00:00Life skills. What are they? Everybody should know them. Yesterday, ties came up. Tying a tie is on top of
00:07the mind.
00:08John, what do you got?
00:09Well, I've got a long list.
00:11I'm sure you do.
00:12And some of them I know you guys are going to say, oh, you're too old school.
00:17I'm going to start with one that I'll throw my kids under the bus.
00:21I know that they struggle with.
00:23And I think you should do this as just being an adult that at some point had some sort of
00:28education.
00:30Spelling.
00:32You should be able to spell.
00:33You let the red squiggly line fix it.
00:35Okay, then you learn how to use the red squiggly line.
00:39When you see the red squiggly line, it means that something is not spelled right.
00:42So before you send an email to somebody you work with, maybe even your boss, before you send a text
00:48message, just proofread it.
00:50Fair.
00:51And spell something correctly.
00:52I think that's a simple life skill that I think a lot of those that are between the ages of
00:5910 to 18 and older now have really missed out on.
01:04But it's not necessarily life or death.
01:07I do think that, hey, by the time you graduate high school, you should be able to do your own
01:13laundry.
01:14Yes.
01:14I think that's a huge one.
01:16You should be able to do your own laundry.
01:18Yes.
01:18You should be able to fold it and put it away.
01:20And it may be, hey, light colors, dark colors.
01:25It goes in.
01:26You hit the buttons.
01:28It's not hard.
01:28It's not hard.
01:29It's not hard at all.
01:30All right.
01:30And then, hey, some you dry, some you don't.
01:33But you should be able to figure that out and do your own damn laundry.
01:37All right.
01:38That's one of them.
01:40You should be.
01:41Now, I think you should be able to cook to a certain level.
01:45You should be able to sustain life.
01:49You should feed yourself.
01:51Make food.
01:52Now, when you should be able to go to the grocery store and let's just say, okay, hey, maybe
01:57a chicken divan or like some of these other involved recipes, it's not in your wheelhouse.
02:06But you should be able to follow a recipe.
02:09As I say, you're talking when we cook, not a microwave meal.
02:12Right.
02:13Yeah.
02:13Can you make an egg on the Salisbury steak?
02:15Yeah.
02:16Yeah.
02:16But you should be able to cook an egg.
02:17You should be able to.
02:18Boil pasta.
02:20Make a grilled cheese.
02:21Yes.
02:21We could debate how you cut it.
02:23But you should be able to make it.
02:24Yep.
02:24Yes.
02:25I'm cool with this so far.
02:26I agree.
02:27Okay.
02:27Yeah.
02:28Spelling, I don't know if that's a life skill.
02:30I just think it's a skill you should know.
02:31Okay.
02:32You should know how to plunge a toilet.
02:33I put that down on my list, too.
02:36Know how to unclog a toilet.
02:38Yeah.
02:38So you don't have to call a plumber.
02:39Exactly.
02:40Get the plunger out.
02:40All right.
02:40And it's a little dirty business, but, you know.
02:43You'll survive.
02:43You got to be able to do that.
02:47I know there's a couple here that I think you guys are going to.
02:50Just quick back to the plunger thing.
02:52Yeah.
02:52I also think that you should be able to figure out how to get an auger if necessary.
02:58You know, that's the next level plunger and do it.
03:01Like, I had to do that one time.
03:02One of my kids absolutely destroyed the toilet almost.
03:05Oh, no.
03:06Same names.
03:09And I was like, well, what do I do next before I call somebody out with a snake or something
03:13like that and said, try an auger, go to the store, find out what an auger is.
03:18And other than maybe putting a little scratch on the toilet bowl, I got it.
03:22Okay.
03:24Yeah.
03:25I've never used one.
03:26I'll say that's next level.
03:27Yeah.
03:27But I've definitely plunged a toilet before.
03:30And here's one that we had some debate on pre-show.
03:35And I'll go a little bit more in depth before you guys, you young people, lose your mind.
03:41You should be able to balance your checkbook.
03:44All right.
03:45Now, maybe, Jim, I don't even, I bet you probably don't even have a checkbook.
03:49What's a checkbook?
03:50Come on.
03:51In the process of balancing a checkbook, you should be able to create a budget.
03:57What's the money coming in?
03:59What's the money going out?
04:00I need to have more coming in or at least equal parts coming in and going out.
04:06I agree with half that.
04:08On my list was make and stick to a budget.
04:10Yes.
04:10But I don't think you need to know how to balance a checkbook.
04:14A physical checkbook.
04:15Never.
04:16Rarely do I write a check at this point.
04:19Balance a checkbook.
04:20So I know that there's, your life may not lend itself to actually writing a check.
04:26There are things because of kids where sometimes schools only take a check.
04:32Sometimes the events that they're doing, a fundraiser, some other things, yet more and more thing
04:38is going cashless, but you do need to be able to write a check.
04:42But I'll meet you there.
04:44Fine.
04:44You write your check.
04:45I don't need to then do a debits and credits in the back of the book.
04:50I'll log into my phone, which does it in real time and do it that way.
04:54We don't need to do analog balancing of a checkbook.
04:56So however you want to do it, you should be able to.
05:00You should track your finances.
05:01You're just doing it a different way.
05:02Yeah.
05:02All right.
05:03And it's okay.
05:03Maybe my way, the old school way of writing checks.
05:06Yes.
05:06I write very few checks these days.
05:08It does happen.
05:10But you have to be able to then look at your statement and read a bank statement.
05:14Yes.
05:14Maybe that's the way to say balance your checks.
05:17You have to be able to read a bank statement.
05:19Personal finance.
05:20Yeah.
05:20Yes.
05:22Another one that I'm sure, Jim, you will probably scoff at.
05:26Heather might too.
05:27You need to be able to read a map.
05:32Yeah.
05:32And I know you're going to say, well, I have a map in my phone.
05:34I don't know that it's practical, but.
05:37I think you should be able to read a map.
05:39In an emergency situation, you should be able to read a map.
05:41Yes, you should be able to know which direction is north, south, east, and west.
05:45And you should then be able to locate yourself on a map and then navigate by said map.
05:50And I'm not talking about out in the wilderness.
05:52All right.
05:53That's a skill that some people want.
05:55Some people don't care about.
05:56They're never going to be in that situation.
05:57But you should be able to read a map and not always rely on, yes, whenever I'm going
06:05somewhere, I always put the destination in.
06:07I know where I'm going and I could use a map, but I want to know what the traffic pattern
06:11are.
06:12Is there a better way for me to get from point A to point B?
06:14But what if your phone stops working?
06:17You're out of charge.
06:18What if the GPS on your car stops working?
06:21Or you don't have cell service and you're in the middle of nowhere.
06:26You're actually, I think, nailing this.
06:28I mean, outside of a few generational questions, I was expecting like harvest and process a deer.
06:34No.
06:34Got a fish.
06:36John Jansen life skills.
06:37No.
06:38When the world goes to hell, my family will be well provided for.
06:41You are not welcome.
06:43Okay.
06:43Did you have a make a fire, start a fire?
06:46I think you should be able to start a fire.
06:47Yes.
06:48I didn't hear you say, I know this is probably on your list, the change a tire.
06:52You should be able to change a tire.
06:53You probably would also say you should be able to change your oil.
06:56I did not put that on my list.
06:57I do think it is a requirement for my children that you have to know how to change your oil,
07:02but it is so convenient.
07:03And at times I do it as well.
07:05I just go to the fast oil place and I have them change my oil.
07:08But you should be able to check the fluids and know if the oil is the dipstick.
07:13Or most cars, you just click a couple buttons and it says.
07:17Oil life?
07:18Yeah.
07:18Yeah.
07:19Oil life or.
07:20Know how to maintain your vehicles.
07:21Yeah.
07:22Probably.
07:22Yeah.
07:22Because wipe a fluid in your car.
07:25Yes.
07:25That you should be able to do that.
07:26To me, that is more important than being able to change your oil or something.
07:32Like, I've never changed.
07:33Well, you should.
07:33It's not more important than being able to check your oil.
07:36I've never physically opened the hood of my car and checked the dipstick to see if I
07:40need more oil in my life.
07:43But I pay attention to when I need, when my car tells me in the sticker on my window.
07:49Oh, sure.
07:49Okay, it's time to get an oil change.
07:51Yeah, that'll do the trick.
07:51But I always need washer fluid in the winter.
07:54Yeah.
07:55Yeah.
07:55Specifically.
07:56But I think John's point was your car can't run if you don't maintain the oil.
08:00Well, right.
08:00That's why I'm saying you should be able to maintain it.
08:02But I don't go and check my oil, like, physically.
08:06But in terms of physically changing it, like, I grew up, my dad was an auto mechanic.
08:09He would change the oil.
08:10And then it got to a point where he's like, honestly, it's not worth the hassle and the
08:13cost.
08:13Just take it to a fast oil change place.
08:16Yeah.
08:16So I understand that.
08:17It may not be something that you have to do.
08:20Um, and it might not even save you any money anymore.
08:23Right.
08:23Um, but two, four, eight, five, three, nine, 97, 97.
08:27This all started with yesterday.
08:29We mentioned, Hey, you know, if you're, if you're a grownup, you should be able to tie
08:34a tie.
08:34What are some of the life skills that maybe our kids or you're seeing it around that they
08:40just don't know how to do anymore?
08:42Let's get to Ray in, uh, Davidson.
08:45You're on 97.
08:46One.
08:47Yeah.
08:48It's kind of two story fold.
08:50I, my daughter got married and I paid for the wedding a year later.
08:54She goes, Hey dad, I need 10 grand.
08:56I want to buy a house.
08:57I said, you need 10 grand to buy a house.
08:59You don't can't afford the house.
09:00So I said, you can come live with me.
09:03And my basement was like a apartment.
09:05Well, after about six months in, they're arguing about a debit card in overdraft.
09:10And I said, what are you guys arguing about?
09:12They said, well, she goes and spends money.
09:14I go, I go, you guys put yourself on a budget.
09:17And I said, whoever had, I said, if he spends all, he saves a bunch of money and he wants
09:22to go hunting.
09:22He wants to buy a new gun.
09:24He wants to buy a bow.
09:25That's his business at the end of the year.
09:27Give yourselves each a budget.
09:28They were like in their twenties and didn't know how to balance a budget, a bank account.
09:34Yeah.
09:35Well, you're never going to get ahead that way.
09:37No.
09:37Yeah.
09:37I think a budget, if you, especially if you are a married couple or it's just an individual
09:44that is trying to live on their own, you have to be able to create a budget and follow
09:49the budget.
09:51Yes.
09:52Yes.
09:52And they both thanked me after about three months, uh, uh, not having any overdrafts.
09:57And they said, dad, that was a brilliant, I go, what are they teaching you guys in college?
10:03Yeah.
10:03Or in high school, I think there should be a finance class in high school.
10:08There probably is, but you don't care as much about it in high school.
10:11You gloss over it.
10:12Yeah.
10:12I mean, I learned about a lot of things in high school that I cannot remember now that probably
10:16would be useful.
10:17Yeah.
10:19I love this balance a checkbook.
10:22John's trying to raise his kids to be the customers in front of me at Costco, John and
10:25Lake Orion.
10:27There's nothing that annoys me more than when I'm next in line as somebody is writing a
10:32check.
10:33I agree.
10:34You rarely see that these days.
10:35It happens though.
10:36It does.
10:36I know it does.
10:37But if it's going to happen, it's going to happen at Costco when the lines are five
10:41deep.
10:43Lifescale change attire, multiple people echoing that on the text could help you in a pinch.
10:47How about jumpstart a car?
10:48Now, Jim, I don't want to get into the whole EV thing.
10:51Yeah, I've done it.
10:52Yeah.
10:52I think you should be able to jumpstart a car.
10:54I think I could.
10:55I don't think I've ever done it on my own.
10:58Okay.
10:59I mean, it's color coded.
11:00I mean.
11:00But I'm pretty sure that I.
11:01Well, yeah.
11:01Unless some more vehicles don't necessarily have the the red cover still covering the positive
11:08terminal, but plus means positive.
11:11Yes, John.
11:12The minus sign means negative.
11:15So you go like to like between.
11:21248-539-9797.
11:22A few more that are coming in.
11:24We'll collect the best ones.
11:25Life skills.
11:25You need to know it's 97 one.
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