August 25, 2025 • 29 mins
This week on the show: Naming your kid Xfrgolszzzxy, lifelong habits caused by growing up poor and the disturbing trend of pet owners insisting that people treat them like they're parents.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Let's head to the social media desk now as we
consider the story of a baby with a name so strange.
The hospital said, Nah, Facebook, Facebook, It's called Facebook. Find
you on Facebook. Hey, I'm on Facebook. Facebook is a joke.
You guys will never believe what I just found on Facebook?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Is you Facebook stock?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Put down on your Facebook pages? Thank god. We live
in a time when everybody rushes all of their personal
and private issues straight to social media to try to
gather support, get people to join their team and fight
for their fights and their causes, because it's mostly just
an embarrassment. We have for you the story of an
(01:01):
Alabama family some say has gone too far. A new
mother claims the hospital will not put her chosen name
on her birth certificate and that she would have to
go to court to settle the issue. She went to
Facebook to explain, and I'm quoting now. We picked out
a unique name that means a lot to us. Zerf
(01:24):
Goalsy barely it's spelled capital x f rg l s
z z z x y pronounced according to her zerf GOALSI.
She said, I know it's different. That was the whole point. However,
(01:47):
a hospital worker claimed that the names with X followed
by consonant are not allowed. I guess that's just hospital policy. Yeah,
so H refused it. So this mom said, this is
the name that I want, and who are you to
tell me I can't name my kid this?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So she says she's probably gonna have to I guess
take it to court now to get it sorted. She
went on Facebook and cried about it, and then people
turned on her because they weren't really focusing on whether
or not she has the right to name the kid
what she wants to name it. Everybody was kind of
focused on the absurdity of the actual name.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Sure, yeah, right, it is absurd.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah. So it's like if I point to something and
instead of looking at what I'm pointing at, you look
at my finger. That's kind of what has happened with
this woman. She's like, hey, I have a right to
name my kid this, and people are like, the name
is stupid and you shouldn't do that. Okay, let's talk
about all of it. I mean, I think we probably
(02:49):
all agree that the name is, you know, pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It is pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And we've stood up for parents being able to name
their children whatever they want to name them generally speak.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yes, that is our stance.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But this, Yeah, I mean, first of all, the argument
that she's making is.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
To them, it means so much to us, right, what
does it mean?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, she's making the argument that they want the kid
to be different, they want them to be unique, and
they think that the name is a way to do that, which,
as we've explained many times on this show, that's not
how it works.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well, they're definitely going to stand out to all the bulliesing.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Probably yeah, for sort of as a source of ridicule. Yeah,
but giving your kid a unique spelling for their name
or a different name doesn't make them unique if anything,
Like you said, it just kind of makes them a target.
It Definitely, if you want your kid to be unique,
teach them to think for themselves and be different and
be unique in the way that they view the world
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and the way they live. That's how you get a
unique person. Sure not hey follow the cattle, but spell
your name with a y eight eight days, seven seven
sixty six forty is the studio text line. You can
also text this at three five sixty five to one.
So we've got that to contend with the name. But
then also who decides what you can name your kid
(04:14):
and what you can't name them?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So in the state of Alabama, you cannot have a
consonant following the letter X.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
This is what she was told and how did that
come about. I'm not sure if that's state policy or
the hospital's right. There's that too, which would be really
interesting when you think about the hospital decides how you
can name your kid.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That means somebody has tried this before and that's how
this has come about. If it's even true, or if
the nurse was just saying that, like being like sorry,
can't do this, because the nurse was looking out for
the kid.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, and it's well being.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I just I love the idea of a guy and
his pregnant wife rushing to a hospital, but they have
a unique name for the kid, they have an unusual name,
and they have to drive to a different hospital. They right,
he pulls into the parking lot.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
No, No, we've got to we can't go to this hospital.
They won't allow us to use this name. Don't you
know about their continent rules? Here, go to another hospital.
I'm crowding.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Everybody seems to be on board. The names ridiculous, Nikki.
Let's go to the text line. What you got?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Why couldn't she just name her a different jumble of
letters and say it's pronounced the same way that way,
there's no X in front of a consonant. Yeah right, yeah,
I mean change the jumble of letters.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Change the jumble right when she When she said that
and the hospital worker said we can't do this, she
should have said, okay, give me that. Just add a
letter there you go. Yeah, and how do you pronounce this?
I told you how we pronounce its golcie. Yeah. Yeah,
but it's not spelled right now. Okay, what else you got?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Let's see this person says this is an actual state
name policy. There are restrictions in every state when it
comes to naming.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, I'm sure that's true.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, so I googled. Yeah I did though in West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And this is like as quick as I could google,
you know, quick breakdown. There's acceptable letters and characters, and
you can't use umlats or numbers or symbols, those are prohibited.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Really yep.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And there are length of restrictions, so thirty characters for
our first name and fifty characters each for middle and
last names.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Characters, I guess. I'm guessing, especially for last names.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Hyphenated names, so if you have two very long hyphenic, right, you.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
May need those fifty characters.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Potentially you could.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, there are prohibited names, so anything that's considered
profane or meaning unless the court allows it, I guess.
And that's oh, and then like you can do a
generational identifiers to like a junior, a senior, like third, fourth, whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
But you can't use like MD or PhD or esquire.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay, that that all makes sense.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, all of this makes sense. But I didn't see
anything specific. Again, this is very quick googling. I didn't
see anything specific on the letters jumbled together.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Interesting. Yeah, that's okay. Well, I'm glad you did the
research on that, because we're here in West Virginia and
most of the people listening to the show are in
West Virginia except that massive chunk of thousands of people
listening to Pennsylvania. But that's your problem in Pennsylvaniania. All right,
you want to know how to name your kid in Pennsylvania,
you look it up. There's only so much we can do. Sorry, again,
(07:48):
my emotion is out of place here. I find that
very interesting, and I'm glad to know, yeah, that these
are the restrictions. And I wonder what they consider profane?
Did they mention Hitler? Is that what that be a
problem with Hitler?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You're going to have to look into for yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
The Jack and Nikki Show two wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Poverty has lingering effects on the humans, and I'd like
to share with you now a list of poor people
habits that never die, according to the experts. Now, obviously
I grew up quite poor, But Nikki, you did not
grow up poor. You probably can't relate to this. You
have professional parents, right, aren't they both pharmacists?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, so you guys had some money growing up. I
mean you you know you weren't busted. Yeah, you guys
weren't a breadline.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, Now, my parents were alcoholics and religious fanatics, careers
that don't pay well but are hilarious. Right, So they
chose a different path from say, your parents. You decided
to get educated, professional careers. My parents would get drunk
and strike each other in the yard with bibles until
the police showed up. Again not lucrative. So what I
(08:59):
want to share with you now is this list of
poor people habits, and I'd like to open the studio
lines to see if and if you guys can relate
to these, if you're still doing these, because I don't
think you necessarily have to be poor. I think maybe
you know you're just on the thrifty side. Like let's
go back to you didn't grow up poor, but you know,
you get married, you move out, you're young, you start
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your life, and you're poor, and you're poor at that point, right,
So you may grow up and have some money and
you're doing okay. But then when you step out on
your own, now you're now you're busted. You're going to
be pinching some pennies. So I bet you've done some
of this stuff. Eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty
six forty the studio and textual line. You can also
text us at three five sixty five to one. Let's
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take a look. Let's see if you're doing these. Nick,
you'll see if I'm doing and we'll see if you
guys are doing them. Okay, we start with the obvious
basic stuff. You turn off the lights in an empty room, yes, yes,
when you leave the room, turn light off, yes, always, always. Yeah.
I cannot leave a light on in a room if
nobody's in it. It drives me crazy. Yes, it just
feels wrong, doesn't it. You feel like you're doing something wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I feel like I'm going to get in trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, expect my dad show up start hitting me with
a belt. Okay. Picking up coins off the ground, I
try really.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Hard not to, but you do, but I still catch myself.
I'm like, oh gosh, there's oh a nickel, I could
use that.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, but they're so gross because they're on the ground too.
So there's that.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So that's how I'm trying to convince myself not to
pick up coins off the ground.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I've I've managed to get to the point where it
depends on how much it is. It depends on the
value of the coin.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Gotcha.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'm not gonna waste my time picking up pennies.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I am, because they're not making them fair enough.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I'm still not doing it. Okay. If it's it's got
to be at least a dime. Okay, it's got to
be at least a dime. Okay, because I see that,
I'm like, well, maybe parking meter somewhere get me ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Right, Sure, that's a good that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Right darn it.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Now I want to pick up all the coins again.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You only order water when you're dining out. No, I'm
not doing that either.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I some like if I'm no, because even then I'll
get iced tea.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Like like, I.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well, I'm of the opinion if I'm going to go
spend some money dining out, then I want to enjoy
the whole experience. I don't want to short change myself
on and I would be like, yeah, great meal, but
I drink water with it, right, Yeah, Okay, I'm going
to spend I don't know, sixty dollars on a steak,
but I want to save two dollars on a cola.
I'm not doing that right all right. I don't know
why I'm so mad when you're yelling but ready to cry,
(11:30):
It's okay, Jack, you're streaming on my face? Uh okay,
debating non essential purchases.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yes, yeah, of course all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Who doesn't life, right, Yeah? Who doesn't do that in
non essentially essential Yeah, like do we need this?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, I don't most people.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
If I was questioning if I need it or not,
then I probably don't need it.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Probably don't need it exactly. Yeah, right, Jessica, do we
need electricity this monthent? I mean is that really necessary?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Refrigeration? Okay? Squeezing the toothpaste all the way out of
the tube, yes, don't throw it away till it's empty. Yep,
check doing that one. Umm oh boy, here we go,
collecting soaps and shampoos from hotels and fast food napkins, yes, Gilthy, Yeah,
(12:26):
for sure. I have the hardest time throwing napkins away.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
No, you do.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I just can't do it. I'm always saving them in
my glove box.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We'll need those, we'll need those, And then you open
the glove box and like a thousand of them fall out.
Jessica's they're they're trapped under them, and I have to
have the jaws of life to get her out. Yeah,
which ends up costing even more money keeping leftover nuts
and bolts. I do that, for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I do that sometimes if it's from like something that
I'm building and they're like here's some extras, Like they
tell you that there are extras, then I label them
and I put them in a baggie and they're good
to go for when if needed. And then I have
a bag of miscellaneous, right because you never.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Know, Yeah, they could be handy.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I've got a big plastic container in the garage and
my toolbox that's sorted out and it's got different compartments
in it. And anytime I have leftover nuts, bolt, screws, anything, yeah,
I put them in their appropriate compartment and then I
have them for later and later never comes. Right, I've
had it in there basically my whole life. I've been
carrying this box around. I've used like one screw out
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of it.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
The minute you get rid of it, is we want
to need it?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, yeah, okay, just quickly here we're using containers for storage.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Obviously we're doing that, and then shopping at thrift stores
and yard sales.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Thrift stores.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah. Thrift stores are great. Yeah, you have some cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I love thrifting.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Some yard sales.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, depends on if I trust them, Like I gotta
look at I look at the photos first, because they're
posting them, you know, in the neighborhood groups, and I'll
glance at the photos and do a little profile stalking
and then decide if I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Going or not.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, eight eight eight, seven, seven sixty six forty and calls.
You can text us. You can text us at three
five sixty five one. Let's see, are you guys doing
any of this? Are you doing it because you grew
up poor or is it something you learned. I mean,
I don't think this is exclusive just to poor people.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
No, I don't think so either.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But then again, you know, I don't hang around with
a lot of people who've been rich their entire lives.
Anybody I know as money didn't have it when they
were younger. All right, what do you guys think? We'll
talk to you coming up next, and we are back
with your calls and texts talking about basically being cheap
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because perhaps you grew up poor. It's a list of
poor people habits that never die, and we just ran
down the full list and people are responding, Nikki, what
are we seeing on the textual line?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I am seeing conflicting things. I'm poor.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I wear hand me down clothes for my granddaughter from
your granddaughter.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
How old your granddaugh.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Seven. She's a tiny woman.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yeah. There's a longer text here that I haven't been
able to read yet.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Here's a short one that popped in. Okay, rich people
are some of the cheapest people I've ever met. Yep,
that's true.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
That is very true.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, that's why they're rich. They haven't spent their life
frivolously running through their money, right, Yeah, they've been hoarding it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
They've been hoarding it. Yes, yeah, Oh, let's see.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I pretty much do all that stuff. But my wife
does a couple of things that kill me. She'll turn
a light on as she leaves the room.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
What what?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
How?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Why why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Is?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I want to know her purpose behind that too. Sometimes
she'll dump the last bit of food or drink from
a container instead of using it and go ahead and
just open a new one. I think it depends because
when you get to the bottom of some juices, like
it's sometimes just like if you it's.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Not been shaken properly.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, there's just like sediment at the bottom and like
I can't no.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, I'm with you on that. And when it comes
to food, I always look at it and go is
this enough to save? And then have leftovers. Yeah, because
if it's like one bite, well that's that's not enough
for a leftover. You can't what are you gonna have
for dinner? Leftovers? There's one bite of it, it'll be
a small meal apparently. Yeah, so you have to figure
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that out when you get to the Endea, you're gonna
gorge yourself and push down a couple more bites that
you don't want. Are you gonna toss it?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
My great grandmother who we grew up in her household
for a little bit, that was her thing. It was
just like, oh, you got one one bite left all
you ate all of the other friends that that little
piece of food is gonna be leftover, no friends, so
sad And I'm like, really, you're guilting me into overeating,
like I see it now as of what it was.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
But a six year old little baby.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Nikki did not and feels guilty when she leaves one
bite on her plate.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Guilted you playing the loneliness card, right, Yeah, like.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
That little that one potatoes so sad and lonely you
ate all of his friends?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Okay, you know what, this is a whole other segment
we need to do later. Get back to that all right?
Let me squeeze in a quick call. Here you are
on the Jack and Nikki show. You having trouble here.
You you're hoarding. You can't throw things away? You cheap?
What's going on? Yes, I am what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Rush than napkins?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You can't get rid of napkins. You can't get rid
of napkins. How many napkins do you think you have?
Do you keep them in your house? You keep them
in your glovebox?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Both?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We do both here in Union Town, in Uniontown. That's
how they roll. In Union Town, they're known. I think
I might be a mistaken but when you come in
Union Town, Yeah, the sign reads a Napkin Capital of
the United States. Yeah, yes, that still there? Right? Yeah, Okay,
you guys have a great day, you too. Bye.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The Nerve Center of North Central West Virginia, Jack Loger
and Nikki Drake on one O t WVQ.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Let's talk complete nonsense. Now, what in the world is
going on? Don't we love giant freak?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
These are all terrible ideas part of the family tradition.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wow, just like that show Big Brother. She'll see that
on Animal Planet. To be honest, I've never seen such dysfunction. Oh,
it's dysfunction, all right. This is a fascinating story being
reported by the New York Post, of all places, about
a woman who has gone viral after getting into an
argument with her daughter in law. You see, the problem
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is her daughter in law was furious that she did
not receive a Mother's Day gift for what? For being
a dog mom?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
For what?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, the woman who went viral said, I have the
story right here. Jenny called me and asked where her
basket was. I was confused, and I asked her what
she meant. She clarified that I have two grandkids by
her and said the names of her dogs. She always
(19:16):
said they were her kids. But I thought it was
a joke, you know, as any reasonable person would. Sure,
she continues, I told her she is not a mother.
That Mother's Day is for women that raise human children,
not pet owners.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
She cursed me for not getting her a basket and
insisted that she is a parent, and then I'm guessing
hung up on her. So this is how things turned out.
And scene, all right, let's get into it. Eight eight
eight seven seven seven sixty six forty call us textas
(19:55):
at that number, you could text us at three five
sixty five one. I think there are uh several problems here, yeah,
that need to be addressed. Yeah, what do you think
about this, Nikki Drake?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, because I have a daily holiday calendar, I know
that there is a National Dog Mom's Day, and so
she should have gotten something on National Dog Mom's Day.
That's when she should have been upset.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Right, do you know when that is? Off the top
of your head?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
We just had it. It's like the it was a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Okay, but it's it's in May May okay, yeah, okay,
so you get that in before Mother's Day?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yes, okay, yeah, it happens before mother.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, yeah, a dog dog bad day.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
That's a good question. I will look into that.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
We just have a dog parents Day.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Why can't just be a pet parents Day?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Just it encompasses all pets, cats, lizards, you know, Okay, dragons.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I know we're going way off the rails here, but
I'm with you on this. We need to replace what
is it mom dog Mom's Day? Dog mom Day with
pet parent Day because now you are including dad and
also other pets beyond dogs. Yeah, okay, good solved. I'm
glad we got that taken care of. That was important
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as far as I'm concerned. Okay, please continue.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Where was I going with this?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I'm sure I have no idea, right, I don't know.
Like I am not a human parent, I am a
pet parent. I don't expect anything on Mother's Day, and
I don't think I should get anything on Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I think that's reasonable. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Now, I am a godmother to five children, and as
I count quickly, but I think there's a Godmom's Day
or godparents Day.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So again, I don't need anything on Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, very good. All right, I see the studio lines
already ringing, and I'm really itching to get to you guys,
and what you have to say about this. I'll say this, Look,
the whole pet parent thing, I think that's cute. It's cute.
That's fine, because the reality of it is, we love
our pets, and people don't want to call them pets
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because they say, well, you know, that's kind of cold
and distances you and refers to them more as like
an animal than a part, which is all you know,
they are animals. But look, I love my cats more
than most people. And I get it. Yeah, I get it.
People don't say, well, I don't own them, they're part
of my family. Fine, that's all fine, that's all fine.
(22:25):
Because anything that helps you get closer to your pets
and treat them better, I'm all for that.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yes, But.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We say pet parent because it's just something that's cute.
It's not a legitimate claim to actual parenthood. And that's
where you have to draw the line with sane people. Okay,
So if I'm friends with you and you're calling yourself
a dog mom or a cat dad, fine, fine, but
we know that when the rubber hits the road, that's
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just a cute, euphemistic way of saying I have a cat.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Or a dog, right, Because I tell Tia all the time,
go ask your dad when I've already given her treats, right, And.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I always say to Penelope, where is your mommy? Stuff
like that, and I.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Tell Dave come get your child.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah yeah, but you don't expect people to actually legitimately
treat you guys like yeah, Okay. I think it's a
pretty easy line. So, Nikki Drake, what are we seeing
on the textual line?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I think that it is a truly wonderful thing that
she loves her dog, So much and considers them her children.
But it is most certainly unreasonable to expect everyone else
to feel the same way, and also incredibly entitled to
believe that she should automatically receive a gift from anyone.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That is a perfect text.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
That was a good text.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I really like that. That's exactly the point that I'm
trying to make over here is I love it when
people are good to their pets. I want people to
love their pets and take very good care of them
and treat them like they are family. And I would
never poo poo that. I would never sit here and say, oh, please,
you and your pets. I would never do that because
I love animals. However, as the texture just stated, you
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can't expect everybody else to treat you that way.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Right, Yeah, they're not going to feel the same way
about your pets, right, and.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You have to understand, Hey, look, I love them to death,
but I can't compare them to people who have children, right,
actual human children. Right, Yeah, it's different. Okay, Yeah, very good,
good text. What else, that's what I got, That's what
you got.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
That's what the good one I.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Got, the good one, the good one. All right, let's
see studio line. Let's go to you. You are on
the Jack and Nikki Show. Would you want to say here, Well,
I can kind.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Of agree and kind of disagree because some people can't
have children, and so they love to the comfort of
an animal, and they don't consider them an animal they.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Consider Well, I agree with you, and I understand, and
I certainly have sympathy for people in that say situation.
But not being able to have a kid doesn't make
a dog a kid. I mean, they're still animals, they're
still pets.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, I see that.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
And Mothers Day should before Yeah, if you raise a child,
you have a child.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
So I disagree on both sides.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Okay, fair enough, appreciate the phone call, thank you. All Right, Well,
I'm gonna understand. Try to wrap up this segment without
giving a big speech about language. I told you, I don't.
I really don't want to give the speech. I'll just no, no,
(25:44):
that's not something that should happen. Look, I'll I'll just
give you a little taste. Language matters, okay, and this
is the problem that we have people trying to adjust
the language. When you change language, it doesn't change reality reality. Okay,
So you can call your dog, your kid all you want,
but it's still a dog. Okay. Calling an obese person
(26:07):
a person of size doesn't make them smaller. Calling a
trailer a mobile home doesn't make it a house. Calling
toilet paper bathroom tissue doesn't mean you're not wiping your
butt with it. Okay, we're talking about this woman and
her daughter in law and the trouble they were having
(26:27):
over daughter in law being a dog mom. Pretty awkward.
I think we all agree that's pretty awkward. But I
would suggest to you that this next conversation will be
even more awkward. It's the story of a man who
got on an airplane and ended up sitting next to
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a woman who had ghosted him.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I think that's incredibly awkward, sure, and possibly even more
awkward than the thing we were just talking about.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Potentially.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
All Right, here's the story, craziest story of the day.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Imagine a girl you went on a day with on
your flight to Germany happens to be sitting right next
to you.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
After she goes to you, and then you're next to
each other.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Bro, But I'm trying to explain to her how the
universe brought us back together.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
He's still working on it he is. Oh my god, buddy,
learn your lesson. Keep moving.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
He I would have asked to have been reseated. I've
seen it, and he doesn't give great vibes.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Have you seen her, like a portion of her?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, and he's not.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
No, it's he just doesn't give good vibes.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What's the problem. What kind of vibe is he giving?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Creepy? Yeah, a little bit at least for me. I
don't know, because I'm just.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Curious because I haven't seen either one of these people.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
So you know, it's not like a look just like his.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Way, his way energy, it's his way.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Well, okay, we all know, we all know that the
difference between a creep and a prevert to a lot
of women when it comes to guys, is whether or
not they're attracted to him. Oh you know what I mean?
You know what I mean. They're like, if a guy
is a really attractive guy, he can hit on a
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woman in a way that a really ugly, scary looking
guy can't because women are creeped out by that or
like you. But if he's a good looking guy, you know,
Brad pitt sits down beside you. It's like, hey, what's
going on, You're like, Okay, I'm gonna see where this goes.
Let's just see, let's just see what happens here. Anyway,
here's what I would say to this guy, buddy, if
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she ghosted you, she's not interested. Now is not the
time on your long flight to Germany or to turn
on the old creeper charm and see if you can
win her back.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Or like he said, the universe is brought them back together,
and it is the time.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Which part of the universe in particular would have done that.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I mean not a very just one, but the universe.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, was it the moon? Was it the rings around
your ainus? I mean helped me out what what part
of the universe exactly
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Let's head to the social media desk now as we
consider the story of a baby with a name so strange.
The hospital said, Nah, Facebook, Facebook, It's called Facebook. Find
you on Facebook. Hey, I'm on Facebook. Facebook is a joke.
You guys will never believe what I just found on Facebook?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Is you Facebook stock?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Put down on your Facebook pages? Thank god. We live
in a time when everybody rushes all of their personal
and private issues straight to social media to try to
gather support, get people to join their team and fight
for their fights and their causes, because it's mostly just
an embarrassment. We have for you the story of an
(01:01):
Alabama family some say has gone too far. A new
mother claims the hospital will not put her chosen name
on her birth certificate and that she would have to
go to court to settle the issue. She went to
Facebook to explain, and I'm quoting now. We picked out
a unique name that means a lot to us. Zerf
(01:24):
Goalsy barely it's spelled capital x f rg l s
z z z x y pronounced according to her zerf GOALSI.
She said, I know it's different. That was the whole point. However,
(01:47):
a hospital worker claimed that the names with X followed
by consonant are not allowed. I guess that's just hospital policy. Yeah,
so H refused it. So this mom said, this is
the name that I want, and who are you to
tell me I can't name my kid this?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So she says she's probably gonna have to I guess
take it to court now to get it sorted. She
went on Facebook and cried about it, and then people
turned on her because they weren't really focusing on whether
or not she has the right to name the kid
what she wants to name it. Everybody was kind of
focused on the absurdity of the actual name.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Sure, yeah, right, it is absurd.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah. So it's like if I point to something and
instead of looking at what I'm pointing at, you look
at my finger. That's kind of what has happened with
this woman. She's like, hey, I have a right to
name my kid this, and people are like, the name
is stupid and you shouldn't do that. Okay, let's talk
about all of it. I mean, I think we probably
(02:49):
all agree that the name is, you know, pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It is pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And we've stood up for parents being able to name
their children whatever they want to name them generally speak.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yes, that is our stance.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But this, Yeah, I mean, first of all, the argument
that she's making is.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
To them, it means so much to us, right, what
does it mean?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, she's making the argument that they want the kid
to be different, they want them to be unique, and
they think that the name is a way to do that, which,
as we've explained many times on this show, that's not
how it works.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well, they're definitely going to stand out to all the bulliesing.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Probably yeah, for sort of as a source of ridicule. Yeah,
but giving your kid a unique spelling for their name
or a different name doesn't make them unique if anything,
Like you said, it just kind of makes them a target.
It Definitely, if you want your kid to be unique,
teach them to think for themselves and be different and
be unique in the way that they view the world
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and the way they live. That's how you get a
unique person. Sure not hey follow the cattle, but spell
your name with a y eight eight days, seven seven
sixty six forty is the studio text line. You can
also text this at three five sixty five to one.
So we've got that to contend with the name. But
then also who decides what you can name your kid
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and what you can't name them?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So in the state of Alabama, you cannot have a
consonant following the letter X.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
This is what she was told and how did that
come about. I'm not sure if that's state policy or
the hospital's right. There's that too, which would be really
interesting when you think about the hospital decides how you
can name your kid.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That means somebody has tried this before and that's how
this has come about. If it's even true, or if
the nurse was just saying that, like being like sorry,
can't do this, because the nurse was looking out for
the kid.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, and it's well being.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I just I love the idea of a guy and
his pregnant wife rushing to a hospital, but they have
a unique name for the kid, they have an unusual name,
and they have to drive to a different hospital. They right,
he pulls into the parking lot.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
No, No, we've got to we can't go to this hospital.
They won't allow us to use this name. Don't you
know about their continent rules? Here, go to another hospital.
I'm crowding.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Everybody seems to be on board. The names ridiculous, Nikki.
Let's go to the text line. What you got?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Why couldn't she just name her a different jumble of
letters and say it's pronounced the same way that way,
there's no X in front of a consonant. Yeah right, yeah,
I mean change the jumble of letters.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Change the jumble right when she When she said that
and the hospital worker said we can't do this, she
should have said, okay, give me that. Just add a
letter there you go. Yeah, and how do you pronounce this?
I told you how we pronounce its golcie. Yeah. Yeah,
but it's not spelled right now. Okay, what else you got?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Let's see this person says this is an actual state
name policy. There are restrictions in every state when it
comes to naming.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, I'm sure that's true.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, so I googled. Yeah I did though in West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And this is like as quick as I could google,
you know, quick breakdown. There's acceptable letters and characters, and
you can't use umlats or numbers or symbols, those are prohibited.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Really yep.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And there are length of restrictions, so thirty characters for
our first name and fifty characters each for middle and
last names.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Characters, I guess. I'm guessing, especially for last names.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Hyphenated names, so if you have two very long hyphenic, right, you.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
May need those fifty characters.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Potentially you could.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, there are prohibited names, so anything that's considered
profane or meaning unless the court allows it, I guess.
And that's oh, and then like you can do a
generational identifiers to like a junior, a senior, like third, fourth, whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
But you can't use like MD or PhD or esquire.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay, that that all makes sense.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, all of this makes sense. But I didn't see
anything specific. Again, this is very quick googling. I didn't
see anything specific on the letters jumbled together.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Interesting. Yeah, that's okay. Well, I'm glad you did the
research on that, because we're here in West Virginia and
most of the people listening to the show are in
West Virginia except that massive chunk of thousands of people
listening to Pennsylvania. But that's your problem in Pennsylvaniania. All right,
you want to know how to name your kid in Pennsylvania,
you look it up. There's only so much we can do. Sorry, again,
(07:48):
my emotion is out of place here. I find that
very interesting, and I'm glad to know, yeah, that these
are the restrictions. And I wonder what they consider profane?
Did they mention Hitler? Is that what that be a
problem with Hitler?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You're going to have to look into for yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
The Jack and Nikki Show two wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Poverty has lingering effects on the humans, and I'd like
to share with you now a list of poor people
habits that never die, according to the experts. Now, obviously
I grew up quite poor, But Nikki, you did not
grow up poor. You probably can't relate to this. You
have professional parents, right, aren't they both pharmacists?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, so you guys had some money growing up. I
mean you you know you weren't busted. Yeah, you guys
weren't a breadline.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, Now, my parents were alcoholics and religious fanatics, careers
that don't pay well but are hilarious. Right, So they
chose a different path from say, your parents. You decided
to get educated, professional careers. My parents would get drunk
and strike each other in the yard with bibles until
the police showed up. Again not lucrative. So what I
(08:59):
want to share with you now is this list of
poor people habits, and I'd like to open the studio
lines to see if and if you guys can relate
to these, if you're still doing these, because I don't
think you necessarily have to be poor. I think maybe
you know you're just on the thrifty side. Like let's
go back to you didn't grow up poor, but you know,
you get married, you move out, you're young, you start
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your life, and you're poor, and you're poor at that point, right,
So you may grow up and have some money and
you're doing okay. But then when you step out on
your own, now you're now you're busted. You're going to
be pinching some pennies. So I bet you've done some
of this stuff. Eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty
six forty the studio and textual line. You can also
text us at three five sixty five to one. Let's
(09:41):
take a look. Let's see if you're doing these. Nick,
you'll see if I'm doing and we'll see if you
guys are doing them. Okay, we start with the obvious
basic stuff. You turn off the lights in an empty room, yes, yes,
when you leave the room, turn light off, yes, always, always. Yeah.
I cannot leave a light on in a room if
nobody's in it. It drives me crazy. Yes, it just
feels wrong, doesn't it. You feel like you're doing something wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I feel like I'm going to get in trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, expect my dad show up start hitting me with
a belt. Okay. Picking up coins off the ground, I
try really.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Hard not to, but you do, but I still catch myself.
I'm like, oh gosh, there's oh a nickel, I could
use that.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, but they're so gross because they're on the ground too.
So there's that.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So that's how I'm trying to convince myself not to
pick up coins off the ground.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I've I've managed to get to the point where it
depends on how much it is. It depends on the
value of the coin.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Gotcha.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'm not gonna waste my time picking up pennies.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I am, because they're not making them fair enough.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I'm still not doing it. Okay. If it's it's got
to be at least a dime. Okay, it's got to
be at least a dime. Okay, because I see that,
I'm like, well, maybe parking meter somewhere get me ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Right, Sure, that's a good that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Right darn it.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Now I want to pick up all the coins again.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You only order water when you're dining out. No, I'm
not doing that either.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I some like if I'm no, because even then I'll
get iced tea.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Like like, I.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well, I'm of the opinion if I'm going to go
spend some money dining out, then I want to enjoy
the whole experience. I don't want to short change myself
on and I would be like, yeah, great meal, but
I drink water with it, right, Yeah, Okay, I'm going
to spend I don't know, sixty dollars on a steak,
but I want to save two dollars on a cola.
I'm not doing that right all right. I don't know
why I'm so mad when you're yelling but ready to cry,
(11:30):
It's okay, Jack, you're streaming on my face? Uh okay,
debating non essential purchases.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yes, yeah, of course all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Who doesn't life, right, Yeah? Who doesn't do that in
non essentially essential Yeah, like do we need this?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, I don't most people.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
If I was questioning if I need it or not,
then I probably don't need it.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Probably don't need it exactly. Yeah, right, Jessica, do we
need electricity this monthent? I mean is that really necessary?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Refrigeration? Okay? Squeezing the toothpaste all the way out of
the tube, yes, don't throw it away till it's empty. Yep,
check doing that one. Umm oh boy, here we go,
collecting soaps and shampoos from hotels and fast food napkins, yes, Gilthy, Yeah,
(12:26):
for sure. I have the hardest time throwing napkins away.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
No, you do.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I just can't do it. I'm always saving them in
my glove box.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We'll need those, we'll need those, And then you open
the glove box and like a thousand of them fall out.
Jessica's they're they're trapped under them, and I have to
have the jaws of life to get her out. Yeah,
which ends up costing even more money keeping leftover nuts
and bolts. I do that, for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I do that sometimes if it's from like something that
I'm building and they're like here's some extras, Like they
tell you that there are extras, then I label them
and I put them in a baggie and they're good
to go for when if needed. And then I have
a bag of miscellaneous, right because you never.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Know, Yeah, they could be handy.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I've got a big plastic container in the garage and
my toolbox that's sorted out and it's got different compartments
in it. And anytime I have leftover nuts, bolt, screws, anything, yeah,
I put them in their appropriate compartment and then I
have them for later and later never comes. Right, I've
had it in there basically my whole life. I've been
carrying this box around. I've used like one screw out
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of it.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
The minute you get rid of it, is we want
to need it?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, yeah, okay, just quickly here we're using containers for storage.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Obviously we're doing that, and then shopping at thrift stores
and yard sales.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Thrift stores.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah. Thrift stores are great. Yeah, you have some cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I love thrifting.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Some yard sales.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, depends on if I trust them, Like I gotta
look at I look at the photos first, because they're
posting them, you know, in the neighborhood groups, and I'll
glance at the photos and do a little profile stalking
and then decide if I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Going or not.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, eight eight eight, seven, seven sixty six forty and calls.
You can text us. You can text us at three
five sixty five one. Let's see, are you guys doing
any of this? Are you doing it because you grew
up poor or is it something you learned. I mean,
I don't think this is exclusive just to poor people.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
No, I don't think so either.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But then again, you know, I don't hang around with
a lot of people who've been rich their entire lives.
Anybody I know as money didn't have it when they
were younger. All right, what do you guys think? We'll
talk to you coming up next, and we are back
with your calls and texts talking about basically being cheap
(14:37):
because perhaps you grew up poor. It's a list of
poor people habits that never die, and we just ran
down the full list and people are responding, Nikki, what
are we seeing on the textual line?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I am seeing conflicting things. I'm poor.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I wear hand me down clothes for my granddaughter from
your granddaughter.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
How old your granddaugh.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Seven. She's a tiny woman.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yeah. There's a longer text here that I haven't been
able to read yet.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Here's a short one that popped in. Okay, rich people
are some of the cheapest people I've ever met. Yep,
that's true.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
That is very true.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, that's why they're rich. They haven't spent their life
frivolously running through their money, right, Yeah, they've been hoarding it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
They've been hoarding it. Yes, yeah, Oh, let's see.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I pretty much do all that stuff. But my wife
does a couple of things that kill me. She'll turn
a light on as she leaves the room.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
What what?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
How?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Why why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Is?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I want to know her purpose behind that too. Sometimes
she'll dump the last bit of food or drink from
a container instead of using it and go ahead and
just open a new one. I think it depends because
when you get to the bottom of some juices, like
it's sometimes just like if you it's.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Not been shaken properly.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, there's just like sediment at the bottom and like
I can't no.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, I'm with you on that. And when it comes
to food, I always look at it and go is
this enough to save? And then have leftovers. Yeah, because
if it's like one bite, well that's that's not enough
for a leftover. You can't what are you gonna have
for dinner? Leftovers? There's one bite of it, it'll be
a small meal apparently. Yeah, so you have to figure
(16:26):
that out when you get to the Endea, you're gonna
gorge yourself and push down a couple more bites that
you don't want. Are you gonna toss it?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
My great grandmother who we grew up in her household
for a little bit, that was her thing. It was
just like, oh, you got one one bite left all
you ate all of the other friends that that little
piece of food is gonna be leftover, no friends, so
sad And I'm like, really, you're guilting me into overeating,
like I see it now as of what it was.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
But a six year old little baby.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Nikki did not and feels guilty when she leaves one
bite on her plate.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Guilted you playing the loneliness card, right, Yeah, like.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
That little that one potatoes so sad and lonely you
ate all of his friends?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Okay, you know what, this is a whole other segment
we need to do later. Get back to that all right?
Let me squeeze in a quick call. Here you are
on the Jack and Nikki show. You having trouble here.
You you're hoarding. You can't throw things away? You cheap?
What's going on? Yes, I am what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Rush than napkins?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You can't get rid of napkins. You can't get rid
of napkins. How many napkins do you think you have?
Do you keep them in your house? You keep them
in your glovebox?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Both?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We do both here in Union Town, in Uniontown. That's
how they roll. In Union Town, they're known. I think
I might be a mistaken but when you come in
Union Town, Yeah, the sign reads a Napkin Capital of
the United States. Yeah, yes, that still there? Right? Yeah, Okay,
you guys have a great day, you too. Bye.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The Nerve Center of North Central West Virginia, Jack Loger
and Nikki Drake on one O t WVQ.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Let's talk complete nonsense. Now, what in the world is
going on? Don't we love giant freak?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
These are all terrible ideas part of the family tradition.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wow, just like that show Big Brother. She'll see that
on Animal Planet. To be honest, I've never seen such dysfunction. Oh,
it's dysfunction, all right. This is a fascinating story being
reported by the New York Post, of all places, about
a woman who has gone viral after getting into an
argument with her daughter in law. You see, the problem
(18:41):
is her daughter in law was furious that she did
not receive a Mother's Day gift for what? For being
a dog mom?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
For what?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, the woman who went viral said, I have the
story right here. Jenny called me and asked where her
basket was. I was confused, and I asked her what
she meant. She clarified that I have two grandkids by
her and said the names of her dogs. She always
(19:16):
said they were her kids. But I thought it was
a joke, you know, as any reasonable person would. Sure,
she continues, I told her she is not a mother.
That Mother's Day is for women that raise human children,
not pet owners.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
She cursed me for not getting her a basket and
insisted that she is a parent, and then I'm guessing
hung up on her. So this is how things turned out.
And scene, all right, let's get into it. Eight eight
eight seven seven seven sixty six forty call us textas
(19:55):
at that number, you could text us at three five
sixty five one. I think there are uh several problems here, yeah,
that need to be addressed. Yeah, what do you think
about this, Nikki Drake?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, because I have a daily holiday calendar, I know
that there is a National Dog Mom's Day, and so
she should have gotten something on National Dog Mom's Day.
That's when she should have been upset.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Right, do you know when that is? Off the top
of your head?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
We just had it. It's like the it was a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Okay, but it's it's in May May okay, yeah, okay,
so you get that in before Mother's Day?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yes, okay, yeah, it happens before mother.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, yeah, a dog dog bad day.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
That's a good question. I will look into that.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
We just have a dog parents Day.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Why can't just be a pet parents Day?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Just it encompasses all pets, cats, lizards, you know, Okay, dragons.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I know we're going way off the rails here, but
I'm with you on this. We need to replace what
is it mom dog Mom's Day? Dog mom Day with
pet parent Day because now you are including dad and
also other pets beyond dogs. Yeah, okay, good solved. I'm
glad we got that taken care of. That was important
(21:08):
as far as I'm concerned. Okay, please continue.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Where was I going with this?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I'm sure I have no idea, right, I don't know.
Like I am not a human parent, I am a
pet parent. I don't expect anything on Mother's Day, and
I don't think I should get anything on Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I think that's reasonable. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Now, I am a godmother to five children, and as
I count quickly, but I think there's a Godmom's Day
or godparents Day.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So again, I don't need anything on Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, very good. All right, I see the studio lines
already ringing, and I'm really itching to get to you guys,
and what you have to say about this. I'll say this, Look,
the whole pet parent thing, I think that's cute. It's cute.
That's fine, because the reality of it is, we love
our pets, and people don't want to call them pets
(22:03):
because they say, well, you know, that's kind of cold
and distances you and refers to them more as like
an animal than a part, which is all you know,
they are animals. But look, I love my cats more
than most people. And I get it. Yeah, I get it.
People don't say, well, I don't own them, they're part
of my family. Fine, that's all fine, that's all fine.
(22:25):
Because anything that helps you get closer to your pets
and treat them better, I'm all for that.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yes, But.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We say pet parent because it's just something that's cute.
It's not a legitimate claim to actual parenthood. And that's
where you have to draw the line with sane people. Okay,
So if I'm friends with you and you're calling yourself
a dog mom or a cat dad, fine, fine, but
we know that when the rubber hits the road, that's
(22:55):
just a cute, euphemistic way of saying I have a cat.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Or a dog, right, Because I tell Tia all the time,
go ask your dad when I've already given her treats, right, And.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I always say to Penelope, where is your mommy? Stuff
like that, and I.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Tell Dave come get your child.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah yeah, but you don't expect people to actually legitimately
treat you guys like yeah, Okay. I think it's a
pretty easy line. So, Nikki Drake, what are we seeing
on the textual line?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I think that it is a truly wonderful thing that
she loves her dog, So much and considers them her children.
But it is most certainly unreasonable to expect everyone else
to feel the same way, and also incredibly entitled to
believe that she should automatically receive a gift from anyone.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That is a perfect text.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
That was a good text.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I really like that. That's exactly the point that I'm
trying to make over here is I love it when
people are good to their pets. I want people to
love their pets and take very good care of them
and treat them like they are family. And I would
never poo poo that. I would never sit here and say, oh, please,
you and your pets. I would never do that because
I love animals. However, as the texture just stated, you
(24:07):
can't expect everybody else to treat you that way.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Right, Yeah, they're not going to feel the same way
about your pets, right, and.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You have to understand, Hey, look, I love them to death,
but I can't compare them to people who have children, right,
actual human children. Right, Yeah, it's different. Okay, Yeah, very good,
good text. What else, that's what I got, That's what
you got.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
That's what the good one I.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Got, the good one, the good one. All right, let's
see studio line. Let's go to you. You are on
the Jack and Nikki Show. Would you want to say here, Well,
I can kind.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Of agree and kind of disagree because some people can't
have children, and so they love to the comfort of
an animal, and they don't consider them an animal they.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Consider Well, I agree with you, and I understand, and
I certainly have sympathy for people in that say situation.
But not being able to have a kid doesn't make
a dog a kid. I mean, they're still animals, they're
still pets.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, I see that.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
And Mothers Day should before Yeah, if you raise a child,
you have a child.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
So I disagree on both sides.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Okay, fair enough, appreciate the phone call, thank you. All Right, Well,
I'm gonna understand. Try to wrap up this segment without
giving a big speech about language. I told you, I don't.
I really don't want to give the speech. I'll just no, no,
(25:44):
that's not something that should happen. Look, I'll I'll just
give you a little taste. Language matters, okay, and this
is the problem that we have people trying to adjust
the language. When you change language, it doesn't change reality reality. Okay,
So you can call your dog, your kid all you want,
but it's still a dog. Okay. Calling an obese person
(26:07):
a person of size doesn't make them smaller. Calling a
trailer a mobile home doesn't make it a house. Calling
toilet paper bathroom tissue doesn't mean you're not wiping your
butt with it. Okay, we're talking about this woman and
her daughter in law and the trouble they were having
(26:27):
over daughter in law being a dog mom. Pretty awkward.
I think we all agree that's pretty awkward. But I
would suggest to you that this next conversation will be
even more awkward. It's the story of a man who
got on an airplane and ended up sitting next to
(26:50):
a woman who had ghosted him.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I think that's incredibly awkward, sure, and possibly even more
awkward than the thing we were just talking about.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Potentially.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
All Right, here's the story, craziest story of the day.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Imagine a girl you went on a day with on
your flight to Germany happens to be sitting right next
to you.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
After she goes to you, and then you're next to
each other.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Bro, But I'm trying to explain to her how the
universe brought us back together.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
He's still working on it he is. Oh my god, buddy,
learn your lesson. Keep moving.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
He I would have asked to have been reseated. I've
seen it, and he doesn't give great vibes.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Have you seen her, like a portion of her?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, and he's not.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
No, it's he just doesn't give good vibes.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What's the problem. What kind of vibe is he giving?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Creepy? Yeah, a little bit at least for me. I
don't know, because I'm just.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Curious because I haven't seen either one of these people.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
So you know, it's not like a look just like his.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Way, his way energy, it's his way.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Well, okay, we all know, we all know that the
difference between a creep and a prevert to a lot
of women when it comes to guys, is whether or
not they're attracted to him. Oh you know what I mean?
You know what I mean. They're like, if a guy
is a really attractive guy, he can hit on a
(28:27):
woman in a way that a really ugly, scary looking
guy can't because women are creeped out by that or
like you. But if he's a good looking guy, you know,
Brad pitt sits down beside you. It's like, hey, what's
going on, You're like, Okay, I'm gonna see where this goes.
Let's just see, let's just see what happens here. Anyway,
here's what I would say to this guy, buddy, if
(28:48):
she ghosted you, she's not interested. Now is not the
time on your long flight to Germany or to turn
on the old creeper charm and see if you can
win her back.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Or like he said, the universe is brought them back together,
and it is the time.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Which part of the universe in particular would have done that.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I mean not a very just one, but the universe.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, was it the moon? Was it the rings around
your ainus? I mean helped me out what what part
of the universe exactly
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