Ep. 118

How did your mom or dad find out you lost your virginity? 

-NASA satellite discovers second Earth-sized planet in habitable zone. If they offered you and your family land and a home would you become one of the early settlers?
-New Virginia bill would recognize a fetus as a passenger for vehicles in carpool lanes. 
-High school bans all physical contact and romantic relationships between students. 
-Transgender swimmer struggles to stay out of last place after joining all men’s team.
-PLAY CLIP — The Breakfast Club. Government recognizes children are suffering from obesity and think the best way to battle obesity in children is to allow surgery or pills. 
-Father of 102 children decides to stop having kids due to rising cost of living.
-Memphis woman accused of calling in sick too many times pulls a gun on employer. 

A Moment in Love: 
-Mariah Carey allegedly wants fully custody of her and Nick Cannon’s twins following  the birth of his 12th child. Fair?
-You’re offered $3 billion but you can never have sex again (all kinds).

Would You Rather:

Have you started working on your resolutions? How is it going so far?

In Ratchet News:
-NFL player Damar Hamlin, of Buffalo Bills, suffered cardiac arrest after a hit during a game against the Bangles. 
-Skip tweets after and people are upset, asking he be fired. Some think the tweet was taken the wrong way. During Undisputed, Shannon Sharpe says Skip should take down tweet and Skip refused. Both get into another heated agrument. 
-6 year old student in custody after shooting teacher at Richneck Elementary school. 
-Dana White is caught slapping his wife twice at a night club, after she hit him. He claims this has never happened before.
-Colorado funeral home owner sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegally selling body parts.
-The black family who won the return of Bruce Beach will sell it back to LA County.
-CA an arrested for intentionally driving his 2 kids and wife off a 250 ft cliff, inside a Tesla. The family survived and the father is being charged with attempted murder.

A Moment in Love: 
-Gabrielle Union says she felt comfortable cheating in her first marriage because she paid all the bills. Valid?
-Couple finds out they’re actually brother and sister after 10+ years of marriage. 

Would you rather save you best friends life (he/she has terminal cancer) OR sacrifice your best friend so that a cure is found for all OTHER cancer patients. Your Best Friend HAS TO DIE. 

Enjoy the Show and The New Year!!!

Ep. 116

What classic Christmas/Holiday movie would you live in? 
For example: Be Kevin in Home Alone? 
Be Buddy in Elf?

News:
-2023: Russia/China, India and Europe are launching missions to the moon. This is following Nasa’s Artemis 1 mission which recently made a luna orbit.
-A man that wrongly spent 25 years on death row is shot and killed after being released.
-Weed accidentally harvested with spinach caused almost 200 people to hallucinate. 
-German court convicts 97 year old ex-secretary at Nazi camp. She was handed a SUSPENDED 2 year sentence for aiding and abetting the murder of 10,505 people and attempted murder of 5 people. 


A Momen in Love:
-Woman on TikTok asks men why they prefer “plain Janes” over Pretty girls like her? Says men marry plain Janes and are too scared to date/marry Pretty girls like her. (Clip in IG). 
-A study reveals not be3ing horny enough can lead to an early death. The study of more than 20,000 people, in Japan, examined the link between sexual interest and “all cause”mortality. Te study showed that mean over 40 who had a low libido were 1.94 times as likely to die from cancer and 1.36 times as likely to die from heart disease. Men with lower sex drives also reported lacking “ikigai”, a Japanese term for the reason of having a life worth living. 

Would you rather: 

Ep. 115
What are you looking forward to in 2023?


-Nick Cannon admits he feels “spread thin” with so many children. With 12 children, he feels bad of not having enough time to spend with all his kids. 
-Teen discovers anonymous cyberbully who harassed her for a year was her mother.According to the FBI, the mother targeted her daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend since last December. 
-New Zealand announces lifetime ban on sales of cigarettes to those born after 2008. The ban will remain in place for a person’s whole life. The bill also includes a reduction in the amount of nicotine allowed in smoked tobacco products and reduction in the number of retailers selling tobacco products in New Zealand from 6,000 to 60.
-Congress introduced bill to ban TikTok in the U.S.
-Elderly NYC substitute teacher busted for choking middle-school boy during class. The boy told police he was in his 5th period class, walking to the trash can, when the teacher suddenly put his hands around his throat. 

Moment in Love3:
-Video on social media of a neighbor coming up to a RING doorbell to tell the husband that his wife is cheating on him. Would you do the same? (Clip in IG DMs).
-Man says “mess with the chick that likes you, not the one you like”. In life you will accept all kinds of shit from the one you like, while the one that likes you will treat you right.(Clip in IG DMs).


Would you rather:
-Have the ability to time travel, but every time you used it, you lose 2 year of life OR the ability to read minds, but when you read someone’s mind, they lose 1 year of life. 

Ep. 114

Ice breaker:
-What is the most memorable or best pc of Dad advice someone has has given you?

News:
-Bill Cosby & NBC ate being sued by 5 women who claim the actor sexually abused them. 
-17 year old North Carolina Teen, Eziya Brown jumped out of Lyft car after suspicions about the driver.
-People are getting disabled by choice and calling themselves “Transabled”. They feel like certain parts or functions of their bodies do not belong to themselves. They tend to “arrange” accidents in order to be deemed disabled. 
-Texas bill is set to BAN social media for children under 18. Republican lawmaker believes social media is harmful to children and compared it to use of cigarettes. Under is law, social media sites would also be forced to verify a user’s age with a photo ID and allow parents to request the removal of their child’s account. 
-Nick Carter, of Backstreet Boys, is accused of giving women “VIP Juice” before raping them. 
Before his death, brother Aaron Carter, said Nick was a rapist and compared him to Jeffery Epstein and R Kelly. But no one believed his claims. 
-Walmart CEO warns company will close stores if theft doesn’t slow down. Walmart reports losing about $3B a year in theft. 

A Moment in Love:
-Play clip in IF DMs. 
-Can you be friends after breaking up? If so, how long after breaking up can you pick up the friendship? Does there have to be a “cooling off period”. 
-What do you consider “taking care” of your significant other to be?

Would you rather:
-Would you rather get 10 minutes with a loved one who passed away or get $10 million cash. 

Icebreaker:
-Welcome Tim to the Dad Club...
-Dad Talk segment to come!

Question: 
-If you are traveling for 5 days, what’s the appropriate amount of underwear you should pack?

Current ratchet and not so ratchet events:
-10 year old boy shoots mother dead after she refused to buy him a virtual reality headset. 
At first, the boy claimed the shooting was an accident, so authorities released him to his family. BUT later, he admitted it was intentional. He ****
His older siblings shared that he has a history of disturbing behavior; including swinging a puppy around by its tail, filling a balloon with flammable liquid and setting it on fire. His family also reported that he received a “concerning” diagnosis from a therapist. 
-10 LA (Van Nuys) middle schoolers likely overdosed on what authorities believe were cannabis edibles during class. The students’ age range from 12-14. 7 were taken to the ER. What was the wildest thing you say or did in middle school?
-Scientist have created a “baby” wormhole, which could support the theory that the universe is a hologram. 
-Scientist who worked for the Wuhan lab says COVID is a man-made virus. He says the pandemic was the result of the US government’s funding of coronaviruses in China. 
-2 Crypto billionaires have died mysteriously in the past week. 

A Moment in Love:
-Is the relationship over once the police are called?

Would You Rather:

Just a Sunday Conversation. enjoy the show.

Icebreaker: 

What are your thoughts on the new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie?

In Ratchet News:

-A Detroit man took an Uber to a bank and asked the Uber driver to wait as he robbed the bank. 

-Frontier Airlines plans on offering an All-You-Can-Fly pass tat starts at $599 for domestic flights.

-Jason David Frank (Tommy the Green Ranger) passed away at the age of 49. According to TMZ the star died of an apparent suicide. 

-Trey Songz isn’t here for a woman claiming he brutalized her in NYC last month. According to TMZ, an unnamed woman filed a report last month alleging that Trey had assaulted her. The woman claims the singer repeatedly punched her in the face and dragged her by her hair while inside a bowling alley bathroom where she works

A Moment in Love: 

-Name one thing, aside from cheating, that kills a relationship. 

-Thoughts: women and men no longer cohabitating with their boyfriend or girlfriend. Not until they play on getting married. This generation has all the expectations like; cooking, cleaning, taking care of kids, laundry etc. If a man wants a wife then make her one. No more playing house. 

Would You Rather: 

-Get paid 10k bi-weekly and work 20 hours or get paid 20k and work 80 hours?