Toddler morning routine, baby names we WON’T use & is going off registry rude?!

33:37And then other than that, I don't have. but I love I love to see the baby so Tate I gotta I gotta push you on that no I love to see the baby and see their vibe I just I think that Tate came out spunky I think that's something that you're saying in theory but in reality I don't think that that's what happened at all no Tate almost I almost did an audible to Izzy and Izzy and Tate are the exact same name they have the same feel to them this conversation this conversation never happened with me Because I was like in my head, but my dad said Izzy and I was like, yes, that's the vibe. That's the vibe of her.

34:14Like her, Tate is the same vibe as Izzy. Could you imagine if we just did a full 180 pivot and did a baby name that had never come up before she arrived? Well, yeah, I could imagine. That's so you. And you. I don't think that's me. It's a bit more me. Yeah, I think I might see him and be like, that's a Hank, but not Hank. But I do love the name Hank. It was on my list. short for Hank yeah do you know what Hank's a nickname for Henry yeah yes yes I did I did not know that until the comments which I love Henry and Hank that's adorable the other thing I'm loving also from the DM's Ozzy but it's giving me Ozzy Osbourne but I love Ozzy like Ozzy and Tate it's so cute I saw that one Ozzy's adorable and then some people are like I have an Austin and we call him Ozzy that's cute cute you like it full name Ozzy is a little bit OZZY I'm very into a lot of these that I I do think we're gonna do a bit of beeping yeah I was gonna ask afterwards what we need to bleep yeah you like Ozzy I'm I'm vetoing Ozzy Ozzy can stay unbleeped it's I see Ozzy Osbourne and in Sharon Osbourne's face every time I say it yeah I I hear you on that Ozzy sounds like Ozzy Osbourne and rest in peace.

35:40Yeah, and I don't feel, and that's not a good thing or a bad, like I don't know Ozzy Osbourne, but it's just you can't see somebody else's face. You have to see just their face. Yes. Like I knew a Tate, but I never saw, like, I don't know, you just go with your gut on it. Like you're just good with it or you're not. Okay. Anyone who's a parent knows feeding decisions aren't a one-time thing. You make them again, again, and again, stage after stage. And too often, the options out there, whether you're feeding a baby, a toddler, or a big kid, just don't meet the standards you want for your child.

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38:03Is she married? Yeah. Oh, wow. She is. Speaking of married, who's Goldie Hawn married to? Not married to that you brought up? Kurt Russell. So I then got served a clip and they were like, how did you make it? Or how have you and Goldie Hawn had such a lovely relationship? And he said, just when you get a Goldie Hawn, you just make it lovely. Yeah, I saw that clip too. It was so sweet. And then I saw them presenting a Grammy or something, and he said, all we are, we're everything, but we're not one thing and we're not married. And it was really cute. I was like, aw, he's so handsome. Yeah, he's great.

38:39Did you ever see the movie Overboard? No, but I saw the movie Miracle. Oh, Overboard's a top five for me. What's it about? No one's seen it? I've not seen it either, but I think we talked about it on the podcast before. Oh, it is a classic. I can't explain it to you. You have to watch it. You wouldn't like it. It's great. It's so great. I watched Handmade Housemaid. I didn't read the book. I watched the movie. It was great. It was excellent. 10 out of 10. I highly recommend it if you find yourself in bed on a Saturday night at 7, watch that movie. Okay, moving right along. Okay, we're doing low spend month with the neighbors, which I feel like we covered.

39:17covered. But I think everybody after the holidays has spending fatigue, which usually probably hits in January. For us, we're like, you know, order, like we're nesting. And so January was not our month of, of really hammering down the budget. So we were talking to our neighbors and they were like, we also have spending fatigue. So we're doing, and we're actually doing it. I mean, we're 11 days into the month. We're doing an individual. So it's not couples versus couples. It's who spends the least individually. And I fear that the neighbor T will win because he texted his, the first time he made a purchase, he bought a beer on their trip and it was 1250.

39:57And I was like, wait, why are you texting us that? He's like, it's the first thing I've bought this month. I was like, oh no. I think there's some element of confusion. I think it's couples because I don't think it's possible to do individuals when there's so much purchasing is towards the household. Well, what was brutal was yesterday my OB was like, your OB deposits do. And I was like, this month? So I think, though, that you're operating as individuals. Neighbor T is operating as individuals. But neighbor M and me are operating as households. I don't think it can be individuals. I'm competing against you.

40:32That's why I had you buy our coffee this morning. You are. In competition with you. I'm so not going like. To win?

40:47Like we have me helping our household and neighbor T helping. No, you bought a house. Not a house. Today, like this is like. What did I buy? A hat. I bought a hat for a podcast. At Swedish Hill, the coffee shop. Like we don't need a hat.

41:03We don't need a hat. I, Alex, I don't, I, I mean this is, this is just a losing battle. for you because like the numbers the numbers speak the numbers don't lie the numbers don't lie have you been going through them yeah i went through the numbers yesterday i've been doing really good were you impressed when you went through the numbers we thought whoa she's doing really good she's getting around it by buying things for the office i'm expensing jewel sees those charges everyone yesterday got a mat for their desk i think they arrived today that's the Amazon, I tell you what, you guys can knock it all you want.

41:40It arrives fast. Yeah. Especially in Austin. Especially here because we have the warehouse. What's it called? Fulfillment Center. I mean, you can order something and it arrives two hours later. Yeah. It's a position. It's a stock that I've been accumulating quite a bit of. Oh, you've been buying? Yeah. Buying. For us. Stock of it. Okay. Yeah. I didn't realize what poor performance the stock has had over the past five years. Why is that? Do I own any of the stock? Yeah, it's being bought in our joint account. So it traded down pretty significantly after earnings last week, and I like the entry point.

42:19So we entered the point. Good for us. Very exciting as our financial advisor, as the couple. Okay, we're going to move to dental stories. There's so much on this list to talk about. What about things you're not buying? Things I'm not buying. there you're right Jules because I made a list of things that I'm not purchasing but I would typically purchase one of them being Tate Loves Bibs pacifiers oh yeah B-I-B-S and for some reason this month they've come out with just like these polka dot bibs pacifiers and they have monogrammed bibs pacifiers which like typically I would buy 20 of they're so darn cute they look so cute in the mouth but we don't need them it would be a nice to have not a need to have so i can buy out of passes it's really good to know yeah i found one today what i've noticed she does is she checks them on the walk maria brought back to the other day from the walk she said i found these she and she does it so sneaky but she checks them and if you don't see it they're gone they're gone And sometimes you'll be walking, because we walk a pretty consistent path.

43:31You'll see them on the path. That's what happened to Maria. She picked them up. She brought them back. She said, I'm going to put these in the dishwasher. Yeah. I was like, that is so cute. I also didn't get her a monogrammed I love daddy Valentine's Day outfit. That would have been a great gift. That would have been a great gift. Don't tell me that. I did get her and Winnie a Valentine's Day gift. Matching cowboy boots. They're the cutest things. And we know how much Bubba loves boots. And Winnie loves them too. And it's nice if they both have a pair. So I thought that would be cute. And then other things I didn't buy.

44:13More water bottles for them. Yeah, they've got enough water bottles. Because we have enough water bottles for them. And then we're going on our baby moon. And we're officially going next week. We're going to Miami. And I did buy a couple outfits for that, but I went through my photos of when I was pregnant last year. And I found dresses that I can wear. So I'm just going to wear those because I already have my pregnant dresses. Love it. So we went to Mallorca when I was pregnant with Tate for your mom's birthday. And I had got some things for that. And it's basically the same climate situation.

44:49And I'm the same level of pregnant. So that works out really well. very nice yeah so what have you not bought i i don't think i bought anything over 30 i'm sure you have sorry let me rephrase other than food because obviously the food bill is over 30 i don't think i bought an item over 30 a month wow yeah by design i'm just not really a spender did you buy your elwood sweatsuits last month yep okay okay and that was a big splurge for me so let's let's discuss your outfit today you've got on your canada hockey yeah a little this is 2002 okay i love it and what you're wearing that because the olympics are on yeah the olympics and have you been watching a lot of the olympics I haven't you were you talked a whole like we're going to do the Olympics thing and then I didn't see I'm not seeing a lot of Olympics from you.

45:53I'm very I'm very let down. I'm very. I want to think of the right wording for this. OK. Maybe we'll pull the room. Who here has watched any of the Olympics? Priscilla has. OK. Priscilla has. Jules. No. OK. Why haven't you watched any of the Olympics? I don't have Peacock. So Peacock has the Olympics. That's the other thing. You don't know where to watch anything these days. So that's what I was getting to. I was getting to, I love the Olympics. I think everyone loves the Olympics. People love the Olympics. It is so much fun to get behind your country, to get behind all the different athletes.

46:32The stories. The stories. Whoever is coordinating the Olympics, and I think it's NBC, like we need a reset. I think NBC is really dropping the ball with the Olympics. And one consistent theme whenever I talk to all of our friends is everyone wants to watch the Olympics, but they're lost as to the best way to do it. As to like when to tune in, what are the marquee events, what are the good storylines? And it feels like NBC just hasn't gotten with the times on making this the marquee event that it should be from a watch time perspective. Well, to compare it to the Super Bowl, everyone knew when to watch the Super Bowl.

47:22We're looking forward to certain things on the Super Bowl. Same thing with the Grammys. Like, I know exactly where to watch it. And I think the individual athletes do a good job with social media, right? Who's my girl, the rugby player? Ilona Marr. She crushed rugby on social media. And I'm seeing some of the individual athletes do it again right now. And they make you want to watch their sport. But the Olympics, I'm like, I don't know. What do I watch? I'm pregnant with baby number two, as you know. But with baby number one, I learned how hard and how stressful your feeding journey can be, you guys.

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50:01Like I haven't seen anything. There was no hype up into the Olympics. So it feels like whatever their social strategy is just isn't working in from a pre-hype perspective and also from an athlete storytelling perspective. The second thing on social is their event recaps are terrible. They're showing like the last eight seconds of a race. Like there's no pre build up into the race, the start, like the highs and the lows and the finish. Like when it showed the amazing Dutch speed skater. Jetta. Jetta. Jetta. Jetta. Jetta. they showed the last five seconds of her race the only reason that was like what she just said an olympic record and and i got five seconds of it the only reason i got five seconds of it was because of logan paul jake paul jake paul because his insta story and i was like oh my gosh you set the record like otherwise and it wasn't on anyone's radar that story right there Like it's such a great story.

51:10He, you know, obviously just told on her channels, told on his channels, like feels like the main networks just have not latched on to that the way that that they should be. It's like they're fighting it because it's a it's from the creator world as well. So one, I think they dropped the ball in the build up to I think the event recaps are terrible. And then the big one for me on where they're completely dropping the ball is when it comes to the actual live viewing, you have no idea when you need to be watching and where you need to be watching. It's just this consistent stream of events. You don't know what's live.

51:53You don't know what's preliminary. You don't know what's metal. So here's my suggestion for them on the TV front. I think they should have two channels. Okay. I think channel one should just be what they're doing now and 24-7. Okay, live streaming. Just the 24-7, what's happening with the Olympics, the recap. So if you just want it on in the background or you just want to tune in, opportunities can be had. I think they need a new channel for marquee events. And the marquee events are, one, what they built hype into, and two, it's for the viewers like us where it's like, this is the one event or three events to watch a day.

52:30and I get the timings are off because it's in Europe but like they've got a showing over breakfast, a showing over lunch and a showing in the afternoon. But it would be cool if everyone knew when's that Canada game you're going to watch? 2.30 on Friday? Yeah. Like if there was some huge thing that we were all going to watch 2.30 on Friday and like everyone almost was like at their desk at work like watching it on their phone. Like here's the today's daily spotlight. Yes. And like if it's during if it's at 3 o 'clock they can call it the happy hour spotlight. Totally. If it's at the morning, they call it the breakfast spotlight.

53:02If it's at lunch, they call it the lunch spotlight. Got it. Like they're – do you want me to keep going? Well, you're going to have – give me a winner. All I'm saying is they are killing me because the Olympics – They're awesome. I think they're the best sporting event in the world. And I assume viewership numbers have absolutely collapsed because NBC has not gotten with the times. I agree. Is this rant going on too long? No, the only lead up I saw was that they had like these 30 influencers that were going to be like special NBC correspondents. Like Riley Arnold was one. I haven't seen. She's not there.

53:35But talk about talk about like not the move. This isn't for influencers. This is for the athletes. The athletes are the influencers. I was going to say the same thing. The athletes are fucking awesome. Every Olympian I've ever met, like their dedication to the craft. Pardon? How many Olympians have you met? Like not like enough. Okay. Enough. But like I have a friend who sailed for Canada in the Olympics. Okay. And I have a friend who rode for Canada in the Olympics. And the commitment to these guys' craft is truly unbelievable. Well, Olympian is the highest. They need more of a, like, the resources being given to them on storytelling just, like, isn't there.

54:24And then I think where it sucks is the knock-on effect is then, like, the follow-on endorsements aren't there. I think it could use, listen, I don't actually mind if they send influencers because I think we just need to accept in this day and age that that would create more buzz around it. But the other area where I think they really missed was our opening ceremony outfits were sick. I did not know what they looked like until I Googled them yesterday. Why did I not have one of those? Like they were sick. 10 out of 10 Ralph Lauren on those. They were gorgeous. Tasteful. Like you guys Google them if you haven't seen them.

55:00Beautiful. I didn't see them one time on my feed. Anywhere. Anywhere I didn't see them. Yeah. I think that they're just trying to control the storylines and the distribution too much. and they're missing the natural virality that's built into these things. It's almost like they need to open the floodgates. They just need to release control and let it go crazy. Yeah. Because I think that people are so interested in it. Yeah. From A to Z, we're missing a great opportunity. This should be the most exciting two weeks of television. And did a guy cheat? This is not where I was going, but there's a pretty, pretty hilarious video going around.

55:45Did a guy cheat? Have you not seen this? No, but no. Okay. So this is really funny. It's been very viral on Twitter. So this guy who came third in some form of cross-country skiing event, during his post-race interview, he um he made like a he basically went into a very emotional uh speech about how six months ago he met the love of his life and three months into the relationship he cheated on her and how he was using his platform following winning to try and get her back and to confess his love and i believe He said, I'm here to commit social suicide to try and get her back. I thought you meant he cheated in his sport.

56:41No. No, but apparently this – now what I saw on Twitter, so take it with the Twitter lens, is this guy also had a pretty similar apology last year. Shut up. When he set off, I guess he does the cross country where you shoot the gun. I guess apparently he set off the gun in the apartment and he had a pretty emotional set of a mistake. So I don't know. He is a thing for public apologies. So you cheat and he owned up to getting the cheating and then he uses global platform to own the mistake. What do we think? We're talking about him. Yeah, I mean, listen, are you saying what do we think if we're her?

57:28Yeah. I mean, it could be the most romantic thing ever. I do just think you have to know his character. Is he just kind of obsessed with the fame moment and he's just saying that because he can't have her and he wants to do anything to get her and then he's just going to lose her again and cheat on her? Or is he dead serious? Like, I don't know. I don't know. Does he have a, like, do you know what I mean? Olympians are fierce competitors so is she not letting him come back and he's like watch me get you back so he goes to the highest platform he can just to get her back okay so she only this is between her and God she knows him does she know if she gets back with him he's just going to fuck around again I would like to talk to her does he have it in him?

58:18Apparently Priscilla sent me something before this that the news has spoken with her and she says it hurts to be in this position that's the headline that's a good comment because it would hurt to be in that position yeah that that's hurtful that's hard interesting well i don't know i just you got to know him who i don't know yeah so it's difficult yeah it's difficult to say are there any events you're looking forward to hockey because i know you're looking forward to it what are you looking forward to hockey um hockey and uh storylines that i don't know exist because they haven't been told to me by nbc correct i completely agree like tell like how so in the who knows about eileen goo do you know who eileen eileen goo is no okay no i mean it's perfectly proven the guy that did the the back.

59:21Yeah. Female skier. Okay. The highest paid Olympian at the athlete is a skier named Eileen Gu. Okay. She's American. She competes for China. She goes to Stanford, big Red Bull athlete like, uh, gets, so she's number one. I think she gets paid 24 million a year. And then number two is Austin Matthews, the, uh, the hockey player. Like it just, I guess I'm probably over, over, overplaying my point here. Like, give me the storylines. Where's the Eileen goo? Where's the spotlight? Ever wonder why your prenatal vitamin stays the same when your body changes so much during pregnancy? Well, you guys enter Parallel.

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1:01:49A dangle A what? A dangle Which is what? That's like a deke A deke? I knew that word too The sin bin He's got good dangles Penalty box Oh my gosh Big into hockey culture over here Jules are you watching the hockey Olympics? pigeon is someone who can't or duster no i don't know pigeon no i don't know a carrier it's just someone who's fucking useless i just said someone who can't skate yeah i don't know but jules are you gonna watch the canadian or or any any hockey not that type of hockey culture oh okay sorry wrong hockey culture um did somebody just knock on the door what's a gino don't know cool gold cool goal oh i knew that because you told me when we went to the game what's an apple you've lost me if someone's an apple man what are they an ex-hockey player no assists they're like they're an assist guy oh an a a an apple apple yeah it's like not a good thing to be called an apple man oh yeah oh because you never score the goals you're always but that's a very important part is to be the assistant.

1:03:03That's a humble, it's a humble job. Not everyone can do it. Like, yes, except when you're being chirped. I know that word too. I know that one. All guts, no glory. Okay. Let's go to, I mean, there's just some of the things we can go to. In the comments will be the first section that we skip to. And going back to the baby shower, because a lot of people had a problem with that I said, I feel like I can go off registry. I want to, I want to number one, say, I still feel like I can go off registry. I think that I killed my off registry gift this past weekend. Number two, I want to clarify. I like to go one on registry gift, one off registry gift, because sometimes you get really sweet things that you didn't think of if you go off registry.

1:03:52For example, my favorite off registry gift I got was hand and feet casting when they have their little hands and you put them in the little cement and it like molds to it and then you get to keep it forever. So that was my off registry gift that I gave. And then my on registry gift that I gave was an outfit that she had registered for. Now, other off registry gifts that I think are so good. I have these little pouches that go in my diaper bag and they're monogrammed adorable and like you're not going to often register for those but you're going to use them all the time so something that's monogrammed i think is just like precious but i did see and we got to admit when we're wrong i did see a lot of people saying i have 75 blankets we also have 75 blankets that were all off registry if you're going off registry don't miss the mark i agree that's the key because and i'll take like i'm prepared to take the heat for this like registry it's too transactional it takes the specialness out of the gift well i think that you can add something like at that point you might as well just send the money no no add a special touch though do add a special touch 100 i think that's a great thing you gotta add a special touch i'm very pro registry with the special touch but you need the special time especially if you if If you like a great gift to give is the stickers Maria just gave us that are monogrammed names.

1:05:14Great gift. Fun. If you know the name of the baby, phenomenal. My cousins gave us little newborn onesies that said like daddy's girl, mommy's girl that they had monogrammed because we didn't have our name yet. That was really cute. So I do think a special touch off registry is welcome. Yeah. What shouldn't you get off registry? Blanket. a commodity something that something that you get a lot of now that said i love the blankets we've received i love them all oh me too i actually love them all but the other the other thing like that i love off registry is outfits because they were always cute i'm gonna kind of like push back and retract that statement i love blankets i love blankets i think it's a great gift but people are saying to go off registry is rude because like people don't want random junk around their house and i agree that's why it doesn't need to be big but but it needs to be thoughtful no but i think you gotta have the confidence to say i know i can go off registry and i know they will love this yeah i think if you're buying random crap from the store like a stuffed animal they have a million of but i also think it's it's part of the the relationship that you have with the person i think that a lot of time when you're getting someone a gift like you want you want there to be a special component to it so i just i just think you need to marry the too.

1:06:33I love an off registry. Nailed the gift. I love it. Yeah. One of my friends did give me a stuffy and it says Tate on it. It was monogrammed. Adorable. Another adorable gift. A step stool with their name on it that they'll use in the bath or they'll use to step up to brush their teeth. Adorable. There's so many adorable gifts that you don't register for. A pillow with the name on it. Adorable. Yep. Really good gifts. Yep. So I think that I stand by my off registry. purchases in fact I love them I think both sides of the equation are very important we've gifted a duna because we're like that's a killer item that like you do you have to know your relationship with somebody but a lot of our friends first birthdays are coming up and I'm getting very excited about those because I feel as though since Tate's been one you know she turned one I kind of know what they're doing in that area and I'd love to give some Y bikes I'd love to give some cowboy boots um trampolines I think all those are really good I mean those are big gifts but these are like our best friends kids so just something to think about but yeah that was in the comments another thing in the comments was we went out to eat and I made a video of like our outing and Tate was sitting on the table and people were like I cannot believe the baby is sitting on the table somebody else has to sit on the table after I mean there's this whole dialogue going on in there and number one if anybody wants to to take tate out to eat and try for an hour to get her to sit in the seat versus sitting up she's so happy sitting on the table she loves it she feels like she's at our height the other thing that i always do is i go over i went i the guy came over to bust the table and i gave him a 20 and i was like hey she sat on the table and he wiped it down I think people sneeze on tables all that like I personally I don't I don't have a problem with this her sitting up there well it's like she starts every meal in in the chair she starts every meal sitting but she climbs on the table and it's a much more enjoyable meal and less disruptive when she's sitting there versus if she's like, you know, restless in her seat.

1:08:55I also think like this is why we eat out with her so rarely now because like it isn't, it's just like, you know, the first 12 months of her life eating out was so smooth. And now, you know, she's very particular about what she wants. And so I think in certain settings it works. and then I think in other settings, like obviously it doesn't. Yeah, and I also think, listen, we always try to be respectful of the environments and the tables and cleaning up after ourselves. I just think you got to pick your battles and like her sitting on the table, I don't have a problem with. So if you see us out at restaurants, there's a chance you're going to see the tater totski sitting on a table.

1:09:36And it is like venue dependent and like that isn't the optimal choice. Yeah, and I just think, listen, like number one, we make sure the table gets clean. But number two, you guys got to think about what's happening at restaurants and ask yourself if you think this is seriously the grossest thing because it's just not. I mean, yeah, Bubber is very clean. Well, Bubber is clean, but also like you wouldn't want to sit in the corner of a restaurant all day and look at the things that go down on these tables, I don't think. Like that's why the health department requires people to bust tables once somebody gets up and like they have to clean it.

1:10:13And like that's just I mean it's happening when you're boarding an airplane. I mean this is just this is just existing in public and like listen Bubber is is a 17 month old child who is significantly happier sitting on the table. And if that and I just think I mean and somebody commented like I didn't even see it. Did this get a lot of comments? No, it was just a dialogue happening in there. And like, I saw it going down and sometimes I don't even see it. And I happen to be online when somebody commented, these comments aren't checking or aren't passing the vibe check. And I thought, which comments aren't?

1:10:47So I clicked on it. And then I was like, oh, and I listen, I don't mind one bit when a little dialogue starts to go off in the comment section, but I was reading it and I thought, okay, interesting, like an interesting topic. Yeah, but I think it's important to own the situation of we'd much rather sit in the chair than on the table. I'd love her to. I'd love her to sit in the high chair. But the reality is coordinating that every time is hard. She won't sit in the high chair. Our number one goal is that we're there and everyone is happy and not being disturbed. And if that means that she's sitting on the table and we clean it after, come on.

1:11:24The people in there defending or people like I have a toddler like you don't get to pick. And I just think that sometimes it what would be nice is if people chilled a little. Yeah, but everyone knows their opinions. No. And listen, like somebody the other day commented, you know, Alex, there's the cords hanging down from our blinds, which we usually have up. But they were down in one of my videos. That kind of feedback. I'm like, you're exactly right. And I usually have the cords up. Thank you for that. and so I always you know I sit in like with the carrier people were like hey you know she needs to have her legs in an M thank you you know why is she sitting on the table with her shoes on just you know I don't know why do we do so many things that we do so that was one that I wanted to touch on to double down on um and say it's not ideal but as a parent I think you have to pick your battles and that is not one that we are picking.

1:12:23So you would have been mortified if you saw Winnie and Tate last night after dance class because they were in line at Cabo Bob's getting a burrito and there was a bunch of girls, a bunch of college age girls also in line and the girls were dancing and Bubber and Winnie were standing on the table dancing. I was waiting to see if you were going to talk about it. Yeah. And I was like, oh, TikTok wouldn't like this one bit. I was like, is someone going to take a photo of this? The girls loved it. no I just I want to get ahead of it girls are hyping them the girl we were like buy our tape buy our winnie and they were they were dancing and the girls were dancing and it was a whole big party in the Cabo Bob's line which is the equivalent of like a Chipotle the fair was all the firefighters were also in line it was a party in there and I thought you know what this I it would be a really cute video but I was enjoying the moment instead of making it but yeah if anybody ever takes a photo of Tate standing on a table out in public just know we know we know here's what I'll do.

1:13:18And I always do this. I carry sanitizing wipes with me. I'll wipe the table. There, know that your table's cleaner than I left it better than I found it. There we go. Solved it. Okay. Um, things we DM'd each other. So number one, Waymo, which Harrison's in a toxic relation. Listen, here's what I'll say about a Waymo today. Uh, you were inside getting a coffee and I was parked at a not so great spot and there was a Waymo trying to get through. And I felt completely confident knowing they're not going to hit me. The Waymo is not going to nick my car. And it didn't. And it made it through because it has sensors on all sides.

1:13:55Waymo, you guys, if you don't know, is an autonomous vehicle automated. They don't, they self-drive. Allegedly. Allegedly. Now here's the things that we DM'd. One of you all actually DM'd me this. So thank you. Waymo, the self-driving car employs human being operators to guide the vehicle so the video i watched is where what are the what are they doing when they're in those rooms and those guys is it some sort of like hearing yeah some some sort of like court hearing and basically it's the waymo head of safety is being questioned and the guy's like so let me get this straight you guys employ operators to guide the Waymos?

1:14:36And the guy's like, yes. And he's like, okay, how many of those operators are not in America? And he's like, I can't get you that number. And he's like, so as the head of safety, you don't know how many are in America and how many aren't in America. And he's like, some are in America. And he's like, what percent? And he's like, I'm not sure. I don't have the number on me. And he's like, so most of them are overseas. And he's like, yes. And he's like, trying to understand our traffic laws here. And the guy's like, again, I don't have the number. so it's interesting because you kind of need to be boots on the ground to know and and so and so they're dry like what are they what are these people doing are they actually driving the cars they were they were very vague about what they're doing they just said that they're guiding them through situations he did say like the cars are driving themselves but they're have these human operators that are guiding them so basically if the car stalls out it it transports to uh or like it'll tap in someone remote who and it'll help them navigate and to clarify it's not they don't have driver's licenses it's that they assume to not have driver's licenses in the u.s correct sorry their their driver's licenses aren't valid here so it's a little confusing like I couldn't operate somebody in London.

1:15:57Here's what I'll say about these autonomous vehicles. We just aren't here yet. And I still keep taking them. And I don't know why I keep taking them because I'm just in, I guess it is a toxic relationship with Waymo. So last time I got in a Waymo and haven't been in one since, I get in the car. it does a full um and and i want to put the screenshots out to just show how ridiculous this this path is so it it leaves our house drives a couple blocks and then just does it a circle around the block so just like a full random circle for no apparent reason then the loop continues and rather than take me to the hotel that i'm going it goes across the bridge leaves downtown, takes me there through the residential area, and then takes me back over the bridge.

1:16:56So I crossed two bridges. It was a 15-minute drive that should have taken six to seven minutes. I called support twice on the call. So I guess I was tapping into these safety people. And it was... Yeah, it was... Were they able to help you? No, no. They're like, this is the route, sir. This is just the route that it's going. No, it's not. I'm like, this is an insane route. And it was like, it wasn't during peak rush hour. So, oh, here's where I wanted to go. So the reason why I started taking Waymo's again is it sent me the notification. It's like, it'll be there faster. So I got in and I decided to sit in the front seat.

1:17:45And so I had a couple of great experiences with Waymo sitting in the front seat and you put the holes. I kept getting in the Waymo's in the back seat and there was no room. And then I realized, okay, well, why is there no room? Is everyone taking them in with four people? And, but then I realized, no, people are sitting in the front seat. So I sit in the front seat. I started having these great experiences. It's still really bad at stop signs. So it does like a double jerk. So it like stops too far back and then crawls up. I'm like, you know, I can deal with that if I'm in the front seat. But then ever since it turned me around on that last one and it did the circle and then took me across the bridge, I haven't been in one since.

1:18:20So we're just not there. We're not there. And it's not surprising to me that they're patching people in abroad to help with the process because like they don't work yet. They don't work the way they should work. But I said when one pulled up the day, I said, why do you keep taking those Waymo? So they're sending you a notification saying that the Waymo will be there four minutes faster than the other Uber. Am I understanding that right? Yeah, I started retaking them because I don't know. I want to, I like trust that the technology will prevail and I'm off of them for now. If we recorded this last week, I would have been back to being pro Waymo.

1:18:59So let me clarify. But now I'm off Waymo because we had that experience, but I'll be back on at some point. Did we talk about the zoeks the zoeks is those things look ridiculous okay i learned something new yesterday those aren't the like autonomous vehicles those are taking sorry those are like capturing data for zoeks and zoeks actually looks more like a train car and there's no driver's seat it's um like two rows of seats facing each other so you could take like eight people on a night out genius like a little bus and those are coming to austin i think like next year or something but the zooks cars that are going right around right now are collecting like the data okay that's great to know because they're ugly and that solves a big like to me that's a lot of what i think about is like why am i sitting in a traditional car right now if you don't have to be if you don't have to be like i love the idea so put the picture up they look really cool yeah very futuristic and i'm like down like we want to go to the houston rodeo and and like go with some friends i would take this zook i would zook there love it like i'd be like oh let's zook there love it yeah here's a good question i have on the waymos so you know how you can't get in the car with alcohol like if you get in a car with like a beer here the uber driver will be like hey no open container what a question if you get what a question in a zook you know and you have a who says something but you can have open container in like a like a sprinter van so maybe zooks or waymos but what about if somebody got have open container in waymo but who's telling you no the lord i don't know your conscience i think i think the point is are should the laws not be updated if it's an autonomous driver why can't you have alcohol in a vehicle i don't know i don't know well i don't know why if you're not driving if you have a sober driver or an uber driver you can't sit in the back seat and drink a beer but i know that you can't well i i understand that i understand that and why why i'm i think you're just creating a very clear line where there's no alcohol in the car when you're no open down okay okay that's fair that's great new orleans though you can i believe well you can walk outside i don't know if you can do it in a car i don't know either yeah but i do wonder what the laws will hold with alcohol and autonomous vehicles because that will be interesting, but I guess we're not there yet.

1:21:27Speaking of Jules learning about Zoox, other things that I learned this week. Okay. So this I saw on a Brat Busters clip. And basically she says, if your toddler starts to hit or to run there, they didn't just turn evil, right? Toddlers are actually hardwired to do four things, hit, run away, like Tate was running away from me in the airport, climbing on top of things and to tantrum. And she even - Things like tables? Yes, climbing on top of tables. She even says that some toddlers will tantrum and some toddlers just won't ever tantrum. But they are hardwired to tantrum. So don't think like, oh, I just have like a little brat of a child.

1:22:07You don't. It's just what they're hardwired to do. And they start to see if they can push the lines here, push the lines there, and then they learn. so to tie this back to last week's dr brown episode is i put this don't react method parameter into play where tate was sitting on my chest and she took her finger and just jammed it as like really really far up my nose and she like hit here and it started bleeding and i just like like rather than like grab my nose and be like oh no like i just held it in for like that 10 15 seconds just like didn't react just like slowly put her down went to the that hurt because per what she said it's like had i reacted and even just like ah wow like that tate that hurt so much, then she would have thought it was something to do again.

1:23:11Yes, exactly. So like not, you know, this whole idea of like embracing what they're doing and not reacting to it makes a lot of sense. And we're putting it into practice. And furthermore, to reward good behavior, because the Brat Busters girls also says, you know if they don't want to get in the car seat and they're tantruming you can't be so angry with them because that is a reaction so then totally they're like okay i can do it again instead of just being like just hold him over the car seat let him tantrum and then get him in the car seat but i thought what was interesting about what dr brown said was the reaction i think when people say reaction they default to think getting mad but per the the situation i just described the reaction is actually being hurt right and so it's it's controlling a multitude of a variety of different reactions to prevent the bad behavior from occurring well bubs is new thing i don't know it to you but she'll pinch she pinches my skin if i'm in a tank top time and it's just like not reacting to that i'm just like but but i saw yesterday in dance class she kept running over to the water bottles and i'd be like no tate those aren't your water bottles come back into dance class and then she thought that was a game so finally i was like okay we're not even gonna acknowledge her and i just went into dance class and i started dancing and when she saw that nothing was happening to her water bottle charades she came back over great call out great call out She loves those water bottles.

1:24:50The teacher was like, she's over there. And I was like, just got to let her do her thing. Yeah. Yeah. Patience. Okay, you guys. Well, that was an excellent episode. We love you guys. As always, like this video and subscribe. Send it to a friend. And we will talk to you all. Happy Valentine's Day. And we will talk to you next week. Thank you for listening. Thanks for listening to another episode of Two Parents in a Podcast powered by Just Media House. If you enjoyed the show, don't forget to like, subscribe, comment, rate, and review. Stay connected on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook at Two Parents and a Pod.

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