Speaker 1: So this is one that you may relate to as
Speaker 1: when you were in college, but if you're a parent,
Speaker 1: you'll have to think about this when your kids go
Speaker 1: off to college. Shannon's staph son is freshman now at
Speaker 1: Michigan State, Go green Way And what did dad Wes
Speaker 1: find out?
Speaker 2: Well, you know those things that either you as a
Speaker 2: parent or your parent said not while you're living under
Speaker 2: my room, like you are not allowed to do, And
Speaker 2: this is one of those things. So my husband, Wes
Speaker 2: was at Michigan State over the weekend because my step
Speaker 2: son Kieran is a cheerleader. He's one of the male
Speaker 2: cheerleaders on the team, so he's always on the sidelines.
Speaker 2: And so Wes was at the game this weekend and
Speaker 2: he was moving sections and he did one of.
Speaker 3: These at his dad.
Speaker 2: He like stuck out his tongue and held up his
Speaker 2: fingers in a peace sign, and Wes realized that his
Speaker 2: tongue was pure. And Kieran has wanted to do that
Speaker 2: and the answer was always a real quick no. And
Speaker 2: he went to college and he got his dungue piers
Speaker 2: because he can.
Speaker 3: He's eighteen.
Speaker 2: He's not living under dad or mom's roof and so
Speaker 2: he did it.
Speaker 3: How did Wes feel about that?
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you something. What he got Wes
Speaker 2: at a great time, because Wes has done Wes did that. Okay,
Speaker 2: West has had a lot of things pierced. Not that,
Speaker 2: but he's had a lot of things pierce before you ask,
Speaker 2: he's never had that. Heres like Wes has done all
Speaker 2: the things. And also Wes is we are watching Kieran
Speaker 2: live his absolute best life and be the happiest he's
Speaker 2: ever been. And so for what Wes is like whatever
Speaker 2: whatever at this point, like to see this kid smile
Speaker 2: and just be so truly joyful if that means getting
Speaker 2: his stunge pierced.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I got to throw this as a
Speaker 1: topic because this seems like it's a thing that happens
Speaker 1: when you get off to college or you get out
Speaker 1: at your parents' house. Like, yeah, after you graduate high school,
Speaker 1: what did you do after you graduate?
Speaker 3: After you got.
Speaker 1: You know, done being under the thumb of a big brother,
Speaker 1: big sister, mom and dad or dad and mom?
Speaker 3: What did you go out and do? Eight four to
Speaker 3: fur Mojo Live.
Speaker 2: How long has it been like he's been at school? Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like a month, right, not even he works quickly.
Speaker 1: By the way, you want to open up a tattoo
Speaker 1: place and a piercing place on a college campus because
Speaker 1: that's where the kids are going right away. He did
Speaker 1: have a tattoo, though, didn't he when he was younger?
Speaker 1: Does he have a tatto or no?
Speaker 3: He has got a.
Speaker 2: Couple of times, two or three, And actually Wes took
Speaker 2: him to get a tattoos because that was that was
Speaker 2: the thing. Wes was like, I will take you to
Speaker 2: get a tattoo, like, tattoos to me are cool, but
Speaker 2: he just did not want him to get this tongue piercing.
Speaker 3: My shocker was my oldest son.
Speaker 1: When my oldest son started getting tattoos and the next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, it turns into a sleeve. Yeah. I was like,
Speaker 1: because I am not a tattoo guy, so I never
Speaker 1: I don't have any tattoos at all. And that was
Speaker 1: always a that was a shocker for me. The other shacker, too,
Speaker 1: is when they they start openly vaping in front of you,
Speaker 1: or they openly start doing weed pens and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, and then he turns in you
Speaker 1: know what it turns into Wait for this. It turns
Speaker 1: into them asking you to go and get pick up
Speaker 1: their order at the greenhouse.
Speaker 3: You don't know if I'm ever ask my mom to
Speaker 3: do that. No, my dad.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, I wouldn't ask your dad because
Speaker 1: your dad you would already have it.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't need to go figure up.
Speaker 1: Dad would go, I'll pick it up, and he might
Speaker 1: take a couple out.
Speaker 3: Amelia, what's happening, Hi, Hi, good morning, good morning. What's happening?
Speaker 4: Nothing? I just I heard the subject and that made
Speaker 4: me think of the tattoo on my butt that I
Speaker 4: got in call it nice.
Speaker 2: We go on left cheek, right cheek.
Speaker 5: It's a little angel.
Speaker 6: And my parents still don't know about it.
Speaker 4: I'm thirty two.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's great. Would they be mad, even
Speaker 2: at thirty two years old, that you got a tattoo
Speaker 2: in your body.
Speaker 4: They are so Catholic they would kill an angel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know it's an angel watching. You gotta
Speaker 3: have it.
Speaker 1: You got to always have it when you're doing your
Speaker 1: first tattoo, as like Joe did. It was a tattoo
Speaker 1: for his grandfather and you know what I mean, So
Speaker 1: you got to do it for a family member that we're.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, that's sweet, Robin, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 6: Hey? So as soon as I graduated high school, I
Speaker 6: got a tattoo and I talked to of course they
Speaker 6: bombed out. And then as soon as they got to college,
Speaker 6: I got my Billy blitzen Hears and passed out.
Speaker 5: Because there was somebody on campus.
Speaker 3: So it's just by a random person.
Speaker 6: That gave it to Yeah, it was just a random
Speaker 6: person in a room.
Speaker 3: That was doing par By the way, that might not
Speaker 3: be advised. Okay, again, never do it.
Speaker 6: Never do it.
Speaker 1: As as a parent. You want your kids safety. You
Speaker 1: don't want an infection. You're hoping that, uh Eva, what
Speaker 1: did you go do?
Speaker 5: I got a lip tattoo, So they didn't want me
Speaker 5: to get a tattoo, So let's just get it where
Speaker 5: they can never see it right on the lip at
Speaker 5: that one. No, it honestly like kind of made me
Speaker 5: want to go get another one, but I'm way too scared.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it live in my childhood nickname, so they
Speaker 5: can't be that mad.
Speaker 3: What is it in your loop? What's the tattoo?
Speaker 5: It says diva Eva, diva eva Eva.
Speaker 1: That's a long one, by the way, hold on keep talking.
Speaker 1: I want to see if I can actually hear it is, Uh.
Speaker 3: What's what's going on?
Speaker 1: Like? I want to see piercings and tattoos. When people
Speaker 1: do piercings and tattoos, if there's any obstruction to what
Speaker 1: they're speaking or there.
Speaker 3: You know what's going on? Taylor? You there?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 4: You turn then I so I Yeah. I turned eighteen,
Speaker 4: and a week later I went to college and I
Speaker 4: walked into a tattoo shoup to get my belly button
Speaker 4: piers and I got that done, and then a week
Speaker 4: after that, I got my first tattoo, and then I've
Speaker 4: just continuously gotten tattoos. But I didn't tell my parents, yeah,
Speaker 4: that I'd gotten my belly button piers, and I had
Speaker 4: ordered extra jewelry online and instead of being sent to
Speaker 4: my dorm room, they got sent to my parents. So
Speaker 4: my dad called me up on the phone.
Speaker 5: Mind you, I'm eighteen, I don't live there no more.
Speaker 4: And my dad yelled at me over the phone for
Speaker 4: ten minutes in front of my friends.
Speaker 1: Here's the part whereas a dad, I get pissed about
Speaker 1: this whole thing. I don't know if West would feel
Speaker 1: the same way when it goes on the emergency credit
Speaker 1: card that's only supposed to be used if there's ever
Speaker 1: a problem.
Speaker 2: Oh Wes had no idea, So it definitely wasn't on
Speaker 2: you know, like any sort of card or anything.
Speaker 1: Because that's the thing, like each one of our kids
Speaker 1: has their own debts, and they work and do all
Speaker 1: that stuff, but they get a credit card which is
Speaker 1: their emergency credit card. Like when the boys went to
Speaker 1: school in Chicago, if there was a hey, we need
Speaker 1: you home, you know you gotta You can't do the megabus,
Speaker 1: you're gonna jump on an airplane book a ticket. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, when I start seeing charges on there
Speaker 1: for you know, Tammy's tattoos or something like that or never,
Speaker 1: it's never like tammy tattoos.
Speaker 2: It's like nine lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tattoo, right, It's like it's like strip
Speaker 1: club or tattoo place, which which one is it?
Speaker 3: So hold on a second, Grace there, morning, morning, morning.
Speaker 3: Listen to this.
Speaker 1: Grace didn't just go get a tattoo. She didn't get
Speaker 1: a part of her body not tattooed. How many tattoos
Speaker 1: did you have at eighteen?
Speaker 4: I was given permission at sixteen. Actually, my parents.
Speaker 5: They're a big tattoo fans, so.
Speaker 4: I was allowed to get one at sixteen.
Speaker 5: And within a year of me getting my first tattoo,
Speaker 5: I had about eighteen tattoos.
Speaker 4: From my body and I bought myself a tattoo machine
Speaker 4: to be able to tattoo myself in my tress.
Speaker 3: Oh how many total tattoos do you have right now?
Speaker 4: I think I'm at like twenty two now.
Speaker 1: And where is the most intimate tattoo that you have
Speaker 1: on your body?
Speaker 5: Actually?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 6: Most of them are like on my legs, some on
Speaker 6: my arm, nothing like mid section right now, I'm too scared.
Speaker 1: Can I be honest if I'm tattooing myself. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I wanted to try to tattoo like intimate
Speaker 1: body parts, because I would want a professional doing that.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want the ron pop peel, you know, home
Speaker 1: kit or something like what would the name of the
Speaker 1: home kit be of a tattoo thing? Like you know
Speaker 1: how they always have like remember when you were a
Speaker 1: kid and you could buy a slushy machine for your house.
Speaker 3: Like you can buy it, like you'd have like, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: This is tattoos version.
Speaker 5: Of Amazon of course Amazon.
Speaker 1: So I just don't trusting I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: trusting an Amazon tattoo kit.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's Kevin this yesterday.
Speaker 5: But my party trick for a long time was I
Speaker 5: did stick and poke tattoos.
Speaker 3: So it's really.
Speaker 5: Take a tattoo needle, put it in ink, and do
Speaker 5: it yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in jail too, I want to go to what's
Speaker 1: the estore in the mall that does the piercing's Claire?
Speaker 1: Can I get my own piercing kit, like like one
Speaker 1: of those piercing guns. It looks like a thermometer like that,
Speaker 1: you know. I ever see those thermometers that you can
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, do your forehead with. The Only
Speaker 1: problem is don't mix those up. That would be a
Speaker 1: it would be a bad thing all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, you just kind of like shoot yourself right
Speaker 1: in the head though,