October 15, 2025 • 13 mins
Gary and Shannon bring in their friend, Justin Worsham, to talk whether we’re creating struggles just to feel challenged, and why California might be forgetting its seniors.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Justin Worsham is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
He is host of a dad podcast and joins us
to talk things parenting. And we've got an article here
about a retired teacher who is spilling all the tea,
as they say, five years ago, about parenting mistakes that
she saw go down throughout her career.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Now, is she an a hole or what?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Just get out of the gates. Do we judge her
or do we.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Like her to go enjoy your retirement? Why are you
throwing all these parents under the bus?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Well, in her defense, her daughter, I believe, is some
producer for the Today Show, and her daughter asked her
on TikTok and she's saying that over her years and
years of teaching that she probably taught about twelve hundred
students and interacted with two thousand parents.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So therefore she's a credible source.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I've seen scientific studies that have less of a sample
size than what they're talking here. And what she says
is that parents the biggest mistake that parents make is
they try to make their kids something that they're not,
and they're not accepting enough about just who their kid is.
She has this very kumbay a message of just enjoy
your kid and the person that they are. And I
(01:09):
mean I get it to a certain extent. I think
what she's really getting at is like, like she uses
the example, if your kid's not athletic, don't try to
make them athletics so they can get a scholarship. Like,
my sons are not academic. They're not they like to
have conversations. They aren't what you would call smart people.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, honestly, now here's the thing. I
would definitely see that.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I would say that again, they're kids, so they're you know,
you can't go toe to toe with someone in their forties.
But they are street smart. But they are not book
smart because that's not what appeals to them. They are
not like so I've always kind of seen that in them.
I'm like, you're probably gonna have to own your own
business because somebody else telling you what to do is
going to probably annoy you on some level, and you're
probably going to be wrong to be annoyed by that,
if I'm being honest with my kid as well.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But I don't know, there's a lot of smart kids
that are just not into school exactly. Just the way
it is. It's the way it's always then there.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is a problem with kids.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The kids that I know, and not all of them
are built this way, but there are a lot of
kids that don't want to try new things. Some kids
just generally don't want to try new things, and they
put themselves in a corner without knowing what's out there, right,
I mean, as adults, we know what they're missing out on.
(02:23):
If they don't try sports, if they don't try music,
if they don't try whatever they're you know, whatever, you
would want them to at least dip their toe into
because they might they might find that thing that is
good for them. My daughter wasn't a huge, not super athletic,
and didn't really think that she could play volleyball because
she wasn't She wasn't the tall kid, she wasn't the tall,
(02:45):
skinny kid that she thought you had to be to
play volleyball. And played all through high school and loved
it and had a great time. But wouldn't have done
that had we not. You know, hey, stick with it,
play another year, try some and else do it again.
Put yourself out there, you know, in a situation that
you might not be you might not necessarily feel comfortable in,
(03:08):
but that we know that there is a potential reward
at the end of that.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You're talking to me like you have a camera in
my house right now? This is very helpful to me,
so I appreciate you. My younger son has decided I have.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Been looking through your windows. I know if that well,
not really on camera.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We don't see that as creepy, but invested. And I
appreciate it, you know what I mean. I wish I
had more friends that would pay that level of attention
to what's going on, you know what I mean. Don't
judge people so much for being invasive. If there's passion there,
you know, be appreciative of it, right, And that's what
I am for you, Gary, because.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
My son you keep your clothes on when you're out
there though.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Right irrelevant to me. I've never seen him, so it's
not like it's hurting me or my family.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Neighbors had questions, but I mean, not a fan, not
a fan, not the best people.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So what's going on in the home.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So my son, younger son has decided, And I for
anybody who knows my younger son, please like get this
between us.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Just how do I even be allowed to get outside?
I am so stupid.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No wonder my kids aren't academics anyway. He wants to
play football, and I think it's because his girlfriend's dad
like played ucl for UCLA and loves football, and her
older brothers like love football.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And what a season, what a turn of events for
UCLA football.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I don't know, that's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They fired their coach and now they're winning against real
big programs here right.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Good for them.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I love that for them. So but it's this thing
of like I tried to make watch it. There was
when they were little they would watch the games with me,
and then they got older and they didn't. So then
there was this period of time where I was making
them come out of the rooms and we would all
sit down and watch a football game together as a family.
And now this guy has a cute daughter with dimples,
and it's like, well, now.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I want to play. I got to get in. I
love football. I watch football while I do homework. Now
and I'm wrong, I'm now.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
You have taught me that I am wrong because in reaction,
he wants to try something different. And I didn't tell
him no, I just was trying to prepare him, and
I said things like you haven't made it through a
show choir season without six to eight weeks of physical therat.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's also an interesting pivot from show choir to football.
How big is this kid?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Not bigger? Okay, he is skin and bone like his
father was.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well he is fifteen, fourteen fourteen, Okay, well of course
he's yeah, he's he just grew probably and now he's
got I mean, now's the time. Yeah, it could be
the time to get in there.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Like lots of the pair, It's funny when you own
all your parents are in show choir and they hear
that your son wants to play football.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
They're like four kids in the entire two hundred and.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Fifty three kids that are chow choir that play football
as well, or and then others play basketball. Blah blah blah.
But so my point is is that it's a lot.
And they were like, oh, aren't you worried about the
concussion stuff? And I'm like, no, no, I'm not, weirdly enough,
that's not what I'm worried about. I'm worried about that
he has this perception of what it's going to be,
and that he's going to sign up for something great
for him and then not want to do it after
(05:57):
three weeks, and I'm going to have to be like, well,
you're stuck.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
There's the routine, you know, I still disagree.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You get him in a show choir to hook up
with the hot girl, and then you pivot to football
to impress the father.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, love that kid.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And I think, if I'm being really, really really honest,
I think the real reason I'm having a problem with
it is that this is gonna sound so late.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
My son is more than enough. I really believe the
kid likes him out.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Now, this is your problem with it. You try to
get him into football. He didn't listen to you, but
he's listening to this kid's dad.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah yeah, yeah. But also, my son is more than enough,
and the dad already likes him. The girlfriend already said
he has the record.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Of her boyfriend so far of dad like signing off
faster than anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Can provide skills that every young person needs any team, and.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
If nothing else, this is the golf rule. It's a
different sport, but it's the golf rule. You gotta know
how to play. You don't have to you don't have
to do it well. Yeah, you have to know how
to play.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
He's a smart kid that way.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
And if you play if you play football, if you
play any of these sports, once you know, you know,
you go far. You know, when you you can appreciate
what you're watching on television, you can have the conversations
with people when you're watching at a bar, so.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You know how to avoid the hits.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I see him as a dB. I see Jack as
a dB.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I hope. So that's what I played. Yeah, see this
could be great. Thanks guys.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Everybody has won that got away, like Amazon or Microsoft
or vertical shorts.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Don't forget bitcoin or bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Oh yeah, we had bitcoin. Mine was the Clorox Comedy Challenge.
That was my one that got away.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I participated in an online comedy contest like fifteen years
ago or more where they put dads against moms and
we did this comedy thing and I had the biggest
audience of anybody that was there at the time, and
so people voted you in. So I made it all
the way to the finals and then I lost at
the end because I was so hyper focused and we
were so broke, and it was a ten thousand dollars
prize and Natalie was very pregnant and I was just like, Okay,
(07:57):
this is how I'm going to take care of my family.
I need this, like at a time in your life
where ten thousand dollars is everything. And and I was like, okay,
now she messed up on the time, and they said
they were going to cost us on time, so as
long as I stick exactly to ten minutes, I'll be fine.
And I guess that took me out of my performance
enough that like she won wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
There were people who said that there's no way.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Clorox was ever going to let a dad win a
cleaning chat like a challenge, like I don't, but I
don't like that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I think I.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Screwed it up to be I choked. I put too
much pressure on myself and messed up. Didn't just go
out and do my show and have fun.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
So now you just do other online stuff for money.
Just trying to do Redemption now, thank god for only fans.
It's nice to get those to grow.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
So many other people are so successful on that platform,
and I can't get a hook, like, I can't get nothing.
I've tried discounts, I've tried everything, and nobody's buying what
I'm selling foot stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Have you done foot stuff. Oh, so much foot stuff.
That's right. I think I've done foot stuff that is
illegal in most countries.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It looks like I remember, they're very hairy.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yeah, I've waxed them nothing. Yeah for my only fans. Yeah,
oh you do you do before is and after? So
that's a thing for some people out here.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
We talk a lot about the keeping up with the
Jones' attitude when it comes to parenting. This is how
about getting parent being a parent in the first place?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, so they it's this lot of this is kind
of blew my mind. So I hope that everybody else
finds this just as interesting. What they're talking about here
is that they're they've zeroed in on the idea that
the reason the birth rate is decreasing is because people
are finding harder and harder to keep up with other
parents in providing for their kids.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So we've talked about how.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
The if the birth rate doesn't rise to almost three,
then then we're going to have a population problem in
the long term, where there's not going to be enough
people on the planet. Like it's almost it's a long
term plan for extinction, I guess. And so right now
we're at a two point seven birth rate per person
or whatever, and so this is saying that part of
the reason we thought it was because of the cost
(09:53):
of kids, But what they're saying is that it's not
only just the cost of kids, but it's like the
effort that you have to put into and the cost
of doing everything that you can for your kids, to
the point where the government in China got involved and
taxed after school tutoring programs like California does cigarettes and
(10:13):
gasoline as a deterrent, like to keep people from signing
their kids up from Isn't this weird? Like this means
that there is a global movement to stop excelling at
things to hinder people from getting better and performing at
their best.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Am I crazy that that's what I'm seeing in this.
I guess it's when.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I was gonna say it's a product of overpopulation period,
like we've reached this point where the struggle isn't enough.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Sort of making up a struggle to have a struggle. Yeah,
I guess it's.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Also interesting that they said that twenty percent of the
population in China is over the age of sixty five,
and they're they they feel like that is a bad thing,
and so I just looked at it for out of curiosity.
In the US, it's eighteen percent. I was shocked. In
La County in California, it's fourteen percent. In the state
of California, fourteen percent of the population is sixty five
(11:14):
years or older.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Wouldn't you think that number would be bigger? Yes, just
based on the Yeah, yeah, are we.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Really are like forgetting our elderly, Like we're just not
counting them anymore?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, I stayed
at home for a year to protect those people.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
What the hell are you telling me? Now they say
your part.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Nobody's say you didn't do your part.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Doing grocery shopping trips. I did not make to save
those people.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So again they're just I just I think it's interesting
because what they're they're talking about doing the same thing
in the US of trying to put basically finding some
way to regulate what people could do to try to
set themselves up for success. And they're doing it as
a way of saving the population, to make it easier
for people to make people and afford them.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Wow, right, this is like weird. This could be a
vertical short Just now realize.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay, listen. I know you want to get in on it.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I went back in. But then to think about it
like post apocalyptic, you know what I mean? This is
like what's that justin Timberlake movie, like in time right
where they live in a world where they're.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Getting time on it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
But we're not engaging another hypothetical vertical shorts right now?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Okay, all right, you're taking Now who's going to be sorry? Yeah? Now,
who's going to be sorry? Don't close the door on love.
I'm taking this.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Sorry, I'm taking this to Conye, taking this to the
Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He knows, he knows humor.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Play routine.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I said that was a failure of mine. Why would
I and why would you kick me? Unless you knew
I had a good idea And now you're jealous of it.
You missed your opportunity.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Welcome to the industry. Let's cot throat, all right. Show
business isn't for everyone?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
All right, we'll talk trending
Justin Worsham is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
He is host of a dad podcast and joins us
to talk things parenting. And we've got an article here
about a retired teacher who is spilling all the tea,
as they say, five years ago, about parenting mistakes that
she saw go down throughout her career.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Now, is she an a hole or what?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Just get out of the gates. Do we judge her
or do we.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Like her to go enjoy your retirement? Why are you
throwing all these parents under the bus?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Well, in her defense, her daughter, I believe, is some
producer for the Today Show, and her daughter asked her
on TikTok and she's saying that over her years and
years of teaching that she probably taught about twelve hundred
students and interacted with two thousand parents.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So therefore she's a credible source.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I've seen scientific studies that have less of a sample
size than what they're talking here. And what she says
is that parents the biggest mistake that parents make is
they try to make their kids something that they're not,
and they're not accepting enough about just who their kid is.
She has this very kumbay a message of just enjoy
your kid and the person that they are. And I
(01:09):
mean I get it to a certain extent. I think
what she's really getting at is like, like she uses
the example, if your kid's not athletic, don't try to
make them athletics so they can get a scholarship. Like,
my sons are not academic. They're not they like to
have conversations. They aren't what you would call smart people.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, honestly, now here's the thing. I
would definitely see that.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I would say that again, they're kids, so they're you know,
you can't go toe to toe with someone in their forties.
But they are street smart. But they are not book
smart because that's not what appeals to them. They are
not like so I've always kind of seen that in them.
I'm like, you're probably gonna have to own your own
business because somebody else telling you what to do is
going to probably annoy you on some level, and you're
probably going to be wrong to be annoyed by that,
if I'm being honest with my kid as well.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But I don't know, there's a lot of smart kids
that are just not into school exactly. Just the way
it is. It's the way it's always then there.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is a problem with kids.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The kids that I know, and not all of them
are built this way, but there are a lot of
kids that don't want to try new things. Some kids
just generally don't want to try new things, and they
put themselves in a corner without knowing what's out there, right,
I mean, as adults, we know what they're missing out on.
(02:23):
If they don't try sports, if they don't try music,
if they don't try whatever they're you know, whatever, you
would want them to at least dip their toe into
because they might they might find that thing that is
good for them. My daughter wasn't a huge, not super athletic,
and didn't really think that she could play volleyball because
she wasn't She wasn't the tall kid, she wasn't the tall,
(02:45):
skinny kid that she thought you had to be to
play volleyball. And played all through high school and loved
it and had a great time. But wouldn't have done
that had we not. You know, hey, stick with it,
play another year, try some and else do it again.
Put yourself out there, you know, in a situation that
you might not be you might not necessarily feel comfortable in,
(03:08):
but that we know that there is a potential reward
at the end of that.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You're talking to me like you have a camera in
my house right now? This is very helpful to me,
so I appreciate you. My younger son has decided I have.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Been looking through your windows. I know if that well,
not really on camera.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We don't see that as creepy, but invested. And I
appreciate it, you know what I mean. I wish I
had more friends that would pay that level of attention
to what's going on, you know what I mean. Don't
judge people so much for being invasive. If there's passion there,
you know, be appreciative of it, right, And that's what
I am for you, Gary, because.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
My son you keep your clothes on when you're out
there though.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Right irrelevant to me. I've never seen him, so it's
not like it's hurting me or my family.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Neighbors had questions, but I mean, not a fan, not
a fan, not the best people.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So what's going on in the home.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So my son, younger son has decided, And I for
anybody who knows my younger son, please like get this
between us.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Just how do I even be allowed to get outside?
I am so stupid.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No wonder my kids aren't academics anyway. He wants to
play football, and I think it's because his girlfriend's dad
like played ucl for UCLA and loves football, and her
older brothers like love football.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And what a season, what a turn of events for
UCLA football.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I don't know, that's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They fired their coach and now they're winning against real
big programs here right.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Good for them.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I love that for them. So but it's this thing
of like I tried to make watch it. There was
when they were little they would watch the games with me,
and then they got older and they didn't. So then
there was this period of time where I was making
them come out of the rooms and we would all
sit down and watch a football game together as a family.
And now this guy has a cute daughter with dimples,
and it's like, well, now.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I want to play. I got to get in. I
love football. I watch football while I do homework. Now
and I'm wrong, I'm now.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
You have taught me that I am wrong because in reaction,
he wants to try something different. And I didn't tell
him no, I just was trying to prepare him, and
I said things like you haven't made it through a
show choir season without six to eight weeks of physical therat.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's also an interesting pivot from show choir to football.
How big is this kid?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Not bigger? Okay, he is skin and bone like his
father was.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well he is fifteen, fourteen fourteen, Okay, well of course
he's yeah, he's he just grew probably and now he's
got I mean, now's the time. Yeah, it could be
the time to get in there.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Like lots of the pair, It's funny when you own
all your parents are in show choir and they hear
that your son wants to play football.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
They're like four kids in the entire two hundred and.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Fifty three kids that are chow choir that play football
as well, or and then others play basketball. Blah blah blah.
But so my point is is that it's a lot.
And they were like, oh, aren't you worried about the
concussion stuff? And I'm like, no, no, I'm not, weirdly enough,
that's not what I'm worried about. I'm worried about that
he has this perception of what it's going to be,
and that he's going to sign up for something great
for him and then not want to do it after
(05:57):
three weeks, and I'm going to have to be like, well,
you're stuck.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
There's the routine, you know, I still disagree.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You get him in a show choir to hook up
with the hot girl, and then you pivot to football
to impress the father.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, love that kid.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And I think, if I'm being really, really really honest,
I think the real reason I'm having a problem with
it is that this is gonna sound so late.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
My son is more than enough. I really believe the
kid likes him out.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Now, this is your problem with it. You try to
get him into football. He didn't listen to you, but
he's listening to this kid's dad.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah yeah, yeah. But also, my son is more than enough,
and the dad already likes him. The girlfriend already said
he has the record.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Of her boyfriend so far of dad like signing off
faster than anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Can provide skills that every young person needs any team, and.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
If nothing else, this is the golf rule. It's a
different sport, but it's the golf rule. You gotta know
how to play. You don't have to you don't have
to do it well. Yeah, you have to know how
to play.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
He's a smart kid that way.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
And if you play if you play football, if you
play any of these sports, once you know, you know,
you go far. You know, when you you can appreciate
what you're watching on television, you can have the conversations
with people when you're watching at a bar, so.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You know how to avoid the hits.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I see him as a dB. I see Jack as
a dB.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I hope. So that's what I played. Yeah, see this
could be great. Thanks guys.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Everybody has won that got away, like Amazon or Microsoft
or vertical shorts.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Don't forget bitcoin or bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Oh yeah, we had bitcoin. Mine was the Clorox Comedy Challenge.
That was my one that got away.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I participated in an online comedy contest like fifteen years
ago or more where they put dads against moms and
we did this comedy thing and I had the biggest
audience of anybody that was there at the time, and
so people voted you in. So I made it all
the way to the finals and then I lost at
the end because I was so hyper focused and we
were so broke, and it was a ten thousand dollars
prize and Natalie was very pregnant and I was just like, Okay,
(07:57):
this is how I'm going to take care of my family.
I need this, like at a time in your life
where ten thousand dollars is everything. And and I was like, okay,
now she messed up on the time, and they said
they were going to cost us on time, so as
long as I stick exactly to ten minutes, I'll be fine.
And I guess that took me out of my performance
enough that like she won wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
There were people who said that there's no way.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Clorox was ever going to let a dad win a
cleaning chat like a challenge, like I don't, but I
don't like that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I think I.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Screwed it up to be I choked. I put too
much pressure on myself and messed up. Didn't just go
out and do my show and have fun.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
So now you just do other online stuff for money.
Just trying to do Redemption now, thank god for only fans.
It's nice to get those to grow.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
So many other people are so successful on that platform,
and I can't get a hook, like, I can't get nothing.
I've tried discounts, I've tried everything, and nobody's buying what
I'm selling foot stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Have you done foot stuff. Oh, so much foot stuff.
That's right. I think I've done foot stuff that is
illegal in most countries.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It looks like I remember, they're very hairy.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yeah, I've waxed them nothing. Yeah for my only fans. Yeah,
oh you do you do before is and after? So
that's a thing for some people out here.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
We talk a lot about the keeping up with the
Jones' attitude when it comes to parenting. This is how
about getting parent being a parent in the first place?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, so they it's this lot of this is kind
of blew my mind. So I hope that everybody else
finds this just as interesting. What they're talking about here
is that they're they've zeroed in on the idea that
the reason the birth rate is decreasing is because people
are finding harder and harder to keep up with other
parents in providing for their kids.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So we've talked about how.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
The if the birth rate doesn't rise to almost three,
then then we're going to have a population problem in
the long term, where there's not going to be enough
people on the planet. Like it's almost it's a long
term plan for extinction, I guess. And so right now
we're at a two point seven birth rate per person
or whatever, and so this is saying that part of
the reason we thought it was because of the cost
(09:53):
of kids, But what they're saying is that it's not
only just the cost of kids, but it's like the
effort that you have to put into and the cost
of doing everything that you can for your kids, to
the point where the government in China got involved and
taxed after school tutoring programs like California does cigarettes and
(10:13):
gasoline as a deterrent, like to keep people from signing
their kids up from Isn't this weird? Like this means
that there is a global movement to stop excelling at
things to hinder people from getting better and performing at
their best.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Am I crazy that that's what I'm seeing in this.
I guess it's when.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I was gonna say it's a product of overpopulation period,
like we've reached this point where the struggle isn't enough.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Sort of making up a struggle to have a struggle. Yeah,
I guess it's.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Also interesting that they said that twenty percent of the
population in China is over the age of sixty five,
and they're they they feel like that is a bad thing,
and so I just looked at it for out of curiosity.
In the US, it's eighteen percent. I was shocked. In
La County in California, it's fourteen percent. In the state
of California, fourteen percent of the population is sixty five
(11:14):
years or older.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Wouldn't you think that number would be bigger? Yes, just
based on the Yeah, yeah, are we.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Really are like forgetting our elderly, Like we're just not
counting them anymore?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, I stayed
at home for a year to protect those people.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
What the hell are you telling me? Now they say
your part.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Nobody's say you didn't do your part.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Doing grocery shopping trips. I did not make to save
those people.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So again they're just I just I think it's interesting
because what they're they're talking about doing the same thing
in the US of trying to put basically finding some
way to regulate what people could do to try to
set themselves up for success. And they're doing it as
a way of saving the population, to make it easier
for people to make people and afford them.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Wow, right, this is like weird. This could be a
vertical short Just now realize.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay, listen. I know you want to get in on it.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I went back in. But then to think about it
like post apocalyptic, you know what I mean? This is
like what's that justin Timberlake movie, like in time right
where they live in a world where they're.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Getting time on it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
But we're not engaging another hypothetical vertical shorts right now?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Okay, all right, you're taking Now who's going to be sorry? Yeah? Now,
who's going to be sorry? Don't close the door on love.
I'm taking this.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Sorry, I'm taking this to Conye, taking this to the
Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He knows, he knows humor.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Play routine.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I said that was a failure of mine. Why would
I and why would you kick me? Unless you knew
I had a good idea And now you're jealous of it.
You missed your opportunity.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Welcome to the industry. Let's cot throat, all right. Show
business isn't for everyone?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
All right, we'll talk trending
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