Speaker 1: I got to boom, Yeah, we're starting. Hello, Hello parenting
Speaker 1: on peter Ric Comity. I'm Beth Noel. Back at it, friendos,
Speaker 1: We're back. You keep thinking we're not going to be
Speaker 1: We survived another week us believe it or we'll be back.
Speaker 1: We literally did be back. Um, okay, let's get straight
Speaker 1: to it. Illness, Let's get right to it. Okay, everyone,
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, well, I think I think I said this
Speaker 1: on last week's podcast, which is that everywhere in public
Speaker 1: that we take our children, they put their mouths on
Speaker 1: everything and lick things. And so I think you're giving
Speaker 1: licking things too much credit for this illness. But I
Speaker 1: have no way to back that up or prove it.
Speaker 1: You think the licking of things in massively trafficked public
Speaker 1: play face is full of other children had nothing to do.
Speaker 1: I think it's why they don't get sick more. But again,
Speaker 1: I have no way to back up that argument. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that the oh my god, anyway, keep going.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to just throw an unnecessary wrench in
Speaker 1: in that continue they're looking things. So Wednesday, ish our
Speaker 1: son develops a rash around his mouth and nose, and
Speaker 1: I was like, this looks like not normal with something
Speaker 1: that should be looked into. And I was like, I
Speaker 1: think maybe he has like in patigo or hand foot
Speaker 1: in mouth is coming back, and You're like, no, it's
Speaker 1: just because the humidifier is blowing in his face. It's fine.
Speaker 1: So then this rash so far, I just want to say,
Speaker 1: totally accurate. So then this rash lingers on his face,
Speaker 1: which is not like a good looking rash. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: it did look like it was getting better to me,
Speaker 1: because it did not. To me, was like a real
Speaker 1: juicy one day and I was like oh, and then
Speaker 1: and then continued to be gross, dried up, Okay, but
Speaker 1: I apologize for our listeners. It's gross. So we're like
Speaker 1: bringing our son to school, to public places, to birthday parties,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is not good. To a new
Speaker 1: school visit, to a new school visit, we're like living
Speaker 1: our son. This is where he's literally being a set.
Speaker 1: He's really literally being assessed. But in our defense, it
Speaker 1: was the same day we had We're supposed to go
Speaker 1: to our house to do some things in Brooklyn or
Speaker 1: the place we're buying in Brooklyn, and it was like
Speaker 1: we had all of these things that have been dragging
Speaker 1: on to figure out how our life will actually be
Speaker 1: planned for the coming fall. It's like we need it.
Speaker 1: We're like, if we don't do this now, we're setting
Speaker 1: our whole lives back another two weeks. So we um
Speaker 1: we go and luckily did not sabotage her visit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well let's come back to that. Continue the illness anyway,
Speaker 1: So we're just bringing our rashy kid around town and
Speaker 1: then starting Friday just flaunting him and then Maven we're
Speaker 1: the worst that this kind of thing. Then mavenu is
Speaker 1: Friday in the midst of all this starts to feel
Speaker 1: warm and we get her home and she has like
Speaker 1: a low fever and I was like, it's and this
Speaker 1: is again like classic Maven illness. This happens every time
Speaker 1: where she just seems like kind of sick and we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: she kind of has a fever, but she's quiet and nice,
Speaker 1: like she's just so like not a difficult kid that
Speaker 1: you're just like it's fine. And the fever went away. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't like non stop, but I feel
Speaker 1: like part of every day she was like kind of
Speaker 1: fevery and like tired and like cranky and then, but
Speaker 1: but you know, we're like, I don't know, there's all
Speaker 1: these colds and things, and I was like, maybe part
Speaker 1: of my mind was like, maybe Brin has a really
Speaker 1: like another hand foot in mouth thing like our reoccurrence,
Speaker 1: but it's milder this time, and maybe we didn't even
Speaker 1: notice he had the fever because it was so quick
Speaker 1: this time. And I was like, maybe she's just like
Speaker 1: going to blow through this because when our kids got
Speaker 1: hand foot month the first time, it was just like
Speaker 1: a one day fever and then like a few dots,
Speaker 1: you know. Um so and anyway, and once the rash comes,
Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do about it at that point really,
Speaker 1: So anyway, this is all happening. Finally, Friday morning, I like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, I should take a look at
Speaker 1: Brind's face, because I you have been Sunday morning. You
Speaker 1: have been working all weekends, and it was like pouring
Speaker 1: rain all day Saturday. So we just like hold up,
Speaker 1: and I was like, let's just let these sick kids rest.
Speaker 1: And then Sunday, I'm like I gotta go check and
Speaker 1: see how this rash is doing. Because I knew you
Speaker 1: were going to work in a couple of hours, and
Speaker 1: then it was like the whole weekend is over, um,
Speaker 1: And I look at his face. The rash is worse
Speaker 1: and his eye is starting to look swollen, and I'm like, great,
Speaker 1: so you take him to urgent care. His an eye
Speaker 1: is not just swollen, but his lower eyelid is red
Speaker 1: and disgusting and swollen, and in the gap has a
Speaker 1: full like crust to it. Anyone listening to us who's
Speaker 1: like a germophobe is like thinking, They're like, this is
Speaker 1: the kind of parents I hate. Well, if you're like,
Speaker 1: remember the first four months of this podcast was just
Speaker 1: sickness reports. Do you remember when you printed something out
Speaker 1: of the printer this week? A recipe? And Grin called
Speaker 1: it a restaurant note. My kids think that the only
Speaker 1: thing that comes out of the printer doctors. When you
Speaker 1: print something, they go doctor's notes. And I was like, guys,
Speaker 1: And so I printed a recipe and Brent picked and
Speaker 1: it falls on the floor because the tray is never
Speaker 1: were out. So Brent picked it up and looked at
Speaker 1: it and recognized that it was like a recipe, and
Speaker 1: he looked at being a restaurant note, and he I mean,
Speaker 1: he was wrong, but he could have been more wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like getting really good at reading. Like now he'll
Speaker 1: like he could pick up anything, and I'm like, he'll
Speaker 1: sound out every word on the thing. Like he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of him, you know, because that's been
Speaker 1: saying that I can still barely read. And so it's
Speaker 1: one of those like I feel like Forrest Gump when
Speaker 1: I'm like, is he smart or he gets it from me?
Speaker 1: Because I do know how to read. Um, well, you
Speaker 1: know how. You know how to make sense of the words,
Speaker 1: and I know how to deliver them anyway, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I think. My I don't know, this probably
Speaker 1: happens with you too, But my mom, I remember reading
Speaker 1: to us like every night, like out of chapter books.
Speaker 1: I can remember this happening in our old house, which
Speaker 1: means it was when I was like three or four,
Speaker 1: like I was like very little and like listening to
Speaker 1: the entirety of Little House on the Prairie out loud.
Speaker 1: So and I think you similarly and sometimes reading a
Speaker 1: lot to her kids. I've been reading them the Magic
Speaker 1: Treehouse books this week, um, and they're pretty into it.
Speaker 1: So tonight we read Dr Seuss a BCS so Mayven
Speaker 1: I have been working on our letters and bring his words,
Speaker 1: and it's a perfect book for it. And for the
Speaker 1: first time, I think Maven has known all her letters
Speaker 1: for a while, but it's real coy about sharing her knowledge.
Speaker 1: But tonight, you know, so each page is like big,
Speaker 1: a little A what begins with a? And so I'd
Speaker 1: have may even do all the letter parts and she
Speaker 1: goes big a little what begins with a A? And
Speaker 1: then Brin would read all the words and I've tried
Speaker 1: to do that in the past with them sharing. And
Speaker 1: then Bryan is just so terrible because she hesitates for
Speaker 1: a second and he's like, it's an h mabn. I'm like, Britain,
Speaker 1: let's help her, but give her a second. And he
Speaker 1: was patient and he waited and she did the entire
Speaker 1: thing correctly, as did his reading. Nice completely unrelated story
Speaker 1: last night, I was, um, I forgot when I was
Speaker 1: putting them to bed to give them their medicine because
Speaker 1: they're so difficult to put to bed, and I remembered
Speaker 1: like a half hour later something and they're asleep, So
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I'm just gonna like gently wake
Speaker 1: them up. This feels like a very like classic childhood memory,
Speaker 1: like your mom waking you up, being like I forgot
Speaker 1: to do this, don't wake up, but I'm putting this
Speaker 1: thing in your mouth. It made me really feel like
Speaker 1: I'm I feel relately, like I'm really we're really creating
Speaker 1: childhood memories with them for the first time, and it's
Speaker 1: like I'm like, wow, they're actually going to remember this. Um.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even make you feel more like a mom
Speaker 1: because you're doing things you remember your mom. It really
Speaker 1: does like yeah, anyway, I so, I was like, I
Speaker 1: had to give them their medicine, so they both So
Speaker 1: the story that we didn't finish the language is that
Speaker 1: you took Brand to urgent care. You got home, I
Speaker 1: escaped for an hour to run errands because I was like,
Speaker 1: I need to get away from these kids for like
Speaker 1: at least one hour of this weekend or I'm going
Speaker 1: to lose my mind. Um. And then came back and
Speaker 1: then you left for work, and I was like, Mayven
Speaker 1: still has a fever and she told me oh. She
Speaker 1: then told me that her ear hurt, and I was like, fuck,
Speaker 1: I gotta get these kids back to urgent care. I
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta deal with this now. Otherwise the
Speaker 1: week starts and everything's going to hell. So I go
Speaker 1: I take them to urgent care. They're like, it's a
Speaker 1: forty five minute wait, and like, I don't think it
Speaker 1: was actually that long, but I was like fuck. So
Speaker 1: we get in there. I didn't really want to tell
Speaker 1: you that there was no one there when I went, well,
Speaker 1: there wasn't actually anyone in the waiting room. So I
Speaker 1: was like, I feel like they're just trying to scare
Speaker 1: me little bit. It's like management of emotions. Um, anyway,
Speaker 1: get in there. Mayven doctor comes in with a face
Speaker 1: mask on, and I was like, yeah, it's bad out there.
Speaker 1: Also yeah, and then while we're in the waiting room,
Speaker 1: there's like a doorstopper at like door knob height, and
Speaker 1: Brin walks over to it and puts it, puts his
Speaker 1: mouth on it, basically just like makes that with this thing.
Speaker 1: I was like, what are you doing? I was so annoyed. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: by the way, we didn't say that, hey, he has
Speaker 1: in fatigue. He's coming back to the same location that
Speaker 1: just diagnosed him with in fatigue his inpatigue a few
Speaker 1: hours earlier to wipe his in fatigue on the wall.
Speaker 1: I just was like, I can't handle this kid. I was.
Speaker 1: It's like I was getting so mad at them this week.
Speaker 1: So then uh, we go in. Mayven has two ear
Speaker 1: infections and then it's like classic ear infections, both ears,
Speaker 1: and I'm like that it's this. It's the same thing
Speaker 1: happen every time, where I'm like, why did I put
Speaker 1: like I feel so bad, like I made her be
Speaker 1: in pain for two or three days. She wasn't um anyway.
Speaker 1: So then have to go back to CVS get a
Speaker 1: second prescription. Now they're both on the same antibiotics, which
Speaker 1: I think is going to be a blessing in the
Speaker 1: end because they can't infect each other right now with anything.
Speaker 1: Oh they are, they're immune. Yeah, well weirdly, weirdly he does.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, So the story I was going to get
Speaker 1: to was that I go to feed them and they
Speaker 1: were like not really waking up. Mayven kind of wake up,
Speaker 1: and they're like I would like drip a little bit
Speaker 1: of it in their mouth to try to like gently
Speaker 1: wake them up. As I was, I was like kind
Speaker 1: of touching them, but they weren't waking up, and I
Speaker 1: drip a little bit in their mouth and then they
Speaker 1: would like purse their lips and it was like, just
Speaker 1: this the funniest thing of like it felt like they
Speaker 1: were newborn babies again because their faces were so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And then and May even eventually kind of woke up
Speaker 1: and I explained what was happening, and she drank it.
Speaker 1: Bryn did not wake up at all and just suckled
Speaker 1: like a newborn and like like his lips were so funny,
Speaker 1: and he was just like just like it was so crazy.
Speaker 1: I was like telling my friends afterwards. I was like,
Speaker 1: if you want to go feed your kids something in
Speaker 1: their sleep, I highly recommend it, Like it was just
Speaker 1: so funny. You gave him medicine last night, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to. Why not because for some reason, he
Speaker 1: gets one dose a day and she gets two doses
Speaker 1: a day. M well, no, no, he's got too many antibiotics.
Speaker 1: I think better stronger than weaker. It'll be fine. I
Speaker 1: mean that's I'm sure that not keeping up with it
Speaker 1: is worse. But smaller dose once a day and she
Speaker 1: has a bigger dose twice a day. Yeah, she does have.
Speaker 1: And he's got his I cream that he has to
Speaker 1: do three times a day. And I'm debating do I
Speaker 1: have to go to school in the middle of the
Speaker 1: day to give him his second dose? I just do
Speaker 1: two at night. At first, I was like, maybe we
Speaker 1: need to do that, but today his eyes already clearing up,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of thinking we can just do two times.
Speaker 1: I might. I might go at three o'clock just tomorrow,
Speaker 1: like before he goes to after school, and she'd be like,
Speaker 1: can I just squirt listen as eyeball please thank you
Speaker 1: by Yeah. It might be that's nice for us to
Speaker 1: look like involved parents who are aware of it. It
Speaker 1: might be good to be show ourselves to his teacher,
Speaker 1: who never sees us because comes from before caring and
Speaker 1: it goes to after school. That's also part of the
Speaker 1: craziness of this weekend is that it was like pouring rain,
Speaker 1: like so hard, and I had to bring Bran to
Speaker 1: this birthday party. How did that go? And I was
Speaker 1: like trying. I was like, it's raining so hard, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna leave it in the car, like right outside
Speaker 1: the place and try to run him in. But then
Speaker 1: of course it's like a chaotic like it was like
Speaker 1: a sports activity play center, and he wiped his in
Speaker 1: fatigue all over the sports center. Yeah, his undiagnosed in fatigue. Um.
Speaker 1: So we get in there and he's like, I'm looking
Speaker 1: around And it wasn't really until I walk in that
Speaker 1: I realized, like, I don't know anyone who. I was
Speaker 1: like just looking for someone who looked like they're greeting people.
Speaker 1: And I looked at this mom and I was like,
Speaker 1: are you Eatin's mom? And she's like yeah, and she
Speaker 1: was like staring at me blankly. And then I was
Speaker 1: like and then I just it was very awkward because
Speaker 1: I was like I had to get in the back
Speaker 1: of my mind. I was like, I have to get
Speaker 1: back out to the car because Mayven's just sitting there
Speaker 1: and I'm already been like looking around, and so I
Speaker 1: was like, so I can leave until six, like you know,
Speaker 1: it's just like really like abrupt, and she's like yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, oh, I should have been nicer. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, I said, like, I'm I had said I'm
Speaker 1: Brand's mom, Beth, like this is Brand, but I like
Speaker 1: it was like so comment six. I was like, so
Speaker 1: you got this goodbye? Um so, and I was like, sorry,
Speaker 1: my daughter's in the car. But when I came back
Speaker 1: to pick him up. I had a nicer conversation with her,
Speaker 1: and I felt better about it, But it was yeah
Speaker 1: and he and the other thing that happened when we
Speaker 1: got there that added to the awkwardness is that he
Speaker 1: she The first thing she said to Brand when I
Speaker 1: was like, this is Brand, she was like, do you
Speaker 1: like sports? And he was like no, and like and
Speaker 1: he did that to us twice this week where he
Speaker 1: was like, we were at this new school that we're
Speaker 1: like interviewing at and they were like, so do you play,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know baseball or whatever. He was like no,
Speaker 1: what what did he say? He was like, oh, we should?
Speaker 1: Uh he it was very we should. We should talk
Speaker 1: about at in full in a minute. Um, I want
Speaker 1: to continue to just end the sickness story because to
Speaker 1: day they were both couldn't go to school. So I
Speaker 1: was home and it was fine except that the internet
Speaker 1: was out. It was dead. It was out. Um, I
Speaker 1: couldn't I couldn't put on TV for them, But I
Speaker 1: also couldn't do work. There was like I was at
Speaker 1: home and I thought I could, like I have a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do, Like I have a lot
Speaker 1: of screens to be looking at, and I couldn't do
Speaker 1: a gosh darn thing, and so I finally go. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I assumed the Internet just you know, turns back on.
Speaker 1: And I went to finally look, you know, at the
Speaker 1: insane FiOS box in the closet. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it looks like it looks looks like a massive backup
Speaker 1: generator for a house. And I go and the battery
Speaker 1: light is on, and I read all the things, what
Speaker 1: all the lights mean, and but it's looked like it
Speaker 1: was fine. And then a few hours in, um, it
Speaker 1: starts beeping very loud, and I go in and then
Speaker 1: suddenly it says the battery light is out, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just replaced this battery. It suppos the last three years,
Speaker 1: it lasted two. This is BS So I look it up,
Speaker 1: but I'll check out the things. I'm like, the batteries.
Speaker 1: The light is off, which means no power or low power,
Speaker 1: battery dead. So I take out this massive battery. I
Speaker 1: look up where you will buy a battery. I throw
Speaker 1: the kids in the car and I go buy a
Speaker 1: forty battery at the battery store. Um. Then we go
Speaker 1: get your prescription, and then we buy a donut because
Speaker 1: I promised bring yesterday. We get home, I put in
Speaker 1: the giant battery and I'm like, a great, I fixed it,
Speaker 1: and then I closed the door and I look down
Speaker 1: outside of the closet where there's that massive plug to
Speaker 1: that unit, and it's unplucked. One of our children ripped
Speaker 1: this thing apart and unplugged it. That's very funny. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, why the hell is there a forty dollar
Speaker 1: battery for this thing when it's just plugged in. So
Speaker 1: now we have a spare battery. No, I recycled the
Speaker 1: old forty battery when I was there. Um, oh well,
Speaker 1: And then it looked up the whole thing is a
Speaker 1: backup unit. A forty battery for a backup unit. I actually, sam,
Speaker 1: I actually had a very similar thing today, which is
Speaker 1: that I went to install something on my computer. This
Speaker 1: is not interesting, but I couldn't install it because a
Speaker 1: few months ago, or a couple of months ago, I
Speaker 1: was trying to like, I was trying to try to
Speaker 1: change some settings and figure out how to put some
Speaker 1: controls on my computer so that I could control my
Speaker 1: social media use. And I just wanted to be able
Speaker 1: to focus during the day, and so I went into
Speaker 1: the users, and I must have read something wrong online
Speaker 1: and like did a wrong thing. And what I had
Speaker 1: done was I put parental controls onto my account, my
Speaker 1: user account on the computer, which is the only user
Speaker 1: account on the computer. So when you go to change
Speaker 1: the parental controls and then asks you for an admin password,
Speaker 1: there's no other account that you could ever have a
Speaker 1: password for that exists anywhere, So you're just you can't,
Speaker 1: like if you give it the password for the one account,
Speaker 1: it's like no, that account doesn't have parental control. So
Speaker 1: so I had locked myself out of like doing software
Speaker 1: updates and certain things to the computer. And it was
Speaker 1: just like I was like and it was one of
Speaker 1: those things where similar to you, where I was just
Speaker 1: like I have to deal with this today or my
Speaker 1: life's just going to start to fall apart um. And
Speaker 1: I happened to have like a spare hour where I
Speaker 1: had done a lot of work and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I just figure this out today. And it was like
Speaker 1: I chatted with Apple online for a while. There's like
Speaker 1: two different like people recommending the same solution that didn't work,
Speaker 1: and then they're like we're going to call you back
Speaker 1: with a specialist or something, and then they called me
Speaker 1: back like an hour later, and there this woman tried
Speaker 1: to walk me through like the same things from earlier,
Speaker 1: and then she's like, I have to give you to
Speaker 1: my superior. And I was on the phone for like
Speaker 1: a full hour and this guy specialist Superior. They're like
Speaker 1: they finally walked me through a solution where I was
Speaker 1: able to go into um like recovery mode on the
Speaker 1: computer or something and like create another account like a
Speaker 1: root user. I don't exactly know what that means, but
Speaker 1: it's like it's a special kind of user. And then
Speaker 1: I had to log in as that user and give
Speaker 1: parental controls back. And it was like this it was
Speaker 1: like kind of a fascinating thing where you're like you,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you design. You have to design these
Speaker 1: stems that have like you're able to control things and
Speaker 1: then these things like it was just interesting how many
Speaker 1: people at Apple didn't quite know the answer. And I
Speaker 1: was just like I found out. So I built our
Speaker 1: entire news system at story Pirates, which is not a
Speaker 1: skill set I've had until this year, and I rebuilt
Speaker 1: the entire system original and I was like, this is great.
Speaker 1: And then someone pointed out to me today that I accidentally,
Speaker 1: if people looked in the right place, gave every single
Speaker 1: person in the company access to payroll where they could
Speaker 1: see exactly how much everyone is being paid. But fortunately
Speaker 1: it was brand news, so there's only like one week
Speaker 1: of entries and the nicest person on the planet discovered
Speaker 1: it and told me immediately that's like, I love you forever.
Speaker 1: Your moral fiber is strong. Yeah, well, because you don't
Speaker 1: want them to know that you make eight thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year from story Pirates while most people about I
Speaker 1: want them to think I make that, and I'll know
Speaker 1: that I don't. Um. Oh boy. Yeah. The fun thing
Speaker 1: about having like being in a small business is I
Speaker 1: think you want to give off the appearance of being successful,
Speaker 1: otherwise no one will think you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: But the reality is that people think you're making so
Speaker 1: much more money than you actually are that they judge
Speaker 1: you as though you're the CEO of Like my favorite
Speaker 1: corporating ever was early on somebody was trying to criticize
Speaker 1: you for how much Reductor is paid, and there they
Speaker 1: were like, well, you wouldn't pay your graphics people, like
Speaker 1: your pr people that that little and not understanding that
Speaker 1: Beth is all of those things. There are no graphics people,
Speaker 1: there are no pr people. It's two people in a room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's like super annoying to hear that. But what
Speaker 1: a compliment that you've created this thing. I'm a very
Speaker 1: frustrating compliment, I'll say. But it's fine. Um, it's the
Speaker 1: cost of doing business. And now it's time for everyone's
Speaker 1: favorite segment. Did you knows that my wife wrote a book?
Speaker 1: Did you? Did you know? You know? I started talking
Speaker 1: about it because it's coming up, and boy is it applicable.
Speaker 1: So guys, I'm sorry, but you have to hear me
Speaker 1: promote myself on my podcast and my book is coming
Speaker 1: out very fourth The book is called There's No Manual,
Speaker 1: Honest and Gory Wisdom about Having a Baby. Um, you
Speaker 1: can find it on Amazon and maybe other places. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen all the links. But um, there's some weird
Speaker 1: places you'll never know about Beth. I bet there's some
Speaker 1: really weird fucking places that you can just find that book.
Speaker 1: I will say the um. The book has a lot
Speaker 1: of dirty drawings inside of vaginas and people's insides and
Speaker 1: inside the book of vaginas or inside of Vaginas. Are
Speaker 1: there pictures inside the Book of Vaginas or their pictures
Speaker 1: inside the book of the inside of Vaginas? You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to buy it to find out, baby. Um No,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a lot of useful information in terms
Speaker 1: of your body, I think, but also sort of you
Speaker 1: know what. We had a really great endorsement by Rachel
Speaker 1: Bloom on the back of the book and she calls
Speaker 1: it a fun hang. Um, I'm saying, I'm reading it
Speaker 1: right now, you're reading it right now. I've never read it.
Speaker 1: You told me that you did. Sneak into the drop
Speaker 1: box and look at it. I looked at all the pictures,
Speaker 1: but I was like, just the picture, you know what
Speaker 1: it shows? I was like, is this the inner side
Speaker 1: of vagina or the It's so hard to tell where
Speaker 1: it begins. I'll explain it to you later. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's uh yeah, there's a lot of good stuff
Speaker 1: in there. We keep it fun. It's meant to be
Speaker 1: encouraging of moms and reminding new moms to prioritize themselves
Speaker 1: and take care of themselves throughout the process. And it's
Speaker 1: we Um worked very hard to try to keep it
Speaker 1: in a non judgmental tone in terms of what choices
Speaker 1: you decide to take on your own parenting journey, much
Speaker 1: like you know the tone of this podcast you know
Speaker 1: what um as someone who literally just started it and
Speaker 1: as fresh eyes on that tone, UM, I would say
Speaker 1: that is very much what what I love about it
Speaker 1: so far. Honestly, goodness, you guys. You mean this may
Speaker 1: be not surprise to you that like this is the
Speaker 1: first I've read it, um, and that it has this
Speaker 1: incredible tone of one. It has the point of view
Speaker 1: um um. So it's not wishwashy, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you want. It's just saying, hey, here's all these things.
Speaker 1: There's what you should think about. But it's but we're
Speaker 1: not judging you for like there's no one way for people.
Speaker 1: We're yeah, we're trying to strike the balance of being like,
Speaker 1: you have choices in your opinion matters, and also here's
Speaker 1: some facts and statistics that might inform you, Like, we
Speaker 1: don't want to be completely without grounded nous or information
Speaker 1: like That's where I think the part of why Jackie
Speaker 1: and I wrote this book is like we sort of
Speaker 1: clung to each other as new moms, as I think
Speaker 1: a lot of new moms due to their other friends,
Speaker 1: you kind of like you seek each other out because
Speaker 1: you're like, what's happening, because no one fully tells you
Speaker 1: what is going on? And so we wanted to give
Speaker 1: some sort of like perspective and encouragement here in this
Speaker 1: world where like women are being being given sort of
Speaker 1: a scary and overwhelming amount of clinical information that is
Speaker 1: not like it's it's often like supercharged in a way
Speaker 1: that it is not um in proportion to the actual
Speaker 1: level of danger uh that is happening for a mom
Speaker 1: and her baby. And it's also like, you know, people
Speaker 1: in this world do a lot of like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of bad things that could happen to You could
Speaker 1: get hit by a car at any moment, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that when you're reading a book about walking
Speaker 1: down the street, like every page should like be telling
Speaker 1: you about all the ways you get hit by a car.
Speaker 1: Like there's like I think that when you're entering parenthood,
Speaker 1: a lot of the information is just very clinical and
Speaker 1: it's like you could you could have this disease or
Speaker 1: your baby could get hurt. You know, like that really
Speaker 1: does make them see all make them seem all equally likely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think so we wanted to sort of not um,
Speaker 1: you know, tell you to ignore your health or those
Speaker 1: things which sort of put in perspective and remind you
Speaker 1: to take care of yourself and your emotions, and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's the thing that really another thing that really
Speaker 1: struck me about it is there's all these different segments.
Speaker 1: You know, it says when in the beginning, there's like
Speaker 1: here's your symptoms, and every other time I've read, you know,
Speaker 1: here's what you may experience as a new mother in
Speaker 1: the first few weeks of pregnancy. That like clinical list.
Speaker 1: It's like the same as like reading sex said, we're
Speaker 1: like the penis becomes hard in his place. But you guys,
Speaker 1: you I have never read a thing that made me
Speaker 1: feel pregnant. And I don't know what it feels to
Speaker 1: be pregnant, but the way you paint the picture. When
Speaker 1: I was pregnant, I was really like trying to find
Speaker 1: something that like especially like I really wanted like a
Speaker 1: movie or TV show that like if you were I
Speaker 1: don't know, if you're having this big life changing thing,
Speaker 1: you want to sort of like feel excited and feel
Speaker 1: the joy of that and there wasn't anything out there
Speaker 1: that's sort of like encompassed the experience of being pregnant
Speaker 1: on a visceral level, like like you would I would
Speaker 1: have all these moments when I was pregnant were like
Speaker 1: I would be in my third trimester and like look
Speaker 1: down at my nipples and be like, there's stuff starting
Speaker 1: to use that in my nipples, and like it's not
Speaker 1: like I mean, it's like a completely normal thing that
Speaker 1: like I had never seen portrayed in any medium whatsoever,
Speaker 1: and like was sort of barely referenced in the clinical books.
Speaker 1: Like it was just like you're you know, what is
Speaker 1: that stuff called? It's like not before it's like the
Speaker 1: pre milk um calostroom colostom. Yeah, you showed it to me.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, well, and you don't, like a
Speaker 1: lot of people, like you don't really realize your breast
Speaker 1: milk isn't going to come out of like one hole
Speaker 1: out of your nipple, Like that's the thing that never
Speaker 1: occurred to me, right, And it's just all of these
Speaker 1: things that you think we would know about because this
Speaker 1: is happening all around us all the time, and literally
Speaker 1: all of us are like a result of this process
Speaker 1: of a person growing inside of a woman, but we
Speaker 1: just refused to talk about any of it. Like that.
Speaker 1: I forgot how much that blew my mind that you
Speaker 1: like squeezed it and it like it beaded, this liquid
Speaker 1: beadd in a bunch of different places. I was like,
Speaker 1: what the beauty of motherhood? And well, I what I
Speaker 1: think makes me get really like sensitive about all this
Speaker 1: stuff too, is that I see, like people are so
Speaker 1: revolted by you talking about this, Like if you're outside
Speaker 1: of like parent circles, like people are like like they're
Speaker 1: like you're they think you're insane, And and I see
Speaker 1: like women policing other women in this weird way where
Speaker 1: I'm like, it wouldn't really, it would never in any
Speaker 1: circle I know, be a acceptible of me to criticize
Speaker 1: someone for not having kids. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. But then at the same time, I'll see
Speaker 1: people be like, don't post a picture of your newborn
Speaker 1: baby on social media. That's disgusting. And I'm like, the
Speaker 1: way that you entered the world and literally all of
Speaker 1: us is disgusting and should never be seen by human eyes,
Speaker 1: Like what are you talking about? Like you know, like
Speaker 1: it's just people are very like, uh, quickly put off
Speaker 1: by anything related to women. Well, it's it's mean in
Speaker 1: just in the larger sense. It's just like I've not
Speaker 1: seen that before, so I must not be something I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to see, so right, exactly. And I think that's
Speaker 1: like what people fail to realize on a general basis
Speaker 1: is that like there racism or sexism is happening on
Speaker 1: a very subconscious level. So like when they're when people
Speaker 1: are complaining about certain things, like no one is accusing
Speaker 1: you of like saying the N word or like grabbing
Speaker 1: a woman on her hit, Like, it's like they're asking
Speaker 1: you to think about your own subconscious decisions and biases
Speaker 1: like that's. Yeah, the most common stuff is the stuff
Speaker 1: you've literally never thought about before. Yeah, because I mean
Speaker 1: because you've never had a reason to her, just because
Speaker 1: that's not how we talk about things. That's not what's
Speaker 1: presented in media. You said. Anyway, if you want a
Speaker 1: lot of these um juicy feminist analysis of the female experience,
Speaker 1: particularly through housing a baby in your body, please pre
Speaker 1: order There's No Manual and buy it for your pregnant friends.
Speaker 1: It really is the book that Jackie and I wish
Speaker 1: we had had what we were pregnant, So I hope
Speaker 1: you have someone you can buy for. Just to come
Speaker 1: back to the same point, because this is indicative of
Speaker 1: how far into the book I am. Um, but you
Speaker 1: guys said such a great job of of I don't
Speaker 1: know I've said before painting a picture, but something you
Speaker 1: said just like how you you'll feel. You know, describing
Speaker 1: feelings in clinical terms is the worst way to describe
Speaker 1: a feeling, and so it takes writers and it takes
Speaker 1: comedians two to give us the scenario and the way
Speaker 1: to describe a way a person who's reacting to a thing,
Speaker 1: to make it visceral for me to understand those feelings.
Speaker 1: So like when I was again reading like those symptoms things,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm feeling it because you're making
Speaker 1: me empathize, and you're making me see a person instead
Speaker 1: of a textbook of anatomy, which I don't empathize with.
Speaker 1: And you know, just to loop it back, as I
Speaker 1: like to do to my favorite girl, Elizabeth Warren, I
Speaker 1: do like my watch, I was like, why are we
Speaker 1: gonna get back to that? I really what I love
Speaker 1: about her as a leader is that I think she
Speaker 1: gives you a really visceral human story to some really
Speaker 1: statistically prevalent issues and statistically sound solutions on amending them,
Speaker 1: and vote for women's well. Speaking of Elizzeth Warren and
Speaker 1: being on tour to promote things, are you going to
Speaker 1: be doing any events for THEE I currently have one
Speaker 1: event on the books and it's on our book released
Speaker 1: day February fourth. I'll be Enrichmond at a lesbian bar.
Speaker 1: It's called Babes. It might just be called Babes. It
Speaker 1: might be called babes something, and I will try to
Speaker 1: post that to our social media. Okay, now, I I
Speaker 1: know that lesbians can have babies and do have babies.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and say something. Do you recognize the wonderful
Speaker 1: irony of having a pregnancy And there's no irony there,
Speaker 1: There's only irony there if you are biased towards leslie. Okay,
Speaker 1: boy um, that's great. I wish I could go, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to be here watching our children. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll bring them. Maybe I'll surprise you. Please don't let
Speaker 1: me just be cool for one night and hang out
Speaker 1: at a lesbian bar without my children. You can't hide
Speaker 1: the fact that you have babies, especially when you're at
Speaker 1: a launch party for the book where you're an expert
Speaker 1: on having babies. But it's like everyone's like, look at
Speaker 1: this sexy, vibrant woman and she also has babies, Like uhh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're crush. That's what they're thinking. That's what they're all thinking.
Speaker 1: Anyone who shows up to that book released party and
Speaker 1: judges you for being mom is has a story I'm
Speaker 1: interested in hearing. Tell your Richmond friends, gay or straight,
Speaker 1: all are welcome. Sound it. I process that as your
Speaker 1: rich man friends. Tell your rich man friends. Do you
Speaker 1: tell your rich man friends to buy this book? Tell
Speaker 1: all your friends, your rich man friends, your poor women
Speaker 1: and enemies. Tell your rich man friends, this is sexy
Speaker 1: book for parents. It's got diagrams of the inside and
Speaker 1: middle and outside of vaginas. May even picked Tonight for
Speaker 1: her book. So we always we do three three books.
Speaker 1: Brand picks one, man picks one. I picked one, and
Speaker 1: May even picked the kids sex said book basically the
Speaker 1: one that was in the living room and not in
Speaker 1: their bedroom. Um no, a different one. It was like
Speaker 1: the one that really gets into everything. Amy. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is really long, maybe and we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do one chapter, and so we basically just did anatomy.
Speaker 1: I do think that's like unfortunately, feels like it's becoming.
Speaker 1: Next on my to do list is to like write
Speaker 1: a better kids sex book, because I don't enjoy reading
Speaker 1: the language in those books. I'm I'm good at it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe his giggles Brent is like actually interested just like
Speaker 1: giggles all over. It's not the clinical stuff that bothers me.
Speaker 1: It's just the way their way with words. I don't
Speaker 1: enjoy in some of those anyway. I mean, honestly, write
Speaker 1: that book. You would write an incredible it's only because
Speaker 1: the books are from like thirty years ago, and it's
Speaker 1: just like yeah, and who really like stop dancing around this,
Speaker 1: like just it's like they've got animal narrators. Uh. I
Speaker 1: guess that's fine. It's pretty good. It's better than than
Speaker 1: the ones. I'm being grown up. There's probably some other
Speaker 1: ones out there that we don't have. I don't know,
Speaker 1: well maybe really it was giggling at butts they don't
Speaker 1: know what and the anus is they brand bring quietly
Speaker 1: just went our kids love butts um and they also
Speaker 1: on the buttocks is the full name of butts. That's
Speaker 1: part of what bothers me about these seventies sex books,
Speaker 1: where I'm like, let's just pretend I don't need to
Speaker 1: give my kids buttocks, Like that's not like that's not
Speaker 1: coming up for them. That's not something I need to
Speaker 1: get ahead of. Let's leave it. Let's leave it. Let's
Speaker 1: just all agree to let go of buttocks literally something
Speaker 1: they find out at age sixteen in some literature class,
Speaker 1: and then that they're actually called buttocks. Yeah, they're like
Speaker 1: reading it in some Charles Dickens novel and then they're
Speaker 1: like they lose their minds for like half of class.
Speaker 1: Nicholas Nickleby released those buttocks at once? Um, yeah, is
Speaker 1: that Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby. Uh, it's don't like it,
Speaker 1: but it might not be. It's the kind of name
Speaker 1: that Charles Dickens would use. It's going to be like
Speaker 1: when I sang the wrong song for five for Fighting Now,
Speaker 1: I actually want to know the song I did sing
Speaker 1: was that like, oh no deaf found dam down, don't
Speaker 1: no yo yo? Superman was like in a bird half
Speaker 1: that's the correct one. That's mad play. I want okay
Speaker 1: so fifty so as we talked about that episode. Five
Speaker 1: for Fighting is a reference to the hockey five minute
Speaker 1: penalty for fighting. We don't need to get back in. No, no,
Speaker 1: just we don't have to, but I'm already there, so
Speaker 1: we obviously is the furthest thing from the tone of
Speaker 1: the band five for Fighting, which is all we already
Speaker 1: talked about. But my question is, OK, I want people
Speaker 1: to write in, stop it shot up, and I want
Speaker 1: to hear what other bands you think have the most
Speaker 1: ill fitting names given their style of music. It's a
Speaker 1: fun question. You can also email us with a parenting
Speaker 1: question an article they liked about parenting as you can
Speaker 1: just email me my secret email address. Review of my book,
Speaker 1: that's the six Sexy Book for Parents as soon as
Speaker 1: you preorder, go to Amazon and rate it, and then
Speaker 1: say the Sexy Book for Parents. The reviews say, I
Speaker 1: have a band with an ill fitting name five stars.
Speaker 1: This next timement is called would you knows this, where
Speaker 1: we present each other with parenting hypotheticals. Here we go.
Speaker 1: So this comes to us from Anna Um, who's written
Speaker 1: in before. Her subject line is love you guys to
Speaker 1: exclamation points. Hi, we knows pod. I'm a frequent listener
Speaker 1: of the pod, second time writer, and a huge fan
Speaker 1: of your all caps gorgeous family parentheses all caps L
Speaker 1: O L exclamation point. Why is that funny, Anna, that
Speaker 1: we're gorgeous? Are you not serious? I think we're gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Just kidding. I'm twenty five years old with no kids
Speaker 1: just yet, but maybe in the future. I'm still deciding
Speaker 1: if that's the route I want to take. But if
Speaker 1: I do get knocked up, Beth's book will be the
Speaker 1: first thing I order. Laughing till I cry a Moji
Speaker 1: face again. That's it feels like you're undercutting the previous sentence,
Speaker 1: just kidding. You're great. So I came across this hypothetical
Speaker 1: online and instantly thought I had to write in and
Speaker 1: share it with you. I just realized before I read
Speaker 1: this hypothetical that there's nothing parenting related in it. So
Speaker 1: I'm on the fly, gonna change it to make it
Speaker 1: a little more applicable. Want me to read it, and
Speaker 1: then I'm going to change it. You find a book
Speaker 1: and begin to read, only to discover that it's your life.
Speaker 1: You get to the point that you are at now
Speaker 1: to turn the page knowing that you will not be
Speaker 1: able to change the events to come, excited to hear
Speaker 1: your answer and keep being awesome and a heart emoji. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want your tweak. Just let her ask the question.
Speaker 1: I think it would be impossible for me not to
Speaker 1: read it. I would have to read. I would start
Speaker 1: reading some of it and then see how it affected
Speaker 1: the experience. You'd read like a day's worth. Yeah, it'd
Speaker 1: be like, maybe that was a bad idea, But I'm
Speaker 1: not not going to read a little bit. Boy. I've
Speaker 1: actually been thinking about this a lot since I read this.
Speaker 1: We are currently at a place in our lives where
Speaker 1: I just want, more than anything to know when we
Speaker 1: will be able to move into our new home. But
Speaker 1: the thing is I'm assuming in this scenario is that
Speaker 1: you can't change what happens. The thing with our home
Speaker 1: is that I know that if our renovation is not
Speaker 1: going to be done by a certain time and school
Speaker 1: is starting and I want to get my kids in school,
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to find a sublet or an airbnb.
Speaker 1: So if I knew that in advance, I could plan
Speaker 1: accordingly and not be stressed out the whole time about
Speaker 1: what might happen. Well, here's how I read it. I
Speaker 1: read it as it's not a not a like predictor,
Speaker 1: it is this will happen this way, so you can't.
Speaker 1: Knowing what's going to happen doesn't give you any room.
Speaker 1: You still have to experience it. You still have to
Speaker 1: experience all of it. It still makes me feel like
Speaker 1: maybe I would let it wash over me as it
Speaker 1: was happening, like if I knew that that was what
Speaker 1: was going to happen, Like, but boy, what a gamble?
Speaker 1: What if it like sucks? That's so depressing. I guess
Speaker 1: you know, I just read ahead until there was one
Speaker 1: really exciting thing to look forward to, and then and
Speaker 1: then not read ahead, so I just have one thing
Speaker 1: to look forward to. Yeah, I just kind of feel
Speaker 1: like if I knew that, I would know to try
Speaker 1: to be in the moment and enjoy that moment more
Speaker 1: versus like I feel like like it's so hard, like
Speaker 1: our careers are so unpredictable, and the thing like if
Speaker 1: you talk to me like years ago when I was
Speaker 1: still writing this book and like about the launch, I
Speaker 1: would be like, I can't wait till the launch of
Speaker 1: that book. I like, I'm so tired of writing. I
Speaker 1: just want the writing to be done. But now that,
Speaker 1: now that the books about to come out, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't believe I have to do all this book promotion.
Speaker 1: I hate the promotion part of the book. I wish
Speaker 1: I was just done. Like so, I think if I was, like,
Speaker 1: if I had a sense of like what the difficult
Speaker 1: difficulties were going to be, I would be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well that was the moment. I should have just relaxed
Speaker 1: and enjoyed the launch party, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I should be doing that anyway. But I understand that,
Speaker 1: but I think I would not do it. I am.
Speaker 1: I live in the moment, for better or worse. Do
Speaker 1: you well for better or worse? I don't. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: think that's giving yourself a lot of credit. No, I
Speaker 1: mean in a bad way too, not looking far enough ahead.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think me at my best, but you're
Speaker 1: not like lacking anxiety, You're not like present in the moment.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to suggest that, but I think me
Speaker 1: at my best. I take, um, I face difficult things,
Speaker 1: um well with a sense of like, okay, great, what
Speaker 1: do we have to do, let's get it done? Um me?
Speaker 1: But me at my worst? Oh god, I I want
Speaker 1: to be the person that is here now, that exists now,
Speaker 1: and I'm open and excited about not knowing exactly in
Speaker 1: not either way, if I read the book or don't
Speaker 1: read the book, I'm not going to be fully present.
Speaker 1: And that's the problem. I think maybe this might be
Speaker 1: better for you than it would be for me. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like I feel like it's like that thing of
Speaker 1: like when we found out we were pregnant both times,
Speaker 1: and it was an accident both times, and I was
Speaker 1: like it was sort of scary, not in the moment
Speaker 1: of like not knowing if we're going to like move
Speaker 1: forward with it, but once you're sort of like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is happening to us, Like that is when it's
Speaker 1: sort of becomes easier. Like that's where if sometimes you
Speaker 1: just want someone who would like tell you what to
Speaker 1: do and like what's going to happen, so you just
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, this is gonna suck, but like I know,
Speaker 1: I have no other option but to just deal with it.
Speaker 1: You know, that's funny because that's it's happened when we
Speaker 1: weren't expecting it either time. When it happened, it happened
Speaker 1: so fast and that's for me. That was ultimately great
Speaker 1: just to be like, oh fuck what um okay, great,
Speaker 1: we're in it now, you know, as opposed to is
Speaker 1: this the right thing? Should we is at the right time?
Speaker 1: Because you're playing that game it who knows when it
Speaker 1: would have happened? Um, you know. And so as an improviser,
Speaker 1: that improviser philosophy of like, I'm at my best when
Speaker 1: I'm confidently I don't know exactly where I'm going. Here's
Speaker 1: my twist on the question. What if you pick up
Speaker 1: the book and you realize that it's Maven's life, uh,
Speaker 1: and that you could read ahead for her life, which
Speaker 1: also would imply that you, you know, you probably find
Speaker 1: the end of your life in there because you're part
Speaker 1: of her story. Yeah. I would want to do that
Speaker 1: because I think reading it would tell me where to
Speaker 1: place the amulet that she discovers after my death. I
Speaker 1: knew you're you're holding back at me with that amulet.
Speaker 1: I gave you crystals for Christmas. I need I need
Speaker 1: to be animated so that she can find it when
Speaker 1: the time is right. You're wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: no one else can You're just quoting the plot of
Speaker 1: Double Double Toil and Trouble the Ashley. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's the plot of we watched it the other day.
Speaker 1: There isn't that what I have to say about that day,
Speaker 1: It's like we had I've been saying this month that
Speaker 1: I'm we're having like crazy synchronicity, but I had, like,
Speaker 1: truly the we had the weirdest synchronicity that day, which
Speaker 1: is that we're going to bring our kids to look
Speaker 1: at this new school which is right by BAM Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Academy and Music, which is like a movie theater and
Speaker 1: an actual theater, like, and so we're walking by and
Speaker 1: I look up and this guy's walking out of BAM
Speaker 1: and I was like, I guy looks like Michael Sarah.
Speaker 1: Oh that's Michael Sarah. And it's just like that's weird,
Speaker 1: like just randomly, this one morning, we're in Brooklyn, we
Speaker 1: see this guy. So we're walking by and then I
Speaker 1: forgot about it. We go to my sister's apartment to
Speaker 1: give to bring her the kids, and she she watched
Speaker 1: them for an hour while we were doing other stuff.
Speaker 1: And she's watching an Olsen Twins movie with our kids,
Speaker 1: which is so completely random. But double double Toil and Trouble, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which she found on Netflix and they're watching it and
Speaker 1: she was like, yeah, it's so weird. This movie stars
Speaker 1: at one point a young Michael Sarah and we were like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe you would bring him up of of
Speaker 1: all people at all times. Like then, also, I fell
Speaker 1: over a chair and hit my head and it went bam,
Speaker 1: and that's why I was like, I know where to
Speaker 1: put the ambulance. Uh, thank you, Michael. M Can I
Speaker 1: just say that I had the best empanat of my
Speaker 1: entire life. If you're ever near BAM or Atlantic Terminal
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, find Caesar's Empanadas load truck. Okay, that's not
Speaker 1: the restaurant across this, you know. It's a food truck
Speaker 1: right on the corner, a handsome place and near the
Speaker 1: Apple store. Somebody said to me and I walked back.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'll get when I ate it. And then
Speaker 1: he was walking down the sidewalk and I took a
Speaker 1: bite of this and panata and I had to stop
Speaker 1: and put my phone in my pocket, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't be walking while I eat this. And I
Speaker 1: just looked at this food as I ate it, and
Speaker 1: it was just like Oh my god, I'm angry that
Speaker 1: this is going to end. And it was so fleeting.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I must have this again, turned back time.
Speaker 1: I need the book of my life. I need to
Speaker 1: I need to flip to go reread that moment. And
Speaker 1: so then he remembered that somebody he can't remember who
Speaker 1: caesars And it's all a simulation, you know what I mean? Boy?
Speaker 1: See that if if somebody, if I started reading the
Speaker 1: book and realized it was about me, I could not
Speaker 1: stop reading because I love myself the never ending story.
Speaker 1: But um, if somebody said, do you want to read
Speaker 1: a book of your whole life, I'd be like, I know,
Speaker 1: like me and food. I know you put it in
Speaker 1: front of me. I'm like, how can I come? I know?
Speaker 1: Do not give me that book and being you know
Speaker 1: what I would do. You better keep that book away
Speaker 1: from me and those and bananas, and unless there has ours.
Speaker 1: On my deathbed, I would want to read the full
Speaker 1: book of Brendan Maven's life on your deathbone. Well, you're
Speaker 1: in luck because in your life on your life review,
Speaker 1: after you die, you will look back at your life
Speaker 1: and see all of that. I don't want to look back.
Speaker 1: I want to look forward. Well, you'll understand your life
Speaker 1: more in the contexts, and they probably get some understanding
Speaker 1: of what you were sent here to set your kids
Speaker 1: up for so great And I'd be like, oh, I
Speaker 1: talked up there, I'm dead. No, because then you'll be
Speaker 1: dead and you'll probably be able to be like a
Speaker 1: guide to your kids. You know you when you said
Speaker 1: the review of your life, I pictured the life review,
Speaker 1: Life review, I pictures. Suddenly my life was like up
Speaker 1: on Amazon, and then people were just writing reviews. They
Speaker 1: were like, need salt, pretty good, pretty funny, needed salt.
Speaker 1: That is kind of my review of you. I'm not
Speaker 1: stuh Beth, you know what I really said as a joke,
Speaker 1: but I think you wish that I was salt here.
Speaker 1: I'm a little too sweet for your chase. Sweet. Yeah. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: they're stalking it. You should say, like, you're stalking this
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Speaker 1: you not stalking it? Or do you want people to
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