Co-sleeping, the ‘pay-to-play’ sports problem & Summer House is coming to Canada?!

30:22She's a mediator as well. A she's a mediator but B like you know a lot of information yeah sure and I know how to google that's what I feel like my main job is sometimes and she's a good googler okay I'm moving us along ready traveling with should we get a little picture of Jules to go in the an instax no on the cover photo oh like a little mini Jules the other day P said should we start putting you in the thumbnails I said no That would be so cute I would love to have Jules on the thumbnail No thank you Did you guys see that I was in the latest clip though? No Because the camera looks good now I can't look at my phone I don't have social media We tried it And nothing happened Which is that's fine Yay You know what it's Jules' option Obviously if she wants to be In the clips or not and I'm happy to hear that.

31:23What was the clip? The Taylor Swift one. Of course. I was reading your guys' phone contacts. People only have like 50 phone contacts in the comments. People are like, how do you guys have 2 ,500 phone contacts? I have 53. No way. No way somebody gets 53. How old are they? I don't know. I just was laughing. A lot of people had like 500-ish. That to me seems like a very normal matter. I think it's highly correlated to how many cities you've lived in. I was going to say, we've moved a lot, all three of us. Here's what I think the power of Jules is. Obviously, her being very well-read. Extremely well-read.

32:06I also think the power of having a third is just, it's super beneficial. Because when I don't have something to say or you don't have something to say. Jules does. Jules is going to. And a lot of times. Who runs at the combo. She furthers what we're thinking, which is nice. She takes it to a deeper level. Or explains what we're thinking to each other. I can tell she would love nothing more than for us to move on at this moment. Let's keep on rituals. A new school year means a fresh start. For families that are looking for a new path to help their child succeed, K-12 could be the perfect fit. K-12-powered schools offer tuition-free, accredited online public education for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

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33:20Enroll online today at k12.com slash two parents. That's the letter K, the number 12.com slash two parents. k12.com slash two parents. Traveling with, I, this, this is traveling with help. I don't love the term. Traveling with our two angels. How did you structure working hours versus fun time? This specific listener is thinking about bringing a college student with them on their next trip. So. I have a first question. What? Should we clarify what happened? Sure. Yeah. Okay. What? You went on a trip to Colorado. We went on a trip to Colorado. So we took our night nurse, Diana, and the neighbors took Mimi, Maria.

34:01Yeah. And I think. We didn't take both. But my question is, you took Diana not as a night nurse. Right. You took her as a nanny. Right. because she knows she knows tate and rocky and then like they both know all the kids we're like we'll take her and then because we stayed at separate airbnbs um in separate areas and so because we booked it first and then the neighbors we were like guys book book the fourth with us book the fourth and they finally did so then they took maria so obviously the girls all hung out during the day but yeah we had two different like each family had somebody to help them and we get like how you know we understand how fortunate what a fortunate position we are to travel with with support yeah of course like that goes without saying we've said that that is not lost on us of course but how did we so how did how did we go about the you guys Harrison is so he has the brain of like I was like we're gonna have to make a daily schedule I was very overwhelmed by that because I was like how are we gonna do it so Harrison who you have like a very organized brain and he was like 12 to 8 every day is when they're on technically.

35:07Yeah, and a lot of that time, it was always the idea of we'll make sure that the mornings are kids' activities and then the afternoons are very much TBD. And so it felt like for a lot of the afternoons, we ended up having with the kids and they were either with us or not with us. And then some afternoons, we got to go and do just parenting. So it was a great balance. Yeah, so it was great. So every day at 12, we would put the kids down for a nap and then like we would go walk around. But Diana would stay there and obviously be on call for them napping. Then whenever they woke up, they would go out and maybe go to the park X, Y, Z.

35:43And if we wanted to do dinners together, like the night we went to Whitehorse and got the burger, like we just all go. But if Harrison and I were going out like for my birthday dinner, you know, then we just go out to dinner and then we come back. And so it was 12 to 8. And I thought that was a very good schedule. Or like at least it worked for us. So, yeah, that's how we structured it. Anything else to say on the matter? Okay, honey, some exciting news. Let's hear it. In the pop culture world. Summer House Canada. Summer House Canada. Can you believe? A 10-episode Canadian version of Summer House is starting production in Muskoka.

36:24I've heard you or your mom talk about Muskoka a lot. Where is it? It's just outside Toronto. It's where Dan goes. It's where Dan goes in the summer. I knew. Okay. I knew I had heard somebody talk about it. This is very funny. It's pretty. It's beautiful. It's true lake country. I think if you were to compare the aesthetic, it would be Ozark. If you were to compare the bougie-ness, it would be Hamptons. Oh, so this will be good. This will be good. Yeah. The homes are homes. I'm excited. I'm curious if I know the people I googled the cast isn't released yet what Jules Jules is Jaws I assume no I was just thinking about the fact that you could know some of the people the other thing is I knew Muskoka and it's because that's where the cabin or the cottage in heated rivalry is in real life I knew it sounded familiar for some reason that's how I'm excited about this Me too.

37:30And it airs in 2027. Yeah. Not that far away. But yeah, the cast is not released yet. I don't know. So Muskoka, the boating culture is very heavy. And so you'll be at, we call them cottages. Okay. And you boat from cottage to cottage. You boat to people's cottages. Dan just texted us. I wonder if we should respond and be like, do you know anybody that's been cast on Summer House? Canada. Yeah, that was... We gotta ask. It would be so cool if you knew somebody. Because the Summer House... Well, the problem is there's likely an age issue. I was gonna say, are they gonna go old or are they gonna go young?

38:12They'll probably be with the two handle. And so it'll be out. We're getting old. In another lifetime, could have been me and the boys. Good man, you and the boys on Summer House Canada. I do think in some lifetime you were on Summer House. well that's that poses a whole other question you and i haven't talked about do you think people come back like re and like in terms of reincarnation like a version of you do you know what i mean like do you think somebody's like a cat okay we're gonna not do that i thought you were gonna ask like would you ever be on reality tv sound off in the comments if you if you believe in reincarnation i will wholeheartedly say my answer to that question is no with the exception of survivor reality and the amazing race i would do the amazing race you'd be so good on survivor when do we get a new episode i would not do the amazing race with you i harrison i would be very good at the amazing race i would beat you we're on a team and i would do the amazing race but you just said you wouldn't do it with me i would not but i would then i would beat you i would do it with alex cost we would win uh like we would win some unfortunate information i just learned about you and alex Cost.

39:22What? Because another fun fact, you guys, the way that we met Diana was through Alex Cost. She told me you two are the same person, so I think you guys would self-implode. You need to have different... I think him and I have been to 30 to 40 countries together. We know how to... It doesn't mean you would win the amazing race. One-two punch travel. No, I... Okay, maybe. Well, okay, that's a pretty good... If you've actually been... Our communication on a tuk-tuk, very good. What's a tuk-tuk? It's like the little vehicles in Thailand. Like how do you communicate? Like what is required to communicate with there?

39:58Just more like our ability to be in a foreign country, get on a vehicle. Oftentimes if someone doesn't speak English and communicate where we need to go, very high. And who does? Like remote random cities. Who does the main communicating? We bounce off of it. It's different time, different place. Ying and yang? Okay. I think that possibly the best like if you had to do an application video the best thing you could say is like we've been to 40 countries together and we're business partners I mean that's pretty good but from what I heard you both leave the door open I heard you both leave doors open we know how to divide and conquer yeah I was I was doubled over laughing it was so Diana was so funny she's like him Alex cost exact same person I was like I know so cute if we could get you two on The Amazing Race.

40:50But my priority is Survivor. And do you think you'll ever send in a video about that? I think if we sat down and did it next week, then yes. So it has to be next week? If it's still open, I think we should do it. Is it quite busy next week? I'm a little concerned that I wouldn't be good on Survivor. Wait, what? If we're putting it out there. We are being very honest. Why do you not think you'll be good on Survivor? You'd be great. You're not afraid of bugs. and you're strong. I have a bug question for you. Yes. When you see a bug and you're alone, do you react to it? Or is your reaction for the benefit or detriment of others?

41:35I'm staying at my friend's house watching their dogs, and I saw a palmetto bug, and I didn't react. But I think if someone was there, I might have been like, ah! That's such a funny question. It's a good question, Joel. Do I scream when I'm at myself is sort of the question. Yeah, I still do. Oh. Or I get very flustered and hot and I immediately call Harrison to tell him about it. How is dog sitting the neighbor's dog? Oh, it's great. He's the best. Do you want to be a dog sitter? Because one of my friends posted yesterday, like, do you know a dog house sitter? And I responded and said yes, but then I was like, I should ask Julie.

42:09Are you getting paid for this? Yeah. Okay. Oh, well, not when I do it for my friends because we just swap services. But the neighbors paid you? Yeah. Okay. Most people pay for a dog sitter. So do you want to do that? I'm totally going to mess with them now. And say like you should have paid Jules? No, you know what I'm going to say? What? I'm going to say I can't believe you guys didn't give Jules a bonus. No, they paid me more than enough and I told them they didn't need to pay me. Oh my God. I'm going to mess with them. I'm happy to watch a dog. They're so generous that it'll break the brain.

42:42Do not. Please. Yeah, don't do that to Jules. like i the problem i'm gonna not say what i was gonna say like yes or no it depends it just depends it depends how much it like inconveniences me right i know this person lives on the east side no is it a big dog or small dog i don't know i've never seen the dog it just depends like if my dog gets along with the dog oh i gotta show you guys the videos of jenny and and neighbor dog oh really Yeah, it was funny. Were they playing? They didn't really know how to play with each other. Yeah, different sizes. Like, Ginny's like, and he just smacks the floor with his little paws.

43:20Yeah, it was fun. Okay, well, that's it. So we'll see if you're a dog sitter. Yeah. I put you both up for dog sitting opportunities because you both love dogs. All right, Harrison took that opportunity to check his phone, which we can, that's so exciting. He probably just freaking sent them a text saying, I'm complaining. Harrison, he texted. Harrison.

43:46I'm going to text them. It's a really funny text. What did he say? Just let him reply. I think you guys owe Jules money. She just slightly mentioned it. Oh my God. Harrison, stop. She responded and said, wait, I paid her last week. Like, she said, you overpaid. And we're very nice. She just said, I wanted to die. It was... That's evil. You know, Mark. I'm trying not to say it again. It's so not their style. So, like, you just hit them in there.

44:32Get everyone going. Oh, that's so mean. Harrison, like, lives to mess with them. He just loves it. Okay. She goes, I literally just panicked. Did it not go through? So mean, Harrison. He loves a good joke. Okay. Summer House Canada, we did. All right. We got to talk about pay to play in sports, and we do. Anything else? What do we say on Summer House Canada? We just ran an ad for it? How could we not talk about Summer House Canada? Yeah, like we can't. Jules can't know that it's existing and then not tell us. it was that was it was announced yesterday here here could be one of the tough dynamics is the logistics of muskoka aren't as easy as the logistics of the hamptons but they hardly leave the house you know one thing we never talked about what about summer house is that they have to drive themselves there instead of what like i don't know i saw an interview once and it alluded to them, I think, that being in the contract.

45:37That they had to. That they have to because I think that for content and for drama, they probably think that that's important. I think that they probably don't want a lot of the icebreaker conversations to be happening in the house, and it's also a great way to pin people against each other. Also, okay. Because you have a lot of ISO combos. I also think going to the Hamptons I think the train is like the most fun way to get there but other than that like I would like to drive myself I saw a podcast clip of Paige Storbo saying that her dad told her she wasn't allowed to try that's what I saw I was like that checks out she is so funny to me like I just think her one-liners are hilarious okay let's talk about pay to play Let's do it.

46:23All right. It's a big topic online with soccer. I'm going to do my best to explain this. Literally, when we're talking about pay to play, I'm talking about sports and kids and how all these other countries in the World Cup, it's exacerbating the fact that these kids grow up playing soccer. Is this correct so far? Now, soccer here. I'm not, like, fully up to speed on what's being said on the Internet. I read about it. I'm going to need this explained. Like soccer here is very expensive and you have to pay in order to play. So a lot of kids by the age, what I read was around 11 or 12, they stop playing because it's expensive.

46:57Now, the equivalent to this to me is an AAU basketball team or a club volleyball team. Yeah, the price of soccer in the U.S. is really no different than the cost of the other major sports. okay but other countries make it free am i understanding this correctly yeah so jules why don't you explain what the internet's saying and then i'll give added color or like what people are really worked up about right now i think i think overall on the internet people are worked up over the price of playing any youth sport at a competitive level in the united states because we have a pay to play model and a lot of the club teams are as i understand it like privatized or owned by private equity yes and it's very expensive and it's become a very large industry youth sports in yes and not just soccer not just is the big point like the cost of basketball the cost of soccer is largely the same however right what's being talked about a ton online right now is like why is the U.S.

48:10so bad at soccer? It's just the conversations about soccer because of the World Cup right now. Yes. And yes, my understanding of what Alex said is accurate. It's like it costs too much to play soccer. Kids are stopping. And also it costs so much. And then they're not incentivized to cut people. So then there's just a bunch of people that aren't good at the sport that can't afford it playing. And that is long-term detriment to the sport overall. And then in other countries, they're just never going to let cost be a problem if someone has the talent. And something like the professional leagues that give grants to the club, the young club teams.

48:52Yeah, they have youth teams. Yeah, they have these youth teams. And, like, they're incentivized if those kids make it to the pro, the pros pay the youth teams and so on and so forth. that there's just like a different culture around playing sports there where money isn't the issue and then one more thing that i'm thinking about now is what i read yesterday was it has become too expensive and too intensely competitive that it's taking the fun out of it now there was there was a team in the olympics remember this who had who had um i i think it could have been the Netherlands. I think it was the Netherlands and they the way that they do what was it hockey was it's all fun or something like that.

49:37Yeah it's largely no it's all sports are largely open until you're 16 like there's no specialization. They're all open. So you play everything and you play for fun. And you yes you play for fun. And I think like that they were finding out and wasn't the Netherlands very good at something. Yes and and one of the core drivers of that often is the people who perform best at 12 aren't the people that are performing best at 16. And so a lot of these 12, 13-year-olds, 14-year-olds are getting pushed in a certain direction that is best for them in the moment, but isn't best for them in the long run. But I think that we're mixing a bunch of different issues here, which I think on one bucket, We have the structural industry of youth sports and how expensive it is and how competitive it is.

50:32And a very large driver of that is the travel component of it. And so I think on average, a parent is spending$1 ,500 per year on children's sports. but when you get to the high end that number can be upwards of$25 ,000

50:56and I think the big it's tough because our kids are so far away from this but to me the big question is just the why are we pushing our kids down these paths um why are we why aren't we embracing recreational sports teams and are pushing kids to do travel um especially when you look at like the the chances of going to the next level are so low so i give you a look at something like football let's say there's 250 000 seniors in the u.s that play football and so are going to have the opportunity to play um to play college football call it six percent of those kids are going to make it um because i think you have like 80 ,000 college football players a year and that's kind of divided between five years so like call it 16 000 incoming college freshman a year um so your kid has like a unless they're one of the top two players on their team top player on their team like chances of them going to college are very very low it's like why are the parents putting all this time energy and effort and money behind it is it because of bonding and that's it's the way for them to create friends or is it because like the why is it that they're feeling pressure to do that because the coaches are saying you know if you don't do it your kid's going to fall behind and this not to mention the chance of going pro where like if you have 20 ,000 uh I honestly classes a year 20 ,000 like you know freshmen a year 257 of those 260 of those are getting drafted in the NFL so your chance of getting drafted in the NFL as an overall football player if you played senior high school football is one in a thousand.

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54:54One went to TCU. One went to Baylor. One went to Penn State to play volleyball. I mean, they all went on to play volleyball. The really good girls on the club team, right? Yeah. So I think, like, if your kid now wants to play, every level has gotten higher. so to play like high school a sport right you must play the club off season of that sport probably in some of these sports that make sense like the bar has just been risen at every level like you can no longer just like i don't know i would assume 50 years ago like yeah i think basketball i think what i find so interesting about that is when you look at um there's a a study that was recently done on, uh, on pro hockey players.

55:43And when you looked at the amount of sports they played at a high level through the end of high school, the mass, mass majority of NHL players were two, were at least two sport athletes. And a lot of times in high school, they say you have to quit your other sport and you just have to play this sport. Yeah. So I guess, where are we going with this? Because we're kind of throwing out a bunch of dynamics and numbers. I think where we're going with it is I think the big thing is it would be really cool if, listen, sports having a high price tag on it is going to weed out a lot of people, even with scholarships being there.

56:18Weeds out a ton of people. And that to me isn't fair because sports should be accessible to everyone. I would assume that's where we're going. Well, and what's happening right now is there's like bipartisan alignment behind this, like it's called Let Kids Play Act, that they're just starting to have hearings for this in somewhere. I don't know that like is making it so that that like the PE funds that it says PE funds invested in youth sports are being considered vulture investors. They're requiring divestment within two years, refunding families for junk fees and creating one million dollar penalties for firms that don't comply.

56:59So like there's there's people in Congress right now in the House trying to essentially make what's going on in youth sports illegal so that is more accessible. And so and as they should, because sports keep because sports have a lot of a lot, a lot, a lot of pros to them. and I think one is they simply kept me out of trouble. So I think I have a good way to tie this all together. Okay. Okay. Because the U.S. is very, very good at sports. Yeah. As a whole. We know this. We have a lot of people. But we just shine light on one sport where we are trailing the world. Soccer. A la soccer. A la. And I think what that puts the spotlight on is...

57:47the why and interestingly how much better we could be at these other sports if we took out the pain components and we're not even at equipment yet have you seen the trend online probably not where the mom's like want to see my five thousand dollar bag and she just picks up her son's baseball bag and she's like and here's the bat and here's the helmet like we're not even into equipment yet because so many of the great athletes are being pushed away and and there's a stat that I didn't have a chance to pull up, but I was talking to someone about that participation rates in sports are collapsing generally with this generation.

58:27Yeah, I believe that. There's a lot of concerns from the major sports leagues now on what viewership looks like in 10 to 20 years. Football's the one. We're really good at football, and we don't have club. But no one else really plays. No other countries play football. Yeah, but I'm just saying, I think that... And the same thing, like when you look at the amount of people that play basketball here, it vastly outnumbers the rest of the world. Yeah, but we also, we have club basketball. We don't have club football, right? Well, I'm the Canadian here. My understanding is that the high school infrastructure around football is so dominant that that takes away the need for the supplemental leagues versus basketball where the dominant circuit is AAU, not necessarily high school.

59:27I know, but if we could reverse the two, then we could make it more accessible. Football's a good structure because schools provide, I think, everything but cleats. Maybe not pants. I mean, you know, and so then you're not having to pay a ton. Makes it a pretty accessible sport. Yeah, I don't know the solve. I don't know the solve. I'm new to this, and I find it really interesting. Me too, because I'm a big believer in sports. Like, I think sports for youth in an accessible way is obviously ideal. I'm only a believer in sport for the right reason, for the right motivation. like i'm a believer in sports for relationship building for teaching about overcoming challenges and adversity losing you're gonna lose you're not gonna win them all how to be a good team player how to find your role on a team team player is probably the biggest one i'm not a proponent of sports to like be a professional athlete because the odds are so so low that you're not positioning your kid for success if the odds are one in a thousand like when they need to go to five different camps big camps so you don't think bubber's the next alex morgan i think that bubber should play whatever sport she's naturally drawn to and reap the benefits of team sport and if she turns out to be like a absolute stud on the field then great and she can get competitive with it but I don't want to pressure her to do that I'm kidding we're not going to but I do think it's also good for self-esteem yeah for sure it can help with that so anyways we're gonna I you know let us know what you know but we should just like follow along how that let kids play thing is going yeah and I want to like this is something I want a better understanding can and get smarter on because it is very interesting.

1:01:26But I think the one last thing that I don't know if we fully harped on, which I think is pretty interesting. We love a last thing. Is that I've been told about, and actually it's really just building off what you said, but is the driver of anxiety in putting your kids into club and travel sports where the coach is telling the parent, while your kid may fall behind and this and that. And so that's why the parents are doing it. Oh, they got to play club. And then the parents are like, okay, I got to take out a second mortgage on the house. Like, that's crazy. Yeah. I agree. But it's because the bar has become more competitive.

1:02:04And then the parents, I saw Statter, spending about 13 and a half hours a week on their kids' sports. Well, until self-driving cars come. Autonomous vehicles. Shopping. Could solve that. Did you see the topic on autonomous vehicles? No. Scroll to the bottom. What do we have? Oh, I did read this, Jules. I was... I'll give you a live review. I was sat for this one. Live reaction. Waymo calls cops on two 15-year-old passengers. The kids were drinking and shooting water beads while riding a self-driving Waymo around town. Waymo, like, kept them in the car, essentially. The cops came, and then the cops detained them.

1:02:46And did you see Waymo told these kids that they were having technical difficulties getting the doors open so waymo did a little soft lie there okay but they were they were recording the kids that's kind of like kidnapping yeah a bit like that but like i gotta say like i love them calling the cops i do not love them locking those kids in like that's kidnapping yeah that is like that is kidnapping maybe it kept driving i don't know don't quote me on that but didn't but somehow it's that's a very important detail. Well, what I read was that it said that it was having technical difficulties. You can't be kidnapping people.

1:03:20I don't think Waymo's kidnapping people. I think that would be a lawsuit. But here's the thing. Okay, I'll say this. I'm going to take the opposite side of the thing here. Yeah. A lot of kids underage drink. I'm not condoning it by any means. I'm just saying I think some do. What I'd never want is one of those kids to then drive if they have to go somewhere. But I don't think they called it for the drinking. It sounded like they called it for them doing a bunch of other stuff. Well, I don't know what shooting water beads is. Like Orbeez? You know what Orbeez are? You guys are going to know what Orbeez are eventually.

1:03:55They're just like, are these little beads, they put them in water and they grow. But I think they have little water guns of them. So they were shooting water guns? Essentially. They're like little beads. Like a BB gun? Yeah, but more harmless. I need to know what these things look like. Did Waymo think they had a real gun? I don't know. The photo I saw, too, the alcohol was in a Gatorade can. So I'm like, how did Waymo? That checks out. It really shows the surveillance that's going on. That's what people were mad about. They're like, Waymo, why? But I don't know. I think that it's something you guys can do.

1:04:33Yeah, you can't be shooting those out of cars. Oh, they were shooting it out of the car. Yeah, out of the window. You can't be doing that. Oh, yeah, you can't. I'm sorry. I was thinking they were just like in there shooting each other. Or drinking, which is like, come on. What am I like? Let us live. But they're 15. Oh. Oh, the officers were, or sorry, the occupants were not locked in, and they did have the ability to exit the vehicle. Oh. I stand corrected. This is not a good recap. Well, anyways. You just said a bunch of random stuff. The point is, that's wild. In summation, crazy.

1:05:19I just thought it was crazy. Yeah, because on one end, I love how, in theory, Waymo can keep us protected. But on the other end, it's like the line of violation gets crossed really fast. Yeah. All right. And in other news, but sort of the same news, an AI actor. AI actor Tilly Norwood will star in a movie unlike many human performers whose auditions don't even help them land better catering gigs. I didn't understand that. This came from Harrison. It's very simple. Basically the TLDR is like they're gonna have an AI actor in an AI movie but the plot of the movie is what's crazy. So basically it'll be set in the Tillyverse which is a digital world where the actor quote unquote will portray an AI person with no real body or lived experience in a coming-of-age story infused with existential AI chaos.

1:06:15My brain breaks. I think this is interesting because there's all these talks about what industries— Does she look like a human? AI is—yeah, I assume so. AI is going to go after them where jobs are going to be lost. Hollywood is under the microscope. And so I'm fascinated to see it. How does this movie do? Is it good? Is it entertaining? doesn't flop but like whose sense of humor will tilly norwood have did she get a robot sense of humor like she have her own sense of humor but then like if she has a sense of humor it's programmed by a human like do you see what i'm saying she can read lines but the lines are gonna have to be programmed by a human so no but i think that a script was written by ai for the whole thing is ai So it's all AI, AI, AI.

1:07:03And obviously you have a human controlling the prompts, but... But underneath it all, this is AI. I think she's going to flop. She only has 164 ,000 followers on Instagram. And she's an AI person. She's an AI actress. But I would think if people were into it, there would be more than 164 ,000 followers on Instagram. Does she look like a person or does she look like a robot? No, she's a girl. And could you tell she was AI? No. Honestly, no. Like, on the cusp. Wow. Tilly Norwood. So she's fake. What's her bio? Welcome to the Tillyverse. Just another AI actor. Okay, so she's telling us she's an AI actor.

1:07:48You'll either get it or pretend you don't. Tilly's a little sassy. How many followers does little Mikayla have? She's like the OG. Who's a little Mikayla? Is she an AI actor? The OG AI influencer. little Michaela is little her first name little Michaela has 2.2 million wow but she's been at it oh and she like look little Michaela looks like AI little Michaela should have been cast in the movie little Michaela like followed by Harrison Bugman there was a period of time where she could have been massive this was like she was started in 2019 like in San Francisco do you think she replies to all of her DMs immediately I don't know like do you think that's like an AI thing she's 23 like how does she have an age like who decided she was just 23 she hasn't been around for 23 years like that's not fair she doesn't have 23 years under her belt do they have birth certificates no Speaking of which, Rocky, we got Rocky's birth certificate.

1:09:00All right, last story before we go. Does that work? Yeah. United is being sued over the window seats that lack windows, as they should. And then they tried to appeal this, and the judge threw it out. The judge was like, no, you're going to sit here with no window. Like, because, here's the problem. People were paying to upgrade to a window seat, and on the little map it says window. And then you get there and you look to your left and there's no window. It's actually kind of crazy. I'm a huge proponent of airline accountability. Same. I'm a huge proponent of airline accountability. It's like getting in the car and it's just like, that window doesn't work and it's black.

1:09:39Like, if you want to sit by the window, you want to sit by the window. I really get that. It's so like anxiety inducing. The amount of like, and United's particularly bad. The amount of cross-selling that is happening where it's like, all right, do you want economy basic? economy open for two more inches economy open plus premium economy premium plus economy light business class business class business class plus like what and it's all and that they're just pricing them out differently and all they've done is like add two to three inches in between the seats make them probably not even wider what i don't understand there's eight different economy options now and now they're doing like half free wi-fi i mean the airlines have really figured out how to upsell us and my favorite one is this well you got to pay to check your bag like what of course i'm traveling with the bag when i got to pay 50 more dollars to check it i'm like if you run the math on that they're making like five thousand dollars per plane of bags no okay it depends on the size of the plane yeah i'm i'm all i'm all for airline accountability plain and simple like the experience I just think one thing that they could do is they could just make one blanket like we offer two tiers of tickets because the other thing they do the more popular the flight gets the higher the prices go you notice have you ever noticed you go to American.com to look at a flight from here to Denver and it's$100 and then you go back five minutes later and now it's 150.

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