September 30, 2025 • 39 mins
In this episode of the Good Ole Boys radio show, we explore the dynamics of blended families through the lens of the iconic Brady Bunch. Join THE! Mario Washington, Q Kittles, Black Trump and Gran Wiz as they share personal stories and insights on the challenges and rewards of merging families. From sibling rivalries to the importance of communication, this episode is packed with real talk about creating harmony in a blended family setting. Tune in for a heartfelt discussion that highlights the beauty of family connections, no matter how they come together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
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the Mario Washington, Q.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Kittles, Black Trump Wiz.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yes, back in the house once more talking about that
actual factual as only the Good Old Boys know how
to bring it to you.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
And we're just.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Gonna go ahead and jump in because this is this
is one of those shows where the music is long,
so we ain't got that much time to be talking
on it. So but this show was we call it
this the Bratty Bunch of this show, of the Little
Boys Radio Show. And uh, we used to watch the
Brady Busch Trump. You watched the Brady Busch, did.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
You, Yeah, when it would come on TBS in afternoon,
like four thirty five.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You watch a little bit of too.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
They ain't never had a black version of The Brady
Bunch on TV, did they?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
What are the odds of that happening in real life?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's that's that's why we're doing this show today.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Well, well it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
It wasn't technically like the Brady Bunch, but the first
blended family was all of us that the Will and show.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be forgetting about that
show sometimes.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we forgot about that. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
They have other things that are happening in their lives nowadays.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah. Was it Tony Rock on that show? Tony Rock? Uh,
that's crazy. I forgot a real name?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
You said, diving up? Lisa Ray?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Lisa Ray?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Yeah, I never really watched that show either, But Dwayne
Martin was a Star Wars right.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Relationship started, well, it was alreadys friends before that.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I guess man said that Daye was in the Chiller
him straight murderer him.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Well, I ain't ever see that, dude, No, we don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
They just wanted to sweep it under the rug. Hope
people forget all about it.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Hey, it's hard to forget that with man in this age,
like that's that's all that's viralized.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
If that's ALLRD.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, yeah, now, but so we we were talking about
Brady Bunchet. We're talking about like putting together a family
man blended family, so to speak. And I don't know
if it's something that you could do today successfully the
way that that show portrayed. And then if you go
to the nineties, it was portrayed again by my man
Patrick Duffy a k a.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Bobby Ewing and uh as.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Suzanne Summers on a show called Step by Step.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Now that was my joint. I watched it about that.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, so, but but again never never people that look
like us and in a show like This Man, And
it's happened a little bit, I guess, and in real
life not not when you're talking about six six chilling though, Yeah,
six chilling is a lot, bron.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
I see it happening all the time with more children
than that. Most I've seen was twenty five twenty five. Yeah,
it was spread out across two wives.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
And all they all live in the same house together.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
No, they have their own each wife has their own home.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Oh so that's that's not what we talk You gotta
be a the same roof.
Speaker 9 (03:57):
I've never seen it with the same roof.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Yeah, I don't even see that from regular black families
that I know have step siblings.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
It's still not under the same roof.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, yeah, No, it's uh, it's it's it's something matter.
I think it's difficult to manage and uh and uh.
On today's show, we're going to talk about how you
manage that, the benefits of doing it, the struggles of
doing it, and and and all the stuff that can
come about in these situations.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
All of the music is about.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Family and and and and being happy with your family
and and and and and doing everything with the kids
and all that type of stuff. Man back on the
Little Boys Forecast Media Radio Network, we're talking about that
Brady Bunch, so from a kid's perspective and and and
we don't have to talk about it from the standpoint
of Brady bunching it. But just when a parent is
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dating again, uh and and and then you like move
in together. Maybe because I know that I never experienced
that as a child, but I've I've witnessed other people
experienced this and stuff like that, and then you got
like these new siblings and all this type of stuff. Man,
and then you got these these rivalries that are created
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amongst the siblings because you have these challenges of the
step parent coming in and all of this type of stuff.
So I guess Q, you can start with this, man, like,
how do you manage those those sibling rivalries in particular
once you have two families merged like that.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I mean, it's it's honestly, it's no different than when
you have cousins, man, and everybody go to grandma house.
It's like we're human at the end of the day.
It's it's just a matter of learning each other's ways
and figure out where you fit in where you don't.
You know, it's going to be risks because you're now family.
You're all in the one household, and you're you're going
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to be coming across each other on a regular basis.
So it's a must for the the well being of
the household, you know, to get along for the most part,
or at least be cordial. I don't know if there's
any real blueprint or anything to.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Go about it.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
It's just I've seen it happen with cousins, you know,
in that sense, like my younger cousins who they grew
up around each other. More like when I was coming up,
it was just me, you know, like four of us
really that would come.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Up on the weekends and be all together, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
So within a household, I just I don't know. I
haven't experienced that with myself. I mean, my mom dated,
but you know Roosevelt, his dad on his child stayed
with his previous wife or whatever. So we never had
it all under the same household like that. When my
dad remarried, the kids was over there. I know, my
brother and sister, but it was it was never a
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blending of families in that aspect, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yeah, that's my only take on it. I really don't.
I don't know if people, you.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Know, you mad.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
You might be upset because your your mom is remarried,
you might be upset because you're moving, and these are
all things you're going to have to deal with. But
the fact is that you're in a situation now, and
is you got to add out the wrinkles and stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, I mean, just looking at you know, from the
perspective of the kid kids are you know, comfortable in
their environment, and like any change is difficult to adapt to.
So if you're used to living with your siblings, your
biological siblings and your parent, and then you move into
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this this other household where the kids already have their
bedrooms or their their system and how they they you know, maneuver,
and you have to adapt to that, and there's pushback.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And you're used to.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Eating certain foods for breakfast and they don't go, they
don't do all of that, Like we have a different
diet here. Like, it's a lot of adjusting and it's hard.
So I think that there has to be a lot
of a lot of talking, a lot of understanding, a
lot of adapting from all angles, both parents, all of
the kids, in order to make sure that this transition
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is comfortable.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
I mean, you think about it, like even like I
have one of my brothers, man with my brother, he
has four kids. At one point it was five of
them over there, even in just a regular household, you're
going to experience that again with the kids. I want
that corner room, I want this room. And again as
a family, these are things I think that you're saying
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from a child's point of view that you're always going
to deal with until you come of age and be
able to do things on your own.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Night. You got different. I don't want pizza to night.
I want to have this.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
And it's just the parents having to figure out this
and that it's just a different day and age from
when we grew up. Guys on some realness, Like Mama cooked,
if you don't eat, if you don't like what she cooked,
then you just don't eat. Bro, you better go in
there and fix a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or something.
But it wouldn't know, Well he don't like this. Let
me let me make him something special. Let me put
something aside for such and such. Nah bro, we even
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meat loaf and potatoes tonight with green beans.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
That sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I want to, like, you know, I want carrots instead,
Nah bro? We having me loa? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So when you're in when you were a child in
a situation like this and then you have the parent,
the step parent, you know, trying to discipline you, Like,
how do you react though, like as a child, like
when we're like somebody that's not your mom or not
your dad and they're trying to tell you what to do.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Like and you're like ten years old, like I you know.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Now when now again, as as a child, I'm sorry,
you know, I got experiences I don't know, but yo,
as a child, it was like me and Roosevelt had
the conversation later in life, you know, before he passed away,
you know, so we talked about stuff, and it was
as a child. It it's just me being angry that
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he ate my dad, Like, who are you to tell
me what to do? So I was on some hard
headedness not really listening, when in actuality, I learned a
lot from dude, you know what I'm saying. As I've
gotten older and I look back on things that I've
learned and what I know how to do, I learned
a lot from him.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
But at the time it was just me being an angry.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
God trying to figure out, well, damn while my dad
ain't over here, and why he wasn't this, and why
he wasn't that. I was trying to compare. I was
in my head with the comparison. So I guess that's
that's going to have a lot to play it in
the sense of how did the mother and father split,
How was the relationship with the child and things of
that nature when they're transitioning into that new light.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Well, I got my first stepfather when I was seven
years old, and as far as the discipline goes, I
thought it was a joke.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
I didn't really process.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
It well at all looking back on it, you know,
I listened biggrudgingly, But I thought it was a joke
because I thought my mom was a joke if she
was not a discipline every she didn't have discipline or
in stealing much at all. So when he came around,
he would come down to visit from New Jersey and
stay with us for like like three weeks at a time,
right because he had a job.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
If they he couldn't just leave.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
And whenever she would come around, she would my mother
would start acting funny, like she would start talking to
us with basing her voice in a chest out.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
I'm like, why are you trying to act show off.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
In front of this dude? This is funny. I found
this funny. He'll come in a room and tell us,
your mother says, you're playing that game too much, because
we had a Sega genesis, and we'd be like, man,
we ain't playing.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
It too much.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
You got to understand where we live, there's nothing else
going on, and this is our only form of entertainment.
I mean, and he'd be like, yeah, but she said
you got to turn it off. I'm like, man, she
would not do that if you weren't here. So I
thought it was the pig fall in that is, the
original parrot can completely abjucate their responsibility and dump it
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all in the lap of the step parrot.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
And all that does.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Is it completely eradicates any respect that the people had
for you. Because when you advocate your responsibility at tump
it on somebody who just got there, that makes you
look really weak.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
And that's how I looked at my mother.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
How did that change your overtime?
Speaker 9 (12:09):
Though for you it never did. He just I just
went off to college and then he died.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's extremely.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
That sounds pretty harsh, lose realistic.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
To expect a man or a woman to just instantly
be thrown into a situation and expected to discipline a
child that you know you haven't spent time with, like
as a kid, like I was about the same age
as Whiz. When you know, my adoptive father came into
the pitchure. I was like five or six years old,
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and if you know, I was spoiled. I was only
I was the only grandchild, so I was We were
living with my grandfather and my aunts and uncles at
the time, so I always got my way. So there's
no way that all of a sudden, We're going to
move in with my adoptive father and I'm going to
be disciplined and you know, take heed to whatever he's
trying to instill me. Like it's gonna take time, but
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when you have the right people involved, it doesn't matter
how long. Like he was, he was down for the cause,
and he wasn't gonna gonna turn around and run and
give up. So yeah, all of those lessons, you know,
paid off in dividend, paid paid off in space, because
like he was loyal to to my mom and to me,
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and as a result, I grew to respect him.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
And he was military, so I know that that was like,
oh some light.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Oh yeah, I got miss mass with him.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
I think Trump said amazing in that aspect in regards
to the patience that comes with it from the adults
point of view.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well say say that, say say that thought, and we
will talk about from the adult's perspective when we come
back back going to Good Ole Boys Forecast Media Radio Network,
we're talking about that Brady Bunch, and we talked about
the struggles of a kid's perspective in the first segment.
Now we'll take a look at it from the adult
perspective and the parenting perspective.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And you you were saying before we went to this
last break.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Yeah, it's it's definitely when you're when you're coming into
that situation and kids are are already involved, it's more
of a you're not coming in trying to be, you know,
king of all and it's your way or no way.
You're you're trying to see how they maneuver in the
in the current situation. Like Wiz was speaking earlier, like
I don't I don't know if your stepfather came in
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and sat back for a while and watch how your
mother was handling and maybe they had a conversation, and
like you're saying, your mother was never that person, so
she felt uncomfortable in that state, maybe you know, and
that's why he was coming at you. And again you're
not accustomed to it. So okay, whatever, my mom, I
don't hear whatever, whatever. But even in my situation coming
in and there were kids involved. I just sat back
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and watched how they were maneuvering before I interjected myself
and to say, well, maybe they should do this, so listen,
y'all not gonna continuously do this or they I see
how they were possibly uh, just not listening to their
mom or thinking their mom was playing around, things of
that nature. So I had to interject at that point,
you know. But it was never just coming in and
trying to run things on yours because you're coming into
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a group now and it's not just you, so.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
It seems there's half the talk the parents talk.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So so I've always been of the perspective that as
an adult coming into a relationship and you got young kids, like,
it's not really the job of that step parent to
handle a ton of discipline initially, especially like because you
know your job is to like support the custodial parent more.
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I think in the early stages, and I've had like
discussions with people who were saying they were upset because
you know, like women would be upset with a dude
who's come into their life, not even living in their
home yet, but she thinks that because he needs a
man's touch or whatever and stuff that he should be
trying to discipline the child. The child does have noticed person,
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you know what I mean, and like you yet I
don't think that that's that's that's fair to the child
or the adult in that situation.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I'll say this, but sometimes sometimes women look for man
just for that purpose, because we no longer live in
a society where community raises its own like that's that's
long gone. It's like everybody finding for themselves, and a
lot of women just feel like, look, I can't do
this on my own, so I just got to find somebody, anybody.
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Even if there there is no connection between the kids
and the guy you're dating, you're still trying to fit
the square peg into a round hole.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Well I just saw this recently and I was sharing
it with someone else I was speaking with. It was
like a real in regards to the the dude was
doing just what Mario was saying. He was, you know,
disciplining a guy like you know, like we would be
in the locker room talking to somebody if we were
trying to check one of our teammates or something. Just
talking to the young man like that with his hand,
you know, poking them in his chest like listen, you
need a blind girl was like, don't be putting your
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hands on my son.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Blai bly.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
He fell back and again and like the next day,
it was a quick real. Next day he's in the hall,
you know, doing the same thing, talking to the dude. Yo, man,
you need to She had no idea what they were discussing.
All she saw was her the dude's hands on the boy,
and the boy was like kind of looking down, feeling
some kind of way.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
But sometimes a man's touch is needed.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
But at the end of that real, the dude he
was walking out of the household with his book, with
his bag or suitcase or whatever, and the woman was like,
where are you going.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
He was like, I can't do this.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Basically, you know, you're I'm trying to help you raise
your son or do whatever, and you keep you keep interjecting,
not knowing what's going on, he said. But when he
hit the door, he said, by the way, the police
called your son got caught with a gun, have a
great life, and walked out.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You just never know what that's like pretty freaking, I know,
but it was.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
It was just it's a reality though, Like you didn't
know what was being said or why he was talking
to the kid. He probably came to him talking about
a situation. She just never knows. Sometimes what's important for
the parents to still talk before you just come in
and downplay what either or is doing in front of
the kids.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
You know, I didn't know you like after school Specials'
bit like baby It sounds like baby boy a little
bit when vay Raiams had to come and get the
good But but what he didn't know was that, uh
Tyrese said, Obar Gooda had already.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Killed Snoop with it guns and butter, which I know
that you.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Uh can I stay staying our hands off with stuff
like this right where you're dating women like as well
as like disciplined.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Uh yeah, I've never I've never had I've never been
called and had to even get involved in anybody's child.
I gonna mess with any women that got too many kids.
Most of the time the kids are older.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
But you did what you did with that Triceratos back chick.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Though, Oh yeah, I forgot but her key I wasn't.
I wasn't messing with.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Her long enough because really have to deal with her kids.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
It was like one encounter and then that was it
for me just to watch. Yeah, I forget cook Wow.
It was it was somewhere near Fort Jackson, and then
she took her shirt off and I was like the cook.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Fast. I would never forget that one.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
But I think I think in those situations, you're caught
between a rock and a hard place, because I as
a man, you want to say something like you want
you demand respect and say like I had situations when
I was, you know, dating an individual with kids like
me and.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Me and the son would have.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Son and Daddy Day where we would go out and
do stuff together and he would intentionally try to see
what he could get away with. And then that would
put me in a position where like, am I going
to discipline a child?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But but you were pretty far along in the relationship
at that point though.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
But I'm saying, even though I was far along in
a relations it still isn't like like I would discipline
him as if he was my own at that time,
to where I'm gonna like take you and take you
in the bathroom and whip your butt or ground you
or something like That's not something that like you, like
you said you had to talk to the custodial parent
(20:18):
to see like yo, like what can I do? Like
am I allowed to put hands on this this boy
or not? Because I'm not gonna do it without you know,
their approval.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
No questions asked on that one that back watched, analyzed
and put forth what need to be put down. And
it wasn't like it was all the time either Listen,
it was they were accepting of that part and knew
that I wasn't playing. So when my voice was raised
and anything.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
After that, my own family members that I that I
played a father figure roll too and stuff when they
was growing up and stuff, man like like the way
that I like I got involved with disciplined and stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
But it was more talking like I never like I never,
I mean, but I ain't never. I ain't never had
that whip my old child because I don't believe in
whippings man, No, more like I don't think that that's
something that like that's that's how we grew up. I
don't think that that's necessary. If you if you speak
to the child properly, yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Mean kid will yeah and I and I will and
I will strap up dog like real if words aren't
being heard.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Let's let's apply the action to this selection.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
So you know, yea real I've never I've never had
to do that to my old child.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Man.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Even with my niece, it's only been once. Bro Like,
even with my oldest probably once or twice. Maybe I'm
not an advocate of it again though thinks I'm not
like our grandparents say run and get that switch, go
and get that switch outside, spoil the child.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
But my question, I got a question for Q Kittles.
How does she take to you disciplining her children physically.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Without you asking?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
That's a good question. We have to have her on
at some point in time.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
But I mean, like like to this day, like the
kids they they still uh junior. He'd be like he
didn't get nervous when they hear the belt, Like even
when I'm putting a belt on.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Oh my gosh, bro see that's that's peach.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That's why you don't do that.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
That's what my grandfather did to my brother. And I
ain't at worked great.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Well, like I said, I always said, I'm raising young adults. Man,
Like I talked to him, it was just a town
where it was like they thought they could still get
away with certain things. I still here was this, you know, okay,
well okay, I don't care, Okay, nah.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Okay, and make you care.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Yeah, let me put something to remind you of why
you should you know. But like I said, it wasn't
like it was something that was necessarily needed all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
We'll come back and we're going to talk about extended
family in these situations.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Not gonna go to our boys.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Forecast Media Radio Network talking about that, Brandy Butcher, Steve,
are you watching the po kittles like Trump and grand
Wiz and.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Uh so?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Like I typically have seen this, and when you get
in the extended family situation and stuff, it seems like
grandparents and aunts and uncles they seem to always be
cool when there's new children coming into the full. Like,
I don't think I've ever seen a situation where somebody
wasn't like super nice and accepting of of a of
(23:19):
a new kid coming into a situation and stuff, because
like they'd be more accepting of the new kids than
they are to you sometimes.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
You know, I'm saying, I think that's an adult knowing
how it is to be a kid versus the kid
like this, who is this and is this kind of
breaks the ice. But it also puts up that that
competitiveness between the kids. But you know, it's just it
starts conversation or whatever so that it can be a
transition for them. But I noticed that in black families
(23:48):
all the time, though. Oh they's so cute. Look at
you you playing basketball whatever? Whatever, Just okay, now you
got something to say. You hear over here somebody talking,
Oh you so you're into basketball?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Where you play?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Like?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
What was?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
You know?
Speaker 7 (24:00):
It just gives that transition when kids don't know necessarily
know how to come into it when they see somebody
new because they're accustomed to what is always been.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
It's my tape.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Mean I still I have horror stories from when I
was little, and you know, right after I was adopted
and we would go to Alabama for Christmas. Of course,
like you said, like grandmothers, aunts and uncles, cousins, they
all showed me love. But when it came to Christmas
and my aunt we're the same age. She's like four
(24:33):
months older than me, so I would see everyone bringing
her Christmas presents and I didn't get anything hardly, So
she's sitting there opening like twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Different generation.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Though we've talked about this on Christmas shows before when
you complained about that he's still hurt and he almost
I told you.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I just said that.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I just said that.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's still stinks.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Different generations.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
This aunt like so that means that that's we're the
same age, this grandparents child And you're like, no, but
but I'm saying, but I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I'm saying like like other like great great aunts and
uncles and other cousins, like they would come to the
house and they bring gifts, and I was there and
I was seeing her getting a bunch of gifts and
I wasn't getting anything from people in extended family. So
I was just say, and that still haunts me to
this day, is that I was.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Like, why was it?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Why was not getting a present? Why couldn't I get
at least a hat or a shirt? But but yeah,
it's still all off. Like I said, they all treated
treated me great. It was just Christmas time. I wasn't
getting the present.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Like I got.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I got cousins that that that came into our family
and they've always been like like like their family. You
know what I'm saying, and like like it was like
that from the beginning, man, before before the parents even
got married. Man Like, it was like they've always like
super accepted.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Man Like, you know what I'm saying, Like whatever, like
stuff is going on. Man Like they they like they
all like adults now and stuff. Man, their kids get
taken care of by everybody. You know what I'm saying.
And that's why I'm saying like that. That's my only
experiences with stuff like this.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Like, you know, it's always like super accepted of the children.
You may not even like the child's parent, but you
still accept the kids as if they're a part of
your group.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Man.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yeah, that's one thing I can say.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
I'm thankful for that, you know, how the family is
accepted mine and just you know, got good relationships whether
I'm there or not, Like like Evan, that dude can
call up anybody on any side and talk to him
if he chooses to.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Everybody always asking about him and stuff like that, and
you know, and like like Trump, they get a few
gifts at Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Was about to say.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Something, Oh, yeah, that's how it is in my family too,
Now that I think about it. All the step kids
got readily accepted by the families that were already there.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
That was never a problem.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Uh, there's no drama on on that side.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And I think that that's something also that's probably uh
unique to black people.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Probably I got gifts to.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
We're gonna come back and we're gonna talk about, like
we've talked about things from a negative standpoint or could
potentially be negatives. Uh, We're going to talk about things
about how positive this can be. Uh and in particularly
from the kids perspective when we come back back on
the Little Boys Forcast Media Radio Network talking about that
Brady bunch.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
So let's talk about the rewards now.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And I know Trump you can speak on this already
because you talked about this a little while ago, Uh
in the last segment about your extentive family and everything
like and like talk a little bit about how rewarding
that has been, because it's like you got like like
an extra family now in addition to you know, the
family from your biological side.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And you know, I've.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
You know, talked about this extensively throughout the history of
the show. And you know, even on social media, I've
posted you know, written blogs about it and.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I as kids.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, we we won our biological parents together under one roof.
But the consolation is finding people that just love you
and there's there's no no price for that. And you know,
as soon as my biological my adoptive father took me to.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Alabama like I was one of their own.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
And it's continued for the last thirty seven thirty eight
years where I'm probably closer to family from Alabama than
i am South Carolina or you know, from my biological father,
which I'm just beginning to to build relationships with. So
I mean even at my wedding, like it was just
(29:04):
a beautiful thing having three sets of family.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
They're you know, showing showing love.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Like to me that was four sets now, but to
me that was the most beautiful thing. Was like I
could have all of these, all of these people representing
different eras of Latroit and come together and pour into us.
Because no matter what I do, no matter where I go,
(29:35):
I'm only a represented representative of the people that have
left the imprint on me. Like that's that's who I
am at the core is my grandmother, my grandfather, the
three of you. Like every day that I wake up.
It's to make all of you proud.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Amen.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
We gotta get this dude at Christians Gift. Now he
doesn't drop the Hallmark card on it.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
On Live, Yeah, but I don't think he's right, man like,
because it's like it creates such a larger support system.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Matter.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That was actually like I'm glad you touched on it
because it was something that I wanted to like address,
like how beautiful it was to see that blended family
on like, you know, the most important day of your
life and everybody's all together having a good time and stuff.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
For that one common cause and stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Man.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And I think that that's that's the beauty of a
situation like that where uh, you know, you you have
like these additional people that come into your life and everything, man,
And I think it works out great man. And I
think that's something that when people start dating and there
are children involved with stuff, that's the thing that like
you want to think about like how how much how
valuable this is to your child? You know what I'm saying,
(30:52):
when you get ready to go into a situation like that, man.
So it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
I'll say also, man, like, just communicating with it all
like not necessarily. As your family grows, your family is
becoming blended. When new kids are born into the family,
had additional cousins, and cousins have children. It's always a
constant growth. So it's like, at the essence of it,
it's like we're trying to continue what our grandparents started
originally when it was just four of them, or well
(31:19):
fifteen of them in my case. But you know, and
then everybody having their own family and somebody else is
having kids, and everybody's coming to grandma house and coming together,
and we're blended and getting to know each other's ways
and things of that nature. So it's an ongoing thing, man,
that we all have to grasp at some point and
understand it and appreciate it. And even in that sense,
(31:40):
like even my family is so large, we're now with
my generation of us, we're trying to utilize technology to
keep us more in touch, to say, Okay, if tiny
is having a party but she only told or her
kids are trying to do a surprise, but somebody is
not talking to this person and this person, but we
just trying to let everybody know what's going on, because
sometimes it'll be a party going on he's like, oh,
(32:01):
I wanted to support you know. I think it's amazing,
like you said with Trump, how everyone came together for
that special day for him. I think as a family,
we all want to support each other, but sometimes we're
all just living and oh man, I forgot to hit
up such and such and oh I thought I told him.
You know, So it's important that we all communicate to
keep that love there because I think we all want
it deep down.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Now, so we're gonna come back and we're gonna talk
about things from the adult perspective in this situation or
the full length.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Version of The Good Old Boys Radio Show.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
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Speaker 4 (32:44):
So I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
We's because of your religion and you talk about this
all the time. We kind of jokingly talk about this
and stuff a little bit about like you know, getting
into multiple marriages and stuff like that. But like, uh,
do you think that like when there's blended families coming
together like this, that like it creates a larger bond
(33:08):
Because I think you were the one who told me
that the reason why the extra people involved in a
marriage in your world is because it's helping out the
entire family unit. Do you think that this is the
type of stuff that you're talking about here in a way.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
I've never seen like a bunch of kids and a
few different wives be bad. I think it's definitely helping
the family unit, and it's building unity, it is keeping people,
is helping people who need to be helped. And as
Q Kittles explained it with the way he described his
family is more of the merrier. You know, I think
(33:44):
he will be helpful if everybody got a gift, because
I feel like why Black Trump described so, I feel
like that's my biggest takeaway that if you're going to
do it, mster be fair and equitable with the way
man out gifts.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
To be.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
I don't know how large Trump's family is on that side,
but we would never do that on my dad's side
because it's too many of us, and it's goes right
into that whole Christmas or deal to everybody being broke
for no real reason. It's it's not efficient for everybody
to get every single person a gift but each unit.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
To go off.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
You know, you might get Grandma something, of course, you know,
but it's not about favoritism or anything. You might be
able to get the uncle or aunt that you connect
with more, but to get everybody something in and it's
broke until April.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Let me tell you something, man.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I learned that as I got to be an adult man,
like uh, you know my ID that recently passed away whatever,
Like I would go home and like she would like
be in there watching TV and stuff, everybody together and
stuff watching TV. And she goes back in her room
at night. Man, it'd be buddy like and there and
(34:51):
she knew I would like be dropping off of that stuff,
but she couldn't tell everybody else you know that was
doing stuff like that. So you just gotta like you said,
like you gotta pick the but that you.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
Go to it like honestly, like on my mom's side,
it's my mom only has it was five of them,
So I have four other aunts and uncles or whatnot
that I could you know, get gifts for without outside
of my immediate family. On that side, when I finally
got a job where I was making decent money and
I was able to pay my bills and get everybody
a gift. It's just what I wanted to do because
I was get in love through all those other years
(35:21):
I was getting gifts from them, so I understood as
an adult. And that's why I spent my holidays with
two on that side. If I would have spent on
my on my dad's side, rough people would have got
some homemade cards or something. Because I had money. I
didn't have the money to get everybody elf it on
that side. But I love them very dearly and they
know that, so we have a different kind of love.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
But I did that one year.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
One year, I got everybody a gift that was thoughtful,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
So yeah, well, well listen.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
It was like my grandfather had twelve siblings, so.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Like four of them lived next door to each other,
and then there was like two or three other siblings
that lived like within.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
A mile away, and.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
It was primarily the kids.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Like they pretty much made sure all of the kids
got stuff, so buying okay or anything. But yeah, but
I just wanted to say, like, kids don't choose their circumstances,
so as adults, Like what really pisses me off is
like how people in the media trash Russell Wilson, like
(36:32):
Future is not his biological child. Now now they've chosen
to give him the Wilson last name recently, and that's
done for a reason. It's done for Future's best interest
because growing up in the household where you have three
other siblings that are Wilson's and you're the only one,
you stick.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Out like a sowred thumb.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
And that man has been there for a little Future
ever since he was like two or three years old. So, yes,
he is. He is the father. He's not a biological father,
but he is the father. So we need to stop.
We need to start respecting men that step up like
that and stop calling them cornballs.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, that's not why he's the man. He is the
man in that perspective. That's not why he's a cornball.
And that's not why we call him cleased Pride either.
We call him cleaves pride because he threw how many
picks to the Dallas Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I mean, how many how many picks did he throw?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
No, but I'm saying, like people like Pivot, You're right, right,
people like like the Pivot. They call him cornball, and.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, no, he's I mean, he's he's the definition of
what a man is supposed to be. Like Honestly, when
you if you, if you, if you decide to take
take on this relationship with this woman, you take on
her children as well, and and he's like living proof
of that's how we're supposed to go. You know what
I'm saying. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot
of stories like that, not even at like you know,
(37:58):
uh Hollywood perspective ready, thing like that.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Man, there's a lot of men out.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Here that that take care of that responsibility and stuff.
Speaker 8 (38:04):
Man.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
And to me, you know, I've always said, man, it
take a hell of a man to take care of
another man seed like that, man, you know what I'm saying,
somebody else and raise a lot of kids you yeah, yeah, man,
and like they made productive adults because of it, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
So nothing, nothing makes a man.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
Look in the mirror more than recognizing that, wow, this
is my child. I wasn't there for them, and they
grew up to be something without right. That's the reality
a lot. It's hard hard to deal with.
Speaker 9 (38:38):
His future good with them changing the kids.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
I'm sure he's not, but that's his fault.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
And if he doesn't have cassody, is that like the
parent who asked cassody can do whatever it is and.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
They wouldn't and they and maybe they would. They wouldn't
have to do that if he was doing his job,
you know what I'm saying. So anyway, that's going to
wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Man.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
It ain't easy to do it, but.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
When it happens, it's beautiful. And that's another example of it,
the Russell Wilson Sierra situation. That's another example of it
becoming a beautiful thing.
Speaker 7 (39:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
So we're going to wrap it up and we'll see
you on the radio next week and we off this
funky thing.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
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Speaker 4 (00:56):
And we're just.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Gonna go ahead and jump in because this is this
is one of those shows where the music is long,
so we ain't got that much time to be talking
on it. So but this show was we call it
this the Bratty Bunch of this show, of the Little
Boys Radio Show. And uh, we used to watch the
Brady Busch Trump. You watched the Brady Busch, did.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
You, Yeah, when it would come on TBS in afternoon,
like four thirty five.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You watch a little bit of too.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
They ain't never had a black version of The Brady
Bunch on TV, did they?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
What are the odds of that happening in real life?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's that's that's why we're doing this show today.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Well, well it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
It wasn't technically like the Brady Bunch, but the first
blended family was all of us that the Will and show.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be forgetting about that
show sometimes.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we forgot about that. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
They have other things that are happening in their lives nowadays.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah. Was it Tony Rock on that show? Tony Rock? Uh,
that's crazy. I forgot a real name?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
You said, diving up? Lisa Ray?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Lisa Ray?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Yeah, I never really watched that show either, But Dwayne
Martin was a Star Wars right.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Relationship started, well, it was alreadys friends before that.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I guess man said that Daye was in the Chiller
him straight murderer him.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Well, I ain't ever see that, dude, No, we don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
They just wanted to sweep it under the rug. Hope
people forget all about it.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Hey, it's hard to forget that with man in this age,
like that's that's all that's viralized.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
If that's ALLRD.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, yeah, now, but so we we were talking about
Brady Bunchet. We're talking about like putting together a family
man blended family, so to speak. And I don't know
if it's something that you could do today successfully the
way that that show portrayed. And then if you go
to the nineties, it was portrayed again by my man
Patrick Duffy a k a.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Bobby Ewing and uh as.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Suzanne Summers on a show called Step by Step.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Now that was my joint. I watched it about that.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, so, but but again never never people that look
like us and in a show like This Man, And
it's happened a little bit, I guess, and in real
life not not when you're talking about six six chilling though, Yeah,
six chilling is a lot, bron.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
I see it happening all the time with more children
than that. Most I've seen was twenty five twenty five. Yeah,
it was spread out across two wives.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
And all they all live in the same house together.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
No, they have their own each wife has their own home.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Oh so that's that's not what we talk You gotta
be a the same roof.
Speaker 9 (03:57):
I've never seen it with the same roof.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Yeah, I don't even see that from regular black families
that I know have step siblings.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
It's still not under the same roof.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, yeah, No, it's uh, it's it's it's something matter.
I think it's difficult to manage and uh and uh.
On today's show, we're going to talk about how you
manage that, the benefits of doing it, the struggles of
doing it, and and and all the stuff that can
come about in these situations.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
All of the music is about.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Family and and and and being happy with your family
and and and and and doing everything with the kids
and all that type of stuff. Man back on the
Little Boys Forecast Media Radio Network, we're talking about that
Brady Bunch, so from a kid's perspective and and and
we don't have to talk about it from the standpoint
of Brady bunching it. But just when a parent is
(04:55):
dating again, uh and and and then you like move
in together. Maybe because I know that I never experienced
that as a child, but I've I've witnessed other people
experienced this and stuff like that, and then you got
like these new siblings and all this type of stuff. Man,
and then you got these these rivalries that are created
(05:16):
amongst the siblings because you have these challenges of the
step parent coming in and all of this type of stuff.
So I guess Q, you can start with this, man, like,
how do you manage those those sibling rivalries in particular
once you have two families merged like that.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I mean, it's it's honestly, it's no different than when
you have cousins, man, and everybody go to grandma house.
It's like we're human at the end of the day.
It's it's just a matter of learning each other's ways
and figure out where you fit in where you don't.
You know, it's going to be risks because you're now family.
You're all in the one household, and you're you're going
(05:55):
to be coming across each other on a regular basis.
So it's a must for the the well being of
the household, you know, to get along for the most part,
or at least be cordial. I don't know if there's
any real blueprint or anything to.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Go about it.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
It's just I've seen it happen with cousins, you know,
in that sense, like my younger cousins who they grew
up around each other. More like when I was coming up,
it was just me, you know, like four of us
really that would come.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Up on the weekends and be all together, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
So within a household, I just I don't know. I
haven't experienced that with myself. I mean, my mom dated,
but you know Roosevelt, his dad on his child stayed
with his previous wife or whatever. So we never had
it all under the same household like that. When my
dad remarried, the kids was over there. I know, my
brother and sister, but it was it was never a
(06:48):
blending of families in that aspect, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yeah, that's my only take on it. I really don't.
I don't know if people, you.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Know, you mad.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
You might be upset because your your mom is remarried,
you might be upset because you're moving, and these are
all things you're going to have to deal with. But
the fact is that you're in a situation now, and
is you got to add out the wrinkles and stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, I mean, just looking at you know, from the
perspective of the kid kids are you know, comfortable in
their environment, and like any change is difficult to adapt to.
So if you're used to living with your siblings, your
biological siblings and your parent, and then you move into
(07:30):
this this other household where the kids already have their
bedrooms or their their system and how they they you know, maneuver,
and you have to adapt to that, and there's pushback.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And you're used to.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Eating certain foods for breakfast and they don't go, they
don't do all of that, Like we have a different
diet here. Like, it's a lot of adjusting and it's hard.
So I think that there has to be a lot
of a lot of talking, a lot of understanding, a
lot of adapting from all angles, both parents, all of
the kids, in order to make sure that this transition
(08:09):
is comfortable.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
I mean, you think about it, like even like I
have one of my brothers, man with my brother, he
has four kids. At one point it was five of
them over there, even in just a regular household, you're
going to experience that again with the kids. I want
that corner room, I want this room. And again as
a family, these are things I think that you're saying
(08:31):
from a child's point of view that you're always going
to deal with until you come of age and be
able to do things on your own.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Night. You got different. I don't want pizza to night.
I want to have this.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
And it's just the parents having to figure out this
and that it's just a different day and age from
when we grew up. Guys on some realness, Like Mama cooked,
if you don't eat, if you don't like what she cooked,
then you just don't eat. Bro, you better go in
there and fix a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or something.
But it wouldn't know, Well he don't like this. Let
me let me make him something special. Let me put
something aside for such and such. Nah bro, we even
(09:02):
meat loaf and potatoes tonight with green beans.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
That sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I want to, like, you know, I want carrots instead,
Nah bro? We having me loa? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So when you're in when you were a child in
a situation like this and then you have the parent,
the step parent, you know, trying to discipline you, Like,
how do you react though, like as a child, like
when we're like somebody that's not your mom or not
your dad and they're trying to tell you what to do.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Like and you're like ten years old, like I you know.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Now when now again, as as a child, I'm sorry,
you know, I got experiences I don't know, but yo,
as a child, it was like me and Roosevelt had
the conversation later in life, you know, before he passed away,
you know, so we talked about stuff, and it was
as a child. It it's just me being angry that
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he ate my dad, Like, who are you to tell
me what to do? So I was on some hard
headedness not really listening, when in actuality, I learned a
lot from dude, you know what I'm saying. As I've
gotten older and I look back on things that I've
learned and what I know how to do, I learned
a lot from him.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
But at the time it was just me being an angry.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
God trying to figure out, well, damn while my dad
ain't over here, and why he wasn't this, and why
he wasn't that. I was trying to compare. I was
in my head with the comparison. So I guess that's
that's going to have a lot to play it in
the sense of how did the mother and father split,
How was the relationship with the child and things of
that nature when they're transitioning into that new light.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Well, I got my first stepfather when I was seven
years old, and as far as the discipline goes, I
thought it was a joke.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
I didn't really process.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
It well at all looking back on it, you know,
I listened biggrudgingly, But I thought it was a joke
because I thought my mom was a joke if she
was not a discipline every she didn't have discipline or
in stealing much at all. So when he came around,
he would come down to visit from New Jersey and
stay with us for like like three weeks at a time,
right because he had a job.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
If they he couldn't just leave.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
And whenever she would come around, she would my mother
would start acting funny, like she would start talking to
us with basing her voice in a chest out.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
I'm like, why are you trying to act show off.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
In front of this dude? This is funny. I found
this funny. He'll come in a room and tell us,
your mother says, you're playing that game too much, because
we had a Sega genesis, and we'd be like, man,
we ain't playing.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
It too much.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
You got to understand where we live, there's nothing else
going on, and this is our only form of entertainment.
I mean, and he'd be like, yeah, but she said
you got to turn it off. I'm like, man, she
would not do that if you weren't here. So I
thought it was the pig fall in that is, the
original parrot can completely abjucate their responsibility and dump it
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all in the lap of the step parrot.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
And all that does.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Is it completely eradicates any respect that the people had
for you. Because when you advocate your responsibility at tump
it on somebody who just got there, that makes you
look really weak.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
And that's how I looked at my mother.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
How did that change your overtime?
Speaker 9 (12:09):
Though for you it never did. He just I just
went off to college and then he died.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's extremely.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
That sounds pretty harsh, lose realistic.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
To expect a man or a woman to just instantly
be thrown into a situation and expected to discipline a
child that you know you haven't spent time with, like
as a kid, like I was about the same age
as Whiz. When you know, my adoptive father came into
the pitchure. I was like five or six years old,
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and if you know, I was spoiled. I was only
I was the only grandchild, so I was We were
living with my grandfather and my aunts and uncles at
the time, so I always got my way. So there's
no way that all of a sudden, We're going to
move in with my adoptive father and I'm going to
be disciplined and you know, take heed to whatever he's
trying to instill me. Like it's gonna take time, but
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when you have the right people involved, it doesn't matter
how long. Like he was, he was down for the cause,
and he wasn't gonna gonna turn around and run and
give up. So yeah, all of those lessons, you know,
paid off in dividend, paid paid off in space, because
like he was loyal to to my mom and to me,
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and as a result, I grew to respect him.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
And he was military, so I know that that was like,
oh some light.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Oh yeah, I got miss mass with him.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
I think Trump said amazing in that aspect in regards
to the patience that comes with it from the adults
point of view.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well say say that, say say that thought, and we
will talk about from the adult's perspective when we come
back back going to Good Ole Boys Forecast Media Radio Network,
we're talking about that Brady Bunch, and we talked about
the struggles of a kid's perspective in the first segment.
Now we'll take a look at it from the adult
perspective and the parenting perspective.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And you you were saying before we went to this
last break.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Yeah, it's it's definitely when you're when you're coming into
that situation and kids are are already involved, it's more
of a you're not coming in trying to be, you know,
king of all and it's your way or no way.
You're you're trying to see how they maneuver in the
in the current situation. Like Wiz was speaking earlier, like
I don't I don't know if your stepfather came in
(14:32):
and sat back for a while and watch how your
mother was handling and maybe they had a conversation, and
like you're saying, your mother was never that person, so
she felt uncomfortable in that state, maybe you know, and
that's why he was coming at you. And again you're
not accustomed to it. So okay, whatever, my mom, I
don't hear whatever, whatever. But even in my situation coming
in and there were kids involved. I just sat back
(14:53):
and watched how they were maneuvering before I interjected myself
and to say, well, maybe they should do this, so listen,
y'all not gonna continuously do this or they I see
how they were possibly uh, just not listening to their
mom or thinking their mom was playing around, things of
that nature. So I had to interject at that point,
you know. But it was never just coming in and
trying to run things on yours because you're coming into
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a group now and it's not just you, so.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
It seems there's half the talk the parents talk.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So so I've always been of the perspective that as
an adult coming into a relationship and you got young kids, like,
it's not really the job of that step parent to
handle a ton of discipline initially, especially like because you
know your job is to like support the custodial parent more.
(15:40):
I think in the early stages, and I've had like
discussions with people who were saying they were upset because
you know, like women would be upset with a dude
who's come into their life, not even living in their
home yet, but she thinks that because he needs a
man's touch or whatever and stuff that he should be
trying to discipline the child. The child does have noticed person,
(16:00):
you know what I mean, and like you yet I
don't think that that's that's that's fair to the child
or the adult in that situation.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I'll say this, but sometimes sometimes women look for man
just for that purpose, because we no longer live in
a society where community raises its own like that's that's
long gone. It's like everybody finding for themselves, and a
lot of women just feel like, look, I can't do
this on my own, so I just got to find somebody, anybody.
(16:28):
Even if there there is no connection between the kids
and the guy you're dating, you're still trying to fit
the square peg into a round hole.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Well I just saw this recently and I was sharing
it with someone else I was speaking with. It was
like a real in regards to the the dude was
doing just what Mario was saying. He was, you know,
disciplining a guy like you know, like we would be
in the locker room talking to somebody if we were
trying to check one of our teammates or something. Just
talking to the young man like that with his hand,
you know, poking them in his chest like listen, you
need a blind girl was like, don't be putting your
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hands on my son.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Blai bly.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
He fell back and again and like the next day,
it was a quick real. Next day he's in the hall,
you know, doing the same thing, talking to the dude. Yo, man,
you need to She had no idea what they were discussing.
All she saw was her the dude's hands on the boy,
and the boy was like kind of looking down, feeling
some kind of way.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
But sometimes a man's touch is needed.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
But at the end of that real, the dude he
was walking out of the household with his book, with
his bag or suitcase or whatever, and the woman was like,
where are you going.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
He was like, I can't do this.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Basically, you know, you're I'm trying to help you raise
your son or do whatever, and you keep you keep interjecting,
not knowing what's going on, he said. But when he
hit the door, he said, by the way, the police
called your son got caught with a gun, have a
great life, and walked out.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You just never know what that's like pretty freaking, I know,
but it was.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
It was just it's a reality though, Like you didn't
know what was being said or why he was talking
to the kid. He probably came to him talking about
a situation. She just never knows. Sometimes what's important for
the parents to still talk before you just come in
and downplay what either or is doing in front of
the kids.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
You know, I didn't know you like after school Specials'
bit like baby It sounds like baby boy a little
bit when vay Raiams had to come and get the
good But but what he didn't know was that, uh
Tyrese said, Obar Gooda had already.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Killed Snoop with it guns and butter, which I know
that you.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Uh can I stay staying our hands off with stuff
like this right where you're dating women like as well
as like disciplined.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Uh yeah, I've never I've never had I've never been
called and had to even get involved in anybody's child.
I gonna mess with any women that got too many kids.
Most of the time the kids are older.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
But you did what you did with that Triceratos back chick.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Though, Oh yeah, I forgot but her key I wasn't.
I wasn't messing with.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Her long enough because really have to deal with her kids.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
It was like one encounter and then that was it
for me just to watch. Yeah, I forget cook Wow.
It was it was somewhere near Fort Jackson, and then
she took her shirt off and I was like the cook.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Fast. I would never forget that one.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
But I think I think in those situations, you're caught
between a rock and a hard place, because I as
a man, you want to say something like you want
you demand respect and say like I had situations when
I was, you know, dating an individual with kids like
me and.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Me and the son would have.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Son and Daddy Day where we would go out and
do stuff together and he would intentionally try to see
what he could get away with. And then that would
put me in a position where like, am I going
to discipline a child?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But but you were pretty far along in the relationship
at that point though.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
But I'm saying, even though I was far along in
a relations it still isn't like like I would discipline
him as if he was my own at that time,
to where I'm gonna like take you and take you
in the bathroom and whip your butt or ground you
or something like That's not something that like you, like
you said you had to talk to the custodial parent
(20:18):
to see like yo, like what can I do? Like
am I allowed to put hands on this this boy
or not? Because I'm not gonna do it without you know,
their approval.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
No questions asked on that one that back watched, analyzed
and put forth what need to be put down. And
it wasn't like it was all the time either Listen,
it was they were accepting of that part and knew
that I wasn't playing. So when my voice was raised
and anything.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
After that, my own family members that I that I
played a father figure roll too and stuff when they
was growing up and stuff, man like like the way
that I like I got involved with disciplined and stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
But it was more talking like I never like I never,
I mean, but I ain't never. I ain't never had
that whip my old child because I don't believe in
whippings man, No, more like I don't think that that's
something that like that's that's how we grew up. I
don't think that that's necessary. If you if you speak
to the child properly, yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Mean kid will yeah and I and I will and
I will strap up dog like real if words aren't
being heard.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Let's let's apply the action to this selection.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
So you know, yea real I've never I've never had
to do that to my old child.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Man.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Even with my niece, it's only been once. Bro Like,
even with my oldest probably once or twice. Maybe I'm
not an advocate of it again though thinks I'm not
like our grandparents say run and get that switch, go
and get that switch outside, spoil the child.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
But my question, I got a question for Q Kittles.
How does she take to you disciplining her children physically.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Without you asking?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
That's a good question. We have to have her on
at some point in time.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
But I mean, like like to this day, like the
kids they they still uh junior. He'd be like he
didn't get nervous when they hear the belt, Like even
when I'm putting a belt on.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Oh my gosh, bro see that's that's peach.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That's why you don't do that.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
That's what my grandfather did to my brother. And I
ain't at worked great.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Well, like I said, I always said, I'm raising young adults. Man,
Like I talked to him, it was just a town
where it was like they thought they could still get
away with certain things. I still here was this, you know, okay,
well okay, I don't care, Okay, nah.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Okay, and make you care.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Yeah, let me put something to remind you of why
you should you know. But like I said, it wasn't
like it was something that was necessarily needed all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
We'll come back and we're going to talk about extended
family in these situations.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Not gonna go to our boys.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Forecast Media Radio Network talking about that, Brandy Butcher, Steve,
are you watching the po kittles like Trump and grand
Wiz and.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Uh so?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Like I typically have seen this, and when you get
in the extended family situation and stuff, it seems like
grandparents and aunts and uncles they seem to always be
cool when there's new children coming into the full. Like,
I don't think I've ever seen a situation where somebody
wasn't like super nice and accepting of of a of
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a new kid coming into a situation and stuff, because
like they'd be more accepting of the new kids than
they are to you sometimes.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
You know, I'm saying, I think that's an adult knowing
how it is to be a kid versus the kid
like this, who is this and is this kind of
breaks the ice. But it also puts up that that
competitiveness between the kids. But you know, it's just it
starts conversation or whatever so that it can be a
transition for them. But I noticed that in black families
(23:48):
all the time, though. Oh they's so cute. Look at
you you playing basketball whatever? Whatever, Just okay, now you
got something to say. You hear over here somebody talking,
Oh you so you're into basketball?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Where you play?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Like?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
What was?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
You know?
Speaker 7 (24:00):
It just gives that transition when kids don't know necessarily
know how to come into it when they see somebody
new because they're accustomed to what is always been.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
It's my tape.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Mean I still I have horror stories from when I
was little, and you know, right after I was adopted
and we would go to Alabama for Christmas. Of course,
like you said, like grandmothers, aunts and uncles, cousins, they
all showed me love. But when it came to Christmas
and my aunt we're the same age. She's like four
(24:33):
months older than me, so I would see everyone bringing
her Christmas presents and I didn't get anything hardly, So
she's sitting there opening like twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Different generation.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Though we've talked about this on Christmas shows before when
you complained about that he's still hurt and he almost
I told you.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I just said that.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I just said that.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's still stinks.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Different generations.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
This aunt like so that means that that's we're the
same age, this grandparents child And you're like, no, but
but I'm saying, but I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I'm saying like like other like great great aunts and
uncles and other cousins, like they would come to the
house and they bring gifts, and I was there and
I was seeing her getting a bunch of gifts and
I wasn't getting anything from people in extended family. So
I was just say, and that still haunts me to
this day, is that I was.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Like, why was it?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Why was not getting a present? Why couldn't I get
at least a hat or a shirt? But but yeah,
it's still all off. Like I said, they all treated
treated me great. It was just Christmas time. I wasn't
getting the present.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Like I got.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I got cousins that that that came into our family
and they've always been like like like their family. You
know what I'm saying, and like like it was like
that from the beginning, man, before before the parents even
got married. Man Like, it was like they've always like
super accepted.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Man Like, you know what I'm saying, Like whatever, like
stuff is going on. Man Like they they like they
all like adults now and stuff. Man, their kids get
taken care of by everybody. You know what I'm saying.
And that's why I'm saying like that. That's my only
experiences with stuff like this.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Like, you know, it's always like super accepted of the children.
You may not even like the child's parent, but you
still accept the kids as if they're a part of
your group.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Man.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yeah, that's one thing I can say.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
I'm thankful for that, you know, how the family is
accepted mine and just you know, got good relationships whether
I'm there or not, Like like Evan, that dude can
call up anybody on any side and talk to him
if he chooses to.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Everybody always asking about him and stuff like that, and
you know, and like like Trump, they get a few
gifts at Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Was about to say.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Something, Oh, yeah, that's how it is in my family too,
Now that I think about it. All the step kids
got readily accepted by the families that were already there.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
That was never a problem.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Uh, there's no drama on on that side.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And I think that that's something also that's probably uh
unique to black people.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Probably I got gifts to.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
We're gonna come back and we're gonna talk about, like
we've talked about things from a negative standpoint or could
potentially be negatives. Uh, We're going to talk about things
about how positive this can be. Uh and in particularly
from the kids perspective when we come back back on
the Little Boys Forcast Media Radio Network talking about that
Brady bunch.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
So let's talk about the rewards now.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And I know Trump you can speak on this already
because you talked about this a little while ago, Uh
in the last segment about your extentive family and everything
like and like talk a little bit about how rewarding
that has been, because it's like you got like like
an extra family now in addition to you know, the
family from your biological side.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And you know, I've.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
You know, talked about this extensively throughout the history of
the show. And you know, even on social media, I've
posted you know, written blogs about it and.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I as kids.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, we we won our biological parents together under one roof.
But the consolation is finding people that just love you
and there's there's no no price for that. And you know,
as soon as my biological my adoptive father took me to.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Alabama like I was one of their own.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
And it's continued for the last thirty seven thirty eight
years where I'm probably closer to family from Alabama than
i am South Carolina or you know, from my biological father,
which I'm just beginning to to build relationships with. So
I mean even at my wedding, like it was just
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a beautiful thing having three sets of family.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
They're you know, showing showing love.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Like to me that was four sets now, but to
me that was the most beautiful thing. Was like I
could have all of these, all of these people representing
different eras of Latroit and come together and pour into us.
Because no matter what I do, no matter where I go,
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I'm only a represented representative of the people that have
left the imprint on me. Like that's that's who I
am at the core is my grandmother, my grandfather, the
three of you. Like every day that I wake up.
It's to make all of you proud.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Amen.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
We gotta get this dude at Christians Gift. Now he
doesn't drop the Hallmark card on it.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
On Live, Yeah, but I don't think he's right, man like,
because it's like it creates such a larger support system.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Matter.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That was actually like I'm glad you touched on it
because it was something that I wanted to like address,
like how beautiful it was to see that blended family
on like, you know, the most important day of your
life and everybody's all together having a good time and stuff.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
For that one common cause and stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Man.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And I think that that's that's the beauty of a
situation like that where uh, you know, you you have
like these additional people that come into your life and everything, man,
And I think it works out great man. And I
think that's something that when people start dating and there
are children involved with stuff, that's the thing that like
you want to think about like how how much how
valuable this is to your child? You know what I'm saying,
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when you get ready to go into a situation like that, man.
So it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
I'll say also, man, like, just communicating with it all
like not necessarily. As your family grows, your family is
becoming blended. When new kids are born into the family,
had additional cousins, and cousins have children. It's always a
constant growth. So it's like, at the essence of it,
it's like we're trying to continue what our grandparents started
originally when it was just four of them, or well
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fifteen of them in my case. But you know, and
then everybody having their own family and somebody else is
having kids, and everybody's coming to grandma house and coming together,
and we're blended and getting to know each other's ways
and things of that nature. So it's an ongoing thing, man,
that we all have to grasp at some point and
understand it and appreciate it. And even in that sense,
(31:40):
like even my family is so large, we're now with
my generation of us, we're trying to utilize technology to
keep us more in touch, to say, Okay, if tiny
is having a party but she only told or her
kids are trying to do a surprise, but somebody is
not talking to this person and this person, but we
just trying to let everybody know what's going on, because
sometimes it'll be a party going on he's like, oh,
(32:01):
I wanted to support you know. I think it's amazing,
like you said with Trump, how everyone came together for
that special day for him. I think as a family,
we all want to support each other, but sometimes we're
all just living and oh man, I forgot to hit
up such and such and oh I thought I told him.
You know, So it's important that we all communicate to
keep that love there because I think we all want
it deep down.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Now, so we're gonna come back and we're gonna talk
about things from the adult perspective in this situation or
the full length.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
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Speaker 4 (32:44):
So I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
We's because of your religion and you talk about this
all the time. We kind of jokingly talk about this
and stuff a little bit about like you know, getting
into multiple marriages and stuff like that. But like, uh,
do you think that like when there's blended families coming
together like this, that like it creates a larger bond
(33:08):
Because I think you were the one who told me
that the reason why the extra people involved in a
marriage in your world is because it's helping out the
entire family unit. Do you think that this is the
type of stuff that you're talking about here in a way.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
I've never seen like a bunch of kids and a
few different wives be bad. I think it's definitely helping
the family unit, and it's building unity, it is keeping people,
is helping people who need to be helped. And as
Q Kittles explained it with the way he described his
family is more of the merrier. You know, I think
(33:44):
he will be helpful if everybody got a gift, because
I feel like why Black Trump described so, I feel
like that's my biggest takeaway that if you're going to
do it, mster be fair and equitable with the way
man out gifts.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
To be.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
I don't know how large Trump's family is on that side,
but we would never do that on my dad's side
because it's too many of us, and it's goes right
into that whole Christmas or deal to everybody being broke
for no real reason. It's it's not efficient for everybody
to get every single person a gift but each unit.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
To go off.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
You know, you might get Grandma something, of course, you know,
but it's not about favoritism or anything. You might be
able to get the uncle or aunt that you connect
with more, but to get everybody something in and it's
broke until April.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Let me tell you something, man.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I learned that as I got to be an adult man,
like uh, you know my ID that recently passed away whatever,
Like I would go home and like she would like
be in there watching TV and stuff, everybody together and
stuff watching TV. And she goes back in her room
at night. Man, it'd be buddy like and there and
(34:51):
she knew I would like be dropping off of that stuff,
but she couldn't tell everybody else you know that was
doing stuff like that. So you just gotta like you said,
like you gotta pick the but that you.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
Go to it like honestly, like on my mom's side,
it's my mom only has it was five of them,
So I have four other aunts and uncles or whatnot
that I could you know, get gifts for without outside
of my immediate family. On that side, when I finally
got a job where I was making decent money and
I was able to pay my bills and get everybody
a gift. It's just what I wanted to do because
I was get in love through all those other years
(35:21):
I was getting gifts from them, so I understood as
an adult. And that's why I spent my holidays with
two on that side. If I would have spent on
my on my dad's side, rough people would have got
some homemade cards or something. Because I had money. I
didn't have the money to get everybody elf it on
that side. But I love them very dearly and they
know that, so we have a different kind of love.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
But I did that one year.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
One year, I got everybody a gift that was thoughtful,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
So yeah, well, well listen.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
It was like my grandfather had twelve siblings, so.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Like four of them lived next door to each other,
and then there was like two or three other siblings
that lived like within.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
A mile away, and.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
It was primarily the kids.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Like they pretty much made sure all of the kids
got stuff, so buying okay or anything. But yeah, but
I just wanted to say, like, kids don't choose their circumstances,
so as adults, Like what really pisses me off is
like how people in the media trash Russell Wilson, like
(36:32):
Future is not his biological child. Now now they've chosen
to give him the Wilson last name recently, and that's
done for a reason. It's done for Future's best interest
because growing up in the household where you have three
other siblings that are Wilson's and you're the only one,
you stick.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Out like a sowred thumb.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
And that man has been there for a little Future
ever since he was like two or three years old. So, yes,
he is. He is the father. He's not a biological father,
but he is the father. So we need to stop.
We need to start respecting men that step up like
that and stop calling them cornballs.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, that's not why he's the man. He is the
man in that perspective. That's not why he's a cornball.
And that's not why we call him cleased Pride either.
We call him cleaves pride because he threw how many
picks to the Dallas Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I mean, how many how many picks did he throw?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
No, but I'm saying, like people like Pivot, You're right, right,
people like like the Pivot. They call him cornball, and.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, no, he's I mean, he's he's the definition of
what a man is supposed to be. Like Honestly, when
you if you, if you, if you decide to take
take on this relationship with this woman, you take on
her children as well, and and he's like living proof
of that's how we're supposed to go. You know what
I'm saying. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot
of stories like that, not even at like you know,
(37:58):
uh Hollywood perspective ready, thing like that.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Man, there's a lot of men out.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Here that that take care of that responsibility and stuff.
Speaker 8 (38:04):
Man.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
And to me, you know, I've always said, man, it
take a hell of a man to take care of
another man seed like that, man, you know what I'm saying,
somebody else and raise a lot of kids you yeah, yeah, man,
and like they made productive adults because of it, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
So nothing, nothing makes a man.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
Look in the mirror more than recognizing that, wow, this
is my child. I wasn't there for them, and they
grew up to be something without right. That's the reality
a lot. It's hard hard to deal with.
Speaker 9 (38:38):
His future good with them changing the kids.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
I'm sure he's not, but that's his fault.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
And if he doesn't have cassody, is that like the
parent who asked cassody can do whatever it is and.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
They wouldn't and they and maybe they would. They wouldn't
have to do that if he was doing his job,
you know what I'm saying. So anyway, that's going to
wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Man.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
It ain't easy to do it, but.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
When it happens, it's beautiful. And that's another example of it,
the Russell Wilson Sierra situation. That's another example of it
becoming a beautiful thing.
Speaker 7 (39:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
So we're going to wrap it up and we'll see
you on the radio next week and we off this
funky thing.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
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