Speaker 1: I welcome to we know his parenting. I'm Peter McNerney.
Speaker 1: I'm Beth Newell. Did you miss us? That was very loud,
Speaker 1: loud intro. I know it's episode one hundred baby, we
Speaker 1: did it, and you know, you know what what we
Speaker 1: decided to do to celebrate our one hundredth episode, um,
Speaker 1: we have power out it and then we threw away
Speaker 1: all the meat and the dairy in our and we
Speaker 1: didn't record an episode and we said it will be delayed.
Speaker 1: And then we said to ourselves, hey, you know what
Speaker 1: I really want to do for episode one? Not do it?
Speaker 1: Just take a week off in the middle of insanity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a rough day we had. It was like
Speaker 1: we had a busy week. We had Easter, which is
Speaker 1: like the biggest thing that's happened here since we've been here,
Speaker 1: since we realized we were in a panda So like, yeah,
Speaker 1: for people who haven't been listening, we um our school
Speaker 1: was canceled, so we went to a vacation home in Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: where we now realized we apparently live forever in quarantine.
Speaker 1: Which it's fine. It's just taken a lot of adjusting,
Speaker 1: so pretty good. So Easter UM came and the kids
Speaker 1: were on a sugar high for days like they were
Speaker 1: just they got so much chocolate and candy in one day,
Speaker 1: because honestly, what else are we going to do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: really just eat at all. I mean we did, like
Speaker 1: we didn't have some of it that we didn't put
Speaker 1: into their baskets. But anyway, they did that. And then
Speaker 1: the next morning was when they woke up and dragged
Speaker 1: a stool from the basement up to the This was real.
Speaker 1: They've got a real teamwork going on. While we are asleep.
Speaker 1: They are lifting very large objects, a very tall, heavy stool,
Speaker 1: a bar stool up this basement stairs together. They helped
Speaker 1: each other to do this. And then they got a
Speaker 1: package of oreos from above the fridge and they ate
Speaker 1: the whole package first thing in the morning, all but one.
Speaker 1: I threw one out in front of them to prove
Speaker 1: a point as bad it was to eat that many
Speaker 1: cookies in the morning, and they saw me throw it away,
Speaker 1: and they looked at me as if I'd just driven
Speaker 1: our car off a cliff, like are you insane? I'll say, Like,
Speaker 1: as much as they're constantly nuts, I do feel like
Speaker 1: quarantine has been a blessing in the sense that we're
Speaker 1: laying down the law a lot more and we're just like,
Speaker 1: I don't have anywhere to go, you want no TV
Speaker 1: for the rest of the weekend. Like we're just like
Speaker 1: really laying it down lately. Brinceman sent to his room
Speaker 1: a lot, which I think is helping him. I think
Speaker 1: he believes it now because it's also a lot of
Speaker 1: times when we were home and you sort of do
Speaker 1: a halfhearted threat, like if you do this and you
Speaker 1: don't stick with it, you know, then your threats mean nothing.
Speaker 1: But I've been doing a lot of like keeping it calm.
Speaker 1: But I say, if you do that again, and you're
Speaker 1: going to your room, And he does it, and he
Speaker 1: goes to his room, and it's he's calmed down, and
Speaker 1: he's he's like picking his battles more. Yeah, he's yeah,
Speaker 1: he's less likely to escalate. I also like we've gotten
Speaker 1: so used to sending him to his room now that
Speaker 1: like I there are certain circumstances where it like he
Speaker 1: would like just punch Maven or something, and I would
Speaker 1: be like, not even give him a warning, Like I
Speaker 1: was just like, go to your room now, And I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm amazed that we're at a point where
Speaker 1: he actually does that when I say it, um, and
Speaker 1: it was like I was like, I really feel like
Speaker 1: we're gaining control over him. Um. Yeah, Well it's also
Speaker 1: I mean the thing about it is not just that
Speaker 1: he goes to his room, but I think we're also
Speaker 1: we're more serious about it and we're less emotional about it,
Speaker 1: and so he knows that it's time alone, as opposed
Speaker 1: do we're angry at you, right right right, just like
Speaker 1: this is what's happening. Don't go. You're gonna stay up
Speaker 1: there longer. And then he'll go and he'll stomp. But
Speaker 1: they can stop and scream and there's no neighbors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so anyway, Yeah, they can scream all they want that
Speaker 1: no one will know. Go ahead, scream, I'll scream. We've
Speaker 1: been screaming a lot. Yeah, there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: screaming here. Um. So then anyway, after we had the
Speaker 1: like three day sugar high or whatever, Tuesday, we Monday, No,
Speaker 1: it's Monday, Monday, right before we need to record a podcast,
Speaker 1: right after this OREO incident, the same day our power
Speaker 1: goes out and during a very impressive wind rain storm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so clearly like a branch or tree fell into a
Speaker 1: power line or something, and so we didn't have power
Speaker 1: for twenty four hours, um during which is full day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: slightly frustrating when you're in the middle of a pandemic
Speaker 1: and you're not supposed to be doing like extraneous food
Speaker 1: shopping and of um so com Peter died, phone died.
Speaker 1: Can't do any work. Yeah, it can't work. Giant tree
Speaker 1: splits in half, it falls in the yard. That's not
Speaker 1: a big deal. You, I didn't say it was. It
Speaker 1: led to something very satisfying. Yeah, but you like you
Speaker 1: were like, oh, tree, this is my focus for the
Speaker 1: next twenty four hours. Tree, And I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on, like we don't have power,
Speaker 1: and like you didn't. You were like, oh, this thing happens.
Speaker 1: So now everything's out the window. I can just go
Speaker 1: chop wood for Okay. First of all, I cleaned a
Speaker 1: tremendous number of sticks out of our yard, put them
Speaker 1: into piles. I called the tree guy. Okay, like the
Speaker 1: sticks out of the art is also like not the
Speaker 1: most urgent. I'm just saying, just tell me what I
Speaker 1: needed to do that I didn't do. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like whenever anything slightly out of the routine happens, you
Speaker 1: use it. I reject where this this absolute statement is going.
Speaker 1: It feels like you use it as an excuse to
Speaker 1: just like throw all plants out the window. You're like,
Speaker 1: I'm not a dad anymore. I'm a tree chopper. I
Speaker 1: don't have responsibilities. I'm just a man who chops fogs. Listen,
Speaker 1: I couldn't take my son to school. There's no internet, right,
Speaker 1: but like there still is, like childcare and cleaning and
Speaker 1: like things in the home that need to continue to happen.
Speaker 1: I don't know food preparation. I did all of these things.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. I thoroughly rejected
Speaker 1: the idea that I'm not pulling my weight. Uh. If
Speaker 1: you want to pick a day where I did less,
Speaker 1: you're probably right. I don't remember. But overall, no way,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're doing as much as you think.
Speaker 1: I don't think you realize if you wake up in
Speaker 1: the morning that I have done all the sweeping and
Speaker 1: dishes and stuff either before I went to better before
Speaker 1: you will. Oh, yes, I was sweeping every day. You
Speaker 1: do not sweep every day any Let's talk about literally
Speaker 1: have never seen you sweep because you're asleep. I know
Speaker 1: you did it once, but you do not sweep every day.
Speaker 1: These floors were filthy when I said, honestly, you have
Speaker 1: no idea how much sleepy I did, because I literally
Speaker 1: do it right after you have gone to sleep or
Speaker 1: before you wake up in the morning. Sounds suspicious, really
Speaker 1: every day. I don't do it every day. That's a lie,
Speaker 1: but I do it that many many times. Anyway, let's
Speaker 1: we'll never know the truth because you start from a
Speaker 1: place of lies. Fair Enough, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: chopping this tree because it has brought me a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of joy despite whatever of whatever other duties I
Speaker 1: have or have not been keeping up on. I get
Speaker 1: that you love chopping. The would like and it makes
Speaker 1: me feel very manly and productive, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, it's like it's the equivalent of me
Speaker 1: going for a run, where it's like I'm checking in
Speaker 1: with the house and I would be like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm going for a run. I put the kids in
Speaker 1: front of TV. You are just like, wood must be chopped.
Speaker 1: It's the most important thing in our lives. And I'm
Speaker 1: not going to tell anyone where I'm going or what's happening.
Speaker 1: I'll just be out with the wood. Are you accusing
Speaker 1: me of being the one who disappears without announcing what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I have to disappear because everyone is always
Speaker 1: on top of me. Okay, so so okay, that's a
Speaker 1: stated double standard. That's fine. But I didn't. I'm not like, oh,
Speaker 1: I disappeared for a while. By the way, I stopped
Speaker 1: into a store where I might have caught coronavirus. I will,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I get back. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I have a cough today and I don't feel well,
Speaker 1: and the only thing I've been thinking is I better
Speaker 1: not have coronavirus because Beth is going to be mad
Speaker 1: at me for it. I will receive no sympathy for
Speaker 1: having this terrible illness. I don't know why you should.
Speaker 1: And so I'm like, I don't want to be sick
Speaker 1: only for that reason, just just because I just okay. Like,
Speaker 1: it's like when you talked to Brandon, You're like, hey, Brin,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to hide it from me, it means
Speaker 1: you know you're doing something wrong. You know you're doing
Speaker 1: something wrong. I have not done anything wrong. You're you
Speaker 1: you You were out the other day after this after
Speaker 1: we lost power and he went to get your milk
Speaker 1: and half and half, which is fine, but you specifically
Speaker 1: didn't communicate with me that you're going to the store
Speaker 1: because you're like afraid. Would you like to hear why?
Speaker 1: Because I got up early so I could take the
Speaker 1: trash to the dump and on the way back, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, it's almost best time to go to work.
Speaker 1: I gotta get back. I don't have a lot of time,
Speaker 1: but we don't have any milk, and Beth really likes
Speaker 1: her half and half. So I stopped at the expensive
Speaker 1: grocery store to get one basket load and I got
Speaker 1: a bunch of things, and I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: Beth is going to be so mad at the things
Speaker 1: I didn't get. I don't have time. I might as
Speaker 1: well not go. And I almost didn't go, as I
Speaker 1: knew this is going to happen if you're at the
Speaker 1: store potentially contracting coronavirus. Is it would it kill you
Speaker 1: to call me and be like, I'm running in the
Speaker 1: store so that I can be like, Okay, here's two
Speaker 1: things that I've been really wanting and we only go
Speaker 1: to the store once every two years because we're like
Speaker 1: pioneers on the frontier. Can you please get your wife
Speaker 1: the one pioneers chap one? Can I have some fiber?
Speaker 1: Like we got a fridge full of apples, which you're
Speaker 1: allergic to? I realized later. Anyway, I have needs, So
Speaker 1: I try to say, a hundred episodes is a real accomplishment.
Speaker 1: And uh, and I really love you. What wouldn't be
Speaker 1: letter with the episode if we didn't argue about something.
Speaker 1: It's sort of part of our thing. It's true, and
Speaker 1: we had two weeks. We've had two weeks of stuff too,
Speaker 1: not argue on the podcast about it? Does I do
Speaker 1: feel it? It's been two weeks and we haven't checked
Speaker 1: in because we haven't recorded a podcast. Yeah, but we
Speaker 1: also haven't been checking in as much in general lately
Speaker 1: because life is such chaos. I will say, you know,
Speaker 1: despite all everything we just talked about, we are in.
Speaker 1: We are in to a really generally good routine where
Speaker 1: the boundaries are clear. We installed locks on the bedroom door. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I ordered new door knobs because I was like this.
Speaker 1: Our bedroom, as I probably have complained, already, has two entrances,
Speaker 1: so it's all extra opportunities for people to like waltz
Speaker 1: into my space while I'm trying to work, which when
Speaker 1: you have little kids, it's like it's like five times
Speaker 1: an hour, so you never actually get like a full
Speaker 1: thought going before someone is just hanging on you and
Speaker 1: trying to get you to make the mapples and peanut butter. Anyway,
Speaker 1: and it's also very hard in the morning I do.
Speaker 1: Bran is getting more and more school responsibilities, like his
Speaker 1: the things his teacher are standing is more of a
Speaker 1: full school day, and that's all my responsibility pretty much,
Speaker 1: and I do it. But it is very hard now
Speaker 1: to get the checklist done and engage Maven, and so
Speaker 1: I try really how to give Maven things to do,
Speaker 1: and then Bryn has to do all this stuff and
Speaker 1: then I turned my I turned my back, and Maven's gone,
Speaker 1: you have to give me even more of a project
Speaker 1: like you have. Yeah, she needs like like you can
Speaker 1: literally just say like, oh, you should draw a zoo,
Speaker 1: and then she's like it just has to be something
Speaker 1: she cares about. Yeah, sometimes I'm I do it's very successful,
Speaker 1: and there's other times she doesn't. She knows that I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do something and she rejects. She has has
Speaker 1: to be multiple times this week when I'm like, you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be with daddy now, and she goes daddy
Speaker 1: school is just for Brin that I heard that, and
Speaker 1: it really broke my heart because I was trying and
Speaker 1: I want to. I wanna just pay attention to her.
Speaker 1: But you can teach them both the same lesson and
Speaker 1: just give her an easier version. Oh, I do. That's
Speaker 1: mostly what I do, and it's very successful. It's just
Speaker 1: the only time you're aware of aware of it is
Speaker 1: and she's gotten bored and slipped past me and she's like, you,
Speaker 1: I don't have a father. He's Brian's father, just just
Speaker 1: Brin's teacher. But now that there's locks on the door,
Speaker 1: I think I'm less stressed that she's going to slip
Speaker 1: away from me. Yeah, it's I mean, I was. It's
Speaker 1: already been sort of a in a way, a good
Speaker 1: challenge of not having the locks, because we had to
Speaker 1: really emphasize to them that it's like mommy work time
Speaker 1: and you don't get to go in there. But I'm
Speaker 1: very glad we have the locks now. We did it
Speaker 1: in the right order. Yeah, So the locks are a
Speaker 1: backup system. Yeah, it's good. Although I realized now I
Speaker 1: I'm like, I need socks. I guess I have to
Speaker 1: wait till one or I can break in. You need
Speaker 1: to like store up your errands to come in here.
Speaker 1: I did think about. I was like, that's probably exactly
Speaker 1: what Beth wants, which is I have to really think
Speaker 1: about if I actually need that thing. Yeah. Well that's
Speaker 1: the other thing is I'll tell you, over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, I think that really puts me over the edge,
Speaker 1: and it really it makes it hard nut snap is
Speaker 1: like the kids will come in here five times an
Speaker 1: hour for three hours. I have like a half hour left.
Speaker 1: I'm like finally, like I've snuck away some alone time
Speaker 1: or whatever, and I finally feel like peaceful for one second.
Speaker 1: And then you walk in like you've just finished something
Speaker 1: up and you're like, well, here's what's going on in
Speaker 1: my life. I just had this call and this person
Speaker 1: who said this and that, and I'm like, it's not
Speaker 1: that I don't care, it's just that I am going
Speaker 1: to scream if I don't get some time where no
Speaker 1: one is talking to me. Um um. So yeah, that's fair,
Speaker 1: I will say. I get interrupted more than anybody. That's
Speaker 1: not true. It is true. It's just that Okay. First
Speaker 1: of all, we have a second floor of this house
Speaker 1: that the kids never go up to, that I can't
Speaker 1: go up to because I'm very allergic. Let me finished.
Speaker 1: Second of all, that's not true at all. I don't
Speaker 1: have a By the afternoon, all the rules go out
Speaker 1: the window, and I have to be in different places,
Speaker 1: and so I don't. I do feel one when I'm
Speaker 1: not complaining because I'm not like you, it doesn't bother
Speaker 1: me as much. But I have you constantly get worked
Speaker 1: one while they're right in the same room as yet.
Speaker 1: But I know that's what I'm saying. But I have noticed,
Speaker 1: like after a few weeks, I do have these moments
Speaker 1: where I I don't know I'm simultaneously one. I realized
Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't been alone um in a
Speaker 1: way that when I'm at home, I have all this time.
Speaker 1: When I'm commuting, when i'm walking, I go for a
Speaker 1: walk to the train, I walk with that I'm on
Speaker 1: the train alone where I have this solitude, but it's
Speaker 1: very active I'm moving. I have none of that here
Speaker 1: until I'm suddenly alone because I put the kids to bed,
Speaker 1: and you guys are on zoom calls or something, and
Speaker 1: then I feel intensely alone. And it has been a
Speaker 1: weird experience because I'm not I'm I've realized I'm pretty
Speaker 1: introverted in that, like I don't need people, but I've
Speaker 1: I don't know if I talked about this, but it's
Speaker 1: been two weeks, but I can't. A couple of nights
Speaker 1: I came up and you and Ali were on zoom
Speaker 1: calls with a bunch of people, and I got so sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you told us that you're very affected by it. And
Speaker 1: then and the night you said it, my sister and
Speaker 1: I were both having zoom calls with like our friends
Speaker 1: from high school. So I was like, well, why don't
Speaker 1: you just set up a call with your friends from
Speaker 1: high school, which you then did, and then you got
Speaker 1: so excited and happy to talk to them. Well, there's
Speaker 1: we talked about this. So my my to my closest
Speaker 1: friends high school. We're both named Peter. We had an
Speaker 1: zoom zoom chat, which was great to catch up, but
Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about this. The three of
Speaker 1: us like this Midwest mentality where we have a lot
Speaker 1: of guilt about making anything about us, which might seem
Speaker 1: crazy knowing me, because all I want is attention, but
Speaker 1: there's so much guilt attached to it. And the idea
Speaker 1: that well, I'm going to reach out to my friends
Speaker 1: that I have not kept in super close contact with
Speaker 1: now that there's a pandemic feels bizarrely selfish, and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, it's not. They're not going to think
Speaker 1: it's genuinely think it's weird, genuine loaded selfish, and of course,
Speaker 1: like we all feel the same way right now, so
Speaker 1: of course people want to connect and it's fine, but
Speaker 1: I had a lot of anxiety about just asking my
Speaker 1: friends to talk. I feel like high school friends is
Speaker 1: a good like a low bar for you to work
Speaker 1: up the courage to ask people to talk like. But
Speaker 1: it was also great. I have very interesting, smart, thoughtful friends.
Speaker 1: Uh who boy. And it was a moment where we're
Speaker 1: like we all had to put our kids to bed,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, we are such adults.
Speaker 1: When is a doctor and a lawyer and a that
Speaker 1: works for a bank and an actor, and like there
Speaker 1: are all of these things. Yes, they're they're like such professionals.
Speaker 1: I thought you were talking to two for I was,
Speaker 1: I was, um he said a doctor lar bang was
Speaker 1: that works for a big actor? Okay anyway, um um anyway,
Speaker 1: Peter and Peter. Great to talk to you. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: were like I could feel like through the wall that
Speaker 1: you were like radiating joy. You were like so happy
Speaker 1: to talk to them. Um it was great. Well now
Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable. No, it was just nice to see you
Speaker 1: like make the effort to see a social thing and
Speaker 1: it was like, see, I didn't. I didn't not believe you.
Speaker 1: But my social life tends to be just the people
Speaker 1: I'm working with. I do things with people, I build things,
Speaker 1: I work with them, and those where most of my
Speaker 1: relationships are built around that. But I don't have that
Speaker 1: right now. So it is a weird thing to reach
Speaker 1: out to people just to just to be with them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I find like there's something about quarantine where I am
Speaker 1: just so tired and have so little energy for like
Speaker 1: social media and people right now. So like if I
Speaker 1: have like one or two Zoom calls a week, just
Speaker 1: like friends, and that's like that feels like all I
Speaker 1: can manage right now. It's just like too much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's been a lot, a lot of people
Speaker 1: have been doing sort of a little too much reaching
Speaker 1: out where like this is so great, we're all connecting.
Speaker 1: We have to do this every week. And then you
Speaker 1: quickly are like, oh, you know what, it was good
Speaker 1: to catch up with this group. But I'm good for yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it also like again, just like depends a
Speaker 1: lot on whether you have like kids or roommates or
Speaker 1: what's going on right. My entire acting class from college,
Speaker 1: almost my characting class, had a zoom reunion and it
Speaker 1: was I was like, do I want to do that?
Speaker 1: I'd like all those people, but and I did it
Speaker 1: and it was wonderful, and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it is so cool to have this group of people together.
Speaker 1: And there's this mediate little overreaction of like, we have
Speaker 1: to do this every week. My mind, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't think we're going to do that. Um. And it's okay,
Speaker 1: m um. If you're a me acic class and you're
Speaker 1: listening to this, I love you. Our kids just started
Speaker 1: screaming and now it's time for Do you knows who
Speaker 1: literally just farted on my lap? I would say because
Speaker 1: I was the only persons out of his lab. Mhmm.
Speaker 1: The powerful reason deduction has uh successfully identified the farter
Speaker 1: Bryn McNerney, Welcome to the podcast. How are you doing
Speaker 1: at that's a little bad. You're doing a little bad.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us why you're doing a little bad?
Speaker 1: Because you had to call me? Did come here? Oh?
Speaker 1: I took you away from something fun you were doing.
Speaker 1: I was gonna watch TV, but you didn't have to
Speaker 1: say yes. But you did say yes, yeah, because I
Speaker 1: had to. What are you watching, Brian? Which episode? I
Speaker 1: don't know what was happening in the episode? I don't know, So, Brian,
Speaker 1: what has happened since we've been staying here at this house?
Speaker 1: What are your most fun activities? Oh? That's wait? What
Speaker 1: did you say? What are your favorite things to do
Speaker 1: here at this house? Showing on the shrink, watch TV,
Speaker 1: joined some lemonade. That's what I'm doing right now. Those
Speaker 1: are good? Those are good options. You like my homemade
Speaker 1: lemonade Hibiscus day? Yeah? What do we have for dinner tonight?
Speaker 1: You're sausage Campy sausagees Campy, a dish that we've invented
Speaker 1: since we've been living in this house. Yeah, it's pretty
Speaker 1: good brand. What do you miss from home? The couch
Speaker 1: the bedroom. Um, how about your friends? Yeah, Maven, what
Speaker 1: did you miss from home? And you know I missed
Speaker 1: the mush as my friend. Well, we're gonna let Maven
Speaker 1: says the toys. She said, the toys. Who do you
Speaker 1: miss the most of your friends? Brand Luca? Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: your best friend. He's like my best friend forever. Yeah?
Speaker 1: What do um should we call him? Okay, well maybe
Speaker 1: we can. What did you say? He's brands BF. It's
Speaker 1: a secret and it's also not a secret secret, but
Speaker 1: it's not just it's what we call an open secret
Speaker 1: in the industry. Is that you and Lucas are best
Speaker 1: friends forever? Well you mean bff. Yeah, that's right, and
Speaker 1: that's what it really actually meant. What why is Lucas
Speaker 1: your best friend? Because he made me laugh a good
Speaker 1: reason and he has like all the bent and toys
Speaker 1: and he lets me play with them. That's cool, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we're not special too. They're not special to him,
Speaker 1: but they're special to you. No, No, they're they're not
Speaker 1: special to anybody. Brent, Will you tell us a joke?
Speaker 1: What did the baby corn sage of the mommy corn?
Speaker 1: What where's popcorn? Ha? Ha, that's a good one, Maven,
Speaker 1: can you tell a joke? Maven? What did you make
Speaker 1: today with me? I think she's going to say lemonade
Speaker 1: or plato because I don't know plato? Plato? And what
Speaker 1: color is it green? I think? I mean it really
Speaker 1: is green? Right now? It really is green? All right?
Speaker 1: Brittany Mayvin, can we ask you? You know this podcast
Speaker 1: that Mommy and Daddy do? Do you know that this
Speaker 1: is the one hundredth episode? Wow, it's crazy. What do
Speaker 1: you know about this podcast? And is boring? Maven? What
Speaker 1: do you know about this podcasts? What do you think
Speaker 1: this podcast is about? Questions? Do you think there's a
Speaker 1: general topics? It's about questions and jokes? Said? I think
Speaker 1: it's about story virus? Is this the story parts podcast? Brint? Well, now,
Speaker 1: because you know there's not lead Rachel or Meggan, You're right,
Speaker 1: there's missing some story parts. So do you know what
Speaker 1: this podcast is called? I don't know. You know that
Speaker 1: it's about parenting? Well? Well is it? It is? Sort of?
Speaker 1: It's sort of this it's sort of about you. Okay,
Speaker 1: what is this about a king? Um? Well, we've been
Speaker 1: doing this for two years now, and we talked about
Speaker 1: what it's like to raise two crazy kids. That's a
Speaker 1: griss cough. Um, what do you what do you think
Speaker 1: about the fact that there's secretly been a podcast about
Speaker 1: you going on for two years. I think it's taking
Speaker 1: away my favorite things that they can do. Are you
Speaker 1: trying to say that you want to go watch TV?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, alright, Well let's first say goodbye to Maven.
Speaker 1: May be anything you want to say it everyone, you'll
Speaker 1: just say bye, okay, all right, goodbye, brand Say goodbye
Speaker 1: brand bye. All right, there he goes. Don't get tangled
Speaker 1: in the cord. Oh gosh, she's tangled in the court.
Speaker 1: Don't fall down. Alright, goodbye, goodbye, mabn. Big hug for mommy,
Speaker 1: Big kiss for mommy, Big hug from Brin, and kiss
Speaker 1: for mommy. Or at least Brandon gave me a hug too.
Speaker 1: Maven could care less? Oh here comes maybe yeah one one, wow,
Speaker 1: thank you. Close the door behind you please. Well we
Speaker 1: did it very little. We taught our kids to close
Speaker 1: the door behind them. That's a real victory. And now
Speaker 1: it's time for we knows what they're working on, slash
Speaker 1: watching slash doing This is about school and television. Well,
Speaker 1: you're just jamming those topics together. Yeah, just jamming them
Speaker 1: together screen We know screen time, he knows what they're learning.
Speaker 1: Um So, Brand had a zoom call with his teacher today,
Speaker 1: his first that I've been a part of, maybe his first.
Speaker 1: I did a zoom call a mom created independently, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure both of them were as okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So because he his teacher asked who had done zoom before,
Speaker 1: and he was like, I have, And I was like, hot,
Speaker 1: does he know what zoom is? Um? But it was
Speaker 1: kind of a disaster. The teacher's Internet connection was not great,
Speaker 1: and it was just a lot of not muted kids.
Speaker 1: And this is my favorite, right. It was like this
Speaker 1: one kid that we know from our building, um nearby,
Speaker 1: who's like really cute. He was like when he first
Speaker 1: was sitting there and all the parents had clearly dragged
Speaker 1: their kids, their kinder earners to be in front of
Speaker 1: the computer and do this, he was like, everyone's staring
Speaker 1: at me. I don't like it. It was like the
Speaker 1: keyest thing. Um B was initially very upset by the
Speaker 1: idea he did a zoom call earlier with this whole class.
Speaker 1: It was just a bunch of kids screaming at each other,
Speaker 1: and he was so shy and would Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: pretty shy with us too. I had to let him
Speaker 1: sit in my lap so that he would participate, and
Speaker 1: then he got a little better. But then like I
Speaker 1: was trying to mute us because no one else was muted,
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, likes to chaotic. But then
Speaker 1: he would get asked something and he would try to respond,
Speaker 1: and like he would be muted and they wouldn't hear him,
Speaker 1: and then I would like I meet him, but then
Speaker 1: like his teacher would be like, Brian, did you want
Speaker 1: to say something? And then this other girl in his
Speaker 1: class name Bryn would start answering. It was just like
Speaker 1: such a disaster. Um, so yeah, now you know, it
Speaker 1: was like to go to school with uh for peters
Speaker 1: of my well, it was wunny too. I think the
Speaker 1: teacher was just probably nervous about doing her first zoom
Speaker 1: that I mean, like I have, Um, my aunt is
Speaker 1: a teacher and it's hard for her and a lot
Speaker 1: of her like colleagues who are like boomers, who haven't
Speaker 1: had to do this kind of technology in their like
Speaker 1: careers and now they're just trying to adapt and it's
Speaker 1: already not an easy thing to lead a group of
Speaker 1: people on a video chat, but if you haven't been
Speaker 1: doing it like at all, it's confusing. So like Brin's
Speaker 1: teacher was like, I just feel like she sort of
Speaker 1: like didn't like she I don't know, she her connection
Speaker 1: was bad, so she wasn't like hearing everything that's happening,
Speaker 1: and she didn't I don't know. She was like telling
Speaker 1: a story, but she didn't realize that. Like I think
Speaker 1: the pages were like completely blurred out for most the
Speaker 1: kids and it wasn't like centered on the screen, and
Speaker 1: like it's just like very a new skill. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: been learning a lot quickly, and I will um, she's
Speaker 1: been great. Her lesson plans have gotten a lot clearer,
Speaker 1: She's found online resources that are actually good. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just so funny watching people adapt to jobs that are
Speaker 1: not at all what their job description was, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like, it's just I want to help
Speaker 1: her because I'm like, these are all this is all
Speaker 1: stuff I know how to do, this, all stuff I'm
Speaker 1: good at. But I'm also like it's not my problem.
Speaker 1: I'm just the more she asks for things to actually
Speaker 1: be turned in, the more I'm like you're doing your job.
Speaker 1: But honestly, that's work for me. I just find I
Speaker 1: find the points where where is she going to see this?
Speaker 1: And then anything she's not going to see, I play
Speaker 1: it by ear. I'm like, what is important? Because also
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that Bryn now has to
Speaker 1: do on the checklist, some of them are great. He
Speaker 1: needs the reps other things. He's a head, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: he doesn't need to practice counting. He doesn't need to
Speaker 1: practice what two numbers make ten. He's nailed this. But
Speaker 1: he loves the game, so he spends fifteen minutes a
Speaker 1: day doing math that he gets perfect because he just
Speaker 1: likes being right. I'm like, God, I wish we could
Speaker 1: skip ahead on that. I mean, that's why when I'm working,
Speaker 1: when I'm doing like vaguely learning activities with them, Like
Speaker 1: today they wanted to pretend they were at school, and
Speaker 1: Bryn got this like pre K workbook that we have
Speaker 1: with like basic spelling stuff, and so him and Mayven
Speaker 1: we're like pretending to be at school, and so it
Speaker 1: was really easy stuff. But there's always ways you can
Speaker 1: throw them off and be like, but how do you
Speaker 1: spell orange? And then they kind of like panic, and
Speaker 1: they try to like yes, based on what's on the page,
Speaker 1: and like they're figuring it out. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: like they're still learning, even though they're doing it in
Speaker 1: their own weird like cheater way, you know, Like it's
Speaker 1: just Brenda does not like to guess it's spelling. I
Speaker 1: made him write a thing where he couldn't ask for
Speaker 1: help on spelling, and it was like I was torturing him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes me understand why you don't normally teach three
Speaker 1: year olds to read, because Maven, it's like such a
Speaker 1: three year old reaction where she'll see something and she'll
Speaker 1: be like, it says tortoise, and I'm like, no, it
Speaker 1: says turtle. But I can understand why you would think that,
Speaker 1: and she's like, no, it says tortoise. Turtles have flippers,
Speaker 1: and like she just like digs and heels and like
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, this is not like an age of
Speaker 1: a person who is like willing to listen. Brenda, although
Speaker 1: compared to everything else, he was shockingly willing to be
Speaker 1: corrected when it came to reading. He was into it
Speaker 1: for some reason. She'll get better, She's like, I think
Speaker 1: she's actually learning a lot just through osmosis of being
Speaker 1: next to him. But as you don't say, she pays
Speaker 1: attention to a lot of Britain's school work. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: starting to really like sound things out and stuff. She's
Speaker 1: not I get that she's like probably ahead of the curve,
Speaker 1: but it knows all her letters, all her sounds. She
Speaker 1: does fight me on a lot of lies that she means.
Speaker 1: There is one online so Britain started doing this site
Speaker 1: called Lalilo. It's like phonics and reading and spelling, and
Speaker 1: it's by far the best site that the teacher has
Speaker 1: sent us Ah where she like says a word and
Speaker 1: he goes, here's a bunch of words which Ryan words
Speaker 1: rhyme with that word and then they just repackage it
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways and goes, here's the word
Speaker 1: with part of it missing. Which letter is missing? And
Speaker 1: it's broken down. It's it's not just letters, it's like
Speaker 1: br or. It will be like br bro does the
Speaker 1: following word have bro? It's like toothbrush Ah, And I
Speaker 1: can see Brin really thinking and that's that's by far
Speaker 1: the best site. Yeah. Yeah, I can definitely tell Mayban
Speaker 1: and is starting to pick up on that stuff. Too.
Speaker 1: So you wanted to talk about a movie that we
Speaker 1: watched with bread, did you not? Um? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's been a while now since we skipped a week,
Speaker 1: but we watched ET with the kids, which was surprisingly
Speaker 1: held their attention because they don't watch a lot of
Speaker 1: live action movies. Yeah, but I think they're one. They're
Speaker 1: older and too, they're very excited when all of us
Speaker 1: sit down together, yeah, to watch a movie. And I
Speaker 1: gotta say, we don't. I haven't done that in so long,
Speaker 1: when you sit down with a bunch of people and
Speaker 1: watch a movie. And I realized that that's when it
Speaker 1: used to be one of my favorite things in the world,
Speaker 1: and it is again now that Brendan Mayvin can actually focus.
Speaker 1: It's nice. It's just that usually when they're watching something
Speaker 1: long form, I'm like, well, here's my chance to escape
Speaker 1: and do something I want to do, or clean up
Speaker 1: the whole house, you know. So, but it is nice
Speaker 1: when we do it, and ET was good. There's like
Speaker 1: a lot you don't remember about that movie if you
Speaker 1: haven't seen it in many years. It's one of those
Speaker 1: things where I remembered almost every frame of it except
Speaker 1: for well two things. One I think we talked about
Speaker 1: this where we did not remember at all the very,
Speaker 1: very beginning of the movie. And I think so many
Speaker 1: movies of our childhood you never saw the beginning because
Speaker 1: it was just always on TV, and so when you
Speaker 1: flip the channels, it's so rare that it would be
Speaker 1: the very beginning. And so the first twenty minutes of
Speaker 1: every movie from nine to two thousand, I feel like
Speaker 1: the very beginnings are highly neglected. I simultaneously remember every
Speaker 1: single frame of that movie. I feel like when we
Speaker 1: were growing up in movies, like they editing of these
Speaker 1: was harder before digital. So there's like the exposition of
Speaker 1: most not early nineties, late eighties movies would be like
Speaker 1: a montage, like just a musical montage of like cars driving,
Speaker 1: this is the town. We're slowly bringing you to the location.
Speaker 1: Like it's just like a lot of slow set up.
Speaker 1: But it's so but the et does a good job
Speaker 1: of it. All those adults you never see their faces.
Speaker 1: You're welcome JJ Abrams for your entire career. You're welcome
Speaker 1: being the aesthetic of that movie. I was just trying
Speaker 1: to take a hard, hard stance at J. J Abrams,
Speaker 1: and I don't actually care that pepping off your creation
Speaker 1: e G. Yeah, yeah, I'm a e T. Didn't you
Speaker 1: know you're married to Steven Spielberg. Oh, I see, I
Speaker 1: get it now. Anyway, anyway, anything else? No, I thought
Speaker 1: you're looking at something on your phone as like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my notes of what what happened. It's hard to keep
Speaker 1: track of what happened because I live in a blur.
Speaker 1: We we live in a duck blur. These days, we
Speaker 1: have a um new fun parenting technique where we tell
Speaker 1: the kids that they look like a blur like Sonic
Speaker 1: the Hedgehog if they run fast enough around the house,
Speaker 1: and then we just send them outside to run around
Speaker 1: the house once or twice. This is the greatest thing
Speaker 1: about our lives compared to our normal lives, which is
Speaker 1: you say, hey, go run around the house. Is something
Speaker 1: we've never been able to say. Yeah, it's so great,
Speaker 1: and they like so it's so funny. When we first
Speaker 1: told them to do it, and Brn was running past
Speaker 1: the house and they both think they're so fast, and
Speaker 1: Bryn kept smiling at me and my sister as he
Speaker 1: was running because he's so proud. But then he kept
Speaker 1: falling over because he wasn't watching where he's going, and
Speaker 1: they're both just so happy. They're like, I'm the fastest person.
Speaker 1: I think they just love their independence as it gets warmer. Well,
Speaker 1: she also got a new pair of sneakers, where she
Speaker 1: said these are my going for a run sneaker. Um.
Speaker 1: Very cool. This next segment is called would you knows?
Speaker 1: Zori present each other with parenting hypotheticals. This one comes
Speaker 1: to us from Eric. Eric says, Hey, Beth and Peter,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's been a while since you have
Speaker 1: tackled day wacky would you know hypothetical, so I thought
Speaker 1: i'd throw one out there. You're right, Eric, it has
Speaker 1: been too long, Okay. So here it is. One day
Speaker 1: you're exploring your house in Massachusetts when you find an
Speaker 1: old door you have never seen before. Did this happened
Speaker 1: to me yesterday? Go ahead, you go inside, and suddenly
Speaker 1: you are in a dark hallway. A spirit appears and
Speaker 1: offers you a choice. You can head back the way
Speaker 1: you came and your life continues as it is now,
Speaker 1: or you can head forward towards another door. Once you
Speaker 1: cross through it, you and the rest of the family
Speaker 1: will be transported back a hundred and fifty years to
Speaker 1: eighteen seventy, where you will have to live for six months.
Speaker 1: The essentials of shelter, clothing, a job just for Peter, etcetera.
Speaker 1: It's eight seventy, that's fair will be provided. Once the
Speaker 1: six months are up, you will be transported back to
Speaker 1: April and it will be like the pandemic never happened,
Speaker 1: to be clear for everyone, and your current stay in
Speaker 1: Massachusetts will was just for spring break. Do you choose
Speaker 1: to live in the eighteen seventies to wipe away the pandemic?
Speaker 1: If so, do you just keep your heads down and
Speaker 1: make on take on the standard rolls of breadwinner for
Speaker 1: Peter and running the house for best? Are you trying
Speaker 1: to entroduce some twenty century ideas into society? How do
Speaker 1: you raise the kids without modern conveniences? I hope you
Speaker 1: continue to stay healthy and safe in these crazy times.
Speaker 1: Wow this so at first, before you here in the
Speaker 1: twist of how it saves everyone from the pandemic, I
Speaker 1: was like very not psyched about going to this time period.
Speaker 1: I don't like, they don't think I would farewell there.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would enjoy uh the amount of
Speaker 1: labor um. But so we I started watching on someone's
Speaker 1: recommendation this um show on Amazon Prime called Pioneer Quest,
Speaker 1: which is a document Canadian docu reality show of these
Speaker 1: people who have to live on like a western pioneer farm,
Speaker 1: and if you haven't seen the PBS shows of this ilk,
Speaker 1: I highly recommend um. I think it's like Colonial House
Speaker 1: and Pioneer House or something like that. But anyway, it's
Speaker 1: really fun to watch, but it looks like a really
Speaker 1: horrible way to live, and I don't think I see now.
Speaker 1: I had a different reaction because you're the one. You'd
Speaker 1: just be chopping wood. That's your fantasy, and I have
Speaker 1: to like render dear fat into like three like for
Speaker 1: three days, so that it could be like the basis
Speaker 1: of like a potato soup that we have. Like I'm
Speaker 1: just like I'm saying, like, it's just my answer was,
Speaker 1: before I heard the twist that it would save everybody,
Speaker 1: I was like, maybe I want to do this, and
Speaker 1: then I was like, gonna be a lot of work,
Speaker 1: So I would definitely do it. When to save the world,
Speaker 1: I guess I would probably do it to save the world.
Speaker 1: And also like I would at the end of it
Speaker 1: that it's like sort of feels running a marathon where
Speaker 1: you'd be able to tell people you did it, and
Speaker 1: it's like seems like a good idea when you're planning it,
Speaker 1: like you're like, yeah, i'll have a baby, I can
Speaker 1: do labor um and then you to like live it
Speaker 1: is like hell on Earth. But then you're like, well
Speaker 1: it would be a disaster for well, well, well you
Speaker 1: know what I think we're thinking of the TV show
Speaker 1: because in this hypothetical he says that I have a job.
Speaker 1: I know, but there's still we're probably like washing clothes
Speaker 1: by hand and ship like this. It's also what job
Speaker 1: we're in this area in the seventies, which means it's
Speaker 1: bad enough when you wander off for a few hours.
Speaker 1: Now when I have a dishwasher and a washing machine,
Speaker 1: can you imagine the like what that life is like?
Speaker 1: I do you know what would change what brinnan Maven
Speaker 1: would be on their own? Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like we would feed that, I would be like wash
Speaker 1: this um, put them to work. We would feed them,
Speaker 1: but we would stop caring like what they're putting in
Speaker 1: their mouths. I don't know, because we also probably have
Speaker 1: to take them the church and it's like a four
Speaker 1: hour service and we have to keep them quiet somehow,
Speaker 1: or everyone thinks from the devil, going to church for
Speaker 1: four hours and doing nothing is probably a vacation. I
Speaker 1: feel like growing up in Massachusetts has given me a
Speaker 1: very sobering look at what early settler life was like.
Speaker 1: I was like, I feel like it was constantly brought
Speaker 1: up in my education, like the realities of how bad
Speaker 1: things aren't. Like you're taking a field trip to like
Speaker 1: a little cabin and they're like, this was the richest
Speaker 1: man's house doing the same thing, but every summer going
Speaker 1: to checking out Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower Recreation and
Speaker 1: they'd be like, look, how crappy this boat is. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Everyone died except those who were unlucky enough to not.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I could barely be like a madman wife,
Speaker 1: let alone. Here's the thing. I think, once we got
Speaker 1: in there and found a routine, I think I would
Speaker 1: like it. You mean the routine where you go to
Speaker 1: work and I figure out everything else. Okay, you know
Speaker 1: when you like go to like a are you trying
Speaker 1: to what is my job? Because you can't tell me
Speaker 1: if we're pioneers. No, no one's having an easy time.
Speaker 1: Nobody gets a free ride. We're pioneers where we didn't
Speaker 1: say what state we're in, right while the door was
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. So I mean eighteen seventy, I just I
Speaker 1: still don't think in eighteen seventy is great anywhere by
Speaker 1: our living standards, by our current living excitors. I mean,
Speaker 1: just look at how we're handling quarantine. I Um, we're like,
Speaker 1: we need to make simple syrup for cocktails. Like we're not, like,
Speaker 1: we're not cut out for this kind of reality where
Speaker 1: you can't go to the liquor store on a whim.
Speaker 1: We would not be drinking liquor. We would be chopping
Speaker 1: a lot more, would uh. Yeah. But again, locations like
Speaker 1: being in a being in Boston in eighteen seventy is
Speaker 1: wildly different, I know, but it depends a lot on
Speaker 1: your job. There's like one person who has a good
Speaker 1: in the whole country. Probably everyone else is just working
Speaker 1: their asses off, like eighty hours a week. And that
Speaker 1: person's name is rough and that's not who you are, buddy. Sorry,
Speaker 1: um somebody please google was Rutherford B. Hayes president in
Speaker 1: eighteen seventy. He might have been, Um boy, the answer, Eric,
Speaker 1: this is a great question. We'll do it, Eric for
Speaker 1: the sake of the country, but we're not going to
Speaker 1: like it. I'm going to say that I might accidentally
Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, you probably would. You probably be like
Speaker 1: an old timey bank tellerant. You keep a pen pencil
Speaker 1: behind your ear all day. Would be such a nice
Speaker 1: handcrafted pencil that cost me half a month salary. You
Speaker 1: have little tiny spectacles that you love to put on
Speaker 1: and off. They just clipped to the end of my nose.
Speaker 1: I've got a visor with my hat, but no no
Speaker 1: top of my hand, and I'm like, Peter, it's time
Speaker 1: to come home. I have eight children, and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: I can't hear you because you're miles away and we
Speaker 1: don't have a telephone. Um, I don't love it. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say. I think that, um, it's possible,
Speaker 1: given the right circumstances, that I could love it, assuming
Speaker 1: we don't get sick and you get to continue to
Speaker 1: be a man yep, um, that we could be really satisfied.
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the six months there's
Speaker 1: a version of where we're like, well, we'll never do
Speaker 1: that again. But that again, we'll definitely never do that
Speaker 1: again even if we had the choice, but it would
Speaker 1: be really satisfying. It would be really satisfying to end
Speaker 1: that experience and to have a whole new set of
Speaker 1: life skills. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I would ever use any of them though,
Speaker 1: we don't know. Eric, You've got to be more specific.
Speaker 1: What is my job? What is my social situation? Oh
Speaker 1: that I'm confident in my answer. Well, he did ask specifically,
Speaker 1: would you try to inject more twenty one century gender
Speaker 1: roles into society or just think so because it's just
Speaker 1: like a tiny dose of like my opinion would be
Speaker 1: they'd be like heresy, Like they would just like I
Speaker 1: would get found out very quickly. Yeah, well it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a big difference between like sixteen seventy and no.
Speaker 1: But they still like if I was like, what do
Speaker 1: you think about if a woman could vote, they would
Speaker 1: be like, your wife needs to go to jail or
Speaker 1: the nut factory. Hello, Like let me put this woman
Speaker 1: in the like dump. You're right, I mean there were
Speaker 1: plenty of women saying women should vote in but yeah,
Speaker 1: they were. They were that times, like unquote angry feminists
Speaker 1: who were like those guys are nuts. They were like
Speaker 1: getting beaten, like they weren't like like women. Like if
Speaker 1: women were like I don't like housework, I don't like
Speaker 1: managing the servants, they'd be like, let's just you know,
Speaker 1: sent her up state to like play sanatorium, sanatorium, Like
Speaker 1: just get her out of here. She's not right. There's
Speaker 1: something not right about her. So you would stick to
Speaker 1: your gender roles, I think. So I want to feel
Speaker 1: it out a little bit before I get myself like
Speaker 1: who knows what? Um. The big question is what would
Speaker 1: Brennan Maven say to the people they meet. And we'd
Speaker 1: be like, great, we got the weird kids. They're like,
Speaker 1: do you play games on your phone? But what our
Speaker 1: kids would not blend in? Our kids are already in quarantine,
Speaker 1: just getting so weird, Like they're like, I mean they
Speaker 1: were already weird kids, but now it's just like seven weird.
Speaker 1: I hope everyone else's kids are getting weird. Uh, I
Speaker 1: hope that everyone's kids are getting a little bit weird,
Speaker 1: a little bit weird. Try to keep uf um. Boy, gosh,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's a hundredth episode and I want
Speaker 1: to take uh the end of this episode two to
Speaker 1: say what I'm grateful for. You know what I'm grateful for,
Speaker 1: Beth what our listeners? Yes, me too. It's hard being
Speaker 1: a parent. And uh, you guys listen to us blab
Speaker 1: on and on and on. Thanks for listening to us
Speaker 1: blob on and all of you and argue you have
Speaker 1: all of your own arguments and all of your own
Speaker 1: victories and and uh defeats and joys and stresses and
Speaker 1: uh we you're the best. And you're doing great even
Speaker 1: when you really suck it up, you're doing all right,
Speaker 1: especially now. We're all doing great. Are you kids alive? Great?
Speaker 1: You're doing great. Nailed it? Um um. You know who
Speaker 1: else I want to thank for a hundred episodes? Who?
Speaker 1: Mates of State? You don't know? We don't say it.
Speaker 1: We should say it every episode. Our theme song my
Speaker 1: Mates of State. You got a watch on dated a
Speaker 1: live Instagram were just them and their three girls sang
Speaker 1: songs and one of them is like too and just
Speaker 1: so upset that everyone's ignoring her while the rest of
Speaker 1: them have just a beautiful blend of voices. Is so heartwarming.
Speaker 1: Check out Mates of State, the greatest band in the world,
Speaker 1: the greatest. I'm also thankful for check Bryant from Stuff
Speaker 1: you should know, a movie crush who is the reason
Speaker 1: we have this show. Yeah, thanks Chuck, thanks for helping
Speaker 1: us put this out there and together. You know who else?
Speaker 1: I want to thank my husband Peter mcnurry. I just
Speaker 1: I was waiting to make sure. Yeah, link going through
Speaker 1: the mall and your Rolodex of husbands. I'd like to
Speaker 1: thank my wife, Beth Noel, who is the best wife
Speaker 1: I've ever had or could possibly want. Um. You drive
Speaker 1: me crazy, um and do you you make me better? Likewise,
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