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Scarier World · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas. Dear mama's is
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  Speaker 1: the world a scarier place today than when we were kids?
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  Speaker 1: Or are we just more aware of what's really out there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 1: Mama joining us now our American mama's tern Netville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly bur listens. So growing up, you know, we basically
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  Speaker 1: had the run of time. I spent hours hours alone
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  Speaker 1: every single day. My parents kind of knew where I
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  Speaker 1: might be, Like, they like knew the general area, they
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  Speaker 1: could get the zip code pretty correct. But as long
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  Speaker 1: as I was home by the time the lights were on,
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  Speaker 1: it was you know, it was fine. I walked to
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  Speaker 1: and from school almost every single day and by the
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  Speaker 1: time I got home, they weren't home. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: but now if you do that with your kids, they
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  Speaker 1: will arrest you. Oh yeah, it's what we grew up with.
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  Speaker 1: Is now called neglect exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, latch key kids were a turn was
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  Speaker 3: a term that you know, kids that went home to
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  Speaker 3: nobody and I.
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  Speaker 2: Had the key.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, I got really good at learning
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  Speaker 1: how to break into my own home because I kept
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  Speaker 1: leaving the key at school.
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  Speaker 3: I know, you know, what. I'm jealous of people that
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  Speaker 3: live fearlessly. I really am, because y'all know I'm world
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  Speaker 3: champion warrior okay and warrior, yeah, warrior okay, and I
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  Speaker 3: am jealous. For instance, I am jealous of Terry. Terry's
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  Speaker 3: gonna get her steps in no matter what, even if
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  Speaker 3: it means walking down Murder Street. There's murderers all around her.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, she's gonna get her steps in
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  Speaker 3: and she's gonna walk through. We're in college.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you're walking down Murder Street, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to pause, You got to keep.
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  Speaker 3: She doesn't care.
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  Speaker 2: She's like moms that I had angels around me.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, it's an awful name for a street.
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  Speaker 3: When we are in college, it's midnight, Terry's putting on
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  Speaker 3: her jogger and cheese, and I said, what are you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go to the stadium to go jog okay.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, I'm telling on you. I'm telling Mom
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  Speaker 3: and Dad, which I did, because she went jogging at
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  Speaker 3: the night around the stadium. She lives fearlessly, Okay. That's
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  Speaker 3: why mom and Dad says she's got a band of
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  Speaker 3: angels around her because she does the dumbest stuff and
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  Speaker 3: somehow she just keeps surviving. And I'm envious of that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm afraid of everything. I don't go to target
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  Speaker 3: without my key and my fingers righted to stab somebody
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  Speaker 3: with my key. Sure, I live worried that something's gonna
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  Speaker 3: happen all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. Well, I will say this, I used
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  Speaker 2: to not worry, but now when I had children, that did.
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  Speaker 2: Something did shift inside of me, that did change. But
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  Speaker 2: is it.
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  Speaker 1: Because is it because the world's are more dangerous place
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  Speaker 1: or because we are more aware of the dangers that
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  Speaker 1: are there.
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  Speaker 2: I think that we're more aware. Well, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: the scarier place because of the Internet. I think that
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  Speaker 2: the you know, I saw the other day it'saw video
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  Speaker 2: and it was this little girl, she's probably, you know,
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  Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen. She had been online and she was talking.
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  Speaker 2: She was communicating with somebody that she thought was the
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  Speaker 2: same age, and she was going to meet them. She
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  Speaker 2: was gonna sneak out of her house and go meet them.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, look, I'm in a van, we'll get you.
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  Speaker 2: She gets in the van and it's these men that
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  Speaker 2: is the whole Thing's filmed her parents. Everybody's got their color.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that they've all got you know, they've got
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  Speaker 2: these masks on so she can't see, and they start
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  Speaker 2: pulling her in and she starts screaming, screaming, screaming, And
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  Speaker 2: then finally the parents pull off their masks and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you thinking it was? I just got shields
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  Speaker 2: in my head. It is. It is a lesson. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they did this to make that point. So to your point,
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  Speaker 2: I do think it's a scarier world because you have
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  Speaker 2: pedophiles who have access to children that they never did before.
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  Speaker 2: Before you had to worry like, oh gosh, don't hitch hike,
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  Speaker 2: you know, don't don't let that your kid go to
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  Speaker 2: the arcade and not be in the vicinity. Nowadays it's
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  Speaker 2: so oh, it's like it's almost like a perfect place
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  Speaker 2: for criminals to get to these kids who are so
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  Speaker 2: naive like us. I believed forever that nothing could happen
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  Speaker 2: to me. You know, we had a great family. That
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  Speaker 2: my dad kill somebody, they try, you don't realize it.
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  Speaker 2: And then when I have kids, and then also when
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  Speaker 2: our father died at fifty eight, something else shifted in
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  Speaker 2: my head. So if any of our children get sick,
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  Speaker 2: get the sniffles. If Kevin's like, what is this lump
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  Speaker 2: on my I'm like, oh my god, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: someone's you know, you're gonna die. Like I hate that.
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  Speaker 2: I do have those fears, But as far as I
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  Speaker 2: just I am envious of people that have that independent spirit,
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  Speaker 2: they're not worried. But I also think it's so important
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  Speaker 2: to have that cautious side so that somebody cannot hurt you.
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  Speaker 2: Because we've heard, you know, our our kids will re
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  Speaker 2: see things from us. We'll see We'll see a video
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  Speaker 2: where it says, hey, don't pick up a twenty dollars
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  Speaker 2: bill by the gas station, or you know, if somebody's
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  Speaker 2: walking through your car and asking you for something. We
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  Speaker 2: see all these stories. So we're constantly reminding our kids
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  Speaker 2: don't trust anybody. I trust nobody.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you go chogging more.
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  Speaker 2: Not anymore, not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That's very, very interesting. So you guys think it is
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  Speaker 1: a more dangerous place than when we grew up and
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  Speaker 1: we know about it. I mean, is it both?
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  Speaker 2: Is it? Well?
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  Speaker 3: Terry's convinced me you're right. It's the internet. There there's
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  Speaker 3: more opportunity. Yeah, there's more opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: She did. If you like to ask your American Mama
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  Speaker 1: is a question, go to our website American ground Radio
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  Speaker 1: Mama's button. Terry Nutville, Kimberly bur listen. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,