June 3, 2026 • 17 mins
A mother is upset after she gave her daughter a Honda as her graduation gift and her daughter asked her to sell it for a Mercedes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake up.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Desperation Bread Show is on.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's Wednesday, you and third, the Fread Show is on
as Paulina's birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Here's the Paulina Sea top in here.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Yes it is.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
There's plants behind you, Puerto Rican flags.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I don't know why it's all behind me, Like I
don't know why I am the back job. It's your birthday.
You the casita should be over there because you know,
I know that it brings you back to the time
when you and John Hamm were in the casita during
Bad Bunnies tour in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got in the casita. Yeah, I
didn't see me, but I was there.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, that's what that's what you said.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, I did remind you of the time when you
were there, So tell me together you were there.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We were there to see me.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
But I did though, I just said I did, So
we got to go with that line.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
I did.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
My life game, is we?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I try to good though.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
She was John am.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
All that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Morning everyone, Wednesday, June third, Hi, Kalin, Hi, Jason, Hi, Kiki.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I gotta do everything in the right order.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
If I don't do things in the right order, and
my OCD gets all thrown off, and then I don't
remember my spiel.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The same thing with waiting by the phone.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
If I don't say the whole spiel in the right order,
then the whole thing gets messed up. She'll be Shelley
with money next hour. I believe it's six hundred bucks.
Belahamin's here on the phone and the text sheep. As
I walked in this morning, she comes sprinting out of
her studio, no, no word of anything, and then stands
in front of the door with her arms crossed because
apparently she was the bouncer for the casita.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But I didn't know the bit.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I told her to do that, but I didn't tell
her to run.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
But I was like, I, dare you to tick chuck
Fred's I d and she was brave and she did it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
She did, but I hadn't had a sip of coffee.
She gets here a little before me. Yeah, and she
has a lot more energy than I do. I think
it's just natural, it's just within her. I need a minute,
you know, like I just I need a minute.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
She almost got bounced.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, move, why you're up. I got to take a
little sip of coffee. I gotta sit down.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I got I gotta just sort of get I gotta
I gotta authenticate, you know, I got to authenticate. So
I gotta have all my top secret documents.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I'm very serious about birthdays. I know, I know, got
to do their job. She's a bouncer. She took it seriously.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
A new waiting metaphone is coming up next hour and
and then we will address what can we say if
you listen to Waiting met the phone on Friday, you
should listen to our show at seven thirty central, eight
thirty eastern right around there, right right in there until then. No, no,
not no, don't let leave and then come back right now.
(02:49):
That's what I want you to do. I want you
to turn the radio off now and then come back.
Just turn it off. Don't even honestly, does everyone now
turn the radio? They don't even bother with the next
hour and a half. There's no per visit whatsoever. Yeah,
so listen to the whole thing. I think that was implied.
But be sure you're listening loudly at at seven point
(03:10):
thirty rank it witness what part of your vocabulary is
turn the radio off you're supposed to leave it on
twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I started at that time.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, I'm highlighting everyone's as quick as you. Okay, well
I think.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
They got it, but yeah, No, it's you're supposed to
listen to the Community Access show that Sunday mornings.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Guys, I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You're supposed to listen to Ryan Seacrest countdown the forty
biggest songs in the nation.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
What are you doing the whole week of work into
that shows what.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Ryan secrets coming down to the forty biggest songs in
the nation? Are you? Are you assiting on that show too?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
My girl?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Anyway, let me get through my spiel, y'all throw me
off man through my thing anyway. Leading on the phone,
we haven't follow up from the woman from waiting by
the phone on Friday who was ghosted by the ghost.
She has a theory that she wants to share with us,
and we haven't decided collectively as a group yet if
we're going to indulge in this or not. I think,
(04:14):
if I know everybody, I think we're likely to indulge
in this and then probably like touch the stove and
burn ourselves again and then get people all upset with
us again.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, y not Yeah, I'm down to clown. Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Okay, good good headlines, biggest stories of the day and
blogs and the Entertainment Report this hour?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What are you working on?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
K Zenda's mom posted an interesting story on Instagram and
I can't tell if she's throwing shade or not, but
it was about the Euphoria series finale.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
What would you?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I mean, I think I know, but eight five five
five one three five maybe I think I think I
know what most people would do in this situation, but
I guess, like I want to know how extreme you
would get. But this story's gone viral this morning. A
mom bought her daughter a used Honda and paid cash
for it as a college graduation gift as its graduation season,
(05:03):
and instead of being grateful, the daughter complained that the
car wasn't good enough and asked her mother to sell
it and buy her a Mercedes instead.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Girl with hand no money, right, that's that's.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The problem that you know that, that's the issue that
being a girl. No, that's the issue.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
No, the bicycles. I was six.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
My parents if my parents, and my parents were very
generous with with with us, with my sister and I
and I probably had no idea at the time just
how generous. And now I do and I'm very grateful,
but very but they were you there.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was every day.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
House me.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I can't get a sentence out today.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's like I feel like I'm in church and I'm
like generous, very general, you know you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Man, listen at seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I feel like I'm being evangelized, right Jason, Jason ungrateful?
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Honey, Jason, I'm trying to start maybe trying to fly
to stand playing man hold bunch of.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Trying to fly the plane. Man. Anyway, what would you do? What? What?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
What do you think your parents would do? What would
you do as parents? If you were generous enough to
give your your child a car free and clear? Here
you go, you graduated college. Here is a car new
to you that you don't have to pay for, only
for your kid to turn around and say, no, I
want a better one. So the mom did refuse, and
(06:55):
then took to social media for advice. For advice, most
commenters sided with the saying the daughters sounded entitled and
should appreciate receiving a free car, especially since many graduates
don't get one at all. A Honda is considered a reliable,
practical vehicle, while Mercedes would be far more expensive to
buy and sure and maintain. The mother thought that she
was giving a generous graduation gift, and she did, but
(07:15):
her daughter wants a luxury car instead. Online, most people
felt the daughter was being ungrateful and the mom should
stick with the Honda. I think that if that were me,
if I had pulled that, the Honda gets sold and
I get nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Absolutely yes, that's the correct way.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And my parents weren't that they weren't like gangster gangster,
but like they would have been so upset with me,
and rightfully so that here, here you are. Here is
a car that is that you don't have to pay
for here it is not one payment, nothing, And so
drive away, drive away out of my house and go
get a job. And if you want a Mercedes, then
(07:52):
here you go. Here's a Honda. I don't know how
much this caused, twenty five dollars, twenty thousand, whatever, this
car cost fifteen doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You got that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So you want a Mercedes is gonna cost two or
three times that much? I got idea. Drive the Honda
to your job and make some money and then buy
the car that you can afford when you can afford it.
But here is something to get you started, right. Is
there any other way to see this?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
No, that she would be walking for the summer in
the foreseeable future. She would not have access to my
uber or accounts or anything like that, because at this
point you need to teach your child to be at
the least bit grateful for what you've done and to
ask for a Mercedes Rush out of high school. You
can't afford to put gas in it. Let me tell
you're gonna crash it. You're gonna crash it. You're not
gonna be able to keep up the maintenance. They all
(08:36):
change is two hundred dollars. Like girl, No, absolutely not,
she'd have nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I can't imagine. I simply can't. And then it makes
me wonder, like, what else is this person pushed back on?
And I'm not saying it's the mom's fault, but like,
really like that just to come out of nowhere and
be like, Nah, Handa is not good enough. I want
a Mercedes. This is the first time this has ever happened.
I wonder with this young Lady Paulina, What would Mama
Marta have done? If I think you would have ceased
(09:04):
to the car would have ceased to exist, and you
would have ceased to exist. Remember when you you wouldn't
have made it to your thirty thirtieth birthday today or
whatever we're pretending it is.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Remember when you went on your Poland trip from visit
tourism visit Poland. I recall, yeah, months ago, Yeah, I
would be living.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You would have gotten sent back to the home land.
My mom boarded you.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
She she thrived me so many time, went on the farm.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Yes, she threatened me, like that's where I'm gonna go,
like if I don't behave or whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So if I.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Pulled that on her.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yes, it would be like one way ticket, you know,
get my citizenship, Like it would be that Like she
did not play with me.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
She called my grandma so many times. I mean, oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So your your grandma from seven thousand miles away was
the discipline area. Yes, she would rain hell on you
even though she was seven thousand miles away.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh yes, and somehow it worked though I worked.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Every time I was like, I'm not moving to Poland,
Like that's not happening, I'm getting in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And then Bob Sched will get on the phone and
then it would be like, if you don't get right,
I'm going to get on a lot of airlines and
three days I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Three days I'll be in to whoop your body.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Literally, I was so scared of her. I'm really terrified.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah. That was kind of like my grandfather too, Like
if he had to get involved, it was very rare,
but he had this like very stoic way of I
think this is where I get it from. Like if
he if he was upset, he didn't yell, he didn't
get he didn't like, you know, throw anything, he didn't
like beat me up. He'd just look at me a
certain way and tell me he was disappointed. And that
was the that was crushing. Like my mom could scream
(10:31):
at me and be like and I'd be like, Okay,
you know that sucks, but whatever. My grandfather, if she
had to call him Fritz, you call him Fritz and
now we all boy, Now I've now I done?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Did it? I did? Jason?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Can you imagine rejecting this level of generosity?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
So I didn't directly reject my first car but I
almost totaled it like a couple of months after I
got it, oh, just because I was being reckless and
so oh my gosh. I still remember my mom screaming
at me in the middle of this street.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
When she got there.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
My dad would be directly, did you have a street
racer face that we didn't know about?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Literally?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So were you? Were you in two Fast and Furious eighteen?
Honestly I thought I was.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
I thought my car could fly, and I took it
down this street that had like all these like crazy
unpaved potholes, and so the car just went flying and
like like the hubcap ended up in someone's front yard.
Like my engine was like off, like it was nuts,
Like absolutely came off. Yeah, like it was.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It was like.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Hanging and like like hitting the ground like it was nuts.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Like I destroyed my Ford Focus and were.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
They ended up being able to fix it.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
It wasn't completely totaled, but for the whole summer I
had to drive a nineteen ninety four Ford Explorer with
no air and my Dad's like, between the gas money,
you're gonna spend your entire little paycheck, You're making a
jewel pushing carts on gas and you're not gonna have
any area be sweating your butt off all summer. That
is enough, you know, torture for you for doing that.
(12:06):
And I felt so bad like afterwards. So it did
teach me, but yeah, that was not a good experience.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Maybe that should be the topic one of these days
is how did your parents teach you a lesson? So
you have to drive a car with no AC all summer?
Awful because you'd mess up your car. Yeah, it was awful.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Wow, Jase, I didn't know you were such a rebel. Yeah,
I was trying to take your drift out here in
these streets. I had no idea. Yeah, Hey, Brian, how
you doing? Man?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Jared?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Friend?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Brian? Good morning? What would you do if you gave
you do you have children?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I've got three. I've got a fifteen year old, a
thirteen year old and a three year old.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
All right, the fifteen year old turned sixteen, and you
buy he or she just a whatever. It's not a
fancy car, it's a car. It will get him around.
And I'm sure Brian, your kids would never resist that.
But if they did, what is you just take it back?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Yeah, take the car back, use that money, go on
a nice bake for myself, send my child selfies, you.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Kick back on the beach, and you know wherever in
kankun It's like every.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Single one of these, I'll be in Bora, Bora.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Every single drink I drink is one last tank of
gas that you're getting for this car that no longer exists.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Yeah, I mean, I mean absolutely, But I'm on the
same I'm on the same wavelength as you. Fred. I
think that this problem probably started much earlier, because, yeah,
you nip it in the butt soon and early on,
and you teach your kids how to be thankful for things,
and you can avoid situations like this. My daughter, who's
(13:39):
turning sixteen in fifteen days, actually started her first job
two days ago.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Wow, what is the job?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
She works at a lawn and power tool place.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Hell, yeah, lawn and powered tools. That's probably where she
could get a job. And so she was resourceful, right,
even though that's probably not the sexiest job or the
one that she wanted to do, But that's who will
pay her the money money, right, Right.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
It's practical, and it's teaching her some responsibility, that's.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Right, and then she'll be able to work on a
carburetor too, which is exciting.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Thank you, Brian, have a good day you two. F Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I don't want to blame it on the mom or whatever,
but the fact that she doesn't know what to do
in this situation, and that she's gone to the internet
to ask it just makes me think that maybe this
this unfortunately the daughter's been working her over for a while,
and it's got to be hard as a parent, you know,
because you love your kid, you and maybe I don't
know anything about this situation. Maybe she just always wanted
her kid to have more than she did. But that
(14:33):
creates entitlement, even though you're trying to do the right thing,
and you never want your child to not have what
you didn't tell you know what I mean. But then
at the same time, how do you instill that without
making them spoiled brats? Because you see it all the time.
You see parents who have the best intentions. They're like,
you know, I didn't have my college paid for. I
have my car paid for. You know, I had to struggle.
(14:53):
I don't want my kids to struggle because I made it.
But then you kind of want them to struggle a
little bit because and that's how they learn to be
more grateful and appreciative coming from the guy who doesn't
have any kids.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yea, I think we're seeing that now, like the effects
of very soft parenting in my opinion. But okay, yes,
well what about you?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I mean you you didn't I know Mama Marta and
Paulina worked really hard first generation to provide you with
a life that you didn't have everything, but you had
more than she did. And I think we would all
agree that you're super grateful for that. But then, so
how do you with Gigi, who's only two and a
half or whatever? But how do you, like will you
will you be easier on her than your mom was
on you? Or will you be as hard or will
(15:35):
you be harder?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I feel like this is going to be the hardest
battle of my life because, like you said, I want
to give her everything. I want to give her the
world right, and I also know that that can come
with the negative side of it, like you mentioned, where
it's like, well then is she going to be spoiled
and titled this and that? So I'm trying to find
a balance. And my husband and I we fight every
day about this because we have different parenting styles already
and she don't everything. No, he's not, and I really yeah,
(15:57):
he is like firm this that no means know and
she knows how to work me so so good. She
wants to go to the bathtubs, she wants to go downstairs,
whatever she wants, We're going.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And I's so old. I get it.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
She's really cute, so she is a beautiful chat she's
just so hard.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I also don't. He's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I think where I struggle is I don't want the meltdowns, right,
I don't want the hard part of it. So he's like,
so what, You're just gonna give her whatever she wants
and then deal with it later. That's not how it works.
So he's not wrong with that. And I struggle with
it every single date.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, yeah, I see.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It with my my sister and brother in law sometimes
two and their great parents. But it's like sometimes it's
easier just to do the thing because and then you
don't have to deal with the next fifteen twenty minutes
of what you know, collapsing in that movie you know, yeah, right,
whatever of dramatic event takes place next, Yeah exactly. Anyway,
all right, well, so you just what you're saying is,
in fourteen years, she's gonna call me when the hand
(16:51):
is not good enough.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, exactly, And she wants the rolls Royce the O.
She can call Uncle Fred. How old will Uncle Fred be?
Then Uncle Fred might be dead. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
I'm fourteen years from now.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I need you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'll be in Bora Bora with the guy that just
called a minute ago.
Wake up.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Desperation Bread Show is on.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's Wednesday, you and third, the Fread Show is on
as Paulina's birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Here's the Paulina Sea top in here.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Yes it is.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
There's plants behind you, Puerto Rican flags.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I don't know why it's all behind me, Like I
don't know why I am the back job. It's your birthday.
You the casita should be over there because you know,
I know that it brings you back to the time
when you and John Hamm were in the casita during
Bad Bunnies tour in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got in the casita. Yeah, I
didn't see me, but I was there.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, that's what that's what you said.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, I did remind you of the time when you
were there, So tell me together you were there.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We were there to see me.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
But I did though, I just said I did, So
we got to go with that line.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
I did.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
My life game, is we?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I try to good though.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
She was John am.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
All that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Morning everyone, Wednesday, June third, Hi, Kalin, Hi, Jason, Hi, Kiki.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I gotta do everything in the right order.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
If I don't do things in the right order, and
my OCD gets all thrown off, and then I don't
remember my spiel.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The same thing with waiting by the phone.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
If I don't say the whole spiel in the right order,
then the whole thing gets messed up. She'll be Shelley
with money next hour. I believe it's six hundred bucks.
Belahamin's here on the phone and the text sheep. As
I walked in this morning, she comes sprinting out of
her studio, no, no word of anything, and then stands
in front of the door with her arms crossed because
apparently she was the bouncer for the casita.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But I didn't know the bit.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I told her to do that, but I didn't tell
her to run.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
But I was like, I, dare you to tick chuck
Fred's I d and she was brave and she did it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
She did, but I hadn't had a sip of coffee.
She gets here a little before me. Yeah, and she
has a lot more energy than I do. I think
it's just natural, it's just within her. I need a minute,
you know, like I just I need a minute.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
She almost got bounced.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, move, why you're up. I got to take a
little sip of coffee. I gotta sit down.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I got I gotta just sort of get I gotta
I gotta authenticate, you know, I got to authenticate. So
I gotta have all my top secret documents.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I'm very serious about birthdays. I know, I know, got
to do their job. She's a bouncer. She took it seriously.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
A new waiting metaphone is coming up next hour and
and then we will address what can we say if
you listen to Waiting met the phone on Friday, you
should listen to our show at seven thirty central, eight
thirty eastern right around there, right right in there until then. No, no,
not no, don't let leave and then come back right now.
(02:49):
That's what I want you to do. I want you
to turn the radio off now and then come back.
Just turn it off. Don't even honestly, does everyone now
turn the radio? They don't even bother with the next
hour and a half. There's no per visit whatsoever. Yeah,
so listen to the whole thing. I think that was implied.
But be sure you're listening loudly at at seven point
(03:10):
thirty rank it witness what part of your vocabulary is
turn the radio off you're supposed to leave it on
twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I started at that time.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, I'm highlighting everyone's as quick as you. Okay, well
I think.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
They got it, but yeah, No, it's you're supposed to
listen to the Community Access show that Sunday mornings.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Guys, I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You're supposed to listen to Ryan Seacrest countdown the forty
biggest songs in the nation.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
What are you doing the whole week of work into
that shows what.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Ryan secrets coming down to the forty biggest songs in
the nation? Are you? Are you assiting on that show too?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
My girl?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Anyway, let me get through my spiel, y'all throw me
off man through my thing anyway. Leading on the phone,
we haven't follow up from the woman from waiting by
the phone on Friday who was ghosted by the ghost.
She has a theory that she wants to share with us,
and we haven't decided collectively as a group yet if
we're going to indulge in this or not. I think,
(04:14):
if I know everybody, I think we're likely to indulge
in this and then probably like touch the stove and
burn ourselves again and then get people all upset with
us again.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, y not Yeah, I'm down to clown. Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Okay, good good headlines, biggest stories of the day and
blogs and the Entertainment Report this hour?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What are you working on?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
K Zenda's mom posted an interesting story on Instagram and
I can't tell if she's throwing shade or not, but
it was about the Euphoria series finale.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
What would you?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I mean, I think I know, but eight five five
five one three five maybe I think I think I
know what most people would do in this situation, but
I guess, like I want to know how extreme you
would get. But this story's gone viral this morning. A
mom bought her daughter a used Honda and paid cash
for it as a college graduation gift as its graduation season,
(05:03):
and instead of being grateful, the daughter complained that the
car wasn't good enough and asked her mother to sell
it and buy her a Mercedes instead.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Girl with hand no money, right, that's that's.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The problem that you know that, that's the issue that
being a girl. No, that's the issue.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
No, the bicycles. I was six.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
My parents if my parents, and my parents were very
generous with with with us, with my sister and I
and I probably had no idea at the time just
how generous. And now I do and I'm very grateful,
but very but they were you there.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was every day.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
House me.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I can't get a sentence out today.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's like I feel like I'm in church and I'm
like generous, very general, you know you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Man, listen at seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I feel like I'm being evangelized, right Jason, Jason ungrateful?
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Honey, Jason, I'm trying to start maybe trying to fly
to stand playing man hold bunch of.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Trying to fly the plane. Man. Anyway, what would you do? What? What?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
What do you think your parents would do? What would
you do as parents? If you were generous enough to
give your your child a car free and clear? Here
you go, you graduated college. Here is a car new
to you that you don't have to pay for, only
for your kid to turn around and say, no, I
want a better one. So the mom did refuse, and
(06:55):
then took to social media for advice. For advice, most
commenters sided with the saying the daughters sounded entitled and
should appreciate receiving a free car, especially since many graduates
don't get one at all. A Honda is considered a reliable,
practical vehicle, while Mercedes would be far more expensive to
buy and sure and maintain. The mother thought that she
was giving a generous graduation gift, and she did, but
(07:15):
her daughter wants a luxury car instead. Online, most people
felt the daughter was being ungrateful and the mom should
stick with the Honda. I think that if that were me,
if I had pulled that, the Honda gets sold and
I get nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Absolutely yes, that's the correct way.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And my parents weren't that they weren't like gangster gangster,
but like they would have been so upset with me,
and rightfully so that here, here you are. Here is
a car that is that you don't have to pay
for here it is not one payment, nothing, And so
drive away, drive away out of my house and go
get a job. And if you want a Mercedes, then
(07:52):
here you go. Here's a Honda. I don't know how
much this caused, twenty five dollars, twenty thousand, whatever, this
car cost fifteen doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You got that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So you want a Mercedes is gonna cost two or
three times that much? I got idea. Drive the Honda
to your job and make some money and then buy
the car that you can afford when you can afford it.
But here is something to get you started, right. Is
there any other way to see this?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
No, that she would be walking for the summer in
the foreseeable future. She would not have access to my
uber or accounts or anything like that, because at this
point you need to teach your child to be at
the least bit grateful for what you've done and to
ask for a Mercedes Rush out of high school. You
can't afford to put gas in it. Let me tell
you're gonna crash it. You're gonna crash it. You're not
gonna be able to keep up the maintenance. They all
(08:36):
change is two hundred dollars. Like girl, No, absolutely not,
she'd have nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I can't imagine. I simply can't. And then it makes
me wonder, like, what else is this person pushed back on?
And I'm not saying it's the mom's fault, but like,
really like that just to come out of nowhere and
be like, Nah, Handa is not good enough. I want
a Mercedes. This is the first time this has ever happened.
I wonder with this young Lady Paulina, What would Mama
Marta have done? If I think you would have ceased
(09:04):
to the car would have ceased to exist, and you
would have ceased to exist. Remember when you you wouldn't
have made it to your thirty thirtieth birthday today or
whatever we're pretending it is.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Remember when you went on your Poland trip from visit
tourism visit Poland. I recall, yeah, months ago, Yeah, I
would be living.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You would have gotten sent back to the home land.
My mom boarded you.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
She she thrived me so many time, went on the farm.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Yes, she threatened me, like that's where I'm gonna go,
like if I don't behave or whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So if I.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Pulled that on her.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yes, it would be like one way ticket, you know,
get my citizenship, Like it would be that Like she
did not play with me.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
She called my grandma so many times. I mean, oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So your your grandma from seven thousand miles away was
the discipline area. Yes, she would rain hell on you
even though she was seven thousand miles away.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh yes, and somehow it worked though I worked.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Every time I was like, I'm not moving to Poland,
Like that's not happening, I'm getting in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And then Bob Sched will get on the phone and
then it would be like, if you don't get right,
I'm going to get on a lot of airlines and
three days I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Three days I'll be in to whoop your body.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Literally, I was so scared of her. I'm really terrified.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah. That was kind of like my grandfather too, Like
if he had to get involved, it was very rare,
but he had this like very stoic way of I
think this is where I get it from. Like if
he if he was upset, he didn't yell, he didn't
get he didn't like, you know, throw anything, he didn't
like beat me up. He'd just look at me a
certain way and tell me he was disappointed. And that
was the that was crushing. Like my mom could scream
(10:31):
at me and be like and I'd be like, Okay,
you know that sucks, but whatever. My grandfather, if she
had to call him Fritz, you call him Fritz and
now we all boy, Now I've now I done?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Did it? I did? Jason?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Can you imagine rejecting this level of generosity?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
So I didn't directly reject my first car but I
almost totaled it like a couple of months after I
got it, oh, just because I was being reckless and
so oh my gosh. I still remember my mom screaming
at me in the middle of this street.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
When she got there.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
My dad would be directly, did you have a street
racer face that we didn't know about?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Literally?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So were you? Were you in two Fast and Furious eighteen?
Honestly I thought I was.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
I thought my car could fly, and I took it
down this street that had like all these like crazy
unpaved potholes, and so the car just went flying and
like like the hubcap ended up in someone's front yard.
Like my engine was like off, like it was nuts,
Like absolutely came off. Yeah, like it was.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It was like.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Hanging and like like hitting the ground like it was nuts.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Like I destroyed my Ford Focus and were.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
They ended up being able to fix it.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
It wasn't completely totaled, but for the whole summer I
had to drive a nineteen ninety four Ford Explorer with
no air and my Dad's like, between the gas money,
you're gonna spend your entire little paycheck, You're making a
jewel pushing carts on gas and you're not gonna have
any area be sweating your butt off all summer. That
is enough, you know, torture for you for doing that.
(12:06):
And I felt so bad like afterwards. So it did
teach me, but yeah, that was not a good experience.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Maybe that should be the topic one of these days
is how did your parents teach you a lesson? So
you have to drive a car with no AC all summer?
Awful because you'd mess up your car. Yeah, it was awful.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Wow, Jase, I didn't know you were such a rebel. Yeah,
I was trying to take your drift out here in
these streets. I had no idea. Yeah, Hey, Brian, how
you doing? Man?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Jared?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Friend?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Brian? Good morning? What would you do if you gave
you do you have children?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I've got three. I've got a fifteen year old, a
thirteen year old and a three year old.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
All right, the fifteen year old turned sixteen, and you
buy he or she just a whatever. It's not a
fancy car, it's a car. It will get him around.
And I'm sure Brian, your kids would never resist that.
But if they did, what is you just take it back?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Yeah, take the car back, use that money, go on
a nice bake for myself, send my child selfies, you.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Kick back on the beach, and you know wherever in
kankun It's like every.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Single one of these, I'll be in Bora, Bora.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Every single drink I drink is one last tank of
gas that you're getting for this car that no longer exists.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Yeah, I mean, I mean absolutely, But I'm on the
same I'm on the same wavelength as you. Fred. I
think that this problem probably started much earlier, because, yeah,
you nip it in the butt soon and early on,
and you teach your kids how to be thankful for things,
and you can avoid situations like this. My daughter, who's
(13:39):
turning sixteen in fifteen days, actually started her first job
two days ago.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Wow, what is the job?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
She works at a lawn and power tool place.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Hell, yeah, lawn and powered tools. That's probably where she
could get a job. And so she was resourceful, right,
even though that's probably not the sexiest job or the
one that she wanted to do, But that's who will
pay her the money money, right, Right.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
It's practical, and it's teaching her some responsibility, that's.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Right, and then she'll be able to work on a
carburetor too, which is exciting.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Thank you, Brian, have a good day you two. F Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I don't want to blame it on the mom or whatever,
but the fact that she doesn't know what to do
in this situation, and that she's gone to the internet
to ask it just makes me think that maybe this
this unfortunately the daughter's been working her over for a while,
and it's got to be hard as a parent, you know,
because you love your kid, you and maybe I don't
know anything about this situation. Maybe she just always wanted
her kid to have more than she did. But that
(14:33):
creates entitlement, even though you're trying to do the right thing,
and you never want your child to not have what
you didn't tell you know what I mean. But then
at the same time, how do you instill that without
making them spoiled brats? Because you see it all the time.
You see parents who have the best intentions. They're like,
you know, I didn't have my college paid for. I
have my car paid for. You know, I had to struggle.
(14:53):
I don't want my kids to struggle because I made it.
But then you kind of want them to struggle a
little bit because and that's how they learn to be
more grateful and appreciative coming from the guy who doesn't
have any kids.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yea, I think we're seeing that now, like the effects
of very soft parenting in my opinion. But okay, yes,
well what about you?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I mean you you didn't I know Mama Marta and
Paulina worked really hard first generation to provide you with
a life that you didn't have everything, but you had
more than she did. And I think we would all
agree that you're super grateful for that. But then, so
how do you with Gigi, who's only two and a
half or whatever? But how do you, like will you
will you be easier on her than your mom was
on you? Or will you be as hard or will
(15:35):
you be harder?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I feel like this is going to be the hardest
battle of my life because, like you said, I want
to give her everything. I want to give her the
world right, and I also know that that can come
with the negative side of it, like you mentioned, where
it's like, well then is she going to be spoiled
and titled this and that? So I'm trying to find
a balance. And my husband and I we fight every
day about this because we have different parenting styles already
and she don't everything. No, he's not, and I really yeah,
(15:57):
he is like firm this that no means know and
she knows how to work me so so good. She
wants to go to the bathtubs, she wants to go downstairs,
whatever she wants, We're going.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And I's so old. I get it.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
She's really cute, so she is a beautiful chat she's
just so hard.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I also don't. He's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I think where I struggle is I don't want the meltdowns, right,
I don't want the hard part of it. So he's like,
so what, You're just gonna give her whatever she wants
and then deal with it later. That's not how it works.
So he's not wrong with that. And I struggle with
it every single date.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, yeah, I see.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It with my my sister and brother in law sometimes
two and their great parents. But it's like sometimes it's
easier just to do the thing because and then you
don't have to deal with the next fifteen twenty minutes
of what you know, collapsing in that movie you know, yeah, right,
whatever of dramatic event takes place next, Yeah exactly. Anyway,
all right, well, so you just what you're saying is,
in fourteen years, she's gonna call me when the hand
(16:51):
is not good enough.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, exactly, And she wants the rolls Royce the O.
She can call Uncle Fred. How old will Uncle Fred be?
Then Uncle Fred might be dead. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
I'm fourteen years from now.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I need you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'll be in Bora Bora with the guy that just
called a minute ago.
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