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Speaker 1: which means you're getting a real awkward Tuesday phone call today.
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Speaker 3: Mom groups are notoriously super kind to each other. They
Speaker 3: never talk behind each other's backs. They don't weaponize politeness, nope,
Speaker 3: and if an issue ever arises, they always handle it
Speaker 3: by talking it out respectfully, totally politely. Right, Brooke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bless her heart.
Speaker 3: It's weird because today we are from a dad who
Speaker 3: has been nominated as the spokesperson by all the ticked
Speaker 3: off moms and his wife's friend group. Uh oh, and
Speaker 3: his mission is easy. Just confront another mom about her
Speaker 3: kid's birthday party. Could go wrong. It's your brand new
Speaker 3: awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 4: Next, it's awkward.
Speaker 2: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 4: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 3: Now. Back in the day, And when I say back
Speaker 3: in the day, I mean like twenty five to thirty
Speaker 3: years ago, kids were still having birthday parties at McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, yeah, on the playgrounds.
Speaker 3: The playplaces, you could spend twenty five bucks on a
Speaker 3: giant platter of cheeseburgers and fries, and then Grimace would
Speaker 3: bring out a cake and sit on it in front
Speaker 3: of everybody, and I'll go, yeah, who wants to live?
Speaker 3: But my, oh my, how times have changed because parties
Speaker 3: for kids nowadays are big business.
Speaker 1: It's seriously like, I go to some of these of
Speaker 1: my kids, I'm like, how many impersonators do you guys
Speaker 1: need at one place?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's already Ariel here. Do we need the entire
Speaker 2: Disney Princess crew.
Speaker 3: It's hard to meet parents that love their children more
Speaker 3: than you do. I get that, but it has caused
Speaker 3: a situation for one of our listeners who's come to
Speaker 3: us seeking our advice. His name is Kenny, So, Kenny,
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show Man.
Speaker 4: Hi, Hi, Kenny.
Speaker 2: We're good. I'm curious to hear. What's going on? Is
Speaker 2: this with your own kids?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, well for starters, I really love you guys,
Speaker 4: listen every day.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought you were going to start with I
Speaker 2: really love my kids, but.
Speaker 3: We'll take the praise first. Yes, absolutely, what's going on right?
Speaker 3: We hear you have some birthday party drama? Tell us
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so my kids six and seven were invited to
Speaker 4: a birthday party, and know I'm thinking, hey, this is
Speaker 4: pretty cool. It's great for the parents to get to
Speaker 4: know each other, and it's in the community and everything perfect.
Speaker 2: Oh and it's so nice that you have kids so
Speaker 2: close in age.
Speaker 1: I mean, it probably was a pain when they were
Speaker 1: a baby, but now you can send them to parties
Speaker 1: together all over the.
Speaker 3: Plato for one, yes, Brooks looking as a bargains a
Speaker 3: business woman.
Speaker 2: My kids are three years different, so it's a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know, you can't question yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, here's the thing, So the marvel did the
Speaker 4: invite only matter about twice. She's friendly with my wife
Speaker 4: and everything, but she sent a really interesting invite for
Speaker 4: a six year old party. Interestingly, well, it had all
Speaker 4: the details, you know, bouncy house, popcorn, fun and games
Speaker 4: and all of that jazz. But at the very bottom
Speaker 4: of the invite it said, if you plan to sing
Speaker 4: your child, please send with money for tip bucket to
Speaker 4: go toward party expenses and food and games and things
Speaker 4: of that nature.
Speaker 3: It's asking to bring cash with your kid.
Speaker 2: Wait, is there an entertainer or are they tipping the parrot?
Speaker 4: It's unclear. It just says cash tips.
Speaker 2: That's weird.
Speaker 3: Huh. Yeah, I don't go to kids parties, but I
Speaker 3: feel like I see the logic behind it. Brook. You're
Speaker 3: immediately jumping on it's weird. Do you think it's tacky
Speaker 3: to ask a guest to bring tips or are we
Speaker 3: at the point in society where it's okay for tipping
Speaker 3: to be involved in everything. Culture is getting out of control.
Speaker 2: There are so many different ways you can have a
Speaker 2: kid's party. You can do them.
Speaker 1: Literally, the cheapest end and the kids are happy. If
Speaker 1: you can't afford to throw these elaborate parties, then that's fine,
Speaker 1: don't The kids don't care.
Speaker 3: But they might be happier if the party costs more money.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. They might not have children work.
Speaker 1: Usually if you give them a present, it's the box
Speaker 1: they're more excited about.
Speaker 2: It's not a lie.
Speaker 3: What was your reading your your wife's read on it?
Speaker 4: Kenny? Well, my wife she doesn't like it, but she
Speaker 4: doesn't want to be confrontational. So I've been charged with
Speaker 4: being a guide to say something to her about this
Speaker 4: because here's the Yeah, here's the reality.
Speaker 1: Your wife wants you to call the mom that is
Speaker 1: throwing this party and ask her about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought that she was the one who was friends
Speaker 3: with her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but my wife she's really easygoing and she doesn't
Speaker 4: like anything confrontational at all. So my thought process is
Speaker 4: honestly to reach out to you guys, because I can't
Speaker 4: do that by myself.
Speaker 3: Okay, So your wife has asked you to do it.
Speaker 3: Does she know that you've come to us seeking help?
Speaker 4: No she doesn't.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, behind.
Speaker 1: Your wife's dead, do you know what your wife wants
Speaker 1: out of this phone call.
Speaker 4: Well, number one, she wants to remain friends with her,
Speaker 4: because all of these moms are friends in this frame
Speaker 4: thing that they have. And number two, I feel like
Speaker 4: I need to tell this lady about this whole tipping
Speaker 4: thing because none of the other moms are going to
Speaker 4: be comfortable with this, you know, sitting their kids with money.
Speaker 1: Honorary Mom group spokesperson, Yeah, yeah, have we considered who
Speaker 1: we're calling?
Speaker 4: Can we just call the kid?
Speaker 3: I can tell your mom that we're not bringing.
Speaker 2: This the almost six year old.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So do you know the mom's name?
Speaker 4: We call her Tosh. I call her Tosh, we call her,
Speaker 4: but her full name is Natasha.
Speaker 3: Okay, And the good news is moms love it when
Speaker 3: a man tells them what they're doing wrong with their parenting.
Speaker 3: That always goes well.
Speaker 4: So well yeah, well you know, honestly, that's why I
Speaker 4: called you guys.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll take the blame if it goes badly.
Speaker 2: Hey, should we call it other show? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Maybe ye. Let's keep passing it on. Well, we'll see
Speaker 3: if we can come with some advice before we come back.
Speaker 3: Let you call this other mom Tosh and tell her
Speaker 3: maybe don't ask all the parents to tip her kid's birthday,
Speaker 3: because if that's the case, there could be no kids
Speaker 3: coming at all. Yes, let's see how that message goes
Speaker 3: with your awkward Tuesday phone call right after that, it's awkward.
Speaker 2: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 4: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 3: If you're just joining us. We talked about birthday parties
Speaker 3: and how much they've changed over the years, but this
Speaker 3: is a new wrinkle we really haven't seen yet. Because
Speaker 3: a birthday invitation came in for our listener, Kenny's kids.
Speaker 3: It seemed like overall a normal house party sort of deal,
Speaker 3: but at the very bottom of the invite it said
Speaker 3: send a cash tip along with your child. Huh yeah,
Speaker 3: for party expenses.
Speaker 4: And you know, at.
Speaker 1: First I was like, oh, rude, But now I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe I should start doing this.
Speaker 3: I just kidd I get it. When Kenny saw it,
Speaker 3: he thought it was strange. His wife was definitely bothered. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and she talked to a bunch of the other moms.
Speaker 3: They all seem to be upset.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't even want to send their kids if that's.
Speaker 3: The case, which is why they've nominated Kenny as their
Speaker 3: sacrificial Lamb chosen to make a phone call to this
Speaker 3: other mom saying, if you don't rescind the tipping requests,
Speaker 3: there may end up being no kids at this party
Speaker 3: at the end.
Speaker 4: Of the day.
Speaker 2: I got to say it that way.
Speaker 3: We're just gonna strongly imply it. Yeah, that her child
Speaker 3: will be very, very hurt by this. So it's interesting.
Speaker 3: I've never heard about a situation like this before, so
Speaker 3: I can't wait to get some advice for you, Kenny Brook.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 1: At first, I was like, oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: believe they're making you do it, And then I realized
Speaker 1: you're the perfect.
Speaker 2: Person for this call. Kenny.
Speaker 3: Why yes, because you're the one that can play the
Speaker 3: dumb dad card.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't see the invite, they didn't get
Speaker 1: the email, they didn't know anything. And he happened to
Speaker 1: overhear some other moms saying something about a tip.
Speaker 2: So you're just calling the source to figure it out
Speaker 2: since you have to do the drop off.
Speaker 1: You're confused, you know, get more info, you hear me, Kenny, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: and you're giving her a little inside that the moms
Speaker 1: are talking behind.
Speaker 3: Her back, all right, Kenny. So you're gonna be the
Speaker 3: dad that doesn't really pay attention to his own children. Yes,
Speaker 3: can you pull that off? Jeff's got it?
Speaker 2: What man can't?
Speaker 3: Can you be yourself?
Speaker 4: Ken? I can absolutely do that.
Speaker 3: All right? The stupidity coming through already. What about you, Jose,
Speaker 3: what do you think? All right, here's a strategy that
Speaker 3: might help get you what you want. You need to
Speaker 3: ask how much is she looking for as a tip?
Speaker 2: Like from each family?
Speaker 3: Then you say, oh wow, that's a lot. Okay, uh,
Speaker 3: I think we can do it. We may just have
Speaker 3: to take it out of their college.
Speaker 2: Fund, but oh, that's doable for our family. Guilt her?
Speaker 2: What the number is so poor? You can't afford the
Speaker 2: five dollar tip?
Speaker 3: I think it's a bold strategy. What do you think
Speaker 3: about trying the guilt method? Just a little bit, Ken.
Speaker 4: That can work too, Okay, actually a little better?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yay, fine, the only mother in the room.
Speaker 2: But young Head's so true, I don't even.
Speaker 3: Have fine, you know what? I like this. All the
Speaker 3: men are sticking together, all those dumb idiots that don't
Speaker 3: know what the heck is going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guarantee you did not read the invite.
Speaker 3: I don't know if any of that advice actually helps you, Kenny.
Speaker 3: But it's the best we got. So we're gonna dial
Speaker 3: this other mom. Natasha will step away and let you
Speaker 3: make your awkward Tuesday phone call. Are you ready?
Speaker 4: Okay? Well, this kind of feels like the Titanic when
Speaker 4: it was being launched, but it's a fan fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got one lifeboat and the captain men first.
Speaker 3: Here we go different.
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 5: Hello, Hi, dumb.
Speaker 4: Guy, Hi Tush? Who? Yes it is This is Hey Josh.
Speaker 4: This is Kenny. How are you Kenny? Who? Yeah, Kenny,
Speaker 4: your lundest husband. You invited our kids to the birthday
Speaker 4: party that you're having for your son.
Speaker 5: Okay, what can I help you with?
Speaker 4: Oh? Well, great, Toosh? Are you? Are you having a
Speaker 4: good day? How's it going?
Speaker 5: My banking is going fine? What's the raising for this car?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm just a little confusers to why you're
Speaker 5: calling me.
Speaker 4: Oh, this is nothing major, you know. It's actually given
Speaker 4: a call about the invite that you sent over, really
Speaker 4: really great invite. Actually you're gonna have the bouncy house
Speaker 4: for isn't everything?
Speaker 5: Okay? If you call in to ask about if you
Speaker 5: could drop your kids off, that's fine, just drop them off.
Speaker 5: You can pick them up a few hours later. That's cool.
Speaker 4: Oh well, that adds another layer to this. I really
Speaker 4: don't drop my kids off and leave them. But that's
Speaker 4: not why I was calling. So that's just given a
Speaker 4: call about the line and the invite about the tip bucket.
Speaker 5: What did you say about the way about the tip bucket?
Speaker 5: There's no damn tip bucket, they're just tits.
Speaker 4: Well, well that's the thing. You know, how much of
Speaker 4: a tip were you expecting six and seven year olds
Speaker 4: to bring?
Speaker 5: Oh well, you're the parent, they're not bringing it.
Speaker 2: You are.
Speaker 5: You're not leaving your kids from what you just told me,
Speaker 5: So okay.
Speaker 4: So how much you're thinking for this tip jar thing situation?
Speaker 5: Don't you think that's kind of rude to ask, like,
Speaker 5: I mean, what do you think is a good tip?
Speaker 5: When you go somewhere and get a service?
Speaker 4: What do you tip? Oh? Well, I I never knew
Speaker 4: of a birthday party to be a service. But you know,
Speaker 4: it's just I'm just asking, did you think is to
Speaker 4: be looking at what five bucks here?
Speaker 5: I mean, you could put five hours in there. But
Speaker 5: you're talking like you're the brokie, like you're the tap.
Speaker 4: Mom, Well, we're not broken at all. I actually have
Speaker 4: a pretty good job and my wife.
Speaker 5: I can't tell about the way you're calling is and
Speaker 5: we've been talking about a ship for five minutes. I
Speaker 5: cannot tell.
Speaker 4: Well, well, you know, this is starting to get a
Speaker 4: little stressful and the awkward. You're stressing yourself.
Speaker 5: Out, stressing yourself out, can't he be? Could you call
Speaker 5: me about the take?
Speaker 4: You're right, you're right. How about I just meimo? You
Speaker 4: you know, like forty five fifty bucks? How does that sound?
Speaker 5: That's the best offer. We can't go a little higher?
Speaker 5: Since you that's the best you got.
Speaker 3: How are we doing this right?
Speaker 4: Right? Higher? I guess I could.
Speaker 2: Get that phone?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tasha, Natasha, are you hearing us?
Speaker 5: Yes? Who else is on the phone?
Speaker 3: We're a radio show. We're called Brook and Jeffrey in
Speaker 3: the Morning. Oh, Kenny's a listener, a.
Speaker 5: Broke listener at that.
Speaker 2: He just offered to give you fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty generous in our eyes. But Kenny has
Speaker 3: come to us seeking a little bit of advice because
Speaker 3: he told us the whole situation with the birthday invite,
Speaker 3: and there was a little bit confusion. Obviously, on Kenny's
Speaker 3: end with the tipping part.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, yeah, I heard what was going on.
Speaker 5: Clearly he has an issue with tipping at my kid's party.
Speaker 2: Can I ask what is the tip for? I don't understand.
Speaker 5: So we're going to have service. You know, their kids
Speaker 5: are going to be served at things like that, so
Speaker 5: they could just leave a tip for the cyberg. I'm
Speaker 5: literally paying for everything. This is a really high end
Speaker 5: type of party.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're actually hiring people to be boxes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's bigger than the things I don't know, a
Speaker 5: little mediocre birthday party, but we do it.
Speaker 2: Well, I do it cheap and free. That's kind of
Speaker 2: the route I typically.
Speaker 3: Take us to her kids' birthday parties.
Speaker 5: My kids don't maybe once you ki party, y'all step,
Speaker 5: y'all game up.
Speaker 2: I mean, don't you think it's just a little odd?
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a birthday party where they're
Speaker 1: asking for tips and to cover expenses.
Speaker 3: She's not judging you by saying that, she's just offering
Speaker 3: that as a possibility.
Speaker 5: I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good.
Speaker 4: We're no.
Speaker 1: I just think like it's a little off putting, probably
Speaker 1: to a lot of families to be asked to pay
Speaker 1: to attend a birthday party.
Speaker 5: Well, guess what, it's a little off putting to call
Speaker 5: the damn radio stations, top about it. If it was that,
Speaker 5: he guess what he could have did. He could have
Speaker 5: just not bring his kid if it was that big
Speaker 5: of a deal.
Speaker 3: Wait, they want to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if they don't bring it, timph, they're not going
Speaker 1: to be allowed to the party.
Speaker 5: I didn't say that. I said if it was that
Speaker 5: deep for him to call the radio, then he didn't
Speaker 5: even have to worry about it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we're really making any progress here.
Speaker 3: And Kenny, we haven't heard from you in a while.
Speaker 3: We're running a little bit short on time. Where is
Speaker 3: your head at?
Speaker 4: My head is at probably about seventy four ninety nine.
Speaker 4: That's as high as algo.
Speaker 3: What you keep offering more money?
Speaker 5: So you bring a gift with that seventy five dollars
Speaker 5: to gift to Kenny.
Speaker 3: You got yourself into quite a problem.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't think it's a problem anymore. Drums done.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, he is right. Yeah, just wait until you
Speaker 2: have to make that phone call to your wife.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll be here for that. Awkward Tuesday too. Wait
Speaker 3: a week and let us do it.
Speaker 2: Good luck, Kenny, it's woking free in the morning.
Speaker 3: This just in I have fired my radio agent and
Speaker 3: have hired Natasha to negotiate my next radio contract for him.
Speaker 2: That is actually a genius. Can't say no to her.
Speaker 3: Somehow she got Kenny to go from I think tipping
Speaker 3: at a kid's party is tacky and gross too. I'm
Speaker 3: venoing her seventy five dollars and a gift right now.
Speaker 2: She didn't even even ask for more money. He just
Speaker 2: interjected with this is the highest I could go.
Speaker 3: That's the power of Natasha.
Speaker 4: I'm speaking after.
Speaker 3: Do you think he kept going higher because he like
Speaker 3: felt he had to compensate for being called like broke?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Oh yeah, maybe dide. I guarantee he's paying one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1: Five bucks by the time when birthday party rolls around, Jaxon.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just paying for the birthday party. Maybe
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 3: Seriously, And I wasn't joking when I said I have
Speaker 3: a feeling he's going to be back next week to
Speaker 3: tell his wife. Hey, I'm sorry, honey. I just sent
Speaker 3: Natasha two grand and I gave her my car.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm just hoping they have separate accounts and she
Speaker 1: wife never knows someone.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just doesn't want drama, but we love it.
Speaker 3: If you ever have issues arising in your personal life,
Speaker 3: anything dramatic, email the show. We can give you our advice.
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