Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 917 ｜ Boomer Grandparents vs. Millennial Parents

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,

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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 0.99

00:03:51.180 castrating boys and cutting the healthy breasts off of teenage girls who say that they're 0.94

00:03:56.180 boys, then they can't receive state funding. 0.90

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 0.99

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. 0.62

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. 1.00

00:05:52.640 There's no such thing as a trans child. 1.00

00:05:54.860 There's no such thing as a bisexual child. 0.99

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. 1.00

00:06:13.920 They can't be the opposite sex. 0.99

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. 0.65

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 0.99

00:07:04.720 in their transness, it is absolutely a disgusting lie pushed by perverts and people who make money 1.00

00:07:12.280 from creating slaves to the medical industrial complex. 0.98

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? 0.98

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 1.00

00:09:45.700 are not fit to foster and adopt children because they won't affirm this radical idea of gender 0.98

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 1.00

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 0.54

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. 0.97

00:12:25.480 Now, unfortunately, those men aren't going to get the death penalty. 1.00

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:15:32.120 never, ever, ever be supported by a Christian ever. 1.00

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 1.00

00:16:43.820 never, ever, ever, ever be supported in any way by a Christian. 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.86

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. 1.00

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. 0.99

00:20:44.220 Again, why would a Christian ever vote Democrat? 0.89

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 1.00

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 0.99

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. 0.99

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. 1.00

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. 0.96

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 0.99

00:33:19.100 you're still kind of stupid and you can put yourself in just bad situations, whether you're 0.99

00:33:23.920 still in the college mentality, you're going places where you shouldn't, getting into romantic 1.00

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. 0.98

00:37:23.820 That's the silliest thing that conservative parents do. 0.98

00:37:26.620 I know. 0.75

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. 0.84

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. 0.50

00:42:05.160 And we found one on tree climbing and one on how to watch television. 0.77

00:42:11.080 So I don't think this is the dumbest example, but that's what, that's why people are saying 0.90

00:42:16.640 that. 0.99

00:42:16.740 There's plenty, there's plenty of dumb examples out there. 0.99

00:42:19.440 Okay. 1.00

00:42:19.780 Speaking of dumb and colleges and academia and all these things. 0.99

00:42:24.360 Okay. 0.98

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. 0.97

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 0.92

00:44:06.500 takes or always does something that you think is, like, bad or stupid, you would say, uh, 0.63

00:44:13.780 like, common L for Brie, right? 0.95

00:44:16.440 Or, like, common W for someone that you think always has good takes.

00:44:21.640 Yeah. 0.98

00:44:22.180 Like, some of the, like, idiot pro Hamas people were saying Gigi Hadid and her things that 0.98

00:44:28.980 she's saying, oh, common W for Gigi Hadid. 0.99

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.87

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. 0.82

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.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - December 06, 2023

Ep 917 ｜ Boomer Grandparents vs. Millennial Parents

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