0:12

Hello, and welcome to we know

0:15

parenting here

0:17

McNerney. That's Beth

0:20

Newell. Definitely not

0:22

robots replacements. Um

0:25

high back again for

0:27

another week. Our life continues. We

0:29

are still parents, Brendon Mayven our children.

0:32

They are two and they are four, and they're great,

0:34

except when we want to strangle

0:36

them like I did not

0:39

but an hour ago. Boy,

0:41

I had a really great day with them. Beth. Yeah,

0:45

m ok day holiday. So we're we're at

0:47

home and um

0:49

um I left for the afternoon

0:51

to try to run some errons and get some

0:53

work done. You're a full day off.

0:56

Um. I wouldn't say a full day, but I

0:59

felt like it to me. But

1:01

but we had a great time here. Um.

1:04

They played Brinnan Maven,

1:07

genuinely enjoying each other and

1:10

playing and doing

1:12

puzzles I thought were too complicated for

1:15

them.

1:17

Brand's like, I need your help to do the big Lama

1:19

Lama puzzle and I was like, I

1:21

gotta go to the bathroom. And I came out and the puzzle was

1:24

done, and he was very proud. I'll

1:26

say, in spite of some very trying

1:29

moments as this the norm there,

1:31

they've been really good considering they've

1:33

been stuck inside most of the weekend. So

1:36

yeah, today arctic blast. It

1:38

was five degrees this morning when

1:40

chill negative three. Nice and

1:44

um, I was great with him all

1:46

day until bedtime when

1:49

they were super hyper, and I was like,

1:51

I'm I've been I've done a great

1:53

job all day. I've just when

1:56

they're doing something bad, just redirecting

1:59

their attention and then being able

2:01

to talk to them that like, Okay, we don't want

2:03

to do that. Here is there, so let's look over here, as

2:05

opposed to the stop there's

2:09

yes, that's you're real good and telling

2:11

Bran no, I'm realizing

2:13

that now as I lay down the law

2:15

more often is they do like

2:18

I can't get over zealous. You had to pull it back

2:20

a little bit. Otherwise the whole

2:22

day is like a battle with two kids

2:24

that are just NonStop trying to eat snacks all

2:27

day long on the weekend. Yeah,

2:29

he knows it. If you if I'm like Bran

2:32

raised my voice, He's immediately going to look

2:34

at me and just keep doing what. It gets like a

2:36

skittish little deer's like. And

2:39

it's just the tone. And so if I

2:42

just immediately react like I'm on his

2:44

side, like oh, you know, we don't

2:46

want to do this because uh, mom is coming home

2:48

as she wants this chair to not

2:50

scrape the floor. Hey, did you have a

2:53

rock lord toy over here? And then it's

2:55

problem. That was all day. I was redirecting

2:57

the energy. I was riding the wave until

3:00

the last minute when you wouldn't lay down,

3:03

and he's He's just like, I don't want

3:05

to read a book. And then maybe was gonna cry if

3:07

I didn't read the book, and Britain was gonna cry

3:10

if I did read the book. So

3:12

fine, It's like I'm just gonna turn out the light. And

3:16

I ended up trying to start reading this book to

3:18

Maven and Bryn in Defiance

3:21

just starts kicking the wall and

3:25

I lost my mind. If any

3:27

of our listeners are putting two kids to bed in

3:29

the same bedroom at the same time and they have any

3:31

advice, please tell us, because

3:33

it's just hell every

3:36

single time. I mean, they trade

3:38

off who's being difficult. It's

3:41

I mean normally that is that is the

3:43

time where I've I really

3:45

feel good about bedtime because it's total chaos.

3:48

But it's constantly like distracting them

3:50

and keeping them and holding them

3:52

physically in bed, but not to the point where

3:54

they scream. And if

3:56

I hadn't just spent the whole day doing that,

3:58

I would have had a little more patience. And

4:00

I just snapped and

4:03

had to like, uh, hold

4:06

Brittin down because then he started trying to pinch me,

4:08

and I'm like, but then I

4:10

got in bed read the book to Maven and Britain was like,

4:12

fine, you can read it to her, but I'm not gonna listen.

4:15

And so I started reading Lama Lama to It's

4:17

a Big Lama Llama Day by the way

4:19

to Maven, and the whole time Britton was jumping

4:22

up on down on his bed with his fingers

4:24

in his ears, going I

4:27

can't hear you because I have fingers in my

4:29

ears. And I finally, did

4:31

you hear me? Scream Britain

4:35

like loud enough where he got scared and

4:37

went under his covers and weirdly was

4:41

mad at me until he went to sleep, but stayed in bed

4:43

and was quiet and yelling at him and has never

4:45

worked. And now I'm afraid that I'm going to

4:47

be tempted to do it a lot. I had one

4:49

or two moments like that this week where

4:51

I raised my voice where I was just so tired.

4:54

But I feel okay about

4:56

it because it was brief. Yeah,

4:59

it wasn't um like a night

5:01

of trying to shout him down. Well,

5:04

that's the tricky thing about screaming

5:07

is that if you don't do it hardly,

5:11

ever, then when you do scream, it is

5:13

very powerful. But the more you do

5:15

it, the less power you have. Yeah,

5:18

okay, So one thing with the briefly uh

5:22

bring people up to speed on is what happened

5:24

regarding the pink pants situation

5:27

to miss pink stripe, the blue

5:29

pants with the one small pink stripe on them

5:31

that were the subject of a heated debate

5:33

at daycare So Good after

5:36

Brit was lightly bullied for

5:39

having pink on his person and

5:41

decided he wanted to throw his pants at the front door,

5:43

and we talked about on the podcast. The very

5:46

next morning, he woke up

5:48

and wanted to wear the

5:51

pants with the pink stripe. The boy gets

5:53

over things, yeah, and he said, and

5:55

he he asked for them, and he said,

5:57

because I love pink, because

6:00

he's just I think he's

6:02

enjoying Maven's enjoyment

6:04

of pink. Recently, Well, none of

6:07

them, neither of them will

6:09

allow the other to have a thing that's just their's

6:12

because maybe her entire identity

6:15

is wrapped up in loving pink and she

6:17

won't stop talking about because

6:20

I love pink. I love pink.

6:22

It's my favoritest she loves pink.

6:25

So Brits like Pink's my favorite colors,

6:28

like make it less special. And he like now

6:30

when he's asking for a cup, sometimes there's

6:33

only like two cup pink cups here,

6:35

and he'll just kind of like ask for it

6:37

because he knows it's like the thing that they even

6:39

wants. Um. What a

6:42

brother, What a big brother. Um.

6:45

So another thing I want to talk about this

6:47

week is tonight the

6:50

kids haven't really getting into wrestling,

6:52

and I think in a good

6:54

way where they're not they're finally not

6:56

actually trying to hurt each other too much. Brenda's being

6:59

was being pretty care full with Mayven, but he was trying

7:01

to make it look like she was pushing him off the bed

7:03

and then he would fling himself down. Um.

7:07

And they were having a lot

7:09

of fun, and I felt good about it because it felt like they were

7:11

testing the boundaries in a very safe

7:14

way. There's a couple of times when Mayven

7:16

like kind of would bump her head and she cried

7:18

like for a second, but like Britain wasn't

7:21

for the most part, he was not trying to hurt her.

7:24

And I mean, yeah, he used to legitimately

7:26

hurt her way more because he just didn't

7:29

know his own strength, and he's actually careful

7:31

with me well, and recently

7:33

he hurts her on purpose because he gets

7:36

mad and he hits her. But this was the first time they

7:38

were like play wrestling, and I feel like they both

7:40

kind of were just laughing a lot

7:42

and enjoying it for long

7:45

stretches of time, and I almost felt like it was

7:47

better when if I left the room,

7:49

they would just be giggling and I could kind

7:51

of like trust that they were for the most part, we're

7:53

not trying to hurt each other. But then if I walked

7:55

in and they were being watched, it felt like then they

7:59

almost got more violent. Yeah,

8:01

you know what, I had a good chunk

8:03

of time today where they just stayed in

8:05

the other room and I listened to them and

8:08

they they aren't actually playing

8:10

together well, and they were doing it in the bathtub

8:13

tonight where they were both in the bathtub and we were down

8:15

the hall and you could hear them talking and gigglings.

8:17

Yeah, we know you're not supposed to leave a

8:19

two year old unattended in a tub. Stop

8:21

yelling at up. She's like nearly

8:24

three, and they never stopped

8:26

talking. So if they stopped talking, we'd be nervous.

8:29

Even when she's alone, she she like sings

8:32

most of the time she's in there, or like she sing talks

8:34

to herself. So I feel good, like

8:36

putting the dishes away, you know, ten

8:38

feet away. She was singing, Santa Claus

8:40

is coming to town by herself tonight. She

8:43

she really can't let that one go. That

8:45

song is a faith that has a real impression

8:48

on you when you're two or three or four. Santa

8:51

Claus is coming to He's he's making

8:53

a list, he's checking it twice. He's going to

8:55

find out he's not in your night. She also kind of riffs

8:57

on songs. On the other night, I swear she said something that was

9:00

you're bed or not poop Like

9:02

she just like they could you record

9:04

an entire poop parody just

9:07

on their own. But today and the batstuff, they were

9:09

dumping water on each other's heads and

9:11

splashing each other in the face and they were both laughing.

9:14

Normally there would be a scream fit. I know they're

9:16

recovering. It was great. That was

9:18

a moment. When I was unloading the dishwasher, I was like,

9:21

oh my god, it's going to get better. It's

9:24

gonna get better. It gets better.

9:27

Oh boy, so

9:29

can I Uh

9:32

So today, you know, it's

9:34

Martin Luther King Day and we're

9:36

home alone, and in my mind

9:38

I'm like, uh,

9:41

you know, I'm stuck with two kids. You can't do

9:43

anything, so um, yeah,

9:46

I can't. You know, there's not much I can do to sort of

9:48

honor the day. Um.

9:51

But something did happen that I

9:54

chose to be my teach

9:57

my kids a lesson about

10:00

uh uh befriending

10:03

people you don't understand. So

10:05

that Britain and maybe we're fighting

10:08

over me. Bryn had

10:10

two rock Lords, which

10:12

are these toys from the eighties that I

10:14

got when I was little. In their knockoff crappy

10:17

transformers, but they transform into rocks instead

10:19

of vehicles. And uh,

10:22

Mayven had to my little ponies. And

10:25

Mayven goes play with me,

10:27

play with me, and she hands me one of the unicorns

10:30

that brinon goes no play with me and

10:33

tries to hand me one of the rock lords and they're

10:35

fighting over so I go, you know what, I can do both,

10:38

and so I pick up both of them.

10:40

And it's very different kind of play. You know. Brandon wants

10:42

to be like, we gotta go find the bad guys, let's

10:44

transform, let's let's do a bunch of tasks.

10:47

Listen to me, and and Maven's

10:49

playing with the unicorns is all like are you

10:51

okay your look at your

10:53

hair, I'm flying. We're friends.

10:56

I love you. Kiss kiss uh,

10:59

and AND's like, no play with me. And so

11:01

I suddenly in this

11:03

little scene, was like, you know what, um

11:07

my rock lord in my unicorn. We want to hang out

11:09

with this unicorn? Hey Bryn.

11:12

His rock lorders name was Boulder, Hey

11:14

Boulder, come play with us. And

11:16

he starts going no, rockwell

11:19

lords only hang out with other

11:21

rock lords. Rock lords don't

11:23

spend time with ponies and unicorns.

11:27

And I was like, this

11:29

is my MLK day lesson for my two

11:31

and four year old, and I was like, well, we

11:33

can all be friends together. No, he

11:36

says like jarring things

11:38

that are like no, you're different. We're over

11:41

here, and so I took my rock lord and I

11:43

was like, Boulder, these are my friends and

11:45

you should not like them, just because the unicorns

11:47

were having a dance party. And he goes, fine,

11:50

I'm gonna go be alone in my rock house.

11:53

And he stormed off as a rock

11:55

lord, and we go alright, ponies, we're having

11:58

a dance party. We that

12:00

we all started dancing, and

12:02

then Britain's

12:04

on the other side of the couch with his rock lord,

12:07

and his rock lord was jealously looking

12:09

over to our side of the couch because we

12:11

were having a dancing party with two unicorns

12:14

and a rock lord. And then and

12:16

then he goes ring

12:18

ring, ring, ring ring, and I go, oh,

12:21

um, sorry, Ponies, I think I'm getting

12:23

a call on my rock phone. Hello.

12:26

He goes, Hey, Nugget, that's

12:28

the other rock lords name. Hey Nugget, it's me

12:30

Boulder. Um,

12:32

do you want to come to my house? I'm like, sorry, Boulder,

12:34

I'm having a really fun party with the unicorns. You

12:36

should come over. He goes, um,

12:38

I don't want to come over. I don't hang out with ponies,

12:41

but I might change my mind

12:43

and call you back. Okay, bye.

12:45

I go all right, who dance.

12:48

Then he goes spring Ring Ring. He goes hello,

12:51

and he goes, I changed my mind. I'm

12:53

coming to the party. Where is it? Like,

12:55

it's over here? He goes, all right, I'll

12:57

be there. Then he comes over and then

12:59

we all be friends. And I was like,

13:02

I did, it's so funny, so

13:05

into throwing around rules lately

13:07

that just are just orders for Mayven

13:09

And he's like, Maven, girls

13:12

don't get to play with this. Oh,

13:14

that's a big thing. Last he keep saying, girls

13:16

don't do that, like and it's just it's

13:19

really just what he wants to happen in that moment.

13:21

But I keeping like, girls

13:24

do whatever they want. I

13:27

like it, like really insenses me. I like,

13:30

no, Briton, you don't get to

13:32

tell girls what to do. You're not the boss of

13:34

girls. Girls

13:36

can't be on the footstool. Girls can be

13:38

on foot stool. And that tonight

13:41

when he did it, you have never sounded

13:43

more like your dad, because you were like, brit

13:46

I wouldn't go messing with girls. I

13:50

did not say that. You did. You're like, you

13:52

don't want to mess with girls. Take it for me. Don't

13:55

tell a woman what she can or cannot

13:58

do. Um,

14:02

wow, well yeah you don't they they

14:05

there's boy, are our kids

14:08

are Britain is such a boy?

14:11

Maybe it's such a girl and it's

14:13

like do you feel disappointed?

14:16

And how much are our kids are perform?

14:20

I mean he's also in some ways very

14:22

not like as we've mentioned previously,

14:25

he doesn't know a single thing about sports.

14:28

Oh yeah, it is the time to sign him up for

14:30

a soccer class or something. M

14:35

I just thought I wasn't bothered by it. I don't want

14:37

to get up at you know, eight am on a

14:39

Saturday and I have to run out the door to go to watch

14:42

four year old to try to play soccer. You

14:44

don't want to get up at eight am, even though I

14:46

get up at seven. I am to take them today here

14:48

every day, No, not get up, I mean have

14:51

to leave the house. Yeah,

14:54

I leave the house by seven fifteen every day.

14:56

I'm talking about on a Saturday. You

14:59

leave the house. That's seven fifteen

15:01

on a Saturday. That's something you

15:03

want to do. You think that's a reasonable thing

15:05

that I should not be saying this about. I didn't

15:07

think it through. I didn't think it

15:09

through. But let's look ahead at

15:11

the end of the week. Okay, because what's happened in this week?

15:13

Beth, why don't you explain to everybody what's

15:16

happening this week? I

15:18

am flying out of here Thursday

15:20

to go to the Cayman Islands with my

15:23

friends with no children. You

15:26

just told me one day this was going to happen,

15:29

and well, that's the only way it was going

15:31

to happen. Well, you think if

15:33

you asked me, I would say no, I

15:36

think I don't need to ask you. It's

15:39

true, it's true. I asked you about dates.

15:41

You know what you're You're right, I'll be totally honest.

15:43

I'm I'm I'm pretending like this

15:46

is upset me, but you don't think it.

15:48

I think you love it because you're just like

15:50

eyeing the next time that you can skip

15:52

down. Oh yeah, I only

15:55

ever dare like take time for me if

15:57

I know that I've you've

15:59

done it first. But then

16:02

that's fine, that's great. If I

16:04

don't want to go on a trip, if you're going

16:07

to resent me for it, um,

16:09

and I really like I

16:11

will be so much sane or this

16:14

for this entire winter. I think for having

16:16

taken this what is it, five days

16:18

trip, I've only jokingly

16:22

the thing about giving you a grief

16:24

about it. I just

16:27

want to the benefits of having

16:29

a vacation as a mom, because without

16:33

like little breaks, you forget

16:36

you're a person, and you just

16:38

it's like just this ongoing

16:41

grind, grind, grind. And I know a lot of people can't

16:43

afford to take like lavish Cayman

16:45

Island vacations like, but

16:48

I think like you can just get But

16:52

yeah, but if you can get like a night away

16:54

from your kids and stay at a friend's house or anything

16:56

where you can just be a

16:59

person and who gets to have drinks and not worry

17:02

about like waking up in the middle

17:04

of the night or at seven in the morning with

17:06

a person breathing in your face. Yeah,

17:10

that's a good thing for a person's mental health,

17:12

especially in the dark

17:14

winter months. Um. I

17:16

am very glad that you're going, and

17:20

I'm looking forward to you

17:22

coming back and just being

17:24

so happy to see me. Um,

17:28

So my mom is going to come while

17:30

you're away, and you're not going to

17:32

be here next week when it's recording time.

17:36

Um, what day do you get back? Um?

17:42

Wednesday? Okay, So yeah, so

17:45

of course you know we haven't planned What

17:47

the hell we're gonna do for the episode,

17:49

so either we'll do it over the internet.

17:52

W I was also thinking, maybe I'll just do this episode

17:54

with my mom. I think you should.

17:57

I think she would be great on here. What

17:59

are you? Mom? You'll probably find it out about this right

18:01

now listening. She's probably listening right

18:04

now. She's like she's laying

18:06

on a beach listening to she

18:09

uh she uh

18:11

would be a really great

18:13

at this. But I bet she'd

18:16

be nervous. She shouldn't, Mom,

18:18

you shouldn't be You say

18:20

everything you're thinking out loud, and that's all you

18:22

need to do to be on a podcast. I mean, no one I

18:25

know would kill it on here like your mom. And

18:27

come on, quit quit resisting

18:29

everybody. If you want a McNerney

18:32

as my special guest on her

18:34

at a tweet at a McNerney

18:37

does not have Twitter at

18:39

at Twitter dot com, tweet

18:43

at her at Facebook, backslash,

18:46

How do I post this? Can everyone

18:49

see this? You

18:52

know what? Just don't We'll just I'll trick her into

18:54

it. Um. So that will happen next week, unless,

18:56

of course, something totally different happens. We'll

18:59

find out. This

19:06

next segment is called we Don't know. It's where

19:08

we discuss some of our parenting failures.

19:10

Peter, you've got something. I've

19:12

got one involving physical

19:15

violence bryn

19:20

Um. Brenna's hitting and

19:22

Brennan's kicking and Brenda's pinching.

19:24

I've got little cuts all over my hand.

19:28

Um uh. He's

19:30

a very good boy most of the time. And then he has a

19:33

big tantrum and he started hitting

19:36

and this is this one. It's

19:39

so hard to control my

19:41

anger. I think the same

19:43

as for you. So hard not to

19:45

be emotional, and

19:48

I know what I'm supposed to do. Well here,

19:50

here's the big issue, is like, is

19:54

I should be able to just put him in his room

19:57

and then I closed the door and let him calm

19:59

down. But if

20:02

I do that, he acts the way he

20:04

acts out. He's like kicking and stomping,

20:07

and then our neighbors get really enraged.

20:09

And so I can't let him

20:11

just blow off steam. I have to go

20:14

in there and say no stomping. And

20:16

then he comes at me and he starts

20:18

swinging, and I was like, I just need to leave.

20:21

That's the best way to show him this is not acceptable.

20:23

Is the second he takes like a swing. If

20:25

he goes in his room, you shut the door until

20:28

he's calm, but I can't

20:30

leave him alone, and so it's this

20:32

terrible cycle. I go in and

20:35

like the only option I end up having is I need

20:37

to like lay him down on the bed and

20:40

like try to like hold his hands

20:42

and his legs without hurting

20:44

him. And I need to

20:47

like hold him until he calms

20:49

down. And of course, like then he

20:51

goes crazy. And

20:53

I'm trying to, you know, just

20:56

go like we don't hit, and I stay calm because

20:58

I do not want him to

21:00

react to like as if this is me,

21:04

uh, focusing like

21:06

a physical dominance

21:08

over him, like there's any emotion attached

21:10

to it. Uh, And so

21:12

I try to just hold him and stay calm. And I

21:14

recently a listener wrote in and

21:17

oh gosh, I'm I'm so sorry, Um,

21:19

I didn't write tell your name, um,

21:22

but uh she

21:24

recommended one to

21:26

three Magic, which is a parenting

21:29

style type of book. And I just skiveed

21:31

a little bit of it. UM, So

21:33

I can't endorse it or not. But

21:36

but the beginning of it UM

21:39

has some really simple ideas. I realized this

21:41

is a applicable to us, and

21:44

too generalize

21:46

Basically, it's like at that age you

21:50

you should never explain yourself more

21:53

than once. You know you can say you can't

21:55

do this because this is dangerous. And

21:57

if they try to argue it and you re explain

22:00

laying it, you're not achieving

22:02

anything. You're just falling

22:05

into the trap of that you paying attention

22:07

to them. So the main philosophy

22:09

is when they're doing something you don't want them

22:11

to do, less

22:13

talking and zero hide

22:16

all negative emotions because

22:18

the net that we talked about this for like those negative

22:20

emotions and that over explaining is

22:23

a victory for them because they

22:25

have your full attention and part of that actually

22:27

feels good. So it is this, Yeah,

22:29

they're like, oh we're arguing, great,

22:32

I've got some arguments. Yeah, that's

22:34

they're asserting their power. But if

22:36

you take that away from them, which is just

22:38

they like and then ultimately

22:40

one to three Magic is basically like counting

22:43

to three. I really hope one to three Magic has

22:45

a chapter on physically restraining

22:47

your son in sort of a choke

22:49

hold for that

22:53

chapter yet, But I've really

22:55

been trying to exercise that, like

22:57

I don't explain

22:59

my health more than once, and when he gets really

23:02

heated. I barely

23:04

look at him, you know, And so I tried to

23:07

do this. We went out to um

23:10

Rye Playland. Do you want to tell us

23:12

about that trip? Yeah, So

23:14

this was when we knew the big storm was coming. So

23:16

we're like, let's get out of the house. We

23:18

tried to do a nature walk, which our kids

23:21

sucked at. Um that

23:24

sucked not good at.

23:26

Like, I think part of it is just winter. Maybe

23:28

there's less to see. I don't know, but they're like not interested

23:32

in exploring their outdoor surroundings

23:34

very well, and they like won't

23:37

continue walking get

23:40

back on the path. Well, no,

23:43

because you guys were just like wandering around and I'm

23:45

severely allergic to poison ivy and

23:47

I could see it on the trees surrounding

23:49

us, and I just could very

23:52

easily picture either one of you

23:54

just wandering over and leaning your hand up against

23:57

a big rope of poison.

23:59

I I wasn't rest because I realized that I've

24:01

never even attempted to identify

24:04

poison ivy when the leaves are dead. Well

24:07

I have because I've gotten very bad poison

24:09

ivy in the middle of winter unfortunately. So

24:13

uh Anyway,

24:16

Um, I'm very

24:18

sensitive in a cool interesting allergic

24:21

action of what I was saying. No,

24:25

that's I have a strong immune system.

24:28

It's overactive. So

24:30

anyway, um, I'm

24:32

cool. We're they wouldn't like,

24:34

they won't just take a walk. So that was frustrating because

24:36

I like that nature preserve

24:39

and I want to cover some ground and

24:41

I think if we've got a little farther, you

24:43

know, they might have seen like a deer or something, but they're

24:45

too loud. Anyway, I should just go in nature walks alone,

24:47

which is the ideal way to do it. Anyway, that's your New

24:50

Year's resolutions alone nature

24:52

walks. Right, yeah, that is one of my new

24:54

resolutions, get out of nature. Um.

24:57

And anyway, so we

24:59

we end that pretty quickly because Brina was just trying

25:01

to turn around would be difficult. And then

25:04

we're like, okay, it's like getting

25:07

kind of late. We can go get some brunch because they're

25:09

going to get hungry soon. And I find a place that's sort

25:11

of like a step up from our regular

25:14

diner. Fair It's like steps

25:16

up. That place was it

25:18

was great. It was really quality over quantity,

25:21

which I'm I that's the thing that's

25:23

really rubbing me wrong about the diners

25:25

around here is just like, well

25:27

it's a mountain. Food was also just like so

25:31

boring and bland and like not

25:33

like it just feels like you're shoveling like cardboard

25:35

into your mouth at a certain point. The diner

25:39

I've been, the diners around here are just

25:42

a little bit lacking in my opinion. I've

25:44

been to plenty of good diners. Um,

25:47

so anyway, this place was like a step up

25:49

and the food is great and our kids, actually

25:52

we're really good. Well because the table

25:54

clasts all paper and they have cramps that they could draw

25:56

on the whole table. Yeah, and this was a novel

25:58

to them, and they liked it better than the our usual diner,

26:00

which has just those little mats with drawings

26:03

already on them like a coloring book thing.

26:05

Um, Like, our kids can't handle

26:08

a blank page. They love

26:10

a blank page. So they

26:12

were. I actually think they were amazingly

26:15

good during that meal compared to like any other

26:17

meal we've had. With that, I did have to take brain outside

26:19

before the check came. Yeah, but that was like we

26:21

were waiting a while for the check and I was eyeing the

26:23

guy like that was not our kids

26:25

faults so then

26:27

we went over to Write Playland, which was

26:30

across the street, and

26:33

it was pretty good. We're wandering around. This

26:35

is great again, like it's a

26:37

beautiful boardwalk and

26:40

along the beach, and our kids just want to

26:42

hang out in like basically a parking lot corner

26:45

and like it's fine. There's like a wheelchair

26:48

ramp and they're running around and stuff. But it was just like, why

26:50

do we have to hang on this ugly little

26:53

These kids aesthetic sensibilities

26:56

are a shambles. Anyway,

26:59

we were everything was fine, and then we're

27:01

like time to go to the car, and

27:03

I guess he didn't want to go to the car and you had

27:05

to carry him. And then I tried to put him

27:07

in the car and put his seatbelt on, and he was he

27:10

went full, I'm not putting this seatbelt

27:12

on. So I gave it some

27:14

time and I was like, we gotta do this seatbelt

27:17

And then I was doing my one, two, three magic

27:19

if I only spent it once, and then I just started

27:22

talking to you and I changed the subject

27:24

and finally I was like, Okay, we gotta go, and

27:26

I was like, all right, I just gotta force it. I put him in

27:28

the chair and he screamed and he take it off seatbelt,

27:31

so I had to sit in the back. Oh. And then

27:33

when I was backing out he I

27:35

was driving like a few feet out and he opened

27:38

the door. And that's what set you off. Yeah,

27:41

I opened the car door while we were driving,

27:43

and that is a something I think lawrants

27:46

a yell. I gave him

27:48

a yell. I wanted to scare him

27:50

about that. And I had to sit in the backseat. And

27:52

then he was trying to hit me, and

27:54

so as we were driving,

27:56

I pulled his hands, and

27:58

he can hurt you. So I

28:01

put his hands, I pulled his jacket sleeves

28:03

out so that his hands were inside his jacket sleet

28:05

and then I basically like held the ends

28:07

of his jacket sleeve so he

28:10

was like handcuffed in there and I could squeeze it tight.

28:12

I wasn't hurting his hands, ornything. And I was like, this

28:14

is great. He can struggle. It's like a straight

28:16

jacket and no one's getting hurt. And then he's

28:18

trying to bite me. And we get

28:20

home and he's still screaming and you go inside.

28:23

So I'm like, I'm gonna sit out here and I'm gonna just

28:25

ignore it and be calm.

28:28

And it was a nightmare. It was terrible,

28:31

and I had evil thoughts and

28:33

I wanted to, like I

28:36

wanted to fight back with a four

28:38

year old. Obviously I didn't,

28:41

and I just did that. But

28:43

I finally wore him out. And it's just the point

28:45

where then he got tired and he was like, hey,

28:50

is that a turkey? And like saw a

28:52

bird outside, Like, no, that's not a turkey, and

28:54

he goes, oh, it looks like a turkey,

28:57

and it's just like fine, and it

28:59

feels like I feel like it feels

29:01

manipulative, like and then like

29:04

you feel like he's manipulating you, yeah,

29:06

because he's like acting like nothing happened,

29:09

like we didn't just spend an hour trying

29:11

to cut me. You're the one who's always

29:13

saying that that's what's great about boys, is that you guys

29:16

don't hold onto. You're

29:18

right, I got over it two seconds later. I

29:21

was like, Oh, my son's great. I

29:23

mean, I don't know,

29:25

did you get over it two seconds later? Yes,

29:29

you don't necessarily

29:31

seem over it right now, but I

29:34

really, uh, I mean that's because it

29:36

just happened again in bed. You

29:39

know why? You know why? Actually

29:41

I am like annoyed at him right now because

29:45

he calmed down and he went to sleep, and then I went over

29:47

there and to give him a kiss,

29:50

and I put it in my hand on his head.

29:52

I was like, good night, buddy, and he was still mad. He

29:54

goes, no, and that's rare

29:57

because he was like holding a grudge. And so I walked

29:59

out of there being angry

30:01

with him, and the you're

30:04

mad that he went to bed angry.

30:07

Yes, let not let not this, Let

30:10

not the sun go down about pont your

30:12

wrath. That's

30:15

a that's a etching in my mom's

30:17

bathroom. Yeah, I really

30:19

I subscribe to that. I

30:22

mean, you

30:26

do not subscribe to that you let

30:28

the sun go down upon your wrath

30:31

because because there's no amount

30:34

of you like shouting at

30:36

me or arguing with me is going to make a

30:38

situation resolve at like twelve

30:40

PM. I mean, we don't need to

30:42

get into how our our conflict

30:45

resolution skills couldn't be any

30:47

more different. No, but I think this is a common

30:49

male female thing where I'm like, I

30:52

want to believe that you understand

30:54

why I was not in the first place, and you have concrete

30:57

plans to do differently in the future. It's

30:59

not, but in your mind you're thinking, she

31:01

just needs to back down and get over this and forgive

31:03

me. You are not typical

31:06

of any genu.

31:10

That is so not true, because I'll like

31:12

go away for an hour and come back and think about

31:14

it and then be like, hey, you're right, here's what any wrong,

31:16

and here's what I'm gonna do to change that. Now,

31:18

please just tell me it's okay. And then you love me

31:21

and you're like, I'm going I need to let the sun go down

31:23

upon my wrath. No,

31:25

because you're you're

31:28

not telling the part of the story where you keep ignoring

31:31

what I'm trying to tell you I'm mad about,

31:33

and then I don't want to take responsibility

31:36

for it, and you get brushing it off, and

31:38

then you're like, hey, can you just not be mad? Both

31:40

of these things we're talking about, we're both

31:43

much better and not doing the thing that

31:45

we're accusing the other person. You're doing right now, So

31:47

let's end this by saying nice

31:51

improvement. Will

31:55

you just tell me that's okay? Then you love me though after

31:59

you just told me no one thinks like me,

32:01

and this we're going and that is we don't

32:03

knows. This

32:09

next segment is called wood he knows. It's

32:11

where we take hypothetical situations

32:14

from you, our listeners, and discuss

32:16

what we would do right, rent

32:19

and right. This one comes

32:21

to us from UM.

32:25

I was gonna say a friend of mine, but I don't.

32:27

I've actually never met this person, but

32:29

he is married. UM,

32:33

so a little context on this. So this

32:36

uh listener wrote in his name

32:38

is Ryan and his wife is Jacqueline

32:41

West, who is a New York Times bestselling

32:44

author. Does he want you to say this information?

32:46

Well, he wrote it in the email. Sorry

32:50

sorry Ryan, gratulations Jacqueline, you

32:52

didn't say so the Story

32:54

Parts. If you're un from the story

32:56

Parts, that's my full time job is

32:58

to go check it out. The News Story Parties

33:01

podcast season is launching January

33:04

three. One UM

33:06

but the Story Parts

33:08

also released. I have been releasing

33:11

serious books. UM. Kids

33:13

have submitted I a sort

33:15

of a synopsis for a

33:17

story, and then we get a famous

33:19

author to write the full

33:21

novelization of that kid's idea. It's very

33:24

cool. Stuck in the Stone Age came

33:26

out last year by Jeff rod Key, and

33:28

this year Jacqueline. Our brand new book,

33:30

Digging Up Danger, written by Jacqueline West,

33:33

based on an idea by a

33:36

wonderfully funny kid named phoebe Um,

33:38

came out last week anyway,

33:40

So that's Jacqueline. I've been on

33:43

book tours with her story parties. Got

33:46

hired too to create these book tours

33:48

to go out with real authors, and so I have spent

33:50

several weeks all over the country

33:53

with Jacqueline West. And she is a wonderful

33:55

talent and human being. Anyway,

33:58

that's the context. Jacqueline

34:00

did not write this email. Hello Beth

34:03

and Peter. First, thank you for your

34:05

work on this podcast. It's a blast.

34:07

It helps remind me and my

34:09

wife that we are not alone. Wife

34:11

in question is the one Jacqueline West. Um.

34:15

We and our three year old

34:17

son listen to your podcast each

34:19

morning at the breakfast table. Our

34:22

efforts every morning. You

34:25

either don't get through a whole episode, you're a liar,

34:28

or you repeat episodes in

34:30

chunks. I could see it now, um,

34:33

or he means every episode every

34:35

morning it's available. This is important

34:38

to know. Ryan. Will you right in let us know how.

34:40

I just want to know if he's listening to our episodes on repeat

34:43

after he's listened to them already.

34:46

Hey Siri, play we Knows on

34:48

repeat. Siri actually listened

34:50

to me when I did that? Oh no,

34:53

oh, I forgot I have a HomePod? It her

34:55

be Hey Siri, stop, I

34:59

have a question. It related to anything? Are we

35:01

do? We have to say, hey Siri now

35:03

instead of just theory. Yes, it's

35:05

really annoying. Always been that way. I Um,

35:08

I'm gonna keep talking about this even though it's irrelevant

35:10

to the segment we're trying to record. I UM

35:13

got your old phone, the ten S

35:16

or whatever, and the ten I

35:18

don't know how to use it and it doesn't

35:21

have the home button. So I'm totally thrown. And so

35:23

my whole day is just me being like, Hey

35:25

Siri, Hey Siri, where

35:28

are you? Where am I?

35:32

Oh? She just said here? Um

35:37

anyway, So so he has a

35:39

hypothetical, would you know? But

35:42

I'm gonna keep reading this our

35:44

three year old we listen. Are our efforts

35:48

it's censoring. Your occasional f bombs

35:50

have been futile. Sorry,

35:54

we really assume no children were listening. But

35:56

so he hasn't repeated any of

35:58

the worst of your occasional cur is. He's

36:01

very keen on meeting your kids as they

36:03

are outside his much story classmates,

36:06

the kids he knows the most about in the world.

36:09

Show me, Maven, Show me Bryan, what

36:11

are they doing? Are common

36:14

shouts from our little guy. He

36:16

is in his terrible three major

36:18

stage and hearing about your

36:20

struggles with your to help us deal and

36:23

provide us with much needed schaudenfreude.

36:28

One of my favorite words, the joy of others failures.

36:31

That's right, I was telling

36:33

all of our listeners who also

36:36

know, um,

36:38

that's right. Sometimes we're laughing

36:40

at you. I

36:43

appreciate that. I

36:45

thought you two could use a break from your own uh,

36:48

your own time travel and would

36:50

be would you know scenarios? So

36:52

I came up with a hYP hypothetical for

36:54

you that also involves

36:57

time general to scruffy

36:59

looking think hoboesque

37:02

characters approach you, claiming

37:04

to be brit and Maven from the future.

37:07

They're able to answer a few questions that

37:09

lead you believe that they are telling the truth. They

37:12

then claim that the two of you must move

37:15

to Siberia immediately and

37:17

permanently, or utter disaster

37:20

will before befall you end

37:22

the world. They then disappear

37:24

in a puff of blue sparkling

37:27

smoke. What do you

37:30

do love Ryan and Jacqueline?

37:32

Wow? I mean blue sparkling smoke

37:34

kind of seals the deal. I like,

37:38

once again, writers have to have to write

37:41

in for your benefit that there's

37:43

no use questioning

37:45

whether this is true. That's

37:49

hard for you, But that's the whole question is do I

37:51

believe that that that's really

37:53

them? The scenario dictates that

37:55

you do believe that

37:58

it's true, But

38:01

they're asked the question is do I

38:03

believe and do I move to Siberia. I

38:06

don't think it's if you believe it's do you

38:08

actually follow through with it? No? But I

38:10

mean do I follow through? Because do I believe this

38:13

is really my two children from the future.

38:15

I think it makes it clear that you do believe

38:17

it. The question is do you listen

38:19

to them? Do you basically

38:23

ruin your whole life? You guys can't

38:25

keep sending us these because we can't even agree on

38:27

what the question is. Make

38:30

me read it again after

38:32

a few questions, you believe them? Okay?

38:35

Um?

38:38

I mean if I believe them, I believe

38:40

them, I have to move to Siberia. Right,

38:43

Well, it's you know, maybe like

38:46

our lives won't be ruined,

38:48

but our kids and the rest of the world

38:50

are, right, I guess I

38:52

gotta I gotta go for

38:54

their future. Although part of me really,

38:57

um, I hate New York winter so much.

39:00

The idea of moving to Siberia is like

39:02

a death onto itself. So part of me is like,

39:04

well, maybe I should just move to the

39:06

equator and enjoy my last few months

39:08

of life. I will say,

39:11

um, I wouldn't be happy living

39:14

not in Siberia, but with you inside.

39:18

I could a should just send you in the kids, and

39:20

I'd be like, sorry, kids, mommy has

39:23

gone. I was going to be in the Cayman

39:25

Islands with her friends. I was going with

39:28

her friends to die. Well,

39:32

we don't know how long it will be, you know, so that's

39:34

what we need to weigh. I say this is a

39:36

real analogy for global

39:38

warming. I feel

39:40

like there's a lot of older

39:43

people they are like, that's fine, because

39:46

it's not gonna affackt to my life. But

39:49

that means the analogy for global warning is that

39:52

we have to just flee. We can't

39:54

try to prevent it or slow

39:56

it in any way. It's not a perfect analogy.

40:00

I'll tell you what I would do, Okay, step

40:03

one. I would google Siberia

40:06

and I'd be like, you know what, I don't

40:08

know, what's the biggest city in Siberia.

40:12

Maybe there's some cool spots, are there cities

40:15

like I don't know, it's a big place.

40:17

I don't know anything about. It's

40:20

like, but when you see it represented

40:22

in media, it's like a desert

40:25

wasteland of cold tundra.

40:27

I feel like every time Siberia is referenced,

40:30

it's in the context of like,

40:32

like, uh, you know, nineteen century

40:34

Siberia. No, I think it's

40:36

still like that. It's so cold up

40:38

there, sure, but that doesn't mean there's no

40:40

civilization up there. There's little

40:42

civilization. Well, it's like

40:45

Alaska. Like Alaska doesn't have like a

40:47

ton of people, like the Alaska has

40:49

a ton of people, but as

40:52

a whole, like foot by

40:54

foot, it does not have a lot of people. Sure,

40:56

but Anchorage is

40:59

a is the city, it's I've been

41:01

there. It's cool, warmer

41:05

than Siberia, and that is true.

41:07

Anything near the coast is far warmer

41:09

than That's why Siberia is the worst,

41:11

because it's so it's

41:14

so far away from the ocean, so that's where it gets

41:16

the coldest. It's more like northern Canada.

41:19

We don't know, listeners,

41:22

we don't know what we're in for, and we would

41:24

google it and we would try to find out.

41:26

I'm looking it up right now. Okay,

41:30

Well let's try the home put. Hey, Siri,

41:33

are there cities in Siberia?

41:36

I can't. She

41:39

can't get the answer. Nobody

41:42

knows. Nobody knows. There's

41:44

no way of knowing. Um. But

41:47

here's the thing. If it was any other remote area

41:49

that this person had named, I'd be like cool, done,

41:52

I'm gone. I don't need to be part of civilization.

41:54

Love it. I'll hide in the hut. But the fact

41:56

that it's so cold I

41:58

cannot handle. But climate

42:01

change will make it, you know, pre

42:03

reasonable. You know today it was the

42:05

same temperature here as it was. You're assuming that the

42:07

disaster that our children are for telling uh

42:09

and there as their future hobo sells, is related

42:13

to global warming? Well, I mean I

42:15

can't because it only

42:18

happens if we don't move to Siberia.

42:21

So there's some bizarre butterfly effect

42:23

that we are. We moved to Siberia.

42:26

It saves everyone. Yeah, I

42:28

thought this is just us. No, it

42:30

says saves them end the world. Mm

42:35

hmm, okay,

42:39

I guess we wanna say, I'm gonna

42:41

be cold all the time. You're f

42:44

I can't swear because their son is listening.

42:46

We do need this person right back in and

42:49

say if Peter was to take the

42:51

kids alone and I was to go to the Cayman Islands,

42:53

would the world still be saved? No, you're

42:55

not. Weasually your way out of this. We

42:58

don't know. It's all the information we got. We're

43:00

gonna need a little more info from hobo

43:03

esque children. That's

43:06

what happened. We stayed at home and they turned into

43:10

a post apocalyptic hobos. Did

43:13

that answer your question? We

43:16

don't knows. This

43:22

next segment is called Listeners Want to Knows,

43:24

where we answer some of your questions.

43:26

Oh, they wanna knows, they want

43:28

to knows. This person is

43:31

They don't want to know anything. They're actually giving us a

43:33

suggestion, some advice, and

43:36

I'm curious. Um,

43:38

so this involves body parts? Um,

43:42

well, I'll just read it and then I have something to share.

43:44

Hi, Peter and Beth, I've

43:47

been listening and laughing since Sky

43:49

Brandham. Um,

43:52

your podcast on pop Rocket mentioned

43:55

I think it's a word Messing mentioned your

43:57

podcast on pop Rocket. I have

43:59

a two and a half year old daughter and have

44:01

to thank you both for the weekly dose

44:04

of relatable frustration and joy.

44:06

You guys do a great job. I'm

44:09

writing after listening to the anatomical

44:13

discussion of butts, wieners,

44:15

nipples, and giant butts

44:17

a k a. Vaginas. This was a

44:19

while back when um

44:22

Brin claimed that girls only

44:24

have butts, they just have one

44:27

big butts. I will

44:29

say briefually the tonight when they were

44:31

taking their bath and they were throwing water each other, they would

44:33

do this thing where they would turn around and stick out their butt

44:35

and then the other one would throw water at their

44:37

butt and then they would laugh. There's

44:40

a lot of Mayven just like sticking her butt in Brent's

44:42

face. They've they

44:46

love butts. Um

44:49

I'd like to promote the idea

44:51

of teaching your kids to say

44:54

volva instead of vagina for

44:56

several reasons. Reason A, it's

44:59

the anatomically it's amatomically

45:02

correct. The vagina is the inside

45:04

part, the volva is the whole thing.

45:08

B It's way easier for

45:10

a kid to pronounce My daughter loves

45:13

pointing to it and identifying it, and

45:15

I hope this will give her a sense

45:17

of ownership and confidence. Words

45:20

are powerful. See if

45:22

they know the difference, you can have a better conversation

45:24

about which part itches, slash, hurts,

45:27

etcetera. Should the need arise.

45:29

Thanks for sharing your lives with us. Cheers,

45:32

Laurel. PS. My daughter also

45:34

asks to see nipples, but so

45:36

far just just

45:39

family and friends. That's

45:41

great. Um, what are

45:44

your thoughts on this? Interesting? I

45:47

appreciate what she's saying about understanding

45:49

anatomically like what hurts her itches, but

45:52

I still am really on the fence on this because

45:54

it's like one of those things where have like the

45:56

thing that's like technically correct sometimes

45:58

is also the thing that makes your kid a weirdo

46:00

who like can't communicate with other

46:02

people to sure, I'm having an issue with my volva,

46:05

like well just other kids like just

46:07

I don't know, I'm I

46:10

really I can't predict how this will play

46:12

out over time, but um,

46:15

well here's the thing I've I've realized

46:17

is like, yeah, I

46:21

haven't because Brent

46:23

and I have, uh we've

46:27

talked about his wiener. Whenever the need

46:29

arises, um, and

46:31

that's the language we use. And

46:33

there's there's something like weird, safer

46:36

thing about giving your genitals

46:39

like a cute nickname instead of being like,

46:41

is your penis okay? You're like,

46:43

all right, grab your wiener there and uh

46:46

go to the bathroom. But I don't

46:48

have that with may even because I grew up with four

46:51

with three brothers. No, but no one has

46:53

that because no one ever thought to give women

46:56

any nice names at all. Like if you think

46:58

of any word associated with women, it's

47:00

not fun or good, like the

47:02

word mom, if you like, your immediate

47:05

connotation of a mom is like a

47:07

lame person. Like everyone

47:09

thinks that when they hear the word mom. And if you say

47:12

dad, people are like, oh, like a dad, Like it

47:14

doesn't like so it's

47:16

there's just like no, there's

47:19

so there was no like cute name

47:21

for vagina growing

47:24

up. I mean, I feel like it might gonnaway say

47:26

like privates. I'm sure

47:28

people have good ones, we just need

47:31

to know it. I started I started

47:33

saying with may even, who ha as

47:36

like a as like a joke who

47:38

has fun? And I was like, I

47:40

was like, all right, you know, wipe your like

47:43

that's the thing is like I would rather have a name like

47:45

that and then also

47:48

later teach her the difference between vagina

47:50

and volva and have her know all the words. But

47:52

I don't want to like lock her into

47:54

just volva, you know what I mean? Yeah,

47:57

because I have started saying vagina,

48:00

but then I suddenly feel like a

48:03

weird, weird lame

48:05

dad or a doctor. I'm

48:07

like, any well, I

48:11

love something some of them, but it's like, you

48:13

know, it's the Madonna whore complex

48:15

like we have. I'm not going to say them

48:17

because our listener just indicated that his

48:19

kids listen to this, but we have some slang

48:22

terms for vagina that are maybe

48:25

fun, but they're not something you would feel comfortable

48:27

saying to a child because they're very

48:29

sexualized. So,

48:31

like everything related to women, we either make it like

48:34

very boring and old

48:37

and like gross, or we make

48:39

it seem like very sexualized,

48:41

like you know that

48:43

when I think of women, I think boy

48:46

born and sexy. Well,

48:49

let's make up a word. What is it? What should

48:51

we call it? M M?

48:56

There's nothing I could say, like the

48:58

people are not like immediately going to be grossed

49:01

out your chat

49:03

skey who

49:05

ha who has pretty good yeah,

49:08

it's pretty safe. Who who

49:11

ha? How's your who ha?

49:13

Okay, It just for

49:15

some reason that reminds me of the story. Have we told you

49:18

your childhood Hubba

49:20

story on the podcast? I

49:23

feel like we've told it before. No, we have not. Okay.

49:26

So when Peter was in elementary school,

49:28

they would do like what was it daily?

49:31

Like for a week? Okay.

49:33

So in second grade Mr Ryan's

49:36

class, we

49:38

were learning about the

49:40

um pilgrims Um,

49:43

and so we each learned. We

49:45

learned with the Mayflower, and we learned

49:47

about a real person who's on the Mayflower. We had to

49:49

do research, and then the next

49:52

week we had to show up

49:54

to class every single day dressed

49:56

as that person. I

49:58

might be mixing it up, or

50:01

maybe we did this over the full amount of time it took

50:03

for the Mayflower to get across the ocean. But

50:05

at certain points during the day, like events

50:08

that we knew actually happened in the Mayflower, we

50:10

would reenact. So at one point, like in

50:12

the middle of math, the teacher just

50:14

started flickering all the lights.

50:17

It was like the storm. It's the giant storm.

50:19

And so my character, who

50:22

was a real person, he had

50:24

a wife who gave birth to a

50:26

baby on the Mayflower who

50:28

was named Oceana the baby

50:31

and the baby was born during the

50:33

storm. I have to say, it's a great name, Oceana.

50:36

Yeah. So during

50:38

this, like Mr Ryan starts flipping the lights and we're like,

50:40

this is the storm, this happened. We did our

50:43

research, and so we all all of like

50:45

the boys start climbing on the desks to

50:47

fix the main beam, which we knew cracked

50:49

and it was a big deal. And all the women,

50:52

the girls went to help this this

50:54

girl give birth to a baby. And

50:56

there was a girl in my class who was assigned

50:58

as like the who the character was

51:00

my wife, And so she brought a fake

51:02

baby and was pretending to be pregnant for

51:04

how I don't know how many days, and

51:07

then during the storm, she like pretends

51:09

to give birth. And I don't watch any of this because

51:12

I'm fixing the beams so the ship

51:14

doesn't sink. And then suddenly

51:17

we save it and the lights go down, and then I'm like,

51:19

I fall on the ground because I'm pretending to be dramatic.

51:22

And then suddenly I hear my teacher

51:24

go like Mr. Mr

51:27

Johnson or whatever his name was, Look, look

51:30

your wife, and I look up and there's my

51:33

fellow second grader slash wife

51:36

holding a plastic baby doll,

51:38

my baby that she just gives mind

51:41

giving birth to. And

51:44

I look up and he goes look and everyone

51:46

is looking at me, and I'm on the ground, and I

51:48

look up at my new wife and baby,

51:52

and in that moment, I choose to

51:54

say Hubba,

51:56

hubba. It's

52:00

so cinematic. I gotta say, I

52:02

got a really good laugh. Yeah, it's

52:05

so funny, Like imagine all those kids

52:07

laughing, having no idea what that means.

52:10

But it's like, clearly I had some associated

52:13

association with like some

52:16

movies. It's just like

52:18

somebody looking at a woman and going hubb It's

52:21

like, oh yeah, like sex and babies

52:23

and girls in general are all

52:25

just that's all one

52:28

category. But really, if you

52:30

think about it, when women have babies, we should

52:32

be saying hubba hubba because it's

52:34

so impressive. Check out that placentab.

52:40

So I've always been a real sensitive feminist

52:43

boy. Sensitive. Yeah,

52:45

that's my baby. Let's

52:48

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52:54

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