WEBVTT - Daddy School 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:14.840 I got It's go time, baby, Welcome to We Know's 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:20.920 Parenting and Peter McNerney Beth Newell. H Okay, a lot 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.959 to recap. A lot happened since we last checked in 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:28.800 with our listeners. But it's like very dramatic turn of 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.600 events this week for us and uniquely us and no 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.559 one else in the world. Yeah, okay, we were Actually 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.879 we even recorded last week's episode early because we were like, well, 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:42.960 we're gonna head out of town for two weeks and 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.559 we'll be back. And then since then we realized, oh, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.959 I guess we live in Massachusetts now. Yeah, Like you 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.560 went up ahead of me with the kids to Massachusetts 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.480 and I was going to come like a couple of 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.080 days later. And then as soon as you left the 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.280 the tone of the news started to shift where I 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.760 was like, wait, I need to get out of here 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.240 now or I might not be able to leave, Like 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.840 what is happening? Um? Yeah, And we were in the 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:18.640 center of the of you know, all this Westchester. Yeah, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.840 our schools were closing, So I feel like we had 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.320 a little bit more of a heads up in terms 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.400 of like forming a plan of like what we're gonna do, 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:31.400 and we didn't yet realize that like the extent to 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.880 which they were going to be shutting things down so quickly. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.160 I think when we made this plan to leave, like 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.120 we didn't know this is going to be a permanent 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.600 Well I had enough foresight to pack the recording equipment. Yeah, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.840 we probably have to record one episode while we're gone. Well, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.120 by the time you left and then I was getting 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.320 ready to go, it was I suddenly was like, oh, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.680 maybe I need to leave sooner rather than later, because 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.600 maybe other people are going to start to like flee 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:02.720 the city, and also like maybe we need Like I 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.000 was like, maybe we're going to be gone for more 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.720 than two weeks. I was like, maybe it's going to 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.000 be three or four weeks. And then by the time 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.560 I packed up all our stuff and I was just 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.560 trying to get like everything I could think of, Like 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.919 I was like, we need this apple TV, we need 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:20.200 this yoga mat weed. Yeah, it's just like every I 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.000 packed up, like you really learn what's important to you 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:28.240 and it really is mostly just food, food and clothing, um, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.040 and I it's just And then by the time I 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.560 got here, like days in, it's like, wait, we might 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.440 live here for months, Like this is where we live 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.240 now like we can't, you know, like we have to 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.960 stay inside. Um, so we've been, but we've been very quarantined. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.600 I mean I think we have you and I have 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:57.240 barely had time to talk about. Uh. It's been a 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:02.920 big adjustment to have uh, three adults, two kids, and 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.720 one dog living a house together with no no one 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.519 able to leave to do work. Yes, so we if 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.600 we have beth sisters here and her dog and we 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.480 are in a house, we've got way more space. This 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:26.079 is a very ancient summer house that my great grandfather bought. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.680 That's all of my cousins and I and my dad 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.240 and his brothers and sisters and cousins spent every summer coming. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:40.960 So we're very obviously lucky to have access to this place. Um. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.280 Beth is allergic to it. I am severely allergic to 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.200 this house. But I'm proud of the progress we've made 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:52.320 in terms of bleaching down three of the rooms and 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:58.160 um we I started taking some zerotech, which is really 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.320 knocking me out at night. I went to bed last 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.600 night at eight thirty pm and I woke up this 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.400 morning at five am. And I have to say it 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.160 wasn't bad because I was wide awake at five am, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.680 and I knew I had like two hours before anyone 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.320 would be awake, and I hadn't had that much alone 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.239 time in over a week. Like I was just like what, 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.599 I was like, this is great. Like I was like, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.560 I guess I'm a five am person now because this 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.560 is the only way I'm going to have like peace. Honestly, 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.560 I think maybe you should be Yeah, I think you 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.440 should go to I mean what I would what I 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.320 lose out in the scenario, unfortunately, is any sort of 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:41.400 like TV or reading or recreational activity at nighttime. It 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.960 just means we do dinner, clean up, I like, get 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.160 relaxed for half an hour and go to bed, like 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.599 you know what. Not bad. I certainly loved this is 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.479 the first, not not the first, but this morning I've 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.840 been underslept and to wake up and hear that you 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.320 giving breakfast to our kids, and I was like, I 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.280 can sleep in thirty minutes. It was a real it 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:11.279 was a real treat for me as well. Yeah, so 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.720 how are we adjusting to quarantine life? Beth? Tell us, 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.839 let's hear from you first. Tell us about your job, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:25.400 your work, how what's been hard? I think, what's meant, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.919 I think this is hard for everybody right now because 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.520 everyone's having to make really a very annoying lifestyle adjustments, 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.800 but especially parents. But I feel like for me, the 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.360 relocation has been the difficulty because I was like, Okay, 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.279 I now have to make sure we have enough food 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:47.000 and supplies for this new, brand new location. And also 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:48.719 I'm very allergic to it and have to try to 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.000 figure this situation out. And like there's like a few 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.760 days when the news was starting to heat up in 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.400 terms of like what was going to happen, where I 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.920 was like, we might not be able to get packages 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.400 in a few days. Like I was like, we need 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.560 to figure this out now, like all of these things 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.480 you know, UM, which I don't I now don't think 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:08.920 that's going to be an issue, but I do think 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:15.880 like people are overloading the UM delivery people with because 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.000 of this, like because they can't leave their house. They're 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.359 just like, I'll just like quorder everything, but I just 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.400 need to order ten thousand rolls of toilet paper. Yeah, 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.719 Like that's the thing with the toilet paper. It makes 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.160 no sense we have a shortage of toilet paper because 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.480 none of us need any more toilet paper than we had. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.000 We don't have a shortage. It's just everyone bought it 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.000 at the same week, right, It's just like we've created 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.080 like yeah, I don't think like I think. But this 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.799 was a criticism that some people had of the way 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.800 politicians rolled out this information was that like they didn't 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.560 explain to people what the sort of like quarantine like 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.320 shelter in place, what how that would go down? And 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.720 in retrospect, like legally they're not going to like not 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.960 allow you to get your groceries and your medicine, you 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.400 know what I mean, Like they're like that situation is 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.960 probably not going to happen, but they should have explained 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.920 that before all these rumors started circulating of how they 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.280 were going to deal with it, you know what I mean. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.200 And then that's what caused people to panic and like anyway, 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:31.520 so we are basically there's been some some major stresses 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.280 like every I'm sure almost everybody in this country is 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.720 going through right now. But part of the weird thing 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.080 is like we're now sort of homeowners and we have 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.000 a house, like I we weren't getting our mail. I 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.920 had our mail for it and it wasn't arriving, and 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.040 so then the post office said our address isn't real. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.560 So I had to go to the post office and 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.840 they said they mixed the road and avenue. And then 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.200 I met the mail carrier and he was like, he 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.920 was like, yeah, mail was addressed to here, but I 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.080 didn't believe it because no, I've never I've never delivered 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.280 mail to this house. Well, we're in this situation where 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.280 like we've moved, but we didn't know we moved until 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.280 we moved. And now it's just like how do you 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.440 get all your life and paperwork in order? And like 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.240 you live here now, like do you know? It's just 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:21.840 I think a lot of people are having this issue 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.720 where like I think there's people who are like pregnant, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.040 pregnant or have little babies who were like, you know, 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.240 we just don't want to risk like waiting this out 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.960 in New York City or whatever, and I like, I 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.240 know people should stay where they are, but I do 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.959 think some people have like extenuating circumstances where it's really 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.440 like a lot better idea for them to just like 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.440 get out of the way. Um. I don't know, it's 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.880 but um, especially if you can do it like in 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.199 your car and just like leave and not like quarantine 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.280 for a few days and not like encounter anyone if 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.080 you're moving, you know, moving. I mean we had a 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.280 situation where we could drive straight from here from our 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:05.680 apartment to an empty house and interact with a single person. Um. Yeah, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.120 I don't know, it's just it's a very weird situation. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.960 I feel like that's the fact. No, but like the 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.839 fact that we're in this house is making it extra weird. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:21.480 Like it just feels I don't know, it's hard for 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.040 me to not read too deeply into like the meaning, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.360 the spiritual meaning of all this. And I'm like, I 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.840 feel like I was brought back to my home state 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:35.960 to like wait out this weird life event. And you 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.160 were brought back to your like ancestral home that you're 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.760 that has been in your family for like four generations. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:49.080 My great grandfather probably fled here to escape the Spanish flu. Yeah, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.880 I don't know. Massachusetts is kind of like a spooky 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.040 state to like wait out, you know, like if like 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.680 a disease. I mean we are, we're a a few 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:05.720 miles from Plymouth Rock. Yeah, I don't know what that symbolizes, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:10.520 but the karma, boy, we're really narrowing down where we are, 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.280 so anyway, we found out that the mailman can't deliver 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.880 us our mail because technically this house is on a 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:22.840 county road and are the addresses on the like a 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.360 little bit in from that road, and there's a mailbox, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.160 and they won't bring us our mail because we got 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:31.040 to have a mailbox on the big road. So I 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.640 went to Low's. I bought a mailbox, a post, a 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:40.640 whole digging tool, cement, and some sticky letters, and I 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:45.720 am going to do the most home home project de 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.760 project I've ever done. It's weird. It's hard not to 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.679 feel like you're like a homesteader when you're here, because 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.800 we're in this like spooky old house with like many 0:10:54.880 --> 0:11:00.840 bedrooms and like there it's just like, um, it's sort 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.000 of haunted, like it's just run down in a very 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:08.240 natural way, where like no one is here very much, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.160 like no one is ever here more than like a week. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:15.960 So it's like just kind of this it's bizarre. But 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:20.080 every time, so my dad would come here, you know, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.079 in the fifties when he was a kid, and his grandfather, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:28.000 who was sort of a very serious, sort of mean dude. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.760 We just put put everyone to work and you just 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.640 have to always be cutting tree stumps out of the 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.959 yard and climbing into the attic to fix the thing. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.200 So when I started coming here, you arrived and you 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.239 like just reflexively started picking up sticks around the backyard 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:46.920 like you were like we had to clean up the yard, 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.800 like you're just like went into home improvement mode. Immediately 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.560 called my dad and I was like, there's some mold 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.160 on the edge of the roof outside. I gotta go 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.280 get the thing from the And I was like, I 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.319 think we need to replace the horseshoe pits. I raked 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.559 the horseshoe It's I was like, I looked up how 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.040 to get some lumber and weather it. I was like, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.040 I'm gonna rebuild these horseshoe pits. I don't have time 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.760 for this, but boy, we uh we ordered a bunch 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:20.040 of stuff. I'm building a mailbox. It's yeah. We're like 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.520 we're cooking more food for every meal of the day 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:27.240 than we've ever cooked in our lives. We're taking walks 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:32.440 just NonStop. It's like I just feel like any second 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.440 I'm going to tap maple syrup out of a tree 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:40.080 and like start, you know, like a potato garden and 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.600 pretty pretty soon we're going to accuse our neighbors of 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.080 being witches and we're gonna have a witch trial. Oh no, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.760 I'm I'll be the only witch around here. You're gonna 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.080 get burned at the steak done me. I'm a real 0:12:52.120 --> 0:13:01.280 I'm gonna be John Proctor. Yeah? Is that that's that right? Crucible? Um? 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.280 So how about our kids. We're parents, this is a 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.640 parenting podcast. We've seen so much of our kids this week. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:14.200 It's just so stop, so much um homeschooling. So I 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.760 feel weird about this because the teacher, the system, the 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:23.520 remote learning. Boy there, they're doing their best, but it's 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.320 it's a real convoluted system. I'll say for me, it's 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.679 just not going to work like it digitally teaching kids 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.440 is not really going to be engaging unless it's like 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.839 really entertaining like YouTube channel and like it's story Pirates Radio, 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.800 which launched today. Every day at eleven am, you can 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.360 from eleven to twelve. It's a live radio show. Check 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.080 that out. Yeah, I just think it has to be natural. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.920 And like when I get those I got, I swear 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.680 to god, it felt like we got a thousand emails 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.800 from his school this week and he's a kindergartener. Like 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.480 what do they think he's slipping up on it in 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.240 the span of five days, Like everyone just slow your role. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.640 They like they're not asking us to turn anything in. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.520 The teacher sends its omes and I don't. All of 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.040 her emails are no reply, so you can't. You don't 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.480 have the option to ever weigh in on like anything 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.520 that's happening. That said, she emailed me today really directly, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.880 and I think she's emailing everybody, but she just wants 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.520 to check in, and I'm going to tell her all 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:28.880 about Daddy's school. I just think like the way that 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.240 we like interact with them, if we're going to sit 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.160 there and like draw and stuff, is sort of more 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:39.640 naturally educational than any like weird like thing that's some 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:49.040 learning center. Is just like quote unquote, Brin keeps like 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.520 making these stories and it's like the dragon farted and 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.200 then like and it's just they're like they're so like 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.920 gross and dumb, but it makes him want to sit 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:03.400 there and draw and write and like do things for hours. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.840 So we do every day we do Daddy School, which 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.080 which I called it the first day. Um and now 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:17.560 Britain is very serious about attend daddy school, and we 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.040 have achieved. I mean it's one on one learning, so 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.960 you're going to get through far more stuff than we 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.720 went a one to sixteen ratio or whatever his classes. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:32.160 So the kid is good at math and now he 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.920 can do addition and subtraction like millions. I'll say, this 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:41.160 week I realized, like Mayven is starting to like read 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.160 and do math. Like she I wrote mom on the beach, 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.680 and she walked up to it from above and said wow. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.480 And then she said and then she looked at it 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.840 again and she was like mom, like she like under 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.280 she it was like so weird. And then she was 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.520 doing math tonight at the table sort of she was 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.760 like saying how many people were in the room and stuff. Um, 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.840 I mean today she cracked math. I mean because I 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.880 haven't paid any attention to her because the child still 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.880 takes up all the attention. But I was saying tonight 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.760 at dinner, though, is like as these second child, she 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.880 gets like a contact high version of education. Like she's 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:26.360 just like she witnesses Brian's learning every day and she 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.360 just picks it up through osmosis. Yeah, I mean she 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.960 the musicality of it. She picks up. But today was 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.240 the first day. I was like, all right, Maven, you 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.040 get a math lesson. I gave I wrote a sheet. 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.280 I was just all these really hard math problems for 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.680 Brian to keep them busy so I could actually focus 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.640 on Maven. And she knows, like, you know, one plus 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.720 one two plus two, that's simple things. And then I 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.240 actually sat down and explained to her how to do it. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:55.720 And then I gave her one plus one, one plus two, 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.360 one plus three four and then two plus one two, 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.640 pus three three posts one you posted do three? Is 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.800 we all the way up to five posts? Whatever? But 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.320 I gave her that sheet, and for the first time ever, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.080 like she did every single one up to five plus 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:13.280 five um, And I think there's just someone actually paid 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.240 attention to her for more than five seconds. And then 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.720 she's like, oh, I get it, and she does this 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.840 weird finger counting thing, which she got everyone correct now 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:29.760 teaching brand long division long uh or not long division multiplication. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:35.480 He multiplied, you know, eight thousand times more than I 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.760 could do right now, I had to remember how to 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.440 do it. I was like, you don't mind this up. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:45.520 And but Bran we started that today and he gets it. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.359 I mean, he's five, but I don't remember when you 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:54.119 learn that. Um, but we're gonna drill more multiplication in school. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:58.640 You learn that and like fifth grade that's before then. 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.879 But I don't know. But also they might do it 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:06.480 different now ethic math, they keep changing it. Yeah. Um, 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.720 I like to leave the math to you, like you 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.320 can be the math teacher. I'm fine with that. I 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.919 love it. We should have our domains. My class was 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.080 like a little bit more free for we learned music 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.120 today too. When you come to my class, we come 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:27.000 to explore where's the leading us today? Well, I have 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.680 my sister has been doing some little lessons with them, 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.280 and it's like very like nature based, and she got 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:37.600 a bird feeder and stuff, and she was We had 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.720 the craziest moment where she was making she wanted to 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.000 make like bird watching journals, and I was like, oh, well, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.680 maybe it could be like an animal journal, so it 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.800 could be all the animals you see throughout the day. 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.960 So they're making these birden animal journals to catalog what 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:56.119 they see and write as they finished, Like Mayven and 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.119 Brin both spell out the title page of the book, 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:04.480 A turkey starts walking through the backyard, giant aggressive turkey. Well, 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:08.000 just like the funniest little turkey, like walking alone and 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.040 like you guys talking about me. It just was like 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.919 the timing of it couldn't have been more perfect, and 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:19.160 it was like it just you know, I love signs. Well. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.800 The night before so Nick and I have been doing 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:26.639 trick shows via zoom live streaming, which is insane the 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.119 whole other story, and the night before we did a show. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:34.720 The main plotline was a giant turkey who takes over 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.880 New York City and becomes a giant like Batman esque 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.639 crime boss and the only way to kill this giant 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.320 turkey and he was rough and everyone up and the 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:50.160 next day, this aggressive turkey comes into the yard. It's insane, crazy, 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.879 it's I also saw a raccoon this morning when I 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.520 was up at five am, because he found the garbage 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.879 in the garage yet that we can't throw away because 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.679 this town doesn't have garbage collection, so you have to 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.199 go get a garbage permit from town hall and use 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:11.840 a special bag. And a townhouse closed because he was 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.119 climbing on a kayak. He was like, I'm sorry what 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.960 he was climbing on a kayak across the way. That's 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:25.040 what are you saying, I'm trying to get away? Huh. Yeah, 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:31.480 So I gotta go. I gotta go back home tomorrow 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:39.879 night to get stuff to forage for supplies. Yeah. Boy, 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.600 this whole week is so surreal because like when I 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.560 was like packing to leave our home, it was like 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.880 this flash of like is this the last time I'll 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.600 be here? Like what is happening? Like you know, it's just, um, 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.639 this week has been so up and down, Like emotionally, 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.439 I think like when we stay off the computer and 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:07.520 social media, I feel like we have a chance to 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.439 calm down and just like eat a meal and like whatever. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.400 But um, yeah, it's just been such a crazy way. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:21.760 I did have a full, like emotional breakdown in Lows today. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.520 I was looking for cement. I had a cart full 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.679 of mailbox pieces a mailbox to post all the things, 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:30.720 and then I just had a moment. I was like 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:34.800 where is the cement? And then it just became a 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:40.320 truly overwhelming task. So one fine cement and to know 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:45.239 how much cement I needed and what kind And I 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.320 literally just stood there in the aisle for like, I'm 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:52.800 really interested to see how this project is gonna I'm 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.440 gonna do it or I'm gonna lose my mind. That's 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:05.080 gonna one of them. Two. I'm gonna build this god nailbox. Um, yeah, 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:12.080 it'll be fun. Um there's I mean, normally this section 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:14.520 of the podcast is our weekend review, and I feel 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.440 like we barely even got to like so much happened, 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:20.600 so much has happened. I spent so much of this 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:23.720 week just like completely overwhelmed by the fact, like now 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:26.080 that I got some I got ahold of some serr attack, 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:30.320 I'm more medicated. But when I was, when I was 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.560 just taking allegra, it was and before we got a 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:38.240 new mattress cover for the mattress, like, I was just 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.280 like my whole head was constantly so inflamed, and the 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.120 kids were just jumping on me NonStop, and you were 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:48.120 taking loud conference calls, and like I was just allergic 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:50.760 to like every surface and it felt like and I 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:53.680 was just like, what is this life? Like I was 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:58.040 like I had that today. I've been fine until until 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:00.720 I was in the middle of lows. Yeah, I was 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.120 like I might At one point I thought I might 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:07.119 just leave this cart right here and walk out into 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:11.320 the snow because I can't touch it, Corona, I can't 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:16.200 touch things. Yeah, anyway, just natural reactions that I think 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:20.200 everyone is happening having this week is like just everyone 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:24.080 is like what the like, especially people who are trying 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:25.800 to figure out child care and people who are trying 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:27.320 to figure out how to work from home and make 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.920 their companies work from home, and like, just so much 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:33.399 change for so many people all at once. It is 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:36.320 so much uncertainty. I mean, so most of our friends 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:42.359 are artists who have real sort of slapped together type 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:45.119 of employment. So many people we know are just like 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:49.280 their income is just cooperated over. So you know, part 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:52.880 of my job at Story Parts is to um it's 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:54.600 like cast all of the shows that happen all the time. 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:57.200 So there's no shows to be cast. So I sent 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:00.960 to sign up out really just to be like, hey, 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:04.000 how are you what are you doing? You know, this 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:10.520 is like a hundred plus people, and most people are like, well, 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:12.760 I'm unemployed, I don't know what to do. I'm stuck 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:16.679 with my apartment in New York City, varying varying levels 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:20.000 of panic. And it was really I was really happy 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:22.679 to read it just because it makes you feel less alone, 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:25.720