Latest / The Woody Show / HIGHTLIGHT POD 30 MINS: The Woody Show September 23rd 2026 Podcast
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I grabbed the bag and I ran. And as I'm
- 0:03Speaker 1: running back, they're paging my name. Uh-huh.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Oh, no.
- 0:07Speaker 1: This is The Woody Show. I've shared a number of
- 0:11Speaker 1: parenting tips over the years. Things that I have found,
- 0:14Speaker 1: my wife and I have found useful over the years.
- 0:17Speaker 1: You know, when the kids were really little and the
- 0:19Speaker 1: ice cream man would come around. Something that I had heard.
- 0:21Speaker 1: This is not something I made up. It was just
- 0:22Speaker 1: something that I heard. And so I'm like paying it
- 0:24Speaker 1: forward by then resharing it again. It was, you just
- 0:29Speaker 1: tell the kid, and it worked really well on my son.
- 0:30Speaker 1: He's like, oh, can we get ice cream? And I go,
- 0:33Speaker 1: they're playing the song.
- 0:35Speaker 2: What?
- 0:35Speaker 1: I go, when the truck is playing the song, it
- 0:37Speaker 1: means they're out of ice cream.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my favorite.
- 0:40Speaker 3: So the next time, so.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Anyway, the next time that it came around, he's like, oh.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Out of ice cream again?
- 0:49Speaker 3: Damn.
- 0:50Speaker 4: That's hilarious. Always had ice cream.
- 0:52Speaker 1: And the other thing, now that your stepson's getting older,
- 0:55Speaker 1: I felt like this is a good time to share
- 0:57Speaker 1: this with Gina, and I'll share it with everybody, too.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Once your kids are really able to fully understand, they
- 1:03Speaker 1: start negotiating and reasoning. Oh, boy. The reasoning. Kids, even
- 1:06Speaker 1: little kids, will try to negotiate with you, but when
- 1:09Speaker 1: they start to be able to reason... Um, and understand,
- 1:12Speaker 1: fully understand you can, you can really do this. You
- 1:14Speaker 1: don't have to get mad. You got to remember you're
- 1:16Speaker 1: the adult, you're the parent, right? So when you tell
- 1:18Speaker 1: them to do something and they go, I'm not doing
- 1:21Speaker 1: that or whatever, they kind of smart mouth thing. They, they, uh,
- 1:24Speaker 1: hit you back, but they do something that, uh, they're
- 1:27Speaker 1: not supposed to do, or they don't do something that
- 1:29Speaker 1: they've been told to do. Hey, put away all your laundry, please.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Keep all this stuff up off the floor. I've told
- 1:34Speaker 1: you three times. Hey, uh, my wife's big thing is
- 1:36Speaker 1: we leave the house at a certain time. And my
- 1:40Speaker 1: son has a really big problem with time management. Like
- 1:44Speaker 1: we have to leave the house in two minutes. He'll
- 1:46Speaker 1: come down, shirt still not buttoned. Let me jump in
- 1:49Speaker 1: the shower. One shoe on and he starts like making eggs.
- 1:52Speaker 1: We're like, what are you doing? What are you doing, dude?
- 1:55Speaker 1: We're fine. Like, what do you mean we're fine? Anyway,
- 1:58Speaker 1: so we had to set like a drop dead time
- 2:00Speaker 1: about be downstairs and ready to go. And if you're not,
- 2:03Speaker 1: he just knows that. My wife's going to then send
- 2:06Speaker 1: an Uber for him, and he's going to have to
- 2:08Speaker 1: pay for it.
- 2:08Speaker 2: He's got a job.
- 2:09Speaker 3: Okay.
- 2:10Speaker 1: And we take that money right out of his account. Like, hey, man,
- 2:12Speaker 1: the train or the plane, it leaves at a certain time.
- 2:14Speaker 1: If you're not on board, you've got to figure something
- 2:16Speaker 1: else out. It's not our problem.
- 2:17Speaker 4: Wheels up, baby.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Remember, parents, you don't have to argue with these people.
- 2:23Speaker 1: You don't have to get emotionally charged and start yelling.
- 2:27Speaker 1: And the worst thing you could do, because this is
- 2:28Speaker 1: when they know that they got you, is you start
- 2:30Speaker 1: throwing out, well, you're not going to XYZ. Well, you
- 2:33Speaker 1: know what? You're not going to that birthday party on
- 2:34Speaker 1: Saturday now either. And they just keep firing you up
- 2:38Speaker 1: because they know that they got you. So here's what
- 2:40Speaker 1: you do. Next time they do something that is against
- 2:43Speaker 1: the rules, instead of saying, well, here's the punishment or
- 2:45Speaker 1: getting mad, let's go. All right. Again, they have to
- 2:49Speaker 1: be old enough to be able to reason.
- 2:50Speaker 3: To get it.
- 2:51Speaker 1: To get it.
- 2:51Speaker 2: And you go, all right.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Because at some point, that all right will be all
- 2:55Speaker 1: you need to say. Because here's what it means. The
- 2:58Speaker 1: next time they meet or ask for something, which will
- 3:01Speaker 1: be in the next, I don't know, 24 hours. The
- 3:06Speaker 1: next thing they ask for, you just.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Go, no.
- 3:08Speaker 1: And they go, why? You go, hey, remember yesterday?
- 3:11Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:11Speaker 1: When I X, Y, Z told you and you said
- 3:15Speaker 1: or you lipped off or you whatever. That's why. See ya.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Take care. Like a delayed punishment.
- 3:21Speaker 1: That's it.
- 3:21Speaker 3: I'm so excited to try this because yesterday we get
- 3:25Speaker 3: like food delivery orders sometimes and it's been sitting out
- 3:28Speaker 3: for like two hours. I didn't know. And we said
- 3:30Speaker 3: to the kid, did you see this when you came
- 3:32Speaker 3: home from school? Yeah. Why didn't you take it inside?
- 3:35Speaker 3: I didn't feel like it. And I said, now I,
- 3:40Speaker 3: first of all, his blood ran cold because I said,
- 3:41Speaker 3: what did you, I get quiet and I go, what
- 3:43Speaker 3: did you say?
- 3:44Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:46Speaker 3: I go, okay. And I was like, yes. And I
- 3:48Speaker 3: pulled Andy aside and I go, is there anything he
- 3:50Speaker 3: needs like in the next couple of days? Cause we're
- 3:52Speaker 3: going to say, I don't feel like it. So we're
- 3:53Speaker 3: all excited.
- 3:54Speaker 2: So we're looking for an opportunity.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Yeah. Yep. It's good. It's good. Do you have anything
- 3:58Speaker 1: like that, Jeff? I mean, you're, I mean, you're, you're pretty,
- 4:01Speaker 1: you're a cool dad. Like I think, and I hear
- 4:03Speaker 1: the way, I see the way that you interact with
- 4:05Speaker 1: your kids. Uh-huh. Like you're a very loving dad.
- 4:07Speaker 3: But they're not best friends.
- 4:09Speaker 1: But they don't get away with anything.
- 4:10Speaker 5: That's for sure. Yeah, yesterday I think you even heard
- 4:13Speaker 5: me talking to my son who was in Italy. We
- 4:15Speaker 5: talked about how I had to go to the emergency room.
- 4:17Speaker 5: And I'm like, hey, by the way, bro, next time
- 4:19Speaker 5: can you charge your phone before you go to the
- 4:21Speaker 5: emergency room? Why are your phone on 7% during an emergency?
- 4:25Speaker 5: I'm like, you couldn't pick up. a cord up or whatever,
- 4:27Speaker 5: but I keep it real with boys. I think boys
- 4:30Speaker 5: you'll see, you need to keep it like a hundred
- 4:32Speaker 5: with them because if not, they're just going to think
- 4:35Speaker 5: you're too.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Cool, you know, and you're your friend and you're a
- 4:37Speaker 1: pushover and you're a pushover.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:39Speaker 5: So I keep it a hundred with them and I also,
- 4:41Speaker 5: you know, give them what they need, but I also,
- 4:43Speaker 5: if they don't deserve it, they're not getting it.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Yeah. And I, I don't cave. My wife caves. So
- 4:49Speaker 1: does mine, you know, and they know if they just like, they,
- 4:51Speaker 1: they hang in there long enough, she'll eventually get frustrated
- 4:54Speaker 1: and just cave. And so that's why I say every
- 4:57Speaker 1: once in a while to them, hey, would you have
- 4:59Speaker 1: done that or said that to me? No. Well, why
- 5:02Speaker 1: would you do that to your mom? Or why would
- 5:03Speaker 1: you say that to your mom? And I know the answer.
- 5:06Speaker 1: I tell my kids, that's the only thing you can
- 5:08Speaker 1: tell your kids because it's true. Most of the time
- 5:10Speaker 1: when a parent is asking you a question, they already
- 5:13Speaker 1: know the answer.
- 5:14Speaker 3: We want to know if we're on the same page.
- 5:16Speaker 1: They already know.
- 5:16Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 5:17Speaker 1: I want to know if you're lying or not. Yeah. Yeah. Hey,
- 5:20Speaker 1: anything happen at school today?
- 5:21Speaker 4: Okay.
- 5:22Speaker 2: We already know.
- 5:23Speaker 1: It means somebody called. Somebody sent an email. We already
- 5:25Speaker 1: know what happened. Yeah. I have another question.
- 5:28Speaker 4: Can they be controlled with treats like my dogs?
- 5:31Speaker 1: You know, the treat is their phone. Yeah, exactly. That's
- 5:34Speaker 1: how you control it. Yeah.
- 5:36Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:37Speaker 1: So again, don't feel the need to start throwing out
- 5:39Speaker 1: punishments or things in the moment. Just go, all right, cool.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Just defer it.
- 5:45Speaker 1: And then the next time, like, is it cool if
- 5:48Speaker 1: I go over to so-and-so's house? No.
- 5:50Speaker 4: No.
- 5:50Speaker 1: I'm not feeling that. Why? Because it's something that's otherwise
- 5:54Speaker 1: not a big deal, right? Nah. Hey, because yeah, remember
- 5:56Speaker 1: when I said.
- 5:57Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 5:58Speaker 1: And you told me.
- 5:59Speaker 3: And that's conditioning because any kid can get through a lecture.
- 6:02Speaker 3: But if I just hear, okay, I'd be like walking
- 6:05Speaker 3: on eggshells for the next 24 hours.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Yep.
- 6:07Speaker 1: You're way more patient than me. I try to settle
- 6:09Speaker 1: it right in the moment.
- 6:11Speaker 2: I can't.
- 6:11Speaker 1: I can't wait.
- 6:12Speaker 3: I want to try it.
- 6:13Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Sometimes the long game's good, man.
- 6:15Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Yeah. When they don't know what's coming. That's why I
- 6:18Speaker 1: talked about like death row inmates. You don't tell them
- 6:20Speaker 1: what the date is. You let them guess. Their victim
- 6:23Speaker 1: didn't know that that was their last day. Let them wonder,
- 6:26Speaker 1: is today the day or is it going to be
- 6:28Speaker 1: next week, next month, whatever?
- 6:29Speaker 3: That's the torture.
- 6:30Speaker 1: And then you mess with them. Like you show up,
- 6:32Speaker 1: you bring the chaplain or whatever. And you kind of like,
- 6:36Speaker 1: you know, use your, what do they call that? The
- 6:38Speaker 1: billy club, the nightstick or whatever to kind of against
- 6:41Speaker 1: the bars. Hey, wake up, man. Ah, today's not today.
- 6:45Speaker 1: Maybe another day. Good night. Yeah, good night.
- 6:47Speaker 2: You are not on the hot seat.
- 6:48Speaker 1: Yeah, sleep tight. Yeah, so here are some parenting methods.
- 6:52Speaker 1: And people sometimes say to me, like, oh, I would
- 6:55Speaker 1: never do that to my kid. That's not right.
- 6:57Speaker 4: Oh, is that Sammy telling you?
- 6:59Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. By the way.
- 7:01Speaker 3: I don't think we purposely psychologically torture, but you know.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Let me ask Gina and Jeff. Uh-huh. Isn't that kind
- 7:08Speaker 1: of stuff always from the people who don't have kids?
- 7:11Speaker 3: A hundred percent of the time.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Yeah. Anybody who has kids that go, I get it.
- 7:15Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 7:16Speaker 3: Because it's, I'm all about, and so are you, like
- 7:18Speaker 3: natural consequences. Like you didn't put your shoes on? Well,
- 7:21Speaker 3: I guess you're going to school without shoes. You know,
- 7:22Speaker 3: it's not, you don't have to fight. Please put your
- 7:24Speaker 3: shoes on.
- 7:25Speaker 4: Please, please.
- 7:26Speaker 1: But just in general, people that have opinions about what
- 7:28Speaker 1: you're doing. Oh, yeah. Typically are the people who don't
- 7:30Speaker 1: have kids.
- 7:30Speaker 3: Why ever take your kid outside?
- 7:32Speaker 4: I don't have an opinion because I just go deaf.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Parenting methods people judge beforehand. They became parents.
- 7:39Speaker 3: Oh, let's hear it.
- 7:40Speaker 1: People were asked that question. They asked parents that question.
- 7:43Speaker 1: What's something that you judged before you had kids and
- 7:45Speaker 1: now you're like, I get it. Somebody said, I used
- 7:48Speaker 1: to say, my kids will never eat in the car.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Okay.
- 7:51Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Good luck. Now, my kids don't eat in my car.
- 7:53Speaker 1: They're not allowed.
- 7:54Speaker 2: I was going to say.
- 7:55Speaker 1: But to say they're never going to eat in any car.
- 7:57Speaker 1: In a car. Well, because the shuttling around to all
- 7:59Speaker 1: the different activities and stuff. Sometimes there's just no.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Time management. Yeah.
- 8:04Speaker 1: It's either that or nobody eats.
- 8:05Speaker 4: Right.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Well, my kids would be starving. They would never eat
- 8:09Speaker 2: in my car.
- 8:10Speaker 1: This person said, I pulled a 180 on toddler leashes.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Like the backpack that has the.
- 8:15Speaker 2: Same.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 8:16Speaker 3: Oh, I think they're brilliant. I used to be like,
- 8:18Speaker 3: those are cruel and unusual.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Those are good.
- 8:20Speaker 3: If you're at like a big giant theme park. And
- 8:22Speaker 3: it doesn't, you know, it could be like the wrist
- 8:24Speaker 3: to wrist or whatever, but they disappear.
- 8:26Speaker 1: And your kid is gone. I'm talking about the little
- 8:27Speaker 1: teddy bear backpack and it's got a little tethered to it.
- 8:30Speaker 1: That's fine.
- 8:31Speaker 3: It's fine.
- 8:32Speaker 4: So I had a buddy who has kids. He has
- 8:34Speaker 4: four kids that I would hang out with and would
- 8:37Speaker 4: be out in public and he would see other parents
- 8:40Speaker 4: with that leash and he would talk ish to.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Them, to their face.
- 8:43Speaker 4: About it and I'm like dude I don't even want
- 8:45Speaker 4: to be around.
- 8:45Speaker 1: You right now I don't know why anybody who has
- 8:48Speaker 1: a kid I don't know why it may not be
- 8:50Speaker 1: for you and you may choose not to do it
- 8:51Speaker 1: but like how you could be so adverse to it
- 8:53Speaker 1: like I get it he was very vocal about it
- 8:55Speaker 1: like this person said my toddler specializes is an expert
- 8:59Speaker 1: into getting the most dangerous situation possible at all times.
- 9:02Speaker 2: Well, Jeff, you were visually turned off by that.
- 9:06Speaker 5: I don't really like that method. That's what strollers are for.
- 9:08Speaker 5: If they're going to walk away, put them in a stroller,
- 9:09Speaker 5: keep it moving.
- 9:11Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of it. It just reminds me
- 9:12Speaker 1: of a dog too much.
- 9:13Speaker 3: It does.
- 9:14Speaker 1: That's what he would say.
- 9:15Speaker 3: We never did it, but when I see parents with it,
- 9:17Speaker 3: I'm like, I get it.
- 9:18Speaker 1: That's true. So if you love your dog so much,
- 9:20Speaker 1: and they have more care for dogs than they do
- 9:23Speaker 1: for people, why are dogs on leashes? Yeah, I think
- 9:27Speaker 1: it's two different things. Dogs can go in strollers. I'm
- 9:29Speaker 1: saying they're as controllable. They have the same brain. Like
- 9:32Speaker 1: a toddler is the same like mental capacity as like
- 9:35Speaker 1: say like a golden retriever, the golden retriever, an adult
- 9:37Speaker 1: golden retriever. Has the same mental capacity, they say, as
- 9:40Speaker 1: a human toddler.
- 9:41Speaker 2: Right.
- 9:41Speaker 3: So you still have to.
- 9:42Speaker 1: Teach them, though.
- 9:43Speaker 4: I mean, wouldn't this go back to when anyone says like, oh, well,
- 9:46Speaker 4: when we were kids, we didn't have that and we
- 9:47Speaker 4: were fine.
- 9:48Speaker 3: Like leashes weren't always a thing and toddlers survived. And
- 9:51Speaker 3: all the kids were on milk cartons. Thank you.
- 9:53Speaker 1: My wife and I say no tablets or phones at
- 9:56Speaker 1: the table when we go out to eat. But then
- 9:57Speaker 1: we changed our mind because we want to be able
- 9:59Speaker 1: to sit there and enjoy. a meal or a drink together.
- 10:02Speaker 4: True.
- 10:02Speaker 3: I'm not there yet.
- 10:02Speaker 1: That's tough.
- 10:03Speaker 2: True.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Just left the kid at home. Yeah. I used to
- 10:07Speaker 1: judge sending your kid to daycare during the day during
- 10:11Speaker 1: a day off during the week. So like a parent.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Like a parent day off.
- 10:16Speaker 2: I would never judge somebody for that.
- 10:18Speaker 3: You know, I used to judge like nannies and stuff hard. Like,
- 10:21Speaker 3: you don't want to raise your kid that don't have
- 10:22Speaker 3: a kid. And now I'm like, I want the best
- 10:24Speaker 3: for my kid. I want someone to interact with them
- 10:26Speaker 3: 24 hours a day. I just don't want to do it.
- 10:28Speaker 3: So I get why somebody would do it.
- 10:30Speaker 1: Tex says, I judge people who leash their kids until
- 10:32Speaker 1: I had kids. And now I see why I need
- 10:34Speaker 1: my two. My two-year-old needs it. I get it.
- 10:36Speaker 2: I mean, to each their own.
- 10:37Speaker 5: By the way, I really want to debate that dogs
- 10:39Speaker 5: aren't smarter than two-year-olds because I think they are.
- 10:42Speaker 2: Oh, a lot of them.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Oh, way smarter. Having a kid who only wants to
- 10:45Speaker 1: eat chicken nuggets and fries. I always thought, why don't
- 10:48Speaker 1: you try to expand their palate a little? Okay.
- 10:51Speaker 3: I kind of, well, it depends what kid you have.
- 10:53Speaker 3: We have a kid who's an adventurous eater, so I
- 10:55Speaker 3: don't have a problem with that. But if a kid's
- 10:57Speaker 3: a super picky eater, they got to eat something.
- 10:59Speaker 4: What are you going to do?
- 11:00Speaker 1: Let them be a kid and let them eat that crap.
- 11:02Speaker 1: They'll grow out of it. Or parents were asked, what's
- 11:05Speaker 1: something that you judged other parents for before you became
- 11:08Speaker 1: a parent yourself? Planning your day around your kid's nap time.
- 11:12Speaker 2: I.e.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Rushing home when they're sleepy. I thought I was going
- 11:15Speaker 1: to take a more relaxed approach. It turns out sometimes
- 11:18Speaker 1: you just want to stick to the schedule to make
- 11:20Speaker 1: things easier for everybody. I get that. I do have
- 11:22Speaker 1: a question.
- 11:23Speaker 2: All right.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Like just straight up.
- 11:26Speaker 4: Why did you want to do it? Why did you
- 11:28Speaker 4: want to have kids? Or were you just naive on
- 11:31Speaker 4: how much responsibility.
- 11:32Speaker 2: It would be?
- 11:34Speaker 1: Great question, Menace. I have no idea.
- 11:36Speaker 2: I think that's a philosophical question that not many people
- 11:39Speaker 2: could answer.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Because I've always wondered that. Like, why do people want
- 11:42Speaker 2: to have kids?
- 11:42Speaker 1: Well, my wife and I never individually before we were
- 11:45Speaker 1: ever together, we were both adults saying, I'm never having kids.
- 11:50Speaker 1: And then we got married and we're like, ah, maybe one.
- 11:55Speaker 1: And we both softened on that. And I don't know
- 11:57Speaker 1: what it was. I was married before. I believe it's influence.
- 11:59Speaker 1: And I was like, nope, absolutely not. And she was
- 12:01Speaker 1: big on it. She wanted to have kids. I'm like, nope,
- 12:03Speaker 1: absolutely not.
- 12:03Speaker 3: Most people are hardwired to procreate and have kids.
- 12:06Speaker 1: Right. So were yours planned then? Yeah. See, mine were
- 12:10Speaker 1: both oops.
- 12:10Speaker 5: It took a while to figure it out, especially like
- 12:14Speaker 5: for my wife.
- 12:14Speaker 1: It took her a little.
- 12:15Speaker 2: She'll admit it.
- 12:16Speaker 5: Like it took her a while to give up her
- 12:17Speaker 5: lifestyle to.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Figure out kids.
- 12:19Speaker 3: I guess you could say in a way mine was
- 12:21Speaker 3: an oops.
- 12:21Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:23Speaker 3: Being a stepmom.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Because I didn't want to fall in love with.
- 12:26Speaker 1: A guy who had a kid. I did.
- 12:27Speaker 3: But I also I know this is going to sound
- 12:28Speaker 3: very cliche, but like I think I got a lot
- 12:31Speaker 3: of love to give. And I like giving it to some,
- 12:33Speaker 3: you know, younger, helpless thing that needs, you know, that
- 12:36Speaker 3: that needs that guidance, needs that love. I like doing it.
- 12:39Speaker 1: My parents raised me on good old-fashioned physical discipline. Belts,
- 12:42Speaker 1: extension cords, whatever was closest to my dad.
- 12:44Speaker 2: Nice.
- 12:45Speaker 1: If I was lucky, he let me choose.
- 12:47Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
- 12:49Speaker 1: That's the same style parents need, right? Oh, yeah, for sure.
- 12:52Speaker 3: Extension cords.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Switches, wooden spoon, chunk gloves.
- 12:56Speaker 4: Wrenches.
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- 14:04Speaker 1: they would drop the drug charges, but she got 18
- 14:08Speaker 1: months probation, a $ 700 fine. And then she got credit
- 14:14Speaker 1: for the 70 days that she had already spent in jail.
- 14:17Speaker 3: Oh, so nothing.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 14:19Speaker 1: So, I mean, you have a bunch of cocaine that
- 14:21Speaker 1: falls out of your ass during a search.
- 14:22Speaker 4: You're all good.
- 14:23Speaker 1: And it's 700 bucks and time served.
- 14:25Speaker 4: And probation.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Which she probably could have been out right away if
- 14:30Speaker 1: she would have had any money to... Oh, for bail?
- 14:32Speaker 1: To get bailed out.
- 14:33Speaker 2: True, true.
- 14:34Speaker 1: See, there's another thing. We talked about not understanding... Drug stuff, Greg?
- 14:39Speaker 2: Yes.
- 14:39Speaker 1: That process is another one I don't really understand. Completely.
- 14:43Speaker 2: Bail, bond, don't get it.
- 14:45Speaker 1: Yeah, bail bondsman, how's that process?
- 14:47Speaker 2: I don't get it.
- 14:48Speaker 1: My basic understanding, right? So let's say, Greg, you get arrested, right?
- 14:52Speaker 2: Right. Bail set at a million dollars.
- 14:55Speaker 1: You'd be like 10%, I think. So it would be $.
- 14:58Speaker 4: 100, 000.
- 14:58Speaker 2: Right.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Now, if you can't come up with $ 100, 000, then you
- 15:01Speaker 1: can go to a– people, feel free to correct on
- 15:03Speaker 1: the text over to 22987. I could go then or
- 15:07Speaker 1: somebody can go to the bail bondsman. Right. And they
- 15:10Speaker 1: would put up the hundred grand for you. I don't know.
- 15:13Speaker 3: But you better show up to your court.
- 15:14Speaker 1: That's the thing. You are responsible for then showing up
- 15:17Speaker 1: for that. Not only repaying the hundred thousand.
- 15:19Speaker 2: Right.
- 15:19Speaker 1: So they'll front the money. Yes. But then they also
- 15:22Speaker 1: keep you accountable. Like you're going to be the one
- 15:23Speaker 1: showing up to the court. And then if you don't,
- 15:26Speaker 1: that's when they send like a bounty hunter. A dog out.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Like dog the bounty hunter.
- 15:29Speaker 4: But there's like a fee or something.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Right.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 15:32Speaker 2: It's like a payday loan. Now here's what I don't get.
- 15:34Speaker 2: And this might be the dumbest question ever. Do you
- 15:36Speaker 2: get that money back or do you pay it and
- 15:39Speaker 2: it's gone?
- 15:40Speaker 3: I think you forfeit that money.
- 15:41Speaker 2: You do?
- 15:42Speaker 1: Well, okay. So let's say Greg gets arrested, right? Greg
- 15:46Speaker 1: gets arrested and he ends up having his day in court. Right.
- 15:52Speaker 1: He got bailed out. Say he paid $ 100, 000.
- 15:55Speaker 2: Right.
- 15:55Speaker 1: He got bailed out. They have the day in court
- 15:59Speaker 1: and he's not guilty. Then do you get the $ 100, 000 back?
- 16:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:02Speaker 1: Great question. These are things, thank God, I have no...
- 16:07Speaker 1: I know. first-hand experience with.
- 16:10Speaker 2: If it's uncool, oh, well.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Like, wait, you don't get bail?
- 16:15Speaker 3: Well, this says, no, you do not get your money
- 16:17Speaker 3: back from a bail bondsman, even if you are found
- 16:19Speaker 3: not guilty.
- 16:19Speaker 1: Okay, let's just say you have the money. Not the
- 16:22Speaker 1: bail bondsman.
- 16:22Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
- 16:23Speaker 4: Oh, just bond?
- 16:24Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, you know... The bail. Because the bail
- 16:26Speaker 1: bondsman pays it to the clerk, right? The county clerk. Yeah.
- 16:30Speaker 1: I'm assuming. So... Does somebody get the money back, right?
- 16:35Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I don't know.
- 16:36Speaker 1: If you're found not guilty.
- 16:38Speaker 2: And why do the 10% thing? If it's a million
- 16:41Speaker 2: dollars bail and you have to pay $ 100, 000, why don't
- 16:43Speaker 2: they just make it $ 100, 000? Yeah, that's weird. I don't
- 16:46Speaker 2: get it.
- 16:46Speaker 1: I don't understand why they sentence somebody to life in prison.
- 16:50Speaker 3: And make it 20 years.
- 16:51Speaker 1: But you can get paroled.
- 16:52Speaker 2: Then that's not life.
- 16:53Speaker 3: No, you're right. Yes, you will get the bail money
- 16:55Speaker 3: back from the court if you are found not guilty.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Okay, and then you would use that to then pay
- 17:00Speaker 1: off whatever you owe to... to the bail bondsman.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Okay.
- 17:05Speaker 1: That's when you know when you're a good part of town.
- 17:07Speaker 1: It's crazy that bail bondsmen start seeing those places popping up.
- 17:09Speaker 1: You're like, ooh.
- 17:10Speaker 4: They have so much money because they're usually like a
- 17:12Speaker 4: little hut by the courthouse, you know?
- 17:14Speaker 1: Right, right. Well, they're nice and close. It's convenient. Exactly.
- 17:17Speaker 2: And much like the life in prison thing, I don't
- 17:19Speaker 2: think there should be probation. That's not a punishment. Probation, oh,
- 17:23Speaker 2: you're not allowed to get in trouble now.
- 17:24Speaker 1: You never are.
- 17:25Speaker 2: Right.
- 17:25Speaker 1: How is that a punishment? Well, I mean, if it
- 17:28Speaker 1: keeps you out of jail.
- 17:32Speaker 1: It's like that last chance, right? So you got busted.
- 17:37Speaker 1: They give you, I don't know, three years of probation.
- 17:40Speaker 2: Right.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Keep your nose clean for the next... Of course, you're
- 17:43Speaker 1: supposed to.
- 17:43Speaker 2: Yeah. But then in three years and one day, then
- 17:45Speaker 2: you can do whatever you want.
- 17:46Speaker 1: No, no. But if you don't want to go to
- 17:48Speaker 1: jail on your current charge.
- 17:49Speaker 2: Right.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Like, you're going to stay out of jail. You're on probation.
- 17:53Speaker 1: But if you violate that probation, you will go to
- 17:55Speaker 1: jail for this.
- 17:56Speaker 2: For that. Okay, that makes sense.
- 17:58Speaker 1: And then you're also in trouble for whatever new thing
- 17:59Speaker 1: you did.
- 18:00Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 18:01Speaker 1: And here comes the guy in this room, the only
- 18:02Speaker 1: person who's ever been to jail. Are you coming in
- 18:06Speaker 1: to explain it to us?
- 18:07Speaker 2: No, I was just going to say.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you were just going to say, okay.
- 18:09Speaker 1: I was going to say, Greg, you know, like, it
- 18:11Speaker 1: worked for me. Probation was plenty for me to learn. Yeah, dude.
- 18:15Speaker 2: Here's how I look at it. We're all on probation. Technically, yeah.
- 18:19Speaker 1: You're not allowed to.
- 18:20Speaker 2: Commit any crimes.
- 18:21Speaker 1: No, you're not. But if, like, say you broke a,
- 18:23Speaker 1: you know, whatever. You committed a crime.
- 18:26Speaker 4: Yes.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Right? You still could get probation. But if you're on
- 18:29Speaker 1: probation and you commit a crime, you're in jail.
- 18:33Speaker 3: For longer.
- 18:34Speaker 1: Yeah, because you go to jail for whatever you already did.
- 18:37Speaker 1: And now you're also in trouble for whatever you did that,
- 18:40Speaker 1: you know.
- 18:40Speaker 4: It's compounded.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Ruined your probation. Yeah.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Yeah, Greg. I just don't find it to be a punishment.
- 18:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 18:46Speaker 1: I mean, you move differently. That's for sure. When you're
- 18:49Speaker 1: on probation. That's for sure.
- 18:51Speaker 2: Oh, I bet.
- 18:51Speaker 1: How long was your probation? Three years. Is it one
- 18:55Speaker 1: of those you had to like check in with somebody? Nope.
- 18:57Speaker 2: Okay.
- 18:58Speaker 1: Because, yeah. I got everything reduced, so. Yeah. I thought
- 19:02Speaker 1: you had to check in with your parole officer.
- 19:04Speaker 4: Right.
- 19:05Speaker 1: That's a different level. That's different?
- 19:06Speaker 4: Yep.
- 19:07Speaker 2: See, I don't know. Parole and probation are different. Yeah.
- 19:10Speaker 1: Such a loser.
- 19:10Speaker 2: God. You're such a square.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Don't do such a square.
- 19:14Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 19:14Speaker 1: Jeff did white collar crime, not. Yes. Yeah.
- 19:17Speaker 3: Parole is like ankle monitor stuff, right?
- 19:20Speaker 1: You could be on probation with ankle monitors, too.
- 19:23Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 19:23Speaker 1: You could be waiting to go to court with ankle monitor.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 19:27Speaker 1: Okay.
- 19:28Speaker 4: Yeah, well, my friend, she had to go to Tent City.
- 19:31Speaker 4: She had an ankle monitor. She was allowed to leave,
- 19:34Speaker 4: you know, Tent City and Arizona, the jail and the desert.
- 19:37Speaker 4: She was allowed to leave, but she had an ankle
- 19:39Speaker 4: monitor on to go to work and then come back.
- 19:41Speaker 3: How was that in jail?
- 19:44Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 19:44Speaker 4: I mean, gotta make that money.
- 19:46Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I worked.
- 19:47Speaker 1: Is it a work release? Really? Like a work release program? Uh, well, no,
- 19:51Speaker 1: it's yeah.
- 19:51Speaker 4: Just like you had to go to jail during the day.
- 19:54Speaker 4: She would leave for like four hours, five hours a
- 19:57Speaker 4: day and then go back to jail.
- 19:59Speaker 2: Right.
- 19:59Speaker 1: But like, that's what it's called, right?
- 20:01Speaker 2: The one, the guy that I worked with, it was
- 20:03Speaker 2: called the honor farm. He lived at the honor farm.
- 20:07Speaker 1: And he could go to work.
- 20:08Speaker 2: And if you had to stay at work one minute over,
- 20:10Speaker 2: you had to call and report and say where you're
- 20:12Speaker 2: going to be. Yeah. And then after work, go right
- 20:15Speaker 2: back to work.
- 20:15Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, one year we went on a vacation to
- 20:19Speaker 3: this island called Rorotonga. And I really wanted to go
- 20:22Speaker 3: to the jail just to see what it was like.
- 20:24Speaker 3: And we went on a weekday and it was empty.
- 20:26Speaker 3: We're like, where is everybody? And the jail, the correctional
- 20:30Speaker 3: officer said, oh, everyone went home for lunch.
- 20:33Speaker 1: Some of the text, the 10 percent is a down
- 20:37Speaker 1: payment for the total amount of bail. The bail company
- 20:40Speaker 1: then pays the remainder. You never get that 10%. They
- 20:43Speaker 1: get to keep that as their fee.
- 20:46Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
- 20:47Speaker 5: You're basically taking a loan out with the bondsman. Now,
- 20:50Speaker 5: let's say Woody had 100 grand in cash as an example.
- 20:54Speaker 5: He could put that down. And as long as I
- 20:56Speaker 5: went to all my court appointments, Woody would get his
- 20:58Speaker 5: money back. But because it's cash, Woody's money is not
- 21:01Speaker 5: borrowed from the bondsman.
- 21:02Speaker 3: And you can put up your house or something. Somebody
- 21:04Speaker 3: called me. I know this secondhand because I was called
- 21:07Speaker 3: by a bail bondsman. to put up money for somebody,
- 21:09Speaker 3: and I said, no, thank you, and hung up the phone.
- 21:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I'd bail anybody out.
- 21:14Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Depending on how long.
- 21:16Speaker 2: It depends who it is.
- 21:18Speaker 1: And what was the circumstance? Is it something that they
- 21:20Speaker 1: actually did, or are they now caught up in something,
- 21:23Speaker 1: wrong place, wrong time? Yeah.
- 21:26Speaker 5: Yeah, there's levels to it. I mean, if you know
- 21:28Speaker 5: they're a tweaker, and they're in trouble for like the
- 21:30Speaker 5: fifth time.
- 21:30Speaker 1: You're good. Hell no. Lose my number. But, you know,
- 21:35Speaker 1: people make stupid decisions, and they do whatever. And depending
- 21:39Speaker 1: on just how close you are to this person, like,
- 21:41Speaker 1: I'm willing to give somebody one, you know? No matter
- 21:45Speaker 1: how stupid it is. We've said that before.
- 21:46Speaker 2: The first one.
- 21:47Speaker 1: No pun intended, but, like, one bailout, you know, if
- 21:51Speaker 1: you can swing it. Depends on also what it is. Like,
- 21:54Speaker 1: what are we really talking about here? Depending on what
- 21:57Speaker 1: the crime was or what you're being accused of, don't
- 22:00Speaker 1: want to touch that at all. Don't want to be involved,
- 22:03Speaker 1: you know? But what if your kid did the.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Dumbest thing, like, ever? Like, really bad and, like, definitely
- 22:11Speaker 3: their fault.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Like this look-smacking kid? Yeah.
- 22:15Speaker 2: No. No way.
- 22:17Speaker 1: Daddy, please! Not touching Daddy nothing.
- 22:20Speaker 2: Jeff, are you allowed to drink when you're on probation?
- 22:23Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:24Speaker 3: I think it depends on the.
- 22:25Speaker 1: Yeah, for the most part.
- 22:27Speaker 4: Some of the monitors, they can detect.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Yeah, wasn't like Tracy Morgan's when he had his? It
- 22:33Speaker 1: was like detecting.
- 22:34Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
- 22:34Speaker 1: So you talk about a punishment. Everything's different. There's so
- 22:38Speaker 1: many levels to all of it. So wait, what's the
- 22:40Speaker 1: difference between parole and probation?
- 22:43Speaker 3: Well, parole is when you get out of prison, right?
- 22:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a more serious crime thing. But
- 22:49Speaker 1: like parole, you got to see a parole officer. But
- 22:52Speaker 1: is that just the same thing as probation?
- 22:54Speaker 2: Like, you can't get in trouble.
- 22:56Speaker 3: Probation is given by a judge instead of jail time.
- 22:58Speaker 3: Parole is an early release after prison time.
- 23:01Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.
- 23:02Speaker 1: Okay. And going back to that. I never did prison time. Yeah,
- 23:05Speaker 1: so you're here.
- 23:07Speaker 2: Just counting, right?
- 23:08Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 23:08Speaker 2: No, not even.
- 23:09Speaker 1: Not even counting? You got taken to count. Quick ins
- 23:12Speaker 1: and outs, yes.
- 23:13Speaker 3: You got processed and released.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Ye olde revolving door.
- 23:15Speaker 4: It's basically like vacation.
- 23:16Speaker 1: Procidicism. Yes. Horse vacation. Door's going to swing wide. 877-44-WOODY. What, Menace?
- 23:23Speaker 4: I was just going to say, my friend with the
- 23:25Speaker 4: ankle monitor, she bedazzled it, so it was super cute.
- 23:28Speaker 1: Oh, it's so cute.
- 23:29Speaker 2: It's so cute.
- 23:29Speaker 1: How long has Julianne had.
- 23:35Speaker 4: It?
- 23:35Speaker 1: Never Julianne.
- 23:36Speaker 2: 877-44-WOODY.
- 23:36Speaker 1: Text us over to 22987. More Woody shows next.
- 23:39Speaker 2: Hang on.
- 23:41Speaker 1: Today, I hope you die painfully.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Painfully.
- 23:43Speaker 4: Painfully.
- 23:44Speaker 1: Painfully.
- 23:44Speaker 2: Hope you die.
- 23:45Speaker 1: More Woody shows.