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1:35Like an apartment fire alarm? Yes. Louder. But yes, but it is like you live in an apartment. I guess an apartment level fire alarm in our house. Yeah, that's crazy. It was ripping. but the first time okay so it went off at three for the first time well hold on let's let's just like start can we let me at least bring us in here welcome back to another episode of two parents in a podcast okay here's what happened to us last night so it was three well let me just give you my whole night this happened postpartum with take two about a month a month and a half in i got raging heartburn and acid reflex and I got it last night like I felt like my throat and my heart and my back were on fire chat GBT was like you need to go to the ER and I was like you're being dramatic like I don't need to go to the ER but it was saying because the pain hasn't gotten worse since we or the pain hasn't gotten better since we started chatted chatting I do think you should go to the ER and I'm like this isn't helpful I wonder how many people I wonder last night it to go to the ER?

2:40Yes, I wonder. I was asleep, sorry. But I wonder if ER visits are up because of ChatGBT. They must be. Because people are like, and then they come in and they say, Chat told me to come. Like it made me so paranoid. One thing I saw is that legal cases are way up because people like are using ChatGBT to tell them that they're right essentially and they're bringing the cases to court. They think they have a case. So I'm sure the hospital thing is is also accurate and yeah i think it probably is because i was like i have obviously classic heartburn and acid reflux probably the worst i've ever had it but this is obviously a classic case of that and i'm just asking chat which medicine i should doordash and it's like checking back in on me and my symptoms and it's like this isn't normal this is the case for especially since your postpartum you should go to the er could be something erupting in your system and i'm like oof and that was giving me like the placebo that it was so much worse than it was.

3:35Anyways. You could have been that bad because you didn't wake me up. Well, I... I feel like you wake me up whenever there's something kind of wrong. Well, did you not notice I slept upright all night? Well, I did like a... I woke up at like 1230 and watched you upright and I thought like you were like upset about something. Oh, yeah. And so I was like, oh my God, are you okay? I have some heartburn. So, you know, Thank you for, I guess, yeah, I don't know. There's just nothing you could do. You didn't make it seem like an event. Yeah, well, it was an on event, and it hurt so bad that I had to distract myself, so I actually purposely was scrolling Instagram.

4:13Okay. Like, I was, like, trying to disassociate from my body. Anyways, the door dasher got there at, like, 1230, 1245. I was, I think I took way more than you're allowed to take a Pepto-Bismol. It helped a little. And then I was able to sleep. And then at three, this fire alarm, and it starts saying, fire, baby's room. Yeah, because we have, like, you know, we installed, like, the nicest thing you can get. So our rooms are labeled. So we hear the fire alarm go off, but we weren't sure it was the fire alarm or if it was our real alarm because you're, like, a little disoriented. So Harrison runs down the stairs, and I go into Tate's room, and I start rubbing her back.

4:54and I'm just like it's okay because like I just was like our alarm obviously like got something's going off but like it's obviously fine and when I get into Tate's room it says fire baby's room please evacuate it says fire smoke baby's room fire alarm but whatever something baby's room please evacuate so I'm like what the fuck so I'm like Tate we're getting up so I get her up and I just like run down the stairs and I'm like are we okay and Harrison's like yes something is glitched in the system because he's on the phone with them now so something in our system had glitched. Well, my heart was beating out of my chest.

5:25Tate's heart was beating out of her chest. And so then we spend 30 minutes. Rocky Bears was 9-9. Rocky Bears was, he slept. He was like so 9-9. I'm good for him. He sleeps. That's where they get the term sleeps like a baby. So then, you know, we get everybody back to sleep. Tate goes back to sleep. We were like, man, that was crazy. All of our heart rates calmed back down. And then it goes off again. I was like, are you kidding me? I couldn't believe it. I have a hilarious dad moment in it. Then it went off two more times. What was your hilarious dad moment? Well, the first time it went off, and it's full-blown just like pandemonium in the house.

6:06Yeah, what is it? Were there not lights flashing, or am I making that up? I don't know. It felt like the world was ending. And it's the dad's job to go downstairs and investigate. Well, you're so cute, though. Right when it happened, I got it. I got it. Whatever it is, I got it. Did I say that? I don't remember that. Yeah, it was so cute. Oh, I totally don't remember that. But like growing up, like it was always your dad that would go down and deal with this stuff. Yes. No, no, no. Now I got to do it. Yeah, now you're the dad. Isn't that funny? Yeah. So then the girl, we called him again. But it was just, what was clear like after the 30 seconds had kind of gone by?

6:45It's like nothing in the house smelled. Like there was, to me, it was very clear there wasn't a fire happening. yeah we went around everywhere and like checked and then by the third time we call her back we're like the fire alarm keeps going off and we're like hard or we're Wi-Fi'd into some system like everything's in our I don't even know how it works but anyways the girl we're calling she's like I can't tell what it is and we're like we don't want it to go off again so what do we do she's like well you have to take the batteries out that's your only option well we're like We have 10-foot ceilings.

7:20We have the ladder in there, but we don't have a really tall. We're just trying to get the batteries out. And this is not like 4, 4.30 in the morning. I wanted to get a broom or a baseball bat and just deal with it today. I was so mad. And you talking about it, you were so calm. You spent the whole time calming me. I was ready to take a baseball bat today. You kept calling the girl and being like, we have two under two? Two kids under two. Turn it off. Get the fire alarm off. And the girl's like, I can't dismantle it. He's like, we'll take our chances until 6 a.m. when we all get up. It's 4 a.m.

7:56Turn it off. But they couldn't, like, the craziest and most frustrating part of it. So we take the batteries out. It's like, beep. And it's. Yeah. That's what I was going to ask. Starts beeping. So I had to go downstairs, get a screwdriver, and unscrew the system from the wall and pull out the wires. We had to dismantle the whole system. They're coming back today. They're going to remantle it. But we're officially changing our security provider. Okay. Yeah. It was the way that this, you got to have like the systems in place where if you have a second false alarm that they have the ability to pause the system for the night.

8:36And they're not making their users get screwdrivers and spend, you know, 30 minutes dismantling your freaking system. And like that was the problem. is like the kids were like the two kids. Right. And Bubba was just like, oh, she was so confused. She didn't cry. She was just like so confused and wouldn't be put down. Of course not. I got her heart rate up. My heart rate was up. My heart rate was beating out of my chest. Oh, and I had the heartburn thing, so I was already sleeping upright. And I was just like, this is not a good night. Three wake-ups, 4 a.m. when it went off the second time I was like oh my gosh um but you know what such is life so great but it is really funny that you are now you are now you used to be able to lay in bed while your dad solved it now you're the dad you've heard me say it but I'll say it again you guys skims is always changing the game with their intimates everything they come out with is truly the best I'm wearing their bra right now they make the stretchiest underwear fabric then they created the cutest push-up bra and now they've done it again with their new everyday cotton fabric.

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10:53You didn't think you so-so? It was so good. I thought you guys did a phenomenal job. So we went over to the neighbors and we had some other neighbors on the block over and we fried the chicken and we had Father's Day and it was so great. I loved the barbecue we did. I love the concept of hosting. It was in my in the Substack newsletter, the last minute barbecue, which we ended up doing. I love that. The frying chicken. One, it is a two person job. Yeah, that's the first thing. Like cooking this oil on the open fire, like it is very, very, very, very, very. You need to be attentive or it can become dangerous very fast.

11:39The biggest problem was the girls, Tate and Winnie, weren't allowed to be outside with you guys. And they want to be part of the cooking. Yeah. So it was just, it was a lot. I bought the wrong chicken. I'm a little upset with myself. The chicken I bought was too big. I honestly thought it was one of the better meals you've made. So... It wasn't enough seasoning in the flour. I loved it. Anyways, we had great company. We had a great conversation. And so what we're going to do is what we were doing last night. Jules, you're going to guess. So we were looking up. Who do you think are the top nine?

12:15Did she get that facial reaction that she just did? The top 10 most followed people on Instagram. I screenshotted it. Top five. No, we're doing the 10. Selena Gomez. Number three. Well, okay. I know some of these. Instagram is first, so these numbers are like... Why did you just tell her? Well, because you're not going to get that. What? That's the... Okay, let's just do a game, and then the trickiest part of the game, let's just ruin. That was crazy. Well, Selena Gomez is actually four, and I know you thought she was three, but she's the third most followed human.

12:53And Cristiano Ronaldo... Is? More than Selena Gomez. Yeah. And that's where you lost me. Like, I just know those two. Okay. Is it a Kardashian? So there's one on here that I think is impossible to get. Mm-mm. Because I think this guy's very well known for having a massive social media following. Not Kevin Hart, but he's the opposite of Kevin Hart. I don't know. In a lot of different ways. The Rock? yes oh yeah i wouldn't have gotten that he's above kim kardashian oh wow yeah so okay now here's here's here let me try and let me try and have you guess them with clues okay okay this is a good way to do it okay number one she's got ronaldo number one is ronaldo number two is a uh the version of ronaldo that is better at the sport but less commercial than him

14:01you really lost me my hair today is i was gonna say messy and i didn't i couldn't believe it was messy because he he's so not commercial but that is how much people love soccer yeah okay so three we have selena gomez four we have the rock no okay what's the hint for four let me see

14:29so you guys were doing this at father's day okay okay um for you guess the family already and it's the most popular one kim kylie oh whoops yeah then the rock then is oh let me see if this is who i want this is perfect this is what i was going for an irrefutably worse taylor swift the worst version of Taylor Swift like if Taylor's 1A this lady is the clear 1B I couldn't believe she had more followers than her yeah Taylor Swift's not on this list yeah a worse version of Taylor Swift I need you to guess this okay give her another hint like what does this person do wasn't she in an animated movie Morphin's oh really?

15:21no Wait, repeat that to be food in here She says she might be a more famous actress than musician Which I refute But she is in something recently Oh Jules Yes No, I know what it is Yeah Yeah Wicked Oh, Ariana Grande Yeah Sorry, she's irrelevant to me Is that not a creep? To the Arianaators In what world is Ariana Grande bigger than Taylor Swift on Instagram? The Arianaators They love her Oh, am I going to get in trouble now? No I don't think. No. Then you've got Kim, and then we've got Chloe. Okay. Yeah, I was never going to get to Ariana Grande. I was having a hard time getting to The Rock last night.

16:04I was like, oh. The Rock is like sneaky, one of the highest grossing actors that's around. Like when he goes into a movie, it crushes the box office. Speaking of the box office. Okay, yeah, Toy Story 5. Toy Story 5. You guys seeing it? that is a yes Jules is no P's not on camera so you're getting a yes are you gonna see it Alex? I would love to I'm gonna realistically I'm gonna watch it at home are we gonna bring Bubber? Bubber just like isn't sitting through a movie right now yeah she'd get five minutes of it yeah so what's the deal with it though? but I do think this is a good foray into we are taking a flight today it's our first flight ever with two under two we are bringing for the first time ever an official screen for Tate so that way she can watch a show

17:03because we just think that her energy levels are so high that it will be the only way to not have her disrupt the whole plane will it work we don't know we will report back but she doesn't watch screens um we still don't do screens with her but we but one actually one day she was sick remember that day where she didn't feel good yep and we like we were like do you want to watch the lion king and we put it on and she she watched it for a little bit um but i think yeah i'm really proud of us for making it this far but yeah i think on this flight we're gonna need to see if she will watch maybe even 20 minutes of a screen if she can even hold the screen like how this all goes we'll see we'll report back to you guys but what are you gonna put on lion king i don't know um i don't know frozen like she likes songs yeah i think frozen is probably gonna be it yeah so we're gonna attempt that but what was your point with uh toy story just saying like it's pretty cool that number five still has value like we're we're at toy story five story five second highest grossing pixar movie of all time for their opening weekend so people are showing up people are seeing it i think that speaks to like people want to go to the theaters we just don't give them enough of a reason to go to the theaters and um yeah i'd love to watch toy story one with bobber maybe we'll try toy story one with her that would be really cute yeah see if she likes that so in here too jules put in this um like people were talking about uh father's day article or father's day moments and it was like very like don't tell mom and i was reading some of them this morning and one of the dads there was a movie that that you know how they used to have those movies that come out right at like midnight and then there's like a 2 a.m showing yeah one of the kids really wanted to see some movie that came out and they were like no because he had a test the next morning and then his dad woke him up like 11 at night and was like i got the tickets let's go and they went that's very fun isn't that cute that's very it's a lot of stories like that should we talk about the surprise gift that you got me what did i get you world cup tickets

19:27what did you get them did you buy world cup tickets oh I don't know I think there's a big trend like of dads getting surprised with World Cup tickets it's a big thing going on and they're buying it themselves though funny but no oh kids surprising their dads that was like the big takeaway Father's Day like internet moment was dads getting surprised gifted World Cup tickets that's amazing where was I on this trend Harrison got a wedding ring that was his Father's Day gift and a hat a monogrammed hat because we call ourselves yeah it's cute save it we call Tate and Rocky Rocky Bears and Tatey Bears so I got him a hat monogram that said dadder bears which I thought was really cute um so my story about H and we talked about this a little on the podcast but a very dad thing that you did was the time that I sent you to dance class and instead you went swimming that was very cute it was a classic like dad move i love the okay there was another one where a mom had put the whole family on a diet and like wanted them all to eat really healthy and one day the kid got home from the bus stop and there was like a dairy market right there and they went to the market because they saw their dad and they thought that their dad was going to be getting just like you know bread and milk and things but instead the guy was like the usual and he's like yeah and he got a chip box with like a giant hot dog and all that and he looked over at his kid and saw that he had been caught and was like make it too and they just like ate them together i think i just think that's really cute because you obviously can't be where i like these stories like you obviously can't be lying to your partner okay we obviously understand there's a line there but there's also a love there's lovely space for dad and mom both to be like don't tell your dad i bought you this you know you need another word for it yeah it's like very like it's a wink.

21:22Yeah, you need a word for that. For that. For those moments. Yeah, and it's always like the grandparents are the ones that are supposed to like give them the sugar. You know, like we said no sugar and then of course they get to have cookies over there, things like that. I ordered cookies from Tiny's Milk and Cookies. Yeah, was that Saturday? Actually, I had a big weekend of DoorDash in a lot of the moments you didn't know. number one of which I got caught by marketing. A marketing campaign officially worked for me. Okay, what was it? You know what I did at 11pm at night? What? On Friday night before Father's Day?

22:06Friday night or Saturday night? Saturday night. So the night before Father's Day. What I did? After just being inundated with ads. What? World Cup ads. Bought a jersey? I ordered McDonald's. What? Yeah. I had McDonald's come. You were asleep? Obviously. Yeah. I went downstairs. What did you get? I had a Big Mac, a McChicken, and a Diet Coke. At 11 p.m. you had a Diet Coke? Yeah. He can do that. And he will still sleep. Wow. I know. And I slept like a baby. And I was like, you know why I'm going to do this? Why? It's going to be a little Father's Day treat for me. That is so cute. Yeah. Just me, my McDonald's, and some shows.

22:53So Big Mac and a McChicken. Yeah. No chicken nuggets, though. No. I went lighter than my normal order. Oh. I will say, like, they really didn't put a lot of sauce on the McChicken, which was heartbreaking. And they forgot the straw with the Diet Coke. Ooh. That's almost worse to me. And so it was great, but it didn't fully hit the expectations I wanted. Got to have a straw for the Diet Coke because you got to have it out of the McDonald's cup. Yeah. I totally agree with you on that. To not put the mayo on the McChicken was also, it was a very big mess. Did you put your own mayo on it? No, because it was just like I accepted it.

23:40And did you eat this in bed? No, I took it downstairs. That's so amazing of you. Yeah. And then did the, what happened with the trash? I just pounded it down and put it away. You didn't even notice. I didn't. It's not, you wouldn't leave it down there. Nope. For the spiders to get, would you? You would never do that. Okay, so we went to. So McDonald's World Cup marketing. Worked on you. Yeah, I'm very in, people are getting into the World Cup. I'm watching it happen. Especially now that the U.S. is looking very good. But people, people are into it. These days, it feels like every beauty brand is launching more products than ever.

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25:29MeritBeauty.com. We got to do an Instagram check on our goalie. what's his name he's officially passed his last name is ds okay so let's pull him up because they tied yesterday they tied uruguay so these these guys may advance this is the cinderella story we it's the cinderella story we didn't know we needed cape verd they tie Uruguay they tie Spain their goalie officially has 15.6 million Instagram followers is it 15.6 his name is

26:13Josimar Diaz yeah what is it Josimar I would guess Josimar Diaz J-O-S-I-M-A-R he's a 15.6 15.5. Okay. And what is Mr. Tom Brady at? I think his was 15.5, if I'm remembering correctly. Yeah, 15.5. Wow. So what's our take on that? You can have the most successful NFL career of all time, and all it takes for someone to overtake you in cultural relevance is tying two World Cup soccer games. If that does not speak to the power of the eyeballs in this sport, I do not know what does. So I agree with that. And so let's sort of pivot here and talk about this. So Jeremy Doku could temporarily leave Belgium's World Cup camp to be present for the birth of his son.

27:08Okay. So World Cup player leaves the World Cup or is thinking about leaving the World Cup for the birth of his son. Yes. if I'm playing in the World Cup

27:21what would you want me to do? Okay I thought a lot about this and I at first so my initial gut instinct is like if you're playing in the World Cup I want you to go play in the World Cup I don't want you to come be present for the birth of our son and then but then I thought if you're playing in a golf tournament if you're playing in the Super Bowl I do want you to come be present and I couldn't figure out why that was and I started thinking about it But, like, nobody – like, the World Cup is a global thing, right? Nobody's like – and it's also – it's nation-based, whereas to me the Super Bowl is city-based.

28:04Wait, so you're standing by? Yeah. I want you to stay at the World Cup because, like, we want America to win. Like, that's our whole entire country. Those are, like, you know, for the ancestors. nobody's like do it for my Kansas City city like that's it's a city-based so I think something about it being global is more impactful for me the fact that it's not every year um that yeah so it's more I think that it's such a larger stage and it's such a larger meaning like you're doing it for the country I don't know I would want you to stay at the World Cup if you're playing in the World Cup but if you were playing in the Super Bowl or if you're playing Super Bowl's tough That's a big one.

28:44But if you're playing in a golf tournament like that time that Scott was the same, Scotty Scheffler went home for the birth, I think I would want you to come home. Okay. I'm checking something before this comes out of my mouth. The World Cup? Yeah. I need you to stay in the World Cup. And I'm going to tell our son over and over and over again, like your daddy wasn't there because he was in the World Cup. And your mom, this is the most important part. And your mom told him he had to stay and play. I'm very surprised by that answer. I'm saying you have to stay and play. I need you to stay and play.

29:12mom's got this dad's got that okay and and what country is this belgium belgium

29:23and and so okay what what i thought was interesting is is i was talking to a friend from the uk and what he said is that around 40 percent of births in the uk are c-section so they're highly planned and the whole process is typically very short okay um and so i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm just kind of pulling this up what it is in the u.s is what i'm looking for right now wow what do you think it is in the u.s

30:0530 yeah that's way higher than i would have thought no one in three scheduled c-sections so oh good question jules good good question it says 15 20 yeah i'm i'm i'm surprised that that's your take yeah but i want to make it very clear i this is how i would want it to go down i'm telling like if i if i explain to our kid hey when you were born like your mom was doing something unbelievable and incredible by birthing you while your dad was also doing something incredible and i said to him i want him to stay because if i say i want you to come to the birth like nothing comes before family i agree with that but an important part of our family story for me would be that you were in the world cup so i would be very proud of that did you see the bit of drama surrounding this situation no what was it there was a french journalist and i think she was since been fired if she yes a woman and she said you've sacrificed everything to go to the world cup and you're leaving just to cut an umbilical cord no to that no ma 'am i believe she was fired i think you gotta go back and then here's i think you got to go back sorry i'm in my silence on this i was thinking about it like you got to go back you're playing one game a week by the way so all chances are like you actually can get there and back make it work and get there and back but like you're missing like one game for the birth like you're not missing the whole tournament you're Missing one game is the absolute kind of like worst case in this.