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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I guess Emily is a little confused about what's
going on with her fourteen year old son. Reed Read
has always been a different cat. He's been into different
sort of things that you would never really expect a
kid to be into. Like he's been into garbage trucks,
and he was really into like public works.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The streets got like to the point where he was
making his own street sweepers at home and like the
engineering behind it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Like that's how into it he was.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
He used to wear things to school like construction vests yes,
and reflective yes, like a full train engineer outfit. Yes,
you know you want to do? Not you or you
would be humiliating yes, a certain age.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
If he was still doing that going into high school,
I wish he was.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
That would be amazing. I would respect it. Wow, I
would respect it.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, he's just a different kid.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
And he's such a different kid about a lot of
different things, Like so different than my man, his dad,
Robert and I like as far as his beliefs go,
and a lot of different things as far as his
political preferences go. He's a big political guy right now
talking to me about Iran and stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
But how does he know that does. What's the news?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
How does that?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I don't know. Like kids these days, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Where they're going to say, Iran is on a map.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
You're right, But he's telling me about the reason that
it was bombed and all this other stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
I would love to hear this.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We need to start doing a read news breakdown.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I ask our friends at Cogo if they want to
put him on.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, I would rather have that. I don't want to
give it. I don't want to give that up.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Every like Wednesday it's seven fifteen, Read calls in and
gives us our news breakdown down what happens.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I don't think he can.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
He's just talking about Iran. Yeah, it's pretty wild.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah, Like he's very he's very like Republican in his
views or right sided.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I guess you would say it kind of crazy.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Is where does he get that from? Because your mom
marched in the no Kings thing, you are. My family's
very liberal, so was Robert. So it makes no sense.
You do live in wore East County. He's around a
lot of East County kids.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
He's around a lot of these kind of kids. He
loves the military. I mean that's another thing that like
he's just obsessed with it. He has been forever. So
I'm not sure if this is you want to work
he would Probably that would be a dream come true.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Probably not going to relocate to Florida soon, So then
maybe his new interests sort of makes sense.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
So he went to summer camp two weeks ago. It
was for an overnight summer camp, dropping him off for
a whole week.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, I remember last year you had some issues with this.
Remember when you drove all the way down there and
stood at the fence just to get a glimpse of
him a little much doing.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
There's not not any technology there.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Aren't supposed to be there.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
You you, you can't say anything about this lady, this
guy ever again because I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It was tough for her that first sleep away.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Just as bad.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
You're pretty bad. Yeah, this guy's the worst. Guy is nuts. Guys,
I have massive issues. But you're up there, you're up there,
You're right, You're one be what.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
You're talking about. So this this time dropping off at
camp went a lot better. No tears, No tears this
time around. It was a operation. Until we get into
the camp.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
The cabin.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
When we're droping him off, we get him situated, and
he puts his stuff on his bed and all this
other stuff, and that's when he's emptying out, you know,
putting his sleeping bag on the bed and all of
his gear kind of out. And the last thing he
grabs out of his backpack is a huge, gigantic Holy Bible.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Not just a regular ball holy Bible. I don't know,
says Holy Bible on the cover. So you just called
it the Bible. I mean, nobody says holy Bible.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Written by different people.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, it wasn't. It's just the Bible. It's the Bible,
Holy Bible. I don't know what she said holy.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Actually Jesus actually wrote the Holy Body the regular Bible.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Regular.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't know why she said that.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Okay, holy Bible, that's what I see.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Where did you get a Bible?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So that's when I go, first of all, from your house?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Right, No way.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
First, I'm confused because I go, where did that come from?
Like that's my no direction?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Where that I stole it from? Church?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Could take after me.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
When I was young going to Catholic school, I did
steal holy water once because I was so obsessed with
praying and stuff that I put it in a little station.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
A Catholic. You were obsessed with praying, so you stole
and holy water doesn't doesn't add up.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I'm I don't want to sit next to it.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
And so you know, it could have been apple doesn't
far fall from the tree. But no, it turns out
it was Robert's Bible. Robert, I guess when he was
in prison.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
I was given.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
They gave them to them if they wanted a Bible
like you could have to read.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, And so he had a Bible.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
He took it with him when he checked out a
prison and he had it in a drawer I guess
in the and so beautiful, and I guess read came
across it in the garage when he was doing stuff
and asked Robert, what this? Who was this?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Can he have it?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
And I'm so I'm so confused dropping him off the
camp about this Bible where it came from?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And my main confusion is, you're going to read.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The Bible like summer camp.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Summer camp.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
He has a summer reading book to do before high
school that he was told I told him to bring, okay,
and he didn't bring it.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Bible then do homework. It's like the no book. Now
that being said, I've never read the New Testament. I
only read the Old Testament. You're an ot guy guy
Jewish man. Yes, read out of the Torah. My wife
was Johah's witness for twenty five years. She would do
four Bible studies a week from from when she could
(06:20):
read until she was twenty five. She has told me
there's a lot of fun stories in there and likes it.
So maybe he's, you know, into the excitement of the Bible.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Fun story.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
She tells me there's a lot of stories in there.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I mean, there's a lot of books out there that
have fun stories. He could have chose from.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Maybe he once Stephen Kingo.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, yes, reason it's like comic strips. Oh, that's what
it is.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
That's as fun.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
It's like a big, thick book, but it's written almost
like it's a big comic.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I don't know what they So they do this. So
my wife's mother is really deep in Joha's witness and
they do this now for kids, they make like.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
No, no, the Bible is sent comic strips. Oh, high
school book.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Is okay, But they Bibles for kids totally and so
I'm really confused by this Bible. I'm a little bit upset,
first of all, that he didn't I'm not I'm upset
that he didn't bring a summer reading book. First of all,
I'm confused by the Bible. But there's kids arriving the
summer camp. Well, there's kids riving summer camp, and so
I can't fully have a conversation about the Bible.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
To be clear, you guys aren't like churchgoers, right.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
No, we're not churchgoers at all. We go I am
Catholic as well. I grew up Catholic. We go once
in a while to a Christmas Like it's been a
couple of years since we did, like a Christmas Mass
or an Eastern Mass. Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
So no, we're not practicing.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
And she's there all the time.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Right, he doesn't go, So I can't have the Bible
talk at this moment. So I he goes away to camp,
fine and dandy. I pick him up, and that's when
we get into Bible talk. Wow, that's when I start
asking more questions about the Bible. He said to me
he's been reading it every night before he goes to bed,
(08:03):
and I am blown away.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
But I'm so confused.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
But does he know what he's reading? Though I heard it,
it's it's hard to read, right.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, it's like Shakespeare, like you don't understand that.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It depends how it's written, depends what kind of Bible
it is. There's like versions of the Bible that make
it more.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'd need the strip version. This Bible looks like old school.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I mean, that's the Holy Bible.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
And so we're in this talk and that's when he
starts telling me that he prays all the time and
he prays before bed and I'm unaware of that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
That's when also I found out that in his drawer
was an old rosary that I used to have a
Catholic rosary that he used to like, he had his sticky,
like he likes the cross and stuff like that. That's
when he asked me if he could have a cross
necklace that he wanted me to get him across neck.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Why doesn't he ask if he can go to church?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
That's when the last question was can we start going
to church?
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Where is this coming from?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I have no clue at all, because, like I said,
I'm not religious. My family is not like very religious anymore.
We still, you know, but I have no clue where
this is coming from.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And he doesn't really praying for the screaming and yelling
to stop at home, and so he's looking for any
answer really above.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
To landscape that front yard.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
He's taking them off.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Please heavenly, have my.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Mom stopped buying random stuff online like this swimming pool
she just bought.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Please focus bore on a college fund. Yeah, can you
guys stop? I definitely think it's not bad. It's not bad, obviously,
but it's it's odd.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It's concerning to me because you guys have no religious
background like that. That makes me, well, he's clearly searching
for answers for something, or he is thinking it's cool
for which that's weird to me, Like if you if
you don't, if you're doing it for just I don't know.
(10:11):
I don't want to say clout, but just like, well,
I've seen a TikTok and my friends like being in
Bible study. Now I got to be that's not good.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Well, a lot of a lot of like we watched
The Bachelor or Love Island, a lot of these like
hot young kids have like hot young kids when you
go to their Instagram, they have like a Bible verse
and then they're on TV John Jacks. So I think
it's I think people think they're cool if they know
(10:39):
the Bible, which is weird. It's like sky. In high
school we talked about.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
That's going to So it's just reading.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
The hot guy going to Bible study.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Read might be but I haven't really like gotten too
deep into where this came from. But my idea is
that it did come from seeing guys on YouTube. A
lot of them are religious. Military religious stuff might be
a thing. I'm not sure, but bottom lines, I told
him I'm not really probably going to take.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
You to church.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
What wait?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Oh my god, did you say church?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
You can go? But you can go.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You're more than welcome to go.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Okay, the church a couple of blocks from our house.
You'd walk over there down the street.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Doesn't don't go to church.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I don't want to go to church. So this is
a wild development in my house.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It really is.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
What if him and your man Robert start going to
church together, will you go?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
No? Disgusted, You don't need disgusted. It's crazy. Okay, all right, Well,
pray for the.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Kids, pray for him.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Wow, this is insane.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It is pretty well, I'm a little uncomfortable to be
as you should be.