Preschool waitlists, off-registry baby gifts & when do we get a dog?!

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1:00um ready um yes i am ready um i'm just texting with maria as i had to get um i rushed to get our big brisket in the oven for dinner tonight i wanted to do a low and slow cook 275 but in my franticness of the morning i'm worried i put it in at 375 so when she gets back from the parquet with the girls is she at the park yeah she's gonna they went to the park today not the library which she's gonna confirm that uh it's a 275 not 375 i will say i mismanaged time this morning that's okay that's why i'm in my workout clothes i didn't have time to uh i didn't have time to shower you know what that's a good sacrificial lamb is your outfit good job like if you something has to sacrifice i'm really happy that your outfit was what it was because i know the outfits mean a lot to you um yeah well but dinner tonight will be delicious we're having it with the neighbors obviously we're having as we call a family dinner um assuming we live on liquid death avenue we we're having we call it a liquid death dinner um and the reason i'm glad maria went to the park and not the library is because she's close to home and we're supposed to get a our our new floral sectional you guys which i will post just like an obscene amount of photos of gets delivered today.

2:25And it's my number one thing we ordered for the house that I'm most excited about because it's going to take that room from like a six to a 10, I think. Because it's going to close. That room is not a six. But no, functionality-wise. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. The best seat in the house doesn't have a chair. And it's the one that faces the kitchen. I thought that room was a nine. Decor-wise, it's great. Okay. Functionality-wise, where do you cozy up and sit? I thought that room was a nine for the last six months. She's been saying she doesn't love it. And I love that you took ownership of designing it now the way you like.

3:05Yeah, I really - But Jules, thank you for the support. Because I love that room. I love that room too. I think the floral couch is amazing. I'm sure it will be. It needs - Listen, I think the floral couch we got is not as cool of a print - Oh, the old one. as the current floral couch. But here's the thing, you guys. We also get the keys to a new office today. You've got to own it. You've been complaining about that room for months. No, no. It needs to be a sectional. It's the one room in the house that you consistently come back to. I don't like the word complain. But you consistently come back and be like, we can do better.

3:38We can do better. And I've just said, I don't know how we can do better on this room. And you took it over. So I bought into your vision. I think it's going to look great. And I'm excited for it to come. But I need everyone to wait for my vision to fully come to life because here's the thing. I've also gotten a round orchid situation that arrives on Sunday. It's fake. I hesitate to tell people that. I'm into fake orchids now. I can't keep anything alive. It's a big round bowl. Okay, so it'll always stay on the coffee table because the coffee table needs some height. Then to meet the height, we've got this beautiful, large, bronze chandelier with globes on it that's coming.

4:20Yeah. And then we need drapes. So you've got to wait on the vision. The couch isn't just it. I think a bicker of the week that we never actually had that I feel like we can now bring to the surface would have been fake flowers versus real flowers. So I don't like fake flowers. Okay, but? But what I realized was, number one, it was getting just expensive. Number two, I love, I love flowers. So do I. So I figured, okay, you can go to paragold.com and you can get some like, and my mom had a couple of these around, a couple. So the key is high-low. So like some of your flowers are fake, but they look really, really good.

5:08and it's a one-time fee. And then for years, you've got the fake flowers. So our dining room table has fake tulips on it. Everyone thinks they're real. So that's what completely got me over the edge is these tulips that you got for the kitchen table. They look so real that this week, Frank the painter was asking about the flowers. He was like, where did you guys get these flowers? He's like, they're so nice. And they have the fake water and they're fake. He's like, no way. so um yeah i'm i'm totally on board with the with the hilo a base of a couple flowers yeah sorry hilo's not the right word like it's like real fake you mix you mix so i think hilo is is kind of the right word but we'll always have fresh flowers not always but if i'm have if i'm on top of my stuff we have fresh flowers on the table in the living room and on our kitchen island and then we're going to have the fake orchid and the fake tulips and like that to me is really good.

6:06It's a mix. Do you want to talk cooking for a bit here? Let's start the podcast. Okay. Ready? I just had something else to say. Ugh. And it left my brain and it's so annoying because it keeps happening to me. Was it welcome back to two parents in a pod? You do it. Say it again. Say it again. But look at the camera. I asked your question. What was it? I'm sorry. I didn't hear you. What was it? What was the question? Ladies first. No. Go first. You already went. ladies first okay welcome back to another episode of two parents and a pod cast podcast do i always say podcast yeah i'm losing it the third trimester like it's really it has arrived it's the shortness of breath my friend courtney actually sent me this video yesterday and she was like i don't know if this is ai but it's making me feel better and it's this it's this doctor and he's like the shortness of breath it's good it means like your baby's taking your oxygen the waddle it's good it means your hips are opening up your feet swelling it's good it means your body's draining your nutrients and I was like I'm having all of these so it's very the third trimester is just like really here I gotta give you some some flowers right now some real flowers not fake flowers okay So I was working out with a friend this morning and they asked how you're doing.

7:26And I said, you're doing great. And I think part of why you're doing so great is you've really come up with a great schedule for the third trimester and how you're feeling. And it's like, I don't know if you want me to say the schedule or you want to say the schedule. Well, I got to give you the flowers back because I came to you Sunday night and I said, I'm frustrated. I don't feel like I'm making the most of my time and I don't know what to do. And you said, why don't you write out a schedule every day? So every morning, H, I don't know if you know that I've been doing this, but I get up and I get my journal out and I literally by the hour write out my schedule.

8:06I did not. And one of those hours is like sit on the bed on the heating pad with your legs up. Like that's an hour. And do you know what that's done for me? It's made me so much more productive. That was literally what I said to him. I was like, rather than fighting the tiredness, what she's done is she's like carved out time where she can be tired. And she's like ended her social calendar past 5 p.m. and so like everything she's doing is between the morning and five and within that she's finding her um like her hour to put her feet up and like that's allowed her for all the others hours that's allowed her for all the other hours of the day to just be like really dialed in and i know too like because today my nap is at one i think it's like give it all the gas until one and then I know I can recharge and then I can wake back up.

9:00But what I did see, um, I saw a post on, oh, it was my friend Katie beach. She said third trimester tired is way worse than newborn tired because she had just had her baby. Right. And so she was like, pregnancy tired is worse than this newborn tired. And one of the comments said, yeah, because with newborn tired, when you take a nap or you rest it actually recharges you but with third trimester tired when you take an it doesn't do anything for you it just helps you live to fight another hour like you don't actually wake up feeling recharged you just wake up not falling asleep in your chair interesting um i i thought about what i was going to say earlier because you you mentioned a past bicker of the week and i was talking to your mother last night on facetime she was like i gotta talk to you about Harrison not drying off in the shower I was like yeah what about it she's like his father does that she's like I don't do that but his dad does that and she's like so now at Whistler he also does it in the hot tub so she's like I've just stopped fighting it she's like pick your battles what she does is she'll line the the hot tub path to the bathroom path with towels because she just knows he's gonna walk on it wet there's also I'm not sure if you've noticed a really like big like the mat when you come in from the hot tub is massive and that's probably why yeah she was like i just gave up on that one and so now i just line everywhere with towels and i was like dying laughing i was like yeah i think in my dad and i's defense like we think we're dried off you are soaking wet definition of dried off is like we'll like we'll go in and like we'll do a pat down we just like won't get our percentage to zero it's so funny but by our definition it's zero If you don't know what we're talking about, we always do a bicker of the week.

10:49And I don't remember how many episodes ago it was, but it was dry off in the shower or pull a Harrison and just dry off around the room. That's not that's incorrect. No, it's not. It's not incorrect. You guys have heard us talk about Hungry Root before. So you know how much we love it because it truly simplifies our life, especially as working parents. We've got the little one running around. We're always in and out of the house. It's been such a game changer for saving time and Harrison's on a health kick this January and February. So when it comes to planning meals and trying to hit your protein goals, doing your grocery shopping with Hungry Root is seriously such a game changer.

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12:05Go to Hungry Root dot com slash two parents and use code two parents. that's hungryroot.com slash two parents code two parents to get 40 % off your first box and a free item of your choice for life and then the other bicker of the week that I would like to talk about Harrison's on a bit of a health kick I would say and I just got to give it to you because I'm just watching you from afar and I can see how good you feel but we had talked about the other week if running five miles on a treadmill was the equivalent of running five miles outside and the comments are a house divided on this but it reminds me uh so we haven't solved that bigger of the week yet but it reminds me of your weighted vest you got and i posted a video of us walking to the store yesterday with the weighted vest and a lot of the comments are inquiring like do you like the weighted vest how much weight is in the weighted vest okay and i think one thing you should discuss is how you've changed your weighted vest.

13:04Yeah. So I've heard about all these benefits of the weighted vest. I got a weighted vest and I really didn't like it. And one of the main reasons I didn't like it is you, you had to put the weight plate in and it had a Velcro at the bottom. And so twice the weight plate fell out and hit me in the toe and it like, it didn't injure me, but it hurt. And you, and so you could only walk in a very slow pace with it and also it didn't really feel that right then frank like a shield like the old time shields that they had the sword the tin shield yeah it also looked like you're wearing a bulletproof vest which is just like not the vibe and um and then frank the painter who feels like we're not talking about a lot uh he was talking to me about his weighted vest and he showed me the one he got on amazon and so i ordered it and we're 24 hours in i actually the first time I wore it was to the grocery store and I loved it 20 pounds I think Jules has one too yeah I said it's like everyone on the trail has this one and you'll you'll notice the fit is phenomenal like the weight distribution is phenomenal we should link it it's padded it it sits up a lot higher yeah it's like it's as unnoticeable as a vest can be yeah and thank goodness because what I hated like you you it's not a problem but you leave your weighted vest around the house and I always had to pick up this like thing and i was just like this i mean it was really like a problem yeah it's just this like 20 pound thing that we're always lifting and so i'm happy that it's really you know it's funny it's things like that just when you think about life through the entrepreneurial lens things like that i'm like someone needs to come in and fix it like the weighted vest you had the first time simply cannot be it yeah and someone nailed it someone nailed it um okay so i went well let's talk about like the other items that you've recently purchased okay uh here and here's what i'll say okay because we did we did touch on this a couple episodes ago i'm in full i'm in my version of nest and my version of nest is it is get things in as great of a place as they can be holistically before the baby comes and so like I am just like I feel so much pressure right now to make sure obviously like you're doing all the real work here and so I'm feeling all this pressure to make sure that everything else is just in like as great of a place as possible and so like when packages are coming just not Not even that, but like on top of the ordering, on top of like getting every room logistically right, like gates, making sure all the gates are set up, making sure that we got new handle protectors.

15:58Because I figured like Bubz right now, like there's always an eye on Bubz. And like she loves to go to that bathroom, but we need to be able to not have her go in that bathroom. so what he's referring to is he got you got their door locks door locks not she can't turn a handle yet but we have the you know push down lever door handles to get into the bathroom and things like that and like a one thing a toddler loves i think it's universal is that toilet because to them it's it's a bath they have so much that's at their height it's fascinating to them they can put their hands in it and it's a big time mess so yeah you've but the other to keep it like it's It's truly like every facet from home repair, like getting the floors done to making sure the rooms are right to having work things dialed to having mental and physical health dialed.

16:51Like I've never to making sure and most importantly, making sure you are supported in whatever way you need. Thank you. Like, yes, crazy how much responsibility I feel to like. Have things as great as they can be. Well, yesterday, Harrison had some boxes arrive. And in those boxes, yes, he did get Bubz these books that were like robotics and logistics and all these. Blockchain. Blockchain. Bubz is going to learn about blockchain tonight. But the best thing you ordered, and I couldn't believe it. So we have in the little boys' room, we have his changing table set up. And Harrison opened a changing pad.

17:31And I was like, did you order that? And he was like, yes. and I was like is it wipeable and he was like yep and I was like oh my gosh like thank you because I hadn't thought to order the changing pad yet and you measured the table you ordered the changing pad and you made sure it was wipeable and I and there's room on the right side for for little wipes and diapers I was just like I just thought for sure that was falling in my court of things to do I want to take as much responsibility off of you as possible especially How did you know I didn't order it though? I was so proud. Because I feel like what's getting you excited right now is a lot of the aesthetics of the paint and the crib.

18:14And I feel like you aren't talking about the administrative stuff. I'm not. You're right. I'm really not into that. And so I also got those changing pads. I know you did. I was like, what? He got the disposable changing pads. And then you got the door locks. things to just be great and well set up for when he arrives and you know do as much as i can once again we you are doing all the heavy lifting you are doing all the court work no but you're doing a really good job i want to do as much as i can to support but you are and like you're getting the boxes in and out of the house like you're being very helpful so thank you hopefully more than the boxes too well the other thing you're having to do now is via like you you just take full care of me all the time which I can't thank you enough for like so Harrison just so you understand our schedule and this is how it's been but he's just on full morning duty um and also on full chef duty so like yesterday I mean it had to be pan crusted halibut like it had to be and we went to the grocery store they didn't have any white flaky fish and so then Harrison was driving around and he had to make me this very specific dish which kudos to you you're following you have not done an online recipe you've used cookbooks only so a couple things i want to move this away from me this is not about me this is about like supporting you because that's what you deserve you did walnuts as the crust on the halibut or something now to to do a little segue way talking about cooking i'm all open for so we did sea bass crushed walnuts layer dijon um so or reverse so sea bass put the dijon on to the walnuts cook it 400 12 minutes um and then for the uh we put it on fennel um tomatoes and what else am i missing those green things shallots shallots they were so good fennel was fennel was what you're talking about and shallots and i loved it and then half of them we put little parmesan on to juice up the flavor two of the fishes we did two of the fishes we didn't cook the four it was so good this I was really opposed to this only cooking recipes out of a cookbook situation because I felt like it wasn't going to happen.

20:39But you're actually doing it. But here's the thing. What? I'm not. I am 80 % cookbook, 20 % me. So the cookbook was do the fennel, do the shallots, do the tomato, and then put the white fish on. Okay. And season the white fish in salt and pepper. I took that recipe. I added the Dijon and I added the crushed walnuts. Okay. so I take it and I put my own touch on it it's really good it was really good your chefing is really good my one request for today which I texted you yesterday the healthy goldfish please make the health yeah I can do those when we get back okay thank you so let's talk about I we're gonna talk about baby gifts for a moment you're crushing I just want to end it at that thank you thank you so are you this is where the heavy lifting is being done if you're like us and have a growing family and need a bigger car or your current car just doesn't fit into your lifestyle worthwhile Edmunds can help or maybe you need to upgrade your car to an SUV or a minivan to haul those kids around and all those strollers and all the things that come along with kids plus safety is always going to be a priority Edmunds has the tools you need to make buying or selling a car so much easier which is what it's all about these days you guys with their car appraisal tool on edmunds.com you can see how much your car is worth and even get instant offers for your car It's free and it takes as little as two minutes.

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22:44Checking your car's value is an easy win to cross off your list, you guys. Go to edmunds.com slash appraisal. that's edmunds.com slash appraisal so we I've got a couple baby showers coming up okay and it's funny because I think I I always bought a baby shower gift if I went to a baby shower but I would just like log on the registry I had no idea what I was buying I just looked for the price point I wanted to spend clicked purchase moved on with my life but now now after having a baby under my belt. I'm really into buying baby gifts for baby showers. Like I'm more excited for baby showers now after having a kid than I ever was before.

23:29Before I just went to like just to go. Okay. So what's your number one baby shower gift? Well, so last night I was looking at my friend's registry because we've got a shower coming up in a week and a half. And so I was looking at her registry and I was like, okay, cute. So I bought some, I actually your, I went against your number one recommendation and I bought a nine month old outfit because it was so cute. I had to buy it. So I, I, I, I broke that rule and I'm sad doing it, but do you know why I bought it? Can I make a suggestion? What? In your calendar, mark nine months, and then you can send a friendly text being like, Hey, when I bought clothes ahead of time, I would forget and I would love this I would love if someone had sent this reminder to me so I don't forget to wear the outfit H that is a phenomenal idea that's a phenomenal idea I used chat GBT for that idea but also somebody told us in the comments I was like did you I just didn't know you did that ahead of time I didn't know that we were talking about that No, the other thing that I did see in the comments, though, on that one is like they and I knew they had these, but they have hangers that say three months, three to six, six to nine.

24:51So they're labeled outfit hangers. I saw that, too. But like, what are you hanging all of them? Well, they also have like, you know, at the store on the sale rack, they always have medium. So, you know, all the mediums are here. You could just do that. Just a circle. It's like all the nine month clothes are here. But I would say that pretty much everything I dress her in comes out of the drawers, not out of the hanging. Everything you dress her in comes out of the drawers. That's the other thing, though. I think we could put dividers in there that said three to six months. Like we could. OK, listen, we're not this type.

25:25But I have some friends that are organized like this. I think most parents aren't like us in this. and no but some but if you're doing a first time nursery you would get this organized i think if you were like if you're a type a like you love to organize you would probably label i would never i'm just i'm type b i'm never labeling like i would forget about the labels blah blah blah so i think it's a good solve you're also needing to update the labels every six months like it's i think I think people are doing like bins and like, I think people are doing a lot. I just do. I think in a good way, in a good way, in the best way, but especially for the first kid.

26:08Yeah. I think now you guys dial that nursery in so organized, right. That I think it's, so I just think that's an option. Okay. Anyways, what I was going to do with it though, because I now feel confident to go off registry. In fact, inspired to go off registry. I think I should go off registry. Like I have a kid. I think that you should give an intentional gift that's not on the registry something you didn't think of and so I was trying to think of what are my what are the best baby gifts I could give that aren't on somebody's registry and the first one it's what I gave my best friend Sydney and I'm sure she was so confused but I bet she used it a lot and this is what you google cactus bottle washer from Amazon it's 20 bucks and it's just a separate brush and it looks cute you set it on top of your sink and that brush is just for bottle washing i never thought of it i hate cross container like you do not want to wash your bottle with the same thing you scrub the pan that had the chicken in it yeah that's a great show they're two totally different things i used to our night nurse told us about it the thing about the cactus is it's like a cute little brown thing and it has all these little components to it that look like a cactus and you just pop them out when we used it 25 times a day.

27:21So I think you buy something on the registry or a cute outfit. And it looks cute. It looks cute on the, on beside the kitchen. Yeah. So you add this to it. That's the first thing I think is great. The second thing I think is great. I forgot. And I told Julie earlier because I don't have a brain anymore. Diaper bag insert. Okay. Our neighbor gave us this for Tate's first birthday. And I'm obsessed with diaper bag inserts, right? Like I love, but I only want two diaper bag inserts. And she gave me a really cute one that was monogrammed with Tate's initials on it. But I love a monogrammed insert for the diaper bag that just gets like bottles, pacifiers, things like that.

28:01Anything monogrammed is so, so, so cute and feels very personal. And it's not going to be on their registry. And then the last item, and I think this one is really special because it's for the mom, right? and if the mom chances are the mom if she's not pumping and breastfeeding she's up in the middle of the night mom or dad they're up in the middle of the night feeding a bottle or if she is going to pump or breastfeed she's up for probably 20 or 30 minutes pumping and at the beginning every three hours and what the common denominator is everyone I talk to and myself included is what do we do we start to keep yourself awake you start to scroll on your phone and you start to hate that habit everyone I talked to is like I fell into the phone trap I was on Instagram for 30 minutes every three hours in the middle of the night I couldn't fall back asleep then your brain is turning I I even had it to where like my mental health like I was just like I am like depressed because this is just in the middle of the night I was doing that you can't fall back asleep so there's this thing called the brick and what it is is and I've talked about it before but you can tap your phone on it and it will silence your you can pick what it silences it's the most it's easy to use I for me whenever I brick my phone it turns off TikTok and Instagram I think like good thing and maybe she doesn't brick every time but just for her to have it beside her bed if she wants to hold herself accountable I think the brick is a great unique gift.

29:36And then like she reads or she listens to an audio book or I don't know, I wish I was knitting or something, but for two months in the middle of the night, I scrolled on my phone to stay awake. And like, it's funny. I just talked to a mom recently who was like, I got the brick because it helped me, um, in the middle of the night pumping and breastfeeding. And I was like, that's when I got it too. So I think that's a great gift to give a mom or some, just something. here's the other thing about it the magnetic me pajamas are actually a phenomenal idea because for mom in addition to for baby yeah i love them for baby i just bought them actually for somebody for the baby yeah but for mom when you're when you're constantly ripping your pajamas on and off to breastfeed the magnets oh my gosh that's a good one yeah you wore those all the time i still wear them and there's nothing like every morning when i go to get dressed i just sort of superman off my outfit it's like the best thing ever so um this is my question to you mr h okay what's your off-registry gift i wish i knew this was coming here let me tell you how i thought about mine because i like what you said about the outfit which is don't buy something they're not going to use right then so all three of mine were day one uses you're washing bottles you're taking out your diaper bag and you're up in the middle of the night so try to think i'll help you think of it what i what i know your number one most used item was was a carrier but that's likely on their registry okay here's what it is i know what yours is let's hear it because i was going to go in a totally different direction it's the cup holder that attaches to the stroller cup holder that attaches to the stroller is an unbelievable gift great call out if they don't have it on their registry buy that and yes for sure and then i think and that's a more functional one and that's a really good price point for one i think if you want to do a splurge and it's like one of your close friends i think one thing great thing to do is to work with um their partner and plan the mom like a little get hmm let me just think a little spa day a mom day i was gonna say like an overnight thing but logistically i don't know how that would have worked no it's a spa day it's a she gets to get a facial or a manicure pedicure like and and yeah like something like a more service oriented a day for her yeah okay bonus points if you have a masseuse that goes to the house you know and that's a bigger gift but that's like a best friend i think i'm gonna jump into that i think a masseuse i think i love that masseuse to the house i mean that that's splurge first splurge yeah and then we always know my favorite gift for new parents or just parents in general that just had a baby if you can do a home cooked meal or send some kind of food yes that's always a slam dunk situation but um okay so but so this is what i'm doing for my friend i got her an outfit on her registry and then the cactus bottle washer is my off registry practical item which i love i actually i think i want to build off that i love the strategy is one thing you wanted one thing off the registry and then a thoughtful likely lower priced item off registry a lot of cactus brush or my idea which was your idea that you gave me was the cop was the cop that goes on the stroller if they don't have the cup attachment registered that goes on the stroller i just i think you got i think we kind of got to get two one for mom and dad i just think we got to jump that to the front of the list so i got that for my friend on your guys's suggestion because she had snapchatted me which i know you guys make fun of me for using snapchat at my age but she had snapchatted me about how hard it was to drink her coffee and push her baby at the same time and snapchat it's impossible and i sent it to her on amazon the next day that was that was a really nice gift yeah and i also think if you want to take it a step further if you take because i always take my cup my coffee on the walks now if you have a coffee like this that has an exposed lid and you hit a bump the coffee's coming out of the cup every single time so if you also get a cup that goes in the cup holder that closes genius that's nice oh yeah because here's the other thing custom with the baby's name yeah i mean that's a real winner of a gift they will use it every single day but what the one we have is cup holder with phone insert right so it goes coffee cup phone every time we hit a bump my phone was doused in coffee oh so i would like to do some editing for baby number two i'll let you guys know where i land with that but my favorite thing to do postpartum was a coffee walk and i love i love moments where i can put my phone up so that's what's going on there.

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35:58Compounded drug products are not approved or evaluated for safety, effectiveness, or quality by the FDA. Prescription required. See website for full details, important safety information, and restrictions. Actual price depends on product and plan purchased have you not had a coffee today i had like half of an energy drink after my workout because i was so thirsty wow thirsty for water or thirsty for i was thirsty for water but i realized i wasn't gonna have time for coffee and so working out though is like healthy organic ones i don't even know how much caffeine was in it working out though is is a boost of energy but i'm getting these workout classes are so like they're the hit ones and i'm pushing myself so hard that i kind of need to peel it back a bit because i'm getting so tired after because i'm because of how hard i'm pushing myself oh that's very fair um okay but speaking of coffee we've got our new favorite coffee shop near the house and what they do every time you go in is you they say okay can i have your phone number and you give them your phone number and then they say okay so your name's Alex and then I collect points on my phone number the other day Harrison was ordering and the guy was like can I have your phone number he's like I'll just pay and I was like oh like I just kind of walked off to the water station but in my head I was thinking you you can just bypass the phone number there's friction to it they text you like They do text you all the time.

37:32I'm kind of like, don't email me. Don't text me. Stop spam calling me. I'm for less phone numbers, less emails. It never dawned on me, Harrison. I don't have to give the guy my phone number every time. Well, to me, there's a couple things on this. The reason why I don't give them my phone number is because it just takes a long time. Chances are when I give the phone number, they're not going to get it right. There's going to be a digit error. So you're not saying it once. You're typically saying it twice. There's almost always a clarification. And then the second point is like, why do you need it?

38:08Because as much as I love this coffee shop, I don't need this coffee shop texting me. I know where the coffee shop is. I know what the coffee shop's hours are. I know what the menu is. We don't need to have, my coffee shop and I, we don't need to have a texting relationship. I'm very happy with my coffee shop and I to have an IRL coffee relationship. Here's the other thing. Very, yes. So I have 157 points, I realized yesterday now at this coffee shop. There's no sign anywhere that what I get when I hit 1 ,000 points. And I'm going to ask them. I'm going to say, and I almost asked them the other day, what do I get?

38:46What am I working towards here? Do I get a free coffee when I hit 500 points? Because then I'm down. But if there's no points reward system, it'll just like apply it. Like, you know, at, I don't know, Juice Land is the one that comes to mind. Like every once in a while, I just get like$5 off. I'm just going to ask them, what am I working towards here? Because that will offset me giving you my phone number. But the other thing is they text me when my order's ready. But they also say out loud, Alex. Then I walk up there, I get my coffee. And about five minutes later, it texts me. The coffee shop's not that big.

39:20I always hear them. There's no outdoor seating. Like I know when my coffee's ready. I want to give this coffee shop as fives. It's a great shop. It's a great night. We go every day. The coffee's very good. this texting thing is just bizarre it's like we gotta stop but it's a larger issue it's not this coffee shop everybody needs your email and what i've noticed what make what makes me so mad is i order something on call it anthropology then two days later random people are emailing me that also sell furniture and it's like that's not fair i gave anthropology my email i i mean that that shouldn't be the case no that's totally a thing when i it's always the case i think we talked about it before when i signed up for wi-fi for the studio afterwards i'm getting like move like moving companies and furniture and this this and that because i signed up for new wi-fi yeah yeah that's ridiculous it's just here's the thing about the phone numbers and the emails like a lot of times when somebody's like can i have your email i just leave out a letter i'm just like sure here's a an email that's close but not really because it's so much like why do you need the info i don't want to talk to people this much about like i made my purchase i knew how to get on anthropology i knew how to find the couch i wanted i have another qualm about a text i got this morning from actually my old botox place in new york they the first line of it was can we talk and then that was the only thing I could see in my text message and I didn't know what it was and then I click into it and it's like 99 cent bow tie like whatever no this is a common tactic of these texting things so here's another issue I have I've started getting like hey Alex haven't talked to you in a while emails and they're not written in they're not written in marketing format it's just a regular typed email and it's like hey alex i haven't talked to you in a while and i'm like okay well who is this so i click on it and then they're trying to sell me something in the email and then i have to this is what gets me i have to reply back to the email unsubscribe or it's buried in the very last line please respond opt out to stop getting so i have to reply back to you and then i have to type out unsubscribe or opt out just to get off your list that I didn't sign up for the list.

41:44Yeah. To not have the unsubscribe in the email is crazy. I have to reply back, opt out. Alex will reply unsubscribe and then people will respond and be like, no, I'm a real person. So I do that all the time. I got to defend you. I do that all the time. The lawyer the other day is like, Alex, this is a real bill. I'm like, oh, sorry. I'm like looping in Jules, my bad. That is so funny. I literally respond back unsubscribe. I just want to reply back and be like, how are you emailing me that one was bad how are you emailing me that i have to reply back like i have to reply back i didn't sign up no it's not fair it's it's an it's infuriating and then you know the the the way it works in the business perspective is like they're looking at the analytics of all these emails they set out they send out it's like all right what email is driving the highest open rate what email is driving the highest click-through rate and so like they're learning by sending that text can we talk can we talk people are are opening it at a much higher rate and so like yeah here's how many spam calls i have this morning they started at 9 23 10 36 i have eight between the time that's just this morning do you want me to count yesterday oh i'll give you this screenshot p i don't even think you guys are gonna believe me i don't think you're 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.

43:2840. Is it time for you to get a new phone number? And here's what happened. So I've started answering them. And I'm like, stop calling me. And it's a robot. and they're like press nine to opt out so I press nine and then it's like it might take 24 to 48 hours to opt out somehow since I've started pressing nine to opt out of these spam calls I've started getting more spam calls I did see something the other day on the internet that said you're not supposed to like answer or decline them because that tells them that the phone number is an active phone number what am I supposed to do though I've called I don't know I've even called the number that they've left me and been like get me off the list and they're like okay and like they're just like hang up on me i i might need to get a new phone number i don't know they're calling me right now if you live for planning the trip the thrill of comparing hotels scoring that impossible reservation and piecing together an unforgettable itinerary you already think like a travel advisor so why not just become one enter fora fora is a modern travel agency built for people who love to plan travel and help others travel as well.

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