The favorite child, toddler communication & how do we divide household chores fairly?!

36:38I'm just hoping it'll happen. And then the minute that baby came out, your heart, it just grows, right? And I was like, wow, I love these two kids so unfathomably much. Like I don't have the words to describe it, but I know all the other parents will know what I'm saying. And I thought, how do people have favorite kids? So I posted that to the internet, and in come the comments. And turns out, favorite kid for some people comes when they get older. One's going to cause a little less havoc than the other. Interesting. And that might be the favorite. Interesting, but not surprising. Really? Yeah.

37:20Yeah. Like right now they're bundles of love and joy. And, but I think it's very important that as parents, like, and they get older, we recognize how that is, um, recognize the negative consequences that occur when you do play favorites and to make sure that we stay as neutral as, as one can towards your, your kids in terms of, of favoritism. Okay, so in terms of favoritism, right? Yeah. So research finds that 74 % of mothers and 70 % of fathers report that they give preferential treatment to one child over the other. Now, I want to talk about preferential treatment. Because that's not having a favorite one and they can kind of go.

38:07Because I think often you may even give preferential treatment to the kid that you think needs more help. and as such may even be less of the favorite right so it's it's more so like inequality of of focus and attention correct but i think this is i think is where the problems become well well alex will get into it but like what i read is that you can have differential treatment of kids as long as like the whole family communicates about it and there's an understanding of why maybe like the younger son needs extra attention because of X. As long as like there's open communication about it, that doesn't cause like some of these issues between siblings that Alex will get into.

38:50Okay, that makes a lot of sense. And I think too, I remember playing volleyball. Like sometimes our coach would be so encouraging of like this one player who wasn't the best player and he'd be really hard on the best player. but it was because he would, you know, a coach's job is to understand that people, how are you going to, it's the same thing in the flock factory that you talk about a lot. Like how do you motivate people and what are their styles that motivates them? And sometimes you can give tough love to one and they'll rise to the occasion, but tough love will make the other one crack.

39:22So I do under, I really understand this preferential treatment. So how is the non favorite child impacted? Worst outcomes for the non favorite child, or I think this is the non, preferential child in this case right more mental health concerns more behavior problems more problems in school worse self-regulation skills seems like a big one and more relationship problems how is the favorite child impacted also can lead to negative outcomes for the favorite child many struggle in adulthood due to feeling too much pressure makes a lot of sense burden of taking care of the parent as they age i would assume not understanding how to handle adversity would be on there your parents are always saving you yeah yeah probably when something they could just call mom or dad being extremely favored is associated with worse relationships with favorites i'm sure with parents oh sorry i wrote the wrong thing so be like while being somewhat favored can lead to good relationships with your parents being extremely favored actually leads to worse outcomes with your parents relationship wise i i saw that growing up that i can think of somebody in particular she was so favored and showered and all these things by her parents and then it fell apart and i wonder why i think it was pressure i think there was too much pressure on her yeah to be so perfect because she'd been given everything so it's this is actually very interesting to think about the way so what should you do as jules was saying have open communication about why one is getting treated differently.

41:02And it could be as simple as, they're struggling in reading, so we're gonna help them more. I think this makes a lot of sense to me. Important to keep it top of mind and to have really strong communication around. Obviously, you're not gonna be able to treat all your kids the same. And so vocalizing why people are being treated differently, I assume will have a lot of... has a lot of benefits. I think the other three are great tips too. I was going to say, I think that the best one is be careful not to label children. Oh, she's my smart one. He's the athletic one. We've talked about this before.

41:43I think, but even as they get older, I think that's probably something that's very important. Explaining to your kids that the idea of fair is not equal. So different bedtimes for different ages and it just is what it is. and then be careful of common patterns and work to correct them. Example, always sliding in, always siding with the youngest child in conflict. Holly, that's such a good one. Look at the common patterns. Yeah. This is just a tougher subject for me to latch on to because we're years away from it. And so to you and me, we're talking hypotheticals. And I'm not like today when they're so young and full of love and joy.

42:27oh I shared about my volleyball team and my friend that I'm thinking of yeah all all this makes sense but I don't really have much to say beyond it other than as as Tate and Rocky get older like this is going to be a dynamic that I want to be very mindful of yeah I think for for sure um do you want to get into some things in the comments sure okay so guys I love your podcast I'm so curious your hot take on these. When are you transitioning from mama, dada to mommy, daddy? Does this happen naturally or do we teach them? So it's funny because Tate naturally says mama, dada. But I think it's so cute when she says daddy.

43:11So I've started saying, where's your daddy? And she'll say, daddy? So while I think the transition could be natural, I'm trying to kind of like expedite it a little because I think it's adorable when she says daddy. I'm definitely going to go natural on this. you think they naturally will just do it no like you're you said you're kind of changing the words like i'm just gonna follow the flow i'll be back in a moment i'm just using the restroom please keep going with me okay so from what jules learned online it just happens naturally through mirroring yeah which is what you're doing right you're giving her more shots on net to to to see it yeah daddy are we gonna have vibe checks in the room no kidding when he gets back we're gonna do a vibe check yeah if you were on a weight loss journey or have been interested in trying glp ones you got to hear about our next sponsor you guys veracity ali egan veracity's founder and ceo and a certified hormonal health coach struggled with undiagnosed hashimoto's ali found functional medicine which treated her underlying root causes with veracity and their most popular product metabolism ignite you can get an all-natural way to slim down get energized and sharpen your focus metabolism ignite is the number one doctor recommended glp one booster and GLP one alternative metabolism ignite you guys it has sold out 10 times because that's how much people love it and it's a unique blend of lemon verbena and hibiscus extracts green coffee bean extract and magnesium so we can all learn from Allie and we can make the switch to veracity you guys can head to veracityhealth.co and use code 2 parents for up to 65 % off your order once again that's v-e-r-a-c-i-t-y health.co for up to 65 % off and make sure you use our promo code to parents so they know we sent you oh yeah what i miss we took a centering um breath we'd like one from you we need a deeper inhale hold it at the top blow it out all right let's roll i have a new um activity you guys can do instead of social media great duolingo i'm learning spanish right now and i really think you guys should too it's so interesting you say that because i would love you to pull up duolingo stock price Is it down?

45:30It has become a case study on companies that have been hammered due to AI concerns. So the idea that you can learn new languages through either ChatGPT or how easy it is just to create a competitive app. Oh. I will say I did Duolingo like a year or two ago. um italian like they've really made duolingo now like the coco melon of adulthood like you're getting points for things and things are um like flashing on the screen and it's like telling you what a good job that you do and there's like world cup integrations and stuff like that and in like it it attacks you or gets you in there i mean that is like what i was wrong oh well i would imagine the world cup made it go up yeah maybe duolingo is only down i mean it's down it's down 30 year to date and well that's not great no um you don't have to do duolingo but i was thinking that you guys probably like 65 in the past year i was thinking of a different company oh my goodness i would love to do duolingo so when i'm like scroll when i find myself scrolling on tick tock i'm like i gotta get off here but you need something else to like pull you away right like sometimes like reading or i don't know isn't enough to like get you off of the tick tock app duolingo like does it for me okay jules this is really good to know and now i can order a sandwich or a coffee with milk okay order a coffee with milk from me quiero wait hold on quiero cafe con leche por favor can i have a milk with coffee please yeah that's the first unit is learning how to order things at a cafe as it should be that's brilliant now i'm learning greetings buenos dias bienvenido i'm buenos noches that's good night right yeah i think you guys would love it we would love it and it would like be very applicable to our life and my one of my friends does duolingo every day and she was like oh are you back on it and she said you'll be caught up with tate in no time oh that's so cute bubber is duolingo bubber is fully bilingual they have a really good social media presence yeah the owl they're very good at commenting yeah yeah yeah it was chegg the company i was thinking of oh chegg like the textbook yeah that it's down like 99 98.6 well textbooks are a thing in the past so are okay the whiteboard thing you sent yes so interesting hold on did you have smart boards yes and and your understanding of a smart board in high school because i i was like a saw i was a junior when they got installed i had smart i had smart boards in grade school what's a smart board is it was it a white board that they could they would write on with the and it was they could erase it and it was a smart whiteboard correct it's like a a big board and it was it a uh touchscreen yeah not touch screen though but was it uh was it like backlit or was it a projector it was backlit and it was the it's an updated projector so far updated though like you pick a you pick a red marker it's not actually a marker and you go and you would write on it and then you would just do like the erase and they would erase it it was un unwell i would love one and then you'd be up there and like you're writing and it gets uncalibrated so then there was like this whole process to recalibrate the board and that was like when you were a kid and you got to recalibrate the board it was awesome there'd be like probably nine dots across and you had to go hit the individual dots and recalibrate never done this never seen it you've never seen a smart board nope i remember that we went from a projector yes where they would oh my gosh where you'd add the clear piece of paper that you read on yes those were awesome they were awesome and then they came out with the smart boards yeah now what they're saying PTSD about like learning math on those oh I used to just always want one and I would want to draw on it myself like all the satisfaction but now they're saying individual kids basically what from what I understood is like they have individual iPads yeah iPads are Chromebooks and they're what's It's a Chromebook though, like an iPad.

49:56Yeah, it's, no, it's a, I had Chromebooks in high school too, but it's like a dumb laptop basically. You can only use the Google suite on it. At least 10 years ago when I had one. Okay. You could go on like Google docs, Google, Excel, you know, whatever, Google sheets, so on and so forth, but that's all you could do. I hate it. I love it, but like the whole group learning was so incredible. Smart boards were fun. So fun. You play like games on them. I think one thing that would be the best thing we could possibly do is look up how much a smart board is and get one in our house. Oh, my God. Like, I would lose my mind if I had a smart board.

50:37Well, I would lose my mind. How much are they? $3 ,699. The first one that's coming out. Do you think that we could do a brand deal? Oh, maybe. They don't seem to have like smart boards. These look like large TVs. these don't look like a smart board they don't have smart does anybody know where we can get a smart board we'll have to look into it sound off in the comments i would die i wouldn't always do it myself yeah those were fun yeah very fun um all right h town also in the comments okay how do we feel about your kids calling other adults mr and mrs insert first name as a respect thing instead of you know miss collier i would be miss hannah we're doing this with our 21 month old but it feels like a mixed bag out there so i was saying how tate calls all of our neighbors even though some of them are 50 60 by their first names like we don't have any misses in our lives no but i think that just because developmentally she's she's not at a or hasn't been in a place where she's processing putting two words together.

51:54But I think that she's getting close, and I think at that point we'll switch from Kiki to Miss Kiki. Really? Yes, and then I think it is on then the next step will be her being able to process when Miss Kiki says, no, no, no, it's fine, Tate, you can call me Kiki. So I think there'll be a little cycle that we follow. Wow, so Kiki is a nickname that one of our neighbors has that Tate calls her Kiki. So Miss Kiki is what we're going to swap to. Wow. I have a question. What? Should we talk about this Callie video? We can. I made a video talking to Rocky telling him that there was a girl in Callie that's mean to me.

52:39Because my phone got blown up about that a lot. Well, we should be nice. People should be nice. buddy there's this girl and she doesn't like me we'll call her Callie for the sake of the story okay and how do I know she doesn't like me vibes I can just tell she gives me the cold shoulder okay and I've only seen her a handful of times and like the first two times I saw her I thought our conversations were lovely but now I really get the cold shoulder okay so she doesn't like me and And here's the thing. Obviously, not everybody's going to like you in life. That's the entry level of living. Okay.

53:17But the nuance of it is you're not going to always know why they don't like you. Okay. You can be a juicy peach and somebody's not going to like peaches. And I always say that's probably got more to do with their palate and less to do with the fact that you're a peach. Okay. Now, the second thing is just because somebody doesn't like you doesn't mean you need to not like them. Okay. So when I see Callie, for example, I'm going straight over and I'm saying hi every single time because that's my side of the street. And I have to keep that clean. Right. What I can control is how I treat Callie and what I say about Callie.

53:56Right. I can't control if Callie is going to say hi back to me, but I can control that I go over and I say hi to her. I get the cold shoulder, not my deal, right? Second thing is, I don't need to say anything bad about Callie. If somebody asks me, oh, do you know Callie or something about Callie? Yeah, I know Callie. All good. Because I'm all good with Callie. Callie's the one that doesn't like me. So here's the thing. If you're a peach and somebody doesn't like peaches, no need to spend any time figuring out why. I thought it was a I thought it was a very well done video because I don't think you were being a mean girl at all I wasn't I was being the opposite no I wanted to know who it was though but now don't you know from the video that I'm not going to tell you well here's my question honest is it one person or two people it's a hybrid of two okay that's what I thought sorry that's not what I thought I guessed one person Yeah, but it is influenced by and I can name them by name.

54:59Yeah. And then when you said the other person, I was like, okay. And you know what? And do you think either those people know it's about them or no? I don't care. I didn't make the video for them. Okay. So I made it for Rocky and other people that are going through the same thing of like, yeah, sometimes in life, like, yeah, this video has nothing to do with them, whether or not they saw it. Couldn't care less. Thank you for clarifying. What I do care about, though, is like saying out loud, like sometimes people, because I was thinking about it. I was like, I just wonder what her deal. It's not about her deal.

55:27It's actually like it doesn't matter why. And I don't know these people very well. Like actually at all. We have mutual friends and I see them socially. And just starting to get like a little bit of. And I have some ideas as to why. But like it doesn't matter. I've always been nice to them. So whatever else happened with them is not really my deal. Someone commented and said that you being nice to them over and over again was antagonizing them. And I don't agree with that. And I just wanted to see if you had a response to that. I have such a funny response to that, albeit different. Well, I replied back to one person.

56:04I was like, they're sometimes my favorite person to go be nice to in the room. Because I know, I know they're just like, this girl. And it's just like, how are you? How's it going? Tell me about X, Y. And I just know they're like, I hate her. So you are antagonizing them. I don't care. I love it. I know I love it. Okay. Like, if being nice is my problem, I'll die on that hill. I didn't. I have a funny one where I didn't realize someone didn't like me. Okay. And I wasn't reading their texts negatively. And I was replying back being very nice. And then the text got kind of aggressive from their end.

56:50Oh. And I was kind of confused. and then but I was still like being really nice and then I showed them to a friend and he was like he thought you were antagonizing him I was trying to be nice I didn't realize that that his that this person's messages were I didn't realize there was a problem I did not realize there was a problem I just think that was a big miss on my part was this recent? the the the learning was yes with the learning was yesterday alex cost was telling me all about it that's so funny yeah yeah i just think i applaud you for how you're handling that those the situation with with them well i don't even need to play yeah i just you know what are you gonna do and for educating and staying confident and not letting it affect you not being mean back well you definitely can't be mean back and I went to a dinner last night and they were like who is it and I was like no one's gonna know no one's getting a name out of me it's for me to know the only clarifying comment is is it is not Callie well her name is not Callie but our neighbor messaged to me because we have a neighbor named Callie we have two neighbors named Callie both messaged me she was like this Callie loves you I was like well her name is obviously not actually Callie Oakland messaged me yeah no I know that I know that well I didn't know she messaged you but I'm glad that that was clarified yeah very funny very very funny and then my friend from high school Callie was like I love you I was like I know that's very funny the girl's name is just very clearly not Callie and it's a combination of two people yeah I just can't believe to have used the word Callie and then there's two Callies on the block is pretty funny might have even been where I got it I was going to do Casey but we had dinner with a Casey on Sunday night so I couldn't do that So I swapped it.

58:50If I use your name, it's definitely not that. Yeah. Yeah, but. I just can't. No, I was going to say something, but I'm not going to say it. You know, and that's how I feel about that. Yeah, we're going to just be nice. I don't mean to antagonize them, but I do love a nice run in. That's your southern part of Oklahoma showing that. What? Just the being overly nice to someone. Well, at some point you have to laugh. Yeah. Sometimes I'll get in my car and I will just die laughing. Yeah. And I'll just think, okay. All right. Three things everyone is Googling, but nobody has solved. Yep. Are you ready?

59:28Let's hear it. What's for dinner tonight? 500 ,000 to a million plus monthly U.S. searches across variations. And every recipe site, meal kit, service, et cetera, has not solved it. Of like, and this would be a very good AI thing you could do. take a photo of your fridge post it on chat and say what can I make for dinner and it could say you could make a taco bowl yeah I mean this I'm I'm very surprised that that there isn't a mass market offering for this especially in in the world of AI tech developments because feels like a need for a pain point for all of us yeah like here's what's in your fridge I'm surprised that hasn't been developed and every American household asked this question every single day with zero real solutions yeah and we used to do a meal in college where I had a friend who could it what did she call I think she called it a clean your fridge out meal she could go in and pull out different ingredients and make something out of it I can't do that I don't have that brain like I know what I'm having for lunch and it's it's um it's a siete tortilla and I'm gonna smash turkey on it and then I'm gonna put my dairy-free cheese and I'm gonna do it both sides I'm gonna eat it with salsa and like I have had that now five days in a row.

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1:06:33I think the ship has sailed on that infrastructure. Then there's got to be another way to do it. It's got to be. These trash cans are a disaster. The other thing, since Harrison's not into my trash cans, is a travel car seat, which we've been talking a lot about with the neighbors. There's got to be a better way. Yeah. These travel car seats are... It's so much slepping.

1:06:57I might as well just talk to myself. I feel like we're doing a lot of lists. And I just kind of want to talk, see what's going on. Because you're not talking. I like your shirt. It's a good shirt. Good shirt. Says Alex, just in case we forget your name. I think that's good. It was a gift from the brand. It's good in the mirror. I love the shirt. I mean, you know who would love shirts with their name on them? Tate. Tate. Ooh, Tate, Tate. Yep. What's on your mind? Take it over the finish line. Oh, I'd love to. Okay. oh i just went back okay well looks like we covered everything no we didn't okay so yesterday my friend texted me a link and it was from hinge and it sent me up some prompts to answer about her and then like i can sign my name and my relationship to her and i was like how does this show up on your profile and like do you have to approve it because she sent me something that you can count on zoe for i said being late and i was like oh that's funny jules is that automatically going on her profile but it sends you like it sends her the notification of what i said okay it gave me the option of putting friend or putting bestie i put bestie yeah and now she's gonna i don't think she's gonna add this one to her profile but what do you think about bringing friends into dating profiles i jules this is a phenomenal topic thank you i think that this is a must because sometimes the way you see yourself isn't exactly how others see you so it's nice to have a little bit of like what you think and what your best friends think love it totally and it just opens up another avenue of of conversation like you don't like i'm sitting the being late's funny or like what's their favorite food you know yeah the the questions were like a little serious i'm like i'm not answering any of this can you tell us something i can't i gotta reopen the link but okay we had a couple other things to talk about while you're pulling those up also it's really cute that she chose you she can well she's under the group chat ah you can send it to anyone and then you just like approve the ones that you like I guess what are they probably doing I guess these aren't heavy what are they probably doing right now a small thing they do for people something you can count on them for a thing they're quietly really good at they're still really positive I don't have that vibe with my friends well I I've told you guys before like if i didn't like you i would be much nicer to you guys or anyone if i don't like right right right right i will be nicer to you right if i do like you i like to have you'll get some tough love chat no not no no that's what i mean that's what i think your feet smell like horrific Harrison okay oh my god the whiff I just got

1:09:59can I keep that in yes absolutely everyone can keep anything in from today's episode that she wants oh my god okay we're gonna talk about plane rules because the seat, the plane seat debate has officially ended. We were flying United, and when, before we took off, the pilot got on. And he made NASA to the plane, and he took control of his plane. He did. And what he said is he said, hey, this is going to be a smooth flight, and here's why it's going to be a smooth flight. Number one, if you are sitting by the window, So you control whether the window goes up or whether the window goes down. Number two, if you are in a middle seat, you get both armrests.

1:10:50And number three, which I didn't really get, if you are in the aisle seat, you get priority to the bathroom. But you need to get up whenever anyone asks. I guess if two people go to the bathroom at the same time, he's saying you get to go first. No, he's not. He's just saying, of course, you get to get up and down freely with not having to ask anybody. Okay, well, I thought the first two points ended long-term plane debates. I'm glad we got those out of the way. And he also clarified, if you mess around on the airplane, just remember you will go viral. And it's not a good idea. And no one wants that to be that person on the airplane.

1:11:30He said there's this app called TikTok and they will dox you. Do you think anyone's ever recorded anything on a plane that hasn't gone viral? Like all of the, like. All of those situations go viral. It's very true they do. As they should. The other ones that go viral, I saw one yesterday, and it's an Austin Uber driver. And he's just like, I dropped off this guy. I love that guy. Going on their fourth date at Red Ash. And you haven't put out yet. And you're not that cute, according to what he said. But he's taking you now on four nice dates, and he's paid. And I hope this gets to you. And I just thought, wow, this guy.

1:12:07I love that guy. I have a question. I didn't see the video, so I can't really respond to that. But I had an airplane ordeal that I was very frustrated with. We were boarding the flight. I don't know if you saw this was going on. And I went and I got an energy drink from the little stand beside the loading station. A to-go. a two energy drink just for the plane and she charged me the wrong amount okay she ended up charging me two cents but i tapped paid and went away but i paid i hit enter and i hit go i had the charge coming at two cents we're then boarding the plane they come and get me and say, hey, they said you need to come back and pay the right amount.

1:13:05This is probably three minutes later. And meanwhile, we're trying to get two dunas, four suitcases on this plane, two kids. I had to leave the boarding and she said it and walked away. So I couldn't even give her back the drink. So I had to leave, run back to the place and give them the energy drink. and just be like, because there was a line, I was like, I don't have time to pay and just give it to them and leave. And then they refunded the two cents. Sounds like someone that cares too much about your job. But I think if you pay, like me paying. I think if you pay the wrong amount, we got to wash it, especially.

1:13:44It's a wash. You can go, and I think you can go over and see, maybe they're sitting there and they have an hour till their flight. But I think if you see, oh no, they're in the middle of like a chaotic boarding moment. like we were next in line just like schlepping all this stuff on and i was like right now he has to go pay yeah again because he already paid it was very frustrating yeah if i was the worker i would have just let it go comped it or like or give me the opportunity in line to give you the drink pack right oh yeah like that was my issue my core issue was if she came up as like hey i charge you two cents and like that isn't okay and and so i need to take the you either need i either need to take the drink or you need to come back and pay i would have said no problem please take the drink but but the problem is i had to go back i had to leave the line and leave the family yeah yeah so but maybe they take the payment out of like their paycheck if there's a missing if they yeah that's what i'm saying i'm not i'm not mad for her to come right and rectify but like don't like let me then give you back the thing right because it because it wasn't your fault like you you had two minutes and you you had used the two minutes prior to boarding yeah it was like self-checkout and it was actually your fault i totally see them and i paid i like the transaction went through yeah yeah the card didn't decline yes if the card declined i would have felt differently very interesting darling okay your most unhinged mom hacks so i have a question okay because as you can tell like me reading through these things Alex can you move your mic closer to your dilemma audience I really want to shave my beard and I haven't shaved my beard because Alex likes it well no what do I say every time you ask me I mean you've been telling me to keep it I say I like that beard but the moment you shave it I'm going to like that you're shaving I'm really ready to have it shaved then shave it I fully support that Fully support it.

1:15:44Well, let me ask you this. What do you think about me getting a little haircut today? Honestly, my ends look really good. I'm going to do like a one-incher. Very nice. You won't even notice. Do you have a picture without a beard? You've seen it without a beard? I don't think I have. Totally. Oh, once. Once. One time. I just want to do a trim. He doesn't mean a full beard. He means shave it down. Oh. You do that. I mean, he doesn't. It's just not comfy. Well, I'm sure it starts to itch. When it gets to this length. What do you think about Justin Bieber, the halftime show? I didn't see it. It's worth watching.

1:16:24Was it good? Okay, I did watch. Okay, okay, okay. So the Europeans planned the halftime show. I feel like we're dated on this. Well, no, this is interesting news. And I saw a really funny video being like, the Europeans planning the American halftime show. Okay, we got to start with Ted Lasso. of course obviously because he's a big american guy and the americans love ted lasso then we're gonna put justin bieber and huge american people love him but we're gonna pretend like justin bieber has never sung at a concert and ted's gonna like give him an act of like you got it buddy even though justin bieber huge guy then we're gonna bring out who was it the muppets oh i don't know they brought out like the muppets to do like sevens nations army big america thing yay that'll be awesome and then it was to watch to listen to this girl reenact how the europeans thought through this halftime show made a lot more sense because apparently just like made no sense they made it for the american gaze g-a-z-e correct but they don't understand the american gaze they didn't have the pulse on it so apparently it was like really funny i don't know all i know is i watched the beebs part and he's just a phenomenally talented person g-a-z-e gaze like through your gaze.

1:17:36I never heard it used like that. Through the male gaze. Through the male gaze? Yeah, I thought you, yeah. You thought she meant G-A-Y-S? Well, I'm glad you clarified. Well, it's difficult because you didn't see the show, so you actually would have no idea either way what she meant. She meant the American gaze. Yeah. One of those words, though, sounds the exact Okay, this has been, if you're listening, thinking, what an interesting episode. Vibes are high, but vibes are tired for Harrison. And they're a bit fidgety, I would say. Okay, well, we love you guys. Thank you for listening. Thank you for listening.

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