June 30, 2025 • 31 mins
Chris talks inflation, tariffs, and how we may need to start rationing coffee...
Also, people with legal status are getting deported for protesting against Israel. People are pulling their kids out of public school, charter schools, and private schools... And home schooling isn't happening... Let them kids teach them damn selves!!! They'll figure out algebra, no problem.
Chris does cross-talk with Dr. Wendy and pathologizing parenthood.
Also, people with legal status are getting deported for protesting against Israel. People are pulling their kids out of public school, charter schools, and private schools... And home schooling isn't happening... Let them kids teach them damn selves!!! They'll figure out algebra, no problem.
Chris does cross-talk with Dr. Wendy and pathologizing parenthood.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Chris Merrill I AM six forty more stimulating talk and
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People are saying, no mold, forget about it. In fact,
if you were like me and you grew up poored,
you didn't have lucky charms. You had something that was
the equivalent like fortune totems, or you didn't have cheerios.
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You would have oat circles, and you didn't have fruit loops.
You'd have fruit rings something like that. Right, you didn't
have the actual stuff. We had knockoff cereals, and knockoff
cereals were fine.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It was good. In fact, in some cases you got
so you like them better.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I always hated the knockoff cheerios, but I thought that
the knockoff wheaties were fine, Right, I mean, you just
got so that you got used to it. There are
other things that you can buy that are store bought,
that are reasonable duplicates, and stores are getting better at
this than they were when we were younger, which was
so so many millennia ago. But Treehouse Foods is one
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of the country's largest manufacturers of private brands, they're the ones.
So if you see something that is the equate brand
from Walmart that may have come from Treehouse Foods. If
you see the Safeway brand that may have come from
Treehouse Foods. If you see which is like or excuse me,
you see like the Safeway Albertson's. If you see the
Kroger brand from like Ralph's, may have come from Treehouse Foods.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
They make a bunch of that stuff. However, we are
seeing the whole.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Egg thing going on, with the price of eggs going up,
which certainly is not in any way, shape or form
a money grabbed by the egg manufacturers capitalizing on the
spike and prices due to the bird flu. Coffee prices
are going up, and of course we may start seeing
more prices jumping because of the threats of terrace tariffs.
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So here's what you're looking at. Prices on things like cookies, crackers, coffee,
and other things are not only going up everywhere, but
they are also going up for the store brought store
bought brands, the store brand names, right, which we always
think of as being generic. People have decided I'm gonna
go and I don't know who does this I don't
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know who it is that is insane enough to do it,
but some people say I will just go without coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We are in a bad spot. When inflation gets to
the point where people are not having their morning drugs,
that's gonna make things that work a whole lot more difficult.
I don't know if you know any coffee drinkers. Maybe
you're you are a coffee drinker, but if the point
comes where you have to start rationing coffee, things are
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gonna get ugly fast. They say that people are stressed. Treehouse,
that's again they make the groceries. Their financial chief says,
we don't have any strong indicators that consumers are going
to be less stressed in the near term, and grocery
retailers are relying on third parties like Treehouse to make
their store brands.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Is from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Giants like Kroger Albertson's Costco boosting investments in their branded products.
Private labels are growing faster than name brand goods heading
into the pandemic, and then consumers stuck at home with
money to spend, went back to the national brands and
low cost brands. We've seen now a resurgence for a
couple of reasons. Because you have higher grocery prices, Retailers
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are expending their store brand offerings. Walmart is introducing a
premium line of food called Better Goods along their Great
Value brands. So you've got the Great Value and then
you've got Better Goods, which is supposed.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
To be the step up.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But now people are even saying we're just going to
cut back on even the low cost stuff. To me,
this is a bad omen. You've got consumer confidence. You
may have see the report consumer confidence is down. With
consumer confidence down, whether they have reason to or not.
Maybe it's based on the news, maybe it's based on
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the worries over the tariffs. Maybe people have lost jobs.
But at this point it doesn't look like we're in
a recession. The fear of recession is so great that
people are beginning to behave as.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Though we are in a recession.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We're priming for it, we're getting ready, we're pregaming.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
The next recession is what's happening, and so people.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Are cutting back on things, even the store brand products,
but they're also cutting back on this from the Wall
Street Journal, US convenience store sales falling over four percent
by volume.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What are they cutting back on?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Derrito's When you stop in at the Circle K or
the shell station, there's no there's no big bag of chips.
If you've bought a bag of chips at the at
the gas stations lately, have you seen the price on that,
it's seven bucks. Seven bucks for a bag of potato
chips is not even the family size bag. I know,
I sound like a grumpy old man. I understand, but
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I'm gonna be grumpy. I don't like it. So people
are cutting back and what they're buying. That includes Doritos,
that includes Twinkies. And I think we just saved Twinkies
from the brink of extinction a decade ago. They were
all ready to wrap up. But here's the really scary thing.
While we have some people cutting back on things like
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coffee and other places, which is terrifying, sounds like some
people are cutting back on cigarettes. Oh my, So now
you've got people that are not gonna have their cigarettes
or their coffee in the morning. That is uh, it's
gonna get ugly fast, friends, This is gonna be very
apocalyptic in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I don't have high hopes. So what can you.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Do Could you turn to one of those dollar stores? Nope,
because have you been to a dollar store lately? Nothing
costs a dollar anymore. And now Dollar General says they're
not even making an money and they're shutting up shop.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Dollar General is closing nearly one hundred stores. The company
says it plans to close ninety six locations by January
of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's not too many, though. I think Dollar General opens
more than one hundred a day. I'm exaggerating, but not
by much. This is from Whas by the way, I
believe this is in Louisville.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Dollar General CEO says that the number of closings represents
less than one percent of the company's overall store base.
It also plans to close forty five of Dollar General's
home to core stores popshelf.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I think the Dollar General had home to course stores.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Did you know then beds through a dollar.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
All right? The decision was quick, Amy, you get credit
on that one. That was very quick.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
The decision came after a view of the store performance
and conditions to determine which stores should be closed or
maybe be rebranded. Now, as of now, it's not known
which locations are set to close. There are more than
thirty of those stores in the Louisville metrics.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All right, so again I told you that it was
from Louisville. Did he just say rebranded? Don't know if
they're going to close or rebrand. So you rebrand from
a Dollar General to what a dollar Lieutenant? I don't
understand what the rebrand would be. You go more high
end Dollar General. There's no lower end Dollar I mean,
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Dollar General is what it is. It's just cheap, cheap.
All the dollar stores just cheap. Tell you man, I
would think Dollar General will do really well as people
are worried about inflation and recession. It has in the past.
Walmart and Dollar General stores do well during recessions. They do,
they do, and yet here they are saying they're going
to close some shops. We'll find out how it plays out. Okay,
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App, IM six forty more stimulating talk, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Big questions are coming up about the people being deported,
especially when we find out that we're trying to deport
people who have legal status in the United States, including
green cards or well respected positions within major universities. It
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kind of started with this Machmud Khalil, who was a
guy protesting at Columbia. Many many schools were protesting during
the demonstrations over the warre in Gozar, right. Most of
the protesters were pro Israeli protesters. And as we know,
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when it comes to protesting, you cannot be pro one
side without being anti the other. That's how it works out.
You can't say I love the Dodgers without people knowing
that that means you hate the Yankees. Now, maybe you
do hate the Yankees, But is it possible that you're
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just rooting for your team. Possible, But when it comes
to the world of politics, and especially when it comes
to something so significant as war and war where religion
is involved, you have to be my side or the
other side.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You're either with me or you're against me.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So Khalil and Khalil was in large part part of
the demonstrations at Columbia. We saw those at UCLA, you
see Irvine, Berkeley, Stanford, Santa Cruz. There's been a number
of California schools. Of course, we're taking part in these protests.
Some of them did feel distinctly anti Semitic. That doesn't
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mean everybody there was, but it wasn't like they were
stopping it from being anti semitic either, So we know
how this played up. However, as much as we despise
that anti semitism is not illegal in the United States,
you're allowed to be anti Semitic, you're allowed to be racist.
You're not allowed to hire base on racism or anti semitism,
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but you are allowed to be an a hole in America.
That hasn't changed in the last two hundred and fifty years.
You can still be a total a hole in America.
The line is when you're being an a hole and
it starts to threaten other people if there is demonstrable
harm being done, although did this guy, Makmu Khalil, actually
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demonstrate any harm. He was a negotiator that was representing
the student protesters at Columbia. He is a permanent US resident.
He was arrested March ninth at his apartment by Customs
enforcement by ICE. According the AP agent said they were
executing a State Department order to revoke his student visa.
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His lawyer says he didn't have a student visa. He's
a Green card holder, He's a permanent legal US resident.
They said, oh, we're taking that too.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
What this is.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
This is like when you were a kid and the
bully came by and punched you and said give me
your lunch money, and you said, I've got my lunch money,
but please don't take my allowance.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I just got it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And the bully goes, oh, can give me that allowance too.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
That's basically what's going on.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So the State Department says, we want a student, we're
taking away with the student visa. The lawyer says he
didn't have he's a permanent US resident. Oh, we're taking
that away too. And why is that? Because Trump has
signed an order, signed an executive order to cancel and
deport the students and all the student visas of any
hamas sympathizers on college campuses.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And the reason it's tough is again, you're allowed to disagree.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Even if your disagreement makes you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
A total a hole in the eyes of the majority
of people, you are still allowed to disagree.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
In America.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You may remember after nine eleven there were a number
of politicians who came out and they said.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Look, nine to eleven was have home.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It was a terrible chapter in American history and that said,
you kind of understand why some people hate us, and
they were lambassador. They were told, how dare you? You
can't say such terrible things about America. Don't you know
we're in a war against terrorism, and yet you're still
allowed to say that. Even Congress persons were saying that
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they don't approve of nine to eleven, but they kind
of understand why other countries, why other groups hate us.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Now dare you do that?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The real kicker on this case with the Khalil is
that Marco Rubio, formerly known as Little Marco, did a
press conference right after the arrest and he said, this
is not about free speech. This is about people that
don't have a right to be in the United States
to begin with.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
But it sounds like by all accounts he did.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
He had a student visa, then he had a permanent
green card, and now we're just claiming you don't have
a right to be here because we're policing your eye
ideas now.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
But it's not just him.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
There was also a doctor who was detained, now a
highly regarded kidney doctor.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Just after six pm six from ABC seventh.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Saturday, planes carrying more than two hundred Venezuelan prisoners left
the US after the administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act,
a law from the late seventeen hundreds that allows the
government to deport non citizens without due process during wartime.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Are we at war with Venezuela? Anybody? Anybody? The answer
is no.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Less than an hour later, a federal judge temporarily blocked
the president from invoking the law and ordered the planes
to turn around, saying any plane containing these folks that
is going to take off or is in the air
needs to be returned to the United States. But the
planes never turned around, and video shows the alleged gang
members being marched into prison in El Salvador yesterday. Critics
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argue the administration defied the judge's orders, but the White
House argues the judge has no jurisdiction over the president's
conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act,
and his core Article two powers to remove foreign alien
terrorist staff.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
All right, So that is key. And I guess I
thought there was more of this deported doctor. I want
to talk about this deported doctor or the detained doctor.
I'll do that here in a second. But also you
just heard the report from ABC saying we didn't like
what the judge had to say.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
The administration just says, hey, wait, what jurisdiction do judges have?
What can federal judges?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
They don't really get to talk about us, and they
have no jurisdiction over us. We're the White House for
Pete's sake, which means that we no longer have checks
and balances. We just have separate silos where judges issue
rulings in vacuums that don't apply, and Congress writes laws
that don't apply, and the White House executes laws.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That they don't even have.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
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be with you as always every Sunday, Sunday Sunday, my friends. See,
I grew up in a rural area where I mean
there was like one private school nearest. There was a
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Catholic school that was about twenty five miles away, but
the public schools were fine ish. So there is a
new trend that's happening. Parents are disillusioned with public school.
There's arguments over charter schools. Some states are trying to
fight to be able to use tax dollars to send
their kids to private religious schools. Then you've got the
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parents to say, we're gonna homeschool our kids because we
don't want them to be in doctor NATed by all
that edumacation. There's a new trend, and that is what
if the kids teach themselves? My mind is blown. Of course,
these children will know what algebra is and know that
they need to know that.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It's called unschooling.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Molly Bond's a former grade school teacher for a decade
now is a twenty four to seven educator for her
nine and eleven year old boys. They're being unschooled at
their Ann Arbor area home.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Homeschooling, you're educating your child at home. You're usually following
a curriculum versus unschooling. You're actually following your child's desires,
your child's interests.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, we should have done more of that in school
because I was not interested in reading or writing or arithmetic.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I was interested in kickball.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Latin in elementary school, then dodgeball in junior high, and
then screwing around in high school. Is there a class
unscrewing around?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
So you may grab a curriculum to help you with that,
but overall, you're really presenting like a feast for your child.
Think about like a Shmorgas board, a Thanksgiving feast, and
your child is picking and choosing what's interesting to them.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Lynnett Heines, that's great for a well rounded education.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
No.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Lynette Hines is on the other side of the state,
near Grand Rapids.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
This is out of the Detroit by the way, ABC
News in Detroit.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
But she's on the same page with her three kids.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Schools.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
The structure of them is set up really well for
certain students, certain learning styles and personalities, but there's a
lot who don't really.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Fit the box.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Of school Michigan doesn't keep tags on how many kids
are enrolled in any kind of homeschool program, and per
the state Department of Education, there are no required tests
for students to take. Giving grades and submitting them to
the state are both voluntary.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well, that seems like a really good idea. No, not
a great idea. How do you end up with an
under educated society. It's simple, you don't educate them.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Tada.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Well, you know, we were gonna educate our kids, but
then we thought do the kids want to be educated?
And then we said, kids, do you want to have
to sit around and read books that you don't like
all day about the things? And they were like no,
and we were like, that sounds great to us. So
we thought we would work on more of their education
at the playground. It is interesting to me that you
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have trends like this, which honestly it's a few crackpots
doing this sort of thing because most homeschoolers are going
to follow a curriculum, so you got a few crackpots.
But the reason that it picks up any attention, and
in this case, it was a story in USA Today
this week that was like, unschooling is the new way, Like, no,
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it's not. And it's always somebody who's like, I just
want my kid. I mean, think of the weirdest hippie
stereotype from the nineteen sixties that you can and then
add a modern day twist to it, which usually involves
more nose piercings. Those are the parents now that are
like I'm vegan. Even my nose ring is vegan, and
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all of my I got. I got all these different
like Japanese characters of tattoos on the inside of my
armpit because I love that.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And my kids don't want to learn like from the man.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
So we're not gonna We'll let my kids decide what
they want. They're they're five now, and they want to
be engineers, so we're gonna teach them to be engineers.
The parents who are for these sorts of things are
not the parents of the future CEOs of America.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Generally speaking. Now, you may have someone, as they use
the story, who used.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
To be a teacher, and that teacher, even though she says, well,
you don't have a curriculum, that teacher has a general
idea of what the kids need to learn.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
The reason is that was her job. She went to
school for that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
She actually has an education in child psychology. There's some
child development in her educational background. She may not be
a child psychologist, but she's had some courses on she
understands the progress of the children. I'm far less concerned
with the former first grade teacher. This says, I'm gonna
homeschool my kids and we're gonna kind of have a
loosey goosey curriculum because I have more faith that the
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teacher with the experience is more likely to understand the
kids have to understand, have to know the basics AB's
and c's.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
But a lot of these TikTokers.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
That are making this sort of thing popular now they're
influencers and we're gonna ride our bikes through every RV
park in America and that's their education.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
They're the most crackpot parents you could imagine.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
They have not been wildly successful in life until they
found TikTok and then the fact that they are eccentric
makes them interesting, and that's why people watch. And then
they do eccentric things, and then people watch them do
eccentric things.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It's the same.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Reason we watch reality shows on Bravo. Nutty people doing
nutty things.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And so all of a sudden, the nutting people find
other nutty people, and then the nutting people create communities,
and then the nutty people catch the attention of mainstream
and then we all say, look at this new trend.
This person is totally normal and had their butt cheeks
pierced together. Is now teaching their kids how to be
well adjusted. Adun'ts they don't poop because their butt scheeks
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are pierced together. It's called unpooping. That's not normal, it's
not beneficial to society, it's not.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Good for the child.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And yet, because of the reach of social media and
the entertainment aspect of everything in our lives now, it's
become popular enough that we're giving it some sort of credence.
So I guess what I'm saying is, please don't do
that to your kids. Please, Dear God, don't don't do that. Look,
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I don't like all the things my kids are doing,
and honestly, I'm a little concerned that for one of
my three adult children, there's a chance they would try
this because they're the kind of person that would be like,
I'm doing this un thing because it's not normal, and
I'm gonna be different, just like everyone else that's different.
We're totally different than everyone else, all of us that
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are doing the same thing. We're different and the same,
but different together as one. So I'm really hoping that
she grows out of that before she starts procreating his
fingers crossed.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It's being honest with you. Just hoping the great Doctor
Wendy Walsh and Doctor Wendy after.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Dark will give us some insight into all things related
to our relationships and uh maybe tell us bad parenting
one on one, letting your kids watch porn and then
blaming the porn.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
That is next.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
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Speaker 3 (23:21):
Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I mean maybe if you're bill handled betting your dates
just a couple of weeks after you get married, then
that's problematic.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But otherwise the wrong though it's called due diligence.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
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Speaker 3 (23:48):
Hike.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
She walked away as doctor Wendy.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'm getting to you, and of course Brooker in the
hiszel tonight and I love I love me some Heather
Brooker too.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
All right, Doctor Renney, you know I didn't know if
you were there too.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
I am knowing I'm always here. I appreciate you got
your women with you.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
That's the important stuff, right, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So doctor Weddy walls Doctor Wendy after dog starts at
to seven o'clock. And as we know, I like to
talk with doctor Wendy, and I like to pick her
brain about things. I happen to see a story out
of one of the states that I hold near and
dear to my heart, the state of Kansas. I lived
there for seven years and I loved every second of it.
It's a beautiful place, and I know Kansas gets a
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bad rap, has been a fly over state.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It's a great place. Loved it.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But there's a woman in Kansas who is suing porn
sites now after her fourteen year old used an old
laptop to watch adult content. She says, one hundred and
eighteen times, I think she's underestimating it. Claims that porn
sites violated Kansas age verification laws.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
So they're saying that the porn sites are the problem.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And they didn't do what they were supposed to do.
And Kansas law says that any site or adult content
represents a quarter of total content can be held liable
if they don't take measures to ensure that miners can't
access their sites. They say, however, that the law essentially
lumps other sites like Twitter together with porn sites, even
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if distributing porn is not their main mission. This has
been my argument over the age verification stuff on some
of these websites anyway, and other states continue to sign on,
and I understand why they do. It's to limit the
kids from accessing the pornography. But what's the point when
you're only going to do it to the sites that
have one third or one half or one quarter or pornography.
And then you've got X And I mean, for Pete's sake,
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as we know from this, more than a quarter of
what you find on Twitter X is pornography, Snapchat all
these other sites that are easily accessible.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And I just think we're blaming We're blaming.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Penthouse for the kids looking at it back in the
old days, in the nineteen hundreds, remember those days, doctor Wendy.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Okay, Yeah, if I got a hold of my.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Dad's Playboy, it wasn't Hefner's fault. It wasn't the fault
of the Zephyr station on the corner of Broadway in
State which was the only place within walking distance.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
So that that that sold smut from my house.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Oh wait wait, that's the difference, is that that your
dad had to bring it into the house.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Now it's available in every child's phone.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
It's well, well, who gave my kid the phone? I mean, ultimately,
are your parents? Let me yes, I got three of
them and I'm a terrible parent. Yeah, and you think
you can control their use. Let me tell you the
kids who came over to my in middle school who
were not allowed to have phones. The first thing they
do is pick up any device or walk to any
computer and log onto all their accounts.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
They all still have accounts.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
It's worse for those parents because the parents didn't know
that their kids had all these social media accounts.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
All right, I get that it's tougher to police the
kid's activities right than it ever has been before. But
that doesn't mean that parents don't have any responsibility. It
doesn't mean that the parents can be like, this is
porn Hub's fault for my kid looking at So.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Let's talk about the kind of pornography. There's one thing,
but if their dad had some Playboy Soft porn, cute
little air brushed young women.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Right, you can't find that anymore.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
No, Now we see violence, we see misogyny. Young boys
are growing up to believe that this is love and
this is sex. They assume that young girls want to
be choked all because of the messages being sent by porn.
This is very, very serious and it's also highly addictive.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I don't agree. I don't disagree with anything that you've
just said.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
I fully understand and I'm a big believer that it
takes a village now, having been a single mom for
twenty years, and I see how our culture loves to
pathologize parenthood, like, oh, it must be the parents terrible
to parents. We are in a village together, and there
are many things that influence our children. Parents only have
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so much influence. They yeah, they dropped the genetic bomb
in the kid's head, but and they try to model
being a good person, but they are It is so
easy to undo good parenting through things like pal pressure
and the internet.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
In a heartbeat, again, I agree with what you're saying.
My issue is that this kid found an old laptop
and then access the pornography in his own home.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
If it's a he accessed it, it's well it does.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Matter in the same way that I had to find it.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I had to find my dad's stuff under the bed,
in the same way that this kid was able to
find a laptop that his parents didn't didn't take care
of it, but he.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Was able to access it because the porn side opened
the door and let him in.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
All right, if you are not adult enough to know
how to set up restrictions on your own Internet, then
you shouldn't be having kids.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Flat out, you're pathologizing parenthood.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I am a parent. I have to take accountability.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
What I'm not doing is shirking that responsibility as a parent.
I will tell you the flaws in my children are
largely my fault.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Really, I do think that.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
I think our culture at large also has a huge impact.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
But I'm not going to blame other people for my forthcomings.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Hypothetical question.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
In a few weeks, I'm having a UCLA's lead cannabis
researcher on the show here, and he told me that
up to two percent of Americans are addicted to THHC
and cannabis and it is you know, we're talking about
millions of people.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
It is legal.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
There are myths about it that cannabis for instance, isn't addictive,
which is a myth. There are myths that because it's legal,
it's safe. There are myths that it's not a gateway drug,
it is, et cetera. We're going to talk to him
about that. So if your kid became addicted to weed
as a teenager, is that your fault?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I mean, I understand this legal.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
It's available in every corner.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It is not legal for children. So neither is porn.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Neither are cigarettes. And yet somehow people get it right
for the porn. But if I find, if I find
my kid is smoking, I don't go sue Philip Morris.
I correct that parentally, so you go. I don't say,
my goodness, we're all victims here. I have problems with that.
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I mean, I'm not saying that the porn didn't do wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
They did. That's fine.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
I think that we all need to take responsibility as
a society and as a culture to make the world
safer for minders.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Wholly agree.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But I don't think that starts with saying not my fault,
somebody else's fault.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
That's where that's where well.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
I think there's a difference between saying not my fault
and saying shared responsibility.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Let's work together to solve these problems.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
We'll look at you finding some nice middle down here
being the adult in the room.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I don't like it. I love talking to you, I
really do. I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
This is why I listen to Doctor Wendy after dark
and she starts here at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Have a wonderful show. I hope I got you. Hope
I got you. Warmed up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I'm warmed up. Good, go fired up?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
All right?
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Love it all right.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
We will talk to you next week as well. Chris
Marril every Sunday, four o'clock right up until we hear
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People are saying, no mold, forget about it. In fact,
if you were like me and you grew up poored,
you didn't have lucky charms. You had something that was
the equivalent like fortune totems, or you didn't have cheerios.
(00:35):
You would have oat circles, and you didn't have fruit loops.
You'd have fruit rings something like that. Right, you didn't
have the actual stuff. We had knockoff cereals, and knockoff
cereals were fine.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It was good. In fact, in some cases you got
so you like them better.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I always hated the knockoff cheerios, but I thought that
the knockoff wheaties were fine, Right, I mean, you just
got so that you got used to it. There are
other things that you can buy that are store bought,
that are reasonable duplicates, and stores are getting better at
this than they were when we were younger, which was
so so many millennia ago. But Treehouse Foods is one
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of the country's largest manufacturers of private brands, they're the ones.
So if you see something that is the equate brand
from Walmart that may have come from Treehouse Foods. If
you see the Safeway brand that may have come from
Treehouse Foods. If you see which is like or excuse me,
you see like the Safeway Albertson's. If you see the
Kroger brand from like Ralph's, may have come from Treehouse Foods.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
They make a bunch of that stuff. However, we are
seeing the whole.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Egg thing going on, with the price of eggs going up,
which certainly is not in any way, shape or form
a money grabbed by the egg manufacturers capitalizing on the
spike and prices due to the bird flu. Coffee prices
are going up, and of course we may start seeing
more prices jumping because of the threats of terrace tariffs.
(02:01):
So here's what you're looking at. Prices on things like cookies, crackers, coffee,
and other things are not only going up everywhere, but
they are also going up for the store brought store
bought brands, the store brand names, right, which we always
think of as being generic. People have decided I'm gonna
go and I don't know who does this I don't
(02:23):
know who it is that is insane enough to do it,
but some people say I will just go without coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We are in a bad spot. When inflation gets to
the point where people are not having their morning drugs,
that's gonna make things that work a whole lot more difficult.
I don't know if you know any coffee drinkers. Maybe
you're you are a coffee drinker, but if the point
comes where you have to start rationing coffee, things are
(02:52):
gonna get ugly fast. They say that people are stressed. Treehouse,
that's again they make the groceries. Their financial chief says,
we don't have any strong indicators that consumers are going
to be less stressed in the near term, and grocery
retailers are relying on third parties like Treehouse to make
their store brands.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Is from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Giants like Kroger Albertson's Costco boosting investments in their branded products.
Private labels are growing faster than name brand goods heading
into the pandemic, and then consumers stuck at home with
money to spend, went back to the national brands and
low cost brands. We've seen now a resurgence for a
couple of reasons. Because you have higher grocery prices, Retailers
(03:34):
are expending their store brand offerings. Walmart is introducing a
premium line of food called Better Goods along their Great
Value brands. So you've got the Great Value and then
you've got Better Goods, which is supposed.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
To be the step up.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But now people are even saying we're just going to
cut back on even the low cost stuff. To me,
this is a bad omen. You've got consumer confidence. You
may have see the report consumer confidence is down. With
consumer confidence down, whether they have reason to or not.
Maybe it's based on the news, maybe it's based on
(04:08):
the worries over the tariffs. Maybe people have lost jobs.
But at this point it doesn't look like we're in
a recession. The fear of recession is so great that
people are beginning to behave as.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Though we are in a recession.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We're priming for it, we're getting ready, we're pregaming.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
The next recession is what's happening, and so people.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Are cutting back on things, even the store brand products,
but they're also cutting back on this from the Wall
Street Journal, US convenience store sales falling over four percent
by volume.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What are they cutting back on?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Derrito's When you stop in at the Circle K or
the shell station, there's no there's no big bag of chips.
If you've bought a bag of chips at the at
the gas stations lately, have you seen the price on that,
it's seven bucks. Seven bucks for a bag of potato
chips is not even the family size bag. I know,
I sound like a grumpy old man. I understand, but
(05:04):
I'm gonna be grumpy. I don't like it. So people
are cutting back and what they're buying. That includes Doritos,
that includes Twinkies. And I think we just saved Twinkies
from the brink of extinction a decade ago. They were
all ready to wrap up. But here's the really scary thing.
While we have some people cutting back on things like
(05:24):
coffee and other places, which is terrifying, sounds like some
people are cutting back on cigarettes. Oh my, So now
you've got people that are not gonna have their cigarettes
or their coffee in the morning. That is uh, it's
gonna get ugly fast, friends, This is gonna be very
apocalyptic in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I don't have high hopes. So what can you.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Do Could you turn to one of those dollar stores? Nope,
because have you been to a dollar store lately? Nothing
costs a dollar anymore. And now Dollar General says they're
not even making an money and they're shutting up shop.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Dollar General is closing nearly one hundred stores. The company
says it plans to close ninety six locations by January
of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's not too many, though. I think Dollar General opens
more than one hundred a day. I'm exaggerating, but not
by much. This is from Whas by the way, I
believe this is in Louisville.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Dollar General CEO says that the number of closings represents
less than one percent of the company's overall store base.
It also plans to close forty five of Dollar General's
home to core stores popshelf.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I think the Dollar General had home to course stores.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Did you know then beds through a dollar.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
All right? The decision was quick, Amy, you get credit
on that one. That was very quick.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
The decision came after a view of the store performance
and conditions to determine which stores should be closed or
maybe be rebranded. Now, as of now, it's not known
which locations are set to close. There are more than
thirty of those stores in the Louisville metrics.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All right, so again I told you that it was
from Louisville. Did he just say rebranded? Don't know if
they're going to close or rebrand. So you rebrand from
a Dollar General to what a dollar Lieutenant? I don't
understand what the rebrand would be. You go more high
end Dollar General. There's no lower end Dollar I mean,
(07:19):
Dollar General is what it is. It's just cheap, cheap.
All the dollar stores just cheap. Tell you man, I
would think Dollar General will do really well as people
are worried about inflation and recession. It has in the past.
Walmart and Dollar General stores do well during recessions. They do,
they do, and yet here they are saying they're going
to close some shops. We'll find out how it plays out. Okay,
(07:42):
If I Am six forty were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
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App, IM six forty more stimulating talk, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Big questions are coming up about the people being deported,
especially when we find out that we're trying to deport
people who have legal status in the United States, including
green cards or well respected positions within major universities. It
(08:13):
kind of started with this Machmud Khalil, who was a
guy protesting at Columbia. Many many schools were protesting during
the demonstrations over the warre in Gozar, right. Most of
the protesters were pro Israeli protesters. And as we know,
(08:36):
when it comes to protesting, you cannot be pro one
side without being anti the other. That's how it works out.
You can't say I love the Dodgers without people knowing
that that means you hate the Yankees. Now, maybe you
do hate the Yankees, But is it possible that you're
(08:58):
just rooting for your team. Possible, But when it comes
to the world of politics, and especially when it comes
to something so significant as war and war where religion
is involved, you have to be my side or the
other side.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You're either with me or you're against me.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So Khalil and Khalil was in large part part of
the demonstrations at Columbia. We saw those at UCLA, you
see Irvine, Berkeley, Stanford, Santa Cruz. There's been a number
of California schools. Of course, we're taking part in these protests.
Some of them did feel distinctly anti Semitic. That doesn't
(09:36):
mean everybody there was, but it wasn't like they were
stopping it from being anti semitic either, So we know
how this played up. However, as much as we despise
that anti semitism is not illegal in the United States,
you're allowed to be anti Semitic, you're allowed to be racist.
You're not allowed to hire base on racism or anti semitism,
(09:57):
but you are allowed to be an a hole in America.
That hasn't changed in the last two hundred and fifty years.
You can still be a total a hole in America.
The line is when you're being an a hole and
it starts to threaten other people if there is demonstrable
harm being done, although did this guy, Makmu Khalil, actually
(10:22):
demonstrate any harm. He was a negotiator that was representing
the student protesters at Columbia. He is a permanent US resident.
He was arrested March ninth at his apartment by Customs
enforcement by ICE. According the AP agent said they were
executing a State Department order to revoke his student visa.
(10:44):
His lawyer says he didn't have a student visa. He's
a Green card holder, He's a permanent legal US resident.
They said, oh, we're taking that too.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
What this is.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
This is like when you were a kid and the
bully came by and punched you and said give me
your lunch money, and you said, I've got my lunch money,
but please don't take my allowance.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I just got it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And the bully goes, oh, can give me that allowance too.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
That's basically what's going on.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So the State Department says, we want a student, we're
taking away with the student visa. The lawyer says he
didn't have he's a permanent US resident. Oh, we're taking
that away too. And why is that? Because Trump has
signed an order, signed an executive order to cancel and
deport the students and all the student visas of any
hamas sympathizers on college campuses.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And the reason it's tough is again, you're allowed to disagree.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Even if your disagreement makes you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
A total a hole in the eyes of the majority
of people, you are still allowed to disagree.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
In America.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You may remember after nine eleven there were a number
of politicians who came out and they said.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Look, nine to eleven was have home.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It was a terrible chapter in American history and that said,
you kind of understand why some people hate us, and
they were lambassador. They were told, how dare you? You
can't say such terrible things about America. Don't you know
we're in a war against terrorism, and yet you're still
allowed to say that. Even Congress persons were saying that
(12:22):
they don't approve of nine to eleven, but they kind
of understand why other countries, why other groups hate us.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Now dare you do that?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The real kicker on this case with the Khalil is
that Marco Rubio, formerly known as Little Marco, did a
press conference right after the arrest and he said, this
is not about free speech. This is about people that
don't have a right to be in the United States
to begin with.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
But it sounds like by all accounts he did.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
He had a student visa, then he had a permanent
green card, and now we're just claiming you don't have
a right to be here because we're policing your eye
ideas now.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
But it's not just him.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
There was also a doctor who was detained, now a
highly regarded kidney doctor.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Just after six pm six from ABC seventh.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Saturday, planes carrying more than two hundred Venezuelan prisoners left
the US after the administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act,
a law from the late seventeen hundreds that allows the
government to deport non citizens without due process during wartime.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Are we at war with Venezuela? Anybody? Anybody? The answer
is no.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Less than an hour later, a federal judge temporarily blocked
the president from invoking the law and ordered the planes
to turn around, saying any plane containing these folks that
is going to take off or is in the air
needs to be returned to the United States. But the
planes never turned around, and video shows the alleged gang
members being marched into prison in El Salvador yesterday. Critics
(13:53):
argue the administration defied the judge's orders, but the White
House argues the judge has no jurisdiction over the president's
conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act,
and his core Article two powers to remove foreign alien
terrorist staff.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
All right, So that is key. And I guess I
thought there was more of this deported doctor. I want
to talk about this deported doctor or the detained doctor.
I'll do that here in a second. But also you
just heard the report from ABC saying we didn't like
what the judge had to say.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
The administration just says, hey, wait, what jurisdiction do judges have?
What can federal judges?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
They don't really get to talk about us, and they
have no jurisdiction over us. We're the White House for
Pete's sake, which means that we no longer have checks
and balances. We just have separate silos where judges issue
rulings in vacuums that don't apply, and Congress writes laws
that don't apply, and the White House executes laws.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That they don't even have.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Take a check on news KFI AM six forty Chris
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be with you as always every Sunday, Sunday Sunday, my friends. See,
I grew up in a rural area where I mean
there was like one private school nearest. There was a
(15:28):
Catholic school that was about twenty five miles away, but
the public schools were fine ish. So there is a
new trend that's happening. Parents are disillusioned with public school.
There's arguments over charter schools. Some states are trying to
fight to be able to use tax dollars to send
their kids to private religious schools. Then you've got the
(15:51):
parents to say, we're gonna homeschool our kids because we
don't want them to be in doctor NATed by all
that edumacation. There's a new trend, and that is what
if the kids teach themselves? My mind is blown. Of course,
these children will know what algebra is and know that
they need to know that.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It's called unschooling.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Molly Bond's a former grade school teacher for a decade
now is a twenty four to seven educator for her
nine and eleven year old boys. They're being unschooled at
their Ann Arbor area home.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Homeschooling, you're educating your child at home. You're usually following
a curriculum versus unschooling. You're actually following your child's desires,
your child's interests.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, we should have done more of that in school
because I was not interested in reading or writing or arithmetic.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I was interested in kickball.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Latin in elementary school, then dodgeball in junior high, and
then screwing around in high school. Is there a class
unscrewing around?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
So you may grab a curriculum to help you with that,
but overall, you're really presenting like a feast for your child.
Think about like a Shmorgas board, a Thanksgiving feast, and
your child is picking and choosing what's interesting to them.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Lynnett Heines, that's great for a well rounded education.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
No.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Lynette Hines is on the other side of the state,
near Grand Rapids.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
This is out of the Detroit by the way, ABC
News in Detroit.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
But she's on the same page with her three kids.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Schools.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
The structure of them is set up really well for
certain students, certain learning styles and personalities, but there's a
lot who don't really.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Fit the box.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Of school Michigan doesn't keep tags on how many kids
are enrolled in any kind of homeschool program, and per
the state Department of Education, there are no required tests
for students to take. Giving grades and submitting them to
the state are both voluntary.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well, that seems like a really good idea. No, not
a great idea. How do you end up with an
under educated society. It's simple, you don't educate them.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Tada.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Well, you know, we were gonna educate our kids, but
then we thought do the kids want to be educated?
And then we said, kids, do you want to have
to sit around and read books that you don't like
all day about the things? And they were like no,
and we were like, that sounds great to us. So
we thought we would work on more of their education
at the playground. It is interesting to me that you
(18:21):
have trends like this, which honestly it's a few crackpots
doing this sort of thing because most homeschoolers are going
to follow a curriculum, so you got a few crackpots.
But the reason that it picks up any attention, and
in this case, it was a story in USA Today
this week that was like, unschooling is the new way, Like, no,
(18:43):
it's not. And it's always somebody who's like, I just
want my kid. I mean, think of the weirdest hippie
stereotype from the nineteen sixties that you can and then
add a modern day twist to it, which usually involves
more nose piercings. Those are the parents now that are
like I'm vegan. Even my nose ring is vegan, and
(19:05):
all of my I got. I got all these different
like Japanese characters of tattoos on the inside of my
armpit because I love that.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And my kids don't want to learn like from the man.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
So we're not gonna We'll let my kids decide what
they want. They're they're five now, and they want to
be engineers, so we're gonna teach them to be engineers.
The parents who are for these sorts of things are
not the parents of the future CEOs of America.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Generally speaking. Now, you may have someone, as they use
the story, who used.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
To be a teacher, and that teacher, even though she says, well,
you don't have a curriculum, that teacher has a general
idea of what the kids need to learn.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
The reason is that was her job. She went to
school for that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
She actually has an education in child psychology. There's some
child development in her educational background. She may not be
a child psychologist, but she's had some courses on she
understands the progress of the children. I'm far less concerned
with the former first grade teacher. This says, I'm gonna
homeschool my kids and we're gonna kind of have a
loosey goosey curriculum because I have more faith that the
(20:26):
teacher with the experience is more likely to understand the
kids have to understand, have to know the basics AB's
and c's.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
But a lot of these TikTokers.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
That are making this sort of thing popular now they're
influencers and we're gonna ride our bikes through every RV
park in America and that's their education.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
They're the most crackpot parents you could imagine.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
They have not been wildly successful in life until they
found TikTok and then the fact that they are eccentric
makes them interesting, and that's why people watch. And then
they do eccentric things, and then people watch them do
eccentric things.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It's the same.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Reason we watch reality shows on Bravo. Nutty people doing
nutty things.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And so all of a sudden, the nutting people find
other nutty people, and then the nutting people create communities,
and then the nutty people catch the attention of mainstream
and then we all say, look at this new trend.
This person is totally normal and had their butt cheeks
pierced together. Is now teaching their kids how to be
well adjusted. Adun'ts they don't poop because their butt scheeks
(21:44):
are pierced together. It's called unpooping. That's not normal, it's
not beneficial to society, it's not.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Good for the child.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And yet, because of the reach of social media and
the entertainment aspect of everything in our lives now, it's
become popular enough that we're giving it some sort of credence.
So I guess what I'm saying is, please don't do
that to your kids. Please, Dear God, don't don't do that. Look,
(22:18):
I don't like all the things my kids are doing,
and honestly, I'm a little concerned that for one of
my three adult children, there's a chance they would try
this because they're the kind of person that would be like,
I'm doing this un thing because it's not normal, and
I'm gonna be different, just like everyone else that's different.
We're totally different than everyone else, all of us that
(22:40):
are doing the same thing. We're different and the same,
but different together as one. So I'm really hoping that
she grows out of that before she starts procreating his
fingers crossed.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It's being honest with you. Just hoping the great Doctor
Wendy Walsh and Doctor Wendy after.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Dark will give us some insight into all things related
to our relationships and uh maybe tell us bad parenting
one on one, letting your kids watch porn and then
blaming the porn.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
That is next.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeart Radio App Live from the KMFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I mean maybe if you're bill handled betting your dates
just a couple of weeks after you get married, then
that's problematic.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But otherwise the wrong though it's called due diligence.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Chris Merril CAFI AM six forty on demand anytime the
iHeart Radio App. Shout out to my friend Raoul. Love
working with my friend every week. I look forward to that. Kayla,
Hi Kayla, Tayla, Hi Kayla, Hi Kayla, Hi Kayla.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Hike.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
She walked away as doctor Wendy.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'm getting to you, and of course Brooker in the
hiszel tonight and I love I love me some Heather
Brooker too.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
All right, Doctor Renney, you know I didn't know if
you were there too.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
I am knowing I'm always here. I appreciate you got
your women with you.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
That's the important stuff, right, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So doctor Weddy walls Doctor Wendy after dog starts at
to seven o'clock. And as we know, I like to
talk with doctor Wendy, and I like to pick her
brain about things. I happen to see a story out
of one of the states that I hold near and
dear to my heart, the state of Kansas. I lived
there for seven years and I loved every second of it.
It's a beautiful place, and I know Kansas gets a
(24:27):
bad rap, has been a fly over state.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It's a great place. Loved it.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But there's a woman in Kansas who is suing porn
sites now after her fourteen year old used an old
laptop to watch adult content. She says, one hundred and
eighteen times, I think she's underestimating it. Claims that porn
sites violated Kansas age verification laws.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
So they're saying that the porn sites are the problem.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And they didn't do what they were supposed to do.
And Kansas law says that any site or adult content
represents a quarter of total content can be held liable
if they don't take measures to ensure that miners can't
access their sites. They say, however, that the law essentially
lumps other sites like Twitter together with porn sites, even
(25:14):
if distributing porn is not their main mission. This has
been my argument over the age verification stuff on some
of these websites anyway, and other states continue to sign on,
and I understand why they do. It's to limit the
kids from accessing the pornography. But what's the point when
you're only going to do it to the sites that
have one third or one half or one quarter or pornography.
And then you've got X And I mean, for Pete's sake,
(25:36):
as we know from this, more than a quarter of
what you find on Twitter X is pornography, Snapchat all
these other sites that are easily accessible.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And I just think we're blaming We're blaming.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Penthouse for the kids looking at it back in the
old days, in the nineteen hundreds, remember those days, doctor Wendy.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Okay, Yeah, if I got a hold of my.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Dad's Playboy, it wasn't Hefner's fault. It wasn't the fault
of the Zephyr station on the corner of Broadway in
State which was the only place within walking distance.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
So that that that sold smut from my house.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Oh wait wait, that's the difference, is that that your
dad had to bring it into the house.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Now it's available in every child's phone.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
It's well, well, who gave my kid the phone? I mean, ultimately,
are your parents? Let me yes, I got three of
them and I'm a terrible parent. Yeah, and you think
you can control their use. Let me tell you the
kids who came over to my in middle school who
were not allowed to have phones. The first thing they
do is pick up any device or walk to any
computer and log onto all their accounts.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
They all still have accounts.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
It's worse for those parents because the parents didn't know
that their kids had all these social media accounts.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
All right, I get that it's tougher to police the
kid's activities right than it ever has been before. But
that doesn't mean that parents don't have any responsibility. It
doesn't mean that the parents can be like, this is
porn Hub's fault for my kid looking at So.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Let's talk about the kind of pornography. There's one thing,
but if their dad had some Playboy Soft porn, cute
little air brushed young women.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Right, you can't find that anymore.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
No, Now we see violence, we see misogyny. Young boys
are growing up to believe that this is love and
this is sex. They assume that young girls want to
be choked all because of the messages being sent by porn.
This is very, very serious and it's also highly addictive.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I don't agree. I don't disagree with anything that you've
just said.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
I fully understand and I'm a big believer that it
takes a village now, having been a single mom for
twenty years, and I see how our culture loves to
pathologize parenthood, like, oh, it must be the parents terrible
to parents. We are in a village together, and there
are many things that influence our children. Parents only have
(28:03):
so much influence. They yeah, they dropped the genetic bomb
in the kid's head, but and they try to model
being a good person, but they are It is so
easy to undo good parenting through things like pal pressure
and the internet.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
In a heartbeat, again, I agree with what you're saying.
My issue is that this kid found an old laptop
and then access the pornography in his own home.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
If it's a he accessed it, it's well it does.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Matter in the same way that I had to find it.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I had to find my dad's stuff under the bed,
in the same way that this kid was able to
find a laptop that his parents didn't didn't take care
of it, but he.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Was able to access it because the porn side opened
the door and let him in.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
All right, if you are not adult enough to know
how to set up restrictions on your own Internet, then
you shouldn't be having kids.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Flat out, you're pathologizing parenthood.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I am a parent. I have to take accountability.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
What I'm not doing is shirking that responsibility as a parent.
I will tell you the flaws in my children are
largely my fault.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Really, I do think that.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
I think our culture at large also has a huge impact.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
But I'm not going to blame other people for my forthcomings.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Hypothetical question.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
In a few weeks, I'm having a UCLA's lead cannabis
researcher on the show here, and he told me that
up to two percent of Americans are addicted to THHC
and cannabis and it is you know, we're talking about
millions of people.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
It is legal.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
There are myths about it that cannabis for instance, isn't addictive,
which is a myth. There are myths that because it's legal,
it's safe. There are myths that it's not a gateway drug,
it is, et cetera. We're going to talk to him
about that. So if your kid became addicted to weed
as a teenager, is that your fault?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I mean, I understand this legal.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
It's available in every corner.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It is not legal for children. So neither is porn.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Neither are cigarettes. And yet somehow people get it right
for the porn. But if I find, if I find
my kid is smoking, I don't go sue Philip Morris.
I correct that parentally, so you go. I don't say,
my goodness, we're all victims here. I have problems with that.
(30:27):
I mean, I'm not saying that the porn didn't do wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
They did. That's fine.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
I think that we all need to take responsibility as
a society and as a culture to make the world
safer for minders.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Wholly agree.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But I don't think that starts with saying not my fault,
somebody else's fault.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
That's where that's where well.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
I think there's a difference between saying not my fault
and saying shared responsibility.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Let's work together to solve these problems.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
We'll look at you finding some nice middle down here
being the adult in the room.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I don't like it. I love talking to you, I
really do. I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
This is why I listen to Doctor Wendy after dark
and she starts here at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Have a wonderful show. I hope I got you. Hope
I got you. Warmed up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I'm warmed up. Good, go fired up?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
All right?
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Love it all right.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
We will talk to you next week as well. Chris
Marril every Sunday, four o'clock right up until we hear
from doctor Wendy. She is next. It's KFI AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio
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