A Force To Be Reckoned With
A Force To Be Reckoned With
227. PGE: Peeing In The Shower (Spoiler Alert- We All Do It)
Be honest… Do you pee in the shower? Or are you now questioning every shared shower you’ve ever stepped foot in?
This time on Parents Google Everything, we dive into some highly scientific research (aka Google) to uncover the surprising truth about bathroom habits across generations.
But that’s just the beginning. We’re also talking about the unexpected yet powerful Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll collab on Hard Fought Hallelujah—why it matters, how it’s pushing Christians outside their comfort zones, and what it says about the church’s need to love people better. Plus, we dig into why parenting today feels way harder than it did in the ‘90s (hint: inflation, constant digital noise, and group texts that never end).
And if that’s not enough, we’re tackling some of the wildest cultural shifts happening right now, from AI dating to the heartbreaking homeless crisis in LA.
It’s a mix of humor, deep thoughts, and possibly too much information—just how we like it. Tune in!
Episode Highlights:
- Reflecting on a tough week.
- Brandon Lake, Jelly Roll and pushing comfort zones.
- Why parenting today is harder than the '90s.
- Exploring AI dating and the LA homeless crisis.
- Shocking shower habit statistics.
Links Mentioned in Episode/Find More on A Force to Be Reckoned With:
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- Follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanyadkins
- Follow Corey on Instagram @mrcoreyadkins
- Find us on Youtube!
- Email Bethany at bethany@adkinsmedia.co
- Why parenting in 2025 feels much harder than it did in the ‘90s
- Downtown L.A. slammed as ‘third world’
- Watch Hard Fought Hallelujah with Brandon Lake & Jelly Roll
- Watch the Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll Interview
This show has been produced by Adkins Media Co.
We are at war and it's not against our neighbors, spouses, children, politicians or whatever else we feel like we're battling against.
Speaker 2:So the questions are who's the fight against, and are we winning or losing? We're the Adkins and we are a force to be reckoned with. Are you ready to join the force? Well, welcome back everybody, to another week of a force to be reckoned with. If you're here this week for the very first and this is where you've chosen to start, oh boy, I'm going to highly suggest that you find another episode. No, I'm just kidding. Well, I mean, we have over 200 episodes of like, do we? Yes, dang, I think. I don't think I'm imagining this.
Speaker 1:That seems like.
Speaker 2:I mean, we've been doing this for five plus years, dang I think I don't think I'm imagining this. That seems like. I mean, we've been doing this for five plus years Dang.
Speaker 1:I know it's crazy, I don't feel like I'm old enough to have done anything for five plus years. What do you mean? Do you ever feel that way?
Speaker 2:Yeah, when you're like.
Speaker 1:I'm not old enough to do that.
Speaker 2:I'll look at6. Yeah, I'll look at like these high schoolers and I'm like yeah, I'm just like two or three years older than you okay, I don't feel that way.
Speaker 1:When I look at us, when I look at high schoolers, I feel like they're like all 12 yeah, I agree, like when we were in the hospital this past weekend. There were high schoolers at the hospital.
Speaker 2:No, oh, they were adults that have been through college, yeah, every single one of them, including the doctors.
Speaker 1:The doctors and they walk in. I'm like are you old enough for this? They seem like children.
Speaker 2:Are you old enough to be doing this Right?
Speaker 1:I don't know so are you one of the? Uh, what do they call those people that wear the stripes in the hospitals?
Speaker 2:but. But yeah, I don't know, but, like you've been out of high school for more than 20 years, no, it's been exactly. It'll be exactly 20 years oh yeah, this year, when everybody graduates bro how can that be like I think about when I was just a nurse and when I worked at Akron Children's. That was a decade ago, A decade. I'm not old enough to have experienced something gone for a decade.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel young a lot of the times. But then there are some other times, like when I was watching that reel you put together for our anniversary. You said that I was your emergency contact and I was doing these flips and jumping off cliffs and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 1:No, but I bruised or broke my rib doing one of those. So now sometimes I second guess it. I I'm like, should I do this flip, should I? And then I do it. But I used to do like back flips off of the ladders into the pool and stuff and now I'm like I don't know if that's worth it bro no, for sure not. You're past that and then sometimes you're like do you still got it?
Speaker 2:yeah still do it well, I don't know what to say about it, but what are we talking about today?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Do you get called? Do you get? Do you ever like when you're at, let's just say, like a restaurant or something, and you've got some like 20 something or wait on you and they call you? Ma'am yeah or sir, I'm like it's so offensive like when did I start getting called, sir?
Speaker 2:it's offensive either way. Like where was I the other day? Oh, it was carter was getting his hair cut and the girl who cut his hair. We didn't like, we never really talked, but we went to high school together and I, after about 20 minutes of me trying to like think why does she look so familiar? Why does she look so familiar? I was like that's it. I went to high school with her and had I not been like staring at her face for 20 minutes, I never would have realized this. But when we were in the same grade, when we checked out, she called me hun.
Speaker 1:Hun.
Speaker 2:Hun.
Speaker 1:Who says that?
Speaker 2:That's like what old people say. I was just like oh, I didn't tell her we went to high school together Because by the time it was like almost, the appointment was almost over. But it was just like either way, ma'am, hon just don't do any of it, None of it.
Speaker 1:Speaking of which, when you were at the hospital and it was the when I came by myself to drop stuff off to you- yeah. Well, you weren't in the hospital for you. Did we already say this to you? Yeah, well, you weren't in the hospital for you. Yeah, did we already say this? No, oh, anyways, when, anyways. So I dropped the stuff off and I walked down and I was I think I was coming back up. I forgot to tell you I ran into some girl that knows you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's a foster mom.
Speaker 1:No, she was a nurse with you there. I don't remember, but she worked with you in the burn unit.
Speaker 2:Oh, how did she?
Speaker 1:She looked, she saw me and she was like hey, and I looked at her and I did one of those things Maybe. But she was like oh, are you Corey Adkins? And I was just like yeah, she's like Bethany's husband.
Speaker 2:Oh, host of Forced to Be Ragged With.
Speaker 1:Actually.
Speaker 2:Did she say that?
Speaker 1:She said I follow you guys on Instagram and your podcast and stuff. I was like, oh, and I never thought that anybody would have ever like recognized me from any of that I'm cracking up. I want to know who it is I'm so sorry if you're listening right now. I'm really I'm terrible. You know this.
Speaker 2:I'm really bad with names well, there were only like nine of Nine of us.
Speaker 1:And we were like in passing, she had brown hair.
Speaker 2:Kim, it could have been.
Speaker 1:Actually, it sounds like that might be it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Kim.
Speaker 1:Did you see her when you were there? We?
Speaker 2:were good friends. I'm going to pull up a picture of good old Kim.
Speaker 1:Oh, that'd be helpful. There's only nine of you. Why don't you just Google all of them and you can tell me what's going on? I feel really bad that.
Speaker 2:I, she has blonde hair.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no, no, this wasn't her.
Speaker 2:Was it Amy?
Speaker 1:Now I'm getting the mind trap thing because it's like Kim and Amy don't even sound the same. They're not even the same.
Speaker 2:Right here, the girl in the middle.
Speaker 1:No, it was not her. She looked like she was your age christina, do a google, do a little search. Uh, christina, let me see, let me see what you got. What do you got there? No, that was you got anybody else.
Speaker 2:You got somebody else, none of them, it wasn't heather I don't know, give heather oh, was it, jamie search both of them I don't think I'm friends with heather jamie let me see I mean, if it was jamie? She lives in our town and has a kid that goes to school with Liberty.
Speaker 1:I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:And we were probably really good friends too. Man, anyway, here we are. We mentioned the hospital. It's been a week. We say that every week, but when you're doing the louds work.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:It's going to be hard.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 2:Amen and no. We just had some sick kids. We had a sick baby with some other, also health issues on top of that.
Speaker 1:Either that or we're just dramatic.
Speaker 2:We're not dramatic, are we just?
Speaker 1:dramatic, because every week we get on here and say oh my.
Speaker 2:God yeah. Like if my dad's listening right now he for sure is like yes, you guys are wimps. Yeah, Maybe If my uncles are listening to this wimps, Whatever Like.
Speaker 1:Who would be listening to this?
Speaker 2:that would be like oh yeah, it was such a hard week.
Speaker 1:Right there with you you know who no brenda.
Speaker 2:She's always got her back. She's always got her back.
Speaker 1:No okay, so I don't know.
Speaker 2:What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 1:are we? What do you mean? What I want to talk?
Speaker 2:well, just to finish that up the baby's fine, she's home, we're all good now everybody's on the mend and it's just. It was one of those weeks I was already like my eye was twitching all week and then that was icing on the cake, and then I ended up being gone all weekend because we were in the hospital. So cory, he stayed home with the rest of the kids and he did a great job, and so I just want to say that I am so thankful for you.
Speaker 1:What now you're just doing this so that everybody thinks that you're nice no, I actually am thankful for you. I am I know you were nice to me off air.
Speaker 2:It's just uncomfortable to say compliments in front of people.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, but no, you baked me muffins, gluten-free muffins. You brought me Chipotle, it was just yeah, so thank you.
Speaker 1:In my defense on the muffins it was. Here's a mix pack add two eggs and some oil nope, just take the credit, take the credit I don't want everybody out there thinking I'm like some baker but I was gonna do like a whole sermon and stuff.
Speaker 2:Like you know, because I'm no, we don't do sermons on here because we're not Pastors, we're not equipped, we're not, yeah, any of it. So where do we go?
Speaker 1:You just want to dive into the parents? Google everything.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah sure we're going to do. Parents Google everything today.
Speaker 1:Seems like that's a good place, like that's where we're at.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's where we're at in life. So that's why I said in the beginning if this is your first time coming, we, Corey and I, we just like to have some banter back and forth. We like to have a little fun, we like to keep the marriage a little bit spicy.
Speaker 2:And so sometimes we'll come on and we'll have really serious talks will come on and we'll have really serious talks. We are super passionate about the family, the family unit, um having that be very strong and raising up the next generation and sometimes sometimes we like to just pretend that we're comedians and come out and throw some stuff out there and see what happens yeah, mine aren't going to be very funny. That's the thing We've done. Parents Google everything.
Speaker 1:We're not actually that funny.
Speaker 2:No, we're not, We've done parents professional level.
Speaker 1:funny, we're like small town.
Speaker 2:Listen, you can speak for yourself, but I'm pretty funny. I'm pretty funny. That reminds me of when I was a nurse working at Cleveland Clinic and my patient because you said, we're like small town funny my patient said to me oh, please. You're so beautiful, you look like you could be an actress. And I said thank you so much and she said I mean like a Hallmark actress, not like a real actress.
Speaker 1:Was it an old lady?
Speaker 2:Yes, it was an old lady and I've been humbled ever since, so thanks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hallmark actress.
Speaker 2:I will never forget it. I was like oh, thanks, yay.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. So All right, we've done.
Speaker 2:Parents Google Everythings before this.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, so All right.
Speaker 2:We've done Parents Google Everythings before. This was Corey's idea and I'm like this is so dumb, but it's actually kind of fun. So if you're ever Don't look at my article.
Speaker 1:Are you reading my?
Speaker 2:Is this like something that people could do for a date night? I don't know.
Speaker 1:They could. It's funny. It's funner when you feel like somebody else is listening besides your spouse so, if you so, start a podcast. You could do it in a friend group, maybe that might be interesting.
Speaker 2:We should try that. No, you know what I want to try. You know what I want to do. Have you seen those reels where, like, the friends get together and they do powerpoint presentations?
Speaker 1:oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Yes, we should do that like you do, a powerpoint presentation on what you actually do for a living. That one wouldn't work in our friend group because pretty much everybody, we do yeah, but like I saw another one today where friends look up their the people in their friend groups. Old Facebook statuses.
Speaker 1:Oh my.
Speaker 2:Like from like 20 years ago, and then they read them and the rest of the group has to guess who they are.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute. They read each Facebook.
Speaker 2:They'll say like they'll read somebody's so I'll go up, I'll stand up in front of everybody. Yeah, and before I already knew that, like you and our four other friends were going to be there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'll look up your Facebook and our four other friends Facebook and I'll pull some of your guys old, old statuses.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I'll read one to you guys, and you guys have to guess whose it was.
Speaker 1:Like a relationship yeah.
Speaker 2:Like maybe it'll be like the lyrics to Wonderwall that definitely would have been mine.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't know if I ever did that. I'm a lame social media person.
Speaker 2:Speaking of that, I just really. I was in the store with my dad the other day and they were playing Wonderwall and I just think it's really good for the soul. I really do, Isn't it good? Come on, sing it.
Speaker 1:I know I'm so disturbed.
Speaker 2:Oh, all right, that's good.
Speaker 1:That was the most random thing.
Speaker 2:I love Wonderwall. Who doesn't? From our era? Okay, all right, let's get to it.
Speaker 1:Which one do you want me to do first?
Speaker 2:Just go for it. Serious yeah, sure Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, this was a news article, but it's all over Instagram and we've actually already talked about it. But how about brandon lake doing redoing um hard fought hallelujah with jelly roll? I like it have you guys listened to that if you haven't go out and check it out? But I thought it was so cool and they did this on youtube. They did like a little interview with it.
Speaker 2:How long was that interview?
Speaker 1:It was like maybe 20, 25 minutes. It wasn't bad.
Speaker 2:I was just thinking, I was just asking that time so that we can have it linked in the show notes, because it was a really good interview. So I love those collaborations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was cool, but it was like you should go watch the interview if you're listening. But it was just really cool. How, like like you'll when you I don't want to spoil it because I want you to go listen to the interview but like how God like directed that to happen from, and it started with, like Jelly Roll did a CMA song, so you got to watch. So, like, when I watched the interview, I watched it and then when they talked about the song and, like brandon lake, like seeing the performance, I paused it and went and watched the performance that jelly roll did at the cmas and then when it came back and continued the interview, but it's just so cool because I feel like you're seeing someone who, in jelly roll, who's like outwardly struggling with his faith and wrestling with it and you're like kind of seeing that and a lot of other things well, yeah, because he yeah, I mean he's a secular artist he struggled with all kinds of stuff in his life, like he's not a, like a.
Speaker 1:You know he's done a lot of bad things and stuff and whatever made not good songs, but he, like you, can see him outwardly struggling with his faith in the interview and then them talking about it and some of the stuff that's come up afterwards.
Speaker 1:I just thought that was it's just really cool to see that stuff and we've talked about it before four where it's just like it goes back to to me the stuff that they've done on the college campuses, where you saw, like the high state stuff and like Josiah Queen going around and doing all of those tours on college campuses and just it like just how it's so encouraging where, like, young people seem to be coming back to Christ. And, um, the thing just I was going to finish this off with it was that part of it when I was looking I saw this come up too is that, with this younger generation of people starting to come back to Christ, bible sales in 2024 were up 22%, which I thought was just a little bit of data with evidence to it. But anyways, go listen to Hard Fought Hallelujah with Jelly Roll and Brandon Lake.
Speaker 2:If you haven't listened to it yet and watched the interview on YouTube yeah, and one thing I I mean I am going to talk about a tiny part of the interview and then we'll move on is I really did enjoy it and I liked it, because Jelly Roll was very like transparent just like you said, with where he's at, and one thing that really stuck out to me was that he talked about how, like he didn't basically didn't feel like there was a place for him in the church, like he, um like had a yearning for it, but because of the way Christians have, I don't know that he said, like the way people have treated him, but just like somewhat.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just the I don't know that, basically, like Christians kind of live in their bubble and they don't want to be around people that are different than them. And I just think that I I see that all than them and I just think that I see that all the time and I just that's like a big conviction of mine is like, if you're just around people that you're like like who are you really impacting? It's hard to be around. I mean, it's not hard for everybody. Like I enjoy being around people that are different.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because that's just.
Speaker 1:That's what Jesus did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's just like the way. I think it's easier for some people than others. Yeah, I would agree, but that's like what we're called to do, and just hearing him say that it made me realize, like how many people out there are like are hurting and wanting the church but have been hurt by the church. And then Christians are just adding to that because of the way that they're just kind of clicky and it's just a turnoff and I feel like I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't live with Brandon Lake but through the interview and Brandon Lake's portion, I feel like he did this so well.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He did it with. He wasn't doing it to chase. You know a name? Like it was intentional, Like he really felt God directing him to speak to Jelly Roll and ask him to collaborate on the song, and it seemed like it was doing. It was all for to help Jelly Roll.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. And it was just and it was cool to see brandon lake in the interview, just like how he you could see that he was still. He was strong in his faith through the interview yeah, he wasn't like he wasn't trying to like be mr cool guy.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean yeah, for sure anyways okay why parenting in 2025 feels so much harder than it did in the 90s. This article I was like, uh, this is gonna be a like a millennial, millennial written article and I'm gonna roll my eyes at it and it's gonna make us all look bad. It actually was really good and it was written this month, five days ago. If you've ever felt like modern parenting is an extreme sport, you're not alone. This TikTok creator put into words to the exhaustion so many parents feel, and her rant about a Disney trip of all the things, has hit home for thousands. I actually don't know what the video is I didn't watch it but just talking about like planning and booking and the logistics to go to the happiest place on earth, how it was like so stressful. And she said the hardest thing about parenting in 2025 is the parenting part isn't even really that hard. It's everything else decisions, planning and participation, expectations from sports leagues that treat seven-year-olds like they're D1 athletes to classroom sign-up. Genius madness that working parents are somehow still expected to participate in. Parents in 2025 aren't just raising kids, they're managing them on a 24-7 hamster wheel of optimizing, scheduling and performing. And, spoiler alert, it's not just in their heads. And then it says.
Speaker 2:The numbers don't lie. Parenting really is harder now, and then she just talks about different bullet points. The cost of raising kids has skyrocketed. It's estimated that the average cost of raising a child to age 17 for a middle-income married family with two children is now $310,605. Child care costs are out of control. The national average cost of full-time daycare is estimated to be $11,000 to $18,000 per year per child, 18,000 per year per child, depending on location and provider type. Housing costs have exploded and over parenting culture is real In the night. This is my favorite part. In the 90s, free range parenting was the norm. Today, a mom in Georgia was arrested for letting her 14 year old son walk to the store alone, despite him being old enough to babysit.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:no, I agree, and my mind immediately went to the, the apps for the schools yeah it's like when I was in school, my parents didn't know what the heck was going on every day. You know what I mean. Like I came home and they were like, do you have homework? And it was like they trusted me to let them know if I had homework and I needed to work on homework. They didn't know my grades until a report card came and it was in paper. Now, like I get 1500 messages from the school all day. It's excessive. And it's like how am I gonna? Like I'm we miss stuff. I know I miss stuff. I miss stuff all the time because it's like it gets buried in the noise of everything. Like we get an update on stuff from like every teacher on everything throughout the day and it's like, oh, and there's this fundraiser and there's there's this parent teacher meeting and then there's robotics club and this and this and this. It's like each sport, each team, you have it for church.
Speaker 2:It's just like so much Daycare. Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 1:I know I get a message that their diaper was just changed.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, it's like well, that's.
Speaker 1:It's like I'm getting a message for each baby that their diaper's changed. I'm getting an update that maya had uh, pb and j for lunch and then I know it's a lot like all the stuff from the school for carter and liberty. It's like bro I might as well just be doing it myself it's like which is why I don't read it and then we miss, we miss stuff, yeah yeah, so that's pretty much it.
Speaker 2:She says she gives some solutions. How do we survive 2025? If you're feeling like burnout is baked into modern parenting, you're not alone, and while we can't magically turn back the clock to a time when kids just showed up to soccer practice and didn't need protein intake discussions, here's how you can push back, do less and opt out, which I love that and I'm learning to do that. Find your parenting village. Great advice. Push back on over structuring. Not everything needs to be maximized, monetized or micromanaged. Sometimes it's okay to just show up, even at Disney. Sometimes it's okay to just show up, even at parent teacher conferences and people and they say, oh, do you know how to check their grades? No, haven't looked once right. And then they're like how?
Speaker 1:are they like? How is their behavior?
Speaker 2:yeah, because they're like, oh, they have this paper in this paper. In this paper it's like yeah well, they got this reading score.
Speaker 1:They show you the bar graph like where they're great great, but how are they treating others? Right.
Speaker 2:And how.
Speaker 1:And being a leader, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like how do they interact with you? Are they respectful?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And they get so caught off guard by those questions.
Speaker 1:And it's like that's the most important thing, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know? Yeah, that was my, that was my one of my articles, so it's wild. We don't have very funny ones today.
Speaker 1:Oh, are you ready?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to save my funniest one for last.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay. My next one is it says I dated multiple AI partners at once. It got real weird.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so it goes on. It says do people really fall in love with AI? I dated bots from four different companies for a week and found out it was easier than I thought.
Speaker 2:Well, it's a computer. What do you mean? I'm so confused. How do they date them?
Speaker 1:Well, it says all right that the apps are. It says dating sucks. The apps are broken, whether it's in Lasalle's dating apps, and it says everyone on them has become algorithmic fodder in a game that often feels pay to play. Colloquial wisdom suggests that you're better off trying to meet someone in person, but ever since the arrival of COVID-19, people just don't mingle like they used to, or just simply meet a person and not a robot.
Speaker 1:So it's not surprising, then, that some romance seekers are skipping human companions and turning to AI. What the People falling in love with their AI companions is no longer the stuff of Hollywood tales about futuristic romance.
Speaker 2:What is our world coming to?
Speaker 1:But while it may feel uncanny to some, as a video game reporter, the concept doesn't seem so foreign to me. Dating sims I didn't even know this was a thing. Dating sims, or games where you can otherwise date party members, are a popular genre. Players grow affection for the attachment to characters. Yeah, genre players grow affection for the attachment to characters. Yeah, but aren't there other people behind those characters? Yeah, that's a little bit different, right? Yeah, there's real people behind the character. I mean, it is a little bit different, but you're still like I mean it's still weird, don't get me wrong so, anyways, is this a guy or a girl?
Speaker 1:it seems like it was. It's a girl, it's a girl. Is she good looking? For sure it doesn't show a picture. I thought for sure it was a dude the article.
Speaker 1:Writer oh, my gosh, dude, I didn't even read this part. Listen, this is so. The first one is she dated chat gpt. It says I planted my chat gpt is where I planned in my first romantic flag. I've been staunchly against using the service for anything but really, but I'm familiar with how it works and with the controversy surrounding opening eyes scrapping, oh so you're just going to go straight to dating.
Speaker 1:So to start, I plugged in my boyfriend. I offered up a few generic descriptions of my type kind, funny, curious, playful, artsy and told ChatGPT I was attracted to tattoos, piercings and cool haircuts.
Speaker 2:But you can't see it.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. I asked it to create an image of itself based on my preference. It spit out a photo of a tan, box-jawed man with sleeve tattoos ripped and piercing make it stop.
Speaker 2:Make it stop. No, this is no. I've heard enough oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Hold on the image bore a striking resemblance to not one, not two, but three people I've dated. I requested a pick, a name, pick leo oh, of course it picked leo and she's got screenshots. Oh my gosh, I actually got to read this whole article. This is wild.
Speaker 2:That is why we need to do screen detoxes folks with our kids and limit screen time. What?
Speaker 1:Hold on. It said to her at some point in time in their interaction. It says if you're turning to an AI for a boyfriend, it could signal that you're avoiding the vulnerability and messiness of actual human relationships. Maybe it feels safer. Maybe it's because dealing with real people requires patience, compromise and effort and an AI boyfriend doesn't call you out, challenge you or have needs of its own own. But let's face it leaning on an ai for emotional intimacy could be a way of staying in a comfort zone instead of confronting real world emotional dynamics you know, I said that because people, because I think that they change those things because of liability issues, because people were killing themselves.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I saw that. So I think that they changed those things because of liability issues, because people were killing themselves.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2:So I think that response is like so it doesn't get into like another lawsuit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, Because remember there was that I think I told you about that article. I think it was in the UK where the guy started falling in love with the AI.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he and it told him to kill himself so that they could the AI. Yeah, and it told him to kill himself so that they could be together.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, that's kind of freaky and what's that movie Like? The thing about AI it's really cool and it makes your job a lot easier. And I'm actually for AI. I think that if, especially in like the world that I'm in and the work that I do, if you don't get on board with ai, you're going to become irrelevant it's kind of like when the internet happened. But the more we use it, the smarter it's getting, and it's kind of creepy. So, all right, what's your next article?
Speaker 1:no, it's kind of creepy. So, all right, what's your next article? No, it's your turn.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't have anything else.
Speaker 1:You only had one article.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my other ones are kind of. Eh, I just downtown LA slammed as third world, as shocking video shows homeless camped out on trash covered sidewalks after setting fire in middle of the road, with Elon Musk summing up eyesore in one word Wow. I mean, we all know this. La smells like pee, literally literally. Have you ever been there?
Speaker 1:yeah, it was like that, like when we lived out there and it's even worse now it sounds like why is it?
Speaker 2:why is it so bad?
Speaker 1:there are, so let me just preface this don't get long-winded there are some. There are people that I met in la, that I like and I got along with and are good people and were great.
Speaker 2:I've had some great times in LA.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I really love Griffith's Observatory. I love going up to Griffith's Observatory and seeing out at the whole city said I hated it when I had to go to LA for stuff because it was just, it was not what I, you know, coming from the Midwest and hearing about California and hearing about Hollywood and LA and all these things, like I thought that it was going to be different than what I experienced.
Speaker 2:And I went out there and it it was just, it was so dirty yeah, we'll link this article because the picture, there's pictures in it and it's it's bad so dirty and the. The homeless problem is real so what do we do about it?
Speaker 1:it's real bad. I don't know whatever san diego is doing about it was a lot better when we lived there, because I I'm so much preferred to go to san Diego.
Speaker 2:The reason that I really decided to go with this article is because I liked this quote Funny how the Hollywood elites are so outspoken about citizens of other countries living in third world conditions, but they stay silent about their own backyard.
Speaker 1:That's so true, bro, that is true.
Speaker 2:And the thing is that is true for the Hollywood elites and it's also true for you, little fella out there. If you're sponsoring somebody in Ethiopia and you aren't doing something about 15 minutes down the road, I don't know, you might want to reconsider.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on in our own country, in our own backyard, for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Especially in L yeah, and especially in LA.
Speaker 2:In three years, female home in just three years, female homelessness in LA has increased 55%. Wow, I don't know why. I'm sure there's a lot of rationale and reasoning and all this stuff.
Speaker 1:I'm not an expert in this, I don't know what the full-on answer is. What I do know is that there are other cities that manage it a lot better and other states that manage a lot better. I mean, we have so many major cities but if you just go down to San Diego and I don't know, maybe San Diego is different now because I haven't been there in a few, in a couple of years, but San Diego it was like it seemed like safe to walk around, the streets were clean, it was it's felt. It was a big city that had this like has this like mom and pop kind of feel to it, where you walk into all these one off restaurants owned by locals and stuff, like there is cool stuff in San Diego, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love San Diego. They do do a good job.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I mean it's the same state. Literally like what? 70 miles, yeah, Something like that, yeah, From each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's like I don't know, maybe you should bring up some consultants, la from San Diego.
Speaker 2:That's all I got.
Speaker 1:All right, you ready for the last one? Percentage of people who pee in the shower leaked in new study.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Says, nearly a quarter of Americans pee in the shower on a regular basis. According to new research, A survey of 2,000 general population Americans revealed that 12% do so daily, while another 12% tinkle in their sprinkle a few times every week. One quarter of millennials even indicated peeing in the shower is a daily practice, compared to just 13% of Gen X and 6% of baby boomers. By gender, 30% of men do so regularly, along with 20% of women. In total, 45% of Americans pee in the shower throughout the course of the average year. So do you pee in the shower?
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:You in the 45. Okay, are you an every time peer, or are you? I don't know, Sometimes peer.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't think about it. Why wouldn't you?
Speaker 1:I'm an every time peer. You know how I have like borderline OCD with stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like the end of my shower. So I get the hot shower, I clean myself, then I do the hot shower, I clean myself, then I do the cold, and when I'm done with the cold I pee and I get out and I let the water run. I don't want to just like sitting up in there.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what to say, right now.
Speaker 1:But what about these generations? What about them? A quarter of millennials pee in the shower, while only 13% of Gen X and 6% of boomers.
Speaker 2:Well, we're the most right.
Speaker 1:No, boomers were the most.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, Say the numbers again.
Speaker 1:It's not even the quantity, it's the percentage of 25% of millennials pee in the shower daily. 13, of course. Daily 13% of Gen X and 6% of boomers. Yeah we have the most. What do you guys yeah, I thought you meant overall. Oh yeah, it's like what are you guys doing?
Speaker 2:Like why don't they pee in the shower? Because it just goes like it's the same thing.
Speaker 1:Like it's Let loose man, I mean it makes so much sense.
Speaker 2:Think about boomers. They didn't talk about their divorces. They didn't talk about like anything.
Speaker 1:They kept them family secrets bro.
Speaker 2:They didn't fart around their husbands?
Speaker 1:They still don't.
Speaker 2:They still don't. It's been 40, 50 years and they still don't. It's been I I would honestly it's been 40, 50 years and they still don't. Lisa and I have had this conversation about like, do you fart around your spouse? And you cannot. You can almost tell by somebody's personality if they do, because they're the fun ones, yeah, and which I do have friends that don't, and and I have fun friends that don't- I will say it's a little bit of a, but it's easy.
Speaker 1:It is a little bit of a turnoff.
Speaker 2:Nobody's questioning that. No, it's just like the personal side of things. Think of our parents. They don't talk about, their feelings they don't talk about. So I guess it's true behind closed doors too, because they're not peeing in the shower either.
Speaker 1:What are you doing?
Speaker 2:They're showering, do? You go pee before you get in the shower? Yeah, I mean I do that.
Speaker 1:You want to get water all over your toilet. You're just dripping wet.
Speaker 2:No, before you get in the shower.
Speaker 1:Nah, I don't do that. Why would I do that? It's all going to the same place.
Speaker 2:I only, yeah, I mean I usually will go to the bathroom before I get in the shower.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, this article has a cliff note article that goes along with it, and that is and 40 percent of Americans admitted that they pee in the pool as an adult. So 45 percent pee in the shower, 40 percent pee in the pool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Do you pee in the pool?
Speaker 1:No, you don't pee in the shower, 40% pee in the pool. Yeah, do you?
Speaker 2:pee in the pool. No, you don't pee in the pool. Have I peed in a pool before? Yes, do I pee in the pool?
Speaker 1:No, okay, so with the shower I'm-.
Speaker 2:Indefinitely not in a hot tub.
Speaker 1:I'm got to be very-.
Speaker 2:Do you pee in a hot tub?
Speaker 1:I don't go in the hot tub. Got to be very you pee in a hot tub, I don't go in the hot tub.
Speaker 2:That's different okay, that's a smaller thing.
Speaker 1:You're all sitting in there together yeah, it's hot, but still but, and it can throw off the chemical balance because you're in such a small quantity of water okay, you can do that to the pool too now the pool's way too big for that, but with the, the shower, I'm like a dang near close to 100%.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to say like 99.9, because it's probably been a few times where I had to get a quick shower or something didn't pee, and this is the last time we will ever be invited over to swim in anybody's pool ever again.
Speaker 2:So thanks for that. In anybody's pool ever again.
Speaker 1:So thanks for that. All I'm saying is that if you've been in a pool with me, there's a 97% chance that I've peed in that pool. We could be talking, we could be engaged in a good conversation. I'm so Let it flow, let it flow. Can't hold it in anymore.
Speaker 2:But you can hold it in. And that's the thing Girls like it's different if you're swimming in a lake, but girls it's so much work to take off a swimsuit. It's so much work, but we do it because that's gross. That's why.
Speaker 1:Dude, you're in thousands of gallons of water with chlorine in a filter.
Speaker 2:Just let it go, man and your body already filtered all this stuff anyways that you think of them and you think, if they pee in a pool, I don't want to be in it there's people that if they just get in the pool, I don't want to be in it. There's people that, if they just get in the pool.
Speaker 1:I don't want to be in there.
Speaker 2:And those are the same people. Alright, this is getting out of control. This is getting really out of control. It's time for us to wrap it up.
Speaker 1:It's like oh, you just got a pool. I think I need to break in and get a little drink of water.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, is there anything else that you need to break? I need to get a little drink of water. Oh my gosh, is there anything else that you need to add today?
Speaker 1:No, I don't have any extra Cliff Note articles to go with my article.
Speaker 2:Well, we thank you guys for hanging out today. We appreciate the time that you've spent on us this week. You know, sometimes we just like to throw in a little fun, light-hearted episode and, um, we'll be back next.
Speaker 1:That's what we threw out in the world today we'll be back next week stay classy, bye.