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Easton is up late at night THINKING · Johnjay & Rich On Demand

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  Speaker 1: What area code is ninety seven zero? Anybody knows what
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  Speaker 1: nine seven zero is?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: We get a text from nine seven zero It says
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  Speaker 1: John Jay's autism really shines during Christmas wish rism with
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  Speaker 1: the tism Jan.
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  Speaker 3: Northern Colorado.
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  Speaker 2: What I did?
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  Speaker 3: Colorado?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? So, Kyle, what's going on with your son Easton?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I love his inquisitive mind. He is very curious.
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  Speaker 2: He's eight years old now, and I do I do
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  Speaker 2: need to like find some sort of hack or trick
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  Speaker 2: to help him just go to bed, because they can
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  Speaker 2: be like so tired, and then once we start like
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  Speaker 2: brushing the teeth, going to potty, washing the hands of
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  Speaker 2: things we do.
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  Speaker 3: Before we go to bed, it's like they're all jazzed up.
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  Speaker 3: They're on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Like all of a sudden, they wake up, like it
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  Speaker 2: wakes them up to the point where it's like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh. To bring them down to where they get
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  Speaker 2: tired again, it's very difficult, you know, like having them
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  Speaker 2: draw or color afterwards, or read books or like just
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  Speaker 2: lay down in silence. And it's pretty much the same
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  Speaker 2: almost every night. So we'll do all the things and
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  Speaker 2: we'll the lights will be out, ready for bed, everyone's
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  Speaker 2: tucked in, and then like twenty minutes, Easton will come
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  Speaker 2: and he'll like lean up next to my bed there
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  Speaker 2: he is like, hey, buddy, what's up.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, Mamma, can you come lay with me? And
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  Speaker 3: I'll be like okay, because I think that's pretty pretty
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  Speaker 3: darn cute, So I'll go lay with him. And sometimes
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  Speaker 3: he just wants me to lay with him.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of times I can just tell his
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  Speaker 2: brain is spinning because it'll be quiet, and then he'll
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  Speaker 2: turn to me and he'll ask me a question like
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  Speaker 2: one he asked the other night.
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  Speaker 3: Is he goes, well, what college do you think I
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  Speaker 3: should go to?
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  Speaker 2: You are eight?
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  Speaker 3: We got plenty of time for this. Do you not
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  Speaker 3: that out right? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Go to bed?
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  Speaker 2: But I want to say that, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: because like I treasure the moments that he wants to
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  Speaker 2: talk to me. So I'm like, you know what I
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  Speaker 2: think we'll do probably when you're like a junior senior
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  Speaker 2: in high school, we'll go visit some colleges you're interested, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then you can make the choice.
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  Speaker 2: Then and he's like, Okay, how many years left do
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  Speaker 2: I have at my school? It's like his brain like
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  Speaker 2: spinning and spinning and spinning, and it's like I said,
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  Speaker 2: like I love the conversation, but also I'm like counting
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  Speaker 2: the minutes that I'm losing of sleep, and like how
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  Speaker 2: tired I'm going to be the next day.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want to be.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be like, Okay, way out of
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  Speaker 2: go to bed now, which is what.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying in my head. But I'm like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: think we can. I think we can talk about these
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  Speaker 3: things tomorrow. Right, let's go to bed.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's way ahead of the game. I remember
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  Speaker 1: I was fifteen years old and I was having dinner
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  Speaker 1: with my friend Greg and his family. Missus Potterson, Missus
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  Speaker 1: Powison says to me, John Jay, where do you want
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  Speaker 1: to go to college? What do you want to study?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like what, No one's ever talked to
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  Speaker 1: me about that before. I don't even know what college is.
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  Speaker 1: And I was so embarrassed. I'll never forget my aunts.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, well, I like to help people. People
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  Speaker 1: always tell me their problems at all. The girls of
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  Speaker 1: school always tell me their problems, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a psychiatrist. And I never forget how terrible and
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  Speaker 1: asked me where he should go to college. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like the next Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 2: He's planned, because there's also been times where he's like, Mom,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I said I wanted four kids. Now I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe just two or three.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: He loves he loves babies. He wants so bad to
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  Speaker 2: have like for us to have another kid. I only
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  Speaker 2: wants to be a big brother. He loves like taking
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  Speaker 2: care of babies. He's my like emotional child like. He's
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  Speaker 2: very empathetic.
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  Speaker 3: He loves that.
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  Speaker 2: And then ADDIE's kind of like, I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: ever want kids. I just want like animals at my house.
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  Speaker 1: I think both those stories are very very relatable. I
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  Speaker 1: remember putting my kids down like that. It was so funny.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those even though you're not you don't get to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: It's just awesome when they ask you to snuggle, it's
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  Speaker 3: just awesome.