September 22, 2025 • 45 mins
This week, we’re unpacking the shifting realities of both the global stage and the American dream. At home, a new analysis finds that living out the American dream—from homeownership to raising kids—now carries a lifetime price tag of $5 million. And as costs rise, another trend deepens: fewer Americans are having sex, with birth rates projected to fall far below replacement levels over the next three decades. What does it mean when both family formation and affordability are in freefall? Abroad, Australia, Canada, and the UK have joined forces to recognize Palestinian statehood, piling international pressure on Israel and putting them at odds with the U.S.—while France signals it will follow at the UN General Assembly. Meanwhile in Washington, massive pro-Trump banners draped across federal buildings spark alarm over authoritarian undertones. And in Prince George’s County, Maryland, residents celebrate a temporary pause on data center development after tens of thousands signed a petition to protect community space. From the price of the dream to the politics of power, this episode dives into the choices shaping our lives at home and abroad.
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you these headlines Hunt and Ready and our first story
comes from CNN dot Com and Australia, Canada and UK
announced their recognition of Palestinian statehood in an apparently coordinated
move that piles pressure on US and Israel that these
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countries are saying that this Palestinian statehood is for real
with France planning to join next week.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Lease.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I think that this is a good thing for Palestinians. Now,
this puts the US in a really tight, precarious situation
because you know, the very first country, like eleven minutes
after they declare, Israel declared. The US recognize them the
fact though, but they recognize.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Them, and that's what they need to be recognized.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
You see, these are these are allies of Israel that
are like we we recognize Palestine.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
So this is this is exactly what is needed. And
I'm happy that this happened.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Indeed, indeed, we will keep our finger on the pult
of this story as details continue to roll out. Our
second story comes from Yahoo dot Com and Democrats on
Capitol Hill are raising alarm over large banners with President
Donald Trump face that can be seen on three federal buildings,
claiming they carry authoritarian undertones in the wake of the
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most recent reports with what's happening with Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Shits is this is the problem, and I appreciate the
raising the alarm, but the alarm has been going on
for a long time.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
This is stuff has been going on.
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It's been just put in front of us and we
need to stop saying it seems as if and we
need to recognize that it is actually happening.
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This is what this person is trying to do.
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And I think we need to get him on some
type of crime because you imagine how many people are
going to be terrified just by seeing his fate on
a building every day.
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Oh no, I need, I need my loss seat. No,
that's truma.
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And our final story, folks, Our final story comes from
NBC Washington dot com and PG Counties County Executive is
pausing the data center development through a executive order and
they council was set to pass a separate resolution that
will also temperaratey block the data center approvals. And this
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comes after twenty thousand signatures were sent to them from
the local community.
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Lease.
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You realize us never in a white area like they
didn't put it in a Potomac. I wonder why that is.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
I'm happy fight back, this is what we need.
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Fight back, however, however you can fight back, palls it halted,
whatever you can do with it. Because these these data
centers are coming in, they're using up all the natural resources.
I believe we had a story a while ago where
they were in the middle of a drought and the
data center was using up all this water.
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So yeah, it's just fight back. That's what we need.
Fight back however you.
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Can, Yeah, yeah, power to the people. Indeed, folks, we
have a great story, great main story lined up for
you coming up after this music break. We're talking about
inflation and if it in fact has dim the American dream.
The American dream is now more expensive than it has
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ever been. What is the price tag?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, stay with us after this break where we will
unleash that sticker shock. This is the Morning Experience on
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Morning Experience, folks. Thank you for joining us on this Monday.
And our main story for this hour comes from the finance.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Section of Yahoo. Shout out to Yahoo. We're given Yah,
Yahoo a lot of news credit this hour. So has
inflation dim the American dream?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, let's see it now costs five million over a
lifetime to fund eight key components of the American dream,
which includes home ownership, raising children, including excuse me, and
this is according to a new analysis from invoge Investipedia.
Everyone's dream is different, but some Americans want universal things.
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And again Shiitz homeownership, raising kids, sending your kids to college.
You know that that white picket fence and everything with
the dog we're looking at this is going to cost
five million dollars over a lifetime.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
That is wild.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Just consider that the what the what the average person
makes won't even equal anywhere near five million over a lifetime.
And we were talking about five million what the year
they or five million over it's over that span.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
To try to make things right that is is rough
out here. It's rough out here.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I see old apartments that when when I was younger
you would rent and they were what they were, there
were seven fifty eight to fifty. They're renting them those
same places out for almost two thousand dollars in the
same place, same condition and everything like that. It's renting
owning everything as that at all timeline and we're.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Going down a really dark path.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
And the reason why, I don't know if we're really
thinking about this in the timeframe that we're in, because
the United States government helped to create the middle class.
If Gen Z and millennials are the ones that are
suffering the most, and we will be the worst off,
we have less money than our parents will have.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
That means that there's no security blanket for us.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
If without the GI Bill, without FAHA loans, without the
government infusing money and mostly to white people, by the way,
there would be no middle class. So what does that
say when you have a government that's stripping everything all
types of funding, that we are going down a really
dark path really quickly.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
And I don't know if we are prepared for what
that looks like in a few years.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And some of this stuff includes folks retiring and comfort,
affordable quality healthcare, owning a home, raising a family, owning
a new car, going on vacation every year, caring for pets,
having a wedding.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
These are all things things that are increasing.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Like, for instance, retiring and comfort has increased eighty six percent,
Affordable quality for healthcare increase eighty six percent. Owning a
new home excuse me, owning a new car shis increased
seventy two percent.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
That's wild.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Yeah, you gotta you gotta do everything the used way.
You it's no such thing as happening. You can't have
a new car. You can't you can't afford to have
a new car. And then once you, once you find
and make enough money to get that new car, you
get hit over the head with insurance and you gotta
pay everything else.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
All these other bills are just coming at you.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It is.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
It is a non stop, just just pile on. And
it's just like for every for all that stuff to
be going up, and it's going to keep on rising.
That the cost of materials are going up, the cost
of just everyday goods are going up, so prices are definitely.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Going to keep rising an unfettered I think we're not
talking about capitalism here. A lot of this happened because
of the unfettered capitalism that is happening. A lot of
people are afraid of socialism, but I don't think we're
talking about what happens when capitalism runs amok. There aren't
any societies where you have this capitalism, where you have
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all these multi billionaires and things just go well.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
This is the rise of populism.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
You will see more people that do a lot more
extreme things on the left and on the right. You're
gonna see more political violence because people are now frustrated.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
They don't have the money, they don't have the resources.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Crime comes from poverty, crime comes from not having stuff,
and I think that is the problem that we are
not talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And I'm glad you brought that up at least because
that is something that I want to talk about after
this break, is that the crime and that going hand
in hand with basically the middle class being being mushed
and crushed and pressured.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So we'll discuss more and get into more detail after
this break.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Stay tuned with us. This is the morning Experience on
Latin Sex. This is the morning experience. Thank you for
joining us, folks, So leash. You brought up crime and
and this is something that I am really worried about
with this current regime to to make this whole forces,
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armed forces, military being in black cities, being in big
cities that if you crush the quote unquote quo, if
you crush the quote unquote middle class, that that then
that will then create more crime because resources are being limited.
With those resources being limited, and with that increase of crime,
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that's going to then invoke this regime to put you know,
military officials in those areas, and that's what they want,
this authoritarian rule. Is this where we're headed with this
increased price of this American dream?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Or is this just irresponsible capitalism?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I think it's just stupidity, Like we have allowed supidity
to run rampant in our society for a long time.
And the reason why is because people don't want to
address capitalism. I'm not saying that you need to get
rid of it, but we definitely need a different form
of it, because there's always that dream that I will
switch we will switch places. So the reason why people
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don't want to fix capitalism is because I have this
dream that America has sold me that one day I
will sit in their space and I want to.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Do what they do.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
So that's why we never fix anything because we really
don't want to fix it. We really just want to
switch places, which is the problem that we're in. And yes,
the more you take away from people, and this is
why I never understood where they say, oh, it's working
in DC with the military, I was like, what happens
when you pull them out?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Crime is not.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Really caused by people just being bad. It is caused
by you not having the money. Because when you don't
see petty crime, you don't see the levels of violent crime. Yes,
rich people do you commit crimes, mind you, but they
are different. You're not gonna see a billionaire breaking into
your call because he has it. We need to address that,
and we've not done that yet.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Lisa's cooking, Uh, Lisa's cooking.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
It's it's when you when you when you press that
middle class and and and you you make you make
a competition amongst the poor. You're gonna have rich, you're
gonna have poor, and you make of you make a
hierarchy of poor, Like, well, I'm poor, but I ain't
as poor as these people down here. Crabs in a barrel.
Crabs don't go in the barrel. We know this, but
it's just it's just an effect where people are just
fighting over each other. They but uh, a certain level
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of poor feels more entitled than a certain level of poor.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
It's just we we That's that's where the crime comes from.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
That's where that's where all the problems start to stem from,
because we are putting people in these situations of survival.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
They are they're not just out here living there trying
to survive.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And just thinking about home ownership.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
For those that want to get into home ownership, not
to dissuade you or anything like that. For home ownership nowadays,
I'm looking at nine hundred fifty seven thousand dollars of
five hundred and.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Over just about nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And this number reflects financing buying a home over a
thirty year fixed rate mortgage, and this includes interest, insurance,
and property taxes. Now, just a year ago this number
was down by thirty thousand dollars. So it's not getting
cheaper to be in this country lease, it's getting more
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and more expensive.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And where's the breaking point here?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
We're going to get to a breaking point.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
We saw the Fed cut rates, which will bring down
interest rates a bit, but we're not going to see
a huge relief from that. Right, it's going to continue
as we have Trump letting people do whatever. They're deregulating everything,
so that doesn't make it easier. Look at what they're
doing with consumer protections. Now, the banks are going to
be able to go back and charge people all these fees.
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It is going to get untenable in America. And honestly,
I don't know what that looks like, even from a
political side, because what happens when Americans are fed up?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Like what happens when they finally fed up? Like, what
are you going to do right now?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Y'all out here writing fake notes from the supposed, you know,
murder of Charlie Kirk when you really need to be
focused on the economy, which is what allegedly y'all ran on.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah yeah, folks, again, stay with us. We still got
more to discuss on this Monday about the American dream.
Has it become unattainable? This is the morning experience on LIT.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
This is the morning experience, folks. Thank you for joining us.
So get this.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
This comes from Redfin News and this relates to what
least we was talking about with capitalism and the economy.
The US housing market has nearly five hundred thousand more
sellers than buyers. And this is the first time that
this has ever happened. Schiz and like it is, it
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is just just wild and it feels like a recession
maybe among us.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Maybe people are panicking and they and they need the money.
They dangle a higher value of what your house is,
but they go in and then that's how that's where
gentrification comes from.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
That's where all these buildings get.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Bought up, and these properties get bought up by by
people who aren't from around there, but they'll give you
enough money to get you out of there. Then you
have nothing, You have no nothing to pass down you
have and that house isn't in your family, whether Grandmam
had it, great grandmom had it was passed down and
it was yours. And people give that up so fast.
It's like it's it's it's crazy out here. People are selling.
People are selling fast too, just to get that quick buck.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
And you said recession. Maybe he lurking, he and the
blinds like.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
He looking out nowid.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Words, you said, he's around, he's.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Almost out, like he's here. Really, you know, I'm coming
out like you know, the Clauset or whatever. So here's
the thing. I think a lot of people need to
pay attention to what is happening.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I think we allowed this to go on for way
too long without saying anything, and now it has gotten
to a point because although Trump is the symptom, he
is not necessarily the sole cause of this. And we're
just seeing this play out because that is how supposedly.
I mean, we know that it wasn't the eggs that
got him elected. It really was the racist Like let's
just be real. But they've been saying this for years.
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It was the economy that got us here, and we
are kept allowing this to happen and allowing billionaires, Oh,
we give them more money, if we give them more money,
And I was like, that has never happened where you
had a billionaire since Ronald Reagan. Right, we've never seen it.
Trickle down economics has never worked.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Have you ever have you felt a trickle?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Did you get a little trickle?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I don't think I got a trickle?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
No, no, no, they are they are peeing on us
and telling us that it is rained.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
They ain't paying on me.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And folks.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
One indicator, one main indicator that lets you know that
a recession is coming is the sales of frozen pizza.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
As oddly as that sounds, that is true.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And the sales of frozen pizza has gone up, and
it is projected that the sales of frozen pizza will
reach this year seven four billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Which will be a new record. So you know that
our word could be right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Prepare yourself, DC, young Fly, he said on his Instagram
just a couple of days ago. These last three months,
stacking season is stacking season, So you may have to
do that. Enjoy this music and then come back for
some education because it's Education season as well. This is
the morning experience on LIT one six. This is the
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morning experience, folks, thank you for joining us. We're talking
about the price of the American dream is rising, you know,
and water is wet as as if we didn't know.
This article also talks about raising kids and raising kids
through the age of eighteen. That price has has gone
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up as well, by two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars
just from last year at least.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
That's what I'm gona do. No, no, no, that's why, no,
no more kids for me.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
And this is the crazy part and why I don't
understand why they're cutting funding for children, because you cannot
be pro child or pro life and not pro baby,
not pro kid, right like they're cutting school lunch funding,
they're cutting medicaid, they're cutting everything that a mother would
need in order to take care of a child.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Yet you want women to continue to have baby. That
makes no sense. You are not pro life, you are
pro birth. And that is the problem.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
One of another problem that we have in this country,
that we're having the wrong arguments.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Like pro life versus pro choice. I was like, nah,
but what happened when they get here, like you're gonna.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Pay this childcare that's like fourteen to twenty four thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
No, that's right.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
And when they put those stipulations on, no matter what,
you have to keep the baby. And it's just like again,
like you said, so when that baby gets here, you
want this person. You already know the average the average
income of an American, You already know the position that
this person is in, and you want this person to
what raise this child? So then you can tell them
that how horrible parent they are, how they can't raise
their child, right, how you need to bring the government
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into their city because they can't raise their children.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Right. It's it's again, it's all. It's all a setup.
Everything is a set up. There.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
They're going to continue to squash us. They're going to
continue to make us a rich and of poor and
that's all it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And even for vacations, it talks about the average costs
of vacations nowadays are just a shade below three thousand
dollars a vacation.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Now, Lisa, Lisa, oh, absolutely, and that's the say listen,
like that's what I'm telling y'all them spirit flies, y'all,
be talking about them.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
At them.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Now you by the end of it, you have paid
about ten thousand dollars an extra fees. But you know,
everybody needs a vacation, and I think a lot of
people will also paying vacations as a luxury and like, hey,
if you don't have any money, you shouldn't go on
a vacation. When I actually believe that more people should
get a chance to leave or at least have that
leisure because people having heart attacks and they never get
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a chance to leave their actual community. I've met children
and people that have never left their block, and imagine
what that does to you when you've never left that block.
So we need to do more, and yes, it's getting
going to get it's more expensive to do absolutely everything.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
And when you get exposed to it, it's just like
it's a it's a shock.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
You just don't know, just to just going around it,
around a corner or it's a different part of the
city and it's just like, wow, this is so much
more than it's a shock. And people get surprised when
when nobody can handle that, because you don't you don't
introduce people to stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
This is the morning experience folks, we got more stay
with us on our money.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
This is the morning experience, folks. Thank you for joining
us on this new hour.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Uh so, least you said something the last hour about
folks that never left the block before. That reminded me
of my first semester at Morgan. I had some friends
come up and one of my friend friends friends of
a friend. He wasn't even a friend, he just wasn't
tagging along.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
What am uh distance.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Crazy?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I knew I knew of him, but I didn't know him.
I didn't know him exactly, but I knew.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Of him exactly exactly exactly. Going to deny it, I
knew of it.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
This is where the story takes a turn.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
And like he was like, yo, this is the.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
First time that I've been out of Lancaster. And I'm like,
how old are you? He was like I'm twenty eight
and I was like.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
How how? And when you said that, least, it's just
like so then this is this is happening in other places?
The oh for sure.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It's a viral video does on TikTok and Instagram of
a man who because there was a bunch of fentanyl
overdoses in Baltimore and he was one of them, and
he said when they brought him back, he was sad
that they brought him back because he was like, I
was almost out of here. I'm thirty one years old
and I've never left Baltimore, Like I don't have anything.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
To really live for, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
And that to me just shows you that people do
need to be exposed to more to show that if
you've never seen it, and this is when I worked
in a nonprofit space and I always would argue this,
if you've never seen it possible, how do you know
that it is possible. You need to see that it
is possible people that are like you doing what you do,
in order to know that it is in fact possible.
Like it was some kids from Philly that they took
(25:46):
them to Africa for the very first time, and it
was like an eye opening experience. People need to explore
and be exposed to more than just what's on their block,
otherwise they get hopeless.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
Yeah, and more than just what's on the internet. They
see stuff on the Internet and it's just like with us,
Like you said, the kids went to Africa, It's like
you remember the portrayals of Africa that we all were
given when we were younger. It was just the flies
flying around, everybody's walking around with no clothes on and
just but it's like it's so many different levels to
(26:17):
different places, and when you get out and you see that,
it changes your world view, it changes your mindset, it
just changes all that. And that's what people need. They
need to get up and get out, whatever the motivation
can be. But again it's the it's the cost. It's
the cost of just going somewhere. It's the cost of
renting a car costs as much as just as your mortgage.
Cost of a hotel for a weekend is as much
(26:40):
as a mortgage. It's just everything is expensive, and it's
it's hard to get out.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
But you have to make it.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And it's by design though as well, because they don't
want you to learn more, They don't want you to
have that exposure, they don't want.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
You to know that you can do more.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
So it is by design and to that point that
that really brings up back in my hometown, they used
to have on this thing called the Black College Tour,
and this Black College Tour ran for about fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
They don't do it anymore. But I was able to
do it twice.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And if I didn't go on this Black college tour,
I wouldn't have gone to the black college that I
went to. I wouldn't have known about these black colleges
that existed, like we were going to, you know, places
in Alabama, Tennessee, Florida and everything, so like we were
in the trenches.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So yeah, exposure plays a huge part, least for.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Sure, and I think that more people should that same
thing with me, like being exposed and being able to
lead the US for the first time. You see a
bunch of different things that you would have never seen,
and you have these preconceived notions of what it is
when you leave to actually see you like mountains and
to see the palm tree. It gives you a whole
new leash on life, and I think we all should
(27:56):
have I think they should put that in.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
As a citizen, we should be able to lead. That's
just me.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well talk more about that. We're going
to be talking about the job market on the other
side of this break.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Stay with us.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
This is the Morning Experience on a Monday. This is
the Morning Experience, folks. Thank you for joining us. I
feel like I shouldn't reveal this, but I am going
to reveal this right now to America. I watched Sinners
for the first time not on boot leg yesterday and
(28:33):
it was a fantastic click. I loved it on on bootleg,
but it was like just a billion times better not
on bootleg.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Don't cancel me.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Not you.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
You gotta go into the theater.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
You can't see that level of beauty like on bootleg.
Like you gotta see that beauty on four K big screen.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Oh my god, I'm oh my Gunners.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
M mm hmm, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well what there it is there, it is America. There
it is. But but but I will say, I will say,
good brother, it is.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It is a must see. I see it on again.
It's seeing on bootleg. Loved it, but like seeing it
without the interruptions and everything.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Or like people.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Without like somebody getting arrested and out there, and.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Then like then like at like then, like at like
three different times, like it was just buffering for like
two minutes because then I had to catch up with itself.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So I was like, all right, this is just I'm
gonna get through it because it's a good flick.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
But you don't even know if it was a good flick.
He knows now you had to rewatch it on the
regular version to be sure it was one.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
But yeah, but yeah, now that you say, uh imax
and everything, because I'm like, like, like yo, I love
vampires and like to have the historical context and like
the cotton fields and everything and just the music and
the juke joint.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Like, I'm not want to spoil it, but there's a
lot of.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
It has but he has not seen it yet, so
I'm trying to be nice.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Don't don't about bad movies and black movies.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
It's a black movie, Ryan Coolgler and all that.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Like that. You can spoil it right now and I
won't even watch it to know if you spoil.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
He's made a decision. Folks.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
The level of intricacy that Ryan Coogler went to to
make this film is insane, like the connection between Robert
Johnson the guitar, Because honestly, I have my own conspiracy
theory about Sammy, which I think a lot of the
issues that started started because of Sammy. Although he was
(31:20):
a great character, he really was the one that I
believe sold and sold to the devil, and I think
that's where.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
The snake came from. That's where the guitar came from. Like,
it's like a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But that's just me.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
That's my theory that I have.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
You've definitely released.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
I definitely agree with lease don't do that that waits.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Yeah, like definitely, like, yeah, it's the symbolism. That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
No, no, no, I no, no, I don't America. I
hope you're hearing this. I really hope. This is this
is this is what's wrong. This is this is mega.
This is mega. This is mega. You know black Point.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Oh you know, just just he wallowing blade though you
saw blade?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Oh man, I am a blade.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
He's all blade there.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah yeah that that yo, yo. This is this is
country Blade.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Why I will not watch it because you saw a
regular blade? Well this is country blade.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Blade, right, this is share cropper blade.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Like literally literally, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. That's
what Coogler said. He said, you know what, We're gonna
make sharecropper blade. Oh man, I don't blame him.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
He made a head.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
The smartest people in the whole movie were the Native Americans, right,
indigenous would have thought people they was in the second
races hood, I'm about peace, have a good day.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And they were they they were with the it's They said,
you know what, I choose violence.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
But you know what, since y'all want to do this,
I'm out. You didn't see no Native American, no other
part of the movie. They said, I'm.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Out and America listen to that.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
That that heat right, I'm out. I'm out, folks.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
We got our second main story coming up after this
music break. Uh talking talking about on the number of
Americans having sex has decreased.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Well, stay tuned. This is the Morning experience. This is
the Morning experience, folks. This is a spicy main story
for this hour. And this comes out of Newsweeks and
America they are having less sex as the birth weate
(34:13):
is declining and the number of Americans having sex has
dropped to record loows, signaling a potential sex procession. And
this is according to a study from the Institute for
Family Studies. The IFS and the IFS surveyed one thousand
men and women and found that less than half thirty
seven percent we're having sex weekly compared to fifty five
(34:35):
percent in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
So, lease, can you tell us what is going on here.
Folks are bumping and grinding less.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
We're more disconnected. People don't have to We don't go
out anymore. So when we're talking about like people don't
go out in bars, people don't go out in clubs.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
How do you get an intimate partner if you don't
go out, Yes, you can go on.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Tender, but what happens to all of the dudes Because
women in those spaces get a chance to pick I
would say a lot more in those spaces, and what
happens to the dudes that may not be the most attractive, right,
they get overlooked.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
And in the club you might be able to pull
somebody it's dark. You know, you had a little dreams.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Y'all are talking. She's like, Oh he's nice, I'll give
him a chance. But online everything is superficial. So these
people don't get a chance to go out anymore. And
women are getting smarter, like our goal now is not
to become mothers anymore, It is to become business. Women
are entreprenewers and it's okay to be alone, whereas in
the past that's not what was happening.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
So as it should be.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Birth grate should go down not saying y'all shouldn't get
on you get busy, Okay, get busy, but I.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Think the birth grade should go down. Women shouldn't be
for step babies if you don't want them.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
They didn't ask nobody in my residence. They didn't come
here and ask that research question.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
They didn't do any research on my block at allumping
them out. Yeah, it's if they're basing this on on
the on the on the birth rate, then I can
see why they were going to the conclusion that that
(36:17):
that that is just declining in that fashion just because
you put a lot of stipulations on people actually having babies.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Now.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
So yeah, people don't want to have babies, but that
don't mean they still ain't getting it in. If you've
got Instagram or Twitter after dark and you have a
few bucks, never too hard.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
This this story of really really raised some questions for
me because I'm like, okay, are you are are you
associating birth rate.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
With with sexual activity? Are then?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Then I thought about, you know, with this survey, you know,
I'm saying that people people they more people had sex
weekly in the nineties versus now, And I didn't really
see like, oh, well, people are having less sex.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I took it as people are watching more porn, like
so in.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Between the activities, you know, there's not that kyoe ugly
to get your rocks off, because now porn is just
so readily available.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
And I would like to see, you know, kind.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Of a counter study to this to see if porn
has actually increased lease.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Of course it has.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Porn is in your pockets, like you can have porn anywhere,
and it's free now because back in the day you
had to either watch the grainy pay per view or
you had to buy it.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
So yes, there's a lot more pornography out there.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
However, I will say that most of the decline when
you're looking at the study comes from young people from
eighteen to twenty nine. As just like shiz I did
my part. I got twenty seven kids, he got thirty.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
We did our part.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
But the young but the young people are not like
I said, they're not connecting with each other.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
They don't talk, they don't get into conversations. Imagine us
and like us in college, that was the years when
you were out doing it, sipping and doing it, and
now that's not what's happening. So I think that's where
the recession is coming from some of it's corn, but
I think a lot of it is that people just
aren't connected anymore, especially young people.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Yeah, not connected at all.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
They don't they don't interact that it's a it's a
awkwardest when when they're out socially with each other and
they run into each other. It's just people live on
these keyboards, they live behind these computer screens, and then
when they meet out in public, it's just like cool,
I'm gonna just have my head down and live through
my phone while I'm out in public with this person.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
It's just, yeah, the connection ain't there. I feel sorry
for you because you don't have no problems there.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Heh. Folks, we'll discuss more after this music. This is
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Us there there it is there, it is so folks, again,
thank you for joining us on the Morning Experience. We
are talking about the number of ladies and gentlemen, they
and them that are having less sex in the country.
So the number of folks having births, it fell from
(40:03):
one point six, which was I mean, it fell to
one point six from two point one. So women are
having one and a half babies now versus having two.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
Please, yeah, I don't know how the half thing works.
But but again, when you see more women are taking
charge of their own lives and you don't have to
be mothers anymore because you are looked at as a
pariah back in the day. If you said I don't
want to have any children, Now you can do that
and it's fine. You can be a cat lady and
(40:38):
be just fine, which honestly, that sounds awesome to be
as a person who loves cats, it sounds awesome.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
But also the decline in marriage is also contributing to this.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
So people aren't getting married anymore for a multitude of reasons.
If you don't talk to people, you're not gonna get married.
And then two marriage is not seen in their positive light,
especially with all of the disasters that we've seen in
our lifetime.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
So I think a lot of millennials and gen z
is like, you can.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Keep that, you can keep it.
Speaker 7 (41:09):
And with smart enough.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
A lot of the women are coming across your Nick
Cannons and your Anthony Edwards hit the lick.
Speaker 7 (41:14):
One time and you.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Well, you don't need two kids after that, you just
get the one and get up out of there. The
half person, I believe they like to be called the
little people.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Cash out, cash out, one and done.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Dang oh man, Yeah, this this is this is a
very very interesting because this study uh links links fertility
and babies to Americans having sex. And it could just
be that Americans are using more contraceptives and and and
(41:52):
that that that could be a simple answer uh to this, folks,
stay with us more to discuss after this break. This
is the Morning Experience on.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
LIT what saying this is the morning Experience. Thank you
for joining us this hour. So shiz kind of combining
are our two main stories here today? So are people
having less sex less kids because the American dream is
now five million dollars That.
Speaker 8 (42:25):
Could be one of the reasons, but I don't think
anybody in America recognized that the price of living would
be five five million dollars because people live for the
moment and live for what they can show on social media,
so they don't really as long as they can portray
like they have the five million dollars to live a
healthy lifestyle in America, it's there, but it's it's the laws,
(42:48):
it's the it's the it's the crackdown on just women's
rights where we're taking these rights away and overturning decisions
where it's it's it you can't. You don't want to
bring a child into this world if people are people
are smart enough, people don't want to bring their children.
Speaker 5 (43:03):
Into this that and you bring up a good point,
but with rights being taken away because a lot of people,
I don't think they understand that not only was Row
overturned in twenty twenty two, but you also have more
of the Supreme Court than other states are going after contraception.
Imagine birth control being illegal or condoms being illegal. Matter
(43:25):
of fact, there was a great commercial that came out
that I believe it was the Hairs campaign that put
it out where they condoms were actually illegal, and you
couldn't get them because they want to increase the birth
rate because they need employees. So I think that more
more people. Definitely, we should be more intimate. If you
can make sure you're doing it at home. That's still
illegal and I don't want to see it, but make
(43:47):
sure that y'all are definitely communicat because we need people
to be intimate.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
You don't have that.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
Babies every time you do that, but love each other.
I think we should.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
Absolutely, we are definitely in a different world now.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Shiz our alma mater. We had a plan B vending machine.
As crazy as that sounds like it was, it was.
It was readily available on a cottage campus.
Speaker 8 (44:16):
They knew what we were doing. They knew they knew
what was going on. They had the health center used
to stay open all night. Go right in there whatever you.
Speaker 7 (44:24):
Needed to do. Condoms, ye, just a basket sitting right
at the front. You just go and you don't have
to talk to anybody, just a handful.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
But you can't do that now when planned parenthood is
being demonized, like they don't have that, and I think
kids just rather just not have not have intercourse at all.
Like if I got to potentially have a baby. I'd
rather just be in my room by myself. Yeah, and
it's deeper and just rub one out.
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cut on.
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(05:08):
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Shits is this is the problem, and I appreciate the
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Fight back, however, however you can fight back, palls it halted,
whatever you can do with it. Because these these data
centers are coming in, they're using up all the natural resources.
I believe we had a story a while ago where
they were in the middle of a drought and the
data center was using up all this water.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
So yeah, it's just fight back. That's what we need.
Fight back however you.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Can, Yeah, yeah, power to the people. Indeed, folks, we
have a great story, great main story lined up for
you coming up after this music break. We're talking about
inflation and if it in fact has dim the American dream.
The American dream is now more expensive than it has
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ever been. What is the price tag?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, stay with us after this break where we will
unleash that sticker shock. This is the Morning Experience on
lit one O six on a Monday. This is the
Morning Experience, folks. Thank you for joining us on this Monday.
And our main story for this hour comes from the finance.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Section of Yahoo. Shout out to Yahoo. We're given Yah,
Yahoo a lot of news credit this hour. So has
inflation dim the American dream?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, let's see it now costs five million over a
lifetime to fund eight key components of the American dream,
which includes home ownership, raising children, including excuse me, and
this is according to a new analysis from invoge Investipedia.
Everyone's dream is different, but some Americans want universal things.
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And again Shiitz homeownership, raising kids, sending your kids to college.
You know that that white picket fence and everything with
the dog we're looking at this is going to cost
five million dollars over a lifetime.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
That is wild.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Just consider that the what the what the average person
makes won't even equal anywhere near five million over a lifetime.
And we were talking about five million what the year
they or five million over it's over that span.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
To try to make things right that is is rough
out here. It's rough out here.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I see old apartments that when when I was younger
you would rent and they were what they were, there
were seven fifty eight to fifty. They're renting them those
same places out for almost two thousand dollars in the
same place, same condition and everything like that. It's renting
owning everything as that at all timeline and we're.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Going down a really dark path.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
And the reason why, I don't know if we're really
thinking about this in the timeframe that we're in, because
the United States government helped to create the middle class.
If Gen Z and millennials are the ones that are
suffering the most, and we will be the worst off,
we have less money than our parents will have.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
That means that there's no security blanket for us.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
If without the GI Bill, without FAHA loans, without the
government infusing money and mostly to white people, by the way,
there would be no middle class. So what does that
say when you have a government that's stripping everything all
types of funding, that we are going down a really
dark path really quickly.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
And I don't know if we are prepared for what
that looks like in a few years.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And some of this stuff includes folks retiring and comfort,
affordable quality healthcare, owning a home, raising a family, owning
a new car, going on vacation every year, caring for pets,
having a wedding.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
These are all things things that are increasing.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Like, for instance, retiring and comfort has increased eighty six percent,
Affordable quality for healthcare increase eighty six percent. Owning a
new home excuse me, owning a new car shis increased
seventy two percent.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
That's wild.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Yeah, you gotta you gotta do everything the used way.
You it's no such thing as happening. You can't have
a new car. You can't you can't afford to have
a new car. And then once you, once you find
and make enough money to get that new car, you
get hit over the head with insurance and you gotta
pay everything else.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
All these other bills are just coming at you.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It is.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
It is a non stop, just just pile on. And
it's just like for every for all that stuff to
be going up, and it's going to keep on rising.
That the cost of materials are going up, the cost
of just everyday goods are going up, so prices are definitely.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Going to keep rising an unfettered I think we're not
talking about capitalism here. A lot of this happened because
of the unfettered capitalism that is happening. A lot of
people are afraid of socialism, but I don't think we're
talking about what happens when capitalism runs amok. There aren't
any societies where you have this capitalism, where you have
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all these multi billionaires and things just go well.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
This is the rise of populism.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
You will see more people that do a lot more
extreme things on the left and on the right. You're
gonna see more political violence because people are now frustrated.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
They don't have the money, they don't have the resources.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Crime comes from poverty, crime comes from not having stuff,
and I think that is the problem that we are
not talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And I'm glad you brought that up at least because
that is something that I want to talk about after
this break, is that the crime and that going hand
in hand with basically the middle class being being mushed
and crushed and pressured.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So we'll discuss more and get into more detail after
this break.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Stay tuned with us. This is the morning Experience on
Latin Sex. This is the morning experience. Thank you for
joining us, folks, So leash. You brought up crime and
and this is something that I am really worried about
with this current regime to to make this whole forces,
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armed forces, military being in black cities, being in big
cities that if you crush the quote unquote quo, if
you crush the quote unquote middle class, that that then
that will then create more crime because resources are being limited.
With those resources being limited, and with that increase of crime,
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that's going to then invoke this regime to put you know,
military officials in those areas, and that's what they want,
this authoritarian rule. Is this where we're headed with this
increased price of this American dream?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Or is this just irresponsible capitalism?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I think it's just stupidity, Like we have allowed supidity
to run rampant in our society for a long time.
And the reason why is because people don't want to
address capitalism. I'm not saying that you need to get
rid of it, but we definitely need a different form
of it, because there's always that dream that I will
switch we will switch places. So the reason why people
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don't want to fix capitalism is because I have this
dream that America has sold me that one day I
will sit in their space and I want to.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Do what they do.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
So that's why we never fix anything because we really
don't want to fix it. We really just want to
switch places, which is the problem that we're in. And yes,
the more you take away from people, and this is
why I never understood where they say, oh, it's working
in DC with the military, I was like, what happens
when you pull them out?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Crime is not.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Really caused by people just being bad. It is caused
by you not having the money. Because when you don't
see petty crime, you don't see the levels of violent crime. Yes,
rich people do you commit crimes, mind you, but they
are different. You're not gonna see a billionaire breaking into
your call because he has it. We need to address that,
and we've not done that yet.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Lisa's cooking, Uh, Lisa's cooking.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
It's it's when you when you when you press that
middle class and and and you you make you make
a competition amongst the poor. You're gonna have rich, you're
gonna have poor, and you make of you make a
hierarchy of poor, Like, well, I'm poor, but I ain't
as poor as these people down here. Crabs in a barrel.
Crabs don't go in the barrel. We know this, but
it's just it's just an effect where people are just
fighting over each other. They but uh, a certain level
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of poor feels more entitled than a certain level of poor.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
It's just we we That's that's where the crime comes from.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
That's where that's where all the problems start to stem from,
because we are putting people in these situations of survival.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
They are they're not just out here living there trying
to survive.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And just thinking about home ownership.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
For those that want to get into home ownership, not
to dissuade you or anything like that. For home ownership nowadays,
I'm looking at nine hundred fifty seven thousand dollars of
five hundred and.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Over just about nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And this number reflects financing buying a home over a
thirty year fixed rate mortgage, and this includes interest, insurance,
and property taxes. Now, just a year ago this number
was down by thirty thousand dollars. So it's not getting
cheaper to be in this country lease, it's getting more
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and more expensive.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And where's the breaking point here?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
We're going to get to a breaking point.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
We saw the Fed cut rates, which will bring down
interest rates a bit, but we're not going to see
a huge relief from that. Right, it's going to continue
as we have Trump letting people do whatever. They're deregulating everything,
so that doesn't make it easier. Look at what they're
doing with consumer protections. Now, the banks are going to
be able to go back and charge people all these fees.
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It is going to get untenable in America. And honestly,
I don't know what that looks like, even from a
political side, because what happens when Americans are fed up?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Like what happens when they finally fed up? Like, what
are you going to do right now?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Y'all out here writing fake notes from the supposed, you know,
murder of Charlie Kirk when you really need to be
focused on the economy, which is what allegedly y'all ran on.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah yeah, folks, again, stay with us. We still got
more to discuss on this Monday about the American dream.
Has it become unattainable? This is the morning experience on LIT.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
This is the morning experience, folks. Thank you for joining us.
So get this.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
This comes from Redfin News and this relates to what
least we was talking about with capitalism and the economy.
The US housing market has nearly five hundred thousand more
sellers than buyers. And this is the first time that
this has ever happened. Schiz and like it is, it
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is just just wild and it feels like a recession
maybe among us.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Maybe people are panicking and they and they need the money.
They dangle a higher value of what your house is,
but they go in and then that's how that's where
gentrification comes from.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
That's where all these buildings get.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Bought up, and these properties get bought up by by
people who aren't from around there, but they'll give you
enough money to get you out of there. Then you
have nothing, You have no nothing to pass down you
have and that house isn't in your family, whether Grandmam
had it, great grandmom had it was passed down and
it was yours. And people give that up so fast.
It's like it's it's it's crazy out here. People are selling.
People are selling fast too, just to get that quick buck.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
And you said recession. Maybe he lurking, he and the
blinds like.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
He looking out nowid.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Words, you said, he's around, he's.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Almost out, like he's here. Really, you know, I'm coming
out like you know, the Clauset or whatever. So here's
the thing. I think a lot of people need to
pay attention to what is happening.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I think we allowed this to go on for way
too long without saying anything, and now it has gotten
to a point because although Trump is the symptom, he
is not necessarily the sole cause of this. And we're
just seeing this play out because that is how supposedly.
I mean, we know that it wasn't the eggs that
got him elected. It really was the racist Like let's
just be real. But they've been saying this for years.
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It was the economy that got us here, and we
are kept allowing this to happen and allowing billionaires, Oh,
we give them more money, if we give them more money,
And I was like, that has never happened where you
had a billionaire since Ronald Reagan. Right, we've never seen it.
Trickle down economics has never worked.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Have you ever have you felt a trickle?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Did you get a little trickle?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I don't think I got a trickle?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
No, no, no, they are they are peeing on us
and telling us that it is rained.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
They ain't paying on me.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And folks.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
One indicator, one main indicator that lets you know that
a recession is coming is the sales of frozen pizza.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
As oddly as that sounds, that is true.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And the sales of frozen pizza has gone up, and
it is projected that the sales of frozen pizza will
reach this year seven four billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Which will be a new record. So you know that
our word could be right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Prepare yourself, DC, young Fly, he said on his Instagram
just a couple of days ago. These last three months,
stacking season is stacking season, So you may have to
do that. Enjoy this music and then come back for
some education because it's Education season as well. This is
the morning experience on LIT one six. This is the
(20:31):
morning experience, folks, thank you for joining us. We're talking
about the price of the American dream is rising, you know,
and water is wet as as if we didn't know.
This article also talks about raising kids and raising kids
through the age of eighteen. That price has has gone
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up as well, by two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars
just from last year at least.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
That's what I'm gona do. No, no, no, that's why, no,
no more kids for me.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
And this is the crazy part and why I don't
understand why they're cutting funding for children, because you cannot
be pro child or pro life and not pro baby,
not pro kid, right like they're cutting school lunch funding,
they're cutting medicaid, they're cutting everything that a mother would
need in order to take care of a child.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Yet you want women to continue to have baby. That
makes no sense. You are not pro life, you are
pro birth. And that is the problem.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
One of another problem that we have in this country,
that we're having the wrong arguments.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Like pro life versus pro choice. I was like, nah,
but what happened when they get here, like you're gonna.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Pay this childcare that's like fourteen to twenty four thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
No, that's right.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
And when they put those stipulations on, no matter what,
you have to keep the baby. And it's just like again,
like you said, so when that baby gets here, you
want this person. You already know the average the average
income of an American, You already know the position that
this person is in, and you want this person to
what raise this child? So then you can tell them
that how horrible parent they are, how they can't raise
their child, right, how you need to bring the government
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into their city because they can't raise their children.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Right. It's it's again, it's all. It's all a setup.
Everything is a set up. There.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
They're going to continue to squash us. They're going to
continue to make us a rich and of poor and
that's all it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And even for vacations, it talks about the average costs
of vacations nowadays are just a shade below three thousand
dollars a vacation.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Now, Lisa, Lisa, oh, absolutely, and that's the say listen,
like that's what I'm telling y'all them spirit flies, y'all,
be talking about them.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
At them.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Now you by the end of it, you have paid
about ten thousand dollars an extra fees. But you know,
everybody needs a vacation, and I think a lot of
people will also paying vacations as a luxury and like, hey,
if you don't have any money, you shouldn't go on
a vacation. When I actually believe that more people should
get a chance to leave or at least have that
leisure because people having heart attacks and they never get
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a chance to leave their actual community. I've met children
and people that have never left their block, and imagine
what that does to you when you've never left that block.
So we need to do more, and yes, it's getting
going to get it's more expensive to do absolutely everything.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
And when you get exposed to it, it's just like
it's a it's a shock.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
You just don't know, just to just going around it,
around a corner or it's a different part of the
city and it's just like, wow, this is so much
more than it's a shock. And people get surprised when
when nobody can handle that, because you don't you don't
introduce people to stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
This is the morning experience folks, we got more stay
with us on our money.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
This is the morning experience, folks. Thank you for joining
us on this new hour.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Uh so, least you said something the last hour about
folks that never left the block before. That reminded me
of my first semester at Morgan. I had some friends
come up and one of my friend friends friends of
a friend. He wasn't even a friend, he just wasn't
tagging along.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
What am uh distance.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Crazy?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I knew I knew of him, but I didn't know him.
I didn't know him exactly, but I knew.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Of him exactly exactly exactly. Going to deny it, I
knew of it.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
This is where the story takes a turn.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
And like he was like, yo, this is the.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
First time that I've been out of Lancaster. And I'm like,
how old are you? He was like I'm twenty eight
and I was like.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
How how? And when you said that, least, it's just
like so then this is this is happening in other places?
The oh for sure.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It's a viral video does on TikTok and Instagram of
a man who because there was a bunch of fentanyl
overdoses in Baltimore and he was one of them, and
he said when they brought him back, he was sad
that they brought him back because he was like, I
was almost out of here. I'm thirty one years old
and I've never left Baltimore, Like I don't have anything.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
To really live for, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
And that to me just shows you that people do
need to be exposed to more to show that if
you've never seen it, and this is when I worked
in a nonprofit space and I always would argue this,
if you've never seen it possible, how do you know
that it is possible. You need to see that it
is possible people that are like you doing what you do,
in order to know that it is in fact possible.
Like it was some kids from Philly that they took
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them to Africa for the very first time, and it
was like an eye opening experience. People need to explore
and be exposed to more than just what's on their block,
otherwise they get hopeless.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
Yeah, and more than just what's on the internet. They
see stuff on the Internet and it's just like with us,
Like you said, the kids went to Africa, It's like
you remember the portrayals of Africa that we all were
given when we were younger. It was just the flies
flying around, everybody's walking around with no clothes on and
just but it's like it's so many different levels to
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different places, and when you get out and you see that,
it changes your world view, it changes your mindset, it
just changes all that. And that's what people need. They
need to get up and get out, whatever the motivation
can be. But again it's the it's the cost. It's
the cost of just going somewhere. It's the cost of
renting a car costs as much as just as your mortgage.
Cost of a hotel for a weekend is as much
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as a mortgage. It's just everything is expensive, and it's
it's hard to get out.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
But you have to make it.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And it's by design though as well, because they don't
want you to learn more, They don't want you to
have that exposure, they don't want.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
You to know that you can do more.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
So it is by design and to that point that
that really brings up back in my hometown, they used
to have on this thing called the Black College Tour,
and this Black College Tour ran for about fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
They don't do it anymore. But I was able to
do it twice.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And if I didn't go on this Black college tour,
I wouldn't have gone to the black college that I
went to. I wouldn't have known about these black colleges
that existed, like we were going to, you know, places
in Alabama, Tennessee, Florida and everything, so like we were
in the trenches.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So yeah, exposure plays a huge part, least for.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Sure, and I think that more people should that same
thing with me, like being exposed and being able to
lead the US for the first time. You see a
bunch of different things that you would have never seen,
and you have these preconceived notions of what it is
when you leave to actually see you like mountains and
to see the palm tree. It gives you a whole
new leash on life, and I think we all should
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have I think they should put that in.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
As a citizen, we should be able to lead. That's
just me.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well talk more about that. We're going
to be talking about the job market on the other
side of this break.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Stay with us.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
This is the Morning Experience on a Monday. This is
the Morning Experience, folks. Thank you for joining us. I
feel like I shouldn't reveal this, but I am going
to reveal this right now to America. I watched Sinners
for the first time not on boot leg yesterday and
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it was a fantastic click. I loved it on on bootleg,
but it was like just a billion times better not
on bootleg.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Don't cancel me.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Not you.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
You gotta go into the theater.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
You can't see that level of beauty like on bootleg.
Like you gotta see that beauty on four K big screen.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Oh my god, I'm oh my Gunners.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
M mm hmm, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well what there it is there, it is America. There
it is. But but but I will say, I will say,
good brother, it is.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It is a must see. I see it on again.
It's seeing on bootleg. Loved it, but like seeing it
without the interruptions and everything.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Or like people.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Without like somebody getting arrested and out there, and.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Then like then like at like then, like at like
three different times, like it was just buffering for like
two minutes because then I had to catch up with itself.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So I was like, all right, this is just I'm
gonna get through it because it's a good flick.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
But you don't even know if it was a good flick.
He knows now you had to rewatch it on the
regular version to be sure it was one.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
But yeah, but yeah, now that you say, uh imax
and everything, because I'm like, like, like yo, I love
vampires and like to have the historical context and like
the cotton fields and everything and just the music and
the juke joint.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Like, I'm not want to spoil it, but there's a
lot of.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
It has but he has not seen it yet, so
I'm trying to be nice.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Don't don't about bad movies and black movies.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
It's a black movie, Ryan Coolgler and all that.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Like that. You can spoil it right now and I
won't even watch it to know if you spoil.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
He's made a decision. Folks.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
The level of intricacy that Ryan Coogler went to to
make this film is insane, like the connection between Robert
Johnson the guitar, Because honestly, I have my own conspiracy
theory about Sammy, which I think a lot of the
issues that started started because of Sammy. Although he was
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a great character, he really was the one that I
believe sold and sold to the devil, and I think
that's where.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
The snake came from. That's where the guitar came from. Like,
it's like a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But that's just me.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
That's my theory that I have.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
You've definitely released.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
I definitely agree with lease don't do that that waits.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Yeah, like definitely, like, yeah, it's the symbolism. That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
No, no, no, I no, no, I don't America. I
hope you're hearing this. I really hope. This is this
is this is what's wrong. This is this is mega.
This is mega. This is mega. You know black Point.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Oh you know, just just he wallowing blade though you
saw blade?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Oh man, I am a blade.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
He's all blade there.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah yeah that that yo, yo. This is this is
country Blade.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Why I will not watch it because you saw a
regular blade? Well this is country blade.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Blade, right, this is share cropper blade.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Like literally literally, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. That's
what Coogler said. He said, you know what, We're gonna
make sharecropper blade. Oh man, I don't blame him.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
He made a head.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
The smartest people in the whole movie were the Native Americans, right,
indigenous would have thought people they was in the second
races hood, I'm about peace, have a good day.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And they were they they were with the it's They said,
you know what, I choose violence.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
But you know what, since y'all want to do this,
I'm out. You didn't see no Native American, no other
part of the movie. They said, I'm.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Out and America listen to that.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
That that heat right, I'm out. I'm out, folks.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
We got our second main story coming up after this
music break. Uh talking talking about on the number of
Americans having sex has decreased.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Well, stay tuned. This is the Morning experience. This is
the Morning experience, folks. This is a spicy main story
for this hour. And this comes out of Newsweeks and
America they are having less sex as the birth weate
(34:13):
is declining and the number of Americans having sex has
dropped to record loows, signaling a potential sex procession. And
this is according to a study from the Institute for
Family Studies. The IFS and the IFS surveyed one thousand
men and women and found that less than half thirty
seven percent we're having sex weekly compared to fifty five
(34:35):
percent in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
So, lease, can you tell us what is going on here.
Folks are bumping and grinding less.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
We're more disconnected. People don't have to We don't go
out anymore. So when we're talking about like people don't
go out in bars, people don't go out in clubs.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
How do you get an intimate partner if you don't
go out, Yes, you can go on.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Tender, but what happens to all of the dudes Because
women in those spaces get a chance to pick I
would say a lot more in those spaces, and what
happens to the dudes that may not be the most attractive, right,
they get overlooked.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
And in the club you might be able to pull
somebody it's dark. You know, you had a little dreams.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Y'all are talking. She's like, Oh he's nice, I'll give
him a chance. But online everything is superficial. So these
people don't get a chance to go out anymore. And
women are getting smarter, like our goal now is not
to become mothers anymore, It is to become business. Women
are entreprenewers and it's okay to be alone, whereas in
the past that's not what was happening.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
So as it should be.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Birth grate should go down not saying y'all shouldn't get
on you get busy, Okay, get busy, but I.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Think the birth grade should go down. Women shouldn't be
for step babies if you don't want them.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
They didn't ask nobody in my residence. They didn't come
here and ask that research question.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
They didn't do any research on my block at allumping
them out. Yeah, it's if they're basing this on on
the on the on the birth rate, then I can
see why they were going to the conclusion that that
(36:17):
that that is just declining in that fashion just because
you put a lot of stipulations on people actually having babies.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Now.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
So yeah, people don't want to have babies, but that
don't mean they still ain't getting it in. If you've
got Instagram or Twitter after dark and you have a
few bucks, never too hard.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
This this story of really really raised some questions for
me because I'm like, okay, are you are are you
associating birth rate.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
With with sexual activity? Are then?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Then I thought about, you know, with this survey, you know,
I'm saying that people people they more people had sex
weekly in the nineties versus now, And I didn't really
see like, oh, well, people are having less sex.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I took it as people are watching more porn, like
so in.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Between the activities, you know, there's not that kyoe ugly
to get your rocks off, because now porn is just
so readily available.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
And I would like to see, you know, kind.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Of a counter study to this to see if porn
has actually increased lease.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Of course it has.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Porn is in your pockets, like you can have porn anywhere,
and it's free now because back in the day you
had to either watch the grainy pay per view or
you had to buy it.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
So yes, there's a lot more pornography out there.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
However, I will say that most of the decline when
you're looking at the study comes from young people from
eighteen to twenty nine. As just like shiz I did
my part. I got twenty seven kids, he got thirty.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
We did our part.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
But the young but the young people are not like
I said, they're not connecting with each other.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
They don't talk, they don't get into conversations. Imagine us
and like us in college, that was the years when
you were out doing it, sipping and doing it, and
now that's not what's happening. So I think that's where
the recession is coming from some of it's corn, but
I think a lot of it is that people just
aren't connected anymore, especially young people.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Yeah, not connected at all.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
They don't they don't interact that it's a it's a
awkwardest when when they're out socially with each other and
they run into each other. It's just people live on
these keyboards, they live behind these computer screens, and then
when they meet out in public, it's just like cool,
I'm gonna just have my head down and live through
my phone while I'm out in public with this person.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
It's just, yeah, the connection ain't there. I feel sorry
for you because you don't have no problems there.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Heh. Folks, we'll discuss more after this music. This is
The Morning Experience on one six. This is the Morning Experience.
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
And if you happen to miss this show or want
to dig into the archives, shiz, what can the good
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Speaker 8 (39:20):
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Speaker 5 (39:36):
We can follow us on Instagram at the Morning Experience,
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Speaker 2 (39:42):
Us there there it is there, it is so folks, again,
thank you for joining us on the Morning Experience. We
are talking about the number of ladies and gentlemen, they
and them that are having less sex in the country.
So the number of folks having births, it fell from
(40:03):
one point six, which was I mean, it fell to
one point six from two point one. So women are
having one and a half babies now versus having two.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
Please, yeah, I don't know how the half thing works.
But but again, when you see more women are taking
charge of their own lives and you don't have to
be mothers anymore because you are looked at as a
pariah back in the day. If you said I don't
want to have any children, Now you can do that
and it's fine. You can be a cat lady and
(40:38):
be just fine, which honestly, that sounds awesome to be
as a person who loves cats, it sounds awesome.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
But also the decline in marriage is also contributing to this.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
So people aren't getting married anymore for a multitude of reasons.
If you don't talk to people, you're not gonna get married.
And then two marriage is not seen in their positive light,
especially with all of the disasters that we've seen in
our lifetime.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
So I think a lot of millennials and gen z
is like, you can.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Keep that, you can keep it.
Speaker 7 (41:09):
And with smart enough.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
A lot of the women are coming across your Nick
Cannons and your Anthony Edwards hit the lick.
Speaker 7 (41:14):
One time and you.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Well, you don't need two kids after that, you just
get the one and get up out of there. The
half person, I believe they like to be called the
little people.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Cash out, cash out, one and done.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Dang oh man, Yeah, this this is this is a
very very interesting because this study uh links links fertility
and babies to Americans having sex. And it could just
be that Americans are using more contraceptives and and and
(41:52):
that that that could be a simple answer uh to this, folks,
stay with us more to discuss after this break. This
is the Morning Experience on.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
LIT what saying this is the morning Experience. Thank you
for joining us this hour. So shiz kind of combining
are our two main stories here today? So are people
having less sex less kids because the American dream is
now five million dollars That.
Speaker 8 (42:25):
Could be one of the reasons, but I don't think
anybody in America recognized that the price of living would
be five five million dollars because people live for the
moment and live for what they can show on social media,
so they don't really as long as they can portray
like they have the five million dollars to live a
healthy lifestyle in America, it's there, but it's it's the laws,
(42:48):
it's the it's the it's the crackdown on just women's
rights where we're taking these rights away and overturning decisions
where it's it's it you can't. You don't want to
bring a child into this world if people are people
are smart enough, people don't want to bring their children.
Speaker 5 (43:03):
Into this that and you bring up a good point,
but with rights being taken away because a lot of people,
I don't think they understand that not only was Row
overturned in twenty twenty two, but you also have more
of the Supreme Court than other states are going after contraception.
Imagine birth control being illegal or condoms being illegal. Matter
(43:25):
of fact, there was a great commercial that came out
that I believe it was the Hairs campaign that put
it out where they condoms were actually illegal, and you
couldn't get them because they want to increase the birth
rate because they need employees. So I think that more
more people. Definitely, we should be more intimate. If you
can make sure you're doing it at home. That's still
illegal and I don't want to see it, but make
(43:47):
sure that y'all are definitely communicat because we need people
to be intimate.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
You don't have that.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
Babies every time you do that, but love each other.
I think we should.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
Absolutely, we are definitely in a different world now.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Shiz our alma mater. We had a plan B vending machine.
As crazy as that sounds like it was, it was.
It was readily available on a cottage campus.
Speaker 8 (44:16):
They knew what we were doing. They knew they knew
what was going on. They had the health center used
to stay open all night. Go right in there whatever you.
Speaker 7 (44:24):
Needed to do. Condoms, ye, just a basket sitting right
at the front. You just go and you don't have
to talk to anybody, just a handful.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
But you can't do that now when planned parenthood is
being demonized, like they don't have that, and I think
kids just rather just not have not have intercourse at all.
Like if I got to potentially have a baby. I'd
rather just be in my room by myself. Yeah, and
it's deeper and just rub one out.
Speaker 7 (44:53):
You don't got to We don't have to wait until
cut on.
Speaker 9 (45:00):
I don't gotta wait for the tip Trium video. This
is the Morning Experience on I got my credit card ready.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
If you no, you know.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Thank you for joining us on the Morning Experience. This
was another good one SZ for this Monday.
Speaker 7 (45:22):
A happy Monday. If you learn anything today, get out
there and not some boots.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
For sure, and like he said, get your credit card ready,
but go rising, Oh go Ravens.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Indeed, the Eagles won, the Commander's won. It is a
good day.
Speaker 7 (45:41):
Up.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
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