Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth to Bight You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

I'm Cynthia Yanov, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, Dr. Ken, how are you doing? I'm good, Cynthia. How are you? Good. You're sitting in a different place. I'm all thrown off. They're working on my roof and we had a loud, you might still hear some nailing in the background. So I've had to move to a different room. I don't know which is a bigger bummer.

Foundation or roof? Like with those things. Oh, foundation is definitely worse. It is. Okay. I mean, those things you put money into, crowns on the teeth, all those things that nobody ever sees and you

have got all, yeah, done all that. Thank you. Yes, all of it. Okay. So you, you know this probably, but I grew up super Baptist. And listen, I love you. Yes, all of it. Okay, so you know this probably, but I grew up Super Baptist.

And listen, I love you.

You look to Super Baptist Church, didn't you?

I did.

Yeah.

I did.

And so I remember growing up one of the things that, and I'm not opining if this is wrong

or right.

I'm just stating a fact was that like you do not play the lottery. Okay. That's a form of gambling.

I, yep. I remember that. Okay. And so to this day, I've never bought a lottery ticket. I think I've been given one once or twice. But so you're going to hell. I know, right? This is really where Cynthia confesses some things. So my husband, I go to Vegas on occasion just to hear a concert or he'll have business. And so we were there a couple months ago. And I was like, you know what? I'm throwing caution of the wind. I'm going straight to the slot machine. Let's risk it. I know. I've never played a slot machine. Evidence by the fact I didn't know how to play the slot machine and it seems something. Excuse me, ma'am. You just unplugged it. Pretty much. Pretty much. So I was like, I told my husband, I'm like, I only have $100. Don't let me get out of control. He's like, okay, I don't think anybody's worried. and I won another 100 and I left in the history of Vegas. Wow.

I know. In the history of Vegas, has anyone left ahead of the game? I don't know. Wow. That that's my story. And everyone's like, thanks for sharing. But just, that's my gambling history. Have you ever been a gambler?

Yes, usually when, well, no, I'm not a gambler, but like when it's there, like we were on a cruise ship once.

We were visiting Monte Carlo once, and this is a long time ago.

So I would, my thing, I like to play blackjack and it's $5 a hand. I would just take 20 whole dollars and maybe it was 50

I can't remember and once that's gone it's gone and um it was gone you can't believe how

that it was gone and my wife did slot machines in Monte Carlo and just like you came away

ahead and wouldn't let me have any of hers.

So, yeah, it's, you have a different experience than I do.

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