"Tiny but Fully Unhinged"

Somewhere between “they’ll grow out of it” and “should we call animal control”… there are feral children.

This week, we’re talking about the tiny humans who skipped manners, fear, and basic social norms—and chose violence, chaos, and absolute audacity instead.

From public meltdowns that could qualify as extreme sports… to parents who’ve clearly accepted their fate… to the moments that make you question if kids are okay (they’re not)… we break down the wild, the unfiltered, and the completely unhinged reality of feral kid behavior.

No structure. No reasoning. Just vibes and destruction.

If you’ve ever witnessed a child do something so bold it felt illegal—this one’s for you.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:18

Welcome back to Unhinged Essentials. This would be the week of the 8th. I have Miss Mickey back with us this week. Welcome back.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Thank you. I hope everyone's having a wonderful day and everyone had a great Easter.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

Yeah, we kind of missed Easter, the whole thing. Kinda. I forgot to even mention it last week. My bad. My bad.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

I wasn't thinking about it either.

SPEAKER_02 0:43

So what did you did? Have any big family plans, big family get together?

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Uh no, actually it was a very small family get together. Just a few of the family came and but we made some good food. Pan and green beans and mashed potatoes, you know.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

All the yumminess. All the yumminess.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

Chocolate pie, of course.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

Taco pie. Okay, what's a taco pie?

SPEAKER_00 1:04

Chocolate pie.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

Oh, I thought you said taco.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Oh, I'll get you some cute tips. We'll work on that.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

It's like, what's a taco pie? Okay, you have to explain yourself. So chocolate pie actually does sound pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

It was very good.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

Well, we thought we'd start out this week with a little bit of news this week. So what what you got going on over there?

SPEAKER_00 1:25

Well, I mean, right now we have like the war in Iran where President Trump's altering strategy regarding the war launched on February 28th with conflicting reports on operation timelines. Iran continues to challenge US deadlines, and the US warplane was reported shot down.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, I think so getting shot down, but well, I heard about I heard about them uh getting shot down, but um, and I guess there was like somebody missing or something. I I honestly didn't look at the news.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

I probably should have, but did not hear anything about anybody missing at all, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

I th I thought they I thought it seemed like they were missing or something. They may have gotten them back by now. I I don't remember. Exactly. I'm sorry, my bad. I probably should have done just a little bit more research.

SPEAKER_00 2:15

Well, I probably should have too, but I did not suppose. Well, the space exploration, NASA's uh Artemis, I think I'm pronouncing that right. Uh Artemis New mission has entered its third day with the crew successfully traveling around the far side of the moon. So that's kind of exciting.

SPEAKER_02 2:36

Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool that they because it launched on I can't remember if it was Friday or Saturday.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Uh I can't I was we actually just talked about that. I cannot remember what day launched.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

I want to say it was Saturday. This is the third day, right? So wait, no, so I guess it I guess it would launched on Friday then. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Yeah, I think it was Friday.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

I thought that was pretty cool though.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

So and uh Federal Government has blocked uh Trump administration demand for college colleges to prove they do not consider race and admin admissions, calling the move chaotic notes. So I didn't know. I know colleges have to have a certain amount of every ethnicity that they can.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

But I didn't know that they were like um really considering race as part of their admissions.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

Well, you know, like like even a hospital here in Oklahoma, they will hire their own race before they would hire any other ethnicity.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Right.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

So like if there's like management, that race would get it before, say, a Caucasian would.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

So I mean that's that's true. So I mean they don't think that happens in a lot of businesses though, really.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

I mean, I guess it's the benefit of being kind of government-ran, I guess. I don't know. Anyway, yeah, moving on.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

So anyway, um, the cabinet shakeups. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has led the outer out outsters today on blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Words are hard, words are hard.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Extending administration personnel changes according to the CBS News and the Week News. So I don't really know what they're going with that, but they're having a shake up.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

Okay. All right. Let's all shake it up. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Well, in the international news, Russia launched a drone attack on Odessa, Ukraine, causing casualties.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

I've I heard about that.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Yeah, that's it's sad. I hate that anybody dies.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

So the EPA has added microplastics and certain drugs to the monitoring list for tap water.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

So now let's everybody run to the sink and get a drink and find out if we get sick or not, I guess. I'm all well water here, so it's like and in the entertainment system this year or this week, uh, Super Mario Galaxy Movie grossed 372.5 million globally.

SPEAKER_02 5:10

Okay, I haven't even heard of that. What is that? Do you know?

SPEAKER_00 5:13

It it's made it's based off the game, the Super Mario game, but it's the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Is it so is it a cartoon or uh yes, it's it's cartoonish, yes.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

Very much so. My kids have watched it, I think, a hundred times.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

Oh wow. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

So Oklahoma lawmakers are reviewing a 50 million water and fraction infrastructure proposal while Attorney General Gitner Grummond is seeking to end in-state tuition and undocumented students according to KOSU and KXII. So, and that is all I have in the news for the week.

SPEAKER_02 5:50

Okay, and then on the nursing side of it, so I was doing a little bit of research, not a lot, just a little bit, but they have like a it's called a moxie, and I guess in Texas they're actually utilizing this. It's a robot that delivers for like it'll deliver trays, mill trays, it'll deliver blood, specimens, things like that. So I kind of went to the to the website and kind of looked at it and read over a little bit of it, and it was like it showed that it was um had like a 99% accuracy. It's supposed to relieve like some of the I guess some of the stress on healthcare staff.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

And then I heard of drones um delivering packages from the air.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

Uh-huh. Isn't that an Amazon thing?

SPEAKER_00 6:35

So I've heard of the drones and I've heard of um like I don't know if it's Amazon exactly or if it's the United States Postal Service, but one of them or some of them are using drones to deliver packages, but I've never heard of anything in the nursing thing, which is pretty cool because you could probably get stuff somewhere quicker.

SPEAKER_02 6:55

Yeah, I mean you're not have to take time out of your own day to go and run and try to get all the things done. You know what I mean? Like if you have specimens or whatever, you just drop it in the machine, it'll take it to where it needs to go.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

And it's supposed to be totally cool.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

Yeah, and it's supposed to be like um like you can lock it where nobody can get into it, where you have to have a code to get into it. So I thought that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

And you know something about that though, like transplant recipients and stuff, you know, they have to get that stuff where it needs to go, like super quick.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

So if they could drop that into something that could carry, you know, uh organ of some kind, that would be really amazing for you know, transportation for that, because you know, you gotta stop and land in a helicopter, stop and land in a plane, transport it to the plane, you know. And if you got a drone, you drop in the box and they throw it off, you're there early.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

I wonder, I wonder if that would actually work though. Because I mean, with like with like organs and stuff like that, you would have to keep it at a certain temperature.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

And it would have to be those those styrofoam things that they do meld like insulin, um, anything that has to be refrigerated, yeah, and they melt with ice packs in it. And when I myself use insulin, and when I've had to have it meld, the ice packs are so ice and they have these big, thick, like four-inch styrofoam containers.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

I guess you would have to be more concerned about like weight and things like that for it. But I mean, who knows? I mean, the way everything's progressing, it could happen at some point. Have a have a liver transplant needed, and somebody donates the liver and then stick it in a box and fly it there, and it'll be there in a couple hours.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

I mean, I always think that would be amazing, though.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

I think that would be cool, but I mean the boxy thing is pretty cool though. I mean, like, not all the hospitals have the um oh the sucky tube, the vacuum thing that they can stick things in. So I've worked at a couple of hospitals that did have that, and it made it pretty handy until things get lost.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

Right.

SPEAKER_02 8:57

And then the then the then the equipment decides to dump it all out and like a month later, and so you have ripe urine and clotted blood and everything. Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Well, the thought of transporting an organ through the through the air on my drone would be what if it got lost?

SPEAKER_02 9:15

Or if it or if it crashed.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

Yeah, you know, you got an organ sitting out in somebody's field.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

It's like blowing up. There's there's a there's something laying out in the backyard and the dog's eating it. That's not good.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

I'm just saying, you know, I mean you get that's a real thing too, because you know, equipment breaks down and and things don't always go where they're supposed to go.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

That's awful.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

Yeah, that's that's morbid thought there for a moment.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

And then there's uh also like in nursing that shows that there's gonna be a probable 40% reduction in the amount of nurses by 2029, and it's due to burnout, understaffing. I mean, honestly, it's it's a it's a whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

The burnout though, I really can. I have been to the emergency rows a hundred million times, and those nurses are tired.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:05

Very tired, they're working doubles, some of them are working triples.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Yeah, and I mean, you don't know how many days they're picking up in a in a pay period, you know. I mean, right I've I've worked nine days in a pay period, ten days in a pay period.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

I'm not a very pleasant person after I do it, but like I don't have the nursing experience, but I the home health experience I've had, I have been on a 72-hour shift. I could it it's the you you're barely moving at the end of that shift, barely moving.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

I don't know. It's like, I mean, burnout's a real thing, though. I mean, it's it's hard. It's like because you go to you go to work, you take care of sick people all day, and then Lord forbid you come home and one of your kids are sick or your spouse is sick, and then it's like, oh, I get to do this all over again. This is fun. It always works that way. And then there was another thing that I read. Um, there was actually a Utah nurse that talked her friend into believing that she was sick, and so she OD'd her on insulin.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

Yeah, so she she was actually convicted for manslaughter, which I find scary.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

Yeah, she should have been, because you don't just give insulin to somebody who's not needing it.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

I mean, she had this was her friend, she had her convinced that she was sick, like she was dying, and she gave her insulin.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

That's not a friend.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

Right.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

I've had plenty of friends, but none of them ever tried to convince me that I was dying or that I needed to die.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

That's I mean, it's awful. It really is.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

But it's awful.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

It's like, I mean, how I mean, you're you're put in that position to take care of people, but then you're gonna try to convince somebody that they're sick and you're gonna kill them.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Isn't that like that Munchauser bipoxy?

SPEAKER_02 11:57

Well, the it showed like from what I read, it there it was like financially motivated.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Oh, so she was in a room.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

Yeah, so I think it was more she was convincing her of this. Her friend had money, maybe didn't have family or whatever, and so she I personally would rather have my friend than my friend's money. Right.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

I mean my friend means more to me than that damn dollar does.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Right. I mean, you know, I mean, maybe she was desperate enough, but I mean, she's convicted of manslaughter, so I mean, thank God she's not gonna have a nursing license anymore.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

So my none.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

So there are some twisted peoples out there.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

Yes, there are for sure. You know what else is out there?

SPEAKER_02 12:44

What?

SPEAKER_00 12:45

A handful of feral children.

SPEAKER_02 12:48

Yes, so so speaking of that, uh, that would be our topic this week. Um primarily, you know, I remember when I was a kid, if I acted out, I guess is the best way to put it, I would be in trouble.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

Back-handed, but spanked, whatever to do.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Uh-huh. I think I think I remember I think I remember getting a bloody nose when I tried to be acting out. Yeah, I think I remember it. I'm like, I'm like, I learned real quick, don't scrape, don't be yelling at mama, because you're gonna get hit.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

And I tell you, I don't mind children. I love kids. I have 14 of them, so I don't mind kids at all. But we went to this restaurant, and you know, it's a nice restaurant, quiet dinner, you know, people are talking, nobody's screaming, yelling, and this group of little kids is in there just hanging over the seats and poking other people, and you know, the parents are just watching them, not telling them to sit down, not telling them to leave people alone. I almost had to say something, but I didn't because I kind of might have took it too far. But you know, if you're not gonna discipline your children in public or correct them in public in public, somebody else is going to.

SPEAKER_02 14:00

Well, I mean, honestly, if you're if you're in public, you do not need to have your children acting like they special.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

No. I'm like my kids would have you, you of all people would know my kids would have thought of Benjamin Warner Bart.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

Oh yeah. I mean, I I couldn't I just I've never understood why you're why people are afraid to discipline their kids. Yeah, that's that's the one I was looking for. I I just I don't understand that. It's like when I was a kid, I mean, I I was no stranger to getting my butt tore up.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

Me either. Me either.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

I mean, if I acted stupid, I was gonna get into some trouble. And I wouldn't go out.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

If you acted like that in public, my mother would have taken me to the restroom in that store or restaurant or out to the car, and whatever videos they have would have shown her busting my tail like a big boy.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

Uh-huh. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm not I'm not saying that spanking your kids is the right thing to do, but at least make them mind.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Between spanking and abuse, that's the thing that people don't get. I mean, I mean your kids and not abuse them.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

I mean, it's I I mean, I'm not like pro beat your children. I'm not that person. But at least make them mind. I mean, you know, it's like if they're acting stupid, get up and leave.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Well, something, I mean, they at least have control over them, where they know that look that you give them, or they know that tone of your voice, or they know that if they don't stop now, they're in some serious trouble when you get home.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

Yeah, I mean, it's just, you know, it's like, it's like I remember working in an ER. It this has been several years ago, and this person brought in their kid, and of course I was the nurse for them. That kid almost kicked me in my junk. I was like, I I corrected the situation. The mother just looked at me and I was like, I was like, if you're not gonna do it, I promise you I'm gonna do it because you're not gonna kick my kick me in my junk. That ain't gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

Right, there's no need for that.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

I'm like, I don't, uh-uh. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

So I had my mother-in-law in the ER one night, and she was sick, really sick, and there was like, I don't know, four or five kids in there, and at first they were just sitting kind of quietly, they were talking to each other, talking to their parents. I think it was two different sets of parents, but it was four to five kids, and then all of a sudden they just got the birth demonity and they were running around stripped over my mother-in-law's feet, everything. And I I got pissed and I did say something because you're not gonna come in here into the emergency room and like cause my mother more distress than she's already under.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

Well, I mean, it's it's really uncalled for. I mean, it's inappropriate to have your kid. I mean, if your kid is sick and is screaming and crying and you can't console them, I get that.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

That's one thing.

SPEAKER_02 16:44

It is a hundred percent. Because I mean, number one, the kid's scared, completely scared, because I mean, they're in an ER, it's a strange place. I mean, unless their parents is bringing them there four and five times a week, which I see. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

And elder's office, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

You know, I mean, it's like they're scared, and I get that, and then they don't feel good on top of that. And you know, I mean, I've seen like I've seen parents bring kids in there that were perfect. Like, like troopers. They sat there, they were quiet, they didn't act stupid, and don't bring your kid to the ER and let them crawl crawl around on the floor. That is disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

That's probably not the best place for you to be crawling anyway.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

It's disgusting. I'm like, I'm like, do you know the things that we step in and then we're walking all over that floor? And that is gross. And you pray to God that they have a decent housekeeper that's cleaning those floors, you know.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

Right.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

Like, if they're expecting the nursing staff to get to it, you're probably gonna be walking in some stuff that you don't want to see or know about.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

Well, and yeah, also, like, okay, so I'm going back into the ER, like in the back part, not in the waiting area.

SPEAKER_01 17:53

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

And sometimes, you know, you got these kids that are not sick, they're there because mom's sick or dad's sick or brother or sister are sick, and then they got the ones that are not sick, and they're like wanting to leave. They're like bitching, complaining, uh, you know, and being so loud, and then when they don't get their way, they're throwing fits and screaming and stuff. How is that helping anybody?

SPEAKER_02 18:15

Well, I mean, it's really not, but you know, it's really it's actually inappropriate to bring other kids to the ER anyway. I mean, right. I mean, if you're if you're sick and you have children, you probably need to consider finding a babysitter or leaving your spouse at home with your kid. Because most of the time, we don't even allow children under a certain age in the ER unless they are the patient.

SPEAKER_00 18:41

Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 18:42

And then you just can't get angry with this because we said no.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

Well, but people get angry because other people try to discipline their children because they won't.

SPEAKER_02 18:51

Well, and that's I mean, I don't, I typically will keep my mouth shut, but like if I hear a kid out there acting crazy and you're so much nicer than me because I don't keep my mouth shut anymore. I do, but most of the time, like if we have a sick patient and they have their kids with them and their kids are acting out, I won't even bring you back to a room until I have a room with a door on it that I can shut and confine your craziness to your room. I'm like, I don't I don't want to deal with your kids. It's not my responsibility to deal with your kids. No, that's you chose to have them.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Those children are cold kids. When I walk past the doorways in back in New York, they have those rooms or apart. Like they're going through the cabinets, the drawers, they got the trash cans pulled barred. I've seen all that. And what why is the parent allowing that? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

Well, yeah, because I've seen some of the things I've had to throw away in the trash can, and it's not pretty. It's it's gross. It's really gross. And you have those people who who are acting out and will poop in the trash can on top of that.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

Oh gross. I would have to be somebody down. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

I mean, it's happened. I've I've seen a patient stick their butt through the bar on a bed and poop in the trash can.

SPEAKER_00 20:12

Maybe wearing that trash can all the time. I'm just saying, you ain't doing that on my standard.

SPEAKER_02 20:19

I mean, it's people wild out. I'm like, and you know, kids are kids are adorable. Love kids. I mean, I love kids as long as I get to send them home.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

I don't want them to act like assholes.

SPEAKER_02 20:30

No, no. I mean, I just feel like it's a lack of parenting. Parenton. Parrot parent. I can't say it that way.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Parenting?

SPEAKER_02 20:39

Parenting. Parenting. There you go. God, words are really hard. It's it's really a lack of that. It's like you can't be your kid's best friend. That's just not the way it works.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

And then part of it too is the system has made it hard for us to discipline our children without getting in trouble or being reported to DHS.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

Well, and I get that, and there should be a limit to that. I mean, if you're yes I mean, you can't you can't expect your kid to grow up to be a decent person if you're not giving them any kind of standards.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

So I got my tail busted robber, you know. I mean, my mom even hit us with brooms and mops and stuff as far as using those the handles that walk our butts. We had to pick switches off of the tree. I think I turned out pretty good. I mean my kids are not feral.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

I mean, girl, I got my I got my ass beat a few good times for acting stupid. I mean, it I mean, I don't know. You can definitely tell a difference from our generation to this generation. And I'm like, it's like, it's just, it's like, and you know, I remember I remember back when I was a kid that they're like, what's wrong with you? You're you're completely different than than we were. So I mean, I know it's a big generation gap, you know. It is but it's like I just feel like there is a lack of the P word. I can't say it.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

So like me raising some of my grandkids. Kids because their mom and dad are not acceptably raising them because it's too hard. They don't listen. They don't follow rules. They want to do what they want to do. So be a parent.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

I mean, you know, you say no.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

What's that word? Why would you say that? How dare you?

SPEAKER_00 22:21

I have to raise my grandkids because some of my own children cannot raise their own kids because the kids can't never be told no by that parent.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

Which I I I just I don't understand. I mean, there's gotta be a limit, you know. I mean, if you want if you want to be your kid's best friend, it's not gonna work. I mean, it's like you can't be their best friend, you have to be their parent first.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

And that's what I tell my kids. I'm like, um, they have enough friends, they need a parent.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

And it's just the way it is. And I I have to admit that I do get rather pissy with my children because I have some of their children. I'm like, how are you gonna pick and choose what children you want to raise?

SPEAKER_02 23:04

Yeah, that's I mean, that's a whole that's a whole nother issue.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

It's like it really is, but that's what I have to face every day. Yeah. Why do you pick and choose these three but not these three? Uh why do you pick and choose those two and not this one? Yeah, you know, and how is it that I end up with them because you don't want to?

SPEAKER_02 23:24

Because you're crazy enough to do it. Damn right, I am.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

I mean, everybody collects things, I just happen to collect children.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

You you you you do have a thing for collecting kids. I do.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

Because they know that here it's structured, they have to do what they are supposed to do, or they're in trouble, period. I don't play games.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

And my kids know when we go out in public, you better act like we're in public. You can act an ass at home all you want. But we're in public and you better act like we're in public because I am not gonna play that game.

SPEAKER_02 23:56

Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing out of this is that you have to parent your kids. I mean, you can't you have to make them, you're responsible for the way they turn out.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Absolutely, 110%.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

I mean, if you want to raise an idiot, then do that. But I don't think anybody as a parent wants to see their kids not be successful.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

Exactly. But I have a catch 22 on that though, because my children, I've only gave birth to one child, and I have 14. So my other 13 children are adopted, from which like 11 of those children that are adopted were already teenagers when I got them.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

So they're already been geared and and brought up through different kinds of situations that under not under their control at all, but being, you know, neglected or not taught or just totally pushed aside. And so some of them had no real concept of what is it even like to be a kid, let alone how do you act as a kid.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

Yeah, I mean, like you kind of you could it you kind of dove into the whole you got the rough kids.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Like I did get the rough kids.

SPEAKER_02 25:09

You got the rough kids, and you know, like even looking at them now, most of those rough kids have turned out great.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Yes. Out of my 14 kids, I have 11 kids that are absolutely amazing. 11 of them absolutely amazing, and I have three that are really on the fence line of whether they even have self-respect for themselves, let alone anybody else.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Yeah. I mean, you know, it's not it's I mean, you obviously have shown that, hey, I can get these kids to grow up and be good human beings, and you know, you've you've shown that. And even being around you and everything, you know, like I see the kids and they're awesome kids. So, you know.

SPEAKER_00 25:50

Not every one of them. Not I have I have three feral. I do. You have your share of feral. I don't want to take to the ER because I'm gonna leave them there. So because they're gonna need medical attention before I'm done. So, you know, I mean I'm just saying because those three are definitely my um peas in a paw, I guess you could call. Okay. I don't know. Like absolutely great children.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

I think I think a lot of it is I just wish that people would teach their kids to act appropriately when in public, you know, like don't be disrespectful to your elders. Don't, you know, what those are like basic things.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

And do you know what these kids are saying about that these days?

SPEAKER_02 26:35

What's that?

SPEAKER_00 26:36

And they're teenagers. I'm talking like from 12 to 18. Well, if you do respect me, then I'll respect you. No, baby, that's not how that works. You're a child, you give respect, period.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

Well, a lot of it is is you have to earn respect.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

But if you're if you're a child, you earn the respect you get as a child, not as an adult.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's like it's like people these days are like, give me, give me, give me, you owe me, you owe me, you owe me. And it's like, it's like, actually, no, I don't owe you shit. I haven't, I haven't, there's not a damn thing I owe you for.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Let me give you a good example of just just a Sunday, okay? Which was uh yesterday, right?

SPEAKER_02 27:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

Yeah, okay, so just Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

Okay, so guys, we are recording early. This is with this is our typical thing. So this was even Modern Reed's typical thing. We record a couple of days early, then we get our episodes out. So the explanation of yes, yesterday was Easter and it was Sunday. So anyway, go on, go on.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

So anyway, um, one of my grandchildren um asked me, Can I call my mother? And I said, Um, yes, here in just a little bit. And and they were like, Um, I would like to call them now because they didn't bring me an Easter basket. Oh wow. Um, are you entitled to an Easter basket? You know, and so they called their mother and was like, Oh, I just want to tell you I love you and goodnight. And I'm like, No, tell them the real reason you called. Tell them how mad you were and what you were saying. Because this child was saying, I don't ever want my mother to come back here because she didn't get me an Easter basket. Oh, wow. Exactly. And that's what I'm saying, you know, and but this is how this child grew up until I got him two years ago, and no respect, none at all. It's all about what can you give me and what can I get? And when we go to the store or even to the ER, he throws a fit axe out and we have to leave because I'm not gonna sit here and let him act like that in public.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Well, I mean, I understand that I wouldn't either. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. We're not we're not doing that. We're not doing that. We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna leave and we'll we'll re-evaluate our situation.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

No, we don't reevaluate, you'll stay at home and I'll go back to the store. That's what we want to do. I'm just saying, because I don't play that.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

I mean, that's really the appropriate thing to do. If your kid's acting crazy and screaming and acting a fool and you're somewhere in public, load them up, leave.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

Yeah, that's what I do. I mean, now that sometimes I'll pop that butt. I don't care. I've had big reporters to DHS for spanking my child in public in Walmart. When if you guys want to raise them, come get them.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

I mean, that's the sad thing about it.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

I remember Tina, come get 'em.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

I remember one time my nephew. He he lived with my parents and I, and my mom spanked his butt, and he threatened to call the call DHS on her. And she was like, let me get the phone for you, and I'll even dial the number. I'll even dial the number.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

No problem.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

110%.

SPEAKER_02 29:43

Here, if they want you, I'll even go pack you bags for you.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Definitely. Oh, you got to have in the dryer? I'm sorry. You have to wait for it to dry.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

I'll I'll ship it to you. It's fine.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

I have these I you know, I have a I have a 10-year-old grandson who tells me all the time I'm gonna run away because he doesn't get his weight.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Huh?

SPEAKER_00 30:03

And I'll just get his little sandwich made, stick it in the baggie, you know, get his little clothes and a little overnight duffel bag and set it on the porch and bye. I'll see you later.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

I mean, what do you want me to do?

SPEAKER_00 30:14

I'm not gonna blow, you know, smoke bubbles up your butt.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

So if you're gonna run away, go. You don't have to tell me, just go. I'll report you as missing and always run away, and then we'll see where it goes from there.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

You'll be back. It'll be fine.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Yeah. You'll be back.

unknown 30:28

I know you'll be back.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

The sun's going down. He wants his warm bed back.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Well, you know, he did run away, so wow. And um dark had just hit, and he'd been gone for about an hour, hour and a half, maybe, and he never left town. Uh, we live in a very tiny town, so but he never left town. Um, but he was hiding in the in the uh ditches and in the tall grass whenever a car would go by. But he was literally like almost in front of our home.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

And so my other son uh caught up with him and found him because he was coming back home because it was dark.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

That didn't last very long.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

Yeah, it didn't last very long. He was scared and he was cold because he had on a pair of shorts.

SPEAKER_02 31:13

Well, I mean, that that would be me if I threatened to run away. I'd be like, it's dark, it's cold, and I want a hot shower in my bed. Leave me alone. I need some food and I'm hungry.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

Yeah, no, it didn't last very long. Let me tell you, he was back in a flash, so but he had the police report on it now, though, because I did call the police and report it.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

Well, I mean, you kind of have to do that anyway, so I mean keep some of those spheral children under control at some point. Yeah. All right, guys. Uh, so that was our episode for Wednesday, the 8th. Um, thank you, Mickey, for coming and hanging out again.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

Thank you for having me. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

Yes, I did too. Um, again, guys, I do have TikTok, Facebook, um, Snapchat, um, what's the other one? Um TikTok. No, said TikTok. Um Oh god, I can't think of the other one. Um, yeah, anyway, it's there. I'll eventually think of it. After we finish, after we finish this episode, I'll think of it and be like, I'm a dummy. Um anyway, um, thank you guys so much for coming and hanging out with us again. We will have episode 10 out, or I'm sorry, the cuss and discuss out on Friday. Um God, words are hard, my brain's not functioning, I haven't had enough days off. Um, anyway, guys, thank you so much. Loves, cuddles, and kisses.

SPEAKER_00 32:42

Have a great day.