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What Kind of Teenager Were You? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: What kind of teenager were you? It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Strong and Getty. One more thing.
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  Speaker 2: That just reminded me of the Mother's Day card that
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  Speaker 2: I got for my mom, and it said I love you, Mom,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for being the best, and then in parentheses it
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  Speaker 2: said sorry for the years or sorry for the ages
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  Speaker 2: thirteen through eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about that coming up in just
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  Speaker 1: a second, and before we play clips of the week,
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  Speaker 1: which I'll explain. I was just going through our texts
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  Speaker 1: and if you weren't listening to the Armstrong and Getty
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  Speaker 1: Show our four on Friday, August twenty first, we had
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  Speaker 1: Anastasia boden On who we've had on many many times,
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  Speaker 1: Senior attorney Pacific Legal Foundation, blah blah. I had a
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  Speaker 1: great conversation with her. We just got like six texts
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  Speaker 1: in a row. Oh my god, Jack, you need to
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  Speaker 1: marry her. Oh my god, Jack, ask her out. You
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  Speaker 1: two are perfect for either each other. Ask her out.
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling she is not getting the same
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  Speaker 1: sort of responses.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: That's so funny that we got a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: those in a row. Oh my god, I'm doing this
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast knowing she won't hear it on the
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  Speaker 1: podcast because it would be just be I can just
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  Speaker 1: picture at their finger to the ah, I'll stop. Well,
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  Speaker 1: come on, I'm I'm a little old for her. Among
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  Speaker 1: other things, She's cute. I'd never seen her before. So
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  Speaker 1: every week on The Armstrong and Getty Show on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: we do this thing called Clips of the Week where
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  Speaker 1: senior producer Mike Hansen puts together a bunch of clips,
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  Speaker 1: some of them funny, some of them serious, and a
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  Speaker 1: little episode to give us an idea what happened during
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  Speaker 1: the week. And we didn't fit it into the show
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  Speaker 1: this week for some reason, so we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: it onto this podcast before we have our teenager discussion.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do a fond look back at that week that was.
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  Speaker 1: We call it cow Clips of the Week. It's cow.
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  Speaker 1: They call it cow Clips of the Week. Is cow.
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  Speaker 3: Luichi Mangioni pleading guilty to stalking the husband and father
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  Speaker 3: mister Thompson in Manhattan, and he died, Manchioni said.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight breaking news the sudden death of actress Hayden Pattittier.
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  Speaker 1: Frank Beer, the drummer of zz Top, has died.
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  Speaker 2: The National debt hitting a staggering milestone, topping forty trillion
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  Speaker 2: dollars for the first time. There's nothing magic about the
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  Speaker 2: forty trillion number, and we can grow our way out
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  Speaker 2: of that.
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  Speaker 1: With the RII is pretty good. The return on investment
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  Speaker 1: back to just facts.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty soon, I'll be declaring the hormone straight a territory
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  Speaker 3: of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: You are the best in the world in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the research sits you do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to be honest to you. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: on national security that I'm not that informed on national security.
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  Speaker 1: So tonight here that humanoid robot called Superman and is
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  Speaker 1: six and a half foot jump in the air. How
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  Speaker 1: it is something the rac sure is on. So somebody
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  Speaker 1: just cut this off. Cut up your.
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  Speaker 3: As you remember, I donated the flag poles, one on
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  Speaker 3: each side, and this is a great pole.
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  Speaker 1: This is the top of the line. It's tapered. Nick
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  Speaker 1: surely has a small penis allegedly.
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  Speaker 2: That's so adult of you.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear about this.
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  Speaker 3: Today?
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  Speaker 1: No, because I look, you just bed rotten and doom scrolled.
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  Speaker 1: It's also the reason I quit smoking weed. I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand like there's no sexualization at a drag show.
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  Speaker 3: It's just people dressing up and singing.
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  Speaker 2: Care and cannibility circles work better than punishing people who
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  Speaker 2: have engaged in sexual harm to make them stop. Also,
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  Speaker 2: what we saw were crimes of poverty, people who were
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  Speaker 2: stealing things like to the base. So we imagine a
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  Speaker 2: future society without the nation state, right so, and without money.
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  Speaker 2: Socialism is more a year toward like helping the people
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  Speaker 2: in your you know, the government, Can I please finish?
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  Speaker 1: We I'm gonna say, what's up? Grow up? I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to follow up on the period Wesson. You're a loud,
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  Speaker 1: boisterous person. You're faking. I was trying to find out
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  Speaker 1: if you had a Hearing those babies laugh, which made
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  Speaker 1: me smile and feel good, reminded me of a couple
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  Speaker 1: of different times on our family vacation we just went on,
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  Speaker 1: which is going to work into the whole teenager thing,
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  Speaker 1: where there was a crying baby somewhere and it was
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  Speaker 1: driving my kids crazy. And I was trying to explain
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  Speaker 1: to him how I don't even hear it having been
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  Speaker 1: a parent. You two guys, I don't know if something
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  Speaker 1: happens to you genetically, Well, it's no that when you
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  Speaker 1: become a parent. You probably know this Katie doing research
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  Speaker 1: about becoming a parent. Things change in your brain and
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  Speaker 1: your body. They just do. So if you ever, like
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  Speaker 1: if you don't have kids and you think I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I can handle that or whatever, you can
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  Speaker 1: your body changes, your brain changes, your priorities change, and like,
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  Speaker 1: I was never a fan of crying babies. I was
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  Speaker 1: never like, it didn't drive me nuts like it does
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  Speaker 1: some people. But I've never a fan of crying. Bit
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a fan of crying babies. But you become
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  Speaker 1: a parent. It's either because you've heard it so much
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  Speaker 1: or the changes in your brain. But I can be
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  Speaker 1: at a restaurant and there's a kid over there whiling away,
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  Speaker 1: makes no difference to me whatsoever. My kids were like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, what are they doing?
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  Speaker 2: That's probably because I'm a new parent, But I am
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  Speaker 2: the polar opposite of you. There could be a child
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  Speaker 2: crying four states away and I hear it. Oh, and
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  Speaker 2: you feel like you need to take care of them immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I have had that experience too, especially when
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  Speaker 1: my kids were younger. So speaking of my kids, and
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  Speaker 1: they're both teenagers, and I brought this up on the
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  Speaker 1: radio show while we were on vacation. We just did
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  Speaker 1: a really, really long road trip, so I spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of I spent a lot of time with any anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a single parent one hundred percent of the time,
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  Speaker 1: and keeps me pretty busy, and obviously we spend a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time together. But teenagers are different than when
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  Speaker 1: they are younger. I got one, in particular, who is
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  Speaker 1: grumpy and disinterested in pretty much everything I do, which
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  Speaker 1: is fine. I realized that's normal, and I talked when
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  Speaker 1: I called in from Canada while we were on a
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  Speaker 1: road trip, I said, you know, I didn't go on
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  Speaker 1: vacations with my parents when I was his age. When
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  Speaker 1: I was a junior in high school, I didn't ever.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't on purpose. Just I had a job. I
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  Speaker 1: started working a summer job, and my mom and dad
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  Speaker 1: and younger brother would go somewhere. But I didn't go
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  Speaker 1: because I had my job and I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: take off or whatever. I didn't really think about it.
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  Speaker 1: It just it wasn't like a decision. Just I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: interested in going, and I didn't realize that they might
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  Speaker 1: not be interested in me going with them. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I haven't talked to them about that, if
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  Speaker 1: that was a thing or not. But I didn't go,
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  Speaker 1: and so I actually had that conversation with my kids.
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  Speaker 1: I said, you're clearly not digging like this like anything
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  Speaker 1: we're doing, and that's fine. I'm not offended by that.
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  Speaker 1: When I was your age, I didn't as I just said,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't go on to the vacations. I'm ready to
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  Speaker 1: move on, you know, I want to do other things.
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. They their attitude got better
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  Speaker 1: after that conversation, Like I wasn't mad at the enemies.
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  Speaker 1: Tell them I understand, and maybe maybe your days for
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  Speaker 1: going on family gate vacations or in the past, and
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  Speaker 1: their their behavior got better after that, So I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they felt like I don't want to miss out
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  Speaker 1: on family vacations. Anyway, I was gonna ask the question
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  Speaker 1: of what kind of teenagers were you, Michael and Katie.
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was an easy teenager, Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't go. I didn't hang around my family that
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  Speaker 1: much once I got to be like sixteen or so,
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  Speaker 1: because I between school and work, I was busy all
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  Speaker 1: the time. All the time I did. I was in band,
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  Speaker 1: I played a sport, and I had a job. So
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  Speaker 1: I was so busy those last couple of years. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even remember that much family interaction. But I was
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  Speaker 1: never I hate my parents, or my parents are so stupid,
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  Speaker 1: or that's dumb. I just I wasn't that kid. But
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of teenagers are. I'm guessing, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't. Now.
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  Speaker 3: I was pretty easy, and I was like you I
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  Speaker 3: at sixteen, I went to work. Yeah, start driving, start working.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way it was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it wasn't a I don't want to hang
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  Speaker 1: around my parents on vacation. It's just I've got my
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  Speaker 1: own life now when I'm living that. But you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: a card to your mom, sorry about the ages thirteen
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  Speaker 1: to eighteen or whatever? Were you difficult? Uh? So girls
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  Speaker 1: are different than boys also, and the relationship between mothers
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  Speaker 1: and daughters is a different thing, Joe tells me than
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  Speaker 1: anything else. I don't know anything about it because I
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  Speaker 1: grew up with two brothers and I've got two boys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, the hormones were were raging. But according to
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  Speaker 2: my parents, I was also easy, and I'm in the
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  Speaker 2: same boat as you guys. I mean, I started driving
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  Speaker 2: and working immediately, so but I do know that, and
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  Speaker 2: I will say I have never ever uttered the words
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  Speaker 2: I hate you to my parents.
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  Speaker 1: That's never never my mouth. No, I never said that either.
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  Speaker 1: And I know for some people that's a common part
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  Speaker 1: of the thing. And I know that was a common
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  Speaker 1: part of the thing with friends I have whose kids
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  Speaker 1: did that, who are now perfectly normal and really like
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  Speaker 1: their parents, and they all get along great. It was
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  Speaker 1: just a yeah, teenage lash out sort of thing. But
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  Speaker 1: I definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Bumped heads a little bit with my mom, and that
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  Speaker 2: was just me having a bad attitude. I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what that was. I
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  Speaker 1: wish Joe was here for this conversation because he understands
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  Speaker 1: it better than me, because I have zero personal experience
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  Speaker 1: with it. Why biologically is the daughter things, specifically fraud,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder, I don't know. I have no idea what
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  Speaker 1: biologically is it? Because you need to do like because
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  Speaker 1: if you go back through who mean, he's I blame
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  Speaker 1: everything on evolution, usually on why we act the way
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  Speaker 1: we act. Uh, you know, we're ready to start reproducing
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  Speaker 1: much younger than we do in modern society and so
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're not competing with mom but replacing her. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I have no idea what's going on there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never understood it. And I, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: like Card, I was like sorry about that because I
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  Speaker 2: was just there was no reason for it.
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  Speaker 1: We just I knew everything. You know, I was an
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  Speaker 1: easy teenager. I never said anything mean to my parents
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, but I did think that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of their advice was wrong and that they were
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  Speaker 1: completely out of touch. And they you know, maybe that
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  Speaker 1: was true back in your day, but it's not true now.
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  Speaker 1: Like my kids say that all the time. And when
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  Speaker 1: you're young, when your parents grew up is the dark ages.
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  Speaker 1: It's so long ago as an adult, especially as an
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  Speaker 1: older parent. Look, nothing has changed around the things we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about, like you know, high school related, boys, friends,
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  Speaker 1: all this, everything's the same. That doesn't change, right in
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  Speaker 1: the amount of time. You think that it's remarkeably different
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  Speaker 1: than when I was your age, it's not. It's just not.
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  Speaker 1: But they don't know that. They think I have no idea. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that might have been true in the eighties, Dad, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not true now. I'm like all right, And I
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  Speaker 1: did think that too, And I remember my my best
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  Speaker 1: friend and I used to talk about this all the
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  Speaker 1: time in college, Gladys, if you still were there, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I think she was drinking. How is she meant Friday?
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  Speaker 1: She is a Friday as soon as the show's over,
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  Speaker 1: open the bottle sort of person. That's okay, gladys, we
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  Speaker 1: don't mind. Yeah, just don't drive. She takes an uber
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  Speaker 1: every Friday. She gets amored or just belligerent.
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  Speaker 3: Pep peppermint snops, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, her walker's going this way and she's
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  Speaker 1: stepping that way as she gets down to the uber. Yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, gladys. I remember my my buddy and I
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  Speaker 1: talking about like our yeah, I think it was our
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  Speaker 1: freshman year of college, about how yeah, we're nineteen now
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, our dad seems really smart
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  Speaker 1: and like everything that we want to do, we want
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  Speaker 1: to call dad and say, so, I have a boss
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  Speaker 1: that's doing this, how should I handle it? Or I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking about this car, is it a good idea or whatever?
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, my parents became brilliant when I
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  Speaker 1: was about nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing, too, because now, I mean I think
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  Speaker 2: about it. You know, when I was in my mid teens,
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  Speaker 2: it was like, oh gosh, you know, go home, go
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  Speaker 2: immediately to my room. I didn't want to talk to anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's like I call my parents like sometimes twice
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  Speaker 2: a day.
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  Speaker 1: Right, that that whole thing that is the biggest change
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  Speaker 1: as a parent is as it transitions from you come
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  Speaker 1: home from work and they run across the house with
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  Speaker 1: their arm open, Dad's home. Two they don't come out
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  Speaker 1: of the room, or I'd say, hey, so, how is
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  Speaker 1: school okay? Would you do today? Nothing? How's it going?
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  Speaker 1: All right? I guess I'm you want to do anything tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Not really?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Good talk, good time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh let's see, that's why I am just I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to freeze time and stay right where I am with
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  Speaker 2: my little three month old while he you know, I
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  Speaker 2: get I get right up in his face and the
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  Speaker 2: first thing he does is the biggest smile.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. It is so fantastic. It is so fantastic, toothless smile.
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  Speaker 1: And it's still great. As a buddy of mine says,
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  Speaker 1: I've liked every stage, but they're different, They're just very
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  Speaker 1: very different. Every stage is great but they're different, and
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  Speaker 1: if every stage stayed the same, it'd get you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking care of a little kid is a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: If that stayed that way forever, it'd be tough. Dealing
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  Speaker 1: with the teenagers a lot of work. If it stayed
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  Speaker 1: that way forever, it'd be tough.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Michael, it's funny how a toothless smile is cute
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  Speaker 3: when they're three months old, but if you're thirty years old,
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  Speaker 3: it's not.
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  Speaker 1: You at all. Dang it? Can I get you on
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  Speaker 1: my dental insurance? You're never going to get a job
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  Speaker 1: with no teeth. How's that mess? God? I hope I'm
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  Speaker 1: never having that conversation anyway. That's enough. Well, I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's it.