Straight Talk with Bill Frady 9/4/26 Hour 1 - Heidi Harris guest-hosts for Bill Frady, discussing societal ethics, parental roles, and the Lindsay Clancy trial.

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Transcript Heidi Harris: Good afternoon! Always a privilege sitting in and hanging out with y'all today. I'm in for Bill—sometimes I'm in for Charlie, but it's always fun hanging out with you. Got John producing the show today. Too bad there's nothing to talk about, huh? I have a lot of things, as you can imagine—always far more than I need to talk about on the show. But I've been following the Lindsay Clancy story. And let me just say this: even if you're not a true crime person—because there are plenty of true crime cases that I've heard that have gone on and I've just gone, "Ugh, what's the big deal? I don't really care. Another murder." I mean, I care about people getting murdered, but there are some cases that just don't grab me like others. But as I watch the Lindsay Clancy trial—and I've watched not all of it, because I was doing a lot of radio, so I haven't seen tons of it, and doing other stuff—but I've seen some of the most important testimonies, including testimony from her husband and people like that. As I watched it, and then I watched people showing up outside the courtroom to support her... I mean, this has really come down to good versus evil. I mean, I guess crimes are always good versus evil, but this is really good versus evil because there are people who think it is perfectly fine for her to have had a bad day and killed her children methodically when her husband was away, after she sent him on errands and took his phone call in the middle of it. Now, I don't know how much of this you've been paying attention to or how much you've heard other people mention, but this is important. This is where I keep getting stuck. I do not have children, admittedly. But yesterday I had a ladies' lunch; girls at my church all got together. All of them are mothers except me—I got married later, that's why I don't have kids. All of them are mothers, some of them are grandmothers, and we had this big conversation. I said, "What do you girls think about this?" And, you know, they've all dealt with stuff—not to this extent, obviously—but, you know, it's tough when your hormones are adjusting after having children. One of my friends had premature twins, so they were in the ICU, and, you know, everybody's got a story. One of the young ladies at my church was saying that her cousin started having some dark thoughts, so she called her mother-in-law, said, "I want you to come over here," and she went and got some treatment, but she had her mother-in-law there. This is what you do. And Lindsay Clancy, if you don't know all the details on this... I mean, the woman had a nanny part of the time, she had two kids in daycare, she had a husband who seems like he was a great husband. He was... this is what you want in a husband, right? He was supportive, he was caring, he was loving, he worked from home, he was very involved with the kids. I don't know what some of these feminist women want, but this guy seemed like—I'm sure he wasn't perfect, nobody is—but this guy checked all the boxes. What do you want? He was a good provider, she didn't have to go back to work, he's providing her all this household help, doing everything he can, being sensitive to her needs, sensitive to the fact that she was having issues while she went to this and that and other mental health people who may or may not have given her what she needed. And then we found out she didn't take the medication correctly anyway, and didn't take some of it... you know, I'm not going to argue all those details here, but I'm talking about the father. Worked from home! He was in the house, he was down in the basement working at home. Now, that doesn't mean you're changing every diaper, clearly you're working, but he was there. It wasn't like some guy who was absent, who didn't care, leaving her to handle everything, not giving her help, you know, "sink or swim, babe." This wasn't that guy. So, beyond all the other questions I have about this—and I can't wait to get you ...

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