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Speaker 1: Let's get things off with an update on the war
Speaker 1: in the Middle East is getting worse. The war is escalating,
Speaker 1: casualties are mounting, but there might be some help on
Speaker 1: the way. Breaking news right now from the White House
Speaker 1: to the war zone.
Speaker 4: President Biden this evening is leaving Washington for Israel.
Speaker 5: With the conflict raging, the risk great. It is highly
Speaker 5: unusual that the White House would publicly confirm a presidential trip,
Speaker 5: but Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln, after a seven hour
Speaker 5: marathon meeting with Israel's Prime minister overnight, made the announcement
Speaker 5: on Wednesday.
Speaker 6: President Biden loses at Israel, and that visit is intended
Speaker 6: to try to cool things down, to try to ratchet
Speaker 6: down the tensions somewhat in some way if he can
Speaker 6: succeed in addition to reaffirming US solidarity with Israel, we'll
Speaker 6: see how if there's any chance of this being successful.
Speaker 1: That's right. President Biden is facing this issue head on
Speaker 1: and going straight into a war zone. He's flying to
Speaker 1: Israel tonight, although he's eighty years old, so he did
Speaker 1: get to the airport two days ago. And I'm proud
Speaker 1: of Biden for putting himself in harm's way. So let's
Speaker 1: be honest, Biden doing anything pretty much puts him in
Speaker 1: harm's way. A rocket strike is dangerous, but so's a bicycle.
Speaker 1: And I bet he can cool things down there, because
Speaker 1: if there's one thing Biden is good at, it's cooling
Speaker 1: things down, whether it's a war, heated rhetoric or voter enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: But all jokes aside, I really am glad to have
Speaker 1: a president who's there, because it's comforting to have a
Speaker 1: leader who might actually de escalate a situation. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: went to console hurricane victims, and by the time he
Speaker 1: was done, we were at war with Syria. So good
Speaker 1: luck to Biden and anyone who's trying to end the war. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's move on to the biggest cluster outside of the
Speaker 1: Middle East, the US Congress. Two weeks ago, the House
Speaker 1: was thrown into chaos by Matt Gates, Florida Republican And
Speaker 1: what happens when you photo copy Matthew McConaughey too many times?
Speaker 1: He staged a coup against Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House.
Speaker 1: And what happens when you photocopy John Slattery too many times?
Speaker 1: And after that everyone said the Republicans were two divided
Speaker 1: to elect a new speaker, And it turns out everyone
Speaker 1: was right.
Speaker 7: Boggie News Chaos on Capitol Hill. The Republican House dysfunction
Speaker 7: continues as the fight for a new Speaker of the
Speaker 7: House continues to sputter.
Speaker 4: Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio did not even come close
Speaker 4: to clinching the speakership.
Speaker 7: He failed rather ignominiously, to win the gabble on the
Speaker 7: first ballot.
Speaker 3: Jim Jordan has twenty Republicans who decided to vote for
Speaker 3: someone other than him.
Speaker 6: In a few cases they voted for a guy who
Speaker 6: isn't even in Congress anymore.
Speaker 1: Jordan. That's right. A big loss today for Jim Jordan,
Speaker 1: Ohio Representative and what you get when you photocopy your
Speaker 1: grandfather's toe too many times. So, as of now, it's
Speaker 1: been two weeks of Republicans arguing with each other and
Speaker 1: they still haven't been able to agree on a new speaker,
Speaker 1: which is a big deal. The Speaker of the House
Speaker 1: is the person responsible for speaking in the House, so
Speaker 1: if they don't have one, then nobody is speaking, and
Speaker 1: it's just so quiet in there. And Congress can't do
Speaker 1: anything until they figure this out. They can't pass laws,
Speaker 1: they can't send fourn Aid to Ukraine, and they can't
Speaker 1: impeach Hunter Biden's penis. Right now, Congress is basically Mitch
Speaker 1: McConnell totally frozen, and no one knows how to fix it.
Speaker 1: It's okay to show that because he said he's fine.
Speaker 1: And finally, let's talk about hotness, and not the kind
Speaker 1: you're seeing on your screen right now. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the food in your mouth kind. Finally, the new hottest
Speaker 1: pepper in.
Speaker 8: The world, the popular YouTube show Hot one surprise mad
Speaker 8: Pepper scientist Ed Curry with a visit from the Guinness
Speaker 8: World Records. According to them, the title now belongs to
Speaker 8: his creation called Pepper X. The heat of a pepper
Speaker 8: is measured in scoville, So, for example, a halapeno is
Speaker 8: five thousand scoville units, pepper spray is usually one point
Speaker 8: six million, and bear spray advertises that two point two million.
Speaker 1: But as for pepper X.
Speaker 9: Two point six nine to three million scoville heat units.
Speaker 4: I was feeling the heat for three and a half hours.
Speaker 1: Then the cramps came crabs. Wow, that's a hell of
Speaker 1: a pepper that gives a man a period. By the way,
Speaker 1: is pepper X the most creative name they could have
Speaker 1: come up with? How do you look at this thing
Speaker 1: and not go with Satan's nutsack? Seriously, though, I love
Speaker 1: this story because this is what makes humans so great.
Speaker 1: We're always striving to break barriers that we don't need
Speaker 1: to break, or that we even knew existed. We're always
Speaker 1: trying to dive a little bit higher, build a little
Speaker 1: bit taller, and devastate our sphincters a little bit harder.
Speaker 1: For more on this new pepper, we go live to
Speaker 1: the laboratory it came from with our very own Ronnie Chang, Ronnie, Ronnie,
Speaker 1: this is pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, wow, this is so impressive.
Speaker 1: What a great use of science.
Speaker 3: Our grandparents land on the moon, but we made food
Speaker 3: hotter to eat.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not saying it's the biggest deal ever, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was a nice accomplishment. Yeah for white people.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm from Malaysia. Okay, I've been eating spicy food
Speaker 3: since I was a baby.
Speaker 9: Yo.
Speaker 1: My mom had five alam breast milk for nipples, will basically.
Speaker 3: To rocha nozzles. Okay, I eat so much spicy food.
Speaker 3: My driver's license has three peppers on it, like a PF.
Speaker 1: Chang's menu.
Speaker 3: And that's why I never invite you to dinner, Acosta,
Speaker 3: because I know you can't handle the heat, and because
Speaker 3: I don't like you, first of.
Speaker 1: All, ouch, and secondly, I don't care how much spicy
Speaker 1: food you've eaten. This pepper is hotter than bear spray.
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe for pussy American bands like Yogi, right, but
Speaker 3: Asian bads wouldn't flinch. You give this to a panda
Speaker 3: bad He'd be like, why am I eating this lame
Speaker 3: mass pepper where I could be busy not having sex?
Speaker 1: Come on, dude, this pepper is two point seven million
Speaker 1: Scoville units.
Speaker 10: Come on, Oh my god, two my seven million Scoville units.
Speaker 10: That's like ten billion dimp shit units or some other scale.
Speaker 3: I also just made up. It's all marketing cost of
Speaker 3: This is why you're five million zis all units, which
Speaker 3: is a measurement of how much I don't want to
Speaker 3: have dinner with you, in case you're wondering, and that's
Speaker 3: the highest you can go.
Speaker 1: Ronnie, you're just getting mad at me because maybe a
Speaker 1: white guy invented a pepper then you can't handle.
Speaker 3: Oh please, you think I'm scared of this pepper? I
Speaker 3: will rub this on my eyeballs and eat it right now.
Speaker 1: This cast is us having dinner together. By the way,
Speaker 1: No it doesn't.
Speaker 11: This pepper ain't shit. But Ronnie big girl. Oh my god, Ronnie, Ronnie,
Speaker 11: you're on fire. No, no, that's not something else. This
Speaker 11: pepper tastes great. Look I'll eat another one, Ronnie. Don't
Speaker 11: eat that, Ronnie, do not eat another Ronnie. Johnny Bunny relaxed. Okay,
Speaker 11: this always happens. I eat something delicious. I'm just gonna
Speaker 11: go over here right now.
Speaker 3: Hey, you get any water because the spice my floats
Speaker 3: just dry.
Speaker 1: I'm fun, you know what. I'm sure he's okay, Ronnie
Speaker 1: Chang everybody. When we come back, I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: bees are fish, so don't go away.
Speaker 8: Let me.
Speaker 9: Also back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: We all love bending the law, whether it's going five
Speaker 1: miles over the speed limit or adding five extra children
Speaker 1: to your tax return. But I found an organization that
Speaker 1: was bending the law for good. Check it out.
Speaker 12: California had successfully turned drugs into medicine and.
Speaker 1: Raisins into people, but this time they've gone too far.
Speaker 1: Bees are now legally considered fish. Bumble bees are now
Speaker 1: considered fish. Bumble bees fish in the state of California.
Speaker 1: What the fuck is California up to now?
Speaker 13: To find out, I went to meet environmentalists Serena Jepson,
Speaker 13: who with the conservationist group the Xerxes Society.
Speaker 1: Petitioned the state to turn bees into fish. Sena, are
Speaker 1: bees fish? No?
Speaker 14: Bees are not fish?
Speaker 1: Okay? Few? I was like so.
Speaker 15: Almost certain that they weren't. You don't fish for a bee,
Speaker 15: you'd be for a bee, right.
Speaker 1: These are not fish.
Speaker 14: But the California legislature decades ago defined fish to include
Speaker 14: several different animals, including invertebrates, and bees are unquestionably a
Speaker 14: type of invertebrate. So, according to California state law, bees
Speaker 14: are fish.
Speaker 15: You just said that bees are not fish and also
Speaker 15: bees are fish.
Speaker 1: Do I look dumb to you?
Speaker 14: No, We've just utilized the definitions under the California Indeager
Speaker 14: Species Act to seek protection for four species of bumblebees
Speaker 14: that are close to extinction.
Speaker 13: And to make things even more confusing, only some bees
Speaker 13: are now fish.
Speaker 1: Bomba soxs in Intallas, the western Bombas sox is of Dallas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the western.
Speaker 14: Franklin's bumblebee, the sucky cuckoo bumble bee.
Speaker 15: We can't really say that on TV, but okay, go ahead.
Speaker 14: Bombas Crutchia, which is the one that occurs here. That's
Speaker 14: crutches bumblebee. What's that one called them?
Speaker 1: Sorry?
Speaker 14: Crutches bumblebee, bumblebee crutch Oh my god?
Speaker 1: That in college?
Speaker 15: Does it really affect my life that the Borealis occy
Speaker 15: cock eyed bumblebee is gone?
Speaker 14: If we let enough species go extinct and we no
Speaker 14: longer have a diverse suite of native pollinators, we're going
Speaker 14: to start seeing problems with pollination of crops and pollination
Speaker 14: of our native ecosystems.
Speaker 12: So calling bees an endangered fish is a way to
Speaker 12: protect them under California law.
Speaker 1: Problem solved, Right. I don't think bees are fish. I
Speaker 1: knew it. I just don't think that's the case. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you're gonna tell me that the tomato is a fruit.
Speaker 13: As a member of the Almond Alliance of California, Stuart
Speaker 13: Wolfe sued along with agriculture and pesticide groups to exclude
Speaker 13: bees from the Endangered Species Act because protecting these bees
Speaker 13: would hit him right in the nuts.
Speaker 16: Whenever you have more risk and you have the possibility
Speaker 16: of more regulation, then ultimately you have higher costs. There'll
Speaker 16: be more insects, and there'll be more protections. It will
Speaker 16: simply grow from here.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are they going to protect all invertebrates? Slugs, worms, bears?
Speaker 1: When does it stop?
Speaker 8: Then?
Speaker 1: You can't just go changing the names of stuff, even
Speaker 1: if it benefits you, right right, I'm.
Speaker 15: Okay with this whole nut juice being called milk, But
Speaker 15: call on a bee of fish feels.
Speaker 1: Pretty California to me. I can't argue with that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: is it milk? Milk? Isn't almond milk milk?
Speaker 16: Well, you're talking to an almond grower, and so I
Speaker 16: believe almond milk there is such a thing. Others like
Speaker 16: dairyman believe it has to come from a mammal, right,
Speaker 16: but that again will likely be figured out in the quartz.
Speaker 12: In the end, the fate of the bees was decided
Speaker 12: with the help of a much more resilient and dangerous species.
Speaker 1: Lawyers.
Speaker 12: Law students Sam Joyce and Professor Matt Sanders at Stanford's
Speaker 12: Environmental Walklant successfully lawyered the bees into fish.
Speaker 1: And I had a pretty good idea.
Speaker 15: Why, let's be honest here, who's making the big bucks?
Speaker 1: Is it the lawyers?
Speaker 16: We represent our clients on a pro bono basis pro bono?
Speaker 1: What's that mean? For free? For free?
Speaker 17: I've actually been paying money to be here.
Speaker 15: You actually paid money to call bees fish? And this
Speaker 15: is the problem with today's campuses and universities.
Speaker 12: So these suckers fought a legal battle to save the
Speaker 12: bees just.
Speaker 1: Because they love the environment. Okay, but how did they
Speaker 1: pull that off?
Speaker 15: Explain to me how the bees are fish?
Speaker 17: With the California Fishing Game Code, Section forty five defined
Speaker 17: fish and it says that the fish is a wildfish
Speaker 17: or a crustacean or a mollusk, or an invertebrate or
Speaker 17: an amphibian. Okay, bees are invertebrates, so bees fall within
Speaker 17: the definition of fish in this law.
Speaker 15: This is like Christians, you know, finding a way to
Speaker 15: have sex before they're merrit you know, hand.
Speaker 1: Stuff, or that this is a legal loophole, right, Come on?
Speaker 17: If anything, the loophole here is trying to play on
Speaker 17: the definitions or the terms within the Endangered Species Act
Speaker 17: and say sorry, this can cover plants, it can cover
Speaker 17: other animals, but it can't cover insects. That sounds like
Speaker 17: a loophole.
Speaker 1: I guess with legal advice, you really get what you
Speaker 1: pay for. And with that, I'd study the issue from
Speaker 1: almost every angle except the most impolute. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: think I get it.
Speaker 15: It doesn't matter if bees are fish or fish or bees.
Speaker 1: Those are just.
Speaker 15: Labels and everything deserves a right to exist and to
Speaker 15: pollinate and to reproduce and be happy.
Speaker 1: That's what this is about. More or less, Yes, I
Speaker 1: think I get it, So thank you and beautiful.
Speaker 12: Sorry, one more thing, so.
Speaker 1: Are bees fish?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: And welcome back to economist Emily.
Speaker 9: Osterer will explain how data to make your bet parents
Speaker 9: don't go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is
Speaker 1: an economist at Brown University an author of several books
Speaker 1: on data driven parenting. Please welcome Emily Oster.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 1: All right, exciting, huh, I'm excited data and parenting, babies
Speaker 1: and babies. Yeah, I mean what does parent data means?
Speaker 1: There's data on parents?
Speaker 4: Yes, there is data on parents, and I am a
Speaker 4: firm believer that data is the key to making your
Speaker 4: parenting easier and happier and more relaxed.
Speaker 1: Are you very relaxed? Oh right, now, very relaxed. But
Speaker 1: you've actually made our family more relaxed because some of
Speaker 1: the data some clip somewhere might have even been in
Speaker 1: this book Expecting Better, which maybe ten year anniversary now
Speaker 1: this book, Wow amazing. I'm paraphrasing, but it was. There's
Speaker 1: two preschools or two daycares. They're both of equal credible value.
Speaker 1: Which one should I go to as a parent? And
Speaker 1: your answer was go to the one that's closest to
Speaker 1: your house.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So for me, that's really a momentic of what I
Speaker 4: think is hard and often overthought about parenting is we
Speaker 4: have this idea that like there's a right way to
Speaker 4: do it, there's a correct daycare, and you can really
Speaker 4: get down the rabbit hole. While these teachers have this,
Speaker 4: qualifications and this, and in the end of the day,
Speaker 4: there are a lot of right ways to do this,
Speaker 4: and those kind of considerations are most of the time
Speaker 4: so much less important than what works for your family
Speaker 4: and what makes you happy. And usually what makes you
Speaker 4: happy is driving less. So that's why you should go
Speaker 4: to the one early closer.
Speaker 1: Our daycare doesn't have room for a stroller, so I
Speaker 1: push the stroller there. Then I fold the stroller up
Speaker 1: and I lock it to a telephone pole outside, and
Speaker 1: then my wife, who picks up, has to unlock the stroll.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like and I'm a celebrity, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. This is what it's like in
Speaker 1: New York City. But data parenting is nice. It's I
Speaker 1: like the term. It sounds good. But when my three
Speaker 1: year old is punching me in the face on Father's
Speaker 1: Day for the three times that day and I'm about
Speaker 1: to lose it, I'm not thinking about data. So there
Speaker 1: are some problems. Okay, yeah, there are.
Speaker 4: Some problems for which data isn't necessarily going to fix
Speaker 4: the problem. But I think there's another piece of data
Speaker 4: in parenting, and I think this is really true that
Speaker 4: like we can use data to feel less alone. And
Speaker 4: that's like part of parenting is hard, right, your kids
Speaker 4: hitting you in the face. It's painful, it hurts. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's painful.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how they are.
Speaker 4: But what the data will tell you is that one
Speaker 4: hundred percent of kids hit and the one hundred percent
Speaker 4: of them kids hit their dad. And so you're not
Speaker 4: alone because one hundred percent of other people were also
Speaker 4: hit on Father's Day. And in some sense, like I
Speaker 4: think that that tells us that we're doing okay, there's
Speaker 4: nothing wrong with your kid. They just hit sometimes.
Speaker 1: Where is this data coming from? Certainly, it's like a
Speaker 1: very yeah, okay, okay, so certain.
Speaker 4: So data comes from a lot of places. Actually, when
Speaker 4: I teach I'm an economists, they teach it brown. One
Speaker 4: of the big things I teach people is like, where
Speaker 4: does data come from? And the answer is it comes
Speaker 4: from surveys, we ask people, and data has its limitations.
Speaker 4: We don't always ask the most representative set of people,
Speaker 4: and we don't always analyze it in the ways that
Speaker 4: get us closest to causality. But the fundamental answer is
Speaker 4: we get data on people by asking people about their
Speaker 4: behaviors and what they do, and by collecting information on
Speaker 4: how their kids do.
Speaker 1: Are let's start with pregnant women. Are are we in
Speaker 1: a time where there's more fear associated with eating sushi
Speaker 1: drinking alcohol? Or has it always been this fear? And
Speaker 1: here comes Professor Auster to offer these guidelines that help us.
Speaker 1: I mean, are you a product of there being an
Speaker 1: excess amount of fear? Now?
Speaker 4: Fundamentally yes, I mean I think you know, if you
Speaker 4: will get the broad swath of history, you know certainly
Speaker 4: there are you know, medieval times, we were not concerned
Speaker 4: about sushi. That wasn't like the primary worry of it's sushi,
Speaker 4: the plague the plague, and then sushi was low on
Speaker 4: the list. But I do think in the last you know,
Speaker 4: fifteen twenty, maybe thirty years, there has become this culture
Speaker 4: of kind of achievement in parenting and the idea that
Speaker 4: you have to do it right. And I think some
Speaker 4: of that comes from demographic shifts, from the fact that
Speaker 4: people are parenting older that maybe they've done more, and
Speaker 4: so you get into an idea that like there's a
Speaker 4: right way to do this. I'm going to achieve this.
Speaker 4: I'm going to just kill this pregnancy. I'm going to
Speaker 4: do all this stuff and I'm gonna get it right.
Speaker 4: And of course, when you have the baby or before that,
Speaker 4: you realize a lot of things are out of your
Speaker 4: control and in fact, many of these small things don't
Speaker 4: actually matter. And some of the book is about saying, hey,
Speaker 4: let's focus on this stuff that's important and not think
Speaker 4: so much about the things that are less important that
Speaker 4: are just causing you to be anxious and not get
Speaker 4: to eat delicious fish.
Speaker 1: Well, because if you're creating this world, everything has to
Speaker 1: be perfect, and invariably something will go wrong and that
Speaker 1: creates stress, which stress gill be good.
Speaker 4: And it's not just stress. I mean I think there's
Speaker 4: a stress piece, and then there's a guilt piece. There's
Speaker 4: a feeling of like, if anything goes wrong, it's because
Speaker 4: of something you did. And it's hard to recognize that
Speaker 4: sometimes things go wrong for reasons that are not something
Speaker 4: we did. But that's actually pretty important thing to recognize
Speaker 4: if you want to be able to move forward.
Speaker 1: I did a little bit of my own data research.
Speaker 4: Wonderful okay, like Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1: Because it was driving me crazy during both my wife's pregnancies,
Speaker 1: how every doctor, everyone we said was like, you can't
Speaker 1: eat a deli meat, don't eat a turkey sandwich, you
Speaker 1: can't eat because of listeria. This was the big thing.
Speaker 1: And I know you talk about listeria in here, but
Speaker 1: so I said, Okay, I'm curious how many pregnant women
Speaker 1: in the United States even got listeria last year? And
Speaker 1: according to Google, I don't know if Google's a reputable source,
Speaker 1: it says two hundred pregnant women last year got listeria.
Speaker 1: Two hundred thousand pregnant women got in a car accident.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking by that standard, they should be saying
Speaker 1: pregnant women don't get in a car. It's considerably worse.
Speaker 1: Am I an amazing parenting data scientige, But it speaks
Speaker 1: to there and trying to make some sense of it.
Speaker 4: So I think I want to separate a little bit
Speaker 4: unpack I mean lots on pack in your analysis. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think one thing that is that is true is
Speaker 4: that many of the risks that we worry about are
Speaker 4: very small. And I use the car accident risk very
Speaker 4: often because I think it's an example of a risk
Speaker 4: that we're taking all the time, and for good reason.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't tell people not to get in a car,
Speaker 4: but just to recognize life contains a background level of risk.
Speaker 4: We talk about something like lysteria. If you want to
Speaker 4: be careful, there are some things which you do probably
Speaker 4: want to avoid, raw milk, soft cheeses being a good example,
Speaker 4: because it is a relatively small thing to avoid that,
Speaker 4: and it is more common that listenerity.
Speaker 1: Isn't it's easy to skip that. It's easy to skip that.
Speaker 4: But as we think about things that are harder to skip,
Speaker 4: you do want to get into, like, well, actually, is
Speaker 4: this really an important risk relative to many of the
Speaker 4: other risks I'm taking every day, like getting.
Speaker 14: In a car.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't realize how much my parent parenting me
Speaker 1: was going to turn me. Excuse me. I thought I
Speaker 1: would parent differently. I had great parents, but I thought
Speaker 1: I would do things differently. Am I Are we just doomed?
Speaker 1: And there is there data on this?
Speaker 4: Okay, there is data on some There are some things
Speaker 4: you probably do do differently and so and sometimes because
Speaker 4: we've advanced our data, you know, you probably put your
Speaker 4: baby sleep on their back, and your parents probably put
Speaker 4: you to sleep on your stomach because we learn more
Speaker 4: about data that we can discuss that later. But I
Speaker 4: think it is it is of course true that we're
Speaker 4: all products of our own parenting, but also that many
Speaker 4: of the things our parents did are great and in
Speaker 4: the end, there's a lot of right ways to do this,
Speaker 4: and I think we always want to like move away
Speaker 4: from our parents.
Speaker 1: But probably you're an economist, your husband's an economist. Are
Speaker 1: your kids like, don't hit your brother? But what's the
Speaker 1: data on that?
Speaker 17: Mom?
Speaker 4: Like, my kids could not be less interest in economics
Speaker 4: or my parenting work.
Speaker 1: You know. It's one of the.
Speaker 4: Great things about being a parenting expert is that you
Speaker 4: can say that a lot at home, like I'm a
Speaker 4: parenting but they don't think that at all.
Speaker 1: Your new book, it's coming out. You can pre order it.
Speaker 1: What is your new book about.
Speaker 4: The new book is called The Unexpected and it is
Speaker 4: about navigating pregnancy after complications. So for about fifty percent
Speaker 4: of pregnancies, they end with in a complication, a loss
Speaker 4: or preclamcy or something. And the book is really an
Speaker 4: attempt to help people work through in a later pregnancy
Speaker 4: how to avoid those complications. What you can do about
Speaker 4: them and how to navigate conversations with your provider. So
Speaker 4: that's the idea.
Speaker 1: Okay, great. One of the things I read that you
Speaker 1: said that I really enjoyed was studies say versus all
Speaker 1: studies say, do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 4: I do, because studies always show. So when people tell
Speaker 4: me this study, a studies study show. Studies always show.
Speaker 4: Studies show everything. Everything can be shown in a study,
Speaker 4: the question is often what does the bulk of the
Speaker 4: evidence say? Because when we look at most of the
Speaker 4: problems in this book, in all of the space of
Speaker 4: pregnancy and parenting, there's almost always many different pieces of
Speaker 4: evidence which we need to look at altogether. And so
Speaker 4: when somebody comes up and they say, you know, well,
Speaker 4: this one study said that, I want to be like, well,
Speaker 4: is that the only study we have? And it almost
Speaker 4: never is.
Speaker 1: I mean you can find anything on the internet. Yes,
Speaker 1: It's like you can Google and find your support. So
Speaker 1: is how can parents the kids crying, or you got
Speaker 1: punch in the face on Father's Day, or you can't
Speaker 1: eat Deli meats? Where do we go?
Speaker 4: So I would like people to go to parent data
Speaker 4: dot org, which is the website where we put together
Speaker 4: sort of the whole broad range of the stuff I've
Speaker 4: written in these books and then in my newsletter about
Speaker 4: what the data says about many of these kind of questions.
Speaker 4: And I think it's part of a general effort to basically,
Speaker 4: when you wake up in the middle of the night
Speaker 4: and you're like, why is my kids poop this color?
Speaker 4: Is that an okay color, that the website will be like,
Speaker 4: here's a little color quded graph of the appropriate colors,
Speaker 4: and you can look at it and be like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's a fine color. Green is cool. I'm going to
Speaker 4: go back to sleep, to sleep.
Speaker 1: All the non parents are like, Jesus Christ, what's wrong
Speaker 1: with Is there any data on the sectimes?
Speaker 4: V sectames are amazing option? Okay, the sectimes are a
Speaker 4: great form of birth control, and they're an outpatient procedure.
Speaker 4: You just need a little ice back down there and
Speaker 4: it works great, So it's worth considering.
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