WEBVTT - Impetig-uh-oh! 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:16.560 I got to boom, Yeah, we're starting. Hello, Hello parenting 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.640 on peter Ric Comity. I'm Beth Noel. Back at it, friendos, 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.400 We're back. You keep thinking we're not going to be 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:29.120 We survived another week us believe it or we'll be back. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.040 We literally did be back. Um, okay, let's get straight 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.040 to it. Illness, Let's get right to it. Okay, everyone, 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.440 Everyone's like, well, I think I think I said this 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.080 on last week's podcast, which is that everywhere in public 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.199 that we take our children, they put their mouths on 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.840 everything and lick things. And so I think you're giving 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.159 licking things too much credit for this illness. But I 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.080 have no way to back that up or prove it. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.720 You think the licking of things in massively trafficked public 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.480 play face is full of other children had nothing to do. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:08.000 I think it's why they don't get sick more. But again, 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.880 I have no way to back up that argument. Well, 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.920 I think that the oh my god, anyway, keep going. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.679 I just wanted to just throw an unnecessary wrench in 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:25.280 in that continue they're looking things. So Wednesday, ish our 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.920 son develops a rash around his mouth and nose, and 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.399 I was like, this looks like not normal with something 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.080 that should be looked into. And I was like, I 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.440 think maybe he has like in patigo or hand foot 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.000 in mouth is coming back, and You're like, no, it's 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.080 just because the humidifier is blowing in his face. It's fine. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.360 So then this rash so far, I just want to say, 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.960 totally accurate. So then this rash lingers on his face, 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.600 which is not like a good looking rash. It's like, no, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.760 it did look like it was getting better to me, 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.640 because it did not. To me, was like a real 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.640 juicy one day and I was like oh, and then 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:07.280 and then continued to be gross, dried up, Okay, but 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.560 I apologize for our listeners. It's gross. So we're like 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:16.280 bringing our son to school, to public places, to birthday parties, 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.440 and I'm like, this is not good. To a new 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.440 school visit, to a new school visit, we're like living 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.600 our son. This is where he's literally being a set. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.840 He's really literally being assessed. But in our defense, it 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:29.600 was the same day we had We're supposed to go 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.799 to our house to do some things in Brooklyn or 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.520 the place we're buying in Brooklyn, and it was like 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.600 we had all of these things that have been dragging 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.840 on to figure out how our life will actually be 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.400 planned for the coming fall. It's like we need it. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.760 We're like, if we don't do this now, we're setting 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:53.320 our whole lives back another two weeks. So we um 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:59.760 we go and luckily did not sabotage her visit. Yeah, 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.920 well let's come back to that. Continue the illness anyway, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.840 So we're just bringing our rashy kid around town and 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:14.640 then starting Friday just flaunting him and then Maven we're 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.400 the worst that this kind of thing. Then mavenu is 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.600 Friday in the midst of all this starts to feel 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.520 warm and we get her home and she has like 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.000 a low fever and I was like, it's and this 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.400 is again like classic Maven illness. This happens every time 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.400 where she just seems like kind of sick and we're like, yeah, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.920 she kind of has a fever, but she's quiet and nice, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.640 like she's just so like not a difficult kid that 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.280 you're just like it's fine. And the fever went away. Yeah. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.360 I mean it wasn't like non stop, but I feel 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.000 like part of every day she was like kind of 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:54.320 fevery and like tired and like cranky and then, but 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.080 but you know, we're like, I don't know, there's all 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.760 these colds and things, and I was like, maybe part 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.960 of my mind was like, maybe Brin has a really 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.240 like another hand foot in mouth thing like our reoccurrence, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.280 but it's milder this time, and maybe we didn't even 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.840 notice he had the fever because it was so quick 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.640 this time. And I was like, maybe she's just like 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.840 going to blow through this because when our kids got 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.160 hand foot month the first time, it was just like 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.960 a one day fever and then like a few dots, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.440 you know. Um so and anyway, and once the rash comes, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.520 there's nothing you can do about it at that point really, 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:35.800 So anyway, this is all happening. Finally, Friday morning, I like, 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.120 I'm like, oh man, I should take a look at 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.279 Brind's face, because I you have been Sunday morning. You 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.040 have been working all weekends, and it was like pouring 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.360 rain all day Saturday. So we just like hold up, 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.440 and I was like, let's just let these sick kids rest. 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.680 And then Sunday, I'm like I gotta go check and 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.400 see how this rash is doing. Because I knew you 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:55.680 were going to work in a couple of hours, and 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.360 then it was like the whole weekend is over, um, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.840 And I look at his face. The rash is worse 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.760 and his eye is starting to look swollen, and I'm like, great, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.520 so you take him to urgent care. His an eye 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:11.120 is not just swollen, but his lower eyelid is red 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:16.360 and disgusting and swollen, and in the gap has a 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:21.320 full like crust to it. Anyone listening to us who's 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.760 like a germophobe is like thinking, They're like, this is 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.760 the kind of parents I hate. Well, if you're like, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.039 remember the first four months of this podcast was just 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:37.880 sickness reports. Do you remember when you printed something out 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.400 of the printer this week? A recipe? And Grin called 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.679 it a restaurant note. My kids think that the only 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.480 thing that comes out of the printer doctors. When you 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.719 print something, they go doctor's notes. And I was like, guys, 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.560 And so I printed a recipe and Brent picked and 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.000 it falls on the floor because the tray is never 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.200 were out. So Brent picked it up and looked at 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:05.000 it and recognized that it was like a recipe, and 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:09.720 he looked at being a restaurant note, and he I mean, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.520 he was wrong, but he could have been more wrong. Yeah, 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.760 he's like getting really good at reading. Like now he'll 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.440 like he could pick up anything, and I'm like, he'll 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.480 sound out every word on the thing. Like he's like, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:29.320 I'm so proud of him, you know, because that's been 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.480 saying that I can still barely read. And so it's 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.320 one of those like I feel like Forrest Gump when 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:39.039 I'm like, is he smart or he gets it from me? 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.000 Because I do know how to read. Um, well, you 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.560 know how. You know how to make sense of the words, 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.400 and I know how to deliver them anyway, I'll tell 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.279 you what I think. My I don't know, this probably 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.640 happens with you too, But my mom, I remember reading 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.440 to us like every night, like out of chapter books. 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:03.120 I can remember this happening in our old house, which 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.720 means it was when I was like three or four, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.160 like I was like very little and like listening to 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.480 the entirety of Little House on the Prairie out loud. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:17.160 So and I think you similarly and sometimes reading a 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.680 lot to her kids. I've been reading them the Magic 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.760 Treehouse books this week, um, and they're pretty into it. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.520 So tonight we read Dr Seuss a BCS so Mayven 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.760 I have been working on our letters and bring his words, 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.960 and it's a perfect book for it. And for the 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.040 first time, I think Maven has known all her letters 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.000 for a while, but it's real coy about sharing her knowledge. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.880 But tonight, you know, so each page is like big, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.400 a little A what begins with a? And so I'd 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.680 have may even do all the letter parts and she 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.920 goes big a little what begins with a A? And 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.640 then Brin would read all the words and I've tried 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.440 to do that in the past with them sharing. And 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.080 then Bryan is just so terrible because she hesitates for 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:04.360 a second and he's like, it's an h mabn. I'm like, Britain, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.680 let's help her, but give her a second. And he 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.200 was patient and he waited and she did the entire 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:19.080 thing correctly, as did his reading. Nice completely unrelated story 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.120 last night, I was, um, I forgot when I was 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.000 putting them to bed to give them their medicine because 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.840 they're so difficult to put to bed, and I remembered 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.600 like a half hour later something and they're asleep, So 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.839 I was like, Okay, I'm just gonna like gently wake 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.920 them up. This feels like a very like classic childhood memory, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.679 like your mom waking you up, being like I forgot 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.240 to do this, don't wake up, but I'm putting this 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.880 thing in your mouth. It made me really feel like 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.840 I'm I feel relately, like I'm really we're really creating 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.800 childhood memories with them for the first time, and it's 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.439 like I'm like, wow, they're actually going to remember this. Um. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.840 It doesn't even make you feel more like a mom 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.679 because you're doing things you remember your mom. It really 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:06.760 does like yeah, anyway, I so, I was like, I 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.720 had to give them their medicine, so they both So 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:11.920 the story that we didn't finish the language is that 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.480 you took Brand to urgent care. You got home, I 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.079 escaped for an hour to run errands because I was like, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.560 I need to get away from these kids for like 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:21.520 at least one hour of this weekend or I'm going 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:26.040 to lose my mind. Um. And then came back and 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.800 then you left for work, and I was like, Mayven 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.960 still has a fever and she told me oh. She 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.240 then told me that her ear hurt, and I was like, fuck, 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.240 I gotta get these kids back to urgent care. I 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.120 was like, I gotta deal with this now. Otherwise the 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.400 week starts and everything's going to hell. So I go 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.520 I take them to urgent care. They're like, it's a 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.800 forty five minute wait, and like, I don't think it 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.160 was actually that long, but I was like fuck. So 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.319 we get in there. I didn't really want to tell 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.600 you that there was no one there when I went, well, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.560 there wasn't actually anyone in the waiting room. So I 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.720 was like, I feel like they're just trying to scare 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:04.160 me little bit. It's like management of emotions. Um, anyway, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.880 get in there. Mayven doctor comes in with a face 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.800 mask on, and I was like, yeah, it's bad out there. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.640 Also yeah, and then while we're in the waiting room, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.320 there's like a doorstopper at like door knob height, and 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.920 Brin walks over to it and puts it, puts his 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.280 mouth on it, basically just like makes that with this thing. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.000 I was like, what are you doing? I was so annoyed. Okay, well, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.559 by the way, we didn't say that, hey, he has 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.840 in fatigue. He's coming back to the same location that 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.920 just diagnosed him with in fatigue his inpatigue a few 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.760 hours earlier to wipe his in fatigue on the wall. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.960 I just was like, I can't handle this kid. I was. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.440 It's like I was getting so mad at them this week. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.880 So then uh, we go in. Mayven has two ear 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.760 infections and then it's like classic ear infections, both ears, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.679 and I'm like that it's this. It's the same thing 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.480 happen every time, where I'm like, why did I put 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.800 like I feel so bad, like I made her be 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:13.080 in pain for two or three days. She wasn't um anyway. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.920 So then have to go back to CVS get a 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.840 second prescription. Now they're both on the same antibiotics, which 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.480 I think is going to be a blessing in the 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.280 end because they can't infect each other right now with anything. 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.560 Oh they are, they're immune. Yeah, well weirdly, weirdly he does. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.160 Oh wait, So the story I was going to get 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.800 to was that I go to feed them and they 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.960 were like not really waking up. Mayven kind of wake up, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.000 and they're like I would like drip a little bit 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.520 of it in their mouth to try to like gently 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.240 wake them up. As I was, I was like kind 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.079 of touching them, but they weren't waking up, and I 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.560 drip a little bit in their mouth and then they 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.839 would like purse their lips and it was like, just 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.880 this the funniest thing of like it felt like they 0:11:54.880 --> 0:12:00.360 were newborn babies again because their faces were so ridiculous. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.400 And then and May even eventually kind of woke up 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.240 and I explained what was happening, and she drank it. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.679 Bryn did not wake up at all and just suckled 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:13.640 like a newborn and like like his lips were so funny, 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:19.080 and he was just like just like it was so crazy. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.280 I was like telling my friends afterwards. I was like, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:23.679 if you want to go feed your kids something in 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.120 their sleep, I highly recommend it, Like it was just 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:32.280 so funny. You gave him medicine last night, Yeah, you 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.000 weren't supposed to. Why not because for some reason, he 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.560 gets one dose a day and she gets two doses 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:46.040 a day. M well, no, no, he's got too many antibiotics. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.040 I think better stronger than weaker. It'll be fine. I 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.800 mean that's I'm sure that not keeping up with it 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.600 is worse. But smaller dose once a day and she 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:02.400 has a bigger dose twice a day. Yeah, she does have. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.640 And he's got his I cream that he has to 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.800 do three times a day. And I'm debating do I 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.599 have to go to school in the middle of the 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.240 day to give him his second dose? I just do 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.360 two at night. At first, I was like, maybe we 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.280 need to do that, but today his eyes already clearing up, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.600 and I'm kind of thinking we can just do two times. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.079 I might. I might go at three o'clock just tomorrow, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.640 like before he goes to after school, and she'd be like, 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.199 can I just squirt listen as eyeball please thank you 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.800 by Yeah. It might be that's nice for us to 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.800 look like involved parents who are aware of it. It 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:39.920 might be good to be show ourselves to his teacher, 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:44.040 who never sees us because comes from before caring and 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.040 it goes to after school. That's also part of the 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.960 craziness of this weekend is that it was like pouring rain, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.480 like so hard, and I had to bring Bran to 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.840 this birthday party. How did that go? And I was 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.160 like trying. I was like, it's raining so hard, I'm 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.920 just gonna leave it in the car, like right outside 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:01.600 the place and try to run him in. But then 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.480 of course it's like a chaotic like it was like 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.040 a sports activity play center, and he wiped his in 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:14.560 fatigue all over the sports center. Yeah, his undiagnosed in fatigue. Um. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.520 So we get in there and he's like, I'm looking 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.840 around And it wasn't really until I walk in that 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:24.200 I realized, like, I don't know anyone who. I was 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.000 like just looking for someone who looked like they're greeting people. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:28.280 And I looked at this mom and I was like, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.880 are you Eatin's mom? And she's like yeah, and she 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.320 was like staring at me blankly. And then I was 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.280 like and then I just it was very awkward because 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.040 I was like I had to get in the back 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.000 of my mind. I was like, I have to get 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:40.880 back out to the car because Mayven's just sitting there 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.120 and I'm already been like looking around, and so I 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.360 was like, so I can leave until six, like you know, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.720 it's just like really like abrupt, and she's like yeah. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.920 And then I was like, oh, I should have been nicer. No, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.400 I mean, I said, like, I'm I had said I'm 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.800 Brand's mom, Beth, like this is Brand, but I like 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.840 it was like so comment six. I was like, so 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.880 you got this goodbye? Um so, and I was like, sorry, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.680 my daughter's in the car. But when I came back 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.400 to pick him up. I had a nicer conversation with her, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.040 and I felt better about it, But it was yeah 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.040 and he and the other thing that happened when we 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.120 got there that added to the awkwardness is that he 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.960 she The first thing she said to Brand when I 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.080 was like, this is Brand, she was like, do you 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:33.160 like sports? And he was like no, and like and 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.400 he did that to us twice this week where he 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.480 was like, we were at this new school that we're 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.000 like interviewing at and they were like, so do you play, 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.120 Like I don't know baseball or whatever. He was like no, 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.760 what what did he say? He was like, oh, we should? 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.120 Uh he it was very we should. We should talk 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.680 about at in full in a minute. Um, I want 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.880 to continue to just end the sickness story because to 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.800 day they were both couldn't go to school. So I 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:07.800 was home and it was fine except that the internet 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:13.240 was out. It was dead. It was out. Um, I 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.760 couldn't I couldn't put on TV for them, But I 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.040 also couldn't do work. There was like I was at 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.640 home and I thought I could, like I have a 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.520 lot of work to do, Like I have a lot 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.960 of screens to be looking at, and I couldn't do 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.680 a gosh darn thing, and so I finally go. I'm like, 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.280 I assumed the Internet just you know, turns back on. 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.920 And I went to finally look, you know, at the 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:42.960 insane FiOS box in the closet. It's like, you know, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.520 it looks like it looks looks like a massive backup 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.920 generator for a house. And I go and the battery 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.960 light is on, and I read all the things, what 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.520 all the lights mean, and but it's looked like it 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:03.440 was fine. And then a few hours in, um, it 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.920 starts beeping very loud, and I go in and then 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.800 suddenly it says the battery light is out, and I'm like, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.280 I just replaced this battery. It suppos the last three years, 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.520 it lasted two. This is BS So I look it up, 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.800 but I'll check out the things. I'm like, the batteries. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.560 The light is off, which means no power or low power, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.560 battery dead. So I take out this massive battery. I 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.200 look up where you will buy a battery. I throw 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.159 the kids in the car and I go buy a 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.639 forty battery at the battery store. Um. Then we go 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:39.040 get your prescription, and then we buy a donut because 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.199 I promised bring yesterday. We get home, I put in 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.720 the giant battery and I'm like, a great, I fixed it, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.560 and then I closed the door and I look down 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:55.520 outside of the closet where there's that massive plug to 0:17:55.640 --> 0:18:02.560 that unit, and it's unplucked. One of our children ripped 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.879 this thing apart and unplugged it. That's very funny. And 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.600 I'm like, why the hell is there a forty dollar 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.639 battery for this thing when it's just plugged in. So 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.679 now we have a spare battery. No, I recycled the 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.960 old forty battery when I was there. Um, oh well, 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.600 And then it looked up the whole thing is a 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:27.399 backup unit. A forty battery for a backup unit. I actually, sam, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.159 I actually had a very similar thing today, which is 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.520 that I went to install something on my computer. This 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:41.199 is not interesting, but I couldn't install it because a 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.159 few months ago, or a couple of months ago, I 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.360 was trying to like, I was trying to try to 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.560 change some settings and figure out how to put some 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.280 controls on my computer so that I could control my 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.120 social media use. And I just wanted to be able 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.400 to focus during the day, and so I went into 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.000 the users, and I must have read something wrong online 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:06.200 and like did a wrong thing. And what I had 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:12.080 done was I put parental controls onto my account, my 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:16.119 user account on the computer, which is the only user 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.240 account on the computer. So when you go to change 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:24.240 the parental controls and then asks you for an admin password, 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.159 there's no other account that you could ever have a 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:33.080 password for that exists anywhere, So you're just you can't, 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.040 like if you give it the password for the one account, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.240 it's like no, that account doesn't have parental control. So 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.680 so I had locked myself out of like doing software 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.800 updates and certain things to the computer. And it was 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:46.879 just like I was like and it was one of 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.359 those things where similar to you, where I was just 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.679 like I have to deal with this today or my 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.320 life's just going to start to fall apart um. And 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.760 I happened to have like a spare hour where I 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.760 had done a lot of work and I was like, Okay, 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.640 I just figure this out today. And it was like 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.159 I chatted with Apple online for a while. There's like 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.440 two different like people recommending the same solution that didn't work, 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.600 and then they're like we're going to call you back 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:13.679 with a specialist or something, and then they called me 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:18.760 back like an hour later, and there this woman tried 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.040 to walk me through like the same things from earlier, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:22.840 and then she's like, I have to give you to 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.040 my superior. And I was on the phone for like 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.680 a full hour and this guy specialist Superior. They're like 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.520 they finally walked me through a solution where I was 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:36.000 able to go into um like recovery mode on the 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:41.040 computer or something and like create another account like a 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.760 root user. I don't exactly know what that means, but 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:47.720 it's like it's a special kind of user. And then 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.480 I had to log in as that user and give 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.600 parental controls back. And it was like this it was 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.280 like kind of a fascinating thing where you're like you, 0:20:57.560 --> 0:20:59.800 I don't know, you design. You have to design these 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:04.159 stems that have like you're able to control things and 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.000 then these things like it was just interesting how many 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:11.359 people at Apple didn't quite know the answer. And I 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:15.119 was just like I found out. So I built our 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.760 entire news system at story Pirates, which is not a 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.720 skill set I've had until this year, and I rebuilt 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:25.520 the entire system original and I was like, this is great. 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:28.480 And then someone pointed out to me today that I accidentally, 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.840 if people looked in the right place, gave every single 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:36.280 person in the company access to payroll where they could 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:40.000 see exactly how much everyone is being paid. But fortunately 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.280 it was brand news, so there's only like one week 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.640 of entries and the nicest person on the planet discovered 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:49.679 it and told me immediately that's like, I love you forever. 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:55.400 Your moral fiber is strong. Yeah, well, because you don't 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.160 want them to know that you make eight thousand dollars 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.359 a year from story Pirates while most people about I 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:03.520 want them to think I make that, and I'll know 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:10.600 that I don't. Um. Oh boy. Yeah. The fun thing 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:13.439 about having like being in a small business is I 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:17.920 think you want to give off the appearance of being successful, 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.640 otherwise no one will think you know what you're doing. 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.880 But the reality is that people think you're making so 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:28.240 much more money than you actually are that they judge 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:32.439 you as though you're the CEO of Like my favorite 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:36.520 corporating ever was early on somebody was trying to criticize 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.720 you for how much Reductor is paid, and there they 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:45.760 were like, well, you wouldn't pay your graphics people, like 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:50.560