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August 10, 2025 • 12 mins
Mindy speaks with her daughter Kami, along with Joe and Jill, about players vs. parents!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
So, Fred, we saw that you were on the line
before we went to commercial break. If you want, please
call back. We want to know what is on your
mind about this family dynamics conversation. Mikayla's on vacation. She
is on a family vacation right now. Her youngest son
just turned thirteen, So they're all celebrating. What do you
say about stats.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Joe, they're all made up ninety that nah.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I mean, I don't believe it entirely, but there's a
lot of stats that are just really hard to like.
It's like only a small portion of what's actually going
on that's actually stated, and I feel like a lot
of things can be missed, but overall it can be
mostly accurate.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, this according to this research that I found. Research
that I found, sixty seven percent of American men consider
themselves a mama's boy. Now, I'm going to give you
the good parts about it. First, great emotional support, being
a mama's boy, positive role model your mom would be.
Also secure attachment, which little boys need that secure attachment.

(00:56):
Some of the negative things from being a mama's boy.
Do you want to hear this, Joe?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Make you a big sissy?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Maybe? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's part of it. Sure, a lack of independence, so
that goes right along with that and impact on relationships.
So a lot of girls don't want to date a
guy if they're too much of a mama's boy. And
also codependency.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Small town data girl. That's a little fun. And mom
comes home from the beauty shop says, I know why
your dating her should knock it off. I knew her mother,
and her mother was no good, so you're dating her daughter.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Baby, You're like a boy.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
So when you consider yourself a mama's boy, you don't
take it to the level where she runs your life, right, I.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Mean she is, she is my assistant. She does.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
She did quit her job to join her job.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Mom is my assistant. That sounds so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
And you guys go on vacations together.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
What's funny is I tell people all the time, I said,
you know, my mom's my executive assistant, and it's like, well,
it's nothing news. She's been my assistant all my life,
so it works pretty well.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
So you know it would be hard, Jill. As moms
and I'm sure dads too, you could relate to this
as well. If our kids date someone or end up
with someone that we really don't like. Wouldn't that be hard?
Like is that why Joe's single? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I
mean are you too picky as a mom? I mean,

(02:19):
are you thinking?

Speaker 6 (02:20):
I mean some of the stuff you just read like,
He's definitely independent, He's definitely not a sissy, so a
lot of that does not apply to him. But I
think he has a good head on his shoulders that
the girl that he does find someday is we're going
to have no problem.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
He has a test.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
They got a four page documents.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, Boose used to.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Say to me when he was looking for this is
back in his single days. Well he's got so many
stories that I can't even believe. But he would say, yeah,
back in the day, I would always look for a
girl who had daddy issues. Yes, what does that mean?

Speaker 5 (02:58):
Well, when I was single, that was just the girl
has daddy issues and you're older than her, you're now
her daddy, and she just forces the ground you walk on.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
No, I don't give you that advice.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
But I'm a forty six year old single guy hanging
out with people half my.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Age, so like, I like not that I have a
chance with Cammy.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
But back in the day, no, don't even know.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
I know, back ten years ago, if there was a
girl like Cammy, I go up to her, so what's
your dad doing?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
She starts telling how greater her dad is. I'd walk away.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
So these are some positive aspects Cammy for being a
daddy's girl. What she would admit that you are, Yes,
strong father bond, So a healthy daddy's girl relationship can
foster close, loving bond with a strong sense of security
and affection. Positive role model. Your dad has definitely been
a good influence in your life for sure, and also
a sense of security. Is that important to you?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Why do you think you're a daddy's girl?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't.

Speaker 7 (03:54):
I just think that, Like he's someone in my life
that like always listen and he's like like basically, if
I knew growing up, if you're yelling at me, I
was so used to it. It was like in one year,
I'm just kidding, but being the mom and and she
stayed at home, so it's like her yelling and she's
Italian whatever whatever factors reply like she would yell about

(04:15):
everything growing up. Where if my dad was yelling at me,
chances are I did something that was really wrong, and
so and so. It's just like, I just feel like
he was always someone that had a very level head,
that always thought about the full thing and really listened
to me growing up instead of just like, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
She brought all the stuff home from college. My house
is destroyed, but I said, you know what came, and
you've got two months to get everything together. I was
talking to people. They are like, two months. You're giving
her two months. You're crazy.

Speaker 7 (04:48):
But your dad is so laid back, he's leaning. She
thinks sometimes she thinks that she's got two kids that
deserve to be in jail or something.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
You know what I've got, I've got your back.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Many I think it's communication styles, and I just don't
think that Cammy is able to relate to your personality
as well, like I doubt, like I truly doubt, I
truly doubt that you two, you and Randy were saying
different things. I'm sure you guys are saying the same things.
I just can see Randy being able to say it
in a different way that connected more with Cammy.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
That would be my guess, just knowing the two of you.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
I just think he's so bad that you guys can
do no wrong. Like he is just not a disciplinary
at all, where I feel like I have to be Jill,
how is it your house?

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Pretty much? I know I was on the kids a lot,
but if Dad said something, it was kind of like
that's it.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
You know, he he's pretty directly.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I never heard my mom raise my voice her voice
at me. My dad always raised his voice in me.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Really, but my mom was on me on all.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
The littlest stuff repetitively.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
It was never it was never stopped. And it's it's proven.
There's job though, But like.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
We talk about it, we got a lot of young
people on our team, and like a lot one thing
that they may struggle with is attention to detail and
you know, making sure that they are very professional.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Like that's just something that I.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Was born, I was, I was I was raised, and
so I mean it's it's something that you don't want
to hear at that time, but looking back, it's the
best thing in the world.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Before we went to break, you said, I think you
guys should talk about are we guys should talk about
stayed home low?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, I mean my mom stayed at home with me,
so she was working and then when me and my
sister came around. It was everything, and I just I
think that's why we're so close now. And also like
I would attribute a lot of my success to that
as well, just because of the fact that I was
had a one on one training coaching lesson every day
of my life but before break.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
So let me ask you a question. You knew if
mom said wait till your dad gets.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Home, would you say that?

Speaker 7 (06:43):
I would say that, But I reason to do that.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
Joe was just more than he was tougher on the
kids than I was.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
For sure.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Yeah, my dad was a lot tougher my mom. But
my mom when she snapped watch out, Yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Mean it was it was. It was ugly, but dad.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
When Dad got home and you stirred mom up, that
made Dad double miserable because he had a bad day
at work. He come home, you fired mom up, and
he finds out you get stupid.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
I tell this story about my dad all the time.
It's like he used to like get on me without
getting on me. It's like he come home from work
and the grass wasn't cut, and he would just go
cut it himself.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
That was like the thing that would drive.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Me the most crazy or like I would like, I
would still be sleeping and it'd be like, you know,
nine am, and he would come in and be like,
there's some work to do around here, you know, not
yelling at me, but just saying like, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh boy? You know, all the passive aggressive stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
There are so many different families and there's so many
different lifestyles and ways to raise your kids. Not one
way is right. It's what works for your own individual family.
But I want to ask you, Cammy something, And I
want to ask you, Joe something. How you were raised
by your parents? Do you want to be that kind
of mom Cammy? Do you want to be that kind
of dad Joe? The way your parents were with you?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
I gotta go.

Speaker 7 (08:05):
I think that, Gosh, I'm just kidding beyond. I think
that the way that you both raised me, like hey,
like raise me in the faith making it like going
to church on Sundays, Like for me, that's.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Huge to me.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
And and that's okay, well what do you got.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
So like something like that super that's like my leading
factor in my life. That's super important. And like that's
definitely something that stemmed from being raised in a house
that was raised and up in church, so like something
like that obviously is my main thing. But then also
just like how much you and dad love each other,
Like I want a relationship one day that equals hopefully
equals I don't know if can get better. I'm just kidding,
but like that, like the way that you and dad

(08:47):
love each other so much, and having parents like that,
it's so like it's a set of standard because like
I know, I won't accept anything less than that because
I know how that that's possible. And now like great
of a family dynamic that stems from from parents like that,
Like things like that absolutely, but when it comes to
specifically parenting, well, like well, like the sacrifice you made

(09:08):
to stay at home with your kids, Like that's a
huge sacrifice and not every mom does do that.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
But I would do it all over I know.

Speaker 7 (09:13):
And like, but that that's a huge thing. And have
a mom that chose to give up her career that
she worked her whole life with to raise her two kids,
Like that's a really special thing.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
And having that as a kid, like I feel like
there's a butt in there.

Speaker 7 (09:26):
No, no, I'm just saying like things like that, but
like obviously you grow up and like like you yelling
at me all the time.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I mean, I could have done without that. Let's are
those boots.

Speaker 7 (09:34):
Last night, I get home and okay, you want to
go here?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, I wouldn't have time.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
It was just the strawberry.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Sometimes there's lose win situation.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
I remember being on the phone with you guys the
other day and you're talking about strawberry shortcake or something.
Can eat the strawberry shortcake because.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
They do whatever they want to do. So she comes home,
she's got to invest a little bit of time of
cleaning this mess that you created in our house. So
you get home and I was not real happy, but
your dad's like, oh.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Hey, Cam.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
You know, it's like he doesn't care about now.

Speaker 7 (10:08):
What I'm saying is so then I got three bags
and I'm like, take these a good Will. I bring
them downstairs. The other day she asked me, what are
these backs? I said, these are for good Will? Do
you want me to take them off? Drop them off
for you?

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Sweet mom?

Speaker 7 (10:18):
Things. That'd be great if you could do that. Last
night I walked in the house. You have to do
something with these three bags. Oh I'm sorry, Mom, I
forgot that. You told me that you would take them.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
For me, were a little busy back in.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
But I'm just saying, you see boots and to lose lose.
I didn't do that because I thought, yeah, but you
haven't done.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
This is communication style. This is just whatever you are saying.
It's just not connecting.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
But what about you as far as if you get
married one day and have Joe, do you want to
be the kind of parent that raised you?

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I think absolutely, just I think to like, one thing
I really value is just a toughness that they've instilled,
and I don't think that's exists today. Like I even
have to get on them with the grandkids and my
sister to the boys, and they're too soft with them,
is my opinion.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
I'm like tough of them.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
Oh you know.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
She will, she will melt to your kids when my
noor does my granddaughter, she does no wrong, and I
don't because I've done my job.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
I heard that that grandparenting is just this whole other
episode of love.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
You know.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
It's just like we're like, oh, I was old anyway,
but if you broke, it's like I'm a beach.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah. No, it's a totally I can't explain it.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
But my brother and I have talked about this when
it comes to grand babies or just because you don't
have to you don't have to take them home, they're
on their way home.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
It's a whole different.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
But you got to go to break. When we come back, though,
I want to know you Cammy and you Joe. Where
could we have done better as parents? If there's advice
you could get search.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Better than us.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, I'm saying, seriously, where do you want, Like, what
advice could you give as non parents? You know what
I mean because you live through it. As far as
being a competitor, and you were a great athletes. It's
so hard at games.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
It's so hard to think negatively when you're just so
grateful for your parents.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like, my mind doesn't even go there.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Because I got my answer, that answer. As soon as
we can, we'll be right back
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