May 15, 2023 • 39 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Dr. Dean Beckloff on teens and Tik-Tok
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. When youtook English in school, how were
you with like nouns, pro nouns, verbs, adverbs, that kind of
stuff? Were you? Were youpretty good at that? I think that
was okay, he's I recall notthat I go. But my school,
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my school um career was not necessarilyspectacular. I mean I had my moments.
I think i'd once one semester inhigh school where I had all a's
and just one. I had afew where I had all a's and a
B plus, but I had alot more when I had a's, b's
and a couple of seas. Thatwas probably more likely. But I graduated
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with uh, what was my greatpoint three point zero one? So that's
there. You go, a solidB student when you get right down to
it, and you know what,I'm fine with that. I'm guessing if
i'd been better at math, Icould have gotten a lot better grades.
But English was pretty easy English andin in history in those classes, and
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I got the I got the ideabehind you know, nouns and pronouns.
That came pretty easy. That wasn'thard. But I wonder how difficult it
is now in upside down world wherepronouns are interchangeable, where you can pick
your pronoun, where he is notexactly always he his her. You know,
the he and the his and theit's getting confused. You know,
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the he's and the hers are gettingall mixed up, and it makes something
that for some people's not an easysubject. I'm guessing it makes it even
more difficult for them. Meanwhile,you know, in school, of course,
there's nothing more difficult right now thanto be a conservative teacher. To
be a conservative teacher, even ina state like Texas, I think to
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be a conservative teacher is difficult becauseI think even in Texas you are in
the minority. Number one and numbertwo is that thanks to a student body
that is increasingly woke, and parentswho either tolerate the wokeness or maybe in
some cases encourage the wokeness, havemade it very difficult for the teachers.
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The parents. They all basically believeanything their child tells them over what the
teacher says, and it doesn't matterwhat the track record or the student is.
I would like to think that inthe case of my own kids,
I would like to think I wasa bit of a realist as far as
their ability to be completely truthful withme. I don't think I ever operated
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under the guys that my kids wereever one hundred percent truthful with me one
hundred percent of the time, especiallyBrian. I'd like to think my dad,
who was very a student individual bythe way, as far as figuring
out character, my dad pretty muchfigured out, you know, who was
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telling the truth and who wasn't,and didn't take them long to do it.
And as a teacher by profession,there's no way he's going to take
my word for it over a teacher'sword. If he was between me and
a teacher, no matter how generallyhonest I was, I can guarantee the
adult and the teacher would have wonninety nine point nine nine percent of the
time. That's not the way itis anymore now. If a teacher upsets
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a students and the student complains tothe parent, and the parent goes to
the school. Chances are fairly goodthat the school will be as much on
the parent's side and this kid's sideas it will be on the teacher's side.
That's a very difficult place to bewhen you're when you're a teacher who
has very little recourse when it comesto displaying students to begin with. Now,
we got this teacher in Kansas.She's a conservative in Kansas, for
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the most part, it's pretty conservativestate. Right, No, maybe not
quite as conservative as Texas, butpretty conservative. You wouldn't think this would
be a problem. She's a conservativeteacher in Kansas, but she is refusing
to recognize her students pronouns. Inother words, you can go by whatever
name you want to go by,but your pronoun is your pronoun. You
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can't change your pronoun with me.And that is driving these kids to the
point that they're trying to get herfired from her job. So let's see
what the teacher has to say.The teacher, see if I can find
her name real quick. If not, I'll find it while we're listening to
the cut. Let's do that.Listen to the cut. You're gonna hear
from the teacher, the Kansas teacher, and little rebuttal on the five from
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will Caine. There is frustration insidethe buildings is pretty miserable well in many
cases. But yes, I believethat the divisiveness of the DI message is
prompting just a culture of contempt inthe building that is intolerable for many of
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us who work there and have workedthere for a long time. I will
honor anyone's subjective choice of what theyhope to call themselves in terms of their
name. I will not honor someone'sdemand that I change the English language and
what amounts to objective reality based upontheir threat. I will not use someone's
pronounced because that's just simply not true. Now. The reason I bring that
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up, though, is because thoughit's notable in the story, to me,
is the way the students are protestingand suggesting that they can get this
teacher fired. That's what's notable tome. They think they have that power.
They may not be wrong, butthey are operating based upon intimidation and
fear, and I think to thatextent, the entire movement, we're not
just talking about trands, we're talkingabout DI in general, is catering to
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people's intimidation tactics. We have apandemic of cowardice in this country. Stand
up, school district, Stand uplike this teacher, I think, stand
up and refer to people by theirproper objective pronouns. And if everybody stands
up, we'll stop descending into insanity. I've been trying to figure this out,
why it is that school systems arenot standing up against some of these
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parents and against some of these students, And the only thing I can think
of is that maybe it goes backto all these raucous school board meetings that
we've seen, right, and maybepublic schools are afraid now some of these
new members of the school board whohave gotten elected because of parents who are
upset, and they don't want toupset the apple cart. But at the
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end of the day, they havegot they've got to provide a little pushback
here. I mean, you havevery little control left of your own public
school system, and if you ifyou give the power away, especially to
the students being you want to talkabout the ultimate inmates running the asylum,
you can't the kids to run thehigh schools, or things are going to
get really, really, really bad. All right, quick little break back
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with born a Mom, a JimmyBarrett Show on the Monday here on the
nine fifty KPRC. All right,I think this will make a pretty good
segment segue, whether from segment onehere where you're talking about, you know,
kids in the schools having too muchcontrol. It seems these days,
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the inmates running the asylum, theparents helping the kids run the asylum,
and then the school systems. Rightnow that maybe because of all these rocket
school board beings they've heard so muchabout, who are afraid to be in
charge of their own schools, theyjust don't want any pushback from parents,
so they take they take the pathof least resistance. Now, there are
some who probably like this idea,but what's interesting to me is the schools
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that are doing this, the onesthat are most inclined to go the path
of least resistance, are the schoolsystems They generally don't have a problem with
really progressive, woke curriculum, butthey're just as afraid. They're even more
afraid the ones that like Loudon County, Virginia, for example, the ones
that were already militant, they've remainedmilitant. They haven't changed, They aren't
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letting some conservative school board members impacttheir world at all. They're doing what
they want to do, only thewords it seemed to be affected by this.
Interestingly enough, are the more conservativeschool districts, the ones where you
would like to think they'd fight thegood fight to keep parents happy by providing
a little bit of discipline, bynot allowing the kids to run rough shot
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over the school, by not allowingparents who allow their kids to run rough
shot over them to run rough shotover the school. But right now that
doesn't seem to be the case.Okay, as long as around the topic
of kids, let's get to youngerkids. High school's one thing, middle
schools another thing. Elementary school,but we're talking about even younger than that
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drag queen story hours. You know, there's been a lot of state legislatures
that have taken some action on thesedrag queen story hours, on the ability
for drag queens to get access toreally small children. And I'm not even
talking about the drag queens are justdressing up and straightforward reading a nursery rhyme,
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for example. Although I'm not anendorser of that either, but we've
got some of these drag queen performersthat are showing up. They are putting
on shows that they call they're notcalling them family friendly to their credit.
In fact, a lot of themare saying there are some things in here,
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the little risque, but everybody's welcome. You can bring anybody you want.
So here's my question. Should myconcern, your concern be over the
fact that there's some of these showsthat exist and there are kids who attend
these shows, or should our concernbe with the fact that the show exists,
or should our concern be with theparents those few parents that bring their
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children to these shows who clearly haveno problem with their child being indoctated for
whatever reason? Is that child abuse? Should it be no to this child
abuse? Should we be going afterthese parents because right now we seem to
be more concentrating on the drag queensthey are on the parents who bring their
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small children to these shows. Eitherway, the topic came up. You
know, there was in Hollywood therewas a telethon for drag queens where they
raised over a half a million dollarsand they had some celebrities who came by,
one of which is Charlie's theren ortheir own. I'm not sure how
she pronounces it. I've heard itpronounced so many different ways now I can't
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even keep it straight. But youknow how I'm talking about, right,
the actress very pretty, which isneither here nor there. Pretty on the
outside, but a little ugly onthe inside. And she got up to
speak, I guess during this telethonand basically said, the problems aren't the
drag queens. The problems are therest of you people who have a problem
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with drag queens. You're the problem, and f you and blah blah blah,
and I will f up anybody whowants to take me on on this
topic, to which Megan Kelly overon y'all her a little independent network thing
that she does, basically said,bring it on. You want to f
with me, bring it on?Then? Of course, you know,
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being a man, a full blownheterosexual male with an inner sixteen year old
screaming to get out at any moment, the first thing I'm thinking of,
Hang on a second, Megan Kellyand Charlie's Tharron in a cat fight.
Yikes. Now is exciting as thatmay sound to some men. For the
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sake of this discussion. Let's let'stry. Let's having a hard time doing
it well, Let's try to getthat out of her mind for just a
second and then concentrate on this instead. The Charlie's there and wants to get
into a fight with anybody who wantsto take on her opinion of drag queens
reading stories or performing in some way, shape or form for children, small
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children, five year olds, fouryear olds, even younger. Here's Liz
Wolf. Liz Wolf, by theway, isn't is a who's she worked
for? I'm trying to remember whoshe works for. She works for dog
on it around the tip of mytongue, Liz, Liz, Liz,
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Where do you work for? Anyway? She's from Plano, Texas. She's
put together an organization for concerned Texasparents as relates to these drag queen performances.
She works for a Reason magazine.That's who she works for. She
works for Reason Magazine. Here sheis making her case. I'm stopping kid
drag queen shows. This was Octoberof last year, and we do.
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I have an organization called Defend ourKids Texas, And you would think in
Texas we wouldn't have to form anorganization dedicated to stopping the sexualization of children
of all states Texas. But wehad to. And so I went in
to this brunch. It did sayon the original form all ages are welcome.
It did say, you know,we get a little raunchy, so
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we advised, but all ages arewelcome. And so I went in and
I said, I know, I'mgoing to see at least one child here,
and of course there she was.They were handing out vibrators as part
of their gifts. They were,you know, there was one of the
drag queens who was wearing a incrediblyrevealing outfit, very sheer. You could
see the bottom of her breasts justbarely covering her nipples. And this is
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this is just this is what ishappening in I really feel like I have
to emphasize this mega And I grewup in this area. This is Plano,
Texas. This is like suburbia,right, This is what you would
think to be a very red,very conservative, very reasonable when it comes
to children area. And yet Iwent there and I saw this young child
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being exploited and being sexually abused.And this is what I try to tell
people, This is not a parentalrights issue. This is a child abuse
issue. This is the sexual exploitationand abuse of children. You are infecting
their young mind that is not readyto process such images, such language,
and you're infiltrating their minds with this. Of course it's going to affect them
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mentally, and so we're fighting ithere in Texas. But it's just disgusting
how they've turned this drag queen thinginto such a cultish cultish behavior. Drag
queens are not under attack. Allwe're doing is simply asking them please stop
doing this in front of children.Only you know, they seem to not
have a problem to in front ofthe children here. But here's here's the
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chicken and the egg argument over this. You know, to get back to
parents is the problem, the dragqueen is the problem. The parents is
the problem both the dry queen andthe parents, And is the problem law
and law enforcement? Because you know, in my mind, if you have
a drag queen who's performing some sortof a sexual type show, right and
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there's a five or six or sevenyear old there, to me, that's
child abuse to subject them to that. But but the question becomes, can
we agree that that's what that isas a society, can we agree that's
what that is? What does thelaw say about it? Does a law
even have anything on the books aboutminimum age to be exposed to a drag
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queen? If you're a kid,is it strictly a parental permission thing?
You know, you could give yourfive year old permission to smoke cigarettes or
to take drugs as a parent,but you would like to think the law
would say no, that's too young. And if that's what you're doing,
then that's child abuse. So whywouldn't this come under that category of child
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abuse? And if there's something you'remissing in the law, then maybe that's
why state legislatures are taking this up. Maybe prosecutors feel like their hands or
handcuffed. Maybe the police feel liketheir hands are handcuffed. There's nothing they
can do about this, that there'sreally nothing on the books to cover it.
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And if that's the case, maybewe need to fix that. It's
a shame that we have to comeup with a very specific definition for everything
having to do with child abuse.You'd like to think you'd know it when
you see it in front of you, but evidently this must be a gray
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area. Now I'm sure that mostpolice office there's really do not want to
arrest a parent and charge them withchild abuse unless they have a really specific
reason. And normally that specific reasonis something that has really endangered that child.
And they're used to picking out thethings that can endanger a child physically,
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but I don't think they're always usedto picking out the things that can
injure a child mentally. And that'smaybe where the problem is here, trying
to determine whether or not taking yourchild to a drag queen show is child
abuse and under what circumstances is achild abuse? If we started charging more
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parents with child abuse for taking anunderage child to a not just a drag
queen reading a story, but thedrag queen performing provocatively, if we could
make that definition stick, would thatbe enough, because then parents would have
an incentive not to do it,right, because they don't lose custody of
their child and they don't want togo to jail. All right, It's
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a tough one. He really isback with Morna MoMA Jimmy Barrett Show here
at AM nine fifty kpre see TheDangers of TikTok coming up next. All
right, we're talking about trying todefine what is dangers for children. Drag
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Queen Story Hour is one of thosethings we're just talking about that. I
don't know if our next guest wantsto weigh in on that one or not.
We're just meeting for the first time, so I might not want to
throw him right into that thing.But one of the things we talked about
all the time on the show isTikTok, and it seems like every morning
on the morning show, I'm talkingabout somebody who's done something on TikTok,
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and basically for adults anyway, Ifeel like TikTok has become the kind of
the National Complaint Department. You gotsomebody you think has done you wrong,
you've got a business you don't like, you got you got for a job
interview, and you don't like theway the interview went. You go on
TikTok and you make your complaints,and you know, a couple hundred thousand
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people watch your video. In yourmind, it gives you validation of why
you're complaining, even if even ifyour complaint has no merit. Joining us
is doctor Dean Beckloffie is a licensedprofessional counselor. I've soon grew up around
Dallas, are you not, sir? Now I am, yes, that's
where I'm at. Very good.All right, let's get into let's get
into TikTok for a second. Um. I don't know how much time,
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if any, you spend on TikTok. I don't spend a whole lot of
time. But I see a lotof stories generated by TikTok, and everyone
I see is somebody bitching about something, you know what. I hate to
tell you this, but I'm old. I've never been on TikTok. I
probably need to get into account.I've seen some TikTok videos, you know,
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being being from something else. ButI was talking to my daughter and
she was kind of wistfully. She'slike thirty four, and she was wistfully
saying, man, they don't youknow, outlaw TikTok. They probably will,
but that's where I get all mynews. And I'm like, whoa,
that's that's where a lot of peopleare getting most of their news.
I guess no, you're right,that is absolutely true, and that that's
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a scary thought considering the fact thata lot of what you see on TikTok
is fabricated at best, and ithas nothing to do with real news,
right, and you know, thestuff about the effects on teens and kids,
and you know, it just looksI hate to use this word.
I don't like to you know,panic people and make people paranoid. But
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it just seems to be getting worsethe research that we're finding out about the
effects on kids and on teen brains, and especially if they're being shoveled a
ton of stuff about suicide or waitor you know, depression, and that
seems to be the three key areaswhere that that's going up in our teen
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population. Now, does your daughterknow about who runs TikTok the company and
it's ties to the Chinese Communist government? You know, I assume she does,
you know, next meet wonder Okay, okay, does that have an
impact? But you know, man, the Chinese have got a great way
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to get at our kids well.And that's and I think that's the point
of where I'm trying to go withthis. I mean, it's one thing
for thirty four year old I guessif you want to give your information up
to the Chinese Communist government, thenthat's your business. But for young people,
I mean, it's not too Itmay sound paranoid, doctor Becklaw,
but it's not too far fetched.Is it to think that, hey,
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if this is being run or thisis being reported, this information is going
to the Chinese Communist government, andwe know the Chinese Communist government is not
a friend of the United States.Is it too much to think that they
would purposely steer kids toward things topicslike suicide if they think they might be
a suicidal because after all, gettingrid of Americans is maybe one of their
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goals, one would think. Andyou know, our teens, I'm sorry,
they're vulnerable. Now, we're allvulnerable, I think, but teens
especially, their brains are growing atan amazing rate. But I think that
makes them very vulnerable. And they'rebeing fed stuff about suicide and people wanting
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to commit suicide and their depression andall of that, and that seems to
be what their feeds are getting.And that's pretty alarming. Yeah, it
is. So what is the adviceyou are giving to parents. I assume
the advice you're giving to parances thatthey better think long and hard before they
allow their teens or their younger childrento get on TikTok. Well, yeah,
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and you know, it's almost something. I think I read that in
the US, one hundred and fiftymillion people have downloaded it. And you
know, parents have got to youknow, I hate to say it,
but they got an know what's goingon. They do have to break into
their team's phone and see what's happening. Um, I remember Barbara Eden.
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Okay, you're too young for BarbaraEden. But she was, I know,
I'm not. I'm not. Imust I'm not as young as you
think I am. I'm way,I'm I'm old enough for Ginger or marry
Anne. Okay, okay, heyme too, there you go. Okay,
but um she said she lost herson to suicide tragically, and she
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said, I don't don't you everthink about privacy. You get in there,
you know what's going on with yourkid. I've never forgotten that.
And then you know, obviously thereare things that parents can do. They
can they can pair the TikTok videoover to their own so they know exactly
what's going on. And then parentshave to themselves put the phone down.
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I'm sorry, but they've got toput the phone down too, and get
outside with their teams, go dosomething outside that's going to help the brain
in so many ways. And theyhave to also help the kids to learn
how to practice restraints. A teenageris not going to stop on their own,
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so they have to learn how topractice it. And you know,
another thing, teams aren't getting enoughsleep. That's something that has to be
addressed. You know, it's anoverall picture of how do I help my
team to be as healthy as possible. And at the same time, we
don't need to be feeding them stuffabout depression and you know, suicide and
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cutting and all of the other thingsthat we know is out there. Yeah,
my kids are all grown and theirkids are the better part of growing
at this point in time, Idon't know what the discipline situation is in
your average American home. How wouldyou you and I are probably in the
same age range. How would youcompare today's parents as far as Flynn with
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let's say our parents, for example, other than night and day, we
will I won't go into that,but um, you know it varies.
You know, parents hear all kindsof confusing messages from you need to beat
them more to know, practice somerestraint and don't do anything. And so
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you know, we just try atour clinic just to help parents to have
a balanced view of how to helptheir kid and to grow them up,
and and also to realize that theirteams are vulnerable. They will tep gone
they're they're growing up, and thatgrowing up is a hard thing. So,
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yeah, you have eighteen Basically,you have eighteen years to lay some
groundwork so that when they if theydo go off to college, Lord knows,
they're going to run into a lotof stuff in college. Eithery're not
going to know what to do withor they're gonna be easily influenced to do.
So they've got to be They've gotto be prepared going in that direction.
Eighteen years is not a long timeto try to shape a human being.
It's not. And you know,I know myself that I grew up
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a lot more after I got outof the house and oh, I have
to pick up after myself. Jee, I have to wash my own clothes.
You know, things that you knowall parents do even back then,
that when you get out, that'swhen you get to do some real learning.
And we know the brain is stillgrowing until about the age of twenty
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five. Yeah, I know that. The thing I've always heard about parenting
doctor beck Off of in you know, feel free to elaborate however you want
on this is that you know,kids need to have rules, they need
to have boundaries, whatever those rulesand boundaries are going to be. And
as a parent, the most importantthing you need to be is consistent,
right right right, And you know, I mean, I hate to admit
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this, but when I was ateenager, I broke the boundaries. But
I had some consequences when that happened. But I'm telling you I did.
That's the essence of teenagers, isn'tit. They're gonna want to try to
break them of course, of course, and the essence of being a parent
is to say, I'm sorry,you broke the rules, here's the punishment.
You knew what the punishment was.And we're and and that's the deal
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that we're not we're not deviating fromthat because I think you know that we're
all easily manipulated, especially by youknow, a young team. I know
in my case, if I,thank god I had two boys, if
I had had a daughter, itwould have been lights out for me,
because I'm sure I could have beenvery easily manipulated. Girls. Bless you,
sir, bless you sir, Ilook at it this way. God
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God gave you what you could handle, and God gave me what I could
handle. And thank God he knewthe difference. All right. So here,
let's let's talk about TikTok and adultsfor just a couple of minutes,
though, because I kind of beganwith that and I know that you don't
spend time on TikTok. But youyou see what you know, you hear
what people are talking about. Youhave a thirty four year old daughter who's
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told you about what does she do? What does she post on TikTok?
Oh? You know, I haveno idea how I don't. I don't
get on TikTok. I'm as soonas she may post very little, I
don't. I know that she postssome stuff on Facebook, yeah, and
I think she uses the other Facebooksaying, uh, I don't know these
apps, but TikTok, I thinkshe just watches videos on it. Yeah.
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The thing I'm in, you knowwhat I'm there's a certain level of
voyeurism that goes along with watching thingsthat are on TikTok. And but one
of the things that I'm struck byis that, you know, like I
said, you can. You cango on TikTok and you can someone This
morning, I talked about on ourmorning program about a young woman who was
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complaining about her job interview because shehad to go in and do the interview
in person. They wouldn't let herdo it on zoom. And that's ridiculous.
Everybody uses zoom. Why do Ihave to go in in person?
And she's making this, she's doingthis, you know, she's doing like
a fifteen minute rant about these peoplethat she went in for a job interview.
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And I'm thinking, hang out asecond. I realized that zoom was
kind of handy during COVID, Butthat's all it was supposed to be.
It wasn't It wasn't supposed to bea be all to end all of interpersonal
relationships. Maybe they want to seeif you can communicate with a person in
front of you, if you canmake eye if you can make eye contact,
if you can put together a cognitivethought without looking into your cell phone
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camera. People. People just don'tseem to get that though. No,
And you know, I also wantto make sure that a point out.
You know, we got some goodkids growing up. There's some families and
I will. I hate to alwayspoint a finger to the parents, but
parents are finally important here in termsof how kids turn out. There's a
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lot of treasures on teenagers, youknow, with grades and everything and there
it's much more pressure than I hadwhen when I was growing up in terms
of grace. But they're handling itand they're coming along. We've got some
Oh man, I've got a kidwho comes in and always says, yes,
sir, well that's coming from theparents. You know. It's so
sweet to hear it. It's like, yes, sir, yes sir.
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You know you hear that very much. But no, you don't. We
got some great parents and parents whoare not obviously not only loving their kids,
but they're they're invested in their kids'lives and they're probably listening to them
and uh that and they they puttheir phones down, you know, and
we we as parents have got todo that too and model for them.
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I'm glad you said that, becauseI think we have a tendency we take
a look at you. It's notthe good things that ever get reported.
It's not the good kids that youhear about. It's the ones that are
acting up and acting out. Sothank you again for reminding us that most
of the kids who are probably beingraised are being raised right. It's just
the handful of bad ones we're hearingabout well, and there's there's sons that
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aren't. You know, there's alot of animosity. You know, I've
worked with a lot of divorced parentsand they hate each other. And these
kids are having to see that twoadults and just scream and yell and say
a nasty kinds of things about eachother. And so you know, a
parent has to step up to theplate and be an adult and a parent
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who cares. Amen. Well saidsir, Thank you. I enjoyed talking
to you today. Thanks for comingon. Take care here you bet.
Doctor Dean Beckloff, licensed professional Counselor. Back with Morna Walmed, Jimmy Barretchaw
here at am nine fifty KPRC.All right, final segment coming up today
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here at AM nine fifty KPRC.Let's talk about our last segment here.
Let's talk a little bit about theborder. First of all, um,
there was a big rush at theend of the title forty two. I
mean there's a lot of people who'vebeen coming across the border all this week.
But you know, this whole ideathat we'd have we would just be
absolutely swamped and overwhelmed to the border. I don't think it quite turned out
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to be that. Boy, I'mnot quite sure why. But I mean,
not that there aren't enough people atthe border coming in illegally. There
are. Not that we are justyou know, minimally processing these people and
sending them them to the interior.We clearly are, but it didn't quite
turn out to be as chaotic aseverybody thought it would be. Then again,
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it's only a day or two,so let's wait and see what happens
with this. Meanwhile, do youknow who April Ryan is? April Ryan,
I forget the organization she's with.I've never really heard of them.
I don't know that much of anybodyelse has heard of them either. They're
a small publication. She is theirquote unquote White House correspondent. She's an
African American female. She evidently hasn'tfigured out. Do you remember back when
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we had a bunch of Hatians atthe border and Border patrol mounted Border patrol
went after the Haitians to round themup, And there was a picture taken
of border agent on horseback with acouple of black Haitian men and the reins
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from the horse are kind of comingout, and the narrative was that they
were getting whipped, that these menwere getting whipped, and that couldn't been
further from the truth. It wasjust the reins that they were using to
try to control the horse. Theyweren't whipping anybody, you know. Finally,
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you know, the administration kind ofwent along with that narrative for a
while too, and then finally theygot proven to be wrong and they were
canted what they had said. Ithought everybody knew that, right. Evidently,
here's somebody who little late to theparty this April Ryan. She's in
a news conference that Myorchis is speakingat and she brings up the bidding of
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the Haitians, and Myriorchis has totry to straight around, and even he
couldn't straight around. So here's thatexchange, followed by reaction from Greg Gutfield.
The southern border is not just Mexicans, it is Haitians, It's Africans.
Every week, as we've seen,particularly with that issue with the Haitians
being wit with the reins or thehorses. But what is there well,
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let me just correct you right there, because actually the investigation concluded that the
whipping did not occur. I'm sorry, I saw it differently. They will
with something from the horse, rainsfrom a horse. I maybe either the
video or the picture was fixed,but what I saw was totally different.
I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm gonnaleave you as corrected. Where the hell?
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What the hell is Bene? Andshe's so virtuous wearing the mask five
years, enjoying the end of apandemic. You know it's bad when you're
getting corrected by a serial liar likemajorcas Here he is expressing his displeasure.
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Wow, but at least he finallyadmitted publicly that he got it wrong.
But Ryan still kept on it,later tweeting the photo with the caption maybe
it's just me, but I betshe's still looking for Jesse Smilet's attackers.
But let me pause here for somebreaking news. Ryan. It is just
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you, no butts. You area closed minded, incompetent dumbass. It's
just that no one had the nerveto tell you the truth because you would
cry racism. That's what sucks aboutwokeism. Everyone around you thinks they're helping
you by lying to you. Butimagine what a better journalist you could be
if people actually helped you become oneinstead of the opposite. You can't help
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her, I mean, here's commonknowledge. I mean, if she's not
aware of this, it's because shechooses not to be aware of it or
she chooses not to want to believeit. So no, you can't help
her. Hey, as longer we'retalking about Mayorcas, though one more for
you. Here he is Secretary ofMayorcas on Texas using things like you know,
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razor wire to block the border.You're seeing the pictures of this making
it more difficult for the illegals toget across. There's razor wire right on
the other side of the Rio Grandnow a lot of areas where they've been
crossing and at the very least isslowing them down. So here he is
Mayorkas on Texas blocking the border.With some reaction from Governor Greg Abbott,
we've just seen some images from Texasshowing now Texas National Guard and DPS physically
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blocking migrants from climbing up the riverbanks and accessing US soil because the department
believe that that's a legal enforcement posture. By the state of Texas. Nick,
I'm going to leave it to theour Department of Justice to speak to
the lawfulness or lack thereof of thoseactions. We have deployed some elite National
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Guard teams to respond to situations justlike that. First to put up barriers,
whether it be the razor wire thatyou saw there or other barriers,
and then have National Guard in TexasDepartment of Public Safety, either in front
of it or behind it. Ourgoal is to repel people from coming into
the country. We see locations likewhat was shown in that video, and
(37:30):
whenever we see them, we blockit. Let me harken back to December.
There was a long lineup migrants outsideof El Paso trying to get into
El Paso. When I saw thatline, we deployed a group like this
to set up a massive razor wirewall that's now eighteen miles long, and
overnight the migrants stopped flowing at thatlocation into El Paso. We've seen this
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work. We're going to repeat itas often as possible, up and down
the border. I spent about tenminutes on the tarmac the airport in al
Paso when I handed the president aletter that had in it five different things
he could do under a current Americanlaw to stop illegal immigration overnight. He
shook his head, but never respondedto me. I've sent them President eight
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letters. He has never he's neverresponded to it. So Texas, to
the full extent we can, we'retaking matters into our own hands. Well,
it'd be good to do. Isanybody in Texas manufacture razor wire?
Because it sounds like we're would bebuying a whole crapload of razor wire.
And if that's the case, it'dbe nice to be doing business with a
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company that's based right here in Texas, because I'm sure razor wire is not
cheap, but hey, if it'seffective, let's just buy some more of
it. All right, Hey,we got through a Monday together. Thank
you for listening. Sure to appreciateit. See tomorrow morning, bright and
early five am over on news radioseven forty kcr Age with Shara and then
we're back here tomorrow at four ona nine fifty k PRC
What we need is more common sensecommon We got the youth plane breaking down
the world's nonsense about how American commonsense. We'll see us through with the
common sense of Houston. I'm justpro common sense for Houston. From Houston.
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This is the Jimmy Barrett Show,brought to you by Viewin dot Com.
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. When youtook English in school, how were
you with like nouns, pro nouns, verbs, adverbs, that kind of
stuff? Were you? Were youpretty good at that? I think that
was okay, he's I recall notthat I go. But my school,
(00:47):
my school um career was not necessarilyspectacular. I mean I had my moments.
I think i'd once one semester inhigh school where I had all a's
and just one. I had afew where I had all a's and a
B plus, but I had alot more when I had a's, b's
and a couple of seas. Thatwas probably more likely. But I graduated
(01:08):
with uh, what was my greatpoint three point zero one? So that's
there. You go, a solidB student when you get right down to
it, and you know what,I'm fine with that. I'm guessing if
i'd been better at math, Icould have gotten a lot better grades.
But English was pretty easy English andin in history in those classes, and
(01:30):
I got the I got the ideabehind you know, nouns and pronouns.
That came pretty easy. That wasn'thard. But I wonder how difficult it
is now in upside down world wherepronouns are interchangeable, where you can pick
your pronoun, where he is notexactly always he his her. You know,
the he and the his and theit's getting confused. You know,
(01:55):
the he's and the hers are gettingall mixed up, and it makes something
that for some people's not an easysubject. I'm guessing it makes it even
more difficult for them. Meanwhile,you know, in school, of course,
there's nothing more difficult right now thanto be a conservative teacher. To
be a conservative teacher, even ina state like Texas, I think to
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be a conservative teacher is difficult becauseI think even in Texas you are in
the minority. Number one and numbertwo is that thanks to a student body
that is increasingly woke, and parentswho either tolerate the wokeness or maybe in
some cases encourage the wokeness, havemade it very difficult for the teachers.
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The parents. They all basically believeanything their child tells them over what the
teacher says, and it doesn't matterwhat the track record or the student is.
I would like to think that inthe case of my own kids,
I would like to think I wasa bit of a realist as far as
their ability to be completely truthful withme. I don't think I ever operated
(03:00):
under the guys that my kids wereever one hundred percent truthful with me one
hundred percent of the time, especiallyBrian. I'd like to think my dad,
who was very a student individual bythe way, as far as figuring
out character, my dad pretty muchfigured out, you know, who was
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telling the truth and who wasn't,and didn't take them long to do it.
And as a teacher by profession,there's no way he's going to take
my word for it over a teacher'sword. If he was between me and
a teacher, no matter how generallyhonest I was, I can guarantee the
adult and the teacher would have wonninety nine point nine nine percent of the
time. That's not the way itis anymore now. If a teacher upsets
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a students and the student complains tothe parent, and the parent goes to
the school. Chances are fairly goodthat the school will be as much on
the parent's side and this kid's sideas it will be on the teacher's side.
That's a very difficult place to bewhen you're when you're a teacher who
has very little recourse when it comesto displaying students to begin with. Now,
we got this teacher in Kansas.She's a conservative in Kansas, for
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the most part, it's pretty conservativestate. Right, No, maybe not
quite as conservative as Texas, butpretty conservative. You wouldn't think this would
be a problem. She's a conservativeteacher in Kansas, but she is refusing
to recognize her students pronouns. Inother words, you can go by whatever
name you want to go by,but your pronoun is your pronoun. You
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can't change your pronoun with me.And that is driving these kids to the
point that they're trying to get herfired from her job. So let's see
what the teacher has to say.The teacher, see if I can find
her name real quick. If not, I'll find it while we're listening to
the cut. Let's do that.Listen to the cut. You're gonna hear
from the teacher, the Kansas teacher, and little rebuttal on the five from
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will Caine. There is frustration insidethe buildings is pretty miserable well in many
cases. But yes, I believethat the divisiveness of the DI message is
prompting just a culture of contempt inthe building that is intolerable for many of
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us who work there and have workedthere for a long time. I will
honor anyone's subjective choice of what theyhope to call themselves in terms of their
name. I will not honor someone'sdemand that I change the English language and
what amounts to objective reality based upontheir threat. I will not use someone's
pronounced because that's just simply not true. Now. The reason I bring that
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up, though, is because thoughit's notable in the story, to me,
is the way the students are protestingand suggesting that they can get this
teacher fired. That's what's notable tome. They think they have that power.
They may not be wrong, butthey are operating based upon intimidation and
fear, and I think to thatextent, the entire movement, we're not
just talking about trands, we're talkingabout DI in general, is catering to
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people's intimidation tactics. We have apandemic of cowardice in this country. Stand
up, school district, Stand uplike this teacher, I think, stand
up and refer to people by theirproper objective pronouns. And if everybody stands
up, we'll stop descending into insanity. I've been trying to figure this out,
why it is that school systems arenot standing up against some of these
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parents and against some of these students, And the only thing I can think
of is that maybe it goes backto all these raucous school board meetings that
we've seen, right, and maybepublic schools are afraid now some of these
new members of the school board whohave gotten elected because of parents who are
upset, and they don't want toupset the apple cart. But at the
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end of the day, they havegot they've got to provide a little pushback
here. I mean, you havevery little control left of your own public
school system, and if you ifyou give the power away, especially to
the students being you want to talkabout the ultimate inmates running the asylum,
you can't the kids to run thehigh schools, or things are going to
get really, really, really bad. All right, quick little break back
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with born a Mom, a JimmyBarrett Show on the Monday here on the
nine fifty KPRC. All right,I think this will make a pretty good
segment segue, whether from segment onehere where you're talking about, you know,
kids in the schools having too muchcontrol. It seems these days,
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the inmates running the asylum, theparents helping the kids run the asylum,
and then the school systems. Rightnow that maybe because of all these rocket
school board beings they've heard so muchabout, who are afraid to be in
charge of their own schools, theyjust don't want any pushback from parents,
so they take they take the pathof least resistance. Now, there are
some who probably like this idea,but what's interesting to me is the schools
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that are doing this, the onesthat are most inclined to go the path
of least resistance, are the schoolsystems They generally don't have a problem with
really progressive, woke curriculum, butthey're just as afraid. They're even more
afraid the ones that like Loudon County, Virginia, for example, the ones
that were already militant, they've remainedmilitant. They haven't changed, They aren't
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letting some conservative school board members impacttheir world at all. They're doing what
they want to do, only thewords it seemed to be affected by this.
Interestingly enough, are the more conservativeschool districts, the ones where you
would like to think they'd fight thegood fight to keep parents happy by providing
a little bit of discipline, bynot allowing the kids to run rough shot
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over the school, by not allowingparents who allow their kids to run rough
shot over them to run rough shotover the school. But right now that
doesn't seem to be the case.Okay, as long as around the topic
of kids, let's get to youngerkids. High school's one thing, middle
schools another thing. Elementary school,but we're talking about even younger than that
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drag queen story hours. You know, there's been a lot of state legislatures
that have taken some action on thesedrag queen story hours, on the ability
for drag queens to get access toreally small children. And I'm not even
talking about the drag queens are justdressing up and straightforward reading a nursery rhyme,
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for example. Although I'm not anendorser of that either, but we've
got some of these drag queen performersthat are showing up. They are putting
on shows that they call they're notcalling them family friendly to their credit.
In fact, a lot of themare saying there are some things in here,
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the little risque, but everybody's welcome. You can bring anybody you want.
So here's my question. Should myconcern, your concern be over the
fact that there's some of these showsthat exist and there are kids who attend
these shows, or should our concernbe with the fact that the show exists,
or should our concern be with theparents those few parents that bring their
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children to these shows who clearly haveno problem with their child being indoctated for
whatever reason? Is that child abuse? Should it be no to this child
abuse? Should we be going afterthese parents because right now we seem to
be more concentrating on the drag queensthey are on the parents who bring their
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small children to these shows. Eitherway, the topic came up. You
know, there was in Hollywood therewas a telethon for drag queens where they
raised over a half a million dollarsand they had some celebrities who came by,
one of which is Charlie's theren ortheir own. I'm not sure how
she pronounces it. I've heard itpronounced so many different ways now I can't
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even keep it straight. But youknow how I'm talking about, right,
the actress very pretty, which isneither here nor there. Pretty on the
outside, but a little ugly onthe inside. And she got up to
speak, I guess during this telethonand basically said, the problems aren't the
drag queens. The problems are therest of you people who have a problem
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with drag queens. You're the problem, and f you and blah blah blah,
and I will f up anybody whowants to take me on on this
topic, to which Megan Kelly overon y'all her a little independent network thing
that she does, basically said,bring it on. You want to f
with me, bring it on?Then? Of course, you know,
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being a man, a full blownheterosexual male with an inner sixteen year old
screaming to get out at any moment, the first thing I'm thinking of,
Hang on a second, Megan Kellyand Charlie's Tharron in a cat fight.
Yikes. Now is exciting as thatmay sound to some men. For the
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sake of this discussion. Let's let'stry. Let's having a hard time doing
it well, Let's try to getthat out of her mind for just a
second and then concentrate on this instead. The Charlie's there and wants to get
into a fight with anybody who wantsto take on her opinion of drag queens
reading stories or performing in some way, shape or form for children, small
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children, five year olds, fouryear olds, even younger. Here's Liz
Wolf. Liz Wolf, by theway, isn't is a who's she worked
for? I'm trying to remember whoshe works for. She works for dog
on it around the tip of mytongue, Liz, Liz, Liz,
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Where do you work for? Anyway? She's from Plano, Texas. She's
put together an organization for concerned Texasparents as relates to these drag queen performances.
She works for a Reason magazine.That's who she works for. She
works for Reason Magazine. Here sheis making her case. I'm stopping kid
drag queen shows. This was Octoberof last year, and we do.
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I have an organization called Defend ourKids Texas, And you would think in
Texas we wouldn't have to form anorganization dedicated to stopping the sexualization of children
of all states Texas. But wehad to. And so I went in
to this brunch. It did sayon the original form all ages are welcome.
It did say, you know,we get a little raunchy, so
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we advised, but all ages arewelcome. And so I went in and
I said, I know, I'mgoing to see at least one child here,
and of course there she was.They were handing out vibrators as part
of their gifts. They were,you know, there was one of the
drag queens who was wearing a incrediblyrevealing outfit, very sheer. You could
see the bottom of her breasts justbarely covering her nipples. And this is
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this is just this is what ishappening in I really feel like I have
to emphasize this mega And I grewup in this area. This is Plano,
Texas. This is like suburbia,right, This is what you would
think to be a very red,very conservative, very reasonable when it comes
to children area. And yet Iwent there and I saw this young child
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being exploited and being sexually abused.And this is what I try to tell
people, This is not a parentalrights issue. This is a child abuse
issue. This is the sexual exploitationand abuse of children. You are infecting
their young mind that is not readyto process such images, such language,
and you're infiltrating their minds with this. Of course it's going to affect them
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mentally, and so we're fighting ithere in Texas. But it's just disgusting
how they've turned this drag queen thinginto such a cultish cultish behavior. Drag
queens are not under attack. Allwe're doing is simply asking them please stop
doing this in front of children.Only you know, they seem to not
have a problem to in front ofthe children here. But here's here's the
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chicken and the egg argument over this. You know, to get back to
parents is the problem, the dragqueen is the problem. The parents is
the problem both the dry queen andthe parents, And is the problem law
and law enforcement? Because you know, in my mind, if you have
a drag queen who's performing some sortof a sexual type show, right and
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there's a five or six or sevenyear old there, to me, that's
child abuse to subject them to that. But but the question becomes, can
we agree that that's what that isas a society, can we agree that's
what that is? What does thelaw say about it? Does a law
even have anything on the books aboutminimum age to be exposed to a drag
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queen? If you're a kid,is it strictly a parental permission thing?
You know, you could give yourfive year old permission to smoke cigarettes or
to take drugs as a parent,but you would like to think the law
would say no, that's too young. And if that's what you're doing,
then that's child abuse. So whywouldn't this come under that category of child
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abuse? And if there's something you'remissing in the law, then maybe that's
why state legislatures are taking this up. Maybe prosecutors feel like their hands or
handcuffed. Maybe the police feel liketheir hands are handcuffed. There's nothing they
can do about this, that there'sreally nothing on the books to cover it.
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And if that's the case, maybewe need to fix that. It's
a shame that we have to comeup with a very specific definition for everything
having to do with child abuse.You'd like to think you'd know it when
you see it in front of you, but evidently this must be a gray
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area. Now I'm sure that mostpolice office there's really do not want to
arrest a parent and charge them withchild abuse unless they have a really specific
reason. And normally that specific reasonis something that has really endangered that child.
And they're used to picking out thethings that can endanger a child physically,
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but I don't think they're always usedto picking out the things that can
injure a child mentally. And that'smaybe where the problem is here, trying
to determine whether or not taking yourchild to a drag queen show is child
abuse and under what circumstances is achild abuse? If we started charging more
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parents with child abuse for taking anunderage child to a not just a drag
queen reading a story, but thedrag queen performing provocatively, if we could
make that definition stick, would thatbe enough, because then parents would have
an incentive not to do it,right, because they don't lose custody of
their child and they don't want togo to jail. All right, It's
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a tough one. He really isback with Morna MoMA Jimmy Barrett Show here
at AM nine fifty kpre see TheDangers of TikTok coming up next. All
right, we're talking about trying todefine what is dangers for children. Drag
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Queen Story Hour is one of thosethings we're just talking about that. I
don't know if our next guest wantsto weigh in on that one or not.
We're just meeting for the first time, so I might not want to
throw him right into that thing.But one of the things we talked about
all the time on the show isTikTok, and it seems like every morning
on the morning show, I'm talkingabout somebody who's done something on TikTok,
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and basically for adults anyway, Ifeel like TikTok has become the kind of
the National Complaint Department. You gotsomebody you think has done you wrong,
you've got a business you don't like, you got you got for a job
interview, and you don't like theway the interview went. You go on
TikTok and you make your complaints,and you know, a couple hundred thousand
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people watch your video. In yourmind, it gives you validation of why
you're complaining, even if even ifyour complaint has no merit. Joining us
is doctor Dean Beckloffie is a licensedprofessional counselor. I've soon grew up around
Dallas, are you not, sir? Now I am, yes, that's
where I'm at. Very good.All right, let's get into let's get
into TikTok for a second. Um. I don't know how much time,
(19:29):
if any, you spend on TikTok. I don't spend a whole lot of
time. But I see a lotof stories generated by TikTok, and everyone
I see is somebody bitching about something, you know what. I hate to
tell you this, but I'm old. I've never been on TikTok. I
probably need to get into account.I've seen some TikTok videos, you know,
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being being from something else. ButI was talking to my daughter and
she was kind of wistfully. She'slike thirty four, and she was wistfully
saying, man, they don't youknow, outlaw TikTok. They probably will,
but that's where I get all mynews. And I'm like, whoa,
that's that's where a lot of peopleare getting most of their news.
I guess no, you're right,that is absolutely true, and that that's
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a scary thought considering the fact thata lot of what you see on TikTok
is fabricated at best, and ithas nothing to do with real news,
right, and you know, thestuff about the effects on teens and kids,
and you know, it just looksI hate to use this word.
I don't like to you know,panic people and make people paranoid. But
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it just seems to be getting worsethe research that we're finding out about the
effects on kids and on teen brains, and especially if they're being shoveled a
ton of stuff about suicide or waitor you know, depression, and that
seems to be the three key areaswhere that that's going up in our teen
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population. Now, does your daughterknow about who runs TikTok the company and
it's ties to the Chinese Communist government? You know, I assume she does,
you know, next meet wonder Okay, okay, does that have an
impact? But you know, man, the Chinese have got a great way
(21:19):
to get at our kids well.And that's and I think that's the point
of where I'm trying to go withthis. I mean, it's one thing
for thirty four year old I guessif you want to give your information up
to the Chinese Communist government, thenthat's your business. But for young people,
I mean, it's not too Itmay sound paranoid, doctor Becklaw,
but it's not too far fetched.Is it to think that, hey,
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if this is being run or thisis being reported, this information is going
to the Chinese Communist government, andwe know the Chinese Communist government is not
a friend of the United States.Is it too much to think that they
would purposely steer kids toward things topicslike suicide if they think they might be
a suicidal because after all, gettingrid of Americans is maybe one of their
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goals, one would think. Andyou know, our teens, I'm sorry,
they're vulnerable. Now, we're allvulnerable, I think, but teens
especially, their brains are growing atan amazing rate. But I think that
makes them very vulnerable. And they'rebeing fed stuff about suicide and people wanting
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to commit suicide and their depression andall of that, and that seems to
be what their feeds are getting.And that's pretty alarming. Yeah, it
is. So what is the adviceyou are giving to parents. I assume
the advice you're giving to parances thatthey better think long and hard before they
allow their teens or their younger childrento get on TikTok. Well, yeah,
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and you know, it's almost something. I think I read that in
the US, one hundred and fiftymillion people have downloaded it. And you
know, parents have got to youknow, I hate to say it,
but they got an know what's goingon. They do have to break into
their team's phone and see what's happening. Um, I remember Barbara Eden.
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Okay, you're too young for BarbaraEden. But she was, I know,
I'm not. I'm not. Imust I'm not as young as you
think I am. I'm way,I'm I'm old enough for Ginger or marry
Anne. Okay, okay, heyme too, there you go. Okay,
but um she said she lost herson to suicide tragically, and she
(23:30):
said, I don't don't you everthink about privacy. You get in there,
you know what's going on with yourkid. I've never forgotten that.
And then you know, obviously thereare things that parents can do. They
can they can pair the TikTok videoover to their own so they know exactly
what's going on. And then parentshave to themselves put the phone down.
(23:53):
I'm sorry, but they've got toput the phone down too, and get
outside with their teams, go dosomething outside that's going to help the brain
in so many ways. And theyhave to also help the kids to learn
how to practice restraints. A teenageris not going to stop on their own,
(24:14):
so they have to learn how topractice it. And you know,
another thing, teams aren't getting enoughsleep. That's something that has to be
addressed. You know, it's anoverall picture of how do I help my
team to be as healthy as possible. And at the same time, we
don't need to be feeding them stuffabout depression and you know, suicide and
(24:38):
cutting and all of the other thingsthat we know is out there. Yeah,
my kids are all grown and theirkids are the better part of growing
at this point in time, Idon't know what the discipline situation is in
your average American home. How wouldyou you and I are probably in the
same age range. How would youcompare today's parents as far as Flynn with
(25:00):
let's say our parents, for example, other than night and day, we
will I won't go into that,but um, you know it varies.
You know, parents hear all kindsof confusing messages from you need to beat
them more to know, practice somerestraint and don't do anything. And so
(25:26):
you know, we just try atour clinic just to help parents to have
a balanced view of how to helptheir kid and to grow them up,
and and also to realize that theirteams are vulnerable. They will tep gone
they're they're growing up, and thatgrowing up is a hard thing. So,
(25:47):
yeah, you have eighteen Basically,you have eighteen years to lay some
groundwork so that when they if theydo go off to college, Lord knows,
they're going to run into a lotof stuff in college. Eithery're not
going to know what to do withor they're gonna be easily influenced to do.
So they've got to be They've gotto be prepared going in that direction.
Eighteen years is not a long timeto try to shape a human being.
It's not. And you know,I know myself that I grew up
(26:08):
a lot more after I got outof the house and oh, I have
to pick up after myself. Jee, I have to wash my own clothes.
You know, things that you knowall parents do even back then,
that when you get out, that'swhen you get to do some real learning.
And we know the brain is stillgrowing until about the age of twenty
(26:30):
five. Yeah, I know that. The thing I've always heard about parenting
doctor beck Off of in you know, feel free to elaborate however you want
on this is that you know,kids need to have rules, they need
to have boundaries, whatever those rulesand boundaries are going to be. And
as a parent, the most importantthing you need to be is consistent,
right right right, And you know, I mean, I hate to admit
(26:56):
this, but when I was ateenager, I broke the boundaries. But
I had some consequences when that happened. But I'm telling you I did.
That's the essence of teenagers, isn'tit. They're gonna want to try to
break them of course, of course, and the essence of being a parent
is to say, I'm sorry,you broke the rules, here's the punishment.
You knew what the punishment was.And we're and and that's the deal
(27:19):
that we're not we're not deviating fromthat because I think you know that we're
all easily manipulated, especially by youknow, a young team. I know
in my case, if I,thank god I had two boys, if
I had had a daughter, itwould have been lights out for me,
because I'm sure I could have beenvery easily manipulated. Girls. Bless you,
sir, bless you sir, Ilook at it this way. God
(27:41):
God gave you what you could handle, and God gave me what I could
handle. And thank God he knewthe difference. All right. So here,
let's let's talk about TikTok and adultsfor just a couple of minutes,
though, because I kind of beganwith that and I know that you don't
spend time on TikTok. But youyou see what you know, you hear
what people are talking about. Youhave a thirty four year old daughter who's
(28:03):
told you about what does she do? What does she post on TikTok?
Oh? You know, I haveno idea how I don't. I don't
get on TikTok. I'm as soonas she may post very little, I
don't. I know that she postssome stuff on Facebook, yeah, and
I think she uses the other Facebooksaying, uh, I don't know these
apps, but TikTok, I thinkshe just watches videos on it. Yeah.
(28:27):
The thing I'm in, you knowwhat I'm there's a certain level of
voyeurism that goes along with watching thingsthat are on TikTok. And but one
of the things that I'm struck byis that, you know, like I
said, you can. You cango on TikTok and you can someone This
morning, I talked about on ourmorning program about a young woman who was
(28:47):
complaining about her job interview because shehad to go in and do the interview
in person. They wouldn't let herdo it on zoom. And that's ridiculous.
Everybody uses zoom. Why do Ihave to go in in person?
And she's making this, she's doingthis, you know, she's doing like
a fifteen minute rant about these peoplethat she went in for a job interview.
(29:08):
And I'm thinking, hang out asecond. I realized that zoom was
kind of handy during COVID, Butthat's all it was supposed to be.
It wasn't It wasn't supposed to bea be all to end all of interpersonal
relationships. Maybe they want to seeif you can communicate with a person in
front of you, if you canmake eye if you can make eye contact,
if you can put together a cognitivethought without looking into your cell phone
(29:32):
camera. People. People just don'tseem to get that though. No,
And you know, I also wantto make sure that a point out.
You know, we got some goodkids growing up. There's some families and
I will. I hate to alwayspoint a finger to the parents, but
parents are finally important here in termsof how kids turn out. There's a
(29:55):
lot of treasures on teenagers, youknow, with grades and everything and there
it's much more pressure than I hadwhen when I was growing up in terms
of grace. But they're handling itand they're coming along. We've got some
Oh man, I've got a kidwho comes in and always says, yes,
sir, well that's coming from theparents. You know. It's so
sweet to hear it. It's like, yes, sir, yes sir.
(30:18):
You know you hear that very much. But no, you don't. We
got some great parents and parents whoare not obviously not only loving their kids,
but they're they're invested in their kids'lives and they're probably listening to them
and uh that and they they puttheir phones down, you know, and
we we as parents have got todo that too and model for them.
(30:42):
I'm glad you said that, becauseI think we have a tendency we take
a look at you. It's notthe good things that ever get reported.
It's not the good kids that youhear about. It's the ones that are
acting up and acting out. Sothank you again for reminding us that most
of the kids who are probably beingraised are being raised right. It's just
the handful of bad ones we're hearingabout well, and there's there's sons that
(31:02):
aren't. You know, there's alot of animosity. You know, I've
worked with a lot of divorced parentsand they hate each other. And these
kids are having to see that twoadults and just scream and yell and say
a nasty kinds of things about eachother. And so you know, a
parent has to step up to theplate and be an adult and a parent
(31:23):
who cares. Amen. Well saidsir, Thank you. I enjoyed talking
to you today. Thanks for comingon. Take care here you bet.
Doctor Dean Beckloff, licensed professional Counselor. Back with Morna Walmed, Jimmy Barretchaw
here at am nine fifty KPRC.All right, final segment coming up today
(31:49):
here at AM nine fifty KPRC.Let's talk about our last segment here.
Let's talk a little bit about theborder. First of all, um,
there was a big rush at theend of the title forty two. I
mean there's a lot of people who'vebeen coming across the border all this week.
But you know, this whole ideathat we'd have we would just be
absolutely swamped and overwhelmed to the border. I don't think it quite turned out
(32:15):
to be that. Boy, I'mnot quite sure why. But I mean,
not that there aren't enough people atthe border coming in illegally. There
are. Not that we are justyou know, minimally processing these people and
sending them them to the interior.We clearly are, but it didn't quite
turn out to be as chaotic aseverybody thought it would be. Then again,
(32:37):
it's only a day or two,so let's wait and see what happens
with this. Meanwhile, do youknow who April Ryan is? April Ryan,
I forget the organization she's with.I've never really heard of them.
I don't know that much of anybodyelse has heard of them either. They're
a small publication. She is theirquote unquote White House correspondent. She's an
African American female. She evidently hasn'tfigured out. Do you remember back when
(33:07):
we had a bunch of Hatians atthe border and Border patrol mounted Border patrol
went after the Haitians to round themup, And there was a picture taken
of border agent on horseback with acouple of black Haitian men and the reins
(33:27):
from the horse are kind of comingout, and the narrative was that they
were getting whipped, that these menwere getting whipped, and that couldn't been
further from the truth. It wasjust the reins that they were using to
try to control the horse. Theyweren't whipping anybody, you know. Finally,
(33:47):
you know, the administration kind ofwent along with that narrative for a
while too, and then finally theygot proven to be wrong and they were
canted what they had said. Ithought everybody knew that, right. Evidently,
here's somebody who little late to theparty this April Ryan. She's in
a news conference that Myorchis is speakingat and she brings up the bidding of
(34:08):
the Haitians, and Myriorchis has totry to straight around, and even he
couldn't straight around. So here's thatexchange, followed by reaction from Greg Gutfield.
The southern border is not just Mexicans, it is Haitians, It's Africans.
Every week, as we've seen,particularly with that issue with the Haitians
being wit with the reins or thehorses. But what is there well,
(34:30):
let me just correct you right there, because actually the investigation concluded that the
whipping did not occur. I'm sorry, I saw it differently. They will
with something from the horse, rainsfrom a horse. I maybe either the
video or the picture was fixed,but what I saw was totally different.
I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm gonnaleave you as corrected. Where the hell?
(34:55):
What the hell is Bene? Andshe's so virtuous wearing the mask five
years, enjoying the end of apandemic. You know it's bad when you're
getting corrected by a serial liar likemajorcas Here he is expressing his displeasure.
(35:15):
Wow, but at least he finallyadmitted publicly that he got it wrong.
But Ryan still kept on it,later tweeting the photo with the caption maybe
it's just me, but I betshe's still looking for Jesse Smilet's attackers.
But let me pause here for somebreaking news. Ryan. It is just
(35:36):
you, no butts. You area closed minded, incompetent dumbass. It's
just that no one had the nerveto tell you the truth because you would
cry racism. That's what sucks aboutwokeism. Everyone around you thinks they're helping
you by lying to you. Butimagine what a better journalist you could be
if people actually helped you become oneinstead of the opposite. You can't help
(35:57):
her, I mean, here's commonknowledge. I mean, if she's not
aware of this, it's because shechooses not to be aware of it or
she chooses not to want to believeit. So no, you can't help
her. Hey, as longer we'retalking about Mayorcas, though one more for
you. Here he is Secretary ofMayorcas on Texas using things like you know,
(36:19):
razor wire to block the border.You're seeing the pictures of this making
it more difficult for the illegals toget across. There's razor wire right on
the other side of the Rio Grandnow a lot of areas where they've been
crossing and at the very least isslowing them down. So here he is
Mayorkas on Texas blocking the border.With some reaction from Governor Greg Abbott,
we've just seen some images from Texasshowing now Texas National Guard and DPS physically
(36:43):
blocking migrants from climbing up the riverbanks and accessing US soil because the department
believe that that's a legal enforcement posture. By the state of Texas. Nick,
I'm going to leave it to theour Department of Justice to speak to
the lawfulness or lack thereof of thoseactions. We have deployed some elite National
(37:07):
Guard teams to respond to situations justlike that. First to put up barriers,
whether it be the razor wire thatyou saw there or other barriers,
and then have National Guard in TexasDepartment of Public Safety, either in front
of it or behind it. Ourgoal is to repel people from coming into
the country. We see locations likewhat was shown in that video, and
(37:30):
whenever we see them, we blockit. Let me harken back to December.
There was a long lineup migrants outsideof El Paso trying to get into
El Paso. When I saw thatline, we deployed a group like this
to set up a massive razor wirewall that's now eighteen miles long, and
overnight the migrants stopped flowing at thatlocation into El Paso. We've seen this
(37:52):
work. We're going to repeat itas often as possible, up and down
the border. I spent about tenminutes on the tarmac the airport in al
Paso when I handed the president aletter that had in it five different things
he could do under a current Americanlaw to stop illegal immigration overnight. He
shook his head, but never respondedto me. I've sent them President eight
(38:14):
letters. He has never he's neverresponded to it. So Texas, to
the full extent we can, we'retaking matters into our own hands. Well,
it'd be good to do. Isanybody in Texas manufacture razor wire?
Because it sounds like we're would bebuying a whole crapload of razor wire.
And if that's the case, it'dbe nice to be doing business with a
(38:34):
company that's based right here in Texas, because I'm sure razor wire is not
cheap, but hey, if it'seffective, let's just buy some more of
it. All right, Hey,we got through a Monday together. Thank
you for listening. Sure to appreciateit. See tomorrow morning, bright and
early five am over on news radioseven forty kcr Age with Shara and then
we're back here tomorrow at four ona nine fifty k PRC
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