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'Talk of CNN'

Aired September 26, 2002 - 06:20   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We want to welcome a new team to our Talk of CNN segment this morning.
Joining us from Salt Lake City, Utah is the Z Morning Zoo with Frankie and D.B. They're with KZHT 94.9 FM.

Good morning and welcome.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, thanks. How you doing?

COSTELLO: I'm doing great. And, you know, you guys are still talking about this Madelyne Toogood thing, the mother who was caught on videotape hitting her child in an Indiana parking lot. So how are you spinning this on your radio show?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, we're not going to go as far as like speaking, whether you're pro, you know, you're for it or against it. We're going to just throw out the topic of like when you were raised by your parents, how did they discipline you. I mean obviously they went a little overboard with, you know, the stuff they caught on camera with her.

COSTELLO: Well, how did your parents discipline you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you know, I'm very much for spanking. I just think that, you know, there's a line between spanking and beating.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, and flogging.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. I mean you don't have to shake a kid like a thing of salad dressing but...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This isn't Turkey, come on.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. But I think that...

COSTELLO: You know, but many parents still don't even believe in a simple spanking. The thing to do now is take a time out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: See, time outs don't do anything.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I guess it depends on the kid. It might. You know, maybe it does for certain kids, time outs are OK. But I think for the most part, a little tap on the butt, you know, it's not the actual spanking, it's the oh my gosh, my mom or dad just tapped me on the butt, you know what I mean? It just kind of scares them a little bit.

COSTELLO: Yes, that's true. But doesn't the age of the child matter, too?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It depends. I guess, I don't know. I remember being 12 years old and giving my mom lip and I didn't realize that my dad was in the house and he was supposed to be at work. It was kind of like getting nailed by a, you know, a cop on a speeding ticket. I have no idea where he was. But he ended up getting me good. He gave me, I was 12 years old and I got a spanking by my dad because I gave my mom lip.

COSTELLO: Oh, my goodness.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

COSTELLO: Well, it'll be interesting to see what your listeners think this morning later on because I know it's really early in Salt Lake City right now.

You're doing something interesting to get, I guess, potential pedophiles off the Internet. What are you guys doing?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, it's something that we kind of, we got the idea from our local Internet task force. There's a police force here in town and that's all they do is they go online and they try to set up meetings. And they pose as like 13 or 14-year-old little girls. And they lure these pedophiles that are online. They basically lure them into conversations and then these guys think that they're setting up meetings, but they turn out to be cops.

So we kind of took the same thing, turned it into a radio thing, you know, as far as bringing the laptop in studio. We created a 13- year-old girl's profile. And then we just go into a random chat room to prove to the parents and to the younger listeners that, how easily these guys are going to prey on you. And it's not a question of if, or I should say when, it's if -- or, no, if and when.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But that you run into them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Because they're going to come out of the woodwork and start chatting with you and it always turns sex. And then we lure a phone number out of them and then we just call them on the air. And we don't ever say that we're on the air. We just act like we're either the cops or we'll say you're on a morning show somewhere in the country, basically to kind of scare them and freak them out a little bit.

COSTELLO: Well, hopefully that works.

Thank you for joining us. We'll check in again with you next week.

Frankie and D.B.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thanks, Carol.

COSTELLO: Bye.

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Aired September 26, 2002 - 06:20   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We want to welcome a new team to our Talk of CNN segment this morning.
Joining us from Salt Lake City, Utah is the Z Morning Zoo with Frankie and D.B. They're with KZHT 94.9 FM.

Good morning and welcome.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, thanks. How you doing?

COSTELLO: I'm doing great. And, you know, you guys are still talking about this Madelyne Toogood thing, the mother who was caught on videotape hitting her child in an Indiana parking lot. So how are you spinning this on your radio show?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, we're not going to go as far as like speaking, whether you're pro, you know, you're for it or against it. We're going to just throw out the topic of like when you were raised by your parents, how did they discipline you. I mean obviously they went a little overboard with, you know, the stuff they caught on camera with her.

COSTELLO: Well, how did your parents discipline you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you know, I'm very much for spanking. I just think that, you know, there's a line between spanking and beating.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, and flogging.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. I mean you don't have to shake a kid like a thing of salad dressing but...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This isn't Turkey, come on.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. But I think that...

COSTELLO: You know, but many parents still don't even believe in a simple spanking. The thing to do now is take a time out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: See, time outs don't do anything.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I guess it depends on the kid. It might. You know, maybe it does for certain kids, time outs are OK. But I think for the most part, a little tap on the butt, you know, it's not the actual spanking, it's the oh my gosh, my mom or dad just tapped me on the butt, you know what I mean? It just kind of scares them a little bit.

COSTELLO: Yes, that's true. But doesn't the age of the child matter, too?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It depends. I guess, I don't know. I remember being 12 years old and giving my mom lip and I didn't realize that my dad was in the house and he was supposed to be at work. It was kind of like getting nailed by a, you know, a cop on a speeding ticket. I have no idea where he was. But he ended up getting me good. He gave me, I was 12 years old and I got a spanking by my dad because I gave my mom lip.

COSTELLO: Oh, my goodness.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

COSTELLO: Well, it'll be interesting to see what your listeners think this morning later on because I know it's really early in Salt Lake City right now.

You're doing something interesting to get, I guess, potential pedophiles off the Internet. What are you guys doing?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, it's something that we kind of, we got the idea from our local Internet task force. There's a police force here in town and that's all they do is they go online and they try to set up meetings. And they pose as like 13 or 14-year-old little girls. And they lure these pedophiles that are online. They basically lure them into conversations and then these guys think that they're setting up meetings, but they turn out to be cops.

So we kind of took the same thing, turned it into a radio thing, you know, as far as bringing the laptop in studio. We created a 13- year-old girl's profile. And then we just go into a random chat room to prove to the parents and to the younger listeners that, how easily these guys are going to prey on you. And it's not a question of if, or I should say when, it's if -- or, no, if and when.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But that you run into them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Because they're going to come out of the woodwork and start chatting with you and it always turns sex. And then we lure a phone number out of them and then we just call them on the air. And we don't ever say that we're on the air. We just act like we're either the cops or we'll say you're on a morning show somewhere in the country, basically to kind of scare them and freak them out a little bit.

COSTELLO: Well, hopefully that works.

Thank you for joining us. We'll check in again with you next week.

Frankie and D.B.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thanks, Carol.

COSTELLO: Bye.

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