina, good morning, welcome,
good morning. So, well you heard the whole thing Kiki's court.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What do you think.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
It's horrible? My daughter is a nurse, fifteen hour shifts.
She tries to pick up.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
She's a single mom, she owns her own home, she
has to pay the mortgage, she has to feed her son,
plus her sons has special needs.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
So we all help out.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
I cook a meal for her if she doesn't have time,
I even cook her lunch, so.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
She takes it.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Why can't this grandmother help out, right, instead of you know,
putting her down.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, and unfortunately, you know, most working parents can't take
a vacation day or take off for every single event exactly,
which is why the Paulina's point. You know, that's where
you come in, Nina. That's where aunts and uncles come in,
and that's where you know, because again, it takes it
takes a village.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Sometimes it takes a village. It takes a village.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, your daughter's lucky to have you there. She is rich.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
My grand I drive an hour for the other grandkids
to take them to school. I get up at six
in the morning, take them to school at six thirty
so I can get up there at seven thirty. I
feed him breakfast, and then I come back and do
the same thing every Wednesday and every other weekend for
my grandkid.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That's at the other set.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I do everything, and you're you're being proactive, Nina, as
opposed to his grandmother, who's you know, again, maybe the
message is correct. Maybe this woman needs to, you know,
kind of reorganize here, but to put her down in
the process.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
For the kids if she doesn't want them tow uber.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
There's a different way to go about this. Thank you, Nina,
have a great day you as well. Thank you for listening. Tammy, Hi, Tammy,
good morning, Hi, Hey, So you are a you're a CNA.
So you're a nurse, right.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I'm a nurse's aide, Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well all right, and and so you're in the field,
and so you can relate to this. What do you
think when you hear this story about this, this grandmother
putting her own daughter down because she's not spending enough
time with her kids and because she was late to
something because she was working, right.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
I.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
Felt her paying because I was also a single mom
and uh, I recently became a CNA, and I see
what the nurses go through, especially the nurses who have children,
you know, constantly end up being late to things because
we can't just leave our positions, and nurses, aids or nurses,
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we can't just leave because we have patients who depend
on us. And not only that, we are support staff.
We're there to support everybody and the nurses and sionase
and I feel like it's it's so harsh for her
to to do that.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
To her daughter.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Yeah, you should try to support her because nurses work
so hard, like so hard, and they are the backbone
of any medical facility's right.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And tell me if you're taking time off, if you're
if you're not working at fifteen, that means someone else
has to work the fifteen who probably already worked one.
So you know, again it's not like there's just so
many people out there that can fill in all the
time for every practice and game and thing, which is
a shame, but you know that's that's how she's making
a living for her family.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
There is also a very big nursing and just nursing
shortage period, like nurses and siannis are in high demand
right now because almost any facility you go to is
going to be understaffed. I really don't know very many
facilities right now that aren't struggling with staffing, so I
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can't see why she's probably running late to things.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Well, Tammy, thank you, have a great day. Thanks for
calling you too, Thank you for listening. Jennifer High, good morning.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Hi, good morning.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
So Kiki's Court, basically, you've got a mom of a
woman who's a nurse and a single mother criticizing her
daughter for not putting her kids first in her opinion,
which has now resulted in this rift between them because
Mom's like, hey, you need to do more stuff with
your kids, and this woman is a nurse and I
assume she's working a lot in long hours and we
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don't know again if it's because she has to to
provide or because who knows what the reason is. But
according to the according to mom, her own mother, you're
not doing enough.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
What do you think?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
First, I want to say that this one really irks
me on so many different levels. Bring the single mother
is so hard, and you know, sometimes you have to
do what you have to do to just be able
to support your kids and support your family. And trust me,
I guarantee you there's times where she doesn't want to
be at work and she wants to be at home
with her kids and you know, going to every single function,
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but you can't. And mom guilty is real, yeah, girl,
and right. And the fact that her own mother is
making her feel worse about just having to support her kids,
like that is not okay. Like, if you see your
daughter is struggling, do something to help her out instead
of making her feel worse about having to support her
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family and make that decision.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I agree. Thank you, Jennifer, have a great day. Thank you,
Thank you guys, thanks for calling, Thanks for listening to Lissa. Hi,
good morning. Hi.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
So you were the kid of the mom who was
a nurse, So just just resonates with you.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
Yes, one of five, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
All right? And so when you hear this story, what
do you think?
Speaker 9 (24:15):
I don't know. It breaks my heart a little bit,
only because the grandmother has lacked compassion, was what I'm
getting from that. Being young and seeing my mom she
went to college, became an arin full time nurse all
by herself. Was all five of us, and because she
didn't really have that close knit with her mother, we
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picked up the slack with each other, like we knew
how to like make something on the souf, to cook
or whatever. Again, it was five of us, so I
understand maybe her kids a little younger, but like I said,
her mother just lacked a little compassion. I was more
understanding of my mother's situation, so I knew she couldn't
be there Like I understand, you know, it's a little
envious for other kids, but it was more understanding than anything.
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And I never resented my mother for any of that.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Did you ever feel like to her It's crazy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Starting interrupt you, Lyssa, but did you ever feel like
just to flip it that your mom, even though she
was doing what she had to do Were you ever
jealous of the patients, like it's almost like maybe she
cares about them more than us, even though you knew
that wasn't it. But did you ever feel that way?
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Not at all. I mean, they're in the hospital, I'm not.
There was no jealous you know what I mean. They're
obviously unwell ill can't take care of themselves, whereas I'm
fortunate I have good health. You know, a mother who
when you know, if something wasn't wrong, she did step
in and take.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Care of it. You know.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
It's not like we were neglected in that sense. So no,
I never felt jealous of the patients of anything. I
felt sorry for them, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, yeah, thank you for calling to listen. Have a
good day you too, thank you, because I've heard that
one before too, with like people who are in relationships
with people in the healthcare field, for example, it's like
they give everything they've got all day and then they
come home and they go to sleep, and it's like, well,
wait a minute, hold on, you know what about this
whole other life. You got me, you got family, whatever.
And I think that's why the thing I was saying before,
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the joke being that doctor's kids are the worst cared for.
And it said tongue in cheek, but it's like it's
probably true because you know, all day long, I'm you know,
I'm diagnosing people and I'm doing surgeries and I'm you know,
doing whatever, and then I come home and I'm like
one more right, Yeah, they don't mean something.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
They're not loved. It's just like not, no, you're fighting.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Oh you can just get desensitized to like, you know,
you're calm and call when I'm I'm curing real life
issues at work.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So I think it's a real thing. Oh it is.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I think he was a nurse.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I used to be like, I'm having a migraine. She
was like, please go lay down somewhere like I I'll please,
you know, So you do get desensitized. But at the
end of the day, like I like how ju Lisa
just said it. She admired her mom's sacrifice for her patients,
and she understood why she was doing it.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
She had to, she had to feed them.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And you think the mom would be proud of her
daughter and then would just say, you know what, I
can help pick me pick up the slack, right exactly,
That's what she would be markret Come on now, the
Entertainment Report and headlines biggest stories of the day both
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Fred's show is on fribe's Biggest Stories of the Day.
As we mentioned, Pope Francis has passed away. He was
eighty eight years old. The Vatican's announcement comes less than
a day after the Pope made a high profile appearance
in public. Just before that, he held a brief meeting
with the Vice President JD.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Vance.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
His death will prompt a period of morning after which
all cardinals under the age of eighty will convene to
pick the next leader of the Catholic Church. Typically takes
between two and three weeks for a new pope to
be chosen, and if you're not Catholic, they all go
into this like house, the castle, I don't know what
it is, the Vatican, and when they decide, white smoke
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comes out of this chimney thing, and that's when we
know we have a new pope. I guess they decide
amongst themselves, which.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I was just talking off the air.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I've been in one fraternity recruitment bid session where we
decided who was going to get in the fraternity and
who wasn't, And I have to imagine this is no different.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Didn't you feel awful about yourself? Because I certainly did.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh my god, it was so nasty. Yeah, like we
we voted not to let some guy's brother in an
actual relative, Like it was so bad.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, I mean a bunch of twenty years.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I mean, if you wanted a fraternity or sorority, you
know there's and it's different for sorority different from fraternities.
It's probably even different based on the fraternity. But at
my college it was Deferred Russia. It was January, so
you'd go there, you know, Frenchman year, you did first semester,
and then January you'd come back and everybody pretty much
had a good idea where they were going because you'd
been sort of recruited the whole first semester and you know,
they'd buy your beer and stuff and tell you that
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you were cool, so you know whatever, and then you'd
go where your buddies went or whatever. So usually they
would like like my fraternity went after like a whole
group of us, like fifteen of us, and there was
like we'll take all we want all of you, like
if you'll all whatever, and we all went because it
was like, well, this guy lived across the hall and
this guy was my roommates. We all like, but they meet,
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and it's like it's like a week long thing, so
like everybody gets to come the first day and then
they whittle it down to where you're only now getting
invites and by the end of the week. I think
it was a Saturday morning or Friday morning. You go
to the student center and they give you an envelope
and there's either an invitation to be in a fraternity
or there isn't. And for some people there was there,
weren't you open? There's nothing in there that was embarrassing.
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I've heard for the girls now they'll call and tell
them ahead of time, like, hey, there's no bid for you.
Don't come out here, I hope, so it'll be embarrassing.
And at my college, if people didn't get into the sorority,
the sorority specifically that they wanted, this was it was
not uncommon to see a moving van man in back
of the of the dorm at about eleven am on
mid day, which for girls was Saturday, and it was
here's dad schlepping all their stuff out. If they're transferring,
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oh yeah, transferring, Oh yeah. If they didn't, if they
didn't get into the best sorority or whatever. I think
at SMU was Kappa at the time, it was like,
you know, I'm a fifth Legacy Kappa. I have to
be a Kappa. I have to I have to be
a Kyle, I have to be a whatever. I have
to be a Theta. And then if you don't get it,
then if you go call dad, yeahs a moving van
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and like, you know, it's like some guy you know
in his Lulu Lemon outfit, just you schlepping all these
toach full of stuff out because we're going home because
it's over. But yeah, and then but I don't know
if it was like this in the sororities, but the
final meeting was like we'd all sit around and we
came down to I don't know, let's say they were
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forty guys and we could take thirty. And so we'd
sit there and we'd go name by name and some
were like universally yes, we want them. And then there
was always there, always three or four five that it
was contentious, and then people like would vote with like
it was like it was like political, Like there'd be
guys going hey, before the meeting, Hey, look I need
your vote on we don't want this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't even know who it was.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But like if an elder in the fraternity was like, hey,
I need your vote, and I was on like that camp.
I was like in that little facet of the fraternity.
Then I would vote with that guy. And people would
stand up with like tears in their face and be like, no,
we got to have him, Like he's my he's my cousin,
or like he's my best friend's brother from you know,
wherever and al Passo.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And we got to have him.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You know, it's like I gotta get him in here.
And then we'd vote the guy out. I think all
it took was like two or three no votes and
then they weren't in. They were gone next. It was
so bad.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It's not great.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No no, But I think I bet you that's what
this cardinal thing is like, where they all get together
and then they they somehow decide among them which one
of them is being called upon by God. But I
gotta think more than one of them is thinking they're
getting the message.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, who gets the message? We decide like once we all.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Got to figure in a group of however many men
that is cardinals. You know, there's a few that probably
think they're better than everybody else. And they're probably coming in.
They be like, I'm the Cardinal of New York City,
you know. And then the other guy's like, no, we
never pick an American, so no, you know, and then
the other guys like, I am the Cardinal of I'm
already Cardinal of Rome. Guy, I already live here. You
don't have to pay for my relocation, you know, just
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move me over.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Wait.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
So there's no like board of directors for this, Like
it's literally amongst whatever, ten people.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Look this up. Just that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
There's a new movie too that's getting a lot of one.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Uh it's a show or a movie.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's a movie about cardinals. I thought that one at
the Awards shows.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Hold On the Catholic Church follows the centuries old process
to elect a new pope known as papal conclave, which
occurs after the pope dies or resigns.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Following the death of the Pope.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The Catholic Church Conclave is the movie. By the way, they.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Do this, Oh whatever, Yeah, they get all the cardinals together.
I'm trying to get the exact process. Here's just so
that word somewhat accurate about this. Anyway, they get all
they get all the cardinals together and they somehow choose
amongst themselves who needs to be the most powerful religious figure.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
And I'm gonna say this now on record. We would
say this on this radio show for years. Now is
the time for a rebranch. So if you're listening Vatican,
now is the time.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
A lot of people would tell you that Francis was
like the first step in that she was. It's pretty
open minded about things that have traditionally not the Catholic
Church has not been open minded about.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yes, and he's a great first step. So now let's
take it another step further.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Jason Brown Gay, Yes, Jason Brown Gay is the guy. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Anyway, he passed away, so very sad. Two injured over
the weekend in Norfolk, Norfolk State University is shooting. Another shooting.
This is the second last week. It happened on the
campus in Virginia on Saturday, leaving two men injured. The
incident took place around eleven thirty pm Presidential Parkway known
as Greek Row on campus. So that was the second
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one last week. At least twenty seven states in America
are now impacted by the ongoing measles outbreak. So guys,
now we got measles sick in ten with Louisiana, Virginia,
and Missouri have reported their first measles case of twenty
twenty five. All three cases were linked to international travel
at least twenty seven states in America and are now
impacted by the outbreak. Measles is a contagious virus that
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compromises the immune system, making those infected more susceptible to
subsequent infections like pneumonia. Vaccination significantly reduces the risk of
contracting the disease, with the vaccine showing ninety three percent
effectiveness after one dose, rising a ninety seven percent effectiveness
after a second dose. The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame the fan voting ends today. Apparently, Mariah Carey is
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among the artists that are sitting outside the safe zone.
Mariah Carey's not going to get in. Wow, how could
this be? A Fish is in first place with over
three hundred thousand votes, making up the top six. Bad Company,
Billy Idols, Cindi Lauper, Soundgarden, and Joe Cocker.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Fifties Legend.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Chubby Checker is in seventh place, which does not guarantee
induction into the Hall of Fame. Mariakh Carrey is among
the artists that are sitting outside the safe zone. The
inductees will be announced next month. Wendy's was seemingly among
the haters of the recent all female Blue Origin spaceflight.
So was Kiking Yes, posting some snark on social media
after it touched back down. So Wendy's posted on x
(08:05):
U let me see here They posted can we send
her back? Referring to Katy Perry like to space And
apparently now the fast food chain is being ascid to
offer an apology to Katy Perry because Katy Perry is
very upset that they said it. Now. Wendy's is known
to be snarky on the socials. Wendy's has the social
media account that everybody needs to have, Yes, that every corporate,
(08:28):
every corporation needs wants to hire whoever writes Wendy's tweets
because they're on top of it. And now we're talking
about Wendy's, right, So it's perfect. We always bring a
little spice to our socials, says Wendy's in response. But
Wendy's has a ton of respect for Katy Perry and
her out of this world talent.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So they had to get it in there again.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They're so funny.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I love these people.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They also posted a joke about Perry kissing the ground
upon her return to Earth, but this was their statement.
Someone close to Perry told People magazine this wasn't harmless banter.
This was a billion dollar brand using its platform to
publicly to meet a woman. When billion dollar brands join in,
it's irresponsible. Wendy should do the right thing in the
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name of their core values, apologize and do better in fairness,
Wendy's makes fun of everybody, man included. Yes, and we
all made fun of Jeff Bezos when he did this,
by the way. Yeah, so let's let's just for the record,
this was not necessarily all about I don't think. I
don't think anything to do with being a woman as
much as it did with everyone talking about being astronauts.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And no, it's cause Katie's annoying. Let's just call a
space space.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I'm gonna seemed like she was on something.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I mean, good for her for being whatever whatever sort
of euphoria she found after visiting space for twelve seconds,
is an azer or whatever she visited. No, it's great,
but it's like it did seem a little off, and
then he got Gail King over here, going, well, why
don't you try it?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Okay, yes, Gail, Kay, Gail, two o'clock today, it's weer welby.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Okay, Okay, Gail. I'd be happy to sign.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Me up if you put yourself in that kind of position,
right like you're doing doing this like crazy, never been
done kind of thing. And this is so wild, like
you have to be ready for either the backlash or
the memes, like you know it's all coming, Like come on,
are you that not self aware?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Especially when you land and it appears that you're cracked out.
I'm sorry, but she was. It didn't make sense. It
was just babble.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It didn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Still, so anyway, we all love Katie Perry around here,
but it was and I'm sure Wendy's would be happy
to make it nice frosty and make it all right.
And I don't know why this is even a discussion
or who had the balls to even say this, but
it turns out that women are not dumber or more
mentally unstable during that time of the month. Women's cognitive
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abilities remain stable during your menstrual cycle. Throughout history, popular
narratives have often portrayed menstruation as a condition that in
pairis thinking or decision making, but according to a recent study,
no significant or consistent differences were found in attention, creativity,
executive function, intelligence, or motor performance during that time. And
whoever tried to question that, I pray for you. You're
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going where the pope is? Well, actually, well you're going away.
You're probably not going where the Pope is if you're
dumb enough to say something like that. It's National Kindergarten
Day today. The Entertainer Report will do blogs new waiting
by the Phone money which show Miss Kiky all coming up,
fresh shows, a fresh show.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
It's Kiki's Court, Okay, all right, is the honorable Kiki
is here? Judge Kiki take it away?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
All right, let's get in the courtroom. The gabble has
been hit. It says, hey, Kike, my name is Margaret.
I need to know if you think I'm wrong for
telling my daughter that she's not a doctor and her
kids should come first. My daughter has been an er
nurse for ten years. She's a divorced, single mom of two,
and I feel like she has allowed her career as
a nurse to ruin her life. Since her husband left
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three years ago, she has completely allowed her kids to
become door dash kids, meaning there's never a home cooked
meal on a stove, but instead they're being forced to
live off of food delivery services because she's always at work.
I reached my breaking point when she almost missed my
granddaughter's award ceremony. Luckily, her ex husband made time to
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be there with me, but my daughter, on the other hand,
came running in late and completely missed my granddaughter's name
being called. I was furious. I told her, you're not
a damn doctor, You're just a nurse. Stop trying to
save the world and be there for your family. Well,
my daughter hasn't spoken to me since, and even stopped
communication between me and my grandkids. I feel bad, but
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I think it was the hard truth that she needed
to hear.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The just a nurse thing I don't like. So let's
just fix that. The just a nurse, I mean nurses
the backbone of all of them. I mean doctors, of course,
you know, but nurses are out here right alongside the doctors,
helping them. In fact, in many ways, you know, facilitating
a lot of the things that the doctors, you know,
tell them to do double checking that kind of thing,
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So just a nurse thing, I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
The second thing I would ask you, Kiki, judge Kiki,
is are.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
They in a position where she she could work lessons
still provide? I wonder exactly, because that's my question, like,
is she in a position as a single mom where
she doesn't need to work this much she's choosing to
or is this what it takes in order to support
the family.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I don't know many people who work just to work.
I don't know many people who would sacrifice time with
their children just because. And Margaret, I love you, but
I feel like.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
You are wrong.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Okay, Instead of reprimanding your daughter in front of her
ex husband by the way, and saying you're not a doctor,
you need to put your kids first, how about you
give give a little grace, a little understanding, offer a
little help. If you're tied of your grandkids eating DoorDash
every day, why don't you cook my home cooked meal.
You see your daughter busting her butt to go to work,
and clearly she needs to work, and now you're praising
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him saying he made time to be there for his daughter.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
He's a parent, that's what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Oh, thank you, like't he doesn't get an award or
a trophy because he made time to be there.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Like, you have to be understanding on both parts.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And until you made me, you weren't a single mother,
so you don't know the struggle that comes along with that.
And I just feel like in this case, as a mother,
you should have extended your daughter a little grace. And yes,
you can have a conversation with her and say, hey,
we got to find a work life balance. I don't
want you sacrificeing the time you're with the kids help
her through that. But to just tell her you're not
a doctor, you're just a nurse. That is insane to me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You know, I don't like that angle.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I wouldn't talk to you either, Miss Margaret. Not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
No, I don't like that angle.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
No, there's a constructive way to say, I know that
your job is important to you. I know that you're
doing important work, but you know you're missing a lot
of stuff with your kids and you're gonna regret that, yes,
And so you know, is there a way to make
sure that you you know, don't You may not be
able to make it do everything. And that's also, by
the way, why there's you got mom and dad in
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this situation, so dad can cover sometimes, Yes, Dad can
come to some things that mom can't come to. Not
everybody can be at everything all the time.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Can dad cook a meal for the kids during the week,
and can Dad pick them up and be at their
activities insteads since he has all this time in the world, Like,
it's just hard for it's just hard to say, you know,
you're just this and I don't understand why you're doing that.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
And anybody who knows.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
A nurse, if you've ever dated a nurse, if you've
ever been raised by a nurse, it's not easy for
them to just get off the clock. It's not a
job where you can just go in and the next
person comes in it's like okay, bye. No, there's checks
and balances, there's patients that need things, and nurses work
extremely hard. I don't want to I don't want to
fight the doctors, but when I go to the anything medical,
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I see the nurses more than I see the doctors.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
It's different.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But you can't discount the work that's being done by
nurses because they're not doctors. It's incredibly important to the process.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yes, No, And.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
I think what really beicks my heart too in the
situation is that when you said, you know, she ran
in laid and saw her daughter, but she missed her
daughter's name being called at the award ceremony. I think
what for me broke my heart was that that mom
already felt so much guilt when she was on her
way there trying to make it on time.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
And I think mom guilt is so real.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
So I think, you know, grandma or in this case,
her other is really just piling onto the mom guilt
and the frustration that we feel as working moms in
my opinion, and I.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Think it's it's messed up.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
And I think this is a situation where, yeah, people
have to step in and help.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
What do I always say, guys, it takes a village.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
And being a single mom like my hats off to you,
close off to whatever, everything off to you, everything, they're
taking it close off for single moms.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's my job. I laid my body down. I'm here
give us support all single moms for their plighted.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Man, it can't be easy.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
No, it's tough. I'm eight three five. You guys are
the Jerry. What do you think? Yeah, I don't know.
I uh, I.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Think maybe there's there's some kind of constructive conversation that
might that might need to be had here because we've
talked about this before. You know, growing up, I had
a good friend when I was a little kid. His
dad was a doctor, and they used to joke like
that the doctor's kid is the least cared for because
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doctors have this, it's like this out outward calling. It's
like I gotta take care of my patients, take care
of my patients, and they come home look at their kid.
And he didn't not love his kid, but it was
like you're fine. You know. He'd look at him and
be it wasn't he didn't care, but it was just
like you're fine, right, you know what I mean, Like
I don't I'm not gonna I'm not gonna come home
and oh you're you're good, like you're not sick. Whatever,
move on, move along. And I do think there's like
(17:18):
a there's probably a complex if you want to call
it that, or wherever, where whatever, where doctors feel this
need to constantly It's like, I don't know how you
leave that behind right, you know what I mean? Like,
I don't know how you do a shift and then
just leave and then you're I mean, I feel like
I would be there all the time trying to save everybody,
you know, and you can't. Yeah, I can't do that
(17:38):
because I gotta go home and now be a family
guy too. You know, I'm caring for my patients all
the time. Then I'm coming. I'm sure it's a very
difficult balance.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
And an er nurse's non stop I'm sure, like you
see all types of crazy stuff happening all day, and
I'm sure it's just not hard to get off. And
I just I could never see myself mom shaming my
daughter who is the single trying to make it with
two kids.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
My grandma pick up some of the slick well, and you.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Can encourage her to maybe make sure her priorities are
in order. Yeah, but I also think that minimizing what
she does in an effort to do that is not
the way to go about it. You're just a nurse, no, no, no.
If you want her to reorganize and reconsider, hey, look,
i think you're working a little too much over time
and you're missing a little too much stuff. Now again,
the question that we don't know the answer to is
(18:27):
does she have to work the overtime? Like, is that
what is required for her to provide a life for
her family? Is the dad not contributing? We don't know
any of these things, right. Is she choosing to work
because she doesn't want to be at home, because she
doesn't want to be a mom, because she wants someone
else to handle that, Then there's probably a caring conversation
that could be had, you know, to address that, not yeah,
(18:48):
what you do is not that important. Hey, Nina, good morning, welcome,
good morning. So, well you heard the whole thing Kiki's court.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What do you think.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
It's horrible? My daughter is a nurse, fifteen hour shifts.
She tries to pick up.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
She's a single mom, she owns her own home, she
has to pay the mortgage, she has to feed her son,
plus her sons has special needs.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
So we all help out.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
I cook a meal for her if she doesn't have time,
I even cook her lunch, so.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
She takes it.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Why can't this grandmother help out, right, instead of you know,
putting her down.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, and unfortunately, you know, most working parents can't take
a vacation day or take off for every single event exactly,
which is why the Paulina's point. You know, that's where
you come in, Nina. That's where aunts and uncles come in,
and that's where you know, because again, it takes it
takes a village.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Sometimes it takes a village. It takes a village.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, your daughter's lucky to have you there. She is rich.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
My grand I drive an hour for the other grandkids
to take them to school. I get up at six
in the morning, take them to school at six thirty
so I can get up there at seven thirty. I
feed him breakfast, and then I come back and do
the same thing every Wednesday and every other weekend for
my grandkid.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That's at the other set.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I do everything, and you're you're being proactive, Nina, as
opposed to his grandmother, who's you know, again, maybe the
message is correct. Maybe this woman needs to, you know,
kind of reorganize here, but to put her down in
the process.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
For the kids if she doesn't want them tow uber.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
There's a different way to go about this. Thank you, Nina,
have a great day you as well. Thank you for listening. Tammy, Hi, Tammy,
good morning, Hi, Hey, So you are a you're a CNA.
So you're a nurse, right.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I'm a nurse's aide, Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well all right, and and so you're in the field,
and so you can relate to this. What do you
think when you hear this story about this, this grandmother
putting her own daughter down because she's not spending enough
time with her kids and because she was late to
something because she was working, right.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
I.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
Felt her paying because I was also a single mom
and uh, I recently became a CNA, and I see
what the nurses go through, especially the nurses who have children,
you know, constantly end up being late to things because
we can't just leave our positions, and nurses, aids or nurses,
(21:12):
we can't just leave because we have patients who depend
on us. And not only that, we are support staff.
We're there to support everybody and the nurses and sionase
and I feel like it's it's so harsh for her
to to do that.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
To her daughter.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Yeah, you should try to support her because nurses work
so hard, like so hard, and they are the backbone
of any medical facility's right.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And tell me if you're taking time off, if you're
if you're not working at fifteen, that means someone else
has to work the fifteen who probably already worked one.
So you know, again it's not like there's just so
many people out there that can fill in all the
time for every practice and game and thing, which is
a shame, but you know that's that's how she's making
a living for her family.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
There is also a very big nursing and just nursing
shortage period, like nurses and siannis are in high demand
right now because almost any facility you go to is
going to be understaffed. I really don't know very many
facilities right now that aren't struggling with staffing, so I
(22:22):
can't see why she's probably running late to things.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Well, Tammy, thank you, have a great day. Thanks for
calling you too, Thank you for listening. Jennifer High, good morning.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Hi, good morning.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
So Kiki's Court, basically, you've got a mom of a
woman who's a nurse and a single mother criticizing her
daughter for not putting her kids first in her opinion,
which has now resulted in this rift between them because
Mom's like, hey, you need to do more stuff with
your kids, and this woman is a nurse and I
assume she's working a lot in long hours and we
(22:57):
don't know again if it's because she has to to
provide or because who knows what the reason is. But
according to the according to mom, her own mother, you're
not doing enough.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
What do you think?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
First, I want to say that this one really irks
me on so many different levels. Bring the single mother
is so hard, and you know, sometimes you have to
do what you have to do to just be able
to support your kids and support your family. And trust me,
I guarantee you there's times where she doesn't want to
be at work and she wants to be at home
with her kids and you know, going to every single function,
(23:32):
but you can't. And mom guilty is real, yeah, girl,
and right. And the fact that her own mother is
making her feel worse about just having to support her kids,
like that is not okay. Like, if you see your
daughter is struggling, do something to help her out instead
of making her feel worse about having to support her
(23:54):
family and make that decision.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I agree. Thank you, Jennifer, have a great day. Thank you,
Thank you guys, thanks for calling, Thanks for listening to Lissa. Hi,
good morning. Hi.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
So you were the kid of the mom who was
a nurse, So just just resonates with you.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
Yes, one of five, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
All right? And so when you hear this story, what
do you think?
Speaker 9 (24:15):
I don't know. It breaks my heart a little bit,
only because the grandmother has lacked compassion, was what I'm
getting from that. Being young and seeing my mom she
went to college, became an arin full time nurse all
by herself. Was all five of us, and because she
didn't really have that close knit with her mother, we
(24:37):
picked up the slack with each other, like we knew
how to like make something on the souf, to cook
or whatever. Again, it was five of us, so I
understand maybe her kids a little younger, but like I said,
her mother just lacked a little compassion. I was more
understanding of my mother's situation, so I knew she couldn't
be there Like I understand, you know, it's a little
envious for other kids, but it was more understanding than anything.
(25:00):
And I never resented my mother for any of that.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Did you ever feel like to her It's crazy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Starting interrupt you, Lyssa, but did you ever feel like
just to flip it that your mom, even though she
was doing what she had to do Were you ever
jealous of the patients, like it's almost like maybe she
cares about them more than us, even though you knew
that wasn't it. But did you ever feel that way?
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Not at all. I mean, they're in the hospital, I'm not.
There was no jealous you know what I mean. They're
obviously unwell ill can't take care of themselves, whereas I'm
fortunate I have good health. You know, a mother who
when you know, if something wasn't wrong, she did step
in and take.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Care of it. You know.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
It's not like we were neglected in that sense. So no,
I never felt jealous of the patients of anything. I
felt sorry for them, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, yeah, thank you for calling to listen. Have a
good day you too, thank you, because I've heard that
one before too, with like people who are in relationships
with people in the healthcare field, for example, it's like
they give everything they've got all day and then they
come home and they go to sleep, and it's like, well,
wait a minute, hold on, you know what about this
whole other life. You got me, you got family, whatever.
And I think that's why the thing I was saying before,
(26:02):
the joke being that doctor's kids are the worst cared for.
And it said tongue in cheek, but it's like it's
probably true because you know, all day long, I'm you know,
I'm diagnosing people and I'm doing surgeries and I'm you know,
doing whatever, and then I come home and I'm like
one more right, Yeah, they don't mean something.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
They're not loved. It's just like not, no, you're fighting.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Oh you can just get desensitized to like, you know,
you're calm and call when I'm I'm curing real life
issues at work.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So I think it's a real thing. Oh it is.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I think he was a nurse.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I used to be like, I'm having a migraine. She
was like, please go lay down somewhere like I I'll please,
you know, So you do get desensitized. But at the
end of the day, like I like how ju Lisa
just said it. She admired her mom's sacrifice for her patients,
and she understood why she was doing it.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
She had to, she had to feed them.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And you think the mom would be proud of her
daughter and then would just say, you know what, I
can help pick me pick up the slack, right exactly,
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