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Speaker 1: said he was horrified. The other two instructors were horrified.

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Speaker 1: The other kids were laughing. They thought it was a joke.

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00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: The mother tried to just dismissed it as a joke,

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Speaker 1: play it off and hah haha, just laughing. Now, let

434
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 1: me tell you what I told Ashton yesterday. If that

435
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: was my dad and I told him to go f himself,

436
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: it didn't matter if it's a gym, I don't care

437
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: where it is, home, public, outside, inside. He would have

438
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: whacked me so hard right on the spot. I would

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00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: remember it for the rest of my life. In fact,

440
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: even Ashton said, Dad, if that was you, you would

441
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: have hit me in the back of the head.

442
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: But he goes you were like, you know, he went.

443
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: Tush like I would have been like a slap or

444
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: a whack right in the head.

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00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 2: I go, yeah.

446
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: Now, the reason why I'm mentioning this is Ashton said

447
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: to me right away. Dad is the phone. The kids

448
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: are getting this off of social media because they're watching

449
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,479
Speaker 1: other kids do it and they think it's funny, and

450
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: so now it's cool to tell your parents to blank off.

451
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: Now I'm sorry. Ultimately, I can't blame Facebook or TikTok

452
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 1: or Instagram or Reddit or whatever.

453
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: I blame the mother.

454
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: Your daughter just said I don't want the blanking water,

455
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: and you can go blank yourself. And your response is

456
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: to laugh. Now, you're raising an ingrate and a monster,

457
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: a spoiled monster, a braad forgive me a bee. You're

458
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: raising a little bee. That's what you're raising. Okay, rhymes

459
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: with which. Now that's not a two income family. I

460
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: hear where you're coming from, Eddie.

461
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 2: That's not.

462
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: My mother has to work so hard. My father has

463
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: to work so hard to put food on the table

464
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: to take care of us.

465
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 2: So they're just not home a lot.

466
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm watching too much social media. This

467
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: is a question of parental respect. This is a question

468
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: of respecting authority, respecting your parents, hell, respecting yourself. That's

469
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Speaker 1: your mother, And ultimately that respect comes from the mother

470
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: and the father and how they're raising and disciplining their child.

471
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: So and by the way, Ashton's telling me, you hear

472
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: it all the time. This is him, Dad. I don't

473
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: know what's going on out there, Like, what do you mean, son?

474
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: They're all telling their parents that off and they think

475
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: it's funny. The kids think it's funny, and the parents

476
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: think it's funny.

477
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: Now, I'll be honest, you can't ban that. I mean,

478
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 2: you're gonna try.

479
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: That's a parenting issue, and I think parents, younger parents

480
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: in particular, have to look at themselves in the mirror

481
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: because you don't respect yourself obviously, so why would the

482
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: kids respect you? And do you have any notion of

483
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: what kind of a child you're raising, who's going to

484
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: be able to marry someone like that, who's going to

485
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: be able to hire someone like that, who's going to

486
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: be able to have lasting friendships with someone like that?

487
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: You're not doing your child any favors.

488
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 2: Anyway.

489
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you this is how profound the crisis is.

490
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: And this is a nice gym, by the way, you

491
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: know it costs money to be a member at that gym.

492
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: It's not some you know, I'm not talking about it's

493
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: I don't aware, somewhere in some ghetto or something where

494
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: you say, wow, I don't know, there's gangs everywhere.

495
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 2: No.

496
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: No, this is a middle, upper middle class area and

497
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: this is a nice, little swanky gym. So their parents

498
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: are professionals, you know, they're they're good, they're good earners,

499
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: presumably with a good education. Six one seven two six

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00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree, Okay, Friday, I'm

501
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: a little lake today eight ish. You know what that means.

502
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: Caller of the Week, Cooner's Call Log. It's time for

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00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: Coolers call Log, where we showcase our favorite color from

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Speaker 1: the week.

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00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 2: I can hear you? Can you hear me? Thanks for

506
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 2: holding Jeff.

507
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 4: I'm down here in Florida, live relatively close to my dad.

508
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 4: I have a sister, a real moonbat sister lives out

509
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 4: in Santa Barbara, California. She had not been out to

510
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 4: see my dad for Christmas or Thanksgiving for many years.

511
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, she decides to come out for Thanksgiving.

512
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 4: So she communicated that with my dad in about two

513
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 4: weeks before Christmas. We really didn't get along because she's

514
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 4: hardcore left. I'm hardcore right, and so he knew there

515
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 4: was friction in the family, and as most parents, their

516
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 4: dream is to have their kids get along and you know,

517
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 4: socialize and all of that, and he realized there was

518
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 4: subtension there. So he says to me, about two weeks

519
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 4: before Thanksgiving, So Pam just notified me she's going to

520
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 4: be off for Thanksgiving. Would you be willing to have

521
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 4: dinner with us? And he was expecting me to say no.

522
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 4: Me and my wife said sure, that would be great.

523
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 4: He was so happy and we said, okay, Dad, we'll

524
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 4: see you next weekend. Three days later, I get an

525
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 4: email from him. Unfortunately, your sister does not want to

526
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 4: have Thanksgiving with you. She does not want to socialize

527
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 4: with you on a personal level. However, she will still

528
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 4: communicate with you by email on personal matters. My point

529
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 4: here is, if you're on the right, you make sacrifices,

530
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 4: you're not a narcissist. You do good things for other people.

531
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 4: I stepped over my shadow for the benefit of my father.

532
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 4: These people can't make one sacrifice for anybody to make

533
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 4: somebody else happy. It's all about them and nobody else.

534
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 4: Are all one way. The name streets after one way.

535
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 2: Along last.

536
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: Be here every weekday.

537
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 5: On the Coon Report between six and ten am, and

538
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 5: next week it could be you on Cooner's call log.

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00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: Please don't be a stranger. Call again, that was a

540
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: phenomenal call. I gotta tell you, a heartbreaking call, but

541
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: it was it was authentic, it was from the heart,

542
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: and everybody can relate to it because we all know

543
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: how the moonbats are, how intolerant they are, and how

544
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: they place politics and ideology above family. Anyway, again, best

545
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: audience in the business. Okay, this is what Sandy said

546
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: to me regarding that story I just told about, you know,

547
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: the daughter telling the mother to f off she's about

548
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: to take, you know, an exercise class with my Ashton

549
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: and talking about you know, it's bad parenting. And don't

550
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: blame social media as much as bad parenting. This is

551
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: what Sandy says, and I think she's got a point.

552
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 2: Jeff.

553
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: It's a function of both lack of discipline and glorifying

554
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: bad behavior on the internet. Also, don't forget that the

555
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: mother would have probably been arrested or reported to DCF

556
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: if she disciplined her child in public. Well that's how

557
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: insane things have gotten. But you know, at a bare minimum,

558
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,280
Speaker 1: I don't know you're coming home with me. Hey, young lady,

559
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: get your ass into the car. You're coming home. Okay,

560
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to daddy about this. In other words,

561
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: you're in trouble telling your mother to go f herself

562
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: in public in front of all the other kids and

563
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 1: then running away laughing, you know, and and the mother's

564
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: laughing as well. Now Ashton Ashton said she was more

565
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: kind of an embarrassed laughing, like, you know, you're kind

566
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: of embarrassed and you just kind of chuckle and try

567
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: to laugh the whole thing off. But obviously the mother

568
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: is allowing her daughter. It's not the first time. Obviously

569
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: the mother is allowing the daughter to do this. Now,

570
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: my point is not to just pick on this mother.

571
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: It's Ashton is telling me Dad, it's all the time

572
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: with other kids as well. The disrespect for the parents.

573
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,439
Speaker 1: He goes and the parents allow it, and they take it,

574
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: and he just shakes his head, you know, he's like

575
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: just and so he does say so, and I said,

576
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: where do they learned this? He goes, oh, Dad, it's

577
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: all social media. It's all social media. And obviously it's

578
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: bad parenting as well. So anyway, I'm just telling you.

579
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: I believe a lot of the problems stem from bad parenting.

580
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: To me, I always go back to that, if you've

581
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: got a disciplined home, it's got to be a loving home, obviously,

582
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: but you have to have a disciplined home. If the

583
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: mother and father are disciplining and controlling their kids and

584
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: raising them the right way, to respect authority, to respect them,

585
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: to respect themselves, the kid's gonna turn out okay. But

586
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: when you let them behave like absolute barbarians, savages, and

587
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: that's what this is. This is savagery. Well that's what

588
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. You know, you raise a savage, you

589
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 1: end up turning out a savage. Ellie in Worcester. Thanks

590
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: for holding Ellie, and welcome. Oh how are you doing good?

591
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 2: How are you Ellie?

592
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna switch for once here because pick out

593
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 5: a buzz.

594
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Ellie. What's on your mind?

595
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 5: Well, you know something, It says, be careful what you

596
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 5: wish for, because this is like a trojan horse trying

597
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 5: to muzzle its way in. They're going to use the

598
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 5: children as the excuse. But it's like who started all

599
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 5: this anyway? You know, governments and corporations and stuff like that. Now,

600
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 5: my thing is is like there's good and there's bad

601
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 5: on the net. Of course really bad stuff. There's good stuff,

602
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 5: but it's like, is the government getting nervous because I

603
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 5: trust the government like I trust a drunk driver. So

604
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 5: it's like, say, there are apps out there like Turning Point,

605
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 5: you know, Charlie Kirk and stuff like that helping thousands

606
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 5: of kids, you know, and all over the world, you

607
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 5: know apps. Now is the government going to tag a

608
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 5: app like Charlie Kirk who's actually helping kids as subversive

609
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 5: or a drug or harmful to kids because you know,

610
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 5: there is an attack on you know, Christianity pretty much worldwide.

611
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: So Ellie, can you do me a favor? I'm up

612
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: against our heartbreak