Back-to-school, scrapbook nights & do you turn on the ‘big light’?!

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28:44Okay. You pick left or right hand? Left. So Harrison thinks people do not turn on the lights in their house. This is - And we do. No. We do. This is something that I feel like it's been on my radar for five-plus years. Okay. And it first came on my radar at the Naked Market offices. Like I'd always walk in and the lights would never be on. Okay. Yeah. So if I walk into our offices and I'm there first, lights go on. Okay. And that's how you open it up for the day. You wake up the baby. I would walk in the, keep in mind, we had a lot of natural light in our office, but I would walk in and the lights would be off.

29:28And then I started taking note of how often the lights are off in rooms. like lights so often lights and i'm a lights on guy in rooms i walk in a room i want all the lights on see so i love lights on but i like to lean on natural light first so if there's a lot of natural light i'm not flipping on all the lights because whenever i leave i got to flip them all off i turn i will say that in our house i think i turn on the lights 90 of the time and i think you turn off the lights 90 % of the time. Yeah, I mean, but you can also sleep with lights on. You can literally sleep with lights on. I love to when it gets...

30:08The lights downstairs don't affect me 100%. They do because we have a window in our room that they come in through, but... That doesn't affect me is what I'm saying. I do think turning on the lights does just like open it up for the day, but sometimes lights get so they're just like beaming in on my eyes that I'm like, can we just turn them off? I don't want it to be dark, but I just want to have the natural light coming in. I can't like... Now that it's, what's the phenomenon that once you point something out, you'll see? I don't think we know that. I don't think we've named this. See a red car or buy a red car, see a red car.

30:41Yes. I think this phenomenon with lights being off in rooms is going to be on people's radars now.

30:51Our house, Alex, at our house. I'm always turning them on downstairs. I've never, I've never, I just, I don't, like, I don't know the last time I walked downstairs and lights were on. Oh, all the time. I love lights on, but I also love the natural light. And I, we purchased our house because of the natural light. That is part of it. We have such good natural light in there. But yeah, I'm with you. Like I do, but turning on the lights, it does. It just wakes you right up. Unless you got the. No, it's just a better vibe. Like today up at Whistler, like all morning the lights were off. Because we were getting ready to leave.

31:23A lot of natural. No, we were shutting it down. All morning, the lights were off. Shutting the ship down. And I guess that's the point. If people think they're there for a long time, eventually they'll turn the lights on. My point is you walk in a room and right away, all the lights on. Yeah. Okay. Jules, is this landing at all or no? Is this like a crazy? I have two things to say. One, I didn't turn a single light on in my house until 8.30 p.m. today. Wow. See, this is a thing. When it became pitch black. And why? But why did you do that? Because you didn't notice? You didn't care? Or what's the reasoning?

31:55Well, I mean, my whole apartment is just natural light. I don't need the upper head light on. Which is the best kind of light. Okay. And what's the second thing? When I was house sitting for neighbor T and neighbor M, you guys walked in at one point and you said, do you want to turn the lights on? And I was just sitting in the dark. And that was you, Alex. So you recognize it too, I think. I do. I do recognize it sometimes because that was when the sun was starting to set. I must say, I probably turn the lights on at their house. Like every time I walk in, I walk in the morning. I'm like, why the lights on, guys?

32:27Come on, let's go. It's 8 a.m. I'm going to drop up or off. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the thing is, but I do remember that, Jules, when we walked over there. I was like, well, we got to turn on some lights here. Okay, so what I'm saying is kind of landing, Jules. Yeah. Okay. I'm not doing it. It doesn't wake me up. The natural light wakes me up. It's personal. I don't care how much was going on with the natural light. I always want that extra touch. yeah i i don't know i love i gotta say i love natural light um okay so the second thing that what was in the other hand to discuss um harrison's mom told me something that i've already texted my mom group text about because it was groundbreaking she had a ticket well what did what did we have tickets for oh we went okay so there's this there's this grouse grind Grouse Mountain.

33:18Grouse Mountain. Okay. So can I talk about, I'll talk about my new hike after. Okay. So we went up this mountain and Harrison used to do it when he was little. And we did it with the kids. And so she was like, do you want to keep this ticket? Grouse Mountain. Grouse Mountain. She's like, do you want to keep this ticket for the baby book? And I was like, oh, man, those baby books, mine are digital. Like I took a photo of the ticket and I'm like, I do want to keep the ticket because I do. I was like, I want to do a baby book. I'm just, I'm already behind on the baby book. And she was like, well, you know what me and my friends used to do?

33:46we used to have scrapbook nights for the moms. So you would get a bin and you would put everything in it for two months. So you would put like, if they lost a tooth, if they got a haircut, if they bought a ticket to something, if they had a first X, Y, Z, ideally you would be printing out photos at the same time, right? Maybe every week, every two weeks, you order like the most important photos. You put them in a box. Then once every two months, you have scrapbook night with the moms and everyone gets together and they do their scrapbook. So nobody falls behind and it's really fun. And I was like, Oh my gosh, that's the best idea in the world.

34:21Cause it's the, it's the best of both worlds. Like I love my baby book. Like whenever we were wondering if Rocky was teething and my mom was like, go look in your book and see when you got your first tooth. And I was like, Oh my gosh, like, I don't want to be scrolling back through my phone trying to find the first tooth. It's a, it's, it's a, it's a great idea. Like in the world of hectic, hecticness we live in. You know how much I love a routine? What do you call this? A program? You love to stamp a night. I love to stamp a night. I think this is phenomenal. You love to name things. Yeah. I'm 10 out of 10 supportive of this.

35:00Well, I also remember growing up, I remember everyone always being, oh, I'm so behind on my scrapbooking. Also, the other thing that I like about this is just like from the timing perspective, like book club once a month feels like not enough. Book club once a week feels like too much. And so this gives you like two very fun parents' nights a month. Totally, which I love. I love my mom friends. They just light me up and doing stuff like that's really, and then we can talk about like, oh, look at X. And we could talk about what each other are doing. um also signed Bubber up for um dance coming up in the fall and then I'm also going to get her enrolled in gymnastics and then guess what Sammy and Courtney were talking about let's hear it it's time for music class for Rocky he's so little but they're like we got to go to music class right I'm like oh yeah we'll be there Rocky will come you know like so now we've got Tate going to things rocky going to things musician and lo and behold i mean we are about to need the bigger car okay and two cars listening no kidding well i don't get why you did that it was funny but i was i was gonna try and convince you that the episode was over and you'd be like what are you doing with that and then i was like that's not a good joke start myself my dad joke you're such a goofball um all right so i also what we i i wanted this is on my list of things to discuss so the lindsey Clancy case, which I feel, which I made a, I made a video about some things in the trial that were just like miffing me.

36:38And some people were like, talk about it on the podcast. We do want to talk about it, but it's not something we want to talk about in a reckless way. So we really want to research it some more. Like I did some familiarizing on the plan on the way here, but I need more time before I like formally talk about it and sort of say what I think. Like no doubt there's things that have caught my eye that I think are like, I'm like, okay, that's interesting. But we're not, I'm not prepared. I can't talk about it yet. And I don't want to be reckless with my words. And so - Because obviously it's a super tragic situation.

37:10Yeah, of course. Yes. But yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. So that's not something that I'm just not talking about. It's just something I'm not ready to talk about yet. And so when, and we will discuss it on Wednesday? Wednesday or Friday. Yeah. Okay. Okay, let's talk about something I never thought would take up so much space in my brain. My kids poop, truly. I know you're like, what on earth? But once you become a parent, it's like a switch flips and suddenly you're analyzing the color, the consistency, how often, all of it. And I mentioned this to Jules one time and she's like, guys, same, but with Ginny.

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39:46Pair that with the slower pacing and the softer sounds as compared to other cartoons. Um, and the fact that modern, modern HD TVs finally refreshed fast enough for dogs to see a real moving image. Bluey is a dog Xanax. It's a dog Xanax. As this comes out of your mouth, I cannot believe people have not created shows dedicated for dogs. Like a dog YouTube. Yeah. Like they're barking. I can't believe that there isn't a set of dedicated shows that you put on when you leave your dog. Well, the most important thing I need to ask you right now is do you think dogs have their own language? So when they're barking at each other, do you think they're talking?

40:26They're like, hi, how are you? There's an element of them understanding each other for sure. Okay, same. So how though, how? Now, dogs can also understand us talking. It's about entertainment. Because we say sit and they know how to sit. Yeah. We say twirl. They know how to twirl. Heel, stop. So they do understand those words because they can be trained. I do think a dog TV show that somehow could communicate with them. Like, this is my question. Do you think a human could make a TV show where a dog barks and a dog understood it? To me, getting into that dynamic isn't necessarily it. It's more so like taking this to Jules and saying, Jules, if there was a Netflix for dogs and whenever you would leave Ginny Bears at home, you would put on a program.

41:09Would you use that? Did you see my note in there? Let me look here, Jules. Oh, stop it. Jules went to Dallas for the day on Saturday, obviously had someone come take Ginny out and left Bluey on for Ginny all day. Did she love it? When I came back, she was sitting on the couch, which that's not normally where she is. and I low-key looked like she was watching Louie. Stop it. So to take the question and hit the question square on the head, we may be really onto something here. If there was a Netflix for dogs, if even, let's say Netflix had a tab and it says shows made for dogs, when you would leave Ginny Bears, would you put that on?

41:55I totally would do that, but I wouldn't pay extra for it. Fair, fair. It would just have to be included in. You would search it. But we don't play extra for Netflix kids. It's part of the gig. I don't have whatever Bluey is on, though. And I found on YouTube someone's running a 24-hour loop of Bluey. Oh, I found that. And I think it's exclusively for dogs. Oh, is that? We tried that on the plane on the way here. Let me tell you what. Tate had no interest, but I did see the 24-hour loop of Bluey. But Jules. Yeah, I don't know what's going on with Tate and these screens. She just doesn't care. She has no interest.

42:33A lot of people have dog cams, right? Because I'd be interested if you left Bluey on, like did Jenny watch Bluey all day or did she go do other things? I don't know because I don't have the dog cam set up, but we can, I was trying to do some boots on the ground journalism and I clearly didn't do enough. So maybe tomorrow when I go to work, I'll put the camera on and put Bluey on and we can take some screenshots. This feels like something that lives on my Twitter, right? Where like, I feel like my Twitter's full of these, It's like, you know, did you know about this business? Like, you know, the biggest pizza chain in America isn't Domino's.

43:09It isn't pizza. It's a pizza chain you've never heard of. Hunt Pizza Brothers with more chains than any other, you know, QSR in America. Is that real? Yeah. That's my whole fucking Twitter. What's a QSR? A quick service restaurant. Okay. I feel like this, what I read, like, you know, have you heard of this$12 billion? dollar media empire bill just for dogs are you telling us there is one no it feels like it's one of those things that that either does exist and we don't know about or should exist i think someone's gonna make a lot of money man shows for dogs or is making a lot of money jules did you see hallie kate's bar dog yes the launch of it yeah so cute yeah so cute clothes for owners and dogs matching some items were matching some were adjacent but both i just thought it was really really cute do you know who does a lot of couple match where you see a lot of couple matching who is um is in china couple yeah they're doing the husband and the wife are matching yeah like fully matching a lot of matching outfits no like the entire outfit is the same like you would be wearing these pants and a white shirt yeah i'm very into that yeah and what about the kids do they match too they do the whole family matching you know it's one of those things like when you know how like when you have kids you realize how many kids are around yes well when i was out there that's what i what i was taking note of was how many uh how many couples uh matched out there but why were you taking like we're gonna need to pull some data on this to confirm.

44:49But why were you taking note of that? Like, were you matching with your girlfriend at the time? Cause like when you have kids, like, were you? Cause when you have kids, of course, you notice that you have. No, but, but every time. Were you wanting to match with your girlfriend? No, but you know that I'd love to have some element of color coordination, but I don't like to go too far. Like last night with the lobster or yeah, dinner last night, two nights ago, two nights ago when you wanted to, we both were going to do the striped shirts. That was too much for me. Yeah. We were both going to wear seersucker shirts.

45:17Mine had lobsters on them. Harrison's. Yours was more. So mine was a bit more Northeast, like Nantucket summer. Totally. Yours was very Western. Okay, perfect. So Jules hit it. Yes. Many couples in China enjoy wearing matching clothes known as King Lu Zhang. It's a popular invisible trend, especially among younger generations, as used as a fun, romantic way to publicly display affection, celebrate anniversaries, or signal their relationship status instead of wearing wedding rings. Yeah. What? Instead of wearing wedding rings, they'll match their outfits? Yeah. That's the best thing I've ever heard.

45:46Yeah. Do you want to start doing that? Matching more? No, I like color coordination. I don't like full matching. Because I think that each person should be able to express their own. Or I like when you have some form of coordination, each person can still express their own style. So I like this. When we match, we're both committing to the same style. Yes. What, Jules? I was just going to say Harrison wants to marry Kate and Ashley match with you. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Like Jules said, it's like the best way to say it on the planet. But I also think that like, and it's the same thing with Bubba and Rocky.

46:25Like I don't want to wear the same clothes as them, but I would love my clothes to tie into their clothes. I agree. I completely agree. Yeah. So where I love sort of not matching your partner, but planning with them is formal events. So we, there was a wedding in Whistler and we were walking and they were all walking through the town center. and there was a couple wearing, he had on like a dark blue suit and she had on like a turquoise dress. It clashed. Honestly, her dress was beautiful and his suit was awesome. But together, I was like, okay, we didn't coordinate here. And I do kind of like for those big events, me saying, hey, this is going to be my dress.

47:06Like with prom. With prom, I got my prom dress. I took it over to my date's house. Do you know what his mom did? She turned it inside out and she cut off some of the colors of it, took it to the tie store, matched his tie to my outfit. Yeah. That was really smart. But I think this is an example of where you need to take the lead because you're the one choosing your dress for the event. Yeah. I should just submit my dress to you and say, Hey, plan accordingly. Yeah. Or, you know, go and buy a similar tie. Yeah. Or just sort of like wear something that's, that's complimentary kind of, because it is cute.

47:41I need the heads up. Yeah, it's great, but it is. So this was never on my radar and I was just always like, whatever, we can wear whatever we want. But whenever we went to DC, my friend's parents, they were, I don't know if they meant to or not, but one night we were like, wow, you guys, like it just looks awesome together. So what is something that I'm actually down to get in on? One thing, one matching that I do love and that I want to. I know what it is. I'm going to commit this as one of our Christmas gifts. Oh, this is not what I was thinking. What were you thinking? You love if you have a white house, black or white car.

48:15No, that was not where I was going at all. When we travel over Christmas. We all wear matching sweatpants. No, we all wear matching shoes. Wow. Why? You don't think all of us are wearing Jordans? But why not the same sweatpants? Like matching sweatsuits? why the shoes because i just went on a whole nope because i just went on a whole rant about how i like you know to tie it all in and not to so everyone can can express themselves their own way okay so everyone's wearing their plain outfits but our shoes are the same yeah so i where i where i'm in on that is sorry for the last two years we did the gray track suits and then jewel's gift we did the black track suits we've always matched we love a matching plain outfit during the holidays.

49:08And of course we match on Christmas morning. Yes. I do love that. Jules, I feel like you have some color here for us. Well, I was going to ask, didn't you guys get each other matching shoes for your first Christmas? Yes. That's what I thought of. There's Jordans, but that was when it was just the two of us. And then for Mother's Day, I bought Bubber, the closest ones I could find. Same style, just different color. But now it's like, oh my. Like, but then, you know, that hasn't been something that we really stuck with. But now the four of us, I think it would just be really cool. And I think, okay, so I'm down for this, but I would like to take it all the way up to the sweatsuits.

49:47Sorry. Yeah, for traveling on Christmas, I think that makes sense. Now, they can be different types. We don't all need to be like head to toe matching. But I would like to be maybe in a different color, but same thing. I don't know, different pattern. But like adjacently, you're like, okay, that's cute. They're a family. You guys, I know we don't have a school-aged kid yet. But even just watching everyone as they gear up for the back to school season, I feel the energy shift. There's new schedules. There's packed calendars. There's drop-offs. There's pickups. There's pickups. There's activities.

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52:18Middle of the plane Row one Middle of the plane row two Okay Like we can't go Window Aisle We can't get it straight across Well we can But someone has the window Is it clear what I just said Yeah. No. Like, in an ideal world, in the bulkhead, you have window, aisle, sorry, you have window, aisle, then there's the row, and then you have the seats. Hold on. I think the one thing we need to explain here is these are those big flights where there's that middle row. It's a 252. Yeah, 252. Okay. Okay. Okay. So in an ideal world, we have seats A, B, and C, right? If you're going left to right, we have one, two, and three.

53:12The problem is on the left side, someone is sitting in the window. On the far right side of the plane, the window's open, but the seat beside the window, someone else has taken. So can we do one, two, three? I just want to move that guy over. But you can't. But we can't. So can we do one, two, three in the middle, the five part? Yeah. Right now, I feel like we need to have it visually because it's going to be confusing for the listener. All right. I'm going to move us on to our tweet of the week because this one's interesting to me. So explain this to me. Hold on. There's two tweets in there. It's the second one.

53:47But if you find the first one interesting, let's talk about it. I found the first one very interesting. Okay. I'm a bit confused here. Okay. So should I read the tweet? Yes. Greg is a bitter, that guy? Yeah. Okay. So this guy named Palmer, he tweets, Greg is a bitter, used up old man who spends all of his time taking pot shots at people still doing something with their lives. He used to live down the street from me and was so mad about me running his weekend. I won't share emails or texts he sent to me, but man, what a loser. I hope I never turn into this. Please print this tweet and hit me in the face with it if I do.

54:24Okay. So I was like, who's this guy talking about? What's he so mad about? Okay. So he's talking about Taco Bell's former CEO. Yeah. So Taco Bell's former CEO, a guy named Greg, does this whole tweet about McDonald's. And this guy, Palmer, is like, he used to live down the street from me and this guy sucks. Yeah. Am I understanding that correctly? Am I explaining that right? Yes. So basically, Greg is Taco Bell's former CEO. And he lives by a guy named Palmer. And Palmer's tweeting that Greg sucks. And he's always taking pot shots at people still doing something with their lives. that's really funny well palmer lucky do you know who he is no jules do you know who he is no so he he's like a legendary entrepreneur okay so he started oculus the vr company sold that to facebook okay and then that turned into a huge like debacle and everyone turned on And then he goes and he starts Andrel, which is that massive defense tech company.

55:29Okay. And he's doing truly unbelievable work for the country. And he's a hilarious guy. His tweets are great. So that made me laugh. But then I also read what Bob wrote about. Greg. Greg. I thought Greg made a great point. Greg was giving crap to McDonald's. And Greg was talking about how he created Taco Bell, the Baja Blast. Right. And why the Baja Blast was so successful. Yes. And he was ripping McDonald's doing Red Bull energy drinks. Yep. And he's like, they should have called it the McEnergizer. And then he started getting chipped for the McEnergizer. and i was sitting there like i actually think the mcenergizer is an awesome name i agree like if mcdonald's launched an energy drink called the mcenergizer i think it would be massive i he agrees he's he's with you on this i just think it was like one of those double things like this palmer lucky dude is is awesome his tweets uh often are are uh you know hitting in a in a variety of ways and then when i went deep on this i was like well i i i actually love love what bob's saying here too greg greg yeah no i assume that what what um palmer's saying is is is there's a lot of merit to it as well but what i think is funny is they lived in this neighborhood okay so you got palmer who's obviously done some awesome things and then you've got the ceo of taco bell yeah so this is a this is a the streets got some hitters on it right and you know greg just one day puts out his thoughts about mcdonald's and palmer goes here greg is a bitter used up old man who spends all of his time taking pot shots at people still doing something with their lives like palmer did we have to go there on like he's great palmer's great no no i agree that he's great i think this is hilarious like this is some neighborhood beef and imagine if i just took to twitter and was like i'm sure i gotta assume that palmer just like watch this dude cause havoc on the street.

57:45Oh, I'm sure. And he's just telling us all about it. I thought the whole interaction was funny. But that's why I wanted to talk about it. Cause I love, I love this. I'm all in on the McEnergizer. And now Greg's just like Palmer. Regardless of what Bob, who Bob is, the McEnergizer is just awesome. It's a great idea. And I love, but I love Palmer for just calling him out here. The Palmer go to anyone, truly anyone. Oh, he will. Okay. That's funny. Yeah. He is just like a, uh, uh, so the, the other tree of the week that I want to talk about is bring it back to the travel theme, travel top of mind right now.

58:20So United has Starlink. Yep. And a guy on a United flight, his wife FaceTimes him to put his boy to bed. Cute. Very cute. And answers the FaceTime connection, clear as day. The flight, the stewardess goes over to him and says, hey, sir, you need to turn that off right away. Yeah, they say you can't do that. Yes. And then he pulled up the United Terms of Service, and it is like super, super clear, like you aren't allowed to do any form of video call on a plane. And they say it before takeoff and landing. Yeah. Or takeoff, yeah. But I always thought it wasn't enabled. No, they always say Wi-Fi cannot be used for making video calls.

59:05Like it is part, I've heard it a million times. I've heard it a million times. but every time, like, I didn't think you could do it. Of course you can do it. Yeah. Wait, so Jules, you knew you could just be ripping FaceTimes? No. No. I don't know. No, no, no, no. I got to, I got to, I got to stand my, they would get on the mic. Okay. Yeah. And they would say, and as a reminder, no video calling or, or phone calls allowed. Yep. And they would say that, but even if you wanted to do it, you couldn't do it. Okay. If you tried, it wouldn't connect. Okay. But what this guy is saying is now a Starlink, you can do it.

59:50But you're not allowed. But you're not allowed to do it. So it's like you can light your cigarette on the plane, but you're not allowed. Exactly. Okay. And how are they going to get people to actually follow this rule? When there's no smoke. is like, I feel like they're going to need to get on this. If they don't want people doing this, but they can do it, like you can't leave it on the flight attendants to have to monitor this the whole time. Totally, totally. It'll be too hard to manage. Yeah, it's the equivalent of like, you have to have your seatbelt on, but people can just kind of like put them here and not actually buckle them.

1:00:28But my question to you is, do you think, assuming there's no security risks, do you think you should be allowed to do FaceTimes and do phone calls on airplanes? Okay, I think it's - On commercial flights. I think it's a phenomenal question. I think in fast forward to two to three years, we will be doing it. But do I think you should be able to, if you have your headphones in and there is, if you have your headphones in and there is zero risk to the pilot, because it used to be if your phone wasn't on airplane mode, Remember, you would like interfere with the receptors and that I didn't like. I'm assuming safety.

1:01:03I'm talking about. If it's completely safe. The only thing I can think of being a problem is it's like in a coffee shop. You have your headphones in, but we're all talking out loud. That to me seems like it's going to be too much and too chaotic. So actually, I want to change my answer. Probably not. Because what are you going to do? Keep it to a dull whisper. Not everyone's going to do that. So we're going to be taking what work. We're going to be taking Zoom work calls in the air. No, I think it's going to be too chaotic. What I'm trying to juggle right now is does the pro of being able to make calls and talk to people on flights offset the cons that like every so often it will be annoying when you don't want to be on a call or when you're kind of going toe to toe with someone else who's on a call?

1:01:48Oh, I don't know. Some people talk on the phone loud on purpose. But those will be bad experiences. I know, but right now what they say, okay, so right now there's a very clear line on airlines that they've all had to draw, clearly because a lot of people was breaking this rule, and it is this. You cannot play your phone or your laptop out loud. You have to have headphones. And they made that rule because a lot of people were clearly watching videos out loud with no headphones, and it was, like, loud and chaotic. So I think it's going to be the same thing if they start to allow video calls, and that's going to be, you can't say talk at a minimum voice.

1:02:22because some people's octaves are up here and then you're going to get passionate about something and you're going to talk louder and it's going to be. So I guess that brings the question. You can't measure the noise. There's no video. This is probably what we should have started the conversation with. And Jules, can you please chat this? No video calls on a flight. Is that due to safety reasons or is that due to passenger convenience? Because we may have just totally missed the mark on this whole thing. It may have never been about safety. I don't think it's about safety because it's Wi-Fi and they're giving you Wi-Fi.

1:02:52and they're just saying don't answer the call. I think. Jules? She's probably on the Google. Oh, sorry. I was talking, but I was muted. Airlines block real-time voice and video traffic over their Wi-Fi networks to prevent bandwidth overload, protect passenger comfort, and avoid cabin noise. So two out of the three are for cabin noise. The first one is like bandwidth overload, which I get. Like we don't want to like, you know, hog all the wifi in the sky. There's probably some receiver issues there, but the next two are like passenger comfort and noise control. Okay. So it's, it's, Can I say something?

1:03:32Yeah. Do you guys like the, the airplane is like the one time that you're just like disconnected from people. Like I don't even like having wifi on the plane, text people. I agree. Jules. It's like the one time in the world that you can unplug for four hours and to be getting a call on a flight. Like I could never, I totally agree. Jules, you're talking to two people who have lost that. Well, because with kids, we don't buy the Wi-Fi anyways. When I was on the flight the other day to Minneapolis and LA, I'd forgotten how amazing a flight could be. I forgot how productive they were. I forgot how relaxing they were.

1:04:18it's just like traveling with a kid is it's truly just it's a full-fledged other experience we lose our like a lot of times we lose our phones and my screen time is five minutes so it is nice to be able to get the wi-fi and zonk out in that regard but it's also nice to not have the wife like it's both are true both are true but i'm i'm i'm with you like i'm i'm with you uh it's it has to be a know. But what I could get behind, okay, maybe, maybe, maybe, is there being a section on the plane where you can book it to do a 15-minute call if you need to? Well, I'm down for there to be a section on the plane where you can book it and do voice calls in general.

1:05:10But then it would be a disaster because all the people in that section would be on calls. You just got to know that's the name of the game which i could yeah i think that's probably the solution is you have a phone you have a call free zone and a call zone like you also know when you go to the coffee shop like some of them are really loud and that's just you're you're in that communal workspace and this is just a version of that which i'm down for listen where i think airplanes are going to be in 20 years there's going to be a cafe there's going to be a quiet zone i mean they're going to be like really extravagant different experiences than we've got now and just I do not agree and we'll move on okay okay I well girl can dream um and yet the only the only last thing I want to end on is just like a bubber update which is sort of a new thing she's doing which is very passionate about her outfits very much so like she has an opinion on which one she wants to wear and it's the cutest thing ever well it's so funny about that is is for the past 48 hours like you've wanted her to wear that cherry outfit every day and every day she's just shutting that outfit no no mama yeah so she says no no mama yeah and then and then she finally wore it yeah well i the way that i managed to get that to happen is uh is i asked if she wants to go swimming she said yes i said do you want to wear a swimsuit she said yes so i put on her swimsuit and then i put it over her swimsuit oh it's like okay we'll put this over she goes she loves it she loves i love that she's very interested in her clothes yeah she's very and i think that came maybe it stemmed from me having her pick her outfits from such an early age but she very much so like if we show her one out one option she's like where's the other one like if we're like hey do you want to wear this tape she's like well i want to see the other option we took her shopping today like she legitimately was saying yes and no to different outfits she legitimately was we We went to Zara Kids because for this trip, I went through her closet and I was like, okay, you have three outfits that still fit you because she's just gone through a growth spurt.

1:07:09So we went to Zara Kids. We truly walked her around. We're like, do you like these overhauls? Yes. Do you like this? No, no. So it was great. We just got her. It turns out she likes pink. And what's so funny is two things. So I picked out two dresses and one was just like a really nice white dress with some patterns. And she said no. And then the other one is I found this cute little golf shirt dress. dress and and when i asked her i'm not sure if you heard if you caught me hearing this when i asked her if she wanted it and she said no and then you said something to her like thank like thank goodness girl what did you say did you catch that um you said something really funny like like affirming that that dad had picked out like an ugly dress i think as an atta girl or something it was really funny but i just got to take some jewels and we need to wrap because we need to be out of here by 8 p.m.

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