SPEAKER_01 0:00

All right, Alley, I need you and then everyone else. You know, the three of you that are hanging with us. I know.

SPEAKER_00 0:04

It's um it's a little slow.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

I need you to go to the Scott and Alley Facebook page right now and look at the video that I just put up. From now on, every parade around here absolutely must have this. Parades are kind of dull. I mean, parades stopped being cool around 1947 after World War II. Now we just go and we're like All right, let's see.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

It's got a lawn chair demonstration.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Yeah, it's a lawn chairs as they're using as a marching band, and they're using so it sounds like this. They're using them as percussion. Oh. So it looks kind of like it kind of looks like a marching band.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

I know, you just made a parade exciting. Oh my gosh. But next year you have to come to the Easter Aura July 3rd parade.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

Oh, we we were talking about that. Uh Tiffany wants to go up there. She hears, she goes, Oh, there's I hear there's nice doors up there and everything.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Oh, it's a nice area for sure. And an open container law. Okay. That doesn't suck to have a beer in your hand while you're watching a parade. Now tell me, I'm not wrong.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

And when the marching band comes by, that's not really a marching band, but they're playing the folding chairs. Go look at this video. It's brilliant. Whoever came up with that. And obviously, they've got to be members of the marching band because their timing is perfect if you watched a video like they're doing this.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

Oh, yeah. They didn't just go out there and just slap some chairs. Right. No, they practiced.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

This is hardcore practice. So hard. I applaud.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

I think we all have had a summer job, whether it was you're a lifeguard, or if you're like me, you worked at JCPenney's or you worked at your local convenience store. Listen to this message we got. I'm 16 and working my very first job this summer. And since school ended, I've worked just about every day as many hours as I'm allowed to. My parents took my first paycheck from me and are refusing to allow me to spend it. They opened a savings account and put the money in there and told me I can't touch it and I can't do anything until I'm 18. We got in a huge fight about it, and they said that money is mine, not theirs. I think I should be allowed to spend it.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

Wait, my money's mine as in the parents? Yep. Okay, that part I don't agree with. So far, I'm following you.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

I I think I should be allowed to spend it because I earned it. What do you guys think?

SPEAKER_01 2:24

Uh all right. So I can tell you that uh I I everybody does this differently. Okay. So there is no 100% perfect answer. What we are gonna get are our text, and that's fine. We're gonna get tax from people of what they did or what they do. And and remember, every situation's different. Sometimes you gotta work because the family needs money and you've got to help out. Okay, keep that in mind. Then there's the the situation where if you want to buy your own things, you need to work because this is how you're going to learn. This is how I buy my own things. I don't agree with the parents saying this is their money that she's earning until she's 18. I think it's great they put it in a savings account, but I don't agree with that line where it's they're saying it's their money.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Until they release it. I I'm probably because it's like, oh, my house. You know how my parents will go, oh, it's my house.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Okay, that comes that works with outfits that you're gonna wear that I have to protect you from being seven years old wearing a uh belly shirt, uh-huh, you know, and looking inappropriate in public.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Or curfew.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Or curfew, or you know, things like that. Okay, so that those are areas like that. In my opinion, what they should have done is come to an agreement with their daughter and said, listen, I think it's great that you want to work. And and some kids do. I I I will tell you this firsthand. I know this from stories. We were at party in the park. One of Tiffany's daughter's old bosses, Jules' old boss, she used to work at the Big M. Is it the Big M or Big W? The Big M Big M in Osceola. She worked there from when she was 14 years old on. She got her working papers. Wow. And she only left a few months ago because she got a full-time job with the county now. She's, you know, graduated and in her in her line of work.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

Right, right. She's moving up in the world.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

One of the one of the her old co-workers said, You've got to tell her we miss her. We, you know, she was great. And I thought that was wonderful. So she had started working very young. I know for a fact Tiffany and her ex did not take uh all of her money. Now, maybe that money went to certain things. Some of it might have gone to the clothes she wanted, some of it might have gone to the car. They made her buy her own car. Okay. You know, so so if you have a discussion and say, We're you, you go go work. This is great. But you're gonna want a car. Well, guess what? You gotta buy your own car. I'll help you with it. You know what I mean? Have the discussion first. Say, okay, if we're going to put some money in savings, let's split it down 60-40 or 50-50. You get to keep some to use, and then let's put some away. Because you do have to have some blow-it money.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

You have to have some blow-up money, but also I can't learn how to spend, whether it's wisely or unwisely, without any money in hand. Right. And I think that's where there does need to be a negotiation, whether it is that 50-50, 60-40, whatever. Because then you know there's definitely going to be some backup money for this this kid, whatever they decide. And maybe it it's the maybe the negotiation is you want a car, so the 50 that we're taking is going towards the car. This other stuff, this other 50 is whatever you want, but may we advise that you don't blow it all on McDonald's.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

Where it's where the where this gets a bad optic is because they took it all without having all of it, without and saying it's theirs and and not having any sort of agreement beforehand. And I'd be pissed too, because I'm the one that's still getting up and going to work. And and now you're just gonna claim it as yours.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

I think at that point, then I would stop working as much as much.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

You know what I would do? I would find a way I'd be like, take it out of direct deposit, hand me the check directly. I'll go to the bank and get my own account. And then I would just eliminate my parents. So you're actually reversing the positive they're trying to do because kids can be rebellious. We got a ton of text. We'll get back to it in a minute.