April 20, 2026 • 34 mins
Also, we talk with the author of "Dad, Can You Not? A Dad's Guide to Being Less Cringey" in case anyone might need that help (not me, of course, but ... you know ... other dads).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman. I'm not gonna hammer
this all morning. In fact, coming up here at nine
this morning, Lucy, this is something that I am told
I struggle with a very very great deal, and that
is a courtesy of my kids and their friends. And
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that is being cringey. In case you're not familiar with
what it takes to be cringey as a parent, it's
the act of just being a parent. Everything you do
is cringey. It's embarrassing, it's not funny, it's and thankfully
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we've got these little guardians here who look out for
us and tell us all the time that the things
we're doing are all of the above, and those are
our children. And so I've got the author of a
book saying, dad, can you not a guide to being
less cringey? That's coming up at nine point forty this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Have you ready?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, you haven't yet. Okay, Oh but I.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Haven't. But I dn't. I don't know how you Is
it the shirt?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think it's a big giant jacket you're wearing.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
The shirt. Isn't it like.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Four size is too big?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's cold in here. I didn't want to be cold,
so I'm not gonna hammer on this all morning. And
this is that which we've been discussing quite a bit
here and you've been hearing the news updates as well.
Is Thursday near one hundred and ninety six and technically
one hundred ninety six and V Streets. Here's the release
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from the original release from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
This is on Thursday, April sixteenth, Deputies were dispatched to
the area of one hundred and ninety six and V
Streets for a report of a male who was chasing
to juvenile females in a menacing manner. Chasing two juvenile
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females in a menacing manner. It's like, I'm not making
light of this, but the phrasing there is I'm only
picturing one thing, and that is, you know, a guy
with his hands up. Woah, you know. I sorry. The
male identified as this thirty four year old guy first
named Zach. He's not been found guilty of anything located
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and questioned. When questioned, he revealed to deputies, and this
is directly from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office dispatch. He
revealed to deputies that his intention was to catch the
girls and engage in sexual activities with them. Further investigation
revealed this guy has been alleged to have engaged in
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similar activities in the past. So he was booked on
charges of firs degree felony, attempted sexual assault of a child,
and child enticement, which is also a felony. Now, the
last thing they said when this release came out, I
forget if this was Thursday night or Friday morning. Was
the Douglas County Sheriff's Office does not believe there's any
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ongoing threat to the public relating to this incident. He's
being held at the Douglas County Department of Corrections without bond.
My how things have changed On Friday A judge I
think I know the name of the judge. I am
not a hundred percent positive. I'm looking for clarification from
those who know. But a Douglas County judge decided to
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release him on bond. They issued a bond twenty thousand dollars.
You can pay your ten percent, which is a two
thousand dollars on bond and bail, and you can be released.
Why was he allowed to be released? Because a judge
is in a case like this, you're supposed to assign
a risk score to somebody, and the judge gave him
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the lowest score one out of four. Four is you
have just bubbled up from the depths of hell and
you have you killed everyone in the neighborhood, and you're
wearing their skin as a body suit. That you probably
get a four on that one. And you and you
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tell the cops I'm not even sorry about it. I'll
do it again. That's a four. Three Apparently, as you
did all those things, you're wearing the body suit of
your neighbor's skin. But when the cops show up, you go,
oh gee, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to do that,
did I? And you look down and you're like, this
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is this is Jane's skin, isn't it? Hey? Sorry, I
promise you we've all made mistakes. I am not going
to do this again. You're not. You're not gonna find
someone more contrite than I. Then you get a three
like he's he's he's a horrible monster, but he does
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seem to be repentant. Two is I I don't know
you you do these things and you actually when chasing
these girls down at a park in the neighborhood of
an one hundred and ninety sixth and Q. You actually
catch them, Is that a two, because apparently a one is. Uh,
you're chasing them, but you can't catch them. I'm guessing
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that there's something wrong with this guy.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You're chasing them, but you can't catch them, and you
do tell the deputies that you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, that's apparently what a one is. But my my apologies.
I'm reading here the tweet from the Douglas County Sheriff's office,
and I am I am incorrect in who gives him
the school. It doesn't come from the judge. It comes
from Douglas County Corrections pre trial release staff staff staff.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So it could be from one person to five hundred people.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It could be. So the pre trial release staff are
supposed to look at the charges here, and they're the
one the Douglas County Corrections, and I'm guessing that they
probably have a lot of pressure put on them. You know,
if you guys, look, I know you're in the business
of incarcerating people, but if we incarcerate everybody, we're not
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going to have any room in these jails. So you
got to be real, real careful, because you know, you
give someone a higher risk score and we got to
keep them, and you know that costs money. And then
we get overcrowded, and then I get a call from
the governor, Hey, what's going on down there? What's the
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matter with you people? And I don't want to deal
with that. So I'm guessing there's probably a lot of
pressure to find any reason or excuse necessary to release
a guy and say, well, we'll keep an eye on him,
which is what happened here. Before he even saw the judge,
the Douglas County Corrections pre trial release staff gave him
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the risk score of one out of four, which is
the lowest score. He is now under pre trial supervision
of the staff members who said he's fine, but there's
someone else supervising him, as I've heard from neighbors of
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the house where this guy lives. And I might be wrong,
but I'm basing this solely off of and I know
you're not supposed to do this, but that's ridiculous because
you know they always say you can't judge a book
by its cover. Yes you can. That's why someone went
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to all the effort to design the cover. They want
you to judge the book by the cover. The cover's
got the name of the book, the title of the
book was was created in such a way as to
draw you to it and go, oh, that's an interesting
title for a book. And oh, here's an author's name.
I've read stuff from this author before. And look at
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the pictures on here. You've got a guy with flowing
hair and a woman having her her bodice partially ripped off.
This this is this is a good book.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
What are you reading?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's They put a lot of just saying, they put
a lot of effort into these.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
There was a lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's a cooking book. It's about how to make sooufles.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh you meant the chicken bodys Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Right, yeah, it's about how to make soufle And in
this case, the woman's name is souefle. So the people say, like,
you can't judge a book by its cover. Yes you can,
you're supposed to. So I'm looking at the cover of
this guy's book, which is his face in the mugshot,
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and I see a lot of red flags here. The
red flags are as follows, you got you got the eyes?
He got some crazy eyes. You've got the the little mustache.
You gotta be careful with the mustache. It's the kind
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of a mustache that suggests I am just going through puberty.
Let's see how long I can do this before someone
finally holds me down and shaves this mess on my
upper lip. Except this guy's thirty four years old, so
he's got kind of that going on there. He's got
the slightly arched eyebrow, like he thinks that this is
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a picture for a resume of some sort. He's he's
thirty four, and if his hobby has been balding, he
is proficient. He does not have a forehead. He's got
a seven and a half head that goes clear back.
And I'm not making fun of people who are bald
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right down the middle. But if you do all the
other things here, and you got the crazy eyes, and
you've been chasing around girls in the park, and then
when the cops, he couldn't even come up with an excuse,
why are you chasing I wasn't chasing these girls. I'm
trying out these new running shoes. I thought one of
them dropped this nickel, you know, digging in pockets. I
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thought someone lost this gum wrapper? Is this yours? Couldn't
even come up with? He just he almost admire his honesty.
Why are you chasing these girls? I was gonna have
secon I mean, okay, I'm already busted. That's what he
told them. Judging this guy's book by his cup, I
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don't think he lives in this house by himself. It's
a nice house, it's a nice neighborhood. I don't know
that this guy has a job. What's his job posing
for creepy mugshots? Someone pay for that. If so, this
guy is rich and he could probably afford a better house.
So I'm getting messages from his neighbors. They're keeping an
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eye on him. And it looks like based on the
image I see of the house where this guy lives.
And again I'm I'm guessing, he probably lives with parents,
even though he's in his thirties, thirty four years old,
and I might feel bad for these parents. There are
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a lot of parents out there going. We keep asking police,
mental health counselors, someone do something, please. I might be
totally wrong on this, but this is all the impression
I'm getting just from this guy's eyes. But the neighbors.
Someone has already apparently spray painted some messages, because someone
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has gone out there and they've applied all black paint
to two big sections of the side of this guy's
house and the fence going down the property. He lives
on a corner a lot, so you got a long fence,
and someone thought, oh, this is a chance for me
to put a bunch of messages. I can't see what
the messages are. They have been all been blacked out.
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I imagine that they were probably not This man is innocent.
So now neighbors are watching over this guy.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And you've got that's not watching over.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You get well, no, no spray painting messages on the
house is not watching over. And I don't you don't
you don't go. I mean, if you want to tell
this guy to his face without punching him in it,
unless he's actively committing a crime, you want to tell him, Hey,
you doing You'll notice I'm here on your sidewalk and
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I'll be here all day until someone else comes over
and takes my shift. What am I doing here? Clearly
I'm cleaning this gun. This is the dirty one. The
clean ones are in my pockets. And then I got
this one leaning against my hip, but I'm cleaning this
one and then later I'm gonna sharpen this knife. You know,
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you can hang out there and do that kind of thing,
unless that's menacing and domestic terrorism, in which case I
have not suggested as much. But people are keeping an
eye on here. You got cops in the neighborhood because
the school had to put out a press release gratting.
The public schools put out a press release saying, since
this happened near our school and the guy was let
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back out, we're encouraging our students to walk to school
in using the Buddy system, staying alert, never approach a stranger,
and if you feel threatened, if anyone encounters this guy
and feel threatened, called nine to one one. Please tell
me in the last few years where he's been alleged
to have been doing this before, what encounters a children
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have with this guy that where they didn't feel threatened. Now, look,
if this guy were a dangerous dog and he gets
out and chases these kids of the park, the dog
is dealt with. This guy not dealt with. It was
Douglas County Corrections who gave him a low risk score
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allowed him to pay his bail and get out, and
he's at home, and now the neighbors have to keep
an eye on him. That's what's happening out in Gretna
near one hundred and ninety sixth in Q this morning.
Can we can we not have so many instances where
we identify someone as dangerous and we the people have
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to keep an eye on them. We're busy, We've got
all kinds of stuff in our lives. We're just basically
trying to go through one thing in our lives to
the other, in our various levels of quiet desperation, without
having a batman the pervert who lives across the street.
If it's not Batman, at least Gladys Kravitz. That's for
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our younger listeners, who I imagine in that reference's point
might be anyone under the age of fifty five. That's
a woman who just spends all day just peering at
her neighbors. What are they up to? What are they doing?
What's he building in there? You know that kind of thing.
We're busy today, Yeah, I know, but I don't like
that phrase all. Instead, I'll bad mouth Lenny Kravitz's aunt gladys.
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I imagine they were related, right, So it shouldn't be
up to us if we are, if we already identified
this guy's dangerous. So how do you know? Well, he
was chasing these girls. So what did he say when
they caught him? The cops caught him and he said
he wanted to have physical relations and attack them? Okay, well,
what jail's he in? Oh? That house over there. That's
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why I'm standing here keeping an eye on the house. Now,
I look like a crazy person. When we identify people
who are dangerous and crazy, are we honestly not going
to have a place for them? We're redoing Memorial Stadium.
Can't there be a wing or a basement, you know,
some subfloor where we put all the crazy people and
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if they can run, let them tote the rock once
in a while, Scott voice. Adam emails Scott at kfab
dot com and says, Scott, my mouth is open staring
at the radio. I'd swear you just said a pedophile
with prior accusations was chasing female children with the confessed
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goals of attacking them and having relations with them. And
then you said the judge released this pedophile from custody.
My ears must not be working. Yeah, that's what I
was saying. It turns out though it's not a judge.
Though again, I don't hear any judges standing up and
shaking their fists and stomping up and down and banging
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the gavel or going to the unicamera going why you
guys got to stop doing this? Why is this always happening.
I don't hear anyone doing that. It's basically just me
and some people on social media. But yeah, Adam, you
heard correctly. This is a guy who did those things,
and he's back out and he'll see a judge at
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some point. We'll see what a judge does with him.
But as of right now, he's just at home, probably
listening to the radio. Well, I don't know when's this guy.
I don't know when he's back before a judge. We'll
see in the meantime, he's out. And families are are
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supposed to be vigilant there near one hundred and ninety
six and Q families should be vigilant everywhere. We had
gunfire and had a busy pedestrian mall early yesterday morning
in Iowa City. Five people wounded, including three university of
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Iowa students. See, I'm so old. I think I hear
early Sunday, and I think right before church. I have
a very different life than these individuals. I mean when
they say early Sunday, they mean just after midnight Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh, I see that's late Saturday.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, one forty five am Sunday,
that's the middle of the night Saturday. This is if
you're an Iowa former student. Large fight breaks out one
forty five and the one hundred block of East College
Street that's right next to campus, surrounded by bars and restaurants,
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the pedestrian mall. A victim and critical condition. Others are
listened to stable. The students aren't believed to have been
the intended targets. They were just there. And one woman
says she would downtown with their daughter because it was
mom's weekend at Iowa. And she says, I turned to
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my daughter and said, there's a shooter. I want you
to run as fast as you can get safe, even
if you have to hide. That's not what you're looking
for out of mom's weekend. Mom's weekend usually a sorority thing.
You and your adult teenage and early twenties. Daughters are
out there shutting her down, and moms are like, well,
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what it And then you know, by two o'clock in
the morning, you're like, Mom, come on, come on, stop.
He's not interested in you. Come on, mom, come on,
what do you I'm not gonna tell dad about this,
but you got we gotta go. That's mom's weekend. I
know because my wife was just at mom's weekend down
at Case State with our daughter last weekend and my
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daughter tattle daughter.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
She's lying now I am.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I think or maybe they had that kind of time
and you know what, if that's the case, please keep it,
keep it from me. I know.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I meant she was lying to your wife. Who was
that indoor?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Oh well yeah, that probably was.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
So.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, there's just these guys hanging around there just getting
in a big fight. And it wasn't like moms fighting
each other, you know, when you shut up, you know
this was It looked like a big group of people
who just wanted to go out there and cause trouble.
And they did. And you had three people shot near
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the University of Iowa. That's not good, not good at all.
Speaking of Iowa, I didn't have any idea that Joe
George Foreman, a former heavyweight boxing champion. And for those
who aren't sports fans, like, oh, is he named after
the grill? Yeah, he was named after the lean, mean
fat reducing grilling machine that George Foreman. I didn't know
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he was such a big fan of Iowa. He apparently
in the late eighties took a trip to Sioue City
and said, this is the most beautiful place I've ever seen.
I'll pause. Well, each of us says Sue City. I mean,
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it's it is, it's beautiful. It's secret. You know that
you got the beautiful less Hills Stone State Park up there.
But I mean, George Foreman's been all around the world.
This is the most beautiful place he's ever seen.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, you'd have to go outside of Sue City. Yeah,
I mean the city itself, maybe just every city.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But he wasn't laid to rest downtown. But that's that's
where he's buried, and they just put a monument statue
in that place because he wanted to be buried there. Yeah.
He died about a year ago, survived by many children,
all named George. So, yeah, you could set up a
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hotel near this marker the memorial at Logan Park Cemetery,
and just that could just be there for all of
his sons named George. Kid's got like nineteen kids. They're
all named George Foreman, George Junior. This is George Junior.
That's George Junior, My brother Daryl, my other brother Darryl.
That's George. All right, Dad can you not? That is
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the name of a book about father's being less Cringey.
We'll talk with the author next Scott Boys News Radio
eleven Tenaby. I am a father of two teenagers. I've
got a daughter who's a freshman in college, a son
who is a sophomore in high school. So I don't
need our next guest, Chip Layton, or his new book,
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which is called Dad, Can You Not? Dad's Guide to
Being Less Cringey. I don't need Chip to come on
here and tell me that I am an embarrassment to
my children. They tell me that all the time. Chip,
I'm guessing you get the same thing which has led
to this book.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yes, yeah, well thanks for having me. Yeah, you may
not need me to tell you that, but it's something
you probably need. This book though, it's got a lot
of advice that for you, maybe how you could be
less cringey. But yeah, you're you're in.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
At the target here, Well, how do I find out
whether I'm cringey? You're just subject to stupid dad jokes
and just your regular run of the mill embarrassment.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, well, I have a bunch of quizzes in the
book where you can sort of rate yourself on how
how cringey you are on this You this special thing
called a dad meet, which is in the shape of
a thermostat, of course because it's the most sacred of
dad objects. But what the different quizzes you could take
to rate yourself on that? And yeah, the boy I
kind of call the book like an anti handbook because
it's full of like dozens and dozens of real life
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dad stories that people are shared with me that are
just like really funny, funny things that may not you
might have done specifically, but probably you can recognize the behavior.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, you know, the most annoying thing about having teenage
kids is they're the use of emojis, and apparently they're
they're allowed to use as many emojis as they want.
It's my job to kind of figure them out. And
if I respond with an emoji, and there's there's one
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in particular. I'm afraid to ask what they think it means.
And don't worry. It's not a peach or an eggplant
or anything like that. It's it's just an emoji of
a guy looking like he's an anguish by what he
just heard. He's got a look in his face like
he's he's disturbed, in an anguish and a little pained
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by what he just heard. And I respond with that
and my kids start laughing, like, Dad, that's the worst
one you could possibly use. And I have an imagination
I but I don't want to hear my kids tell
me what it means to them, So instead I just
now use it all the time just to bother them.
Am I cringey?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I like, oh for sure, yeah, cringe move I And
I don't even know what that emoji means. I do.
I do have a couple of pages in the book
about emojis and like what how to use them correctly
or not? And uh, I think the biggest the biggest
defender I see is like a lot of dads think
that the that the crying face is like a sad emoji,
even though it actually means like crying with laughter, so
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you get like you get like a kid saying, you know,
texting that like their dog died or whatever, and the
dad will send back like the laughing crying emoji. So
it's not it's it's better to stick with words, I think.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, if you type in crying, you could you get
the one that the tears that go straight down, which
also kind of most people use that in a sarcastic way.
I mean, honestly, if someone tells you like, yeah, I
got the test back and I've only got a few
hours to live, and you send back a crying emoji,
is that about the most impersonal, sarcastic thing you could do.
That's usually why that's used. Emoji should not be used
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to construe true emotion, I think. But the dads apparently
misuse emojis all the time. What about slang because it
changes on the regular.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, well, yeah, my advice you don't try to like
use the language of your kids generation. Right.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I don't even know if I use that phrase correctly.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah. The other one that gets that gets dads is acronyms.
Like they'll use the wrong acronym for stuff, which leads
to like some unfortunate situations like the BIGS. One I
think is LOOL, which stands for laugh out loud, obviously,
but some dads think it stands for lots of love.
So again you get these kind of like, you know, hey,
grandma pat was admitted to the ICU. Lo ol dad,
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You know it doesn't set the right tone.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Tell me about your kids and your relationship with the kids.
And do they think you're somewhat cool for at least
recognizing your level of cringe and putting out this book.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
We've got two kids, was it high school, was in college?
And yeah, they do a good job keeping me humble.
You know, they like my daughter was for a while
she was calling me the the unemployed, middle aged TikToker,
which you know, factually that's all correct, but it's you know,
it doesn't feel flattering, but they're, uh, their biggest feedback
is because I'm kind of known for these teenager texts
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that I share online. Is like it started with their
text but now it's like people from all over just
send me theirs and I feature them, and so they're like,
you got to make it much clearer. These are not
all our texts, Like my friends think I'm an idiot,
you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Oh, yeah, that's a good call. Yeah that's not just
from from your family. Yeah, you've become the unofficial dad translator,
so that if someone passes along saying, all right, help
me out with this. Some kids sent you a text
that here's what my dad just sent me. And the
text was if you don't hear from me after Saturday,
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that I love you, And what did that mean?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
He was getting a new phone and so he wasn't
He wasn't sure if he'd be able to use it,
so he giving him heads up. But yeah, there's a
lot of texts like that that are Yeah, they're they're
too ambiguous. You got to explain things better when you're
a dad.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But at the same time, you have to text your teenagers.
Otherwise they'll never listen to you, they'll never hear you,
they won't respond to you. So you have to reach
them where they are and you got to text him stuff.
I have more meaningful conversations, I'm sad to say, sometimes
with my kids via text. Then when I'm sitting there
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talking to them, because I can tell like they're just
waiting for me to finish my little dad's speech and
then they say yeah, thanks Dad, and they walk away
without having heard a word.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I said, right right, yeah, well you're I mean, you're
that's good. If they're responding to your texts, that's I mean,
that's that's not the case with me sometimes. I one time,
my daughter pointed out that our our family group chat
like for the last month, it only consisted of my
messages to which no one had responded, So you know
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you got to responding. That's good.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
True? How come there's no guide for moms who are cringey?
Can moms not be cringey?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Well, no moms can be. I mean I have heard
a lot of moms stories that are similar to some
of the ones in the book, But for some reason,
the cringe word feels like it's a little bit more
up dad's alley. But I just feel like as a dad,
I can write a book like this because I'm kind
of making fun of myself, But I don't think I'd
be bold enough to try to write a book about moms.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
So, yeah, good call. Where can we find your social
media posts and more details about this book?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah? Sure? So all my socials are the Layton Show,
l E. I g h t O n so Instagram, TikTok, Facebook,
or you can go to the laytonshow dot com and Yeah, Dad,
can You Not? Is available pretty much wherever books are sold.
I think it'd be a fun Father's Day gift or
a gift for any occasion for the dad in your life.
It's just kind of a fun light.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Read, excellent, and I don't think grandfathers are immune from this.
Just because you're on in years as a dad does
not mean that you're somehow not cringing anymore. So this
could be good for a father of any age. Dad
Can You Not? A Dad's Guide to Being Less Cringey
is available now, Chip Layton, thank you very much for helping.
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I don't know that my kids will admit that you
help me, but it has given me a lot to
think about and admit my own shortcomings as a less
cringey father. Thanks a lot for the time today.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Here on news radio eleven ten KFAB where Jean Stothard
and the Kfab comment line's coming up and she's ready
to go. She's got more yellow notepads in here than
office depot. You notice that Lucy Jean Stuther comes in here.
The first thing she does, she takes her giant drink
and slams it down on the desktop. Yeah. See that's
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the sound you hear every morning about this time. She
comes in here and she sets a keg down, and
then she gets out all of her her legal pads
and and all this stuff. You've got. You have one.
I'm not even kidding about this. I exaggerate about a
few things. I'm told one. Two. That's at least three
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smaller white pads of paper right there, you've got five pads.
I'll come in here with five pieces of paper.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You're jealous because she's so prepared.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Well, yeah, I guess that's what it takes. I didn't know.
I didn't know there'd be electric shocks. See there's your
eighties movie quote for this segment of the radio program.
See that's what I That's how I prepared. No, that's
a good guess, but it's Ghostbusters. That's how I prepared
for the show. I just watched a bunch of TV
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as a kid, and now I just bring those quotes
out when they're even whole life. I know, they when
they almost make sense. Once in a while. We're paying
you for this, aren't we got an email here Scott
KF dot com Zonker's custom woods inbox. Pete. I appreciate
your passion. I do see. That's why we talk about
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these things. And I start saying like, look, I don't
know all the details, and people are like, you're a coward.
You gotta tell me the judge's name who was like,
hold on, just hang on, because there's stuff on social media,
and just because someone posted it on Twitter x Facebook,
Graham does not mean it's true. So I get an
(32:31):
email here says I called down this What Pete says,
I called down to the county court and learned it
was the honorable judge this name who let attempted child rapist.
This guy his first name Zach. And that's another thing
I do. He's not been found guilty. Don't worry. His
neighbors are keeping a close eye on him. It's sad
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that they have to because he was let out. Now
what Pete's saying here, I get what he's mad. He says,
judge let him out in ams two thousand dollars bond
two grand. I've had to bail buddies out of jail
with ten grand cash for far, far less severe charges beat.
I want that story, he says. This matter hits particularly
close to home because I have children and countless children
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of friends and family who walk home from school and
Millard where he committed his crime. Well, technically, Grettina Public
schools this area of one hundred and ninety sixth ish
and Q. And it wasn't the judge who let him out.
This is the Douglas County Corrections pre trial release staff
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assigned him a risk score of one out of four. Now,
could the judge have said, no, I disagree with your
risk assessment. Try again, here's what the guy just did.
I'm not posting allowing him to post bail for this.
I don't know, maybe, but all this just goes to show,
I mean, you can what are you gonna do? You're
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gonna wait for this particular judge and yet do not
I have the name of the judge whose name is
on the order. But again, just like with the judge
last week in the case of the woman with the
knife at the walmart, and they say, well, look, the
unicameral says we have to do this, so we're going
to do it, and we learn about that after the fact.
Could be that the judge here after the Douglas County
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Corrections pre trial release staff assigned him a risk score
of only one out of four because apparently he's not
fast enough to catch these kids. It could be that
the judge could have also said, no, I don't agree
to this, I'm not letting them out. But no one
is jumping up and down saying absolutely not. We got
to do better than this, and I want them to.
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I think that our community would hope that they would
I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman. I'm not gonna hammer
this all morning. In fact, coming up here at nine
this morning, Lucy, this is something that I am told
I struggle with a very very great deal, and that
is a courtesy of my kids and their friends. And
(00:21):
that is being cringey. In case you're not familiar with
what it takes to be cringey as a parent, it's
the act of just being a parent. Everything you do
is cringey. It's embarrassing, it's not funny, it's and thankfully
(00:44):
we've got these little guardians here who look out for
us and tell us all the time that the things
we're doing are all of the above, and those are
our children. And so I've got the author of a
book saying, dad, can you not a guide to being
less cringey? That's coming up at nine point forty this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Have you ready?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, you haven't yet. Okay, Oh but I.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Haven't. But I dn't. I don't know how you Is
it the shirt?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think it's a big giant jacket you're wearing.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
The shirt. Isn't it like.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Four size is too big?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's cold in here. I didn't want to be cold,
so I'm not gonna hammer on this all morning. And
this is that which we've been discussing quite a bit
here and you've been hearing the news updates as well.
Is Thursday near one hundred and ninety six and technically
one hundred ninety six and V Streets. Here's the release
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from the original release from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
This is on Thursday, April sixteenth, Deputies were dispatched to
the area of one hundred and ninety six and V
Streets for a report of a male who was chasing
to juvenile females in a menacing manner. Chasing two juvenile
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females in a menacing manner. It's like, I'm not making
light of this, but the phrasing there is I'm only
picturing one thing, and that is, you know, a guy
with his hands up. Woah, you know. I sorry. The
male identified as this thirty four year old guy first
named Zach. He's not been found guilty of anything located
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and questioned. When questioned, he revealed to deputies, and this
is directly from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office dispatch. He
revealed to deputies that his intention was to catch the
girls and engage in sexual activities with them. Further investigation
revealed this guy has been alleged to have engaged in
(02:53):
similar activities in the past. So he was booked on
charges of firs degree felony, attempted sexual assault of a child,
and child enticement, which is also a felony. Now, the
last thing they said when this release came out, I
forget if this was Thursday night or Friday morning. Was
the Douglas County Sheriff's Office does not believe there's any
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ongoing threat to the public relating to this incident. He's
being held at the Douglas County Department of Corrections without bond.
My how things have changed On Friday A judge I
think I know the name of the judge. I am
not a hundred percent positive. I'm looking for clarification from
those who know. But a Douglas County judge decided to
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release him on bond. They issued a bond twenty thousand dollars.
You can pay your ten percent, which is a two
thousand dollars on bond and bail, and you can be released.
Why was he allowed to be released? Because a judge
is in a case like this, you're supposed to assign
a risk score to somebody, and the judge gave him
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the lowest score one out of four. Four is you
have just bubbled up from the depths of hell and
you have you killed everyone in the neighborhood, and you're
wearing their skin as a body suit. That you probably
get a four on that one. And you and you
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tell the cops I'm not even sorry about it. I'll
do it again. That's a four. Three Apparently, as you
did all those things, you're wearing the body suit of
your neighbor's skin. But when the cops show up, you go,
oh gee, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to do that,
did I? And you look down and you're like, this
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is this is Jane's skin, isn't it? Hey? Sorry, I
promise you we've all made mistakes. I am not going
to do this again. You're not. You're not gonna find
someone more contrite than I. Then you get a three
like he's he's he's a horrible monster, but he does
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seem to be repentant. Two is I I don't know
you you do these things and you actually when chasing
these girls down at a park in the neighborhood of
an one hundred and ninety sixth and Q. You actually
catch them, Is that a two, because apparently a one is. Uh,
you're chasing them, but you can't catch them. I'm guessing
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that there's something wrong with this guy.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You're chasing them, but you can't catch them, and you
do tell the deputies that you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, that's apparently what a one is. But my my apologies.
I'm reading here the tweet from the Douglas County Sheriff's office,
and I am I am incorrect in who gives him
the school. It doesn't come from the judge. It comes
from Douglas County Corrections pre trial release staff staff staff.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So it could be from one person to five hundred people.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It could be. So the pre trial release staff are
supposed to look at the charges here, and they're the
one the Douglas County Corrections, and I'm guessing that they
probably have a lot of pressure put on them. You know,
if you guys, look, I know you're in the business
of incarcerating people, but if we incarcerate everybody, we're not
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going to have any room in these jails. So you
got to be real, real careful, because you know, you
give someone a higher risk score and we got to
keep them, and you know that costs money. And then
we get overcrowded, and then I get a call from
the governor, Hey, what's going on down there? What's the
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matter with you people? And I don't want to deal
with that. So I'm guessing there's probably a lot of
pressure to find any reason or excuse necessary to release
a guy and say, well, we'll keep an eye on him,
which is what happened here. Before he even saw the judge,
the Douglas County Corrections pre trial release staff gave him
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the risk score of one out of four, which is
the lowest score. He is now under pre trial supervision
of the staff members who said he's fine, but there's
someone else supervising him, as I've heard from neighbors of
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the house where this guy lives. And I might be wrong,
but I'm basing this solely off of and I know
you're not supposed to do this, but that's ridiculous because
you know they always say you can't judge a book
by its cover. Yes you can. That's why someone went
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to all the effort to design the cover. They want
you to judge the book by the cover. The cover's
got the name of the book, the title of the
book was was created in such a way as to
draw you to it and go, oh, that's an interesting
title for a book. And oh, here's an author's name.
I've read stuff from this author before. And look at
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the pictures on here. You've got a guy with flowing
hair and a woman having her her bodice partially ripped off.
This this is this is a good book.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
What are you reading?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's They put a lot of just saying, they put
a lot of effort into these.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
There was a lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's a cooking book. It's about how to make sooufles.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh you meant the chicken bodys Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Right, yeah, it's about how to make soufle And in
this case, the woman's name is souefle. So the people say, like,
you can't judge a book by its cover. Yes you can,
you're supposed to. So I'm looking at the cover of
this guy's book, which is his face in the mugshot,
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and I see a lot of red flags here. The
red flags are as follows, you got you got the eyes?
He got some crazy eyes. You've got the the little mustache.
You gotta be careful with the mustache. It's the kind
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of a mustache that suggests I am just going through puberty.
Let's see how long I can do this before someone
finally holds me down and shaves this mess on my
upper lip. Except this guy's thirty four years old, so
he's got kind of that going on there. He's got
the slightly arched eyebrow, like he thinks that this is
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a picture for a resume of some sort. He's he's
thirty four, and if his hobby has been balding, he
is proficient. He does not have a forehead. He's got
a seven and a half head that goes clear back.
And I'm not making fun of people who are bald
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right down the middle. But if you do all the
other things here, and you got the crazy eyes, and
you've been chasing around girls in the park, and then
when the cops, he couldn't even come up with an excuse,
why are you chasing I wasn't chasing these girls. I'm
trying out these new running shoes. I thought one of
them dropped this nickel, you know, digging in pockets. I
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thought someone lost this gum wrapper? Is this yours? Couldn't
even come up with? He just he almost admire his honesty.
Why are you chasing these girls? I was gonna have
secon I mean, okay, I'm already busted. That's what he
told them. Judging this guy's book by his cup, I
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don't think he lives in this house by himself. It's
a nice house, it's a nice neighborhood. I don't know
that this guy has a job. What's his job posing
for creepy mugshots? Someone pay for that. If so, this
guy is rich and he could probably afford a better house.
So I'm getting messages from his neighbors. They're keeping an
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eye on him. And it looks like based on the
image I see of the house where this guy lives.
And again I'm I'm guessing, he probably lives with parents,
even though he's in his thirties, thirty four years old,
and I might feel bad for these parents. There are
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a lot of parents out there going. We keep asking police,
mental health counselors, someone do something, please. I might be
totally wrong on this, but this is all the impression
I'm getting just from this guy's eyes. But the neighbors.
Someone has already apparently spray painted some messages, because someone
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has gone out there and they've applied all black paint
to two big sections of the side of this guy's
house and the fence going down the property. He lives
on a corner a lot, so you got a long fence,
and someone thought, oh, this is a chance for me
to put a bunch of messages. I can't see what
the messages are. They have been all been blacked out.
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I imagine that they were probably not This man is innocent.
So now neighbors are watching over this guy.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And you've got that's not watching over.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You get well, no, no spray painting messages on the
house is not watching over. And I don't you don't
you don't go. I mean, if you want to tell
this guy to his face without punching him in it,
unless he's actively committing a crime, you want to tell him, Hey,
you doing You'll notice I'm here on your sidewalk and
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I'll be here all day until someone else comes over
and takes my shift. What am I doing here? Clearly
I'm cleaning this gun. This is the dirty one. The
clean ones are in my pockets. And then I got
this one leaning against my hip, but I'm cleaning this
one and then later I'm gonna sharpen this knife. You know,
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you can hang out there and do that kind of thing,
unless that's menacing and domestic terrorism, in which case I
have not suggested as much. But people are keeping an
eye on here. You got cops in the neighborhood because
the school had to put out a press release gratting.
The public schools put out a press release saying, since
this happened near our school and the guy was let
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back out, we're encouraging our students to walk to school
in using the Buddy system, staying alert, never approach a stranger,
and if you feel threatened, if anyone encounters this guy
and feel threatened, called nine to one one. Please tell
me in the last few years where he's been alleged
to have been doing this before, what encounters a children
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have with this guy that where they didn't feel threatened. Now, look,
if this guy were a dangerous dog and he gets
out and chases these kids of the park, the dog
is dealt with. This guy not dealt with. It was
Douglas County Corrections who gave him a low risk score
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allowed him to pay his bail and get out, and
he's at home, and now the neighbors have to keep
an eye on him. That's what's happening out in Gretna
near one hundred and ninety sixth in Q this morning.
Can we can we not have so many instances where
we identify someone as dangerous and we the people have
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to keep an eye on them. We're busy, We've got
all kinds of stuff in our lives. We're just basically
trying to go through one thing in our lives to
the other, in our various levels of quiet desperation, without
having a batman the pervert who lives across the street.
If it's not Batman, at least Gladys Kravitz. That's for
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our younger listeners, who I imagine in that reference's point
might be anyone under the age of fifty five. That's
a woman who just spends all day just peering at
her neighbors. What are they up to? What are they doing?
What's he building in there? You know that kind of thing.
We're busy today, Yeah, I know, but I don't like
that phrase all. Instead, I'll bad mouth Lenny Kravitz's aunt gladys.
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I imagine they were related, right, So it shouldn't be
up to us if we are, if we already identified
this guy's dangerous. So how do you know? Well, he
was chasing these girls. So what did he say when
they caught him? The cops caught him and he said
he wanted to have physical relations and attack them? Okay, well,
what jail's he in? Oh? That house over there. That's
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why I'm standing here keeping an eye on the house. Now,
I look like a crazy person. When we identify people
who are dangerous and crazy, are we honestly not going
to have a place for them? We're redoing Memorial Stadium.
Can't there be a wing or a basement, you know,
some subfloor where we put all the crazy people and
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if they can run, let them tote the rock once
in a while, Scott voice. Adam emails Scott at kfab
dot com and says, Scott, my mouth is open staring
at the radio. I'd swear you just said a pedophile
with prior accusations was chasing female children with the confessed
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goals of attacking them and having relations with them. And
then you said the judge released this pedophile from custody.
My ears must not be working. Yeah, that's what I
was saying. It turns out though it's not a judge.
Though again, I don't hear any judges standing up and
shaking their fists and stomping up and down and banging
(17:14):
the gavel or going to the unicamera going why you
guys got to stop doing this? Why is this always happening.
I don't hear anyone doing that. It's basically just me
and some people on social media. But yeah, Adam, you
heard correctly. This is a guy who did those things,
and he's back out and he'll see a judge at
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some point. We'll see what a judge does with him.
But as of right now, he's just at home, probably
listening to the radio. Well, I don't know when's this guy.
I don't know when he's back before a judge. We'll
see in the meantime, he's out. And families are are
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supposed to be vigilant there near one hundred and ninety
six and Q families should be vigilant everywhere. We had
gunfire and had a busy pedestrian mall early yesterday morning
in Iowa City. Five people wounded, including three university of
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Iowa students. See, I'm so old. I think I hear
early Sunday, and I think right before church. I have
a very different life than these individuals. I mean when
they say early Sunday, they mean just after midnight Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh, I see that's late Saturday.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, one forty five am Sunday,
that's the middle of the night Saturday. This is if
you're an Iowa former student. Large fight breaks out one
forty five and the one hundred block of East College
Street that's right next to campus, surrounded by bars and restaurants,
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the pedestrian mall. A victim and critical condition. Others are
listened to stable. The students aren't believed to have been
the intended targets. They were just there. And one woman
says she would downtown with their daughter because it was
mom's weekend at Iowa. And she says, I turned to
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my daughter and said, there's a shooter. I want you
to run as fast as you can get safe, even
if you have to hide. That's not what you're looking
for out of mom's weekend. Mom's weekend usually a sorority thing.
You and your adult teenage and early twenties. Daughters are
out there shutting her down, and moms are like, well,
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what it And then you know, by two o'clock in
the morning, you're like, Mom, come on, come on, stop.
He's not interested in you. Come on, mom, come on,
what do you I'm not gonna tell dad about this,
but you got we gotta go. That's mom's weekend. I
know because my wife was just at mom's weekend down
at Case State with our daughter last weekend and my
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daughter tattle daughter.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
She's lying now I am.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I think or maybe they had that kind of time
and you know what, if that's the case, please keep it,
keep it from me. I know.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I meant she was lying to your wife. Who was
that indoor?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Oh well yeah, that probably was.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
So.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, there's just these guys hanging around there just getting
in a big fight. And it wasn't like moms fighting
each other, you know, when you shut up, you know
this was It looked like a big group of people
who just wanted to go out there and cause trouble.
And they did. And you had three people shot near
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the University of Iowa. That's not good, not good at all.
Speaking of Iowa, I didn't have any idea that Joe
George Foreman, a former heavyweight boxing champion. And for those
who aren't sports fans, like, oh, is he named after
the grill? Yeah, he was named after the lean, mean
fat reducing grilling machine that George Foreman. I didn't know
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he was such a big fan of Iowa. He apparently
in the late eighties took a trip to Sioue City
and said, this is the most beautiful place I've ever seen.
I'll pause. Well, each of us says Sue City. I mean,
(21:36):
it's it is, it's beautiful. It's secret. You know that
you got the beautiful less Hills Stone State Park up there.
But I mean, George Foreman's been all around the world.
This is the most beautiful place he's ever seen.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, you'd have to go outside of Sue City. Yeah,
I mean the city itself, maybe just every city.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But he wasn't laid to rest downtown. But that's that's
where he's buried, and they just put a monument statue
in that place because he wanted to be buried there. Yeah.
He died about a year ago, survived by many children,
all named George. So, yeah, you could set up a
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hotel near this marker the memorial at Logan Park Cemetery,
and just that could just be there for all of
his sons named George. Kid's got like nineteen kids. They're
all named George Foreman, George Junior. This is George Junior.
That's George Junior, My brother Daryl, my other brother Darryl.
That's George. All right, Dad can you not? That is
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the name of a book about father's being less Cringey.
We'll talk with the author next Scott Boys News Radio
eleven Tenaby. I am a father of two teenagers. I've
got a daughter who's a freshman in college, a son
who is a sophomore in high school. So I don't
need our next guest, Chip Layton, or his new book,
(23:05):
which is called Dad, Can You Not? Dad's Guide to
Being Less Cringey. I don't need Chip to come on
here and tell me that I am an embarrassment to
my children. They tell me that all the time. Chip,
I'm guessing you get the same thing which has led
to this book.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yes, yeah, well thanks for having me. Yeah, you may
not need me to tell you that, but it's something
you probably need. This book though, it's got a lot
of advice that for you, maybe how you could be
less cringey. But yeah, you're you're in.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
At the target here, Well, how do I find out
whether I'm cringey? You're just subject to stupid dad jokes
and just your regular run of the mill embarrassment.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, well, I have a bunch of quizzes in the
book where you can sort of rate yourself on how
how cringey you are on this You this special thing
called a dad meet, which is in the shape of
a thermostat, of course because it's the most sacred of
dad objects. But what the different quizzes you could take
to rate yourself on that? And yeah, the boy I
kind of call the book like an anti handbook because
it's full of like dozens and dozens of real life
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dad stories that people are shared with me that are
just like really funny, funny things that may not you
might have done specifically, but probably you can recognize the behavior.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, you know, the most annoying thing about having teenage
kids is they're the use of emojis, and apparently they're
they're allowed to use as many emojis as they want.
It's my job to kind of figure them out. And
if I respond with an emoji, and there's there's one
(24:33):
in particular. I'm afraid to ask what they think it means.
And don't worry. It's not a peach or an eggplant
or anything like that. It's it's just an emoji of
a guy looking like he's an anguish by what he
just heard. He's got a look in his face like
he's he's disturbed, in an anguish and a little pained
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by what he just heard. And I respond with that
and my kids start laughing, like, Dad, that's the worst
one you could possibly use. And I have an imagination
I but I don't want to hear my kids tell
me what it means to them, So instead I just
now use it all the time just to bother them.
Am I cringey?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I like, oh for sure, yeah, cringe move I And
I don't even know what that emoji means. I do.
I do have a couple of pages in the book
about emojis and like what how to use them correctly
or not? And uh, I think the biggest the biggest
defender I see is like a lot of dads think
that the that the crying face is like a sad emoji,
even though it actually means like crying with laughter, so
(25:37):
you get like you get like a kid saying, you know,
texting that like their dog died or whatever, and the
dad will send back like the laughing crying emoji. So
it's not it's it's better to stick with words, I think.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, if you type in crying, you could you get
the one that the tears that go straight down, which
also kind of most people use that in a sarcastic way.
I mean, honestly, if someone tells you like, yeah, I
got the test back and I've only got a few
hours to live, and you send back a crying emoji,
is that about the most impersonal, sarcastic thing you could do.
That's usually why that's used. Emoji should not be used
(26:10):
to construe true emotion, I think. But the dads apparently
misuse emojis all the time. What about slang because it
changes on the regular.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, well, yeah, my advice you don't try to like
use the language of your kids generation. Right.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I don't even know if I use that phrase correctly.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah. The other one that gets that gets dads is acronyms.
Like they'll use the wrong acronym for stuff, which leads
to like some unfortunate situations like the BIGS. One I
think is LOOL, which stands for laugh out loud, obviously,
but some dads think it stands for lots of love.
So again you get these kind of like, you know, hey,
grandma pat was admitted to the ICU. Lo ol dad,
(26:52):
You know it doesn't set the right tone.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Tell me about your kids and your relationship with the kids.
And do they think you're somewhat cool for at least
recognizing your level of cringe and putting out this book.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
We've got two kids, was it high school, was in college?
And yeah, they do a good job keeping me humble.
You know, they like my daughter was for a while
she was calling me the the unemployed, middle aged TikToker,
which you know, factually that's all correct, but it's you know,
it doesn't feel flattering, but they're, uh, their biggest feedback
is because I'm kind of known for these teenager texts
(27:28):
that I share online. Is like it started with their
text but now it's like people from all over just
send me theirs and I feature them, and so they're like,
you got to make it much clearer. These are not
all our texts, Like my friends think I'm an idiot,
you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Oh, yeah, that's a good call. Yeah that's not just
from from your family. Yeah, you've become the unofficial dad translator,
so that if someone passes along saying, all right, help
me out with this. Some kids sent you a text
that here's what my dad just sent me. And the
text was if you don't hear from me after Saturday,
(28:00):
that I love you, And what did that mean?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
He was getting a new phone and so he wasn't
He wasn't sure if he'd be able to use it,
so he giving him heads up. But yeah, there's a
lot of texts like that that are Yeah, they're they're
too ambiguous. You got to explain things better when you're
a dad.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But at the same time, you have to text your teenagers.
Otherwise they'll never listen to you, they'll never hear you,
they won't respond to you. So you have to reach
them where they are and you got to text him stuff.
I have more meaningful conversations, I'm sad to say, sometimes
with my kids via text. Then when I'm sitting there
(28:37):
talking to them, because I can tell like they're just
waiting for me to finish my little dad's speech and
then they say yeah, thanks Dad, and they walk away
without having heard a word.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I said, right right, yeah, well you're I mean, you're
that's good. If they're responding to your texts, that's I mean,
that's that's not the case with me sometimes. I one time,
my daughter pointed out that our our family group chat
like for the last month, it only consisted of my
messages to which no one had responded, So you know
(29:06):
you got to responding. That's good.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
True? How come there's no guide for moms who are cringey?
Can moms not be cringey?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Well, no moms can be. I mean I have heard
a lot of moms stories that are similar to some
of the ones in the book, But for some reason,
the cringe word feels like it's a little bit more
up dad's alley. But I just feel like as a dad,
I can write a book like this because I'm kind
of making fun of myself, But I don't think I'd
be bold enough to try to write a book about moms.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
So, yeah, good call. Where can we find your social
media posts and more details about this book?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah? Sure? So all my socials are the Layton Show,
l E. I g h t O n so Instagram, TikTok, Facebook,
or you can go to the laytonshow dot com and Yeah, Dad,
can You Not? Is available pretty much wherever books are sold.
I think it'd be a fun Father's Day gift or
a gift for any occasion for the dad in your life.
It's just kind of a fun light.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Read, excellent, and I don't think grandfathers are immune from this.
Just because you're on in years as a dad does
not mean that you're somehow not cringing anymore. So this
could be good for a father of any age. Dad
Can You Not? A Dad's Guide to Being Less Cringey
is available now, Chip Layton, thank you very much for helping.
(30:21):
I don't know that my kids will admit that you
help me, but it has given me a lot to
think about and admit my own shortcomings as a less
cringey father. Thanks a lot for the time today.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Here on news radio eleven ten KFAB where Jean Stothard
and the Kfab comment line's coming up and she's ready
to go. She's got more yellow notepads in here than
office depot. You notice that Lucy Jean Stuther comes in here.
The first thing she does, she takes her giant drink
and slams it down on the desktop. Yeah. See that's
(30:55):
the sound you hear every morning about this time. She
comes in here and she sets a keg down, and
then she gets out all of her her legal pads
and and all this stuff. You've got. You have one.
I'm not even kidding about this. I exaggerate about a
few things. I'm told one. Two. That's at least three
(31:15):
smaller white pads of paper right there, you've got five pads.
I'll come in here with five pieces of paper.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You're jealous because she's so prepared.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Well, yeah, I guess that's what it takes. I didn't know.
I didn't know there'd be electric shocks. See there's your
eighties movie quote for this segment of the radio program.
See that's what I That's how I prepared. No, that's
a good guess, but it's Ghostbusters. That's how I prepared
for the show. I just watched a bunch of TV
(31:44):
as a kid, and now I just bring those quotes
out when they're even whole life. I know, they when
they almost make sense. Once in a while. We're paying
you for this, aren't we got an email here Scott
KF dot com Zonker's custom woods inbox. Pete. I appreciate
your passion. I do see. That's why we talk about
(32:08):
these things. And I start saying like, look, I don't
know all the details, and people are like, you're a coward.
You gotta tell me the judge's name who was like,
hold on, just hang on, because there's stuff on social media,
and just because someone posted it on Twitter x Facebook,
Graham does not mean it's true. So I get an
(32:31):
email here says I called down this What Pete says,
I called down to the county court and learned it
was the honorable judge this name who let attempted child rapist.
This guy his first name Zach. And that's another thing
I do. He's not been found guilty. Don't worry. His
neighbors are keeping a close eye on him. It's sad
(32:52):
that they have to because he was let out. Now
what Pete's saying here, I get what he's mad. He says,
judge let him out in ams two thousand dollars bond
two grand. I've had to bail buddies out of jail
with ten grand cash for far, far less severe charges beat.
I want that story, he says. This matter hits particularly
close to home because I have children and countless children
(33:13):
of friends and family who walk home from school and
Millard where he committed his crime. Well, technically, Grettina Public
schools this area of one hundred and ninety sixth ish
and Q. And it wasn't the judge who let him out.
This is the Douglas County Corrections pre trial release staff
(33:37):
assigned him a risk score of one out of four. Now,
could the judge have said, no, I disagree with your
risk assessment. Try again, here's what the guy just did.
I'm not posting allowing him to post bail for this.
I don't know, maybe, but all this just goes to show,
I mean, you can what are you gonna do? You're
(33:59):
gonna wait for this particular judge and yet do not
I have the name of the judge whose name is
on the order. But again, just like with the judge
last week in the case of the woman with the
knife at the walmart, and they say, well, look, the
unicameral says we have to do this, so we're going
to do it, and we learn about that after the fact.
Could be that the judge here after the Douglas County
(34:21):
Corrections pre trial release staff assigned him a risk score
of only one out of four because apparently he's not
fast enough to catch these kids. It could be that
the judge could have also said, no, I don't agree
to this, I'm not letting them out. But no one
is jumping up and down saying absolutely not. We got
to do better than this, and I want them to.
(34:42):
I think that our community would hope that they would
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