SPEAKER_00 0:00

Do you want to remind you that we got another hot one today? Not as hot as yesterday, but I think it's all relative when you're sitting here talking about, well, we're gonna get to uh you know 92, but it won't be a hundred. It's ninety-two! It's gonna you're gonna feel it. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

For people who work outside, God bless. God bless.

SPEAKER_00 0:16

I don't even think because you know we were mentioning earlier in the show that uh you you you can't drive anywhere in Elmira right now. Every single road is having something done to it, which is great. That's not a complaint. That's just be prepared for the fact they're redirecting you because they're they're repaving and doing that. But I don't think they put the uh the folks out in this sort of heat to do that. I think they're like, we need to delay a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

Don't they do it overnight or they'll do like a real early shift?

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Do you think we're a big city? Come on.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

I don't know. They used to do that on 86.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

86 is a major interstate, that's a a state highway, whereas, you know, we're not in downtown.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

So I went through downtown yesterday and I didn't have any issues yesterday. But, you know, last week we had the street painting festival, streets were closed. This week we have Gus Macker. So you're right, there is going to be delays wherever you go, whether it's traffic or whether it's events. Yeah. That because even last week I was trying to get to, I had a live broadcast at Holy Smokes, and Scott and I were exchanging vehicles, and I'm like, oh, wait a second, how am I gonna get there?

SPEAKER_00 1:15

I know I had to give you the redirect.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

Yes, because I I like for a I don't live in Elmyra. So for a second, I was like, wait a second, wait, whoa, whoa, what am I doing? What am I doing? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

Well, even even I do live in Elmyra, and I sit there and I'm like, oh, okay, well, you're gonna have to take the Madison Bridge, first light, Mega Left. Remember this?

SPEAKER_01 1:31

I'm like I ended up going walnut.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Okay, that works.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Yeah, I went walnut and then yeah, the back way, and it it worked, but it was oh crap, gotta leave yourself some extra time. You're gonna need it. Right, exactly, exactly. Do you think this is true? I read, and I I don't think this is true. Families with four kids are the happiest.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

Um, there's only one way that that's uh that that that's possible. Well, there's two things. I bet you get a hell of a tax return for being able to claim four kids with the IRS. Okay. Uh so I mean that but that'll that's only a once-a-year boost, you know. I mean, we'll see at Sam's Club right after that check hits and it's gone in four hours. Uh, but I think the only way that works is if one of the kids is old enough that can assume a role of doing a lot of the things that both parents would normally have to split to do. Well, that's not fair. Well, I but that's the way a lot of this works. So if you have a 16-plus son or daughter and you have a six-year-old son or daughter, who's the bottom, you can sort of lean in and they have and sometimes, in some cases, the older kids really don't mind. Like they just sort of pick up and do it and be like, that's my little bro or my little sister. Sure. That is about the only way I could see for a family of four being happier. And yet that's what they're saying. You have to have four kids to be at your max happiness. Yes. No.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Well, okay, let me let me break this down a little bit more. And I've talked about this before. I long, long time ago, I dated somebody with three kids. And when there was one kid in the house, quiet. Yep. Two kids, a rumble here or there. Three kids was World War III because two are against one always at some point. So is it four because it's balanced, balanced fighting, and there's enough for everyone to be entertained by each other? I don't really think so. And here's why.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

I think there, I think there's somebody who gets lost in the mix when it comes to this.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

By the way, I can see that happening. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

You you can you can refute this all day long on our text messages because if you're one of four and you think your family's happy, I do want to hear why why it's so great.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Yeah, because I'm curious. Was there an older sibling or were you the older sibling and you took on a lot of responsibilities, alleviating for your parents? Because think about this. Most of these results probably came from parents. So they're probably going, well, yeah, you know, the 16-year-old picks up a lot of the slack.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Well, and if you're an only child, you got nobody to play with. So that I don't think is optimal happiness.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

Plus, I think there's a lot of no I was pretty happy as a kid. I mean, I have two brothers. I know, but they moved out because they're older than I was, so I lived like an only child.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Okay, well then I won't say I won't say the second comment that I've got to do. Go ahead. Go ahead and say it. I know it. The entitledness. Oh, there was a touch of that.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Yes. And then if you there's two. Also, I was the youngest and adopted son. Oh, yeah. Oh man, you're totally the Disney kid. You're damn right.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

So then if there's two, two can be great. I was I was one of two, but sometimes the two don't like each other.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Sometimes I've heard your stories. I can't believe you actually communicate with your brother anymore.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

I said, I I just said to Zach yesterday, I said, I'll always love my brother. Sometimes I don't like him, but I all I'll always love him.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Yeah. Because you have to.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Then there's three then there's three, which goes to what I was just saying the other day, how there's two against one. So now I'm kind of breaking it down. Four might be the sweet spots. I told you my reason.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

But aren't you always struggling financially? Struggling financially and time. Oh, do you not want for nothing? You get to a certain point. You get to a certain point, you have to transport different kids, different one's gonna play baseball, one's gonna do cheer, one's gonna play soccer, one's on the swimming thing. God, you need that 16 year old to get a license quick.