August 1, 2025 • 54 mins
Broke Before The Bell Rings: Back to School Costs & Teacher Struggles
In this episode of 'If You Want Me to Be Honest,' Cindy and April discuss the astronomical costs associated with back-to-school shopping and the financial burdens teachers face preparing their classrooms. They introduce a new drink, the Blueberry Coconut Mojito, while sharing laughs about their family life, past experiences, and the heat in Florida. Cindy and April also touch on various school-related topics, including the different approaches parents take when getting their kids ready for the school year and how teachers deserve more support and compensation. Remember to join in on the fun and share your thoughts!
00:00 Introduction and Episode Theme
00:11 New Drinks Taste Test
01:37 Back to School Anxiety
03:26 Decorating the Classroom
05:03 The Cost of Teaching
11:56 Teacher Salaries in Florida
20:29 Teachers as First Responders
21:02 Perks and Discounts for Teachers
27:30 Discussing Teacher Preparedness
29:51 School Shopping and Supplies
32:10 Parenting Styles and Challenges
42:39 Weekend Plans and Family Time
51:09 Back to School Reflections
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Episode Transcript
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(00:00):
Hi guys.
Welcome back to If you Want Meto be honest.
Um, this episode is going to beBroke Before The Bell Rings.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
Back to school's.
About, about to start.
Um, it costs a lot of money, butfirst before we start that we
got new drinks.
Oh yeah.
We want to try'em.
I haven't tried it yet.
I'm had to wait.
(00:20):
She made me wait until westarted.
So remember, this is gonna bealcoholics named That's.
Name is Cindy.
My name is April.
In case y'all forgot.
That's right.
Cindy, April, right?
Drink along.
Yes.
Don't forget.
Yeah.
Play along to our new game.
I don't know what this iscalled.
I forgot.
Okay, so this is calledBlueberry Coconut Mojito.
(00:45):
Why does mine look differentthan yours?
Do I need a stir?
We got a stir.
Got a bubble.
Stirring and stir.
And our booze.
I took a kids.
Oh yeah.
Dang it.
Okay.
Lemme get smell.
Lemme get my drink.
I haven't drinking yet.
Okay.
Good.
Strong spotsy.
(01:07):
Little strong.
It's strong, but it tastes good.
That's some good shit.
Why?
Something keeps getting clogged.
Well, that would be a blueberry.
Oh yeah.
That's good.
That tastes like coconut, butmojito.
It is.
That's, you want me to name itagain?
What is it called?
Blueberry.
Okay.
Coconut.
(01:27):
Okay.
Mojito.
Oh, that makes sense.
It, it tastes like its name forsure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sorry.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, so just a little realquick before we get into this
after episode, just so you allare aware, first of all, okay,
this is not sponsored byChipotle, but that's where we
had lunch, Chipotle.
(01:47):
But I'm showing you this becauseCindy, here it goes, has issues.
I do.
And she.
Makes me put a napkin on thetable, like a coaster, like
normal people would.
Yeah.
Under my drink.
Just at, at my, my other job.
I do that too.
It annoys me like I'm stressingout right now.
(02:07):
I need a napkin.
She's like, do I get up?
What do I do?
I hope it is what it is.
God hope us, I will be a kindfriend and split it and split
it.
See, no matter what they sayabout you, you're all right.
That's right.
You are all right, girl.
Mm-hmm.
50 50.
That's what I, yeah.
You trying to get me.
(02:29):
Okay.
There we go.
Thank you.
Now that, that's resolved.
Oh, the anxiety is so muchbetter.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm trying to make sure myfriends relaxed for this.
I know, I know.
Prepare.
Okay.
So anyway, let's talk about thefact that, um, we're obviously,
everybody knows.
We're here in Florida and it'shot as hell.
(02:50):
That too.
Okay.
Feels like it's like 116, butthat's not the topic here.
Stay on task.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Um, back to school.
Back to school.
Teachers are getting ready,preparing their rooms.
Getting excited for all you snotnose, little brats.
Yeah, I know.
'cause my kids were snot nosebrats kids that need their butt
(03:13):
beat before school.
Right.
But they don't get it.
They need it in school and outtaschool.
Yeah.
But anyway.
Um, so Brina mm-hmm.
Is gonna be first time teacher.
Yes, she is.
You guys had the exciting taskof going to her classroom
decorating.
Tell us about that.
How was that?
Um, so she is very nervous butexcited.
(03:35):
Mm-hmm.
Like extremely nervous.
I'm drink while you talk, butexcited.
Um, so we got all thedecorations together.
We had boxes in my house full ofstuff.
We took it, her class ishumongous, but when she picked
out the decorations.
I wasn't sure about them, but Iloved them.
Now.
Really, now that it all cometogether, yeah, it, it looks
(03:58):
real nice.
But we decorated her wholeclass.
Um.
So that was fun.
I, you know what my problem isnow is next Fridays meet the
teacher and I want to go.
Oh God.
Yeah.
I mean, I, I get, I feel youthat'ss what I mean by that?
Yeah, I can see that.
Like, she's gonna be by herselfin this class.
Like she's such a big girl, butthough I can't take it like I
wanna go.
(04:18):
I know.
Hi.
Hi.
Just to be, you know Brins'amom.
I know.
That's so embarra.
She's like, mom, no, you can't,not Brina.
She's Ms.
Rivera.
Yeah.
She said It's how crazy.
It's weird that.
She went to them classes she hadto go to all week and she said,
it's funny that she sees Ms.
Rivera's class, Ms.
Rivera.
She said it's very strange toher.
(04:39):
Yeah.
But cool at the same time.
Exciting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
And nerve wracking.
Yes, very much so.
Very much so.
She is, she's been working sinceshe was a teenager, so yeah, the
working aspect and theenvironment is not the issue.
Yeah.
It's, this is such a big mm-hmm.
New step in her life.
Yeah.
But.
We are so proud and over themoon for her for, you know.
(05:02):
Yeah, yeah.
But it was costly for her to setup her room, wasn't it?
Oh my gosh.
So, um, so let's talk about thatfor a minute.
These teachers, it is ridiculoushow much money they have to
spend.
Not only, okay, decorate theroom is their preference, but
whatever, you know, I kinda getthat, not that they shouldn't
(05:23):
get in a like.
When school starts allowancebonus, a little bonus every
year.
Or a room decor allowance orsomething.
Right.
But what I don't understand isthey have to do school supplies
too.
Right.
But like what kind?
What are you talking about?
Pencils.
For their classroom.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In case there's any kids thatcome in that don't have a pencil
like, like mine used tos.
(05:43):
Clorox wives.
Yeah, people like her, but theyhave a list to get, but some
kids don't come with it, andwhen they do, it's only for the
first few months and they losetheir pencil.
Yeah.
So the teachers have to haveschool supplies for the whole
year.
Right.
In case of kids like gluesticks.
Yes.
Glue sticks, scissor.
Yeah.
Everything.
Just extra everything.
(06:04):
So that was very costly andthank God I've had a, my son.
Mm-hmm.
April and a couple other people,you gotta say that, sorry.
Pitched in and helped, um,helped her with her school
supplies and decorations becauseit, it comes to about a thousand
dollars.
Yeah.
Um, so, and then she had to buy,'cause she's a first time
(06:27):
teacher, so she had to buy allnew.
Clothes to Oh God.
Yeah.
To be able, you don't even thinkabout that.
Yeah.
So we're still doing that andthere's still a little bit of
school stuff.
I'm, I want to get her andwhatever, but for the most part,
she's ready.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good.
So, but I just So they don'thave school uniforms there?
Like she doesn't have to wear acertain No.
(06:48):
No shirt every day and No.
Nope.
She just wears like slacks orwhatever.
Yeah.
That's kind of good, I think.
And then whatever a shirt.
It makes a little more difficultthough.
Yeah.
Yeah, like, I mean, think aboutwhat we do.
We work in the medical, youknow, industry for all these
years of our lives.
Mm-hmm.
And at one point you used tobitch about the fact that we had
(07:08):
to wear scrubs.
Yeah.
Right.
Because it's just you get tiredof wearing the same shit over
and over.
Yeah, you're right.
But then again.
It makes your life so mucheasier.
It's easier.
I wish it was.
I, I when Brina, when theybecome, like, when she was in
school and they had dress code.
Yep.
I loved it.
Yeah.
It's so much cheaper to me.
(07:30):
Right.
Easier.
So I loved it.
So, but she, she just boughtslacks and I like to, what kind
of teacher would I be like,would I be a hoochie teacher?
Would I be the one wearing yoube cursing, you'd be fired in
the first week, bitch.
I wouldn't even make it.
I've been calling up parents,did I be like, uh, come get your
fucking kid.
And then, you know, I knew a,uh, I knew someone that was a
(07:52):
teacher for one year.
Yeah.
Um, I know several teachers andshe quit after the first year
because.
Like a se, I think it was sixthgrade or seventh grader girl
yelled at her, cursed her.
Mm.
So she emailed the parents.
I took that little bitch out andthe mom emailed back and said,
well, what did you do to her?
What the fuck?
I wish you would now.
(08:14):
So was like teachers like me.
What?
That I would be, there are someteachers.
But you gotta be camera do, dodo do do do do, do stuff to
people.
Okay.
To kids.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Well, yeah.
Um, there are some that, it'slike any field, there's always
a, a bad apple and a few, Iwouldn't be that way, but I, I
(08:37):
wouldn't tolerate no shiteither.
I definitely would be fired forsure.
Okay, sure.
And you know what it would be,I'd be fired for what?
Fighting the mama.
You, God dang right, girl.
Okay.
Or I just would freak out ifsome girl cursed me out, or boy,
I'd curse them back out.
Like I want fist fight'em.
This is what I'm saying, this, Imean, it's a fine line for me.
(08:59):
I'm a little kid.
I'm talking about when they'rein high school and stuff,
they're like, bitch, could youimagine VPK teach kid coming up
you and being like, bitch, Igrab that little shit.
I show you a bitch.
Kidding, kidding.
No.
Okay.
Well I be calling the mom.
I grab that phone is what Imeant.
My daughter is.
The sweet, like she is, sheain't even going to, I don't
(09:22):
even know what she going to do.
I don't even, she'd like, oh,you're so cute.
I know.
She's like, you're funny.
Yeah.
She's gonna be one of themparents.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Oh, like I am a grandparentpretty.
I laugh at that shit.
What the hell?
Yeah.
Every time she says that, Igiggle.
Oh, shit's funny to me.
Pretty much.
You're the problem.
Yeah.
(09:42):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, so I looked up, um, youknow, it's different.
So egg, uh, b Zach's, yes.
Girlfriend, fiance.
We call her egg fiance.
And there's a whole story, we'lltalk about that later.
I'm sorry, fiance.
You're welcome.
She gets so mad when I call herJess, like, as a joke.
Oh.
Or I'm like, Jessica.
(10:02):
She's like, that's not funny.
Oh, it's like she's in trouble.
Yeah, probably.
But anyway, so we call her egg,but she's gonna be starting, um,
VPK teaching.
At she's been a VP K teacher,but always at the, yeah, you
know the, um.
I don't wanna say daycare.
'cause I mean they're not reallyup the Yeah.
(10:23):
vpk.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anyway, um, she's gonna bestarting doing that, which is
good.
Exciting for her too.
Yeah.
She said she got a bunch ofclassing that she's gotta go to.
Mm-hmm.
Ready.
Like Brina's doing thoseorientation videos and stuff
like that.
Yeah.
Um, that's awesome for her.
But as far as the supplies, Idon't know that she's really had
(10:43):
to, or is going to need to dothat.
She needs crayons.
I, but I don't know if she hasto supply that stuff or not.
I mean, she already does at theplace that she works.
Oh yeah.
So I mean, if it was me and Ibought all that shit, when I
leave, girl, I don't pack myshit.
Yeah.
(11:03):
Take you with you, you know,grab an extra white out by
accidents.
I, yeah.
But crayons and stuff, they'reprobably nubs by now and mess
lost.
Hey, so what?
You ain't gotta, it's like Iused to tell the kids when they
were going to school.
That backpack is still good.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like you had to have a newbackpack every year.
(11:24):
Yeah.
Zach was different.
Zach shit in backpacks, so,okay.
You know that that's all you hadto get a whole different ball
game.
Exactly.
No, I got my kids a new backpackevery year.
I, no shit, so did I.
Yeah, it's just a thing to dothat.
It's stupid though, is my point.
Why?
Because it looks worn out.
I guess'cause my school, my kidsdidn't really use the backpack.
(11:48):
Oh, okay.
They were like, bitch, ain'tnothing coming home.
Homework.
What?
What's that?
Anyway, we'll talk about that ina minute.
So I did look into like what thedifference in cost is for
teachers.
Mm-hmm.
Pay because it's so funny that.
(12:09):
I'm gonna give you all someadvice.
Can I throw Brina under the bus?
Sure.
If you want me to be honest,Brina didn't even know what she
was gonna be making.
Oh, you are throwing her underthe bus.
She, and she's, I don't know ifshe still knows.
She don't care.
Well, she has an idea and that'swhat's great about now she has
what I'm saying, it's, I'mthrowing her under the bus, but
at the same time it's kind ofgiving her a little pat on the
(12:31):
back.
Like, good girl.
'cause she is actually goinginto this field.
Doing it because she cares aboutpeople.
Yes.
Doing it.
The reason why teachers shouldgo, you know what I mean?
But she don't care because shehas no bills.
Right.
Now, let's be real true.
If she had to pay her own, likemost teachers, I don't.
I wanna make sure who's throwingher under the bus now, you know?
(12:52):
No, I mean, she has some bills,but I'm saying if you lived on
your own.
Yeah.
You wanna know.
Right, right, right.
But Brina is the kind that, um,she's not gonna ruffle any
feathers.
Well, she was smart enoughenough to look at the average
and that's, yeah, that's where Iwas going into was like, but it
went way down, even though Ithrew out there that part of her
(13:13):
business, um, she at least hadan idea of what the average was
in Florida, of what they pay forteachers.
So, you know, she ain't realhappy, I'm sure, because.
And I both know, uh, teachersget are underpaid in the state
of Florida way.
Underpaid way.
Yeah.
And lemme tell you something waywhen you get into the fact that,
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um, pretty much, um, governmentis like involved in our school
system.
Like they dictate what you'reallowed our curriculum and stuff
like that.
Yeah.
They've already.
It's gotten to the point wherelike, parents have more control
than teachers have and blah,blah, blah.
Yeah.
And that's for a whole differentconversation right now.
Not right now Yeah.
To go into, but I'm just sayingin that aspect, our teachers are
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paid way less than other states.
Really?
Oh my God.
So the, that national average,lemme show you.
It's ridiculous.
Okay.
And I don't know why, why?
According to Google.
Okay.
Okay.
And Google knows all.
Google State.
That Florida is ranked 50th outof all the states.
(14:22):
What the heck for teacher pay?
Wow.
50th.
Come on, DeSantis.
Do we even have that?
We got any more states?
There's none.
Zero.
Wow.
You see what I'm saying?
There ain't a 51st state.
Yeah, they're in the 50, likeyou're bottom.
Is there, I'm gonna count mystars on stripes.
She, she can't count.
(14:44):
I told you motherfuckers lasttime what?
Geography is not my thing.
Okay.
There's 50 states.
Okay.
I'm just double checking, justsaying.
Yeah.
So that's so, so rank last broin, and I'm sure other states
she could go to any other stateand the average she'd make more,
be paid more.
We're not telling you to dothat.
Brina, by the way, stay home.
(15:04):
She's not allowed.
No.
So the average pay in Florida,at least according to Google,
um, in 2022 and 2023, theaverage was$53,000.
Now that's a year.
Yeah.
Now, to some people they mightbe like, oh my God, that's
amazing.
That's really good pay.
(15:25):
Now the offset is we don't havestate tax.
Yeah.
Okay.
We, we have a lot.
Less money, truthfully, thatgoes out of that 53,000.
So, I mean, if they're onlygoing based off of the actual
number instead of like, what doyou really bring home?
Yeah, that's what I wanna know.
Yeah.
You know, what's the averagetake home pay?
(15:47):
Um, it's probably not asdrastic.
Yeah.
I would think.
Well, and also you gotta takeoff probably.
2,500 off the bat because itcosts her a thousand dollars.
Oh God.
Yeah.
For the dec or on for the schoolsupplies and all that.
Plus through the year, theystill have to like, if they run
out Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Or they see a kid that's a need.
(16:09):
You know what I mean?
They, so there are some goodtax, um, incentives, which is
good that mm-hmm.
I've seen, you know, when we doour taxes and stuff like that
and I don't qualify for'em.
Yeah.
'cause I'm not a teacher.
Yeah.
Um, so there are some creditsthat.
You mean income tax?
The government does give, yeah.
Income tax that they do give acertain amount.
(16:29):
But again, it really shouldn'teven be in that aspect that
teachers have to deal with that.
It really depends on the gradetoo.
Mm-hmm.
Of how much supplies you need toutilize in your classroom, you
know, and to put up with thekids these days and their
attitudes, that ain't enoughmoney.
And not only that, I also, uh.
(16:51):
Think that for teachers, if youhave like, um, some kind of ID
and I understand they would wantthat or whatever, right.
For like, especially nowadays,right?
Staples, Walmart, anyone thatsells school supplies, any kind
of school supplies should giveteachers, if they can show proof
that they're a teacher, a bigdiscount at this time a big
(17:12):
discount.
So now that you just said that.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
One of the perks of Florida, andI don't know about the other
states.
Mm-hmm.
Sorry, I got a blueberry inthere.
Um, I haven't really looked intothat aspect, but in the state of
Florida, starting August 1sttoday.
Yep.
It is an entire month.
Tax free.
(17:32):
Of Tax free.
Mm-hmm.
School supplies.
Yeah.
So it's even on clothes.
Yep.
That's good for parents andteachers.
Teachers.
It's good for parents andteachers.
Yes.
If teachers are last minute orlike me.
Okay.
Yeah.
School here starts in 10 daysaround the 11th, you know, to
the 21st of August Max.
(17:53):
And then in Florida, everybody'sback to school by then.
Yeah.
Most of us start around the 11thor 12th, but um, I would wait
till August 1st and go get allmy supplies for my classroom,
get everything that I needed.
Yeah, because that tax alone,truthfully.
Is a good savings depending onwhat county you're Yeah.
(18:14):
For the tax in.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
But if you're ordering stuff, ifyou wait till 10 days before, of
course it gets a little hairy.
Yes, of course.
If have to order it online.
That's big difference way.
I feel like teachers should getmore of a discount somehow.
Some, some way they shouldbecause, and I never knew this,
so this is new for me.
(18:34):
Uh, all the teachers out therethat are listening, hopefully
there's a bunch of them.
And people that knew thisalready, um, would be like, uh,
now you're think, well this isthe first time I'm learning of
this, you know?
Well,'cause listen, we live ourlives.
I think everybody in the world.
Lives their life based off ofwhat affects me directly.
(18:55):
Mm-hmm.
What affects my family directly?
Yeah.
Like my opinions and how I dealwith my politics or my opinions
a lot of times, or just my ingeneral.
Choosing of services orsomething like that, or based on
how's it gonna affect me?
Yeah.
And a little bit of narcissist.
I don't really give a fuck if itaffects you differently, but you
(19:16):
know, if it affects my childrendifferent Yeah.
Then I might have a betteroutlook on it.
You know, now that Brina's inteaching.
Mm-hmm.
It does.
I, like I said, I've, I havefriends or had, um, that were
teachers.
I would hear that from them, andI would think to myself, because
(19:37):
I'm a strong believer in, well,you chose that profession.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I, I tell Scott that all thetime.
He bitch about the heat back inthe day, but you chose to go
into that field.
Mm-hmm.
I, it's not my fault.
I chose to go into an officeaspect where I could have ac
Yeah, that's true.
You know what I mean?
It's true.
So it, it's kind of that way.
But when I see it now being.
(19:59):
On the other spectrum of it.
Yeah.
With Brina.
Yeah.
It's like, okay, open up yourmind to things.
It makes you realize thatsometimes.
Yeah.
You do have to kind of see itfrom another side.
That's all for sure.
And, and not only that, it'slike, um, these days it's almost
to the point that.
(20:21):
I wouldn't, I don't know ifyou'd call it this, but this is
what I'm gonna call it for now.
It's almost like, you know, copsand, uh, paramedics and
firefighters.
They're first responders,correct?
Well, well, so teachers,teachers are first responders in
essence.
I mean, first of all, they'retaking care of your children
more hours than you aresometimes.
And two.
They are first responders by,they gotta protect them when
(20:43):
they're in their class.
Well, especially unfortunately,in bad situations.
Yeah.
If they've gotta reportincidences that they've seen or,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
They need to be paid way more inmy book.
Well, I think, and so all ofthem so does police officers and
I I agree.
For all of them for sure.
Like something needs to be doneabout it.
Yeah.
It's serious.
I can tell you what I'm excitedfor that about Brina and
(21:06):
hopefully Egg too gets thisperk.
But I'm excited to takeadvantage of when you get
teachers get into the themeparks and stuff.
Oh yeah, bitch, we're going, Iwant some free tickets.
That's right.
You know what I mean?
Don't they get Yeah.
I thought they get, I dunno.
I've heard that in Florida atleast.
Oh.
Just like they do for the policeofficers and the veterans and
(21:28):
stuff like that.
Teachers NASCAR races, they getcertain discounts.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Let's see.
Brina.
Hooks us up.
This bitch.
She better hook us up.
And if she don't, maybe some ofyour listeners can uhhuh, but I
love free shit.
Oh, I know.
Call.
I love this free drink.
Nevermind.
(21:51):
Um, something went in my mouth.
That would be the blueberry.
No.
Oh, that's mint.
Yeah, I got it too.
It's pretty good though.
I like it.
You just gotta look at my straw.
It's cloggy thumb.
Oh.
Filter it.
Blow it.
It didn't blow out.
Blower.
I don't know, but maybe don'tput it all the way in the bottom
of the drink.
Nope.
I drank it.
(22:11):
Hopefully it was something I wassupposed to, Nope, I ate it.
That was good.
Anyway, so it's all edible.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not worried aboutit.
Yeah.
Um, so anyway, again.
We, something needs to be doneabout that.
Yeah.
So when you're, look, you know,you're looking through your, um,
new legislation mm-hmm.
Or things to vote on.
(22:32):
If something comes up aboutschools, we're gonna be
advocates to say, teachers needextra in Florida.
Yeah.
Like really, we can't be ranked50th.
We are not.
We don't fail.
That's right.
Okay.
We are Florida strong.
Like come on.
Do they need us to go march upthere and do, dude, I'm gonna
(22:52):
have to knock on he DeSantiscomes to visit.
Alright.
I'm gonna go when he shows upand I'm gonna have to say.
Mm-hmm.
I know you're listening rightnow too DeSantis so I'm gonna
tell you.
Love ya.
But help our teachers out.
Agree.
Concur.
I concur.
Boost their income.
Yeah.
And it's expensive for parentstoo.
Like, well, especially if theygot bougie kids.
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I can't imagine what your momdealt with because of Kim.
Oh hell yeah.
No you weren't Kim.
I agree.
No, bitch.
I got Kim's hand me downs.
Okay.
My mom, Kim was five yearsdifference than me.
Oh yeah, you got, so I went intokindergarten.
With Kim's shit from 1979.
Wow.
Okay.
Wow.
You're gonna have to throw thatyear out there.
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Well, I'm 74 born.
I have no problem saying I'm,I'm proud to be 51.
Throw your sister on the busbecause I'm proud to be 51
America.
Anyway.
It's expensive for parents too,especially if their kids are a
little bit boozier.
Or if your kids run you, whichis 90% of the world.
Um, the kids tell them, um, whatthey want, what they're gonna
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get, and how they're gonna payfor it.
So it lot, well, it's, it's justa, this fucking elephant in the
room.
That's another dig on me.
No, it's all parents.
I see parents, you know, whenBrina was in high school, she's
like, oh, this kid got pair ofshoes for 200.
I don't give a shit.
I was that parent.
You going to get that wall brandUhuh?
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I, that parent, I bought thatshoe.
I get 60, 80 bucks, maybe ahundred.
And that's pushing it.
You buy anything extra, you'redoing that'cause your kid wants
you to.
I'm not.
Yeah.
No.
Matter of fact, okay, well whenyour ass goes to school with
Bobos, like I did with Searsspecials or, and we're, look how
we turned out.
Great.
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This is why I wear No, Iunderstand.
But 200 to 300, it's not ourfault that the cost of living in
shoes is outrageous, but Yeah, Iagree.
It's, it's, it's what the kidswant.
Well, it's so you don't getfucked with, yeah.
Fuck with my kids.
I'm gonna tell you right now,Winston, when he goes to school,
coming from Chad and Gabby, uh,this is, this is the problem.
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This is Chad and Gabby.
Okay?
Okay.
They both are shoe their shoegames on.
Okay?
Okay.
So he gonna have good shoes andBobo clothes.
Don't, maybe some Boba clothes,but I doubt it because he ain't
got Boba clothes on.
The younger they are, thecheaper it is wait till they get
in middle and high school.
That's when it kicks in.
They cheaper.
It's, it's$85 for a pair oflittle Nike shoes that I bought
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his ass.
I was do my, I was waiting tosay what idiot would buy that
for a child that's two years oldthat I handed down to somebody.
I was at a sneaker convention.
Why are we friends?
I don't know.
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She's the problem with the worldtoday.
I am okay.
As as long as you agree.
I admit it isn't the first stepto admit admitting.
Yeah, sure.
Um, thank you.
Not that I didn't find my kidsgood stuff, but I didn't go.
I'm not that drunk.
What are you drunk from thatsip?
I know.
Come on dude.
Get your life together anyway.
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Parents like her.
Okay.
First of all, school supplies isexpensive in general.
Of course.
Yes.
Now mind you, I had four kids.
I don't know how you did it.
I had one at a time.
You had one 12 years apart atime.
Yeah.
So I had like one at a time and,uh.
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Me, I was pumping'em in.
Pumping'em out.
Yeah.
But then you, I was like alittle baby pack.
You spent a lot of money.
I bet you school supplies, theyhave the best of the best of the
best of the best.
Well, no, like y got number two.
Pencils, Brina and Nathan got0.5.
No, I'm just kidding.
That's true.
Brina got'em from Dollar Tree.
Yes.
I mean, no, I did stuff likethat.
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I cut costs and, and saved inareas that they didn't.
Have a clue.
Now, are you the parent thatgets everything on that list
that the teacher sent?
No bitch.
See, I am.
I know you are.
I am the parent that will getmm-hmm.
If I needed it, especially withBrina, I had to follow the
rules.
Well, it depends on the class.
Like every class, the grade, no,it depends on grade.
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It gives you a list.
Not always wouldn't you go toopen house?
Right.
They give you the list.
Okay.
They give you a generalized one.
Yes.
Then once they went into theirclassroom and then the teacher
was like, I want this, this,this, and this, they it, and I
don't need any of the othershit.
Yeah.
Some people wait till schoolstarts.
This is why I struggled with theteacher thing.
See?
Yeah.
But they wait till school startsand then get the final one from
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their, that's what I wait for.
So I be, how are we doing?
But why did they do that?
Why wouldn't the teacher, uh,change it before the, uh, meet
the teacher day?
I, I dunno, some teachers aren'tprepared.
Listen.
Some teachers are like me andsome teachers are like you.
Okay.
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I would know.
I would hope you would know, butI see how things can change.
But you wouldn't know know,girl, what?
What?
I'm teaching Scout.
Okay.
You were always prepared.
Okay.
So what the Boy Scout's mottowas Always be prepared.
Okay.
I'm gonna say it's the GirlScouts.
Okay.
Because I think I don't remembertheirs.
That was a brownie and that wasabout it.
And then I became eating abrownie anyway.
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I want a brownie right now.
I love a brownie girl.
She can we get a brownie withthis drink?
Anyway, I forgot what I wastalking about, so I was not a
prepared.
Listen, I believe children are aproduct of their environment.
Okay?
Now I'm gonna tell you why I,I'm 50 50 on that, but yeah.
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I'm gonna use myself as anexample.
Instead of throwing you underthe bus, you can throw yourself
under there and your children.
Okay, let's, I'm gonna do it formyself.
Okay?
Go ahead.
I am never prepared.
I, I couldn't live like that.
Okay.
I need to know what I'm, dude, Ihave you got pissed when I gave
you homework, so I don't evenwanna hear that shit.
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Okay.
I tried to make you prepared.
I tried to be prepared for this.
I, I'm better.
Just, I'm just better with wingit.
Wingy, dingy, dingy, wingy.
Um, so it's rare for me to beprepared.
Like I try to be, I want to beYou.
Wait till the last minute.
No.
Well, oh yeah.
No, I can't.
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I don't believe in that.
Not, no, no.
A night before.
I'm a night before kind ofperson.
Mm mm mm mm Yeah.
So if we're going away, mm.
I'm packing the night before.
What if you need stuff?
Now I'm figuring out all my,well, I don't hang out the
hiccups.
What if you need?
I, I don't figured out all myoutfits.
Uh, no.
I'm looking at that stuff like,I kind of know in general, but
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like when the kids went to toschool, when it came to school
shopping and stuff like that.
What?
Nothing.
I got something funny to say.
No, go.
Go.
I just don't wanna forget it.
Okay, go ahead.
When I went, um, schoolshopping, it was.
I went as soon as we went toopen house like that.
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Following week.
Yeah.
And so I would buy a genericportion of school supplies so
that, and man, some of my kidshated it.
Why?
They free?
Well, at one point they used tobe kind of,'cause you know,
Scott's an on time kind ofperson.
I'm not.
Mm-hmm.
I try to be shit happens.
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Um, but they would panic.
I had to teach them not to.
You're gonna see, great.
Okay, let's go spend$200.
You're not getting them fuckingNikes, but okay, let's spend$200
worth of supplies.
And when you go to school, Iwant you to bring me back
everything that's not needed.
Yeah, that's true.
I, that has happened before.
A lot of shit we buy.
But when you teach, give this toyou, then you get it.
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I've had teachers give, like Isaid, a generic list.
Mm-hmm.
And then lemme tell yousomething you don't.
Yes.
Do you need Kleenex?
Hand sanitizer?
Yes.
Yes.
Do you need Sam's Club?
Yes.
Kleenex not.
You don't?
Each kid, the teacher does.
Okay.
Well, the teacher does.
As I said, the kids don't thatstuff, but they put that on the
list.
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Germ X, not a, not a big thing.
They wanted little one.
I don't talk about now.
Oh, back in the day beforeCOVID.
When everything was just alittle, yeah.
Oh, I almost blew my boogers inmy head.
Oh, I can't take her nowhere,dude.
Okay, let me tell you somethingfunny.
God, let's hear this shit.
So we were just on this subjecta minute ago, how prepared I am.
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That's what you get.
This is how prepared I am.
Okay.
When my son would go to school,yes.
At night.
This is kind of embarrassingthough.
No, it's not.
It's pretty smart.
It is.
Well because it's a boy in itsjeans or, anyway, you want me to
be honest.
Not after he took a shower thenight before.
(31:49):
Okay.
Don't, don't choke on me.
You want me to do the heim?
Sorry, go ahead.
Scott's trying to kill you.
Um, I had nailed'cause I'mlaughing.
Oh.
Oh.
Okay.
I'm good.
Don't.
Okay.
Don't drink next time.
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Um, the night before, beforebed, my son would put on his
school clothes to go to bed'cause he was not an early
riser.
And so he'd put his jean shortson and his shirt and socks.
So when he woke up in themorning, he just slipped on his
shoes, brushed his teeth, andlet's go.
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Pretty much she's saying there'sno pajamas in this situation.
You think he still lives thatway?
Mm Oh, we don't wanna call himout on you.
No.
I'm trying to think.
No, I don't think he goes to bedwith his work clothes on.
Could you imagine?
And his, but does he sleep untilhe absolutely has to get up and
(32:52):
get dressed and get out thedoor?
Yes.
Oh, of course.
But Brina is different, right?
She's gotta have.
Laid out clothes, know exactlywhat she's wearing.
You gotta get up early enoughto, you know, she's just like,
she's like that.
That's how Mark is.
Mark wakes up three hours beforehe is gotta leave.
I wake up 30 minutes, I getdressed 10.
You go to bed with the clotheson?
No, it takes me about 10 minutesto get dressed, grab my coffee
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and water.
I can be out the door in 20minutes, so I sleep until I have
to get up.
And then you brush your teethand blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Take a shirt like when I comehere.
Well, I don't, I don't.
I'm just saying that's what mostpeople do when I come here to
work and I get here at, at eight30, I woke up at like eight
o'clock.
Lately at eight, been eight 30or 7 45.
(33:39):
Right?
And the only reason I get up alittle bit early is'cause Mark's
gonna wanna talk.
Let me spend some time with him,drink our little bit of coffee
and wait.
And then he follows me out thedoor.
But anyway, that's a whole newsubject.
That's a whole nother, buteither way.
For sure.
Talking about being prepared.
My son wore his school clothesonce he got a little, not once.
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Once he got older, he stoppeddoing it.
I'm talking about as a littlekid, he would, right, right.
I'd say Put on your schoolclothes.
I know.
So in the morning, wake him up,let's go.
At least he had his showerthough and was ready to go or
bath or whatever.
Yes.
You know, he's about, youweren't a savage.
We she Talk about my kids beingraised in the jungle.
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I didn't say that.
I can tell you that when I wasraising my children, okay?
Mm-hmm.
From all four of'em.
Okay.
First of all, every child'sdifferent.
Right?
That's how I think.
So I had to learn.
Shane was always easygoing.
Yeah.
He was usually, um, he was thetype that you guys were strict.
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He did wanna know on Shane too,though.
Of course he was the first one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um.
He wanted to know beforehandwhat he was wearing.
He was that kind.
Put his clothes out, whatever.
Um, or I plus I had a lot moretime.
When you only have one, I meanit six years difference between
him and Brandon.
Yeah, so it's true.
It's a, it's it's differentenviron, you know, type of
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raising.
I think once you move on to thenext one, Brandon, on the other
hand, you just, God bless me,you gave up.
I'm just gonna say.
She gave up.
Ooh, no, I didn't give up.
But it's a wonder I didn't breakthat child.
Oh my God.
He was, maybe he did.
So picky.
(35:26):
I know.
Maybe I brand I love you.
I'm sorry if you have issues.
I hope you don't have mommyissues.
But anyway, um, he was picky.
His with socks you mean?
Oh, if that, you know how socksback in the day.
I don't know.
Still, I don't really wear manysocks, but anyway, they have
that sewn stitch where they sewtogether.
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They still some socks were verytalk about generic and me being
bougie.
Okay, wow, I bought the cheapsocks and this is why I stopped
doing this shit.
Mm-hmm.
There's a certain thing thatcertain kids are sensory touch
issues.
Okay.
I strongly believe in that kindof stuff.
Brandon was that kid.
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He would put his sock on or Iwould put his sock on in the
morning, get him dressed, and assoon as I put the socks on snap
mode.
'cause back in the day, themlittle lines were thicker than
they now.
Yeah.
And now maybe his shoes were alittle too small.
Maybe his feet grew too fast.
I don't know.
Might have been been, who knows?
(36:28):
Who knows back then.
But that was the issue withBrandon.
So I would struggle.
So poor Shane would end up beingeither late to the bus.
Oh.
Brina wouldn't use I'd to drivethem all in.
Well, Shane used to get pissedabout it too.
Yeah.
But he was tolerable.
You know what I mean?
He'd deal with it.
And Brina is not tolerable.
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Zach, once he started school,yeah.
Dude trying to get the two ofthem.
First of all, Zach, all of themready.
Zach ran around the hou.
He was like, I ain't gettingdressed.
I ain't going to school.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
As a little kid.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He'd run, he, I would be busytrying to get Brandon ready
'cause there's only like twoyears difference and then have
Zach trying to run away from me.
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Shane's trying to yell at themto get doing a house.
That poor house, oh my god.
Gabby was easy, but she wasbougie.
Yeah.
And she still, she had to havethe best of the best.
Well, she's a girl.
Girls are different.
All the kids did really like, Imean, they always had the good
shoes, the stuff like that.
Yeah.
Um, because I've been called outfor that in the past.
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Um, and that's why I say whenyou're raised as somebody who's
had Kmart specials, yeah.
I'm not putting my kids inWalmart specials.
It's just not happening.
Walmart special, sorry.
And I won't put my grandkids, mykids never go Walmart either.
But I didn't spend$200 forshoes.
Matter of fact, Brina got herfirst expensive shoes a couple
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years ago for Christmas.
Oh, yeah.
She, Gabby had, and that was herbig, again, I got, I can tell
you I agree with not doing that.
Mm-hmm.
Only because Gabby used to havea wall of shoes.
Mm-hmm.
To the point that there wereshoes she never wore.
But Nathan does that.
He likes to look at it.
He's a collector and that's howGabby was.
She was always, since she waslittle, she is been a shoe
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person.
Yeah, big.
She's always, I get that.
But that'd be holiday shit.
I think she gets that shit frommy sister.
Sorry to throw you out thatYeah, I'm, I'm drink up on that
one bit.
The sister, my sister got thename brand shit.
Me, I didn't get the name right.
I'm rolling around right now andI don't even know.
I don't even know an off brandWalmart special because I ain't
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got no off brand.
Oh, I know what I got.
Tick TikTok shop shit.
Okay.
That's where I get my clothesnowadays.
I think Scott just threwanything in here with some
little chia seed looking things.
The blueberry.
That's not a blueberry.
It is.
It's the seeds inside.
Oh, bottle them.
That's why there's chunky chunkseverywhere.
That's a mojito.
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That's girl.
I gotta educate.
As you all heard last episode.
Cindy only drinks on occasion,and it's Friday.
Again, she don't know nothingabout drinks.
We are gonna introduce a newdrink every time we are.
Mm-hmm.
I'm still in love with the firstone.
See, I, I'm not a big changer.
I'm in love with the stripper.
I would take the first one everytime, but it's fine.
(39:19):
I do like trying differentstuff.
Yeah.
And if I'm gonna do it, might aswell do it here.
That's what I'm saying, in asafe environment where you won't
get roofied.
Exactly.
I don't know.
Scott might have.
Trying to choke both of us out.
He trying to shut us both up.
Yeah.
He's like, do I gotta listen tothem one more minute?
I, I know.
I said, see, he gets destroyedby it, but I think he enjoys
(39:40):
this abuse.
He does.
Matter of fact, let's drink upso he can make us another one.
Doesn't make the new one.
No.
But then we can put in therequest for the old one and No,
and then we mix it and we'rescrewed.
We're done.
Anyway.
Any anyhow, teachers need.
I almost died.
Got her eyes.
I almost died.
(40:01):
Teachers need more money.
Mm-hmm.
School shopping sucks.
School shopping sucks becausethe name of the title and how
bad podcast for a parent, howmuch stress, this is what breaks
my heart.
How much stress, even inChristmas time for a parent that
got more than one kid orwhatever, or just one kid or
whatever to the choir and can'tafford.
(40:23):
It's ridiculous.
This bitch never had anymotherfucking sympathy for me.
Nope.
That's all.
Don't say, but your kids were,had bougie stuff.
I had one ahead of time, but Ihad nothing Dinner time.
I was like, I'll take thislittle tiny corner of bread.
You can have the whole loafbecause you're nice.
That's how I could say, I'd belike, we're splitting this shit.
(40:46):
Half them kids.
Yeah.
Oh, that's funny.
Anyway, my point is.
More money for teachers,responders first more money and
these poor parents, but they areso happy to send them kids off.
So they're like, they'll pay foranything, dude.
They can't.
I had had four kids when I usedto work from the home when I
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first started my, the billingbusiness, Uhhuh, when I did
that, all the kids were out ofthe house.
Nice bitch.
It was the best.
I loved having a home business.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
It was the greatest thing ever.
But summertime.
You didn't.
I did.
'cause I locked my mother kidsout.
Oh.
Well I grew up a latchkey kid.
(41:30):
I raised my kids.
La My, my boys were playingbackyard football.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were like, I didn't, neverhad to worry about, if anything
they were inside playing a videogame.
And when that generation, we hadpool, I mean we had a pool.
I, I loved, I'd rather have mykids at home with me.
(41:51):
Yeah.
Back then,'cause I wasn'tdrinking every day like I am
now.
I probably should have been, butI wasn't.
So I liked having them bring alltheir friends and do the whole
nine yards at my house becausethen I felt like I knew what
they were doing.
But.
I didn't, I, and that's anotherepisode.
(42:13):
We'll probably do that with thedoor shut next time.
Shut.
You don't know what's happeningout there, girl.
And she wonders why Brina neverstayed night with her.
Got your ass.
Lemme drink up.
Mm-hmm.
She need drink up.
'cause that's a sore subject.
Just so you know.
It's not really, it's notreally.
I don't worry about that.
(42:34):
But anyway, so next.
Next topic.
Next topic is Brina got baptizedlast Sunday.
Very proud of her.
Mark got teary eyed.
I videoed it.
It was great.
Oh, yes, Brina cried.
Actually, I asked you that lastweek if she was gonna go, if, I
mean you told me that she wasgoing back.
(42:55):
Yeah.
Get baptized.
Did.
Yep.
We, we were there at nine 30 inthe morning.
She got baptized, then we wentto Crack Barrel.
She accepted Jesus Christ as hersavoir.
She did.
And then we went to CrackerBarrel for breakfast.
That was good.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And then we just went home andrelaxed.
We actually went home and allthree of us passed out.
(43:16):
And Mark never takes naps.
And if I do, it's like 15minutes.
That's because it was like twohours.
Yeah.
And the day before we went tothe springs.
Oh.
So we were exhausted.
You were done.
Yeah.
Exhausted.
So, um, we all took naps andthen we all woke up pretty much
the same.
And Brina said, I took a two anda half hour nap.
Bitch, all you do is nap.
You take a two and a half hour,hour nap after you just woke up.
(43:39):
Yeah.
So every day, well, that's,she's not doing that, um, summer
program anymore, so that's good.
Nope, she's done with that.
Well, she don't have time.
Right.
She's got class after class,after class from seven in the
morning to four.
Today's just a zoom.
Thing from three to four 30.
Mm-hmm.
And then Michael wants her tocome see his class, but I don't
know if she went or not.
(43:59):
Right.
And then Monday she has anotherclass, and then she don't have
classes, I don't think.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,and Fridays meet the teacher.
The only thing that sucks is Iwon't be here either to be
support when she gets home nextFridays meet the teacher.
Oh, don't worry.
I will be, I'll see herSaturday.
I'll be seeing my daughter.
Yeah.
I just, she just realized lastnight I won't be around.
(44:21):
But Nathan picked the weekend,but I, I'm gonna go see my
granddaughter, so that's notgonna stop me.
So Brina will be fine.
You're an adult.
Be an adult.
Even though helicopter parent,helicopter parent.
Yes.
I really am helicopter parent.
I really am.
I gotta, I gotta, I mean, shegot live 360 on the kid.
Why wouldn't you?
Oh my.
Because she's 21, so I want iton Nathan.
(44:44):
No, he won't let me.
Smart.
But he said there's a way for meto look at my phone and I'm not.
Savvy with that stuff.
So he is like, look at yourphone.
You should know.
You should know, but I, he'llcall me Where you been or where
you going?
I'm like, dude, oh, I know who Idid it.
You want me to teach it?
Stop looking at my location,your little stalker.
(45:04):
He said, why'd you go to Publix?
What'd you need there?
Like, I'm like, oh my gosh.
Well, that's what Gabby does.
Well, Gabby's doing that becauseshe's like, she shopping without
me.
Uhhuh.
She's like, that bitch, Uhhuh.
Brina don't want to shop.
She go to lunch without me.
Yeah.
Even if I'm paying, Brina don'twanna shop.
I know, dude.
We've talked about that so manytimes.
(45:24):
She is strange.
Anyway.
Anyway, so that's that.
Yeah.
What else?
This weekend, this is actuallymy only free weekend for a
couple weeks, so.
Oh really?
Mm-hmm.
Not free, but free.
Free, but free.
It can't be free, but free.
It's free.
But Brina wants me to hang outwith her this whole weekend.
(45:49):
Your face.
She's like, uh, is ridiculous.
You wanna hang out with me thisweekend?
You ain't got no friends.
What does, but you, what doesthat mean?
What she wants to hang out?
That means, but we can't shop.
Right.
We can't go eat.
See, she wants me to either gosomewhere to have a couple
drinks with her.
Oh, that's fine.
Or sit and watch movies withher.
It's an occasion.
(46:09):
Yeah.
Drink up bitch.
So, and then she, she just, Idon't know, whatever.
And then that's it.
You know what I'm gonna do thisweekend?
I don't wanna hear it becauseyou gonna have drunk.
Yeah.
Gonna have fun.
What the hell?
Yep.
I'm coming.
Yep.
Yep.
(46:30):
Who you playing flip cup with?
No one.
This family.
Every, I ain't there.
Oh.
Oh yeah.
I got a whole crew now boy.
I got a whole group.
I got a whole squad herevisiting my ass.
That's true.
That's true.
Yeah.
So this is the, this is relaxingfor me.
One like real main, full weekendwith them.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and then my nephew'sgirlfriend's coming to visit,
(46:53):
which will be fun.
Hopefully.
Or you're embarrassing.
Uh oh.
Uh, poor girl.
It's a guarantee.
Poor girl.
I mean, come on dude.
She's terrible.
I'm embarrassed.
Yeah, all the time.
And I like it that way.
She embarrasses me.
Well, you know, but you won'tstop hanging out with my ass so
(47:14):
I don't gonna embarrass you thatmuch.
That's true.
That's true.
So it's like 115 degreesoutside.
Oh my God, dude.
115.
It's so hot.
It's not even funny.
The other day when I wentoutside, I think it was like the
hottest day I walked from work.
I went so bad to put my arm onhere.
I know, but it shakes see that.
Gotcha.
(47:35):
Um, I left work and walkedacross the street to the Jiffy.
Yeah, Jiffy.
It's not a Jiffy.
It's a Jiffy.
It's not called a Jiffy.
What is it called?
It's a Jiffy across the streetTo where from the work.
Yeah, it's a shell gas station.
Jiffy.
So I walked across there and Iwas like, damn.
(47:55):
I could see why people that havebreathing problems, the heat
would be a problem because I waslike, it's so thick, I can tell
the difference.
Oh yeah.
So, um, yeah, I was just like,damn, man, that's, that's tough.
Well, I don't have breathingproblems.
Me neither until I walk outside.
Yeah.
And then when I got home the daythat nobody was home for like an
(48:16):
hour.
Oh, oh.
So I walked quiet, I walked inthe house and Mark swears.
The last few days, he wantsevery shade closed, every door.
Shut.
Even the one that mm-hmm.
Goes in the middle.
Yeah.
He said, because it'll keep thehouse cooler.
So I walked in, everything'sdark.
Well, that's a little fishy forme.
Okay.
Right.
You don't know if somebody, andI want doors open so I can see.
(48:37):
Right, right.
So I go and open it all up.
He's gonna smack somebody.
I don't give a shit.
I opened it all up and I waslike, I can't feel the
difference between this room andthat room.
So it's fine.
Open it up.
Stop being a mark thinks livesin the bat cave.
Yeah.
Like he's Batman.
Stop being weird, dude.
Down in the bottom of the batcave, waiting for a call to come
in.
Mark, stop it.
Yeah.
I don't care about that.
Yeah.
I, I can tell you this, markwould hate me then because I
(49:01):
told Scott like, my dream houseis that I love windows.
Like I love natural light.
I'm okay.
I, I love that too.
I would rather natural light.
I want people to see inside.
All the time.
Don't care what you gonna lookat.
Big old fat body peek away,brother.
No, I've had peeping times mywhole life.
(49:21):
I'm used to it.
I told you.
Yeah.
No, not me.
No, but they make it to whereyou can't see in, except I can
tell you this at night.
You can see through those.
Yeah, I know.
Because I had that on.
I think our slider is like that.
Oh, where you can't during theday.
'cause it blocks the, so ifyou're walking around naked,
then what?
At night?
Well get some curtains.
You dirty bitch.
(49:44):
I'm just saying.
Um, but no.
Yeah, either walk around naked,which it's really called naked.
It's naked.
Okay.
Spell naked.
NE red, naked.
It's naked.
Okay.
You know what I meant though?
I knew Mark always corrects metoo.
(50:05):
It's so annoying.
Like I'll say, Hey, you fixing,you fixing to go somewhere?
You're fixing.
He say, yeah, I'm fixing, I'mfixing, but you know what I
mean?
Yeah.
Oh, well, I say fixing.
Yeah.
Who cares?
But I think I, a lot of mylanguage comes from you.
Wow.
Yeah.
Not my potty mouth.
Not the bad language.
You mean the, the, the wrongwords.
(50:27):
Yeah.
Just like patience.
Right?
Like the Ty Ty, the chip choy.
The chip chiney.
Yeah.
Or Scott says, because I go,even Winston understands that
you go like this.
You know what I'm talking about?
I'm talking about your mouth.
Yeah.
That's why Winston calls meBalisha.
I know.
Bye.
Balicia.
Bye, Balicia.
(50:47):
I think we should have him onthe podcast.
We should.
Just one little episode withjust him.
Yeah, that's true.
He can tell us all the dirt, allthe dirt about, so he'd be like
my mama and my daddy and Balishaand this one time they, okay.
Yeah, I think that would be fun.
(51:09):
All right, well we're gonnafinish off our drinks and, um,
hope everybody has a greatweekend back to school.
Oh yeah.
And weekend.
But one more weekend back toschool.
Yeah.
I don't have to deal with thatanymore.
Thank God we're here for you.
Teachers we're we got your back.
All your parents that arestruggling and worrying about
buying their kids the bougieshit like she used to and still
(51:33):
do.
And still, I mean, listen, ifyou want me to be honest, I'm
the type of parent that.
I'll bring my kid to a fight.
If you got some kid that'sbullying my kid there, she's,
she's, she's the one, I'm thetype that will turn around and
(51:53):
confront the parent.
If there's an issue, she's theone.
And if the teacher ain'ttreating my kid right, I'm gonna
confront you.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Unless my kid's wrong.
But you can't.
Yeah.
How do you know?
Unless my kid's wrong.
But how do you know until youtalk to the teacher?
Well, I mean, if you raised themright.
You find out really who, yeah.
You can tell by kids'personalities, like, you know, I
(52:14):
raise my kids to respect elders.
Yeah.
That respect, authority.
These kids need to respectteachers.
You know, DI mean, if a teacheris mistreating them, which,
which is rare, so don't blamethe teacher.
Yeah.
But there are, there are some,like I said, there's some, lemme
tell you, I've had my run-inswith, it's really not the.
(52:34):
Teachers that were an issue, itwas the security at the school.
That's an issue.
Yeah.
You know, some of these securityguys think that they're, they're
cops.
I mean, I get it.
Yeah.
You know, officers, but Irespect officers until you start
bullying my kid.
Yeah.
Well that's different.
Some of'em can get a littlecrazy.
Yeah, that's true.
So, um, you know, hopefully youguys raise your kids right.
(52:58):
Respect, authority, respect,respect your teachers.
Yeah.
Um, respect your damn parent.
I wouldn't have had to beat mykids unless you had to.
Yeah.
I mean, and it wasn't very manyoccasions that they got mad.
You need to start beating mykids now.
Well, now I just gotta cut'emoff.
Brina's cursing from money.
Yeah.
(53:18):
Yeah.
She needs to start sharing thatmoney with me back in the day.
Well, she did buy me lunchtoday.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Scott made me a drink.
Thank you.
She had all sorts of free shit.
I got that right.
Mm-hmm.
Anyway, have a great weekendguys.
We enjoy, um, you, we enjoy.
I hope you enjoy us watching, uslistening to us.
(53:40):
'cause we are professional Okay.
Getting better.
We know it.
Yeah.
And if, again, if you guys gotanything that you want to tell
us, ask us if you wanna know ourhonest opinion about something.
Mm-hmm.
Please feel free to like, share,follow, comment.
On our YouTube page, you canfollow us on iHeartRadio,
(54:03):
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We're on TikTok, Facebook,Instagram.
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Check us out.
Yes.
And if you like it, love it,share it, and pretty much that's
it.
Share the drama to your mama.
Have a good weekend.
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Bye bye.
Hi guys.
Welcome back to If you Want Meto be honest.
Um, this episode is going to beBroke Before The Bell Rings.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
Back to school's.
About, about to start.
Um, it costs a lot of money, butfirst before we start that we
got new drinks.
Oh yeah.
We want to try'em.
I haven't tried it yet.
I'm had to wait.
(00:20):
She made me wait until westarted.
So remember, this is gonna bealcoholics named That's.
Name is Cindy.
My name is April.
In case y'all forgot.
That's right.
Cindy, April, right?
Drink along.
Yes.
Don't forget.
Yeah.
Play along to our new game.
I don't know what this iscalled.
I forgot.
Okay, so this is calledBlueberry Coconut Mojito.
(00:45):
Why does mine look differentthan yours?
Do I need a stir?
We got a stir.
Got a bubble.
Stirring and stir.
And our booze.
I took a kids.
Oh yeah.
Dang it.
Okay.
Lemme get smell.
Lemme get my drink.
I haven't drinking yet.
Okay.
Good.
Strong spotsy.
(01:07):
Little strong.
It's strong, but it tastes good.
That's some good shit.
Why?
Something keeps getting clogged.
Well, that would be a blueberry.
Oh yeah.
That's good.
That tastes like coconut, butmojito.
It is.
That's, you want me to name itagain?
What is it called?
Blueberry.
Okay.
Coconut.
(01:27):
Okay.
Mojito.
Oh, that makes sense.
It, it tastes like its name forsure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sorry.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, so just a little realquick before we get into this
after episode, just so you allare aware, first of all, okay,
this is not sponsored byChipotle, but that's where we
had lunch, Chipotle.
(01:47):
But I'm showing you this becauseCindy, here it goes, has issues.
I do.
And she.
Makes me put a napkin on thetable, like a coaster, like
normal people would.
Yeah.
Under my drink.
Just at, at my, my other job.
I do that too.
It annoys me like I'm stressingout right now.
(02:07):
I need a napkin.
She's like, do I get up?
What do I do?
I hope it is what it is.
God hope us, I will be a kindfriend and split it and split
it.
See, no matter what they sayabout you, you're all right.
That's right.
You are all right, girl.
Mm-hmm.
50 50.
That's what I, yeah.
You trying to get me.
(02:29):
Okay.
There we go.
Thank you.
Now that, that's resolved.
Oh, the anxiety is so muchbetter.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm trying to make sure myfriends relaxed for this.
I know, I know.
Prepare.
Okay.
So anyway, let's talk about thefact that, um, we're obviously,
everybody knows.
We're here in Florida and it'shot as hell.
(02:50):
That too.
Okay.
Feels like it's like 116, butthat's not the topic here.
Stay on task.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Um, back to school.
Back to school.
Teachers are getting ready,preparing their rooms.
Getting excited for all you snotnose, little brats.
Yeah, I know.
'cause my kids were snot nosebrats kids that need their butt
(03:13):
beat before school.
Right.
But they don't get it.
They need it in school and outtaschool.
Yeah.
But anyway.
Um, so Brina mm-hmm.
Is gonna be first time teacher.
Yes, she is.
You guys had the exciting taskof going to her classroom
decorating.
Tell us about that.
How was that?
Um, so she is very nervous butexcited.
(03:35):
Mm-hmm.
Like extremely nervous.
I'm drink while you talk, butexcited.
Um, so we got all thedecorations together.
We had boxes in my house full ofstuff.
We took it, her class ishumongous, but when she picked
out the decorations.
I wasn't sure about them, but Iloved them.
Now.
Really, now that it all cometogether, yeah, it, it looks
(03:58):
real nice.
But we decorated her wholeclass.
Um.
So that was fun.
I, you know what my problem isnow is next Fridays meet the
teacher and I want to go.
Oh God.
Yeah.
I mean, I, I get, I feel youthat'ss what I mean by that?
Yeah, I can see that.
Like, she's gonna be by herselfin this class.
Like she's such a big girl, butthough I can't take it like I
wanna go.
(04:18):
I know.
Hi.
Hi.
Just to be, you know Brins'amom.
I know.
That's so embarra.
She's like, mom, no, you can't,not Brina.
She's Ms.
Rivera.
Yeah.
She said It's how crazy.
It's weird that.
She went to them classes she hadto go to all week and she said,
it's funny that she sees Ms.
Rivera's class, Ms.
Rivera.
She said it's very strange toher.
(04:39):
Yeah.
But cool at the same time.
Exciting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
And nerve wracking.
Yes, very much so.
Very much so.
She is, she's been working sinceshe was a teenager, so yeah, the
working aspect and theenvironment is not the issue.
Yeah.
It's, this is such a big mm-hmm.
New step in her life.
Yeah.
But.
We are so proud and over themoon for her for, you know.
(05:02):
Yeah, yeah.
But it was costly for her to setup her room, wasn't it?
Oh my gosh.
So, um, so let's talk about thatfor a minute.
These teachers, it is ridiculoushow much money they have to
spend.
Not only, okay, decorate theroom is their preference, but
whatever, you know, I kinda getthat, not that they shouldn't
(05:23):
get in a like.
When school starts allowancebonus, a little bonus every
year.
Or a room decor allowance orsomething.
Right.
But what I don't understand isthey have to do school supplies
too.
Right.
But like what kind?
What are you talking about?
Pencils.
For their classroom.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In case there's any kids thatcome in that don't have a pencil
like, like mine used tos.
(05:43):
Clorox wives.
Yeah, people like her, but theyhave a list to get, but some
kids don't come with it, andwhen they do, it's only for the
first few months and they losetheir pencil.
Yeah.
So the teachers have to haveschool supplies for the whole
year.
Right.
In case of kids like gluesticks.
Yes.
Glue sticks, scissor.
Yeah.
Everything.
Just extra everything.
(06:04):
So that was very costly andthank God I've had a, my son.
Mm-hmm.
April and a couple other people,you gotta say that, sorry.
Pitched in and helped, um,helped her with her school
supplies and decorations becauseit, it comes to about a thousand
dollars.
Yeah.
Um, so, and then she had to buy,'cause she's a first time
(06:27):
teacher, so she had to buy allnew.
Clothes to Oh God.
Yeah.
To be able, you don't even thinkabout that.
Yeah.
So we're still doing that andthere's still a little bit of
school stuff.
I'm, I want to get her andwhatever, but for the most part,
she's ready.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good.
So, but I just So they don'thave school uniforms there?
Like she doesn't have to wear acertain No.
(06:48):
No shirt every day and No.
Nope.
She just wears like slacks orwhatever.
Yeah.
That's kind of good, I think.
And then whatever a shirt.
It makes a little more difficultthough.
Yeah.
Yeah, like, I mean, think aboutwhat we do.
We work in the medical, youknow, industry for all these
years of our lives.
Mm-hmm.
And at one point you used tobitch about the fact that we had
(07:08):
to wear scrubs.
Yeah.
Right.
Because it's just you get tiredof wearing the same shit over
and over.
Yeah, you're right.
But then again.
It makes your life so mucheasier.
It's easier.
I wish it was.
I, I when Brina, when theybecome, like, when she was in
school and they had dress code.
Yep.
I loved it.
Yeah.
It's so much cheaper to me.
(07:30):
Right.
Easier.
So I loved it.
So, but she, she just boughtslacks and I like to, what kind
of teacher would I be like,would I be a hoochie teacher?
Would I be the one wearing yoube cursing, you'd be fired in
the first week, bitch.
I wouldn't even make it.
I've been calling up parents,did I be like, uh, come get your
fucking kid.
And then, you know, I knew a,uh, I knew someone that was a
(07:52):
teacher for one year.
Yeah.
Um, I know several teachers andshe quit after the first year
because.
Like a se, I think it was sixthgrade or seventh grader girl
yelled at her, cursed her.
Mm.
So she emailed the parents.
I took that little bitch out andthe mom emailed back and said,
well, what did you do to her?
What the fuck?
I wish you would now.
(08:14):
So was like teachers like me.
What?
That I would be, there are someteachers.
But you gotta be camera do, dodo do do do do, do stuff to
people.
Okay.
To kids.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Well, yeah.
Um, there are some that, it'slike any field, there's always
a, a bad apple and a few, Iwouldn't be that way, but I, I
(08:37):
wouldn't tolerate no shiteither.
I definitely would be fired forsure.
Okay, sure.
And you know what it would be,I'd be fired for what?
Fighting the mama.
You, God dang right, girl.
Okay.
Or I just would freak out ifsome girl cursed me out, or boy,
I'd curse them back out.
Like I want fist fight'em.
This is what I'm saying, this, Imean, it's a fine line for me.
(08:59):
I'm a little kid.
I'm talking about when they'rein high school and stuff,
they're like, bitch, could youimagine VPK teach kid coming up
you and being like, bitch, Igrab that little shit.
I show you a bitch.
Kidding, kidding.
No.
Okay.
Well I be calling the mom.
I grab that phone is what Imeant.
My daughter is.
The sweet, like she is, sheain't even going to, I don't
(09:22):
even know what she going to do.
I don't even, she'd like, oh,you're so cute.
I know.
She's like, you're funny.
Yeah.
She's gonna be one of themparents.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Oh, like I am a grandparentpretty.
I laugh at that shit.
What the hell?
Yeah.
Every time she says that, Igiggle.
Oh, shit's funny to me.
Pretty much.
You're the problem.
Yeah.
(09:42):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, so I looked up, um, youknow, it's different.
So egg, uh, b Zach's, yes.
Girlfriend, fiance.
We call her egg fiance.
And there's a whole story, we'lltalk about that later.
I'm sorry, fiance.
You're welcome.
She gets so mad when I call herJess, like, as a joke.
Oh.
Or I'm like, Jessica.
(10:02):
She's like, that's not funny.
Oh, it's like she's in trouble.
Yeah, probably.
But anyway, so we call her egg,but she's gonna be starting, um,
VPK teaching.
At she's been a VP K teacher,but always at the, yeah, you
know the, um.
I don't wanna say daycare.
'cause I mean they're not reallyup the Yeah.
(10:23):
vpk.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anyway, um, she's gonna bestarting doing that, which is
good.
Exciting for her too.
Yeah.
She said she got a bunch ofclassing that she's gotta go to.
Mm-hmm.
Ready.
Like Brina's doing thoseorientation videos and stuff
like that.
Yeah.
Um, that's awesome for her.
But as far as the supplies, Idon't know that she's really had
(10:43):
to, or is going to need to dothat.
She needs crayons.
I, but I don't know if she hasto supply that stuff or not.
I mean, she already does at theplace that she works.
Oh yeah.
So I mean, if it was me and Ibought all that shit, when I
leave, girl, I don't pack myshit.
Yeah.
(11:03):
Take you with you, you know,grab an extra white out by
accidents.
I, yeah.
But crayons and stuff, they'reprobably nubs by now and mess
lost.
Hey, so what?
You ain't gotta, it's like Iused to tell the kids when they
were going to school.
That backpack is still good.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like you had to have a newbackpack every year.
(11:24):
Yeah.
Zach was different.
Zach shit in backpacks, so,okay.
You know that that's all you hadto get a whole different ball
game.
Exactly.
No, I got my kids a new backpackevery year.
I, no shit, so did I.
Yeah, it's just a thing to dothat.
It's stupid though, is my point.
Why?
Because it looks worn out.
I guess'cause my school, my kidsdidn't really use the backpack.
(11:48):
Oh, okay.
They were like, bitch, ain'tnothing coming home.
Homework.
What?
What's that?
Anyway, we'll talk about that ina minute.
So I did look into like what thedifference in cost is for
teachers.
Mm-hmm.
Pay because it's so funny that.
(12:09):
I'm gonna give you all someadvice.
Can I throw Brina under the bus?
Sure.
If you want me to be honest,Brina didn't even know what she
was gonna be making.
Oh, you are throwing her underthe bus.
She, and she's, I don't know ifshe still knows.
She don't care.
Well, she has an idea and that'swhat's great about now she has
what I'm saying, it's, I'mthrowing her under the bus, but
at the same time it's kind ofgiving her a little pat on the
(12:31):
back.
Like, good girl.
'cause she is actually goinginto this field.
Doing it because she cares aboutpeople.
Yes.
Doing it.
The reason why teachers shouldgo, you know what I mean?
But she don't care because shehas no bills.
Right.
Now, let's be real true.
If she had to pay her own, likemost teachers, I don't.
I wanna make sure who's throwingher under the bus now, you know?
(12:52):
No, I mean, she has some bills,but I'm saying if you lived on
your own.
Yeah.
You wanna know.
Right, right, right.
But Brina is the kind that, um,she's not gonna ruffle any
feathers.
Well, she was smart enoughenough to look at the average
and that's, yeah, that's where Iwas going into was like, but it
went way down, even though Ithrew out there that part of her
(13:13):
business, um, she at least hadan idea of what the average was
in Florida, of what they pay forteachers.
So, you know, she ain't realhappy, I'm sure, because.
And I both know, uh, teachersget are underpaid in the state
of Florida way.
Underpaid way.
Yeah.
And lemme tell you something waywhen you get into the fact that,
(13:34):
um, pretty much, um, governmentis like involved in our school
system.
Like they dictate what you'reallowed our curriculum and stuff
like that.
Yeah.
They've already.
It's gotten to the point wherelike, parents have more control
than teachers have and blah,blah, blah.
Yeah.
And that's for a whole differentconversation right now.
Not right now Yeah.
To go into, but I'm just sayingin that aspect, our teachers are
(13:59):
paid way less than other states.
Really?
Oh my God.
So the, that national average,lemme show you.
It's ridiculous.
Okay.
And I don't know why, why?
According to Google.
Okay.
Okay.
And Google knows all.
Google State.
That Florida is ranked 50th outof all the states.
(14:22):
What the heck for teacher pay?
Wow.
50th.
Come on, DeSantis.
Do we even have that?
We got any more states?
There's none.
Zero.
Wow.
You see what I'm saying?
There ain't a 51st state.
Yeah, they're in the 50, likeyou're bottom.
Is there, I'm gonna count mystars on stripes.
She, she can't count.
(14:44):
I told you motherfuckers lasttime what?
Geography is not my thing.
Okay.
There's 50 states.
Okay.
I'm just double checking, justsaying.
Yeah.
So that's so, so rank last broin, and I'm sure other states
she could go to any other stateand the average she'd make more,
be paid more.
We're not telling you to dothat.
Brina, by the way, stay home.
(15:04):
She's not allowed.
No.
So the average pay in Florida,at least according to Google,
um, in 2022 and 2023, theaverage was$53,000.
Now that's a year.
Yeah.
Now, to some people they mightbe like, oh my God, that's
amazing.
That's really good pay.
(15:25):
Now the offset is we don't havestate tax.
Yeah.
Okay.
We, we have a lot.
Less money, truthfully, thatgoes out of that 53,000.
So, I mean, if they're onlygoing based off of the actual
number instead of like, what doyou really bring home?
Yeah, that's what I wanna know.
Yeah.
You know, what's the averagetake home pay?
(15:47):
Um, it's probably not asdrastic.
Yeah.
I would think.
Well, and also you gotta takeoff probably.
2,500 off the bat because itcosts her a thousand dollars.
Oh God.
Yeah.
For the dec or on for the schoolsupplies and all that.
Plus through the year, theystill have to like, if they run
out Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Or they see a kid that's a need.
(16:09):
You know what I mean?
They, so there are some goodtax, um, incentives, which is
good that mm-hmm.
I've seen, you know, when we doour taxes and stuff like that
and I don't qualify for'em.
Yeah.
'cause I'm not a teacher.
Yeah.
Um, so there are some creditsthat.
You mean income tax?
The government does give, yeah.
Income tax that they do give acertain amount.
(16:29):
But again, it really shouldn'teven be in that aspect that
teachers have to deal with that.
It really depends on the gradetoo.
Mm-hmm.
Of how much supplies you need toutilize in your classroom, you
know, and to put up with thekids these days and their
attitudes, that ain't enoughmoney.
And not only that, I also, uh.
(16:51):
Think that for teachers, if youhave like, um, some kind of ID
and I understand they would wantthat or whatever, right.
For like, especially nowadays,right?
Staples, Walmart, anyone thatsells school supplies, any kind
of school supplies should giveteachers, if they can show proof
that they're a teacher, a bigdiscount at this time a big
(17:12):
discount.
So now that you just said that.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
One of the perks of Florida, andI don't know about the other
states.
Mm-hmm.
Sorry, I got a blueberry inthere.
Um, I haven't really looked intothat aspect, but in the state of
Florida, starting August 1sttoday.
Yep.
It is an entire month.
Tax free.
(17:32):
Of Tax free.
Mm-hmm.
School supplies.
Yeah.
So it's even on clothes.
Yep.
That's good for parents andteachers.
Teachers.
It's good for parents andteachers.
Yes.
If teachers are last minute orlike me.
Okay.
Yeah.
School here starts in 10 daysaround the 11th, you know, to
the 21st of August Max.
(17:53):
And then in Florida, everybody'sback to school by then.
Yeah.
Most of us start around the 11thor 12th, but um, I would wait
till August 1st and go get allmy supplies for my classroom,
get everything that I needed.
Yeah, because that tax alone,truthfully.
Is a good savings depending onwhat county you're Yeah.
(18:14):
For the tax in.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
But if you're ordering stuff, ifyou wait till 10 days before, of
course it gets a little hairy.
Yes, of course.
If have to order it online.
That's big difference way.
I feel like teachers should getmore of a discount somehow.
Some, some way they shouldbecause, and I never knew this,
so this is new for me.
(18:34):
Uh, all the teachers out therethat are listening, hopefully
there's a bunch of them.
And people that knew thisalready, um, would be like, uh,
now you're think, well this isthe first time I'm learning of
this, you know?
Well,'cause listen, we live ourlives.
I think everybody in the world.
Lives their life based off ofwhat affects me directly.
(18:55):
Mm-hmm.
What affects my family directly?
Yeah.
Like my opinions and how I dealwith my politics or my opinions
a lot of times, or just my ingeneral.
Choosing of services orsomething like that, or based on
how's it gonna affect me?
Yeah.
And a little bit of narcissist.
I don't really give a fuck if itaffects you differently, but you
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know, if it affects my childrendifferent Yeah.
Then I might have a betteroutlook on it.
You know, now that Brina's inteaching.
Mm-hmm.
It does.
I, like I said, I've, I havefriends or had, um, that were
teachers.
I would hear that from them, andI would think to myself, because
(19:37):
I'm a strong believer in, well,you chose that profession.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I, I tell Scott that all thetime.
He bitch about the heat back inthe day, but you chose to go
into that field.
Mm-hmm.
I, it's not my fault.
I chose to go into an officeaspect where I could have ac
Yeah, that's true.
You know what I mean?
It's true.
So it, it's kind of that way.
But when I see it now being.
(19:59):
On the other spectrum of it.
Yeah.
With Brina.
Yeah.
It's like, okay, open up yourmind to things.
It makes you realize thatsometimes.
Yeah.
You do have to kind of see itfrom another side.
That's all for sure.
And, and not only that, it'slike, um, these days it's almost
to the point that.
(20:21):
I wouldn't, I don't know ifyou'd call it this, but this is
what I'm gonna call it for now.
It's almost like, you know, copsand, uh, paramedics and
firefighters.
They're first responders,correct?
Well, well, so teachers,teachers are first responders in
essence.
I mean, first of all, they'retaking care of your children
more hours than you aresometimes.
And two.
They are first responders by,they gotta protect them when
(20:43):
they're in their class.
Well, especially unfortunately,in bad situations.
Yeah.
If they've gotta reportincidences that they've seen or,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
They need to be paid way more inmy book.
Well, I think, and so all ofthem so does police officers and
I I agree.
For all of them for sure.
Like something needs to be doneabout it.
Yeah.
It's serious.
I can tell you what I'm excitedfor that about Brina and
(21:06):
hopefully Egg too gets thisperk.
But I'm excited to takeadvantage of when you get
teachers get into the themeparks and stuff.
Oh yeah, bitch, we're going, Iwant some free tickets.
That's right.
You know what I mean?
Don't they get Yeah.
I thought they get, I dunno.
I've heard that in Florida atleast.
Oh.
Just like they do for the policeofficers and the veterans and
(21:28):
stuff like that.
Teachers NASCAR races, they getcertain discounts.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Let's see.
Brina.
Hooks us up.
This bitch.
She better hook us up.
And if she don't, maybe some ofyour listeners can uhhuh, but I
love free shit.
Oh, I know.
Call.
I love this free drink.
Nevermind.
(21:51):
Um, something went in my mouth.
That would be the blueberry.
No.
Oh, that's mint.
Yeah, I got it too.
It's pretty good though.
I like it.
You just gotta look at my straw.
It's cloggy thumb.
Oh.
Filter it.
Blow it.
It didn't blow out.
Blower.
I don't know, but maybe don'tput it all the way in the bottom
of the drink.
Nope.
I drank it.
(22:11):
Hopefully it was something I wassupposed to, Nope, I ate it.
That was good.
Anyway, so it's all edible.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not worried aboutit.
Yeah.
Um, so anyway, again.
We, something needs to be doneabout that.
Yeah.
So when you're, look, you know,you're looking through your, um,
new legislation mm-hmm.
Or things to vote on.
(22:32):
If something comes up aboutschools, we're gonna be
advocates to say, teachers needextra in Florida.
Yeah.
Like really, we can't be ranked50th.
We are not.
We don't fail.
That's right.
Okay.
We are Florida strong.
Like come on.
Do they need us to go march upthere and do, dude, I'm gonna
(22:52):
have to knock on he DeSantiscomes to visit.
Alright.
I'm gonna go when he shows upand I'm gonna have to say.
Mm-hmm.
I know you're listening rightnow too DeSantis so I'm gonna
tell you.
Love ya.
But help our teachers out.
Agree.
Concur.
I concur.
Boost their income.
Yeah.
And it's expensive for parentstoo.
Like, well, especially if theygot bougie kids.
(23:13):
I can't imagine what your momdealt with because of Kim.
Oh hell yeah.
No you weren't Kim.
I agree.
No, bitch.
I got Kim's hand me downs.
Okay.
My mom, Kim was five yearsdifference than me.
Oh yeah, you got, so I went intokindergarten.
With Kim's shit from 1979.
Wow.
Okay.
Wow.
You're gonna have to throw thatyear out there.
(23:35):
Well, I'm 74 born.
I have no problem saying I'm,I'm proud to be 51.
Throw your sister on the busbecause I'm proud to be 51
America.
Anyway.
It's expensive for parents too,especially if their kids are a
little bit boozier.
Or if your kids run you, whichis 90% of the world.
Um, the kids tell them, um, whatthey want, what they're gonna
(23:56):
get, and how they're gonna payfor it.
So it lot, well, it's, it's justa, this fucking elephant in the
room.
That's another dig on me.
No, it's all parents.
I see parents, you know, whenBrina was in high school, she's
like, oh, this kid got pair ofshoes for 200.
I don't give a shit.
I was that parent.
You going to get that wall brandUhuh?
(24:17):
I, that parent, I bought thatshoe.
I get 60, 80 bucks, maybe ahundred.
And that's pushing it.
You buy anything extra, you'redoing that'cause your kid wants
you to.
I'm not.
Yeah.
No.
Matter of fact, okay, well whenyour ass goes to school with
Bobos, like I did with Searsspecials or, and we're, look how
we turned out.
Great.
(24:37):
This is why I wear No, Iunderstand.
But 200 to 300, it's not ourfault that the cost of living in
shoes is outrageous, but Yeah, Iagree.
It's, it's, it's what the kidswant.
Well, it's so you don't getfucked with, yeah.
Fuck with my kids.
I'm gonna tell you right now,Winston, when he goes to school,
coming from Chad and Gabby, uh,this is, this is the problem.
(24:59):
This is Chad and Gabby.
Okay?
Okay.
They both are shoe their shoegames on.
Okay?
Okay.
So he gonna have good shoes andBobo clothes.
Don't, maybe some Boba clothes,but I doubt it because he ain't
got Boba clothes on.
The younger they are, thecheaper it is wait till they get
in middle and high school.
That's when it kicks in.
They cheaper.
It's, it's$85 for a pair oflittle Nike shoes that I bought
(25:21):
his ass.
I was do my, I was waiting tosay what idiot would buy that
for a child that's two years oldthat I handed down to somebody.
I was at a sneaker convention.
Why are we friends?
I don't know.
(25:41):
She's the problem with the worldtoday.
I am okay.
As as long as you agree.
I admit it isn't the first stepto admit admitting.
Yeah, sure.
Um, thank you.
Not that I didn't find my kidsgood stuff, but I didn't go.
I'm not that drunk.
What are you drunk from thatsip?
I know.
Come on dude.
Get your life together anyway.
(26:05):
Parents like her.
Okay.
First of all, school supplies isexpensive in general.
Of course.
Yes.
Now mind you, I had four kids.
I don't know how you did it.
I had one at a time.
You had one 12 years apart atime.
Yeah.
So I had like one at a time and,uh.
(26:25):
Me, I was pumping'em in.
Pumping'em out.
Yeah.
But then you, I was like alittle baby pack.
You spent a lot of money.
I bet you school supplies, theyhave the best of the best of the
best of the best.
Well, no, like y got number two.
Pencils, Brina and Nathan got0.5.
No, I'm just kidding.
That's true.
Brina got'em from Dollar Tree.
Yes.
I mean, no, I did stuff likethat.
(26:46):
I cut costs and, and saved inareas that they didn't.
Have a clue.
Now, are you the parent thatgets everything on that list
that the teacher sent?
No bitch.
See, I am.
I know you are.
I am the parent that will getmm-hmm.
If I needed it, especially withBrina, I had to follow the
rules.
Well, it depends on the class.
Like every class, the grade, no,it depends on grade.
(27:06):
It gives you a list.
Not always wouldn't you go toopen house?
Right.
They give you the list.
Okay.
They give you a generalized one.
Yes.
Then once they went into theirclassroom and then the teacher
was like, I want this, this,this, and this, they it, and I
don't need any of the othershit.
Yeah.
Some people wait till schoolstarts.
This is why I struggled with theteacher thing.
See?
Yeah.
But they wait till school startsand then get the final one from
(27:29):
their, that's what I wait for.
So I be, how are we doing?
But why did they do that?
Why wouldn't the teacher, uh,change it before the, uh, meet
the teacher day?
I, I dunno, some teachers aren'tprepared.
Listen.
Some teachers are like me andsome teachers are like you.
Okay.
(27:49):
I would know.
I would hope you would know, butI see how things can change.
But you wouldn't know know,girl, what?
What?
I'm teaching Scout.
Okay.
You were always prepared.
Okay.
So what the Boy Scout's mottowas Always be prepared.
Okay.
I'm gonna say it's the GirlScouts.
Okay.
Because I think I don't remembertheirs.
That was a brownie and that wasabout it.
And then I became eating abrownie anyway.
(28:12):
I want a brownie right now.
I love a brownie girl.
She can we get a brownie withthis drink?
Anyway, I forgot what I wastalking about, so I was not a
prepared.
Listen, I believe children are aproduct of their environment.
Okay?
Now I'm gonna tell you why I,I'm 50 50 on that, but yeah.
(28:34):
I'm gonna use myself as anexample.
Instead of throwing you underthe bus, you can throw yourself
under there and your children.
Okay, let's, I'm gonna do it formyself.
Okay?
Go ahead.
I am never prepared.
I, I couldn't live like that.
Okay.
I need to know what I'm, dude, Ihave you got pissed when I gave
you homework, so I don't evenwanna hear that shit.
(28:56):
Okay.
I tried to make you prepared.
I tried to be prepared for this.
I, I'm better.
Just, I'm just better with wingit.
Wingy, dingy, dingy, wingy.
Um, so it's rare for me to beprepared.
Like I try to be, I want to beYou.
Wait till the last minute.
No.
Well, oh yeah.
No, I can't.
(29:16):
I don't believe in that.
Not, no, no.
A night before.
I'm a night before kind ofperson.
Mm mm mm mm Yeah.
So if we're going away, mm.
I'm packing the night before.
What if you need stuff?
Now I'm figuring out all my,well, I don't hang out the
hiccups.
What if you need?
I, I don't figured out all myoutfits.
Uh, no.
I'm looking at that stuff like,I kind of know in general, but
(29:39):
like when the kids went to toschool, when it came to school
shopping and stuff like that.
What?
Nothing.
I got something funny to say.
No, go.
Go.
I just don't wanna forget it.
Okay, go ahead.
When I went, um, schoolshopping, it was.
I went as soon as we went toopen house like that.
(29:59):
Following week.
Yeah.
And so I would buy a genericportion of school supplies so
that, and man, some of my kidshated it.
Why?
They free?
Well, at one point they used tobe kind of,'cause you know,
Scott's an on time kind ofperson.
I'm not.
Mm-hmm.
I try to be shit happens.
(30:20):
Um, but they would panic.
I had to teach them not to.
You're gonna see, great.
Okay, let's go spend$200.
You're not getting them fuckingNikes, but okay, let's spend$200
worth of supplies.
And when you go to school, Iwant you to bring me back
everything that's not needed.
Yeah, that's true.
I, that has happened before.
A lot of shit we buy.
But when you teach, give this toyou, then you get it.
(30:42):
I've had teachers give, like Isaid, a generic list.
Mm-hmm.
And then lemme tell yousomething you don't.
Yes.
Do you need Kleenex?
Hand sanitizer?
Yes.
Yes.
Do you need Sam's Club?
Yes.
Kleenex not.
You don't?
Each kid, the teacher does.
Okay.
Well, the teacher does.
As I said, the kids don't thatstuff, but they put that on the
list.
(31:03):
Germ X, not a, not a big thing.
They wanted little one.
I don't talk about now.
Oh, back in the day beforeCOVID.
When everything was just alittle, yeah.
Oh, I almost blew my boogers inmy head.
Oh, I can't take her nowhere,dude.
Okay, let me tell you somethingfunny.
God, let's hear this shit.
So we were just on this subjecta minute ago, how prepared I am.
(31:26):
That's what you get.
This is how prepared I am.
Okay.
When my son would go to school,yes.
At night.
This is kind of embarrassingthough.
No, it's not.
It's pretty smart.
It is.
Well because it's a boy in itsjeans or, anyway, you want me to
be honest.
Not after he took a shower thenight before.
(31:49):
Okay.
Don't, don't choke on me.
You want me to do the heim?
Sorry, go ahead.
Scott's trying to kill you.
Um, I had nailed'cause I'mlaughing.
Oh.
Oh.
Okay.
I'm good.
Don't.
Okay.
Don't drink next time.
(32:10):
Um, the night before, beforebed, my son would put on his
school clothes to go to bed'cause he was not an early
riser.
And so he'd put his jean shortson and his shirt and socks.
So when he woke up in themorning, he just slipped on his
shoes, brushed his teeth, andlet's go.
(32:32):
Pretty much she's saying there'sno pajamas in this situation.
You think he still lives thatway?
Mm Oh, we don't wanna call himout on you.
No.
I'm trying to think.
No, I don't think he goes to bedwith his work clothes on.
Could you imagine?
And his, but does he sleep untilhe absolutely has to get up and
(32:52):
get dressed and get out thedoor?
Yes.
Oh, of course.
But Brina is different, right?
She's gotta have.
Laid out clothes, know exactlywhat she's wearing.
You gotta get up early enoughto, you know, she's just like,
she's like that.
That's how Mark is.
Mark wakes up three hours beforehe is gotta leave.
I wake up 30 minutes, I getdressed 10.
You go to bed with the clotheson?
No, it takes me about 10 minutesto get dressed, grab my coffee
(33:16):
and water.
I can be out the door in 20minutes, so I sleep until I have
to get up.
And then you brush your teethand blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Take a shirt like when I comehere.
Well, I don't, I don't.
I'm just saying that's what mostpeople do when I come here to
work and I get here at, at eight30, I woke up at like eight
o'clock.
Lately at eight, been eight 30or 7 45.
(33:39):
Right?
And the only reason I get up alittle bit early is'cause Mark's
gonna wanna talk.
Let me spend some time with him,drink our little bit of coffee
and wait.
And then he follows me out thedoor.
But anyway, that's a whole newsubject.
That's a whole nother, buteither way.
For sure.
Talking about being prepared.
My son wore his school clothesonce he got a little, not once.
(33:59):
Once he got older, he stoppeddoing it.
I'm talking about as a littlekid, he would, right, right.
I'd say Put on your schoolclothes.
I know.
So in the morning, wake him up,let's go.
At least he had his showerthough and was ready to go or
bath or whatever.
Yes.
You know, he's about, youweren't a savage.
We she Talk about my kids beingraised in the jungle.
(34:20):
I didn't say that.
I can tell you that when I wasraising my children, okay?
Mm-hmm.
From all four of'em.
Okay.
First of all, every child'sdifferent.
Right?
That's how I think.
So I had to learn.
Shane was always easygoing.
Yeah.
He was usually, um, he was thetype that you guys were strict.
(34:43):
He did wanna know on Shane too,though.
Of course he was the first one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um.
He wanted to know beforehandwhat he was wearing.
He was that kind.
Put his clothes out, whatever.
Um, or I plus I had a lot moretime.
When you only have one, I meanit six years difference between
him and Brandon.
Yeah, so it's true.
It's a, it's it's differentenviron, you know, type of
(35:05):
raising.
I think once you move on to thenext one, Brandon, on the other
hand, you just, God bless me,you gave up.
I'm just gonna say.
She gave up.
Ooh, no, I didn't give up.
But it's a wonder I didn't breakthat child.
Oh my God.
He was, maybe he did.
So picky.
(35:26):
I know.
Maybe I brand I love you.
I'm sorry if you have issues.
I hope you don't have mommyissues.
But anyway, um, he was picky.
His with socks you mean?
Oh, if that, you know how socksback in the day.
I don't know.
Still, I don't really wear manysocks, but anyway, they have
that sewn stitch where they sewtogether.
(35:46):
They still some socks were verytalk about generic and me being
bougie.
Okay, wow, I bought the cheapsocks and this is why I stopped
doing this shit.
Mm-hmm.
There's a certain thing thatcertain kids are sensory touch
issues.
Okay.
I strongly believe in that kindof stuff.
Brandon was that kid.
(36:07):
He would put his sock on or Iwould put his sock on in the
morning, get him dressed, and assoon as I put the socks on snap
mode.
'cause back in the day, themlittle lines were thicker than
they now.
Yeah.
And now maybe his shoes were alittle too small.
Maybe his feet grew too fast.
I don't know.
Might have been been, who knows?
(36:28):
Who knows back then.
But that was the issue withBrandon.
So I would struggle.
So poor Shane would end up beingeither late to the bus.
Oh.
Brina wouldn't use I'd to drivethem all in.
Well, Shane used to get pissedabout it too.
Yeah.
But he was tolerable.
You know what I mean?
He'd deal with it.
And Brina is not tolerable.
(36:49):
Zach, once he started school,yeah.
Dude trying to get the two ofthem.
First of all, Zach, all of themready.
Zach ran around the hou.
He was like, I ain't gettingdressed.
I ain't going to school.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
As a little kid.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He'd run, he, I would be busytrying to get Brandon ready
'cause there's only like twoyears difference and then have
Zach trying to run away from me.
(37:10):
Shane's trying to yell at themto get doing a house.
That poor house, oh my god.
Gabby was easy, but she wasbougie.
Yeah.
And she still, she had to havethe best of the best.
Well, she's a girl.
Girls are different.
All the kids did really like, Imean, they always had the good
shoes, the stuff like that.
Yeah.
Um, because I've been called outfor that in the past.
(37:31):
Um, and that's why I say whenyou're raised as somebody who's
had Kmart specials, yeah.
I'm not putting my kids inWalmart specials.
It's just not happening.
Walmart special, sorry.
And I won't put my grandkids, mykids never go Walmart either.
But I didn't spend$200 forshoes.
Matter of fact, Brina got herfirst expensive shoes a couple
(37:53):
years ago for Christmas.
Oh, yeah.
She, Gabby had, and that was herbig, again, I got, I can tell
you I agree with not doing that.
Mm-hmm.
Only because Gabby used to havea wall of shoes.
Mm-hmm.
To the point that there wereshoes she never wore.
But Nathan does that.
He likes to look at it.
He's a collector and that's howGabby was.
She was always, since she waslittle, she is been a shoe
(38:15):
person.
Yeah, big.
She's always, I get that.
But that'd be holiday shit.
I think she gets that shit frommy sister.
Sorry to throw you out thatYeah, I'm, I'm drink up on that
one bit.
The sister, my sister got thename brand shit.
Me, I didn't get the name right.
I'm rolling around right now andI don't even know.
I don't even know an off brandWalmart special because I ain't
(38:37):
got no off brand.
Oh, I know what I got.
Tick TikTok shop shit.
Okay.
That's where I get my clothesnowadays.
I think Scott just threwanything in here with some
little chia seed looking things.
The blueberry.
That's not a blueberry.
It is.
It's the seeds inside.
Oh, bottle them.
That's why there's chunky chunkseverywhere.
That's a mojito.
(38:57):
That's girl.
I gotta educate.
As you all heard last episode.
Cindy only drinks on occasion,and it's Friday.
Again, she don't know nothingabout drinks.
We are gonna introduce a newdrink every time we are.
Mm-hmm.
I'm still in love with the firstone.
See, I, I'm not a big changer.
I'm in love with the stripper.
I would take the first one everytime, but it's fine.
(39:19):
I do like trying differentstuff.
Yeah.
And if I'm gonna do it, might aswell do it here.
That's what I'm saying, in asafe environment where you won't
get roofied.
Exactly.
I don't know.
Scott might have.
Trying to choke both of us out.
He trying to shut us both up.
Yeah.
He's like, do I gotta listen tothem one more minute?
I, I know.
I said, see, he gets destroyedby it, but I think he enjoys
(39:40):
this abuse.
He does.
Matter of fact, let's drink upso he can make us another one.
Doesn't make the new one.
No.
But then we can put in therequest for the old one and No,
and then we mix it and we'rescrewed.
We're done.
Anyway.
Any anyhow, teachers need.
I almost died.
Got her eyes.
I almost died.
(40:01):
Teachers need more money.
Mm-hmm.
School shopping sucks.
School shopping sucks becausethe name of the title and how
bad podcast for a parent, howmuch stress, this is what breaks
my heart.
How much stress, even inChristmas time for a parent that
got more than one kid orwhatever, or just one kid or
whatever to the choir and can'tafford.
(40:23):
It's ridiculous.
This bitch never had anymotherfucking sympathy for me.
Nope.
That's all.
Don't say, but your kids were,had bougie stuff.
I had one ahead of time, but Ihad nothing Dinner time.
I was like, I'll take thislittle tiny corner of bread.
You can have the whole loafbecause you're nice.
That's how I could say, I'd belike, we're splitting this shit.
(40:46):
Half them kids.
Yeah.
Oh, that's funny.
Anyway, my point is.
More money for teachers,responders first more money and
these poor parents, but they areso happy to send them kids off.
So they're like, they'll pay foranything, dude.
They can't.
I had had four kids when I usedto work from the home when I
(41:09):
first started my, the billingbusiness, Uhhuh, when I did
that, all the kids were out ofthe house.
Nice bitch.
It was the best.
I loved having a home business.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
It was the greatest thing ever.
But summertime.
You didn't.
I did.
'cause I locked my mother kidsout.
Oh.
Well I grew up a latchkey kid.
(41:30):
I raised my kids.
La My, my boys were playingbackyard football.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were like, I didn't, neverhad to worry about, if anything
they were inside playing a videogame.
And when that generation, we hadpool, I mean we had a pool.
I, I loved, I'd rather have mykids at home with me.
(41:51):
Yeah.
Back then,'cause I wasn'tdrinking every day like I am
now.
I probably should have been, butI wasn't.
So I liked having them bring alltheir friends and do the whole
nine yards at my house becausethen I felt like I knew what
they were doing.
But.
I didn't, I, and that's anotherepisode.
(42:13):
We'll probably do that with thedoor shut next time.
Shut.
You don't know what's happeningout there, girl.
And she wonders why Brina neverstayed night with her.
Got your ass.
Lemme drink up.
Mm-hmm.
She need drink up.
'cause that's a sore subject.
Just so you know.
It's not really, it's notreally.
I don't worry about that.
(42:34):
But anyway, so next.
Next topic.
Next topic is Brina got baptizedlast Sunday.
Very proud of her.
Mark got teary eyed.
I videoed it.
It was great.
Oh, yes, Brina cried.
Actually, I asked you that lastweek if she was gonna go, if, I
mean you told me that she wasgoing back.
(42:55):
Yeah.
Get baptized.
Did.
Yep.
We, we were there at nine 30 inthe morning.
She got baptized, then we wentto Crack Barrel.
She accepted Jesus Christ as hersavoir.
She did.
And then we went to CrackerBarrel for breakfast.
That was good.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And then we just went home andrelaxed.
We actually went home and allthree of us passed out.
(43:16):
And Mark never takes naps.
And if I do, it's like 15minutes.
That's because it was like twohours.
Yeah.
And the day before we went tothe springs.
Oh.
So we were exhausted.
You were done.
Yeah.
Exhausted.
So, um, we all took naps andthen we all woke up pretty much
the same.
And Brina said, I took a two anda half hour nap.
Bitch, all you do is nap.
You take a two and a half hour,hour nap after you just woke up.
(43:39):
Yeah.
So every day, well, that's,she's not doing that, um, summer
program anymore, so that's good.
Nope, she's done with that.
Well, she don't have time.
Right.
She's got class after class,after class from seven in the
morning to four.
Today's just a zoom.
Thing from three to four 30.
Mm-hmm.
And then Michael wants her tocome see his class, but I don't
know if she went or not.
(43:59):
Right.
And then Monday she has anotherclass, and then she don't have
classes, I don't think.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,and Fridays meet the teacher.
The only thing that sucks is Iwon't be here either to be
support when she gets home nextFridays meet the teacher.
Oh, don't worry.
I will be, I'll see herSaturday.
I'll be seeing my daughter.
Yeah.
I just, she just realized lastnight I won't be around.
(44:21):
But Nathan picked the weekend,but I, I'm gonna go see my
granddaughter, so that's notgonna stop me.
So Brina will be fine.
You're an adult.
Be an adult.
Even though helicopter parent,helicopter parent.
Yes.
I really am helicopter parent.
I really am.
I gotta, I gotta, I mean, shegot live 360 on the kid.
Why wouldn't you?
Oh my.
Because she's 21, so I want iton Nathan.
(44:44):
No, he won't let me.
Smart.
But he said there's a way for meto look at my phone and I'm not.
Savvy with that stuff.
So he is like, look at yourphone.
You should know.
You should know, but I, he'llcall me Where you been or where
you going?
I'm like, dude, oh, I know who Idid it.
You want me to teach it?
Stop looking at my location,your little stalker.
(45:04):
He said, why'd you go to Publix?
What'd you need there?
Like, I'm like, oh my gosh.
Well, that's what Gabby does.
Well, Gabby's doing that becauseshe's like, she shopping without
me.
Uhhuh.
She's like, that bitch, Uhhuh.
Brina don't want to shop.
She go to lunch without me.
Yeah.
Even if I'm paying, Brina don'twanna shop.
I know, dude.
We've talked about that so manytimes.
(45:24):
She is strange.
Anyway.
Anyway, so that's that.
Yeah.
What else?
This weekend, this is actuallymy only free weekend for a
couple weeks, so.
Oh really?
Mm-hmm.
Not free, but free.
Free, but free.
It can't be free, but free.
It's free.
But Brina wants me to hang outwith her this whole weekend.
(45:49):
Your face.
She's like, uh, is ridiculous.
You wanna hang out with me thisweekend?
You ain't got no friends.
What does, but you, what doesthat mean?
What she wants to hang out?
That means, but we can't shop.
Right.
We can't go eat.
See, she wants me to either gosomewhere to have a couple
drinks with her.
Oh, that's fine.
Or sit and watch movies withher.
It's an occasion.
(46:09):
Yeah.
Drink up bitch.
So, and then she, she just, Idon't know, whatever.
And then that's it.
You know what I'm gonna do thisweekend?
I don't wanna hear it becauseyou gonna have drunk.
Yeah.
Gonna have fun.
What the hell?
Yep.
I'm coming.
Yep.
Yep.
(46:30):
Who you playing flip cup with?
No one.
This family.
Every, I ain't there.
Oh.
Oh yeah.
I got a whole crew now boy.
I got a whole group.
I got a whole squad herevisiting my ass.
That's true.
That's true.
Yeah.
So this is the, this is relaxingfor me.
One like real main, full weekendwith them.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and then my nephew'sgirlfriend's coming to visit,
(46:53):
which will be fun.
Hopefully.
Or you're embarrassing.
Uh oh.
Uh, poor girl.
It's a guarantee.
Poor girl.
I mean, come on dude.
She's terrible.
I'm embarrassed.
Yeah, all the time.
And I like it that way.
She embarrasses me.
Well, you know, but you won'tstop hanging out with my ass so
(47:14):
I don't gonna embarrass you thatmuch.
That's true.
That's true.
So it's like 115 degreesoutside.
Oh my God, dude.
115.
It's so hot.
It's not even funny.
The other day when I wentoutside, I think it was like the
hottest day I walked from work.
I went so bad to put my arm onhere.
I know, but it shakes see that.
Gotcha.
(47:35):
Um, I left work and walkedacross the street to the Jiffy.
Yeah, Jiffy.
It's not a Jiffy.
It's a Jiffy.
It's not called a Jiffy.
What is it called?
It's a Jiffy across the streetTo where from the work.
Yeah, it's a shell gas station.
Jiffy.
So I walked across there and Iwas like, damn.
(47:55):
I could see why people that havebreathing problems, the heat
would be a problem because I waslike, it's so thick, I can tell
the difference.
Oh yeah.
So, um, yeah, I was just like,damn, man, that's, that's tough.
Well, I don't have breathingproblems.
Me neither until I walk outside.
Yeah.
And then when I got home the daythat nobody was home for like an
(48:16):
hour.
Oh, oh.
So I walked quiet, I walked inthe house and Mark swears.
The last few days, he wantsevery shade closed, every door.
Shut.
Even the one that mm-hmm.
Goes in the middle.
Yeah.
He said, because it'll keep thehouse cooler.
So I walked in, everything'sdark.
Well, that's a little fishy forme.
Okay.
Right.
You don't know if somebody, andI want doors open so I can see.
(48:37):
Right, right.
So I go and open it all up.
He's gonna smack somebody.
I don't give a shit.
I opened it all up and I waslike, I can't feel the
difference between this room andthat room.
So it's fine.
Open it up.
Stop being a mark thinks livesin the bat cave.
Yeah.
Like he's Batman.
Stop being weird, dude.
Down in the bottom of the batcave, waiting for a call to come
in.
Mark, stop it.
Yeah.
I don't care about that.
Yeah.
I, I can tell you this, markwould hate me then because I
(49:01):
told Scott like, my dream houseis that I love windows.
Like I love natural light.
I'm okay.
I, I love that too.
I would rather natural light.
I want people to see inside.
All the time.
Don't care what you gonna lookat.
Big old fat body peek away,brother.
No, I've had peeping times mywhole life.
(49:21):
I'm used to it.
I told you.
Yeah.
No, not me.
No, but they make it to whereyou can't see in, except I can
tell you this at night.
You can see through those.
Yeah, I know.
Because I had that on.
I think our slider is like that.
Oh, where you can't during theday.
'cause it blocks the, so ifyou're walking around naked,
then what?
At night?
Well get some curtains.
You dirty bitch.
(49:44):
I'm just saying.
Um, but no.
Yeah, either walk around naked,which it's really called naked.
It's naked.
Okay.
Spell naked.
NE red, naked.
It's naked.
Okay.
You know what I meant though?
I knew Mark always corrects metoo.
(50:05):
It's so annoying.
Like I'll say, Hey, you fixing,you fixing to go somewhere?
You're fixing.
He say, yeah, I'm fixing, I'mfixing, but you know what I
mean?
Yeah.
Oh, well, I say fixing.
Yeah.
Who cares?
But I think I, a lot of mylanguage comes from you.
Wow.
Yeah.
Not my potty mouth.
Not the bad language.
You mean the, the, the wrongwords.
(50:27):
Yeah.
Just like patience.
Right?
Like the Ty Ty, the chip choy.
The chip chiney.
Yeah.
Or Scott says, because I go,even Winston understands that
you go like this.
You know what I'm talking about?
I'm talking about your mouth.
Yeah.
That's why Winston calls meBalisha.
I know.
Bye.
Balicia.
Bye, Balicia.
(50:47):
I think we should have him onthe podcast.
We should.
Just one little episode withjust him.
Yeah, that's true.
He can tell us all the dirt, allthe dirt about, so he'd be like
my mama and my daddy and Balishaand this one time they, okay.
Yeah, I think that would be fun.
(51:09):
All right, well we're gonnafinish off our drinks and, um,
hope everybody has a greatweekend back to school.
Oh yeah.
And weekend.
But one more weekend back toschool.
Yeah.
I don't have to deal with thatanymore.
Thank God we're here for you.
Teachers we're we got your back.
All your parents that arestruggling and worrying about
buying their kids the bougieshit like she used to and still
(51:33):
do.
And still, I mean, listen, ifyou want me to be honest, I'm
the type of parent that.
I'll bring my kid to a fight.
If you got some kid that'sbullying my kid there, she's,
she's, she's the one, I'm thetype that will turn around and
(51:53):
confront the parent.
If there's an issue, she's theone.
And if the teacher ain'ttreating my kid right, I'm gonna
confront you.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Unless my kid's wrong.
But you can't.
Yeah.
How do you know?
Unless my kid's wrong.
But how do you know until youtalk to the teacher?
Well, I mean, if you raised themright.
You find out really who, yeah.
You can tell by kids'personalities, like, you know, I
(52:14):
raise my kids to respect elders.
Yeah.
That respect, authority.
These kids need to respectteachers.
You know, DI mean, if a teacheris mistreating them, which,
which is rare, so don't blamethe teacher.
Yeah.
But there are, there are some,like I said, there's some, lemme
tell you, I've had my run-inswith, it's really not the.
(52:34):
Teachers that were an issue, itwas the security at the school.
That's an issue.
Yeah.
You know, some of these securityguys think that they're, they're
cops.
I mean, I get it.
Yeah.
You know, officers, but Irespect officers until you start
bullying my kid.
Yeah.
Well that's different.
Some of'em can get a littlecrazy.
Yeah, that's true.
So, um, you know, hopefully youguys raise your kids right.
(52:58):
Respect, authority, respect,respect your teachers.
Yeah.
Um, respect your damn parent.
I wouldn't have had to beat mykids unless you had to.
Yeah.
I mean, and it wasn't very manyoccasions that they got mad.
You need to start beating mykids now.
Well, now I just gotta cut'emoff.
Brina's cursing from money.
Yeah.
(53:18):
Yeah.
She needs to start sharing thatmoney with me back in the day.
Well, she did buy me lunchtoday.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Scott made me a drink.
Thank you.
She had all sorts of free shit.
I got that right.
Mm-hmm.
Anyway, have a great weekendguys.
We enjoy, um, you, we enjoy.
I hope you enjoy us watching, uslistening to us.
(53:40):
'cause we are professional Okay.
Getting better.
We know it.
Yeah.
And if, again, if you guys gotanything that you want to tell
us, ask us if you wanna know ourhonest opinion about something.
Mm-hmm.
Please feel free to like, share,follow, comment.
On our YouTube page, you canfollow us on iHeartRadio,
(54:03):
Spotify, um, apple Podcast.
We're on TikTok, Facebook,Instagram.
Um, so take a look.
Check us out.
Yes.
And if you like it, love it,share it, and pretty much that's
it.
Share the drama to your mama.
Have a good weekend.
(54:23):
Bye bye.
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