Toddlers are SCIENTISTS, the 2026 World Cup & going to a kids’ party WITHOUT kids?!

32:12Yeah, they don't need to watch it. They see a lot of clips. But they're up on it. Like they know what's going on. Yeah, I never tuned in on Bravo. But you're up to date. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to pivot us away from the pop culture time.

32:30So let's discuss waiters blowing up your non-alc. What happened here? This has been driving me crazy, and it happens at every restaurant. When I go and I order non-alcoholic beer, oftentimes I'm not trying to draw attention to the fact I'm not drinking. I'm not trying to hide it. I'm just not trying to draw attention to it. And so, because I don't want what I'm doing to affect the people at the table, I also don't want to talk about it. Because, like, often I don't have a good reason as to why I'm not drinking. I just don't want to drink. and I don't want to potentially be hungover the next day.

33:07Okay. And every time I order a beer, a non-alcoholic, they clarify it's non-alcoholic. The non-alcoholic one? Yeah. I'll be like, can I get the best steak holsch? And they're like, oh yeah, the non-alcoholic one? I'm like, yeah, and I get what they're doing. They don't want to bring the beer and then maybe be surprised by non-alcoholic. It's clearly always marked on the menu. I understand what you're saying. I also understand exactly why they're clarifying it. And yes. And like one of the best examples of it like is with you. Like you love to say you don't like to drink by yourself. And so like when we go like we, you know, have a drink on a random Tuesday night.

33:44I want to be able to get that best day beer so that way it doesn't affect you. Right. Like if I want a glass of wine, I don't want it by myself. Yeah. And to me it's like it's kind of the same thing. But it feels like when I do get the non-alcoholic, then you'll potentially not get a drink. I won't. I'll just get a Diet Coke. And that's, yeah, I don't like that. Yeah, but it did happen. We did order. I was like, I'll have an Aperol spritz after he, no, I ordered first. I was like, I'll get an Aperol spritz because you were like, I'm going to get a beer. And then he ordered the best day colt. And the girl was like, the non-alc?

34:15And I was like, hmm. And you would not have noticed. I would have never noticed. And they're so good and I love them. Okay, solve could be, you could point on the menu so then they know. Nope, they do it again. Oh, that's a non-alc one. They really do do that. It drives me nuts. It drives me nuts. I know what I'm doing. Do I look like I'm a beer, like drink a lot of beer. Know what I'm doing. I know what I'm doing. Well, you could have drank too many beers that they, that now you, they want to clarify. I think it's a good thing that they clarify it. Because what if you were trying to, trying to have a night, okay?

34:51And you were the best day of Kulsh's and you've had five and you're like. Have I ever told this story about Ben and Alex visiting me in Amsterdam? No. And me loving my Amstel, like this Amstel light beer. So they came to visit me for the weekend. I was doing my exchange in Amsterdam. And I'd like just tried this beer a day or two before and they get there. And I'm actually going to research the beer really fast just so I can get the exact name of it. And you got to remember, this is like 2010.

35:30this is 2010 so non-alc isn't a thing at that point at all and so they get there my guys i just tried this amazing new beer so am still isn't they have a standard beer but they had something called am still malt and it kind of had this like like lightish vanilla flavor and i just had it and i loved it i'm like you guys got to try this new beer i picked up a whole bunch of them picked up a 24 pack of am still malt and um first night out like we smashed the whole case and we're coming and home and all of us are looking around like guys like we feel so sober and we chalked it up we like had a conversation then night bear man like we're just like we're got we've gotten so good at drinking beers that like we don't even we don't even get drunk and then the next morning we go for breakfast and uh we're at this like little cute little cafe on the river and I like open the menu and I see that like Amstel malt is on the non-alc section.

36:32And like I told them and I probably got chirped for that for like, I don't know, years. Years, I would imagine. That's so funny. Yeah. Just crushing the non-alc. I was an original non-alc guy. That's funny. But like calling it Amstel malt, very misleading. Yeah, confusing. I thought malt would be like heavier. Right. Do you drink non-alc beers? No. Oh, if I was at a brewery. Yeah. I would. I think they're quite tasty. They are good, but I wouldn't do it like just at a – I would get a die cone. I think we're at polar ends of the spectrum. I think non-alc beers are like – when we look at the non-alc space as good as – like so close to the standard offering versus non-alk cocktails I think are ridiculous.

37:27And they're just expensive. They're expensive and they're just kind of these like sugar bombs and they just kind of taste like juice versus, so like I'm, I love the non-alk beers. I hate the non-alk cocktails. Do non-alk beers have like any alcohol in them? There's no alcohol. The non-alcoholic wine, this is the tricky thing, it still has alcohol. It's regular wine and then it's de-alcoholized I don't know what the right word is and so there's still like trace amounts of alcohol in the in the non-alcoholic wine which is the one thing I would probably drink like I kind of miss like red wine and Aperol spritzes non-alcoholic wine makes a lot of sense to me but to my understanding we should actually just pull this up really quick because is the alcohol content is so low that it's seemingly like a net it's um it's similar to what you'd find in like kombucha yeah and things like kombucha or yeah this just came up the other day with a friend but yeah similar to what's found in nature like a ripe banana or orange juice yeah i was gonna say orange juice but i didn't want to get it wrong huh did not know that so it truly like is not out like you if you drink um you know 10 or 12 of them and you blow on the alcohol thing like you won't show up okay did I know this is my understanding what really quickly can we we're gonna do kids eventually but I would like to just pop to Elon becoming a trillionaire really quickly okay we want to talk about this I don't understand it is he on a trillionaire yeah he became a trillionaire like over over the weekend maybe yeah big weekend for Elon what happened SpaceX yeah went public on Friday okay what is I mean I know what that means but what were the numbers so and how much of it did he own and then how much of it did it go into his pocket it went public like a 1.75 trillion valuation and then trade it up quite a bit and so it ended the day north of two trillion Wow so six the most valuable company in the world and And today I think it's up another 10%.

39:39What are the top five?

39:43If we were to guess. NVIDIA, Amazon. Apple? Apple.

39:53Two more. Oh, oh. Facebook. No. That was your first incorrect. So. Google. Yes, Alphabet. One more. industry competitor of apple microsoft microsoft oh yeah i should have got that and then spacex is it on there listed as spacex spcx is the ticker spcx what questions would be interesting to address on this the only thing i want to understand yeah is when your company ipos Yeah. Which is an initial public offering. Yeah. Right? So people are then allowed to buy up the stock. Yeah. Why does he become a trillionaire? Okay. So it's actually a really good question. In like he was a trillionaire beforehand.

40:53hand the reality is as of friday the stock became public which meant you or i or jules or p or anyone with a with a trading account could go and buy and sell the shares right and so it became very clear and easy to identify the value of his shares on a day-to-day basis okay in the days previous the company was still private. And so understanding what the true market value of his shares were was harder. He doesn't have a trillion. He doesn't have more money in his pocket. He's just worth more. But it's... No, it's just easier to now... You can now track it more easily. Nobody gave Elon a check.

41:41He was, yeah. He was a trillionaire on Thursday. He didn't have a giant check handed to him. But now it's much... We understand his worth. You can see it. In an easier way. How much of the company does he own? Oh, I kind of think it's north of 50%. He owns a ton of it. And then now who owns the rest of it? It's like whoever bought it. Or was there other investors? His brother owns... No. So the largest... I don't even... He owns 42 % to 46%. Okay. So who owns the rest of it? I mean, a whole bunch of other institutional investors. Like Alphabet, Valor Equity Partners. Yeah, so Valor is a fund that people are less familiar with.

42:33What's his name again? Ignacio? Can you Google if you owned 1 % of SpaceX what you were worth? Can we get that one-to-one? Yeah, it's just 1 % times$2 trillion. How much is that? Do you want to ask if we own any SpaceX? What? Do you want to ask if we own any SpaceX? Do we own any SpaceX? Yeah. How much? We're invested in a fund that bought SpaceX private. Great. So we're not, and then we bought, we tried to buy some on the IPO, but we got like a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny allocation. Because I just did it through Robinhood. Okay. And there was so much demand for it. If you own 1 % of SpaceX, your stake is between$17.5 billion and$22 billion.

43:23So Valor, I think, owns 7%. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's like the conversation going on on the internet. It's just like we can't possibly comprehend what a trillion dollars even is. Trillion sounds close to a billion, but it's just nowhere close to a billion. And so like he, if you were to take like the, so the number two most wealthy person in the world, I think is around$300 billion. And then he got Elon. And so like. We are closer in wealth to that person than he is to Elon. And that's like. That's crazy. Yeah. To be clear, on an absolute dollar basis, not on a percent basis. And these things like they do swing drastically.

44:10and I think what's important to note, especially with SpaceX, is there's a lot of questions around how is this thing worth so much. Well, how? There's a massive premium that investors are paying to be backing Elon and the opportunity in space. Because when you look at the financial metrics, it trades significantly more expensive than, especially like the 10 other biggest companies in the world. What was Elon doing like 10 years ago? Like wasn't he just doing - But SpaceX started like 20 years ago. Well, of course, I know. And this is the classic. It happened overnight. And yet you didn't see that.

44:52I've been building it forever. But 10 years ago, what was he first known for? Tesla? eBay. Sorry, he was part of the PayPal mafia. Okay. Yeah. Because I remember he just sort of came on people's radars. People didn't really know much about him. I think it was Tesla. No, no, no. Yeah, so he was part of the PayPal mafia. That was not on my radar. So there's a group of these Silicon Valley guys, him, Keith Rabois, David Sachs, and I'm sure I'm blanking on a couple others. They start PayPal, then leave, and all go on to do a bunch of value-creating things in the ecosystem. So, yes, his next thing, big thing was Tesla.

45:37But he's had his hand in the pot of a lot of different stuff. So, like, he was big in solar. I believe that company was SolarCity. He had SpaceX. And, you know, these things took a really long time. But even this is like, you know, it's very much, I think that what you're going to see in the headlines over the next 6, 12, 18, 24 months is like, you know, you're going to see Elon Musk no longer a trillionaire. because I assume the stock is going to be very volatile because it's trading at such a high multiple. It trades at north of 100 times sales versus most of those other 10 companies trade at, call it, 10 times sales.

46:20I think the highest multiple for the other top 10 largest companies in the world is like 30 times sales, So three times more expensive than that. And like those other 10 companies, all of them are, to my understanding, they generate earnings. They generate EBITDA, even if it's like a small amount versus SpaceX still loses a lot of money. So I think that you'll see a lot of volatility as people, you know, they'll get good data and the stock will rip. They'll, I assume, get bad data and people will be like, oh, it's not worth this much. you've lost me a bit but i'm but i think that you know largely i understand the most interesting thing that you just said to me was in the coming weeks or months we will see elon like these headlines like oh he lost all the money but it's like it's not he didn't do that yeah i think this if you look at tesla stock they didn't deduct the money you know trades really high and trades really low um because tesla's also has a had a very high multiple um and so high multiple stocks generally have more volatility to them.

47:26Okay. Okay, well, so Elon is a trillionaire, but it's like not in his bank account. Well, that's the other funny thing about it is like if he were to sell all the shares, the stocks would trade materially lower. So he has to like hold on to them. Yeah, but that's all. That's pretty much most people. Okay. Like you're a trillionaire on paper. Yeah, okay. You've lost me a bit, but yeah. Okay. I think this happened to Kim K or Kylie, if that helps. It does. It did with a billionaire status, I believe. Yes, but I think hers was marked towards the private valuation, which it's a lot harder to have high confidence.

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50:07Yeah. that started to happen to me in this conversation I really was understanding I would be curious about the listener are you still with us or did we lose you did we lose you we've maybe lost my interest we're like at the same point as the comment let's go read some world cup comments no I have another comment that I want to read so okay hold on what do we think about Taylor Swift getting married at Madison Square Garden I don't know I wanted to ask you guys if you think it's real I guess I think it's real. And I think that she's got this phenomenal planner who presented to her what this could look like.

50:46I think it's iconic in the sense that nobody's done it. And I think the planner was like, this could be really cool. Here's my ideas for it. And I think it will be awesome. My question is, who performs at Taylor Swift's wedding? Who does Taylor Swift get to perform? A band? No. I think you have a Gracie Abrams appearance. no really love Gracie Abrams but no don't you think Gracie's also going to the wedding yeah probably I think it's somebody like earth wind and fire I think it's gonna be old old old school musicians Dolly Parton someone that she just loves I take that back I think it's gonna be very like I think Dolly Parton is a great guest do you think the guests just like rotate it's like karaoke but with all these famous guests that's the best idea I've ever heard yes because she got up on that stage at Nashville just popped up there.

51:36Yeah. Play a little. Yeah. I think that there will be some really iconic people and also some country. No, I think she's going to go. I think that the more old school, like classic icons will do it. I do too. I wouldn't be surprised if Springsteen, Bon Jovi, that type of guys. And do you think this MSG thing is like a decoy? Or do you think nothing of it? You think it's actually at MSG? It's a very good venue. Is it? What? If you drape the whole thing and, like, transform it, a lot of space. I just never thought of such a thing. Very secure. I just, like, don't think you can be, like, getting married at, like, Casa Cipriani.

52:18She would be able to fully hide from the press if in there. I don't know. I thought she was going to get married in Rhode Island. That was too obvious. That's the Friday night dinner. What? You think it's just going to be a one-night event? No, of course not, but it's going to be in another state. Okay. Oh, in Rhode Island. I thought it was going to be in Rhode Island. Doesn't she have Long Island? She went to a - A house? No. She went to a wedding once in Long Island. Jack Antoinette. Jules is on the wedding tracker. The house is in Rhode Island. I think it's confirmed in New York. No, it's like this MSG rumor just came about this past week.

52:58That's like my whole FYP, and people think it's a decoy. okay it must be so nice to get to a point where like you you have yeah no i actually the point is it's not so nice for her that's why she would have to potentially do a decoy i i don't know where the wedding is jewels guess what i cannot wait to see it okay i say never mind i cannot wait to see where the wedding is i cannot wait to see the dress are they bridesmaids are they not yeah what do you think those photos sell for over wedding yeah i think there's not going to be photos you don't think they take everyone's phones and then they have one photographer and then that photographer will sell five or ten approved photos to a magazine i don't know i'm really thrown off by this whole msg thing it's making it way more of a spectacle than i thought it was going to be I thought it was going to be a small private intimate wedding in Rhode Island.

54:00No cameras. We'd never see a thing. My understanding is it's not going to be a small intimate wedding. He doesn't give me small intimate wedding vibes. I don't know. I don't know.

54:15Do you think that there is a 100 % acceptance rate on their invites that went out? Yes. No. What would you not move to go?

54:28okay well let's bring it back what if it was what if it was what if it was my birthday didn't we have some birthday question on here it was like for a guy's trip okay yeah uh your birthday party would be in new york and it'd be very fun so here's how you don't go is if you're pregnant as if someone's pregnant like having the baby you would literally have to be birthing it because if you're within your one month window i don't know you drive well you can't even drive You take your doctor. You take your doctor with you. I'm sure that someone will not be able to go. Do you want to know the only thing that could get me to question going?

55:04Yeah. If it was on September 17th or April 18th. those are our children's birthdays I know. And the kids weren't invited. Yeah. And I still think. Do you think Taylor's having a no kid wedding? Yes. And even if she wasn't having a no kid wedding, their birthday can't be spent there. So I do think that I would not go for that. Yeah. Well, on the topic of kids, do you know one piece of advice that I got around parenting that I think has proved to be really true for toddlers. What? Give them two choices. Okay. How many times have I said that on here? Well, I'm saying it's advice that I found to be true.

55:55From Alex? You came up with that, Dr. Fugman? So my prediction is I think Alex is going to go back to school. Oh, boy. Yeah. okay yeah i see the excitement that you have around behavioral learning and child development and i think you're going to go back to school and and look at that serious moment we just had uh and and formalize your your interest look at jules laughing look at laughing away i I would love to go back to school. I just like, where would I go? And is it online? Am I going in person? What if you went to UT? Because I really wanted to go to UT so that way we could be big UT fans and it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

56:47What if you go to UT and then we can be a UT family as well? Isn't UT really hard to get into? I think that - Really hard? I think that you could get in. I just want to let you know about my academic past. I most likely cannot. I don't know what that's like though for like an adult going back to school that's what i mean undergrad is obviously like incredibly challenging i think master's programs just take your money yeah i think master's programs are a bit of a different story so here's the thing about me in college like i wish i went to college i wish i would have taken like a five gap year right five gaps because i would have taken school so much more seriously now at the time i was also like what am i like all the things i learned in college College, not so much, but high school, like, why did I have to do long division?

57:35It used to kick my butt. The long ones. I mean, I used to be like, I am never going to get this. And it's like, oh, another day without using long division. You know, Pythagorean theorem, like, ugh. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I think that our education systems, I think there's some room for improvement in them, for sure. Yeah, what I would love is a whole course on taxes. I completely agree. And how those are going to work. And credit. And credit. And how if you buy something, you know, people used to say if you buy something for$5, you have to make$10. I never really understood that. And then taxes come into play and you do understand that.

58:22And the real world taught me that. And saving. And savings. those would all be really fun not fun to not take a class on saving in high school it's like it's pretty insane and then like a lot of people like principled savings a lot of people don't go to college basic principles of savings so you graduate high school then you go out into the real world and they're just like you were just learning long division and now you have to pay taxes gas prices how do those work yeah a class on budgeting which takes into account gas prices and groceries totally Really? Wait, ways to cut. But this is one of the, it's why I'm so open to homeschooling.

59:03Well, that's a whole other conversation. I don't know that I am, but we'll see. But all that to say, I would like to go back to school. Yes, that would be fun. But anyways, I did say that I had read, you know, two choices is a good idea. Yes. So who did you hear it from? Well, I feel like it's one of those things you hear about parenting all the time. Okay, so what two choices have you been given Bubz? Um, so I give her two choices of food in the morning. Okay. But, and that's been just so consistent and so easy. But like, I found myself in a, in an interesting dilemma on Saturday morning where like she was ready to go.

59:41She's pointing to, um, pointing outside and saying, go, go, go, go, go. And I go to put her in the stroller and she just like would not go in the stroller. and what's tough about is like we can't really just walk without the stroller anymore like we do need the stroller there because carrying hers the whole time is just get tough when and when you walk with her we're stopping for rocks yeah we i funny enough i used to kind of be able to walk with her um now we're going different directions and now we we can't okay so what i did is I had the stroller with her seat in it, and then we can swap out her seat with Rocky's bassinet.

1:00:25And so I was like, all right, Tate, we're going to the coffee shop. Do you want this seat or this seat? And she chose Rocky's bassinet. And so I just swapped out. I put Rocky's bassinet on the stroller, and she sat in Rocky's bassinet. And the whole thing was mitigated and moved on. and like she was refusing to get in the stroller. And you sent me a photo of her sitting in Rocky's bassinet, which is the flat one, and she had her snacks in there with her. Yeah, we can put up the photo. It's a pretty funny photo. So that's just how she wanted to go. Yeah, yeah. I think that's adorable. Yeah, I've never heard that.

1:00:59Go? Go. Go. Go. Go. That's definitely the tone. Yeah, go? Go. Okay, we will go. Last night she - Speaking of going. What? Will you go with me after this to do some housing stuff? No.

1:01:14we're just gonna like have an empty pool just okay all right i'll go with you i'll go i'll go but i would like to get a coffee i would love to get a coffee okay so we'll do that so i didn't mean like direct i meant this afternoon like we need to figure out we need to finalize the fence and we need to finalize the the pavers i know everyone was saying that we need to look at the craftsman style fences i didn't like those guys i think we the fence thing set up but like we're doing iron we can't order this fence and you keep saying i don't care i don't care and the fence shows up and like you don't like it so i need you to sit beside me while we like firm everything up with the person okay we'll do that um what i was gonna say is last night tate also wanted it was so cute we had got back from one of our neighbor's houses and she wanted to we had just eaten and she ate a lot but she wanted to sit in her high chair and put on her bib and get her plate out and so we filled her plate with food she didn't want the food she just wanted to sit in the high chair with her bib on.

1:02:09So we just did that. We just sat there. So I think something different was happening. What do you think? I think that she knew it was about to be bedtime. Yeah, she was distracting. And she didn't want to go to bed. And so she was like, oh, if I make them give me food, then they won't take me upstairs. Which is funny because she was very tired. So I was surprised that she did that. Yeah, that was really funny. I mean, I thought, okay, if you're able to give me the signals that this is what you want, we'll do it. She sat in the chair. She didn't eat the food though. Okay. So we had this video that we posted of Tate where I was trying to talk about how confusing it is for kids to be sitting on the table at home, but not at the restaurant.

1:02:50And when I was doing that, she poured out her spin drift. Yes. And I want to read one. And I'm sure if you haven't seen the video, you can go watch it. It's on TikTok and Instagram. But if you have seen it, you'll know what I'm talking about. She pours it out IRL. I also would love to know how parents deal with their children pouring out liquids. Well, a lot of times she has... Sippy cup? She doesn't want a sip of cup. She doesn't like the sip of cup. She wants like a real glass. I can't believe I didn't... I thought I screenshotted... It's just... It happened. She loves to pour glass to glass.

1:03:29And what started to happen, there isn't a glass there. and I think what she's doing is she's curious how much is in there but then oh it's just my favorite comment it's under the fold but someone screenshotted when she just is pouring it it is the funniest photo I've ever seen oh really I'll show it I gotta see guys so I see I found it okay so there's a dialogue going on and they say so somebody says do you realize you're reinforcing this behavior by telling her she did a good job and everyone's like i'm she's saying good job to her cleaning up like that i was not saying and there was a gap just so we're really clear like after she poured it we we clarified to tate we tried to show her you drink not pour or you pour into another cup it's also so fun for her to pour right now like we're we're no nobody at the right age of 30 good job to pour no we were saying good job we were clearly saying good job to her cleaning up but no one's still pouring out their cups at five so like we'll be okay but this is what somebody says the parents quick reaction showed urgency without shame so she knew something wasn't right what she did isn't wrong though babies are scientists and their job is experimenting and figuring out the world she was repeating an action she had done before which is dumping water into a cup as the parents say in the video she didn't have the other cup she learned that when she makes mistakes, her parents won't punish or yell at her, but guide her through it.

1:04:59Not just clean it up for her, but teach her how to fix the mistakes because mistakes are going to be inevitable. This is the exact kind of parenting that helps kids feel safe, teenagers be honest, and adults who aren't afraid to fail. Now, we didn't know we were doing, like we did, when I read that, I was like, this makes sense. We didn't know we were doing it. Things that Harrison and I talk about are we never want to get mad at her for doing I have read kids are scientists we don't want her to get in trouble we also don't want her to think she can just dump out water and then we will always clean it up she has to help clean up yeah but it was cute to see she recognized something wasn't wrong but she felt no shame yeah I think that that perfectly captures the situation like starting with the saying that toddlers are scientists I know you just said you've heard that before I don't think I've ever heard that before.

1:05:53Or if I have, I forgot I heard it. Because I love it. And I feel like that subconsciously is like the lens that I'm consistently looking at her through. It's like, all right, is she trying to learn and discover? And if she is, and yeah, it's like our job to support her through that. But I always say she's running her science experiments. Yeah, she's running experiments all the time. Yeah, and that's a scientist. Yeah. Yeah, like she, and I just think that, like the other day, remember she was holding scuba don't go as they're supposed to you help her fix it she was holding a glass bottle and we were on a brick surface and she dropped it and it broke everywhere yeah like instead of being like no no no because we i dropped a bottle yesterday but i dropped it on wood and it didn't break and it was an accident when i dropped it and it was an accident when she dropped it you know so instead of being like no no no you're not allowed to drop it then she'll be so afraid next time she holds the bottle to that she might drop it and sometimes you just drop a bottle yeah and you also inherently learn when you drop glass on surface x it breaks and then surface y it doesn't well i'll tell you what i still don't have that down like sometimes the bottle breaks sometimes the bottle doesn't break yeah i meant more so it's like if you drop the bottle into water it's not going to break right you drop it on concrete oil yeah yeah yeah you know the miranda cosgrove meme no the the i actually do cuss a little oh yeah that's what every one reminded me in the comments of you there said oh my god this is the first time we've ever heard alex swear well i just i kept it in there because i was like this is probably a very normal someone someone that's so funny but i i actually can't get over i actually do cuss a little here's what i think is happening in her brain like because that is the face she makes when she pours it into another cup and so she's like looking to see what's happening.

1:07:44And she's pouring it on the napkin. Because she knows the napkin absorbs the liquid. She doesn't know she's doing something wrong. Oh my god, she's my favorite. She does not know she's doing something wrong. I'll tell you what though, we clean up a lot of liquid in our house right now. Yesterday she poured her cup on her lunch plate and then took her lunch plate and dumped it on the ground. She was so proud that she got the liquid on the ground. Let me just... I'm kind of just like happy cleaning it up right now. I don't know. Wayfair, every style, every home. Your outdoor space should feel like you.

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1:09:37Okay, what else do we want to talk about? Rocky Bears is, he's just, it was so, I just couldn't stop laughing at him yesterday. Because he goes to the neighbor's house to swim, but he doesn't actually swim. And then he's at the neighbor's house to eat dinner. And he's just, he's along for the ride. I would mark, how many weeks in are we, eight? Yep. I'd say he officially looks different to me. And he smiles. Than when we brought him home from the hospital. Like, I think before I said things really changed three months in. To me, it's feeling like, all right, eight weeks, this is the first, like, line in the sand that I can draw on him feeling less fragile, a lot more engaged, a lot more awake, and just looking materially different.

1:10:24He's so cute. And snuggles. Nice boy. Very nice boy.

1:10:33So, yeah, that's, Rocky's doing good. The reflux, I know that I had discussed it. I would say it's significantly better. I think at week six and seven, it was just, he was developing something. And I mean, wouldn't you say it's almost gone? Yeah, totally. Yesterday, he did throw up like all over me, but that was, I don't think he's doing that every bottle. like we went the whole we went most of the day yesterday without it totally he had the bad morning one and then throughout the whole rest of the day he was fine so yeah i think that we're we're trucking along um it was really fun so we went to my friend olivia's daughter's birthday maybe you saw us on my insta story it was her first birthday and there were so many moms there i mean there's dads there too but there were so many moms and babies and i was just looking around being like it's so funny to think back to when we first moved here i you know didn't have this group of mom's friends mom friends because tate wasn't even born yet and then you know you have your first kid and then your second kid and it was so comforting being in that area with like all these moms because sometimes it's hard to take kids places and so where i feel the most comfortable is number one if you're there and number two if i'm with like my mom girls and i just loved knowing like somebody was always like looking at rocky or somebody like they're playing with tate and it's such a comforting feeling to finally have like your your group your village yeah um i'm proud of you for a lot of different things right now but one specific thing that i'm proud of you for that i'll call out is and i think i have called it out several times over the past week is is the mom community that you built here because when we moved here it just it didn't exist no it didn't and and that is on your doing and and you know it's something that um has come together with such a great group of women and families um and they make life so much better So I'm proud of you for like having built that.

1:12:42But I got lucky. I got lucky with the girls that are here. And the girls like if you think about it only two of my friends' kids were older. So they were already moms. The rest became moms with me. But if you don't put the time and the effort into talking to those moms, connecting with those moms. And obviously it's mutual. It's them as well. Then like it doesn't happen. And I see how easy it is to, you know, to not put yourself out there and to stay at home. And I'm just kind of saying that, you know, we could be here two plus years living in Austin. And I could have just stayed here. And we could be looking around and, you know, that community could not be there.

1:13:20Well, that community would be there. I wouldn't be in it, you know. So it's great. It's great that I, yeah, I love them. I'm really thankful for them. And I love the way that they all mom. you know what I mean yeah and the other thing that I I was talking all great husbands as well yeah they're they're just awesome like they're just awesome but what I was talking to one of them about was getting comfortable asking for help so like the day I went to swim without you there was one time that Harris he went to the Spurs game so I went to swim and I took both kids and I just texted the group ahead of time and I was like can someone come outside when I get here because like I can't bring them both in yeah and and like it's so funny like you you used to never ask for help.

1:13:58I never would ask for help and then when I got inside Olivia walked right up to me and she's like I'm gonna hold Rocky while you do swim with Tate and I was like thank you amazing and it's so it's so nice to just you ask for help and then this because this is what I said too I want to help so this brings us to we went to a party with that was a kid party I was gonna you stole my transition Alex I was so excited to be the podcaster and transition to the next point no you got it you got it well we went to the I ruined the transition by doing that. So anyways, we went to a kid's party. We had back-to-back events, and the second one was no kids.

1:14:34And so we went to the first one because we were going from one to the other. So we went to the kid's party because we wanted to stop by and say hi to the parents, and we went with no kids. And what was so funny about being there was, well, number one, I got to hold so many other babies that I never get to do. But number two, what did you say when we left? My big observation is like, you know, in talking to everyone, it really shined light on how even when you're having a conversation, how much of everyone's brains is still on tracking their kids. yeah and in three and and i loved it because it just showed like how engaged and attentive all the parents were but like three conversations all um you know at some point where the parent i was talking to i had to step away because they either saw that their kid needed something their kid came up to them and so it just like it really shined light on like the dual parenting brain like you're having a conversation here but like you see your kid is walking over to the table to grab some crackers and can't reach them so like you're you just got it in the middle of the conversation walk to the table and uh and and help them with the crackers and and funny enough like i really then felt it the next day at at the neighbor's swimming when it's like you know you're having a great conversation but yeah but like you are fully attentive on where the kids at all times um around the food around the pool etc etc right 100 yeah and it's it's it's i just haven't been to a kid party without kids since before we had kids does that make sense yeah and back when i went without kids i was like oh man like you know just hey everyone and then you tuck and roll out.

1:16:28But now going, it's such a different lens of like, I love seeing all the kids and I want to talk to them and play with them and hold them. But it is funny when you're trying to talk to the adults like they are just running around. And we are always running around. Yeah. It's very different. It's very different. So I'm not sure how this will all be cut up, but I did have to step away and do a little bathroom break. And on my bathroom break, I was filling up my beautiful Buc-ee's cup here with some coffee. And what did Jules say about the coffee that I was filling it up with? That I didn't like it?

1:17:05You didn't like it. So here is a question for the room and I think more importantly for the audience. It can be, maybe it'll be a bicker of the week, maybe it won't. But what do you think about when you're about to eat a food and someone comments how much they don't like the food? How does that make you feel? Such a good question. Because you know who is the queen at doing that? me you i will order something and like i'm about to take a bite and you just go ew my within my friend group like i'm the yum yucker ah is that what it is yum yucking yucking other people's yums oh i'm such a big big yum yucker but i just don't have a filter and like i don't know it's a point of conversation i don't i agree jules didn't think about the impact it was going to have on you Yeah, but it ties in the point of like every time I say what I want for dinner, I'll be like, what do you want for dinner?

1:18:00And you say like, I don't know. You choose. Like, you know, I would love sushi tonight. You're gross. Sushi? I asked you what you wanted. You said you don't care. And then you take my craving and just bury it. Do you know I know what I want this week? Oh, please. Steak and fries and hamburgers and fries. Okay, what tonight? Steak. steak and fries tonight done. I have it in the fridge. What type of steak? I don't know. I may have to. Because you got bison steak last week. That was because I was at Whole Foods. This I got from H-E-B and it's my regular steak order. Okay, phenomenal. Yum. And then I have those fries.

1:18:41Those, what are those called? Benny and Jerry's? Benny and Jerry's fries. Jesse and Ben's. Jesse and Ben's. Jesse and Ben's fries. They're so good. Very good fries. Cooked in beef tallow or avocado oil. These are avocado oil. I'm upset about the placement that they have at Whole Foods, though. They're on the bottom. Would that mean that they're not selling as many? No, they're doing good. Why are they on the bottom? Can we get them eye level? Every time that a retailer does a reset, they determine where the products go, and so hopefully it changes its placement. So one or two times a year, a retailer will bring in new products and take out old items, and then also reorganize how they're displayed on the shelf.

1:19:25Okay, because they were sold out of one flavor, I think the regular, and then they only had the other one left. So I thought these are doing really well, but why are we on the bottom? Yeah, I think they're doing great. I think people love them. There's a couple other good brands too. Nothing. All I was going to say is, yeah, you're welcome to call me out when I yuck your yum. I think it's just a hilarious dynamic. You shouldn't do it, and I do it all the time. I think it's great that Jules does it, especially to you. I love that. I'm a full supporter. You just had such a big one on me. I'd love to remember.

1:19:58I don't know. Okay, I want best parent. So in the comments, best parenting tip we've heard in a while. I had my youngest son start to take me on a date when they were teenagers. I gave them a budget and they planned the date. I encouraged them to open doors, order for me, and pay for the meal so they could learn. Wish I would have done this for my older boys. This is one of my favorite parenting tips I've heard in a very, very long time. I think the only kind of tip and cap or the only like change that that I'll want to make on in our house is like all want To Take the lead on Rocky doing that for you So I don't want you telling him How to you know how to take you on the date and you giving him the money I want to do it so that way he's very much Taking the initiative towards you and then I'll be taking Bubba out on her dates.

1:20:46We're overdue for date night. Yeah Maybe I'll take it for dinner tonight. Maybe I'll take it for sushi. No, because we're having steak and fries. I know. It was a joke. That was a joke. Bad joke. Bad joke. Bad joke. Okay, bicker of the week. Okay. Jules, why don't you tee up this bicker? No. You tee up the bicker. So we did an emergency recording Friday because - It wasn't an emergency. We just did it. We're being dramatic for the content. 100%. We're recording a couple extra episodes for Fourth of July week. That's an irrelevant part of the bicker. Should we bicker about how to tell the story?

1:21:30I just think like we were at the studio. We were here. We were at the studio. Harrison and I drove together in the same car. He brought his laptop. He left his laptop in the car. We came up here. We recorded. I was then going to leave and drive to my workout class whereas Harrison was going to walk home I get in the car I see oh Harrison's laptop's in the car I'm about to be gone for three four hours nobody loves their laptop more than Harrison it's the equivalent of you leaving your phone in someone's car so I think the nicest thing I can do here is get the laptop out of the car but I don't have time to take it all the way upstairs because then I'll miss my workout class so I took the laptop out and I set it on the side of the building you need to see where she left the laptop like Jules and I had to take a photo because it was left in such a reposterous place like it wasn't hidden at all I thought if I hit it you wouldn't be able to find it you could hit it, take it a photo and send it it was in the shade it was such an absurd hiding point I only discovered it with Jules it was an insane move It was the fastest I could get it out.

1:22:42Would you? Okay. So here's the bicker of the week. Would you rather me take the laptop with me or leave it there? I feel like you're the queen of like encouraging people to just like make the extra effort. Right. And that to me is a great example. Like you just could have like walked into the art studio and said, hey, I'm going to leave this here for the next two and a half minutes. or you could have hit it somewhere. Like you put it in like the most stealable place that it ever could have existed. No one's going to steal the laptop right there. I thought that I put it, I thought if I, Harrison, sometimes you.

1:23:23What if it, like it's been periodically just dumping rain in Austin. You didn't even put it under like a cover. This is why I hit it where I did, which I didn't hide it. You didn't hide it. I don't like the term hide. I was going to say, this is why I left it in plain daylight. is because like the other day you're like where's the child's motor in it it's like it's at your eye level in the fridge like where's the ketchup it's just it's right there i'm surprised you just didn't leave in the middle of the street i would have if it wouldn't have gotten ran over i thought that you were going to be so happy that i noticed your laptop was in the car and got it out yeah i my skill of carrying on this was was i mean jules was there for the reaction a 0.5 out of 10 i just like I saw it like this is the bicker of the week and I'm just gonna take a picture and we'll talk about it on the pod so would you rather me taking the laptop with me or left it in a crazy spot uh yeah I always need my laptop so you need your laptop yeah it's big it's a big one for you so it's not a real bicker of the week it's more of a story time of the week yeah okay and then I think that that oh So I love the death to the summer job.

1:24:34Let's do that one as the things we DMed. So in 2005, 51.7 % of teens, and that's ages 16 through 19, had a summer job. 2026, 30%, the lowest rate since BLS started tracking in 1948. No more summer jobs. Bureau of Labor Services. Bureau of Labor Services. I was wondering what that was. It's a 21-point drop in 26 years. teens aren't getting jobs anymore I couldn't be less surprised by this that's the energy I feel I don't see people going to Jersey Mike's anymore and working behind the counter working the cashier like I don't see it what's your take on it lifeguarding used to be the number one summer job I just wondered if you guys had any good summer job stories our kids are going to have summer jobs like our kids are going to be doing productive things in in the summer um and whether kids aren't getting summer jobs because they're playing video games or whether they're not getting summer jobs because they're doing like college sat prep like i believe in uh having a well-rounded upbringing with a variety of different experiences and um summers are our time to work we learn and grow and and that can look very different it doesn't need to be like traditional work um i want the girls to start a lemonade stand soon yeah it can be trying a little business soon i said i they would understand what what would bubber do if we started lemonade stand what would she do drink it splash she poured all she poured all out bubber gets to start lemonade stand when she gets to show that the day that she doesn't pour it all out i think she should have to start So I think on the summer job thing, though, let me ask you this.

1:26:30What if they have like two days all summer? For sports, like what if they're what if they're in some sport or some camp or something like that? Does that take the place of a summer job or? Yeah. And so job may not be the the the best summer activity. Yeah. I want them to be taking on a form of summer responsibility that isn't in the classroom. I agree with that. Yeah. I think this is interesting. I would like to know in – Like starting a business for the summer, if they put together a business plan, I'm all for that. Okay. If they want to train and like actually be training for something, I'll be very supportive of that.

1:27:09So here's why it's happening. I want it to be their ideas, not ours. The resume building treadmill. Summer is now AP coursework, SAT, ACT prep, club sports, college admissions activities, paid internships, camps, and volunteer hours. I'm fine with all that. That all sounds productive to me and good. i'm good with that adult workers are now filling the roles and ai is starting to eat entry-level work

1:27:36you hear a pin drop what happened cat got your tongue no i was thinking about this ap thing because i didn't need to deal with it in canada and so i just realized i'm not i'm not well versed on it i didn't need to deal with it either it wasn't something you were dealing with in the summer oh Jules is not Jules is con P I just feel like I want our kids to deal with their schoolwork during the school year but this is actually as it comes in our mouth it's one of those interesting things where it's like is this something that parents are gonna come back and say it's just not feasible to think that way you might have like a summer packet like I think the most important thing that I did during high school was have a summer job was your best summer job and your worst summer job I worked at a bakery one summer okay That was great.

1:28:19Love that. Because, and the only thing I remember about it was we would play the same FM radio station all day. And so those songs that were, like, popular that summer, Payphone by Maroon 5. Oh. And, like, a couple other ones, they just, like, take me instantly back to this bakery. And then I worked at a restaurant for, like, I mean, the rest of it. That was my first summer. And then after that, I was at a restaurant for years. I have something I want to double tap into off what you said there because it's happening a lot with us. We're playing a lot of old school music right now. Because music's not as good.

1:28:51And what I've noticed is 50 % of the songs that I used to love, still love, like play them on repeat. But 50 % of them, I just like overplayed that when I hear them, it gives me like a bit of the ick. So like when I hear Justin Timberlake, like when I hear Sexy Back, it's like change the song right away. Oh, but mirrors? Leave it on. versus what's the Wiz Khalifa one that we love? Trumpets? Oh, No Sleep. That's Jason Derulo. Sorry. I'm on a big Trumpets kick right now. No Sleep. Yeah, it's something like No Sleep. Like when Alex and I, we play like seven. No Driving. You know the song? Oh my God.

1:29:35So good. It's phenomenal. We can't play it because. I know, I'm just going to make sure that that's the one because I'm actually now thinking it's not that one. But that's the song what you just sang. Really? Yeah. it and asleep and so we go through it and like it'll come on and like we'll we'll both be like oh that what a classic and then we play it like a couple times or one of us like no no okay remove it so that just payphone like if that came out i'd be like change it right away change it right away oh no i would like to listen it hurts my ears oh i loved payphone i listened to it i loved it but i overplayed it girls like me no i can play girls like me five times and it needs to have Cardi B in it, which you don't think, but I do.

1:30:16I agree to disagree. I love the Cardi B version. Give me a good and bad summer job, please. I played club sports. Volleyball. Every summer. That was my summer job. We're officially at the point that we need to go play volleyball, you and I. I need to see this. I did win the basketball. You did. You did win. We played a game of... Knockout. Of knockout. I saw it on your story. And I did finally prove to Harrison. You know, I will say that I did not know that was being recorded.

1:30:53And I did not. You were so proud of me. My reaction. Harrison, I watched it like four or five times. I thought it was so cute. It was so cute. If I wasn't going to win. Well, I hope you won. You need Alex to win. Yeah, and I did. I can't believe you haven't included a very important part of this. why didn't I win? I got you out. I did. I drained my three-pointer. Yeah. And ironically, so I took the shot, and I'm not sure if you noticed this, but it was from three points. And the rebound came right underneath the hoop. And so I was like, you know what? Rather than just put it right up, I'm going to wait for you to miss it.

1:31:44and I'm going to bump your ball away. Oh. And I was going to get you out. And so karma got me very bad. Because I didn't miss it. Because you drained it. Yeah. I was so happy. Yeah. I like probably would have had time to catch it and put it back up. I'm so glad you didn't. Yeah. As I think of it now. I was so excited when you went. So this is how you know we haven't had time to talk all weekend. It's because I watched that video that Lexi put up. and I was like that his reaction is so cute it was genuine I like thought that you weren't allowed cameras in that in that place are you? yeah I thought there was like a no photo place what place were you in?

1:32:26we were in the craziest craziest place okay are we allowed to say what it is? I thought you were in someone's house that would be cool I really did think it was in someone's house it's called Driftwood Golf and Country Club oh it's like an adult summer camp it is insane it is so fun There was a basketball court. We floated a lazy river. Oh. Bowling alleys, baseball fields. We watched the Spurs game in the theater. Have you seen the fake lazy river? No way. I would love to go. No, no. It's going viral. We'll have to insert it. But it was at Costco and it's completely fake. But it's like a blow up pool lazy river.

1:33:03It's so funny. And when I saw it, I thought if this was real here, someone would be having it for. One thousand percent. And it's not a bad idea. Sometimes I'm really proud of my internet senses. Because when I saw that, immediate copy link, immediate text and group chat. And I was like, nope, this feels fake. Went, Costco searched it, didn't see it. I was like, all right, perfect, I caught it. I almost sent it to you guys and then I said, oh, it was fake. Oh, good, so people knew. People knew it was fake. But it was so cool. Lazy Rivers are so fun. I cannot wait to take Bubz out there. She will die.

1:33:41Yeah. She'll be like, oh my God, you can float in a circle with a tube? Yeah. I couldn't believe this place. It was awesome. And so then we played Knockout. Just a bunch of adults. They just had TVs like everywhere. And so you'd be at the Lazy River. There were TVs. It's like you'd be playing in the basketball courts. There'd be TVs. Like you're bowling. There's TVs. Great place to watch a game. In New York, it was, yeah. But then there was so much going on, we didn't even see what happened in the game. Well, we definitely sat and watched the end of it, though. It was a very good game. What? Oh, yeah, you were talking.

1:34:13I was locked. I was locked in. I got an incredible piece of advice over the weekend. Okay, but hurry up. Okay, the cameras are going to die. This is like a very long. You go. Go really quick. How long does he have? Okay. He has time. This advice from, how do I come up with the way I want to describe them? Well, honey, this isn't the time for you to be at a loss of words. um so a very successful person yeah i don't want to boast guy up but but on that on the list of of like all-time u.s successful entrepreneurs and we're talking to him and someone asked him uh it was me neighbor t and him and neighbor t asked him uh what advice do you have for

1:35:06to entrepreneurs, family men, community members. It's almost a joke. Honey. It's not a joke. I know it's not a joke, but this isn't the time to talk slow, sweetie. How much time do we have left? That's not the time to ask that. Okay. We're going to save it for next weekend. Okay. Okay. We will be a good cliffhanger. We love you guys. Thank you for listening. We love you very much. 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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