Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast where we talk to our friend and sponsor of the show, Zach Abraham from Bullwork, Capital Management. And today, we're going to talk a little bit about babysitting. And the reason is, is because producer Corinne saw a thread on X or Twitter, whatever you want to call it, where people were talking about how much babysitters cost and how

much that cost is creeping up and up and up and up and up. And now it's basically impossible

to go out if you have young kids. And so it got us like reminiscing about our own babysitter days

and like what we made back in the day and how young we were. But like one of the things that I guess was talked about in this thread is that now you

there's younger kids.

Like when we started babysitting around 12 years old, that is not a thing anymore.

And more often parents are looking for babysitters for their 12 year olds because it's just a

whole different world.

Yeah.

You're a dude, so you probably didn't babysit, but like, did you have sisters or anything

that did?

You know, yeah, my older sister babysat quite frequently, and actually I did too.

There were some, yeah, we had some families around that had, that my mom was friends with their moms and they had younger boys. And so they, the boys love the idea of, you know, another, a guy coming over and watching them, playing with them and doing all that kind of stuff. And then the reason I like to do it was because I was always, my jobs were always like manual labor. Right.

And that was great and I did that during the summer. But like I was sitting there, you know, I'd be going, okay, so I'm going to get paid 75 bucks to come sit with your sons for five hours and play video games. Like sold. Right. I know. Sign me up. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like rather than clear. I remember, you know, like one job was like clearing brush for this guy that had an ostrich farm, you know, just stuff like that.

Like I worked on a, I mean, this was later, but, you know, did construction, worked on a fishing

boat.

Like, you know, so I as a guy, I was like, wait a second, man, this whole babysitting.

This is a deal. Yeah. Yeah. And then the moms, you know, they'd buy us, you know, they'd buy their kids like junk food and stuff like that because it's fun to have babysit over. So I'm sitting there going, okay, so I get pizza. I'm watching movies. I'm wrestling with these kids. Yeah. Totally. And we'd press the boundaries a little bit. Usually we'd end up in the backyard, you know, manufacturing some kind of like weapon of some kind, you know. You know, I'd be teaching how to throw spears and stuff like that. They're better for it. Yeah, and we had a good time. And so, you know, and I don't see, I don't see any of that anymore. As a matter of fact, we started allowing my daughter to babysit our two younger boys when she was like 12. And the looks we got from people like, you're going to do what? And I'm not like, and it's your own kid. Right. And I'm sitting there going, when we were like, when my sister and I were like 11 and 13, 12 and 14, like not only could we stay home, but we could stay home and run the house.

Oh, yeah. At 12. We were latchkey kids. I mean, we went home and we were on our own. Yeah. And I watched bait like one, two week old babies. I feel like they were so tiny and I was like 12 years old.

I had no idea what I was doing.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I remember my baby sister was born when I was seven.

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