Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - December 06, 2023


Ep 917 ｜ Boomer Grandparents vs. Millennial Parents


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48 minutes

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169.0277

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8,225

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661

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

32


Summary

A new rule implemented by the Biden administration will make it nearly impossible for Christian adoption agencies to function in alignment with their beliefs on sex and gender. Also, millennial parents are complaining that their parents aren t around. Is there anything to this? Also, Brie is going to test my knowledge of Gen Z vocabulary at the end of this episode and you don t want to miss it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 A new rule implemented by the Biden administration will make it nearly impossible for Christian
00:00:06.640 adoption agencies to function in alignment with their beliefs on sex and gender.
00:00:15.460 Also, millennial parents are complaining that their parents, the boomer grandparents,
00:00:21.740 aren't around.
00:00:23.040 Is there anything to this?
00:00:25.380 Also, Brie is going to test my knowledge of Gen Z vocabulary at the end of this episode,
00:00:31.960 and you don't want to miss it.
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00:00:49.140 Hey, guys.
00:00:49.900 Welcome to Relatable.
00:00:51.020 Happy Tuesday.
00:00:52.220 Hope everyone is having a wonderful week.
00:00:54.220 So far.
00:00:56.840 Brie, did you have a good weekend?
00:00:59.880 Yeah.
00:01:00.600 You did?
00:01:00.860 It was great.
00:01:01.720 Good.
00:01:02.000 Didn't really do much, but it was great.
00:01:04.400 Relaxing?
00:01:04.980 Have you been listening to Christmas music?
00:01:07.140 Actually, no, which is weird because I'm a big Christmas person, but I haven't really.
00:01:11.700 Yeah.
00:01:12.300 Like at all.
00:01:12.680 We have a little bit.
00:01:14.100 I still haven't decorated that much in our house because we're getting a lot of things
00:01:18.520 updated, which is just a, just such a stressful, crazy process.
00:01:23.460 So I feel like I don't even know if I'm going to.
00:01:26.340 We're also going to be out of town.
00:01:27.700 So you don't know if you're going to at all?
00:01:30.000 To decorate?
00:01:31.180 Yeah.
00:01:31.280 I mean, I'll listen to Christmas music, but we have lights on our house.
00:01:35.480 That's funny.
00:01:35.920 And our Christmas tree is up, but there's no ornaments right now.
00:01:39.660 Well, there's been people.
00:01:41.140 I know.
00:01:41.820 There's been people painting and yeah.
00:01:44.440 I don't know.
00:01:44.740 Well, you have one here.
00:01:45.340 You have one behind you.
00:01:46.280 So.
00:01:46.500 That's true.
00:01:47.140 If y'all are watching on YouTube, we have decorated the relatable set for Christmas.
00:01:51.360 So yeah, I think that, I think that counts.
00:01:54.720 Yeah.
00:01:55.200 I do love Christmas, but I have like only one box of Christmas decorations.
00:01:58.820 I'm not like the most extravagant person.
00:02:01.760 Yeah.
00:02:02.440 That's fair.
00:02:03.640 Does Taylor Swift have a Christmas album?
00:02:06.920 Yes, me.
00:02:08.280 I actually don't know.
00:02:09.600 I think so.
00:02:11.280 Swifty.
00:02:11.960 Some Swifty trivia that you don't know.
00:02:14.780 Okay.
00:02:15.320 We've got a lot to talk about today and we're going to bring Brie in several times to talk
00:02:19.720 about the various subjects that we've got.
00:02:21.280 But first I want to talk about this very serious and I think very sad story that we've talked
00:02:26.580 about before, but it's being reported on again.
00:02:29.660 And that is the difficulty that Christian families have in adopting and fostering because of our
00:02:35.860 views, views that not just Christians have held for thousands of years, but people around
00:02:40.000 the world have held for millennia.
00:02:43.080 And also that most of the world still holds today on gender and sexuality.
00:02:49.540 This radical idea that marriage is between a man and a woman, this radical idea that boys
00:02:55.140 are boys and girls are girls.
00:02:56.720 That's not something that you can change by way of declaration or any kind of medical procedure.
00:03:02.220 For these views, Christian families are being told you cannot foster, you cannot adopt.
00:03:08.220 So this is from the Washington Examiner.
00:03:10.960 The Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a rule that
00:03:15.000 would prevent states from using child adoption agencies, most of them faith-based, that do
00:03:20.360 not accept the LGBTQ ideology for children.
00:03:25.520 The proposed rule was published September 28th, was then open for public comment.
00:03:29.400 The comment period closed on November 27th.
00:03:33.780 So it's done.
00:03:34.660 The Biden administration is saying that these faith-based adoption agencies, most of the adoption
00:03:40.640 agencies are faith-based.
00:03:42.460 They were established by Christians a long time ago.
00:03:46.020 If they do not accept the idea that you can change genders, that we should be chemically
00:03:51.180 castrating boys and cutting the healthy breasts off of teenage girls who say that they're
00:03:56.180 boys, then they can't receive state funding.
00:03:59.400 Now, you'll also remember, or maybe you don't, we covered this when it happened probably about
00:04:04.220 a year ago, there was another rule announced that said that the Biden administration will
00:04:09.460 no longer allow government funding for lunches in low-income public schools if these public
00:04:18.540 schools establish any rules that protect gender-specific bathrooms.
00:04:24.540 And so unless these schools allow boys into girls' bathrooms, they will not be eligible to receive
00:04:30.940 the free lunches for low-income students.
00:04:34.180 That's what the Biden administration has established.
00:04:36.600 We can link information to that in the description of this episode so you know that I'm not making
00:04:40.860 it up.
00:04:41.500 And now they are going after these Christian adoption agencies.
00:04:46.180 So let's talk about this a little bit more.
00:04:48.580 The safe and appropriate foster care placement requirements.
00:04:51.600 So already we've got the dystopian language, safe and appropriate foster care placement
00:04:57.380 requirements rule.
00:04:58.500 By safe and appropriate, what they mean is that as an adoption agency or as foster parents
00:05:05.180 and adoptive parents, you have to be okay with injecting children with opposite sex hormones.
00:05:12.340 That's neither safe nor appropriate in any case ever.
00:05:15.180 Here's what it says.
00:05:17.260 The Administration for Children and Families, part of DHHS, proposes to specify the steps
00:05:22.720 agencies must take when implementing the case plan and case review requirements for children
00:05:26.140 in foster care who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning,
00:05:31.960 intersex, as well as children who are non-binary.
00:05:35.240 Children who are non-binary.
00:05:37.020 Gosh, we live in a horrible time, a hellacious time when it comes to this.
00:05:44.400 Um, have non-conforming gender identity or expression.
00:05:47.880 Now, I just want to remind you that these things don't exist.
00:05:50.860 There's no such thing as a queer child.
00:05:52.640 There's no such thing as a trans child.
00:05:54.860 There's no such thing as a bisexual child.
00:05:58.100 These are all labels that adults, perverse adults, have placed on children to justify their
00:06:06.100 own strange proclivities and identities.
00:06:09.880 Children are not transgender.
00:06:13.920 They can't be the opposite sex.
00:06:15.720 I mean, adults aren't either, by the way.
00:06:18.020 It's not possible to be the opposite sex.
00:06:19.760 You can declare yourself anything that you want to.
00:06:22.200 It's not possible to transition into the other gender.
00:06:26.040 But children, um, in particular, are completely unable of even having the concept of being,
00:06:34.720 um, the opposite sex.
00:06:36.620 Yes, there is, um, real, actual, I don't even want to call it, after my interview yesterday,
00:06:42.340 I don't want to call it gender dysphoria.
00:06:44.600 I forgot what she said that you should actually call it.
00:06:47.440 But there is, um, a real instance, a very rare instance of young children having intense
00:06:54.560 discomfort with their gender.
00:06:56.140 It's mostly boys.
00:06:57.200 But that's a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage.
00:06:58.980 This idea that there is this huge number of, quote, trans children that need to be affirmed
00:07:04.720 in their transness, it is absolutely a disgusting lie pushed by perverts and people who make money
00:07:12.280 from creating slaves to the medical industrial complex.
00:07:16.080 But this apparently is safe and appropriate for children, according to the Biden administration.
00:07:21.440 Under the proposed rule, each state must ensure that the totality of their child welfare system
00:07:25.720 includes sufficient placements for LGBTQI plus children that meet the proposed standards
00:07:30.820 of safe and appropriate care.
00:07:32.160 So, to be considered safe and appropriate, here's how they're defining this in this dystopian way.
00:07:37.560 To be considered safe and appropriate placement for these children means the provider with whom
00:07:42.180 the agency places the child will establish an environment free of hostility, mistreatment,
00:07:47.040 or abuse based on the child's LGBTQI plus status.
00:07:50.220 Now, you might hear that and say, okay, well, yeah, of course, we don't want children to be mistreated
00:07:55.960 or abused.
00:07:56.600 Of course, I agree with that.
00:07:58.700 Is that happening in these Christian adoption agencies?
00:08:02.540 Is this happening at these Christian homes?
00:08:04.660 Let's see how they define that.
00:08:07.200 How did they define hostility?
00:08:08.600 How did they define mistreatment?
00:08:11.380 So, here's what it says.
00:08:12.780 The provider will facilitate the child's access to age-appropriate resources, services, and activities
00:08:17.660 that support their health and well-being if the child wishes to access those resources,
00:08:22.740 services, and activities.
00:08:24.120 And what exactly is meant by that?
00:08:27.060 What is meant by that, of course, is activities, resources, medical processes that quote-unquote
00:08:33.780 affirm this idea that a child can be the opposite sex.
00:08:38.720 This is what the rule also says.
00:08:40.080 The LGBTQI plus youth are overrepresented in the child welfare system because of a confluence
00:08:47.200 of factors.
00:08:48.040 Ooh, let's just like pause and think of that.
00:08:50.120 Let's let that simmer for a second.
00:08:53.200 LGBTQI plus youth, I don't even know what all that means, are overrepresented in the child
00:08:58.040 welfare system.
00:09:00.380 Why would that be?
00:09:02.300 Just take a pause and think about that.
00:09:05.120 What the destabilization and the trauma in their lives, what that could have done to contribute
00:09:11.420 to children's confusion about their sexuality and about their gender.
00:09:16.080 Hmm.
00:09:18.120 Studies suggest that many LGBTQI plus youth face higher rates of parental physical abuse and
00:09:23.780 are more likely to run away from home or be kicked out, often because of conflict over
00:09:28.320 their sexual orientation or gender identity.
00:09:31.740 These experiences place LGBTQI plus youth at greater risk of entering foster care.
00:09:37.980 All of this is just a fancy and empathy shaming, empathy manipulation way to say that Christians
00:09:45.700 are not fit to foster and adopt children because they won't affirm this radical idea of gender
00:09:51.540 ideology.
00:09:52.240 19 state attorneys general submitted comments opposing this rule, arguing that it fails to
00:10:11.840 acknowledge the importance of faith-based organizations in the foster care system discriminates on the
00:10:16.400 basis of religion and creates further harm for foster children and states trying to help them.
00:10:21.880 So these were the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa,
00:10:27.600 Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
00:10:33.340 Virginia, and West Virginia.
00:10:34.320 If you are part of a Republican state and you did not hear your state on that list, you should try to contact
00:10:39.820 your attorney general and ask them why they did not submit comments to oppose this rule.
00:10:44.280 So here's what they said, and I think that we should listen to this closely.
00:10:47.320 This proposed rule seeks to accomplish indirectly what the Supreme Court found unconstitutional just
00:10:52.800 two years ago, remove faith-based providers from the foster care system if they will not conform
00:10:58.540 their religious beliefs on sexual orientation and gender identity.
00:11:02.460 They're referring to Fulton v. City of Philadelphia.
00:11:05.520 That's exactly what's going on here.
00:11:07.360 The Biden administration, the federal government would rather have kids languishing in foster care
00:11:12.280 where they are actually more likely to get abused.
00:11:14.440 That's where they are likely to get abused, not in these loving Christian homes who just
00:11:18.940 happen to say, yeah, we're not going to trans you when you're 13, sorry.
00:11:23.380 They would rather these children be without parents, continue to be traumatized, continue
00:11:30.100 to be destabilized, than put them in through a Christian adoption agency that would place them
00:11:38.040 with a loving home or place them with a Christian family who would love them very much and maybe
00:11:43.740 show them love for the first time in their lives.
00:11:46.640 Now, I'm not saying that there are no bad foster families.
00:11:50.780 Even foster families who may call themselves Christians may be bad foster families.
00:11:55.000 I'm not saying that that is not possible.
00:11:58.500 Of course it is.
00:11:59.920 However, the terrible stories that I have heard about parents adopting kids and fostering kids
00:12:05.980 who have ended up abusing them have not been from Christian families.
00:12:10.580 Again, I'm sure it happens, but you will recall that story that we talked about last year of
00:12:15.940 those two men, two gay men who went through a Christian adoption agency to adopt two boys
00:12:22.300 and ended up sex trafficking the two boys.
00:12:25.480 Now, unfortunately, those men aren't going to get the death penalty.
00:12:29.000 They should get the death penalty.
00:12:30.420 It's not on the table.
00:12:31.340 Well, it can't be on the table for that crime, but I think that they should.
00:12:35.240 It's absolutely horrific.
00:12:36.540 But the Biden administration is not interested in looking into that case or cracking down
00:12:41.120 on things like that.
00:12:42.500 What they're interested in is making sure that Christian families, who are some of the only
00:12:47.460 families even willing to take these children in, are unable to adopt unless they completely
00:12:52.860 renounce their fundamental Christian beliefs on sex and gender.
00:12:57.540 This is also what the attorneys general say.
00:12:59.880 The foster care system depends on individuals and organizations of faith.
00:13:03.700 An LGBT research organization reported that 40% of government-contracted child placement
00:13:08.320 agencies are religiously affiliated.
00:13:10.320 So what exactly is going to happen if those are unable to operate or they have to bend their
00:13:16.520 core beliefs?
00:13:17.760 Foster parents who are recruited through a church or other religious organization foster
00:13:21.600 children are 2.6 years longer than the average foster parent.
00:13:26.080 But practicing Christians are three times more likely to seriously consider fostering than
00:13:31.640 the general population, of course, because this is what Christians do.
00:13:35.600 It's what Christians have always done.
00:13:36.920 It's what we've always led the way on.
00:13:39.080 From our very inception, we have been a refuge for children and for women, for the most vulnerable.
00:13:45.380 I'm not saying that there haven't been sinful and evil people who have abused, of course, in
00:13:50.200 the name of Christ.
00:13:51.000 We consider those people not Christian at all.
00:13:53.140 But the church, the bride of Christ, has been the refuge, the revolutionizing refuge
00:13:58.800 in society for all of its history and its defense and its care for the widow and the orphan.
00:14:05.820 That is what the church does.
00:14:07.960 That is the pure religion that Christians are called through the power of the Holy Spirit to.
00:14:12.360 So, of course, we are far more likely than the general population to foster and to adopt.
00:14:16.960 And the Biden administration is making it near impossible for Christians to practice their
00:14:21.580 faith sincerely and to do that and to care for these orphans because the Biden administration
00:14:26.580 is more concerned that boys can be chemically castrated if they say that they're Sally by
00:14:31.940 the age of 10 than they are these children having loving homes with parents who may happen
00:14:37.280 to be Christian.
00:14:38.340 Okay, let me just let me just say this again.
00:14:40.760 And I've said it before, but Christians have no business, no business voting for Joe Biden,
00:14:51.140 no business voting for Democrats in general, absolutely none.
00:14:57.500 This is not nuanced.
00:14:59.720 It's not complicated.
00:15:02.360 Yes, both sides have their problems.
00:15:04.480 That's true.
00:15:05.500 No side is perfect.
00:15:07.340 Jesus is not a Republican or Democrat.
00:15:09.220 I'm not saying that I'm not saying that your salvation is contingent upon who you vote
00:15:13.920 for or what party you're affiliated with.
00:15:16.240 I am just saying the simple fact of the matter is, is that Christians should not be voting
00:15:22.660 Democrat.
00:15:23.580 There is no reason for it.
00:15:26.160 The party of mutilating children's bodies through abortion and through gender transition should
00:15:32.120 never, ever, ever be supported by a Christian ever.
00:15:37.360 There's no reason for it.
00:15:38.420 And if you say, well, they're doing some other good things.
00:15:40.640 They're helping the poor.
00:15:41.480 No, they're not.
00:15:42.460 Oh, well, they're helping the migrant.
00:15:43.720 No, they're not.
00:15:44.280 They're working to end racism.
00:15:45.820 No, they're not.
00:15:46.320 They're fighting for equality and democracy.
00:15:48.040 No, they're not.
00:15:49.140 They're not.
00:15:50.460 That's again, it's not complicated.
00:15:52.140 It's not nuanced.
00:15:53.120 You've just been lied to and you've believed it.
00:15:54.980 There is no reason for a Christian to vote Democrat.
00:15:58.940 Now, you don't have to vote Republican.
00:16:00.620 I'm not saying that.
00:16:01.580 I think Republicans have a big problem of cowardice, of not being conservative enough.
00:16:06.100 I would love the Republican Party to be much more conservative, much more courageous,
00:16:10.540 much more biblical than they are.
00:16:11.860 So I'm certainly not saying that the Republican Party is salvific in any way.
00:16:16.200 You can choose not to vote.
00:16:17.460 I disagree with that.
00:16:18.720 But you could choose that.
00:16:20.020 You can choose to vote for a third party.
00:16:22.460 I probably disagree with that.
00:16:24.200 But I understand that calculation.
00:16:25.520 There is no, no calculation that the Christian can make that will point to voting Democrat
00:16:31.960 in good conscience.
00:16:32.900 You can't.
00:16:33.720 You can't do it in good conscience.
00:16:35.820 Well, if you can't, there's something really deep going on there.
00:16:38.480 Again, the party of child mutilation, whether through gender transition or abortion, should
00:16:43.820 never, ever, ever, ever be supported in any way by a Christian.
00:16:50.460 Now, some of you have said while you live in these very blue areas and you have to vote
00:16:55.120 between like a more conservative Democrat and like the communist Democrat.
00:16:59.880 Okay, maybe there, maybe there are some exceptions somewhere out there.
00:17:06.640 I don't know.
00:17:07.360 I guess it depends on what the Democrat stands for.
00:17:09.960 But especially when it comes to Biden, it is, oh my gosh, you have been so completely
00:17:17.080 deluded and duped if you think that there is any way that you can square your Christian
00:17:22.580 faith with voting for Biden.
00:17:23.960 There's none.
00:17:25.700 It's evil.
00:17:27.240 Evil what this administration stands for and fights for.
00:17:31.360 You know, we talked about this when we had a mom on named Jessica Bates.
00:17:37.380 We had her on in May and we'll link that episode in the description so you can go listen
00:17:45.600 to it, but she's in Oregon and she is a Christian mom and she's looking to adopt children in the
00:17:54.640 state of Oregon and she was denied because of her Christian faith, because of what she
00:17:59.380 believes about sex and gender.
00:18:01.840 And she sued, saying that she's being discriminated against because of her religion and unfortunately,
00:18:10.200 the judge ruled against her.
00:18:12.540 So she will not be able to adopt.
00:18:15.360 This was November 14th.
00:18:16.800 The judge ruled against Jessica, saying that she cannot adopt because her religious beliefs
00:18:20.520 conflict with state adoption policies.
00:18:24.480 That apparently she has a lack of understanding about the unique support and care that LGBTQ
00:18:29.040 children require.
00:18:30.400 Now, mind you, she was not trying to adopt specifically LGBTQ children.
00:18:35.620 They said you can't adopt at all just in case someone that you adopt may decide that they're
00:18:41.520 LGBTQ one day and you have to be okay with quote unquote gender affirming care.
00:18:46.140 They said, sorry, you can't adopt at all.
00:18:48.260 So again, the state of Oregon would rather children remain orphaned than having a loving
00:18:54.820 foster mom who would maybe show them love and care and stability for the first time.
00:18:58.540 I want to play you a clip from the episode of Jessica explaining her story.
00:19:04.460 Here it is.
00:19:05.180 My certifier ended up calling me and kind of just walking through hypothetical situations.
00:19:12.680 And the one that she specifically brought up was, okay, well, you have a child in your
00:19:17.480 care who would like to transition and needs to go have hormone shots.
00:19:22.080 Will you drive this child to their hormone appointments?
00:19:25.120 And I told her, no.
00:19:26.660 I believe that our gender is something sacred.
00:19:30.340 And not only that, I think I said, I think that's child abuse, that it's just, you're
00:19:36.020 not affirming a person for who they really are, basically.
00:19:39.820 And she basically said, well, we're basically going to pull your application and put it on
00:19:45.180 pause.
00:19:45.900 If you change your mind, then we can put it back into circulation.
00:19:49.800 And I, and I even said, so in the whole state of Oregon, you're telling me there's not a
00:19:55.440 sibling pair that doesn't have gender confusion issues or gender dysphoria that we could take
00:20:00.980 into our home.
00:20:02.020 And she said, well, that's, that's not really the point.
00:20:04.620 Because even if we did allow that years down the road, they could change their mind and, and develop
00:20:11.040 these issues.
00:20:11.680 And you're not going to be supportive in, you know, taking them to these appointments and things.
00:20:18.220 Wow.
00:20:18.620 So, so she basically let me know that it was basically going to be pulled and everything.
00:20:22.300 And then about two months after that phone call, I got the official letter of denial
00:20:26.800 from the state.
00:20:28.980 Yep.
00:20:29.360 So they sued.
00:20:31.320 She and Alliance Defending Freedom.
00:20:33.540 I love Alliance Defending Freedom.
00:20:35.100 They're doing such good work.
00:20:36.300 And the judge ruled against her.
00:20:38.900 Can't be a Christian and adopt and foster in states like Oregon.
00:20:44.220 Again, why would a Christian ever vote Democrat?
00:20:46.800 There are 5,600 kids estimated in the state of Oregon in the foster care system.
00:20:54.280 And all of those, of all of those 5,600 kids, apparently there is not a single one who would
00:20:59.140 be safe in the care of Jessica because she wouldn't drive, uh, you know, a 12 year old
00:21:05.120 kid to go get hormone shots at the local Planned Parenthood.
00:21:10.460 Evil.
00:21:11.920 Evil.
00:21:13.800 And we shouldn't support it.
00:21:14.980 In fact, we should do everything possible to speak up against it.
00:21:19.420 It's not even for, we're not even standing up for Christian foster parents when we're
00:21:23.500 standing up against this.
00:21:25.380 I mean, we can be, that's fine.
00:21:26.960 We're not standing up for ourselves.
00:21:29.060 Like we're standing up for the kids.
00:21:30.880 We're standing up for the kids who need loving homes.
00:21:33.180 We're standing up for the kids who need stability.
00:21:35.640 We're standing up for the kids who need to be placed somewhere that is going to show them
00:21:39.920 care.
00:21:41.360 But I don't know.
00:21:42.360 The government seems to have an incentive in keeping these kids parentless, confused,
00:21:48.240 destabilized, um, vulnerable to abuse, which they are in foster care.
00:21:54.520 It's really, really wicked.
00:21:56.000 And I just want to say again, there is no reason for a Christian to ever vote Democrat.
00:22:02.100 And I will not apologize for saying that.
00:22:17.300 Okay.
00:22:17.820 I want to move on to this conversation that we've had quite a few times on Instagram before.
00:22:21.820 Maybe we've talked about it on the podcast too.
00:22:23.940 Um, and that is the complaint that I hear a lot of my millennial friends or millennial
00:22:32.000 followers and listeners lodge.
00:22:34.820 And that is that their parents, their kids' grandparents aren't willing to spend enough
00:22:42.360 time with their grandkids or help out with their grandkids.
00:22:46.400 And, you know, this is something that we've talked about before when it comes to the older
00:22:51.120 generations' use of their cell phones and use of technology.
00:22:54.780 You think, oh, it's just the younger generations that have an obsession with it.
00:22:58.200 But I would say it's also the older generations too.
00:23:00.820 And let me just, before we get into this, before we get into this, let me just say that I am
00:23:06.120 extremely spoiled.
00:23:07.120 My husband and I are extremely spoiled because, um, both my parents and my in-laws, we rely
00:23:13.380 on them so much and I'm so thankful for them.
00:23:16.680 So I am not talking about them.
00:23:19.460 They all listen to this podcast and you all are amazing and help us so much.
00:23:24.480 But I am talking about a general trend of baby boomer grandparents feeling like, you know
00:23:31.260 what?
00:23:31.620 I've already done my part when it comes to raising kids and I don't really feel like
00:23:38.160 extending that anymore.
00:23:40.420 And I, now I realize that this is like a real thing.
00:23:43.000 It's not just you guys talking about that to me.
00:23:46.800 This is something that apparently is a problem among a lot of millennials, so they say.
00:23:52.180 This was reported by the New York Post.
00:23:54.300 Um, this is the headline.
00:23:55.900 Millennials feel abandoned by parents not available to help raise grandkids, colon,
00:24:01.620 too busy.
00:24:03.340 Some millennial parents say they feel abandoned by their baby boomer parents who have chosen
00:24:07.140 to travel in their retirement rather than stay home and help raise their grandchildren,
00:24:12.100 business insider found.
00:24:14.140 And they give a lot of different, um, examples of that.
00:24:17.640 Uh, what millennials want is regular, stable, consistent support in terms of emotional support.
00:24:22.640 Childcare is super expensive in a way that it never has been, and it feels more necessary
00:24:26.720 than ever because of workplace demands.
00:24:28.920 So I think that is a lot of the frustration.
00:24:30.560 That's what one person said, but I'll give my own interpretation of this because, look,
00:24:35.800 I see both sides.
00:24:36.640 I know that I have a lot of baby boomers who listen to this, and you're going to get defensive.
00:24:40.820 I know because I've already gotten a lot of your messages on Instagram.
00:24:45.320 Now, some of you have said, as baby boomers, you've said, oh my gosh, I see this too among
00:24:50.480 my friends.
00:24:51.020 I don't understand it.
00:24:52.020 I am with my grandkids and my kids all the time.
00:24:54.440 I absolutely love it.
00:24:55.500 This is what I'm made for, and I help as much as I possibly can.
00:24:58.520 But then another set of you are angry.
00:25:03.120 Like, I got one message from, you said you were seven, she said she was 70 years old,
00:25:07.240 and she said, you know what?
00:25:08.380 I didn't have any help.
00:25:09.680 My grandparents didn't help.
00:25:11.020 My parents didn't help with my kids.
00:25:12.500 I did it all on my own, and my kids need to do it all on their own too.
00:25:16.800 I did my time.
00:25:18.400 They need to raise their kids.
00:25:19.600 Okay, I personally think that is an awful mentality, an awful mentality, a terrible mentality.
00:25:29.360 That is not how the world has worked for most of history.
00:25:33.480 First of all, people used to have kids a lot younger, and so they would have kids, say,
00:25:38.560 when they were 20 years old, and then maybe their parents would only be 40 years old.
00:25:43.420 So they still had a lot of vitality in them to help out.
00:25:47.320 A lot of generations have lived together.
00:25:49.680 This is still true in most of the non-American, non-Western world.
00:25:53.980 And so there was a lot of help in the home because there was intergenerational help.
00:25:59.360 Yes, grandparents were around to help.
00:26:01.100 Yes, aunts and uncles and cousins and sisters and brothers were around to help.
00:26:04.620 But because of this idea of the nuclear family, that our family is only mom, dad, children,
00:26:10.700 and everyone else has to be kind of pushed to the side, we have this erroneous and I think
00:26:15.300 really harmful idea that, or at least like a lot of boomer grandparents do, that they've
00:26:22.260 served their time and that their role is done, that their work is done, that their kids don't
00:26:27.180 need them.
00:26:27.820 And also, I think a lot of millennials have been like, I'm setting up my boundaries.
00:26:32.740 I don't want help from my in-laws.
00:26:34.620 I don't want help from my parents.
00:26:36.140 I don't want them to come over.
00:26:37.520 They need to do all of these things and have this list of rules.
00:26:40.480 And so it's created this very troublesome situation where a lot of millennials feel, a
00:26:47.900 lot of millennial parents feel like they don't have enough help and don't have enough support.
00:26:54.780 I don't think that we as millennial parents should take our parents for granted.
00:27:00.840 I don't think that we should just assume that they are going to be at our beck and call
00:27:06.060 and that every time we need something, that they are going to drop everything and be there
00:27:11.480 all the time.
00:27:12.020 And I don't think that's what millennials are expecting.
00:27:15.060 I don't think that's what a lot of my friends and a lot of parents my age are saying.
00:27:22.500 I think they're just saying, hey, I want you to be around my kids.
00:27:27.660 I would love for you to babysit if you can.
00:27:30.660 We feel better about, you know, parents babysitting than a babysitter.
00:27:34.020 And hey, like this is another complaint that you guys have told me that you don't want your
00:27:40.620 parents to be on their phones constantly when they're with your kids or just like give your
00:27:45.860 kids like, you know, some kind of tech device to satiate them.
00:27:50.320 Like this is this is a big tension, I think, between the boomer and millennial generations
00:27:56.180 that's that's going on.
00:27:59.180 And I do think that I think that kids really miss out when they're not around their grandparents.
00:28:06.600 Grandparents have a lot of wisdom to offer.
00:28:08.920 They have a lot of experiences that they can give their grandchildren.
00:28:13.460 And when grandparents aren't around, they miss out on that.
00:28:18.880 And that is going to be unique for this generation.
00:28:22.160 Again, one, because I think parents are having kids later.
00:28:25.360 And so their parents are a lot older when they're having kids.
00:28:29.120 But also because boomer grandparents today or they're a lot busier.
00:28:33.600 They're a lot busier than grandparents in generations past.
00:28:36.800 I mean, some of the stories that you guys have sent me have been really sad that like
00:28:42.060 you got pregnant and your parents and your in-laws, they found that out and then they
00:28:46.060 moved.
00:28:47.460 And some of you have told me that you live close to your to your parents, your kids,
00:28:51.960 grandparents, and they like refuse to babysit.
00:28:54.580 They refuse to come over.
00:28:56.040 They refuse to help.
00:28:57.340 They have this mentality of like, OK, I'm free.
00:29:00.860 I'm busy.
00:29:01.620 I'm traveling.
00:29:02.560 I'm going to do whatever I want to.
00:29:04.700 Good luck.
00:29:05.160 Have fun.
00:29:06.260 OK, you know, it's their right to do that.
00:29:08.980 I think I think that's the wrong way to do it.
00:29:12.060 I think that there's a lot of regret and a lot of, you know, someone told me that millennials
00:29:16.120 complaining about this is entitled.
00:29:18.100 I think it's a very entitled mentality to say, well, I did my raisin and now my grandkids
00:29:22.860 don't need me.
00:29:23.520 I'm not going to help at all.
00:29:24.980 I just think that's a really awful and self-centered mentality.
00:29:28.980 But at the same time, of course, there's a balance.
00:29:31.500 Of course, millennial kids have to respect their parents' rest, their alone time, the
00:29:35.420 margin that they need, the energy that they have to have.
00:29:38.780 Of course, I think there's consideration there.
00:29:41.400 But there also has to be some consideration on the part of the grandparents.
00:29:46.300 And also, like, I do just want to give a shout out, again, my parents and my in-laws,
00:29:50.400 but to all of you grandparents out there who do so much, who sacrifice so much for your
00:29:55.360 kids and grandkids.
00:29:56.220 Like, you make such a difference.
00:29:59.200 You make such a difference in their lives.
00:30:03.080 But it is interesting to see this phenomenon among the baby boomer, like tech-obsessed, busy,
00:30:10.360 obsessed generation.
00:30:12.300 It's very, very interesting.
00:30:14.100 And we'll see the consequences of that, I think, long term.
00:30:19.000 Okay.
00:30:19.380 I wanted to talk about one other thing, or a couple other things that I've been thinking
00:30:23.760 about that have changed for me as I've become a parent that I think is different than how
00:30:28.300 my parents raised me.
00:30:29.780 And I want to see what Brie thinks about this.
00:30:32.020 Brie doesn't have kids yet, but I wanted to get her, I wanted to see what she thinks about
00:30:36.980 that.
00:30:37.160 And we can kind of compare and contrast what we think versus a mom, a mom versus someone who
00:30:43.040 is not yet a mom.
00:30:44.100 And one of the things that's changed for me is that I am okay with the idea, my husband
00:30:52.440 and I have talked about this recently, and we have three girls, so maybe it's different
00:30:56.300 girls versus boys.
00:30:58.060 But we are okay with our kids living with us as long as they want to when they're adults.
00:31:07.240 Yes, we want them to be productive and responsible, take care of themselves, not expect for us to
00:31:12.420 do everything for them when they're adults and capable.
00:31:14.980 But I don't see anything wrong with adults who are hardworking and responsible, but trying
00:31:20.300 to save money, feel safer at home with their parents, staying there until they get married
00:31:25.840 or until they want to, are ready to move out.
00:31:29.060 This idea of just like kicking your kids out when they're 18, I used to think that way.
00:31:35.020 Totally.
00:31:35.440 I would have never moved in with my parents after high school or after college.
00:31:39.020 But now I see things totally differently.
00:31:41.080 What do you think?
00:31:42.420 Yeah, I actually had the same experience.
00:31:45.360 And I was raised with kind of the, I don't know if they ever explicitly said it, but the
00:31:50.020 thinking was when you turn 18, you leave and you go and you start your adult life, whether
00:31:55.480 it's college or whatever.
00:31:56.960 For us, it was college.
00:31:58.480 And that's just kind of what I believed.
00:32:01.300 And then I think maybe five or six years later, my dad made it very clear that he had changed
00:32:06.960 his mind on that and that he regretted kind of that mentality of trying to push us out
00:32:11.920 because you don't get that time back.
00:32:15.380 And so now he's very, he's like, if any, we're older now, obviously.
00:32:20.740 And he's like, if any of you needed to come home, like, of course you could live with us.
00:32:25.980 So I agree with you.
00:32:28.240 I don't like, if I had kids who were nearing that age, I also wouldn't mind them staying,
00:32:34.020 especially everything's so expensive.
00:32:35.940 It's not like they're going to be able to like go buy a house, you know?
00:32:39.480 So it's just different, I think, than it was when the last generation was kicking their
00:32:47.280 kids out of the house.
00:32:48.680 Yeah.
00:32:49.340 So, but yeah, I mean, it is about balance and you want your kids to be motivated to like
00:32:53.960 make something of themselves.
00:32:55.100 But yeah, I totally agree with you.
00:32:58.580 Yeah.
00:32:58.760 I think there's a difference between a failure to launch and staying home because it's like
00:33:03.360 the more responsible thing to do.
00:33:05.120 Yeah.
00:33:05.240 Someone pointed out in my messages on Instagram that like this also protects girls and boys,
00:33:11.420 but from potentially bad situations.
00:33:13.280 Like 22, yeah, maybe we should be, you know, super mature and making good decisions, but
00:33:19.100 you're still kind of stupid and you can put yourself in just bad situations, whether you're
00:33:23.920 still in the college mentality, you're going places where you shouldn't, getting into romantic
00:33:28.180 relationships that you shouldn't.
00:33:30.100 I think living at home just does offer a layer of protection.
00:33:33.880 During that very vulnerable, informative time in your life, not to live in a bubble, not
00:33:41.580 to insulate you from reality, but it's just another layer to protect you from the craziness
00:33:48.240 of the world.
00:33:48.680 You've got the rest of your life to figure out how difficult it is to be an adult.
00:33:54.100 Yeah.
00:33:54.680 Yeah, it's true.
00:33:55.780 And like you said, I'm not a parent yet, so it's not like I have an abundance of wisdom
00:34:00.400 and parenting, but I do think that there's probably like for parents, they probably have
00:34:05.200 to have the discernment to know like, is my kid just kind of free riding here and should,
00:34:11.600 how much like should I be pushing them?
00:34:13.440 Because I know people who do need to be pushed out of their house and they need to be pushed
00:34:18.140 to go get a job.
00:34:19.020 So for me, when I was 18, I was like ready.
00:34:22.480 I was like, I'm ready to live on my own.
00:34:25.500 And I don't necessarily regret that, but now I see the value in like, you know, if I needed
00:34:31.640 to stay, then.
00:34:32.940 Yeah.
00:34:33.380 Yeah.
00:34:33.820 And I didn't have that much time between college and marriage.
00:34:40.580 I had like a year and some change, but I also was ready.
00:34:45.120 Like I went to school.
00:34:46.640 I grew up in Texas and I went to school in South Carolina and I just wanted to be, I love
00:34:52.920 my parents.
00:34:53.440 I have a great relationship with them, but I wanted to be in a new place.
00:34:57.180 I wanted to not know anyone actually.
00:34:59.400 Like I wanted to be in a new city and a new college and I didn't know a soul at all.
00:35:04.660 And I loved that.
00:35:05.940 Like I thought that it was great.
00:35:07.520 Most of my friends went to school at the traditional Texas schools that most Texas people go to,
00:35:13.140 which is awesome.
00:35:14.160 I just didn't want to do it.
00:35:15.420 I wanted something new.
00:35:16.800 And then I moved to another new city after college.
00:35:19.720 And so everyone's different.
00:35:21.740 And that's, that was, you know, that was good for me.
00:35:24.000 I met my husband and then we got married when I was 23.
00:35:26.640 And so obviously wouldn't have lived with my, my, my parents.
00:35:30.860 But although there are some married couples that live with parents for whatever reason, but
00:35:34.300 yeah, I don't regret it either.
00:35:36.760 But who knows what it's going to be like by the time our kids are 22.
00:35:41.940 And another thing is, I'm interested to see what you hear about this or what you hear,
00:35:46.640 what you think about this, um, is college.
00:35:50.220 Like that was never a question for me.
00:35:54.020 I was always going to go to college.
00:35:55.880 Everyone was going to go to college.
00:35:57.360 There was no question of whether I was going to go to college.
00:36:00.000 Now I really don't care.
00:36:02.220 I really don't care if my kids want to or not.
00:36:04.740 Yeah, no, I'm, I very strongly believe I went to a private secular school and, uh, I would
00:36:16.080 not send my kid there right now knowing what I know about that school.
00:36:20.380 Um, I don't know that I would send my kid to any secular school, to be honest, knowing
00:36:25.780 what I know now.
00:36:26.740 Yeah.
00:36:27.100 And I am actually a big believer that for most jobs, you don't actually need to go to college.
00:36:33.520 Yeah.
00:36:33.780 There's some benefit in like the connections you might get at college.
00:36:36.900 But, um, unless it's something where you actually need a degree, like you can just start
00:36:42.800 working.
00:36:43.560 Yeah.
00:36:44.340 Yeah.
00:36:44.560 I mean, that's how I feel too.
00:36:46.140 Yeah.
00:36:46.460 I don't know.
00:36:47.280 I mean, I did study communications in college, so I guess you could say I'm applying it to
00:36:52.000 what I'm doing, but I'm not sure if anything I learned in my classes, I'm applying.
00:36:58.380 Just, I think the college experience, there's something to that.
00:37:02.460 Again, gaining independence while not fully being independent yet.
00:37:07.120 Yeah.
00:37:07.320 Having responsibilities that's not like having a job, um, or, you know, the kind of job that
00:37:13.260 you get after college.
00:37:14.520 Um, but yeah, I feel totally different.
00:37:17.620 I, I don't want to pay thousands of dollars to send my kids off to come back as communists
00:37:22.620 for sure.
00:37:23.500 Yeah.
00:37:23.820 That's the silliest thing that conservative parents do.
00:37:26.620 I know.
00:37:27.120 And you know, I also used to be a huge snob about community college, um, about people or
00:37:32.300 yeah, about the sort of track of doing like two years of community college and then going
00:37:36.460 to nothing wrong with it.
00:37:38.020 No.
00:37:38.800 In fact, in a lot of cases, it's like the much smarter thing to do, even if you get
00:37:43.360 into a four year college, just financially.
00:37:45.660 So yeah, I know I've rethought a lot of that because things have changed.
00:37:50.600 Obviously universities have changed and yeah.
00:37:54.320 Yeah.
00:37:54.340 And you know what?
00:37:55.060 It's really sad when you think about it, because I remember that too, in school, people
00:37:59.480 making you feel like community college wasn't good enough.
00:38:03.360 Yeah.
00:38:03.540 Like you, you definitely shouldn't do that or that's something to be ashamed of, which
00:38:08.600 is, it's sad because you think about maybe the kids who would have benefited from doing
00:38:12.900 that and then they didn't because they were ashamed to do it.
00:38:15.940 There's no shame in that at all.
00:38:17.760 Like you said, it's actually probably the smarter choice for a lot of people.
00:38:20.960 Yeah.
00:38:21.440 Or, you know, you could go to a college where you're spending $50,000 a year.
00:38:25.640 Immediately you're cutting out $100,000 of debt, you know, if you do two years of community
00:38:30.100 college.
00:38:30.420 So it's, yeah, I think it's silly to just think about it in terms of.
00:38:34.740 Yeah.
00:38:35.920 Yeah.
00:38:36.320 Yeah.
00:38:37.240 Yeah.
00:38:37.960 Very different.
00:38:38.740 And also like, I just think different about like careers and things like that.
00:38:43.760 I mean, I certainly was raised in a conservative Christian home, but I was definitely told,
00:38:50.200 like I definitely anticipated working always and like, and I have, you know, a wonderful
00:38:56.940 job where I have a lot of flexibility and get to do what I love.
00:39:00.820 But I was definitely taught from an early age, like that, that I'm going to go to college
00:39:05.440 and I'm going to work.
00:39:06.520 And, which is funny, but again, baby boomer is just a different, you know, their parents
00:39:11.140 were in the great depression.
00:39:12.120 It's just different things.
00:39:14.260 We're taught in every generation.
00:39:15.340 And this is something that I know I got to do another ad, but another thing I was thinking
00:39:19.760 about is I saw someone say on Twitter the other day that like our generation of conservatives
00:39:25.720 anyway are more conservative than our parents.
00:39:29.060 Do you think that's true?
00:39:31.460 Yeah, I do.
00:39:33.860 Because I think things have gotten more polarized.
00:39:36.960 I mean, I wasn't really around in the same way back then, obviously.
00:39:41.820 But yeah, I think that's true.
00:39:44.040 Yeah, I think we've had to think about more things than our parents did.
00:39:48.020 Like our parents probably, they didn't have to think about the LGBTQ stuff like we do.
00:39:52.700 And so it's made us kind of go back to the beginning and go back to the Bible and all
00:39:57.620 of these things, which I think has made us more conservative in some ways than our parents,
00:40:02.440 which is, I think, a positive.
00:40:05.360 Yeah.
00:40:05.660 Maybe not a full white pill, but a positive.
00:40:08.120 Right.
00:40:08.620 Well, and we're being fed this stuff all the time.
00:40:10.840 They were not.
00:40:11.860 So yeah, it makes sense.
00:40:13.500 True.
00:40:25.860 Okay.
00:40:27.500 Very quickly, speaking of colleges.
00:40:30.220 Oh, I forgot that this is what we were going to tie in.
00:40:32.940 Okay.
00:40:33.500 Can you explain to us why people are asking if colleges are real?
00:40:40.120 And this somehow has to do with Taylor Swift.
00:40:42.820 Yes.
00:40:43.680 So to redeem myself from earlier, not knowing my Taylor Swift lore.
00:40:49.020 Yeah.
00:40:49.420 So now Harvard has just announced a course on Taylor Swift.
00:40:53.220 Harvard.
00:40:53.760 Harvard.
00:40:54.800 Taylor Swift and her world.
00:40:56.420 I think it's what it's called.
00:40:57.980 Yeah.
00:40:58.120 And it's taught by a professor, a poet named Stephanie Burt, who is a man.
00:41:07.040 Oh.
00:41:08.120 So there's that.
00:41:09.300 Um, but it's basically about Taylor Swift and like her influences and looking at, it's
00:41:15.200 just a music class.
00:41:16.740 And I think there are other, well, I know that there are other courses.
00:41:21.220 There are multiple colleges who are doing Taylor Swift courses, um, looking at her music.
00:41:26.480 There's even a legal course about specifically Taylor Swift and her legal battles.
00:41:31.580 So, um, that's what, that's what colleges have right now.
00:41:36.500 Okay.
00:41:37.020 So why are people asking it's college real?
00:41:39.960 Are they basically just saying, so like, this is what college is now?
00:41:43.020 Like, is it necessary?
00:41:44.640 Yeah.
00:41:45.060 I mean, I think a lot, I don't necessarily agree with all of the rhetoric because I think
00:41:48.840 a lot of it is like, are you kidding me?
00:41:50.440 A whole class on Taylor Swift to me?
00:41:52.900 Like they're, they've done classes on Miley Cyrus.
00:41:55.260 I think that's a lot sillier than someone like Taylor Swift.
00:41:59.100 Um, and there are also like way worse examples of college courses like wine tasting.
00:42:05.160 And we found one on tree climbing and one on how to watch television.
00:42:11.080 So I don't think this is the dumbest example, but that's what, that's why people are saying
00:42:16.640 that.
00:42:16.740 There's plenty, there's plenty of dumb examples out there.
00:42:19.440 Okay.
00:42:19.780 Speaking of dumb and colleges and academia and all these things.
00:42:24.360 Okay.
00:42:25.100 Oxford University Press, publisher of the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary has named Riz
00:42:30.940 as its word of the year, a word made popular by Gen Z to describe someone's ability to attract
00:42:38.440 or seduce another person.
00:42:41.860 Okay.
00:42:42.920 Okay.
00:42:43.960 A goblin mode.
00:42:44.840 I remember that.
00:42:45.680 Goblin mode was last year.
00:42:47.060 This year was Riz.
00:42:48.240 I've never used to this actually.
00:42:50.740 Um, but I have heard it used.
00:42:52.900 And Brie, I hear you have maybe a few words for me.
00:42:56.240 Um, so what Brie is going to do is she's going to give me a few, uh, a few words, a few Gen
00:43:04.060 Z words, and I'm going to try to tell you what the definition is.
00:43:07.080 I don't know what these, what words she's going to say, and I will do my best to define them.
00:43:12.280 Okay.
00:43:13.120 Okay.
00:43:13.580 We've got dupe.
00:43:15.340 Dupe?
00:43:16.020 Mm-hmm.
00:43:17.280 Uh, like a, like a dupe is, okay, if you've got a designer, designer jeans, or say you got
00:43:25.560 Uggs, you can get Ugg dupes, right?
00:43:29.220 Yeah.
00:43:29.660 Ugg dupes, and they're not the designer brand.
00:43:32.140 They're cheaper.
00:43:32.980 That's a Gen Z word?
00:43:34.440 Yeah.
00:43:35.100 Okay.
00:43:35.860 Okay.
00:43:36.440 Okay.
00:43:37.180 Um, Menti B.
00:43:39.960 Mental breakdown.
00:43:41.500 Yeah.
00:43:42.320 Menti B.
00:43:42.980 Wow.
00:43:43.220 That's so sad.
00:43:44.340 Yeah.
00:43:44.660 Okay.
00:43:44.860 What about Delulu?
00:43:46.100 Delulu is delusional.
00:43:48.060 And I like that one.
00:43:49.080 I, I say that a lot.
00:43:50.400 I called Eric Swalwell Delulu on Twitter the other day.
00:43:53.760 Fitting.
00:43:54.900 Um, okay, what about a common L?
00:43:57.400 Common L is, like, a common L or a common W is, like, if someone is that always has bad
00:44:06.500 takes or always does something that you think is, like, bad or stupid, you would say, uh,
00:44:13.780 like, common L for Brie, right?
00:44:16.440 Or, like, common W for someone that you think always has good takes.
00:44:21.640 Yeah.
00:44:22.180 Like, some of the, like, idiot pro Hamas people were saying Gigi Hadid and her things that
00:44:28.980 she's saying, oh, common W for Gigi Hadid.
00:44:31.540 Wow.
00:44:31.660 Yeah.
00:44:32.080 That's a great example.
00:44:34.060 Okay.
00:44:34.640 You see, you know, most of these.
00:44:36.040 I do.
00:44:36.220 You know sus.
00:44:37.820 Sus.
00:44:38.420 Yeah.
00:44:38.800 That's, that's kind of an old one.
00:44:40.300 That's, like, uh, suspect or suspicious, right?
00:44:43.000 Suspicious.
00:44:43.460 And then the last one I have is it's giving.
00:44:46.380 It's giving.
00:44:48.260 Okay.
00:44:49.220 It's, like, okay, when I, for, I'm, I hope I'm helping some of you educate y'all out
00:44:54.240 there.
00:44:55.160 Um, you would say it's giving, like, noun, like, a noun.
00:45:00.340 So, rather than just calling something by an adjective.
00:45:03.520 So, my Toy Story rug, it's giving Disney adults.
00:45:07.380 That kind of thing.
00:45:08.480 But I don't know that I always use it correctly.
00:45:11.480 Like, can you put it in a sentence?
00:45:13.340 That was the perfect sentence.
00:45:14.780 Okay.
00:45:15.260 You're right.
00:45:15.620 It's giving Disney adult.
00:45:16.820 It's giving Disney adult.
00:45:18.380 Like, instead of saying, oh, this reminds me of a Disney adult.
00:45:23.700 Yeah.
00:45:24.200 Yeah.
00:45:24.400 Yeah.
00:45:25.120 Um, I saw a video the other day that made me laugh.
00:45:28.620 Because I do this too now.
00:45:30.620 That, like, at this time of year is really difficult if you have that idea of giving in
00:45:37.740 your head because I saw this video on Instagram that was, like, I saw a sign, like, on Starbucks
00:45:46.140 that said, it's giving season.
00:45:48.240 And they couldn't say it right.
00:45:50.700 Like, they were, like, they kept on saying in their head, it's giving season.
00:45:55.840 Instead of, it's giving season.
00:45:57.760 Or, like, we're giving thanks.
00:46:00.760 It's giving thanks.
00:46:01.880 It's giving thanks.
00:46:03.440 Oh, my gosh.
00:46:04.300 Our minds have just become the Lulu.
00:46:09.840 Because of all these Gen Z.
00:46:11.380 Okay.
00:46:12.360 I'm sure there's more out there that I don't know.
00:46:14.740 Yeah.
00:46:15.080 There's more out there that I don't know either.
00:46:17.080 Yeah.
00:46:17.520 Well, that's true.
00:46:18.400 Are you?
00:46:18.960 When were you born?
00:46:19.960 What year?
00:46:20.700 94.
00:46:21.440 I'm a cusper.
00:46:22.580 Oh.
00:46:23.340 Yo, you're, you're still a Mullen.
00:46:25.500 You're a young, young Mullen.
00:46:27.180 You're only two years younger than me.
00:46:29.400 But you are, I think it ends in 95.
00:46:33.000 So you're real close.
00:46:33.840 Yeah, I'm close.
00:46:34.700 You're close.
00:46:35.220 You're closer to the Gen Zs than I am.
00:46:37.920 All right.
00:46:50.480 All right.
00:46:51.200 That's all we've got time for today.
00:46:52.780 Go back and listen to or watch yesterday's episode with Dr. Miriam Grossman.
00:46:56.420 It was such an amazing conversation.
00:46:58.740 There were so many more things that I could have asked her that we could have talked about.
00:47:02.100 I know we talk about gender a lot.
00:47:04.000 Gosh, I wish that we didn't.
00:47:06.540 But it is such, I mean, it's everywhere.
00:47:08.840 And like we talked about at the beginning, it's seeping into all areas of government and
00:47:12.540 all areas of Christian life.
00:47:13.780 You're not going to be able to avoid it for long.
00:47:15.940 And I just love getting all different kinds of perspectives.
00:47:18.480 And she had the child psychiatrist perspective and gave us some really interesting information.
00:47:22.780 So go listen to that or watch that if you haven't already.
00:47:25.820 We've got a lot of good interviews coming up, not just for the rest of the month, but also
00:47:31.300 in the new year.
00:47:31.980 There is one in particular interview that you guys have literally been asking for for years.
00:47:37.200 And we've been trying to get this person on.
00:47:39.440 And finally, it's going to work out, Lord willing.
00:47:43.440 Literally, you guys have been asking for this person to be on the show for so long.
00:47:47.540 So I'm just going to allow you to guess at what that is.
00:47:50.120 Okay, let me also encourage you to go check out The Blind.
00:47:55.280 It's the true story of the Robertson family.
00:47:57.520 It's available for purchase on Blaze TV.
00:47:59.740 It gives Phil Robertson's testimony, their early years of marriage, right before they
00:48:04.140 became Christians.
00:48:05.380 They had a very rough life.
00:48:09.960 And just morally, the life that they were leading is really powerful.
00:48:15.380 It's a powerful story of redemption, and it's a really encouraging story as we celebrate
00:48:21.580 salvation, celebrate the birth of our Savior, to just be reminded of the power of his gospel
00:48:26.660 through Phil Robertson's story.
00:48:28.440 So check it out.
00:48:29.220 Go to blazetv.com slash The Blind.
00:48:31.020 You can get it for $19.99.
00:48:33.300 That's blazetv.com slash The Blind.
00:48:35.800 All right, that's all we've got time for today.
00:48:38.200 We will be back here tomorrow.
00:48:39.520 We'll be back here tomorrow.