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Dirty Little Secret: “I Lied About the Band Trip So My Son Could Eat” · Billy The Kidd In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well comments, you'll feel better. Welcome to the dirty little secret.
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  Speaker 2: If you have one. I didn't mean to talk about
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  Speaker 2: dirty little secret.
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  Speaker 3: Then go into dirty little secret. But it's just I
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  Speaker 3: know she hates it. I'm not doing it. Yeah, she
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  Speaker 3: said it's fine. So seven thirty tomorrow. If you have
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  Speaker 3: a dirty little secret, okay, let us know eight three
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  Speaker 3: three seven, eight seven and one o two nine.
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  Speaker 2: You have one.
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  Speaker 1: This is an ugly one. I gotta tell you. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not proud of it. So I make my eleven
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  Speaker 1: year old and sell candy for his band trip. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's door to door and sometimes it's in front
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  Speaker 1: of you know, grocery stores or whatnot have you for
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  Speaker 1: his band. Well that's well, that's the problem. No, it's
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  Speaker 1: not cool because the problem is there is no band trip.
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  Speaker 1: He's not even in band. No, he's not even in band.
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  Speaker 2: So what is it?
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  Speaker 1: I made it up?
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  Speaker 2: So for what he's selling candy for what?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we hit a rough patch this year.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean no, before you judge, listen, I mean
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  Speaker 1: his father left. It's just the two of us. We're
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  Speaker 1: trying to make ends of me. We're counting dollars to
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  Speaker 1: see how much money I can put in the gas
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  Speaker 1: to get to work and still have something to eat
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  Speaker 1: Ramen noodles every other night.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not judging, and I'm sorry that you're in that position.
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  Speaker 3: I just didn't expect it, that's all I'm saying. That's
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  Speaker 3: why my reaction was like, what the because you're basically
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  Speaker 3: having your kid go out there sell candy to make
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  Speaker 3: profit for you and saying it's for his.
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  Speaker 2: Band trip, Like how much is he?
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  Speaker 3: I know?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's not a lot. I mean it's like
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  Speaker 1: a couple hundred bucks a week on a good week,
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  Speaker 1: on good week, but you know what right now, that's
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  Speaker 1: groceries and electricity. Yeah, and that's that's how we're getting by.
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  Speaker 1: And wow, I mean I just keep saying it's not permanent.
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  Speaker 1: We're not doing this forever. It feels horrible, But I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Never going to look at these kids outside of the
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  Speaker 3: stores selling candy the same.
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  Speaker 2: These kids being tom thumb all the time. I'm be like,
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  Speaker 2: where your mamma.
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  Speaker 3: I gave one to twenty the other day because he
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  Speaker 3: was for his basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't need Healy don't even play.
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  Speaker 1: Basketball, but he's eaten that night isn't he.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I'm like, hey, whatever you want to do
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  Speaker 3: with the money, I don't know, so I'm not judging you.
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  Speaker 3: This is a non judgment zone. And I'm sorry that you,
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  Speaker 3: you know, hit some tough times. But but you see
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  Speaker 3: my deal. How old did you say your son was?
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  Speaker 1: Again, he's eleven, so he's old enough to know, okay that.
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  Speaker 2: And he just goes along with it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he understands, he understands. You know, there's a nice
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  Speaker 1: one that we didn't have anything to eat right until
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  Speaker 1: we started doing this and dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that does. That's heartbreaking, it really is. He can't
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  Speaker 2: enjoy this or I'm sure he.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't love doing it, and he's a kid. He wants
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  Speaker 3: to go out and plate. He doesn't want to stand
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  Speaker 3: in front of Kroger or door to door selling candy.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, he'll come home and he'll hand
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  Speaker 1: me the money and he'll say, we get it, mom,
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  Speaker 1: we get okay. Today it's so awful, I'm just putting
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  Speaker 1: in an institution. But I don't know what else to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm under employed. I can't get well fare because I
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  Speaker 1: have a job, but I can't quit my job just
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  Speaker 1: to go on, well fair, it doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 3: I understand, No, I get it, and your your your
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  Speaker 3: sweet boy, and I'm gonna tell you right now, this
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  Speaker 3: is something I would have done for my mom.
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  Speaker 2: I would have done it in a harty absolutely, you
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  Speaker 2: know I would have done it.
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  Speaker 3: And what a good kid, because you just do what
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  Speaker 3: you gotta do. And he's at that age where listen,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna see if there's any way I can find
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  Speaker 3: you some gift cards to some poo. I'm sure we
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  Speaker 3: have something to give you some even if I got
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  Speaker 3: to give it by it, We'll find a way to
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  Speaker 3: get you some some gift cards. So maybe there's at
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  Speaker 3: least a few meals and stuff that you can have
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  Speaker 3: that he doesn't have to, you know, because I feel
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  Speaker 3: incredibly bad for you, whether it's morally correct what you're
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  Speaker 3: doing or not. I mean, you gotta do what you
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  Speaker 3: gotta do to survive. And I can't say what I
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  Speaker 3: would do if I was in your position, so I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to sit here and judge you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would like to think, on like the bright side,
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  Speaker 1: that I'm teaching him how to survive on the very
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  Speaker 1: bottom end of life.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, there's lessons to be learned
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  Speaker 3: and everything, and I'm sure he's, you know, he is
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  Speaker 3: going to take something from this and he I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: he will absolutely understand things as you get older and
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  Speaker 3: reflect upon it and go, wow, my mom was doing
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  Speaker 3: everything she could and I did everything I could so
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  Speaker 3: we could survive. And that's not necessarily a bad mentality
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  Speaker 3: to have. So hey, but stay right there, so we
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  Speaker 3: could try to take care of you and get you
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  Speaker 3: a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of things, so maybe you, I don't know, just to
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  Speaker 2: help out a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I really appreciate it. That's not why I called it, Hey, hold.
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  Speaker 2: On, stay right to ooping out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I already got a couple of messages saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: don't reward that kind of behavior, And maybe you're right,
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  Speaker 3: but when you hear something like that, it's hard not to.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not doing it for her as much as
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing it for that little boy, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. So