Tit Snake

This week, Bryn can’t figure out cups, Maeven decides to grow out her bangs, Peter’s on HBO’s “High Maintenance,” and Beth unpacks a Would You Knows Scenario in which she’s her own grandmother.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
I got boo boo boo boo boo. You know what
that sound means? Time for another episode we knows Parenting.
I'm Peter McNerney, I'm Bethnel. Did you love that? Should
I introduce the show that way? Always? No? Cool? All right,
I'll try it for next week. Um, life is happening,

(00:31):
that's for sure. What's happening Valine's Day? It's pretty fast.
If you don't, you don't stop to look around, you
might just miss it. I was so relieved. Um, last
night my friend sent me a message just like off
and talking about her daughter's Valentine's and I was like, oh, right,
that's the thing. I have to do that now. There's

(00:54):
so many things to do. Um, So I got Brinson
like four dollar Valentine's from the CVS, but on my
list for a while, I knew. I knew that that's
something we would have to do, not the day before.
I can't count on him to write twenty one names
in a single day. So so thank you for doing that.

(01:16):
And boy, we had time to do it today because
Brent has a fever. Yeah, fun stuff. I stay at
home all day. It was very easy. He's not super sick.
He loves TV. You watched he watched Pinocchio, and then
he watched The Emperor's New Groove. Then he watched Robin Hood,

(01:40):
and he watched Fox from the Hound, And then when
I got home, Maven was watching Wally Well. Then he
watched Rattatui and then he started watching Before Are there
in this day? That's like the longest day. He watched
five full length movies. We also into the bank. We

(02:01):
went to the store I don't know actually, and we
got all of his Valentine's cards prepared and written and
folded in an envelope. I don't think there's that many
hours in a day. You know, if you make TV
a priority, it's really incredible what you can do, you

(02:21):
can accomplish if you really stay set your mind to it. Um. Well,
Brent's reviews are in. You know what his favorite movie
of all those was? What? I guess you don't remember
a single one. I remembered two of them, Um ratati um.

(02:42):
It was Robin Hood. Although I think maybe I asked
him the question before he watched Ratty, so you might
be right, Yeah, I might be so brin after ten
days of um, what's it called antibiotics? Is im me
at least sick again, just just a fever. It's probably

(03:03):
my fault because I did take them outside the home yesterday,
so I don't take them out the walls. That's where
that's where it happens. I will say. Our kids get
these little fevers that are not that bad compared to like,
I feel like everyone I've been talking to seems to
be getting the flu or something really gross this year,

(03:24):
and we've knock on would managed to avoid that. We
haven't had anything terrible. You just had some gross rashes
and ear infections and things just tigo and double in tigo.
I don't know how to say it. I don't know
how to say it. Anything double ear infection, inexplicable vomit

(03:44):
what that happens fairly recently with may Ben. But Britain boy,
he is sick, like he was so like sweet, you
know that kind of sick where he just gets tired
and he just like wanders into where I am and
then sits dound next to me and just like stares
at the wall and then slowly just puts his head

(04:05):
down on my leg. I'm just like brit not coming
in to give a monologue. Yeah, he like wakes up monologueing.
He's like, today is Monday, and we're doing this even
when he doesn't want to go. No, I don't want
to wake up because today's day four in this library,

(04:28):
day when that was yesterday, and I don't like pe
and don't give me one Friday before he's opened his eyes. Yeah,
but tonight he crawled into bed with me and just
fell asleep before bedtime. So I know that he is thick.
That in the hundred one temperature he had all day

(04:49):
m hmm, and he didn't go to the doctor, did
eat food. It was like one point zero did he
eat food? I packed him a lunch and so he
had his packed lunch, but he did not eat very much.
I kept just trying getting water, and you had a little.
He had some dinner. But he's this thick boy. Maven's

(05:13):
just stubborn. She um, I didn't tell you this, but
like I don't know half hour ago, hour ago, she
woke up or never had fallen asleep, and she's like
making noise in there after crying a lot when you
put her into bed, and then I went in there
and she was like she keeps saying this like pouty

(05:35):
thing where she's like just won't move and like doesn't
like and like. And so she walked over her pajama
drawer and she opened it and just kept kind of
doing that, and I was like, what do you want?
And she like, I wanted to put her pajamas on?
And I was like, okay, fine, because you because we
put her to bed in her clothes, which are comfortable clothes,

(05:57):
she's wearing out of it. There was basically jams and
Britain was already in bed till the lights were out
when we came up. Anyway, but I don't know if
she had, like, I feel like part of her just
like didn't feel right, not in her pajam It was
it was not a regular routine. It's like, yeah, she's
very into that tactile experience. Both of them want to

(06:22):
want to tell you how things work. Yeah. Um, for
dinner tonight, I played We played a trivia where I
gave them both math problems. You would have hated it,
but I loved it. And up, Matt, Maven's pretty good
at math. What kind of math problems were you? In? Two?

(06:44):
She figured it out. I mean she has to look
at her fingers and put them together. But she's I mean,
that's math. She figured it out. That's you know, I
don't know if you know this, but putting up fingers
and put them together. For our listeners, what Peters explaining
is if you put up your finger and put them together,
that's okay. For example, three plus two, hold three fingers

(07:05):
up on one hand and two on the other, and
then just push them close to each other and then
you'll see that there's five fingers. That's really all math is.
Math is math is fingers. Um. Cool? Yeah, what else
happened this week? I feel like I'm living in such

(07:26):
a blur now, although I think our things have finally
started to settle down around here a little bit. You're back,
I'm back. You tell us about your book, your whirlwind
book release party, really great being away from really great whirlwind.
I I had fun. We had a really great book

(07:47):
party at um this lesbian bar and babes babes um
and what else. People who are like people are when
of them away, are always like, so do your kids
to see you? Do you really miss your kids? Like
stuff like that, And I was like, no, it's two nights.
They barely noticed him gone, Like I because I sometimes

(08:09):
get home after bedtime from work. It's like, doesn't register
to them that I've been Oh they missed you. Um,
they tell me all about it. They tell me how
much I am not suitable for their needs. What did
they They usually don't register, though, I feel like, what

(08:29):
did they say? I want? Mommy? They love you the
light of their life the world. And I get it
because I feel the same. Thank you, that's all you acknowledge. Um,
But well, maybe hold on, can we talk about the
fact that you got a tattoo? Oh? Yeah, Well I

(08:53):
got a tattoo while I was the way and Maven
says that it's not a tattoo because when she feels it,
it's flat, and she said, that's nothing. That's not a tattoo. Um.
I explained to them that it's permanent. And I said,
what's permanent mean? I was like forever? And then Brin

(09:15):
like like see him piecings together like mommy chose to
have a thing on her arm forever. Then he goes,
but when will it wash off? Like it doesn't it's
a real tattoo. Well, it's funny. So the tattoo I got. Um.
For those of you who don't follow me, on Instagram.
You'll have to buy the book. You'll have to buy
the book. But it's it's it's an illustration from me

(09:37):
and Jackie's book. There's no manual, honest and Cory wisdom
about having a baby, and it's Um, it's based on
the Benjamin Franklin political cartoon of the Colonies when it
says Joe join or die. But ours it's a snake
that's chopped into thirteen pieces like the Colonies, right, yeah, yeah,

(09:58):
but our version has a bunch of boobs all over it.
So it's a lady snake. Yeah, it's it's got little eyelashes.
And when Brin like, what my sister is asking about it?
Brenn kept trying to explain it, and he was like,

(10:19):
she was like, it's a cut up snake. It's a
cut up snake. Like, he's not wrong, He's not wrong.
It's a cut up snake. Um. The weird thing is
is that you and Jackie told me about the tattoos
while recording last week's podcast, and it did not register

(10:40):
in my brain that that it was a real thing. Yeah,
you thought it was a joke. No. For some reason,
I think I was just so wrapped up in the
tech and the recording. Yeah, you were a little like
detached last week as we're we I think we're all
very tired and trying to record remotely the telephone has
a delay. Um, but yeah, it was fun until Jackie

(11:05):
sent me a picture your arm and I was like, mhmm, Yeah,
that seems like something Beth wouldn't tell me about until
it's over because she doesn't want my opinion on it.
And that's fine. Yeah, it's the most you thing you've
ever done. Well. The thing is, sometimes I even though

(11:27):
I know I don't I'm not going to consider someone's opinion.
It's very hard two listen to people's opinions. Oh I know,
I mean I don't know. I under I know that
about you. I can't say that I understand it because
my brain doesn't work at all. I need validation. But

(11:49):
there's no judgment. I mean I think I used to
judge you feel like you said in a like a
recent episode where you're like, I just don't think about
what people think of me, And I was like, I
feel like it's not entirely a woman thing, but I
do think it's not. It doesn't help being a woman
that everyone expects you to care about their feelings all

(12:11):
the time, and so I feel like it's sort of
a privilege that you don't have that wired into your brain.
On a deep, uncomfortable level, it's totally different. I don't
remember the context of me saying that, but it is
a lie. If I if I said I don't care
what people think, but I think I can let things go,

(12:35):
I can let more pass through me. I'm working on it,
You're doing it, doesn't I think what doesn't help is
that I really am like I can feel what people
are feeling in any moment, regardless of what they're saying,
and it's really hard to tune out of that and
be like I'm just like great, I know you are

(12:58):
judging me. Um anyway, sometimes I just like to do
stuff without talking to anyone about it. Because what did
you did you think that I would not want you
to get a tattoom. I don't think I didn't think
you would say that. I think you would be like, well,
it's a thing you can do, like it would there

(13:21):
would be like imply judgment, Like when I texted when
I texted you the photo of it, you texted back
and said, I love you. And I was with Jackie
and she was like, what did he say when he
showed him? And she I thold, I told her what
he said. Then she laughed because she was like, it's
just so implied. It's like, I love you in spite
of this thing. Either way. Texted that to me and

(13:45):
you went you want to know? Went through went through
my mind? What I said. There is nothing I could
say that won't be interpreted that way. So my reply
I was like, I want to I Beth didn't tell me.
She's going to assume that I'm judgment all about this,
so I'm literally just going to it in the most

(14:09):
positive way I possibly could. I liked the reply, but
it was just very funny. I know that's so. I mean,
that was my intention is to show you that I
support you, but I understand it might have come across
this mar my flesh. Um I support yeah, um yeah.

(14:33):
There There would be a different time in my life
where I think you told me at one point you
think my game tattoo a long time ago, and my
reaction was like, why would why would Why did you
want to do that? Because I wouldn't. But I'm not you, yeah,
and you're not me We've since had to discuss a
lot of things about my body and what how I
wanted it to go down with my own body. What

(14:59):
we've had to to Aldren. Oh, yes, yes, we have
talked about yours about my body have been the subject
of much discussion. I thought about it more than I
had at one point in my life. Yeah. Um, well,
it's a funny. It is a perfect tattoo for you thematically, Um,

(15:22):
it also looks really cool and then you look close
and you're like, oh, this is absurd. That's got like
a bunch of little titties on it. I'm sorry, that's
how I want people to look at me and be like,
this looks really cool. Oh, this is absurd. I'm really
uncomfortable with how many times I've said the word titties tonight.
What a terrible word. Well, how else do you describe

(15:46):
snake breasts? Well, as Jackie said, it's a tad snake
and there just what it is. I think it's funny.
It's funny that like a lot of people like whenever
you're kind of a woman doing anything, whenever you're kind
of a woman doing anything, men like to come over

(16:07):
and observe the curiosity of women. And so when I
was getting the tattoo by Jackie's mom friend who was
really cool tattoo artist in Richmond, these guys would wander
over who worked there and just like inspect the tattoo
and then not say a word and walk away. You know,
they're thinking it's na Yeah, they're like tiss snake. I

(16:31):
think I was really thinking it tonight, Like I was like,
I feel like I don't know if it was this
tattoo or what, but I was out tonight and I
felt like these guys were eyeing me in a weird way,
and I was like, oh, it's like it doesn't matter
how like grotesquely feminist anything you do, men will somehow
reinterpret it as like an invitation for them, like they're

(16:53):
you know, like it's just it's just like there's something
very confused thing about first of all, breasts on a reptile,
but breast on a snake, which is which is our thing?
It's very phallic. Yeah, it's a big penis a snake.
I don't think a snake is your thing? Is snakes

(17:15):
are associated with like Eve and like evil women, Medusa.
But you can have that too. Fine, we can't even
be evil anymore. Fine, you can be evil. I'm just saying.
It's very phallic a snake, but it's also it's a
it's a flaccid penis, So it's evil and angry and

(17:40):
we and then you put boobs all on it, and
so it's it's a symbol. It's a symbol of emasculation.
That's what how they read it. I was going for
I don't believe anything I'm saying. I'm just going for
it anyway. Um, it's really turned me into very very

(18:04):
sexy woman. And now it's time for do you know
what they said? What they're saying? Do you know? Do
you know what they said? Um? This is where we

(18:26):
dropped some quotes from our kids. That's where we dropped
some quote them. Um, so my sister was here and
I was in the other room, and Brynn was like
getting himself a drink or something in the in the kitchen,
and we heard like a clatter, and then he goes,
why do I always get a problem with cups? It's

(18:53):
very true. That's I call I call that character, Uncle Bren.
What's it? What's up with me and cups? Yeah, that's
been happening a lot where he pulls out a gallon
of milk that he's not strong enough. He doesn't understand
that two inches of milk is a different weight than

(19:15):
a full gallon of milk. Right, He's just it's like
he's a child, so it's almost like he's five. He's
so bad at it. Yeah, it trys crazy. Um um, Yeah,
that's all I had for that quote. Say it again.

(19:37):
Why do I always got a problem with cups? What
do I always got a problem with cups? That's his
first album right there. Yeah, they're going hard on towards
independence these days, they're going hard toward independence. Yeah, in
their own ways. Um Bryn, Oh gosh, I don't think

(20:00):
I already talked about this, but you know, he's it's
dawning on him that we're moving, and he's blabbing to
everybody about the fact, because you know, we're moving to Brooklyn.
Oh you didn't hear we're moving to Brooklyn, m A.
And um. We visited his new school. It's a smaller
school and every there's a lot of kids sick. When

(20:23):
he went and visited, and he noticed that the class
had like eight kids in the class and there's only
one boy. And he was so scared. I didn't think
you really registered that. But later, no, I think he
registered it because you set it out loud in front
of him. You really his class is only going to
have like two boys. No, no, no, I never said it.

(20:44):
He I said that after he brought it up to me.
This is a while ago, because he started saying, am
I going to be here for this birthday? This my
friend's birthday? And he goes, well, I'm only going to
have one friend that the boy. And I was like why,
and then it dawned at me, the oh there was
one bull that class, And I selfishly want him to

(21:05):
be in a class. Holy girl, Well, I mean I
want him to have like being a boy is like
an important thing to him in this moment. Yeah, you know,
I don't want him to have no boys in his class.
I just like the heavy ratio. It's gonna be the thing,

(21:26):
you know where it's so we have no idea what
this mix of kids is going to be. And it's
going to be a smaller group, um because it's a
newer school. So the older grades, um, which is when
he goes up to second grade right now, uh, is smaller.
So there could be you know, four boys in the class.

(21:48):
I was in a class when I moved to Minnesota,
I was in a three, four or five class. It
was a weird like progressive mix them all up to
teachers had grades one through five, and one class had
one two and half of three, and the other class
had the other half of three and four and five.
And then you'd they'd switched teachers during the day. It

(22:12):
was just a sort of it's called continuous progress. So
you had they were like and a one and a
two and one to learn. Uh no, you were with
the same two teachers for five years, and it was
this you know, that's a bad idea. It was a
bad It didn't work for me because there were three

(22:33):
boys my age and ah, and so I remember going
home crying every day because the girls made fun of me.
Very traumatic childhood. You've had, um. They called me Petriot,
the portable party. I think we've discussed this on this podcast.

(22:55):
The trauma of my childhood the incredible. I don't want
to continue tie about it because I know it's so hard.
Free I'm strong now, Okay, Petrie. It's probably two days
of my life that I stretched out as the whole
into the whole year, it's really become a defining moment
of your life. I um back to the topic of

(23:18):
our children trying to express their independence. Maven has asserted
herself this week in her desire to grow out her bangs.
That's right, mom, Like, she wants to look like me.
I'm like, I'm weirdly shocked by this because I remember
deciding at like age five or six that I was

(23:39):
done with bangs and I wanted to grow them out,
and I thought they were like baby ish, and so
the fact that Mayven is having this epiphany at three
feels like very mature to me, And I'm like, how
are you so aware? Like she's been trying to She's
been talking about getting rid of her banks for a while,
like every haircut, and she thought we should cut them off,

(24:00):
and then we've explained to her over and over again
that you have to grow them out, and she now
she's determined to do that. Like she's like, I don't
want bangs, I want to look like mommy, which is
very flattering. Yeah, well, I don't think it's it's not
the she doesn't associate them with being baby ish. No,

(24:20):
that was my baggage, my bank. I mean give it
a couple of years and she'll get there, but by
then that that's how long it takes to grow banks.
I am like, part of me is like, oh, she
looks so cute with bangs. But I also am like'
so impressed that she has an opinion that I'm like, sure,
grow out your banks, um. But it's just so funny.

(24:42):
It's just so maven that she's like so aware of
this at three. I don't know how it came up,
Like one of us must have asked her at some point.
I think it's just the process of her, Like when
I was like trimming her bangs and stuff and talking
about her bangs, she like this realization that not everyone
has banks. Boy, I went to a bad barbershop. Yeah,

(25:06):
our kids got some not great haircuts. They're fine, They're fine.
They're not straight or even better than what our kids
looked like before they went to get their haircut. They
look good, They're fine. I went there and this place
this happened to me before, where I made a reservation
and then I showed up at the right time an

(25:27):
appointment rather and uh, I waited an hour. I was like,
why did I have an appointment? And then I watched,
so I didn't make one. I just showed up and
they're like, yeah, go ahead, you're next. It was eleven
o'clock that we sat down as this smaller kid was
finishing up, and then this family arrived and they had
an eleven o'clock appointment and they said, okay, just wait

(25:48):
and there's one barber. Um. I get it though, like
when you're in the kid's haircut business, it's got to
be like feast or famine. And so there's like most
days of week, no one's walking in there, and then
all of a sudden, there's all these tired parents running
in on a Saturday morning and like they're like, yeah, yeah,
I just come in now. We'll try to squeeze you
all in because that's their payday, that's when they cash

(26:12):
in on kids. But they have zero customers. Are that
no one's going, we'll try to squeeze you in. They
just said okay, great and they gesture over and I
just hear this parent, this couple next to us, being
so stressed, like did you make an appointment at eleven? Yeah?
And then both these people ahead of this like, yes,
should we go have lunch and come back. I'll go ask,

(26:34):
and he goes, if we go to lunch, and they
had to explain if they go to lunch and we
come back, will we have our place? And this woman
just kept being like, yeah, you can come back if
you want. And they realized like, oh this, he's not
making any promise. No one's gonna make any effort. Another
couple came in and they were like, oh, is it
gonna be a while? Can I come back at And

(26:56):
she goes sure, And that was like so many people
are gonna walk in and people did? I saw exactly.
I respect that the like that she's like, this is
my business model. You you either accept it or you
don't see. The thing is that it's not even that deliberate.
It's just, oh yeah, each haircut takes fifteen minutes. I

(27:18):
haven't noticed that all of them take thirty five mm hmmm,
I don't know. And then Berne Guy's haircut and I
told this woman, I was like, sure it was shortened
up the sides in the back, let's we can keep
the top of the longer. He's got a lot of
cow licks. And she goes okay, and she does the
back insides and did not touch his bangs, which went down,
passed into his eyes, and then I realized, oh, this

(27:42):
woman does not speak literally a word of English. You know,
she's tired. She's making like twenty bucks of haircut or whatever.
I don't know. I gave her a good tip, but
then I was I had to be like, hey, could
you do the bangs? And I felt bad because the
couples almost their turn. It was stressful. Well it all

(28:04):
worked out. M That's how I feel this week. Well,
I think, you know, something's going on astrologically. And then
today was the day where you could stand a broom
on its end because the gravity was so strong according

(28:25):
to NASA or something. Did you see that what people
on social media were like standing brooms like on the
bristle end, like upright and they would just like stand
because gravity stronger. I don't know. I never, like, I

(28:46):
just saw people sharing pictures and then I never during
the course of the day saw like the original source material.
So it could be a total scam or it could drill.
You're just describing the Internet, aren't you. I am? But
boy I am. This next segment is called would you Knows?

(29:18):
It's where we present each other with parenting hypotheticals. Okay, Beth,
you ready for this. I've written to would you know scenario?
I warn you it's very stupid. Okay, So this is
the future. Maven is a full grown adult as his brit.
But Maven comes to you and says, she she gives

(29:42):
you the news that she found out that she's unable
to have her own children. Um, she's wait, she gives
me the news, she tells you. Um. And so she's
jumping on a new fad that's happening, you know, because
it's twenty thirty five ish around there, um, which is

(30:09):
cloning has become a big thing. Okay, So she's twenty three,
and let's say she's thirty Okay, okay, and cloning has
become normal. Seven years from now, cloning becomes completely normal. Yeah.
It starts in like two years, and we all freak
out about it, and then enough people do it and

(30:30):
we're like we're just like whatever, whatever. Everyone's a clowne.
Their clones are like egg egg accounts on Twitter, and
we're like we're people to just the new avatars. I
love the way this world is going. So Maven tells
you she's very excited. She comes up and goes mom

(30:52):
I'm going to be a mom and um, I'm having
a baby and I've decided it's a clone of you. Wow,
And she's looking at you expecting you to be excited.
This is what scares me about her love of me sometimes,
as I'm like, I'm like, did I train her to

(31:13):
be this way? Like? Am I this much of a narcissist?
That I made her think that she's supposed to be
obsessed with me? Do you know what I mean? Like,
that's like because you don't even you don't even know
that your natural mode is hard to get so our
kids are are thirsty for your presence. Yeah. Um, but
I think if she had to clone me, like and

(31:34):
I'm this, this is twenty seven years from now, I'm fifty, no,
sixty one. And that was really impressive actually that I
just did that math. I didn't check it. It just
sounded about right. Okay, So I'm in my sixties. I've got,

(31:58):
you know, any thirty years left on this planet. At most,
I like cloning a new me. It's not going to
be me, it's going to be a new person that
happens to share my jeans. I gotta say, so far,
you're taking this pretty well. I Here's where it worries

(32:20):
me is that I am not an ideal genetic specimen
in terms of health and wellness. Um, you know, like,
but you made it to sixty one, so you and
I look great. I mean it's implied, but in this scenario,

(32:40):
you look great. I do because my daughter is like,
I want to raise someone who ages like that. Yeah. Um,
but seriously, you look you. Every day i've known you,
you're You've looked more beautiful than the last continued. The
thing is, my body is so beautiful, but it's not
holding up right overall. You know, allergies, thyroid cancer, it's

(33:04):
seasonal depression. It's not like three year old of me
things you do it just vibe well. Yeah, but on
the inside, UM, I don't. I wouldn't like in the
future where we have the ability to clone people, I
wouldn't necessarily wish these genes on to someone. Yeah, but
that's not why she's doing it. Yeah, I mean it

(33:27):
would be weirder if she owned herself. Boy, what that's
something that would be weirder. Weirder. I think I'm gonna
I'm gonna do it right this time. My parents sucked
it up and I'm gonna raise me the way I
wish I had been raised. There's part of me that's
into it because like raising Maven, I see so much

(33:47):
of my face in her and some other characteristics in
terms of like personality traits. But like watching her grow
up makes me like it feels like I'm I learned
to love myself in a way that is difficult, where
like I'm like, oh, like those cheeks are cute, Like
that's like, that's a cute person who looks like me.

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I guess I don't look disgusting like like, it's just
as a woman, I feel like most of us are
just so trained to be like, well, everything about me
is wrong and bad and should have been fixed and
like so to see a smaller version of yourself like
and to love it on unquestioningly, Yeah, to love it like,

(34:31):
I think that would be an interesting exercise and like,
if that's part of my fate on this planet, I
guess I'll hear. Oh boy, that's the ultimate therapy, is
to raise your own clone baby, to realize that you're beautiful. Yeah,
because of course we would look at a lot but wonderful.
I mean, you've watched the episode of Disney pluses Encore

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where they make they hold up a hedge, So okay,
so you haven't watched Encore. They remount us high school
production of a Way thirty years later with the original cast,
and so it's like a high school reunion where they
come back and do the show and it's a perfect concept.
But they do this segment where they hold up a
picture of themselves from like high school or they like

(35:14):
imagine high school and like what would you say? And
everyone always just starts bawling. But this is the ultimate
version of that. My friend Annie is starting a website
where women or anyone can write letters to their former selves. Um.
It's coming out in March. I think it's called Dispatch

(35:35):
from the Daybreak. Um. And I've read some of her
samples from when she was doing the letter collecting and
it's like so emotional, O my god. Um, Like I
read this one from this woman I know who was
writing to her pre sober self and it was just like,

(35:56):
I don't know, it's like such a powerful reminder of
like how much we change over the course of like
ten twenty years or whatever. Like it's just like, oh,
like things felt so horrible at that point. And then
you get through it. Yeah, oh my god, it really

(36:20):
is because I you watch it's exactly that segment of
the TV show where you watch these people with their
eyes closed and they're doing this like thought exercise. Like
I look next to you and there you are in
high school and you're right there that old haircut, and
everyone just immediately with their eyes closed, like starts sobbing sobbing,

(36:40):
and it's like, what what do you need to tell yourself?
And everyone has the perfect thing to say, because no
one knows that person more than they do. And it's
it's this like they're self deprecating but earnest, and it's
not self congratulatory, and it's not self pitying because they've

(37:02):
like because they've like personified themselves. Uh, it's this weird.
It's so hard to mock. Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah that's
the word I ask playing for. What is the word?
You know? Hard to mock? Beautiful? Um, so let's say

(37:27):
may even does you're like, okay, great, have have my
clone baby? Ah, so you'll you'd see that clone become
an adult and it would look exactly like you. Yeah.
I would always be saying like confusing things to her
like like in the guise of the those like letters

(37:48):
to your form herself, like like it's okay, and she's like, no,
it's fine. We all have like universal health care, and
like like, no, listen to me. If Tony Miller invites
you to the Hollywood video, don't go gamema, what are
you talking about? Hollywood Video? When I moved to New

(38:12):
York City, there was a Hollywood Video three blocks for me.
That's how long do I remember? Hollywood Video? Yeah? Blockbuster?
Remember Blockbuster? I worked there for three summers. Great job.
I just tried to remember the name of my town's
independent video store, and it's gone. I was just about

(38:33):
to say, you had legitimately a far off look on
your face. I was envisioning it in my mind, that
warm feeling but going into your like a local, dingy
little store. We had Hotline Video and we had box
Office Video, and I would get him mixed up and

(38:55):
I would sing the Blockbuster song for Blockbuster song. You
to be Blockbuster video. Wow, What a difference. But I
would sink box Office video, which is wrong, not that
I'm thinking about it. Blockbuster video. Wow, what a difference
difference from what your parents videos. Oh you know what

(39:25):
what I'm calling it. We're going to bed. Um. Yeah,
there's been another episode of We Knows Parenting. Um, we're
going out of town next week, so some I don't know. Oh.
Check out Peter on the latest episode of High Maintenance
on HBO. He has a very brief appearance. Blink and
you'll miss it, baby, But don't blink and you'll love it.

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Don't blink for the whole episode and you'll love that.
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