Parenting classes, baby names & is breakfast actually the most important meal of the day?!

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0:45The next thing you know, you're in a cycling crew. Well, a community cycling group. The thing about Facebook, you might find more than what you're looking for. From a browse to a bike ride, this summer, find more on Facebook. Thank you for making me my eggs to go this morning. I have swapped from fried eggs to scrambled eggs. I think I make better fried eggs. I think you make better scrambled eggs. I struggle with fried eggs. I really do. But you kill some scrambled eggs. I much prefer scrambled. I don't have the art of the fried down. I'll teach you. Ready, Jules? I've noticed all my white t-shirts now.

1:26Because Bubber loves to grab the neck of them. They're stretched. Yeah, and there's also folding action. So is it straight? It looks nice. Okay, thank you. We both wore white. I like the shirt. Brutal. Welcome back to another episode of Two Parents and a Podcast. I would like to begin today by saying what you said yesterday when we were on our walk. What was that? You just randomly said it. You were like, you know, all parents should be required to take a parenting class before they have a baby. it's it's very surprising that that there's nothing mandated well i was thinking when a good time would be is when you're in the hospital and everyone's like take shows you're going to be bored like when the when you're from like a one to a two to a three if you're getting induced there's like some downtime totally that would be a really good time for somebody to come in and just do like a little hour course like this is how you put the diaper on this is how you burp the baby no water for the first six months well we did that that class before the birth which i think was very helpful for like the near-term tactical stuff that we were going to go through like swaddling yeah but it felt like that was like a class on what the next 30 days looks like and what the following 11 months looks like wasn't necessarily covered as much but the only reason we took that class is we signed up and like went you have to like self-start that but also like i'm surprised the hospital doesn't have like a show that they suggest you watch like i i feel like it may not be the easiest thing in the world to like get someone to come in and actually teach it versus like feels like that's a eight-part Netflix show waiting to happen I I do see that but I also think there's something about parenting on the fly you know like learning as you go it's kind of that's kind of the whole thing about it for sure but like a monthly class I feel like could just okay I'm gonna now that I'm thinking about this a monthly class would be awesome except for it would kind of remove would that get a bit um fahrenheit 451 like we're all doing it the exact same is that is that what they do there or they they're not allowed to think in fahrenheit 451 no one's read fahrenheit 451 we had to read it i i i would go as far as saying i don't even know what it is oh it's a book and they take away the they take away books i think so you're not allowed to think the government's really regulating you.

3:53Pretty intense stuff from what I remember. Yeah, it does loosely sound familiar, but is it a book or movie? It's a book. Okay. Fahrenheit 451. Okay. But anyways, I do think a class of some sort would be pretty cool because as Jules was saying, it's crazy that to get your driver's license, they make you take a test, a written test and a physical driving test. But then to have a baby, I've just got to show up. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty wild stuff. In order to fly an airplane, you have to get your pilot's license. What is it, 1 ,000 at 5 ,000 hours? That is one thing. In another life, I think I would be a pilot.

4:31I think. In order to drive an 18-wheeler, you've got to get a different license. But a baby? Nada. Nada. You've just got to sign the paperwork. Remember that? Remember when we were naming Tate? when we got the paperwork to name tate like you are naming your baby first middle and last and i mean harrison and i kept passing the paperwork back and forth being like no you write her name down have we ever talked about that i don't think so we filled that um and i believe you did it that paperwork out truly at the last minute like we were packed up and the girls like you can't leave until you fill out the paperwork but it was because we didn't want to write the name like we We were like, this is it.

5:15This is the final name. And we didn't know the name. We truly didn't know the name going into it. We thought Tate. We thought Tate, but oh, it was the middle name. What was holding us up? I think it was the middle name that was holding us up. Well, we were between Tate Austin. Oh, I don't think that. I don't think. We weren't? No. And I think we actually talked about this, so we could probably side-by-side it on the pod. Oh. But we landed on Tate Francis, which is both of our grandmas. Like, it's a family name for both sides. But I think what we were doing, we were like, Tate Francis. Well, and then there was the question, do we do Tatum and call her Tate?

5:55But then we were like, no, we're just going to go Tate. But I didn't want to write it. You didn't want to write it. We just passed it. Do you think it gets any easier naming the kid? And I do. Some people, like, have talked about how they just knew it and boom and done. Yeah, I don't know. And then, like, what if you write down, what if you accidentally spell it wrong because you're nervous? I don't know. I'm sure there's some great naming stories. Well, we had a friend who was just telling me the other day, she was unknown like one for a while. Like there's some name they give you and then you have to go back to the hospital and officially name them.

6:27That's incredible. It was to do that for one of our kids. It was amazing. She was like some unknown 1242 or something. No, I hid your phone. I hid it. I just got a good message from, from Jay. I hid it. I hid it. introduction. Oh, nice. That's exciting. Mac and cheese is one of our top picks for comfort food. It's so nostalgic. It makes you feel like a kid again. I can see it sitting in the bowl and I can almost taste it just sitting here, which is why I am loving Goodles. If you haven't heard of Goodles, this is like the mac and cheese we know and love, but it's packed with protein and nutrients, you guys.

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7:40And don't forget the new single-serve cups. You just have to add water and microwave. Okay, well, let's talk about fall. Okay. Because summer's gone and fall is here. I don't bite into that. Well, when does your fall start? The pumpkin patch we went to last year, which was the best pumpkin patch on the planet, opened September 18th. That, for me, is kind of when fall starts. I think September is just as fun of a month as August. It has nothing to do with fun. Is it summer or is it fall?

8:15Where does September belong? Oh, wow. Guess what I just saw out of the corner of my eye. What? We have, not a bug, don't worry, the Pepsi Challenge. Yeah, I saw that earlier too. I think we should do the Pepsi Challenge. Right now? Yeah. It's warm. Yeah, let's get it cold. We're going to need to get a fridge in here. We're in our studio if you're listening. Let's get a fridge in here. Okay. Sorry. Well, I see a lot online. It's like the end of summer. Summer's over. I'm so sad. And that's what I don't subscribe to. One, because technically summer ends September 21st. And I don't subscribe to this whole internet movement of summer's now over.

8:59But I know where it comes from. all the kids that are in school go back to school so for them summer is over and school's back in session so in that regard i do get it but no because school starts for most kids in august i know but i think that you do labor day and then you call it like summer's over like yes but that's what i'm saying i don't i don't subscribe to okay so september for you if you had to call september summer or fall you're calling it which one summer i think that they actually nailed the date september 21st to me that is so you're still on summer yeah and then you're going to transition to fall on the 21st yeah and i would i it probably feels more like an october thing for me well october is so first it's right it's like get your halloween stuff but i can give it the 21st because like you do get those the iffy weather starting to hit.

9:59Well, yeah, I agree with that. Are you going to get a pumpkin spice latte? I will say I have not had a pumpkin spice latte in probably 10 years. But I do have a comment. What? There are a lot of stores that we are walking into that have Halloween stuff. Yeah, last night we went to one. I think it is ridiculous for Halloween to have any form of presents before October 1st. No, because that's the business. That's showbiz, baby, for them. They got to get their stuff out there. I don't want to see any Halloween decor before October 1st. I'm fine with it. I just think especially in Austin. Like, it is very much still summer here.

10:42I agree. Thank you, Jules. Thank you. No, no, no. I agree with that. But I'm down to start to transition. Like, the minute it was September 1st, I started looking at the leaves. I wanted to wear a flannel. Like, I was like, I get it. Let's talk about football. Okay. so you're gonna be a ut fan yeah i i i love the way this city gets behind that football team it's so great on saturday it was an away game but i walked to get a coffee in the morning and like there were so many orange shirts just like bopping around it it feels like a small college town on game days it's unbelievable it's a big city but small feel um and that's already like everyone is wearing orange.

11:21Yeah. And it feels like the city stops. Like it feels like Ann Arbor. It feels like South Bend. Does it feel like Norman? No, it feels like it's more of a city than Norman. Like people just live here, but it's different having a college town in a city. Yeah, I get that. But like when I walk down sixth on a game day, it reminds me like it feels like I'm in Tuscaloosa. Yes, yes, yes. It does feel the exact same. Here's the thing. I was talking to my friend Emma. Do you call it T-Town? T-Town? Yeah. What? Tuscaloosa? No, I call it Tuscaloosa. Jules, do you call it T-Town? I don't call it anything.

11:58Yeah, I also don't reference it often. Okay. But I, so Emma and I went to OU, and we both live in Austin now. And I said to her the other day, I said, are you a UT fan? She said, yeah. And I was like, okay, great. Because I just needed like a little like push. because you know OU Texas it's the horns down it's kind of the whole thing but we live here I love the idea of UT I actually love UT we go see the campus we go to the games like I'm very in and we had a lot of friends over none of which went to UT and they're like oh yeah we ride for UT so I've decided I'm gonna love OU and I'm gonna love UT but I'm gonna be a UT fan okay so I'm excited for that yeah I think like going again like it's just hard like going against the grain of everyone on a Saturday.

12:49It's no fun. It's just no fun. I was like paralyzed by it for a second. And then I realized that A, I had free will. And B, like I see people that we went to school with like you can just transition to the college of the town and it's not that serious. And then I asked her, she's like, yeah. And I was like, okay, same. Yes. I love how you like both though. I like both. I like both. Of course I like both, right? Like Boomer Sooner, but also like, you know, go UT. Sooner Boomer. Sooner Boomer. um but let me ask you this being a dad being the household dad of the group here how because sunday football there's this like whole thing going on on tiktok right where girls are like lost my husband for the day and i was just wondering how being now being a dad how has sunday football culture changed for you i'm not sure if i have a great take on this because like i was never a sit on my couch and watch football all day type of guy i've always been like Like doing it for the activity.

13:48Socially. Socially, like going to the bar with a group of people. And like I think doing that is still super fun. But now the difference is if we're doing it, likely Bubs is coming and we're doing it at a kid-friendly place. And like you're generally going to be capped now at one game. And like your Sunday may have a football, will have, or your Sunday is going to have, you know, other activities, whether it's heading out on the lake and, you know, maybe you wrap up with a game. But yeah, you're just like not at the bar all day like used to happen. I guess I like is as with everything, like in general on a Saturday, you're not just like, you don't have the same Saturdays you had in college as you do now.

14:32Yeah, the darty's gone. The Darty is gone, but that's what I love about parenthood happening, the phase of life it happened in for us. I feel like we got that out of our system, and now the natural trajectory is... Our Friday nights and our Saturday mornings are spent with other families doing some kid-type things. Yeah, I think you nailed it a lot better than I did. Like, Rocco's... That's a bar in New York. was like it was so fun and i'm so glad i got that out of my system totally because now i like really do love my sundays and i'm sure there'll be one rocco weekend this football season no there's a time and a place for that and like you you still absolutely should be able to do both but our type of fun has just shifted yeah like give me a hike give me like a walk head out on the lake brunch and then go have an afternoon drink with a couple friends and our kids at in someone's backyard and that is the new sunday yes it's someone's backyard like house culture going going to somebody else's house instead of going out to a restaurant is it i'm gonna introduce a new character oh introduce one who is it i think that dan's house we're not going to give too much information on Dan yet but I think Dan's house is going to be a big Sunday barbecue house while having football on in the background it's a great house for that yeah it's really a good floor plan for that kind of activity and he's a big have the game on in the background guy and I guess I'm a big I'm a big have the game on in the background type of guy keeping an eye on it yeah love it I guess that's how I most like yeah whatever just keeping an eye on it yeah I like it have it on See a good play.

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17:41hungryroot.com slash two parents code two parents okay so now I'm gonna do like a u-turn set segue here of a show that we were watching which is unknown number the high school catfish and I don't know it seemed I posted it and a lot of people in my dms had seen it if you haven't seen it we're gonna spoil it right here so basically it's this like 12 year old at the time girl and boy they're dating they're honestly like an adorable little couple and they start getting these unknown numbers texting them and like harassing them being like breakup um it starts like it starts out with like breakup or you know he doesn't want you and then the text gets sexual and then they're just like you're an ugly anorexic slut and then they start saying like you should off yourself the world would be happier if you weren't here super dark twisted messages and messages being sent from like an app so they couldn't figure out what number was sending them the police couldn't figure it out the school the superintendents couldn't figure it out and it's in beale michigan so it's just it's a smaller town tight-knit community so these these poor girl and boy and their parents so their parents are going into the school like they're trying everything and finally the fbi gets involved because they're like we've got to find this number so they subpoena like the phone companies they subpoena the app and then this guy goes back and he searches and it's going on for 18 to 24 months at this time he goes back and he searches like the web address to tie it back to their contacts to see if it's anybody they know it turns out to be the girl's mother it was the girl's mother the whole time and the cop goes to her house and they they show I couldn't believe all the footage they showed.

19:30They showed the footage on his, what's that called? Chess cam? Yes. Webcam, chess cam of him walking in and being like, hey, we've got, we can subpoena your phones. We've got a search warrant to get your phones. And she's like, okay. And you could see like immediately it's her. And even though she's been at the school, she was a coach at the school. She's been at the school the whole time trying to figure out who it was. And she sits down and she's just like, it's not what you think it is. Like, it's just, it's not what you think it is. And he's like, it's okay. A, like, what happened? Were you jealous of the boy?

20:02Turns out, like, A, I think she was jealous of the boy a little bit. But B, she just wanted her daughter to need her. So she was, like, beating up her daughter so bad verbally and then her daughter would come home and she needed her mom. It's just, like, sick and twisted. As dark and twisted as it can get. And, like, struck such a chord where it's, like, Like, how could someone inflict that level of harm and pain on their own daughter? It's just like, it's so heartbreaking. But then it even goes a step further because then they show the daughter saying, like, I love my mom more than anything. like and it just goes to show they always say even if even if a parent commits murder like the child loves the parent and you said it the other day you were like being a mom and dad is just like a full-time job and not only is it a full it is the most there is no love like that you know there is no love like you like we have for bubber but also that bubber has for us and it's incredible to watch this little girl in her developmental years sit there at the end and be like I can't wait till she gets out of prison like I just I hope we have such a good relationship even though her mom caused her this harm yeah like crazy harm um it was just your jaws on the floor yeah it was really really appalling um a couple other things come to mind on this okay a really just like I don't know if eerie is the right word but like uh yeah i guess you could call it an eerie scene is when the father gets home and the father's told what happened yeah because he wants to i i i think he you can physically see he's in the hardest position of his life and what he's looking at his wife saying like he needs keep saying you need to leave like you're not safe here right now because he's about to lose his mind and he didn't let the police leave which i thought was i get it he's like my daughter has been hurt i have the chills talking about it my daughter's been hurt and it was my wife yeah and then he finds out his wife didn't have a job she got fired from her job so she was quote unquote going to work but she was just going to send these text messages all day full-time obsessed job and he said they won't leave he said don't leave until she gets picked up by her parents uh like grandma grandpa yeah which brutal gives me the heebie-jeebies and the chills awful it's kind of a downer can can we now talk about a story that restores our faith in humanity yeah do we have one like and and yeah i i don't know why we just talked about that i guess we talked about it because like it impacted us in such like a a big way um but like holy shit i would like to i would like to to yeah do it do we have a good positive story well we don't have like it it's not it's not positive but it's interesting okay so okay so last week we talked about the gillette razor marketing campaign and basically i'll summarize it what gillette did was they said men shave their beards but women don't shave anything and we need to tap into the other 50 of the market so early 1900s Gillette puts out this big campaign women in Europe are shaving sleek is the new sexy shaving is sexy so women they just start shaving okay and so then you guys in the comment section told us some other great marketing campaigns that changed the course of history okay you ready yes so the first one is Coca-Cola literally invented modern day Christmas the image of Santa Claus we know today jolly red suit, white beard was popularized by Coca-Cola ads in the 1930s.

24:13Before Coca-Cola in the 1930s, Santa's appearance was all over the place. Sometimes he was tall and thin. Sometimes he was elf-like, sometimes wearing tan, green, or even brown robes. Now, when you picture Santa in Christmas, you've got the red, the white, and the beard. Okay. I mean, 10 out of 10 marketing campaign commercializing Santa Claus. But I also like that this is able to happen, that we're able to shape something in just like Coca-Cola is able to take Christmas like that and then change the course of history. I like it. Yeah. I also like when holidays have a true north. Yeah. A lot easier to do back then because the marketing channels were so concentrated and it was so much harder to create a brand and to get distribution for that brand.

25:02And versus today where, you know, with all the, with how easy it is to put up a website and, you know, use whether it's a marketplace or AI to whip up a brand and, you know, do some Facebook ad testing. Like, it's, I don't think that the same level of marketing effectiveness can occur today as it did back then. another one we heard about at dinner with um our friends margo and duncan was sir sandwich what was his name king he was like a his last name was sandwich well he invented the sandwich he invented the sandwich he just liked eating meats in between two pieces of bread and it didn't have a name so they called they started calling it the same that's an invention but now it's like a marketing campaign now we sandwich things together pretty cool yes um okay this next one is literally mind-blowing okay so michelin created the michelin star to get people to travel more so they would wear out their tires faster so they would sell more tires i had no idea the michelin star was created by michelin tires i almost feel like jules put this in here to mess with me no don't know i i'm i'm aware of this one and like the prestigious food award is from the tire company from the tire man for the michelin man it's one of those that like what i love about it so much is it like well it's the most genius thing on the planet they started like while it was incredibly effective as a campaign how effective it was for their business like very tbd totally because you're not necessarily well now the michelin stars are like in france so you gotta fly but you're not so i'm just confused back in the 1900s they would do they would give some barbecue restaurant in idaho five michelin stars so everyone would drive to it to try it and they would burn their tires and then they would need new tires far stretch but genius yeah that that's where like the back and forth on this is i get it like instead of creating like street racing for regular cars yeah or like oh an award for who can drive the longest distance like it feels like a michelin star would have been a much better business idea for like an ingredient supplier than it would have been or a chef than it would have been a car company.

27:52And for Michelin you think what they would have done is made like a course of restaurants from LA to New York like a five restaurant road trip guide and then people go and they drive that. That would have worked well for Michelin. Which they may have done. But I don't know. I'm also very here for the tire company creating the most prestigious food award. Yeah. Love it. Love it. Far stretched though but like incredible love it feeling better in your body shouldn't be a full-time job that's why hers makes it easier to get started and stick with it backed by expert guided online care that puts your weight loss goals first weight loss progress stalls and it's easy to feel like you're the problem but you're not that's where hers comes in hers offers access to personalized weight loss plans designed to help you move forward for good hers is transforming women's health care by providing access to affordable weight loss treatment plans.

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29:39Actual price depends on product and plan purchased. Okay, now the most well-executed marketing campaign is breakfast. The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day didn't come from a doctor. It came from food companies pushing cereal, bacon, and eggs. Marketing push in the early 1900s from the guy who created Kellogg. How about that? Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And we're all like, yeah, it's got to be. No, someone just told us that. No one said like, don't skip dinner. Dinner's the, then we'd all be eating dinner. Yeah. I mean, very well executed campaign. But we just don't think about it.

30:21We're just told these things. And then we're like, okay, that makes sense. Makes you question everything, huh? Yeah. Breakfast being the most important meal of the day like i just thought yeah it starts your metabolism don't eat a cup of sugar for breakfast because then you'll crash it's not funny he's fake checking his phone i thought it was very funny i thought it was very funny i got jules laughing it's good jules good joke then why are you laughing it's it's so unfunny that you're laughing absurd joke it's so unfunny that you're laughing goofball all right things we dm'd each other okay ready i love dming bumble founder says ai could date for you the future of dating is having your ai dating concierge date another person's ai dating concierge on your behalf scanning thousands of profiles to narrow them down to just a few strong matches the idea is to reduce the stress of modern dating and shift the focus towards healthier, more meaningful connections.

31:25Thoughts? Yeah, and intuitively makes a lot of sense. Like I've talked a lot about how, like when I've asked chat about myself and had it describe myself to me, like how spot on it is and how much it knows about me from my line of questioning and my responses. And so like a dating integration to better filter makes a lot of sense. I also think like it, um, like I think you'll see a massive dating app, um, launch on the back end of this. I think there'll also be a physical side to it as well, where, um, it'll help sync you with people that, um, you know, fit the profile that you find attractive and I think we're like one common thing we are always hearing from friends single friends or just you see online is how ineffective dating apps are today and so like hopefully this ultimately gives gives restores faith in them and I think the way to do it is removing the abundance of choice and the supply and it being hey we scanned a hundred thousand profiles this is your one suggested match of the week here's my thing number one do you think bad first dates are are something people just are a part of the dating course or no it's great to eliminate those hopefully i think bad first dates are part of the course i think you learn a lot from them and i think you can also get through a bad first date.

33:12Look, I don't think a bad first date means that you're like, that that door is closed. I agree. And here's the other thing I don't think AI can account for. Like, let's say you, I don't know that our AIs would match you and I together. Does that make sense? Because we're not going to be Googling any of the same things. But that's what makes us compatible is that we're so different. But we have such a similar value system. Maybe that's what it is. But that's my thing. What's AI going to put above? How are they going to know? Or are they going to know that you loved, that your grandpa fished every day?

33:52Okay? So you have a really soft spot for fishing. But you're never Googling or talking about fishing. But what if then you meet a girl who loves fishing and it just kind of sparks something in you. And you're like, wow, I do love her for that. I think that basically what she was talking about is this like concierge that you talk to and it will like ask you questions and I'm sure there's some sort of algorithm um so it wouldn't be based well I think this is all still a little hypothetical but it wouldn't be based off of like your search history like we talked about in the past it might be based off of like a set of 20 questions that you answer oh so they're kind of bringing you along on the process but I think so I mean, like ChatGPT, the inputs matter.

34:34I'd also assume that you'd be able to plug in different apps that you have or plug in different data to this app. And so inherently then they'll just get a real holistic understanding of you as a person. But a spark is a spark is a spark. And I don't know if AI can do that for you. Well, I don't think it'll be perfect, but I think it'll be better than what's going on today. I can get behind that. And I hope it is because I do think dating is one thing that people like we have a lot of friends are like, I want to date somebody. And so if I can help solve that, I'm very for that. I want to bring back our single matchmaking service.

35:11We have so many great singles, single folks to set up. I know. I know. Well, my friend Margo, what she said, which I really liked was she was like, I have a notes app on my phone. Anytime I meet somebody single, I write it down. No, I love it. Love it. I was like, oh, my gosh, that's genius. Oh, my God. I know. I was like so impressed. So when do you think AI will be taking over dating? In the next 12 months. In the next 12 months? I assume the app is already live. It just hasn't gained traction. So what we've got to look forward to is autonomous cars, AI dating for you. What else?

35:50Robots? Something that's not good. Robots carrying babies. The Taco Bell, I think, was trying AI in the drive-thru. Oh, and somebody got 10 ,000 waters? they've decided that humans we need humans in the drive-thru it's not working yeah I love that I think that these things aren't necessarily binary where it's like all AI or all human I think there's generally a natural um mix between the two and I'm sure right now that all the dating apps are using AI but I think what I declare for my point I think there'll be a like a AI native dating app that uh that is built where that is the core differentiator um on them versus the other apps yeah which is not like a swipe i can get behind that um okay so there's this article from the wall street journal and it's titled my family went off ultra processed foods for a month and the results surprised us now i'm gonna sort of summarize paraphrase here the mom felt calmer and less consumed by cravings, less food noise, which you told me, or you told me, you drink a Diet Coke, you crave processed foods.

36:58You eat a bag of Cheetos, you crave more processed foods. So like that I do agree with. And every time I drink a Diet Coke, now I'm just like, what am I craving? And usually it is like a bag of chips or a piece of cookie dough. But the daughter struggled with the social reality that ultra processed foods are everywhere, birthday parties, schools, etc. So So basically, they found it nearly impossible and quite stressful for an eight-year-old to avoid these ultra-processed foods. And alarmingly, around 60 % of children's calories come from ultra-processed foods, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

37:31So their solution, this is the point of why we're saying this. Because there's nothing worse than listening to somebody be like, no processed food. Good luck, parents. Parents have full-time jobs. These kids don't have private chefs. So it's like this is impossible. But one thing that this family ended up doing, which I do like, is they created UPF zones, ultra processed food zones. So at home, they said we don't have ultra processed foods here. That's the only place we can control it. If you're out and about, if you're at a birthday party, well, then it's there and you can have it. And in the car.

38:02And in the car. And in the car. And where this landed is it feels like we're all – I feel like there's now a general understanding and alignment of ultra processed foods. we want to reduce the amount that we're consuming we're consuming way too much there's a whole bunch of problems that come out of the back end of it but like coming up with realistic solutions totally um and they had a word for it in uh in the article upf free zones home and in the car i think that's a good starting point and a good goal because i think that car is probably one that would feel like that's that's one that I I think would would be very very challenging the car yeah yeah but it makes it way less daunting to just like pick your zones and then you feel good about those zones and then when they're not in the zone you're just like yes totally but the home is controlled just through like grocery shopping the right way versus the car it's like when you get hungry and you're on the go how do you combat that and like do you keep a little cooler in the back that has we got hungry the other day at Academy and we got our dots pretzels and they were so good it's it's it's a amazing tasting item it's a superior pretzel it's a great item um okay there i think we did it hun what else do we got jules that's it time seal delivered i've got my chicken curry salad calling my name shout out jules mom avid listener nori shout out nori minich wasn't gonna dox her give her address social security number her gift when you move is pepper and it's phenomenal.

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