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Sarah and Vinnie Full Show

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Sarah and Vinnie Full Show

Audacy

Comedy

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In China people are becoming full time children!

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0:00.0

All right. Hello, this is think about this. You're waking up with Sarah and Vinnie. I love it. Alice at ninety seven three.

0:05.6

This is fun. And I don't know if it's true. It does make the news. And it is, you know, it's a real story.

0:12.0

How real it is. This is from NBC News. Okay. Real story. Do you know a twenty something who isn't working?

0:19.6

Yes, I do hang it out at home. I do. I know that person doing odd jobs and errands. Yep.

0:24.6

And mooching off their parents. Yep. Well, I hope it's not all this thing. This is a new trend.

0:33.8

I don't need it. I don't need his dirty looks in China. They're calling this a job now. A full-time

0:40.3

child. That's right. In China, the job market is so bad. And jobs are so scarce that young people

0:49.4

are being forced out of the labor market. And there's a new trend of them working for their

0:54.7

parents as full-time children. Oh, the parents pay a little more than, you know, a thousand a month,

0:59.7

which is about the average salary in China. And in exchange, the kids spend their time with their

1:05.2

parents driving them to various stores, doing housework, cooking, and generally being on hand for

1:11.9

anything that's needed. That is, I think that is exactly what my kid does now.

1:17.6

Like he picked us up on Saturday and drove us, you know, around to a couple places that we needed

1:22.0

to go. Wait, you mean here in the city? Yeah. We ubered into the city. And then he came

1:27.0

picked us up, took us to ramen. We all went over to the show to, to Scott Capro's show together.

1:33.1

Yesterday, he went and picked up dinner for us. Yeah. Oh, there it is. There's a time kid. He

1:39.2

doesn't clean though. He does cook though. It's become such a thing that hashtags full-time

1:44.6

daughter and full-time son have been trending on Chinese social media platforms. You can't

1:49.9

find a job and your parents can afford to pay you. That's, the thing is though, the familiarity

1:58.4

is the problem. What the kid wants is to sit in the basement and play video games. And if I'm

2:05.2

going to pay you, I've got a list of chores for you. Right. So now like the mean mom boss lady,

2:13.9

I feel like I got to have a talk with my kid. I'm going to go listen while you figure out what

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