Childbirth Classes, Snot Suckers & The Return of The Mumbles : Episode 13

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(00:12):
This is the gray hair and daycare podcast with a combined age of 111 years and a combined IQ right in that same range, your hosts Frank Serio and Carlo Russo.
Welcome back.
Here we are episode 13, whatever that is, climbing 13.

(00:35):
Yes, we are.
It is.
We're glad to be back.
I'm glad that you have come back to join us again.
Play with us again to play, come out to play and play as always.
I am Frank Serio.
I am 55 years old and my wife is now 30 weeks pregnant, 30 weeks pregnant.
So nine to go.

(00:57):
Yeah.
Wow.
That's pretty big.
Right?
Yeah.
We're in, uh, we're in the months that we're going, uh, Hey, it's getting there.
It really is.
Uh, speed it up here, buddy.
It's it does feel like it's going faster.
The closer and closer we get, but it's, uh, yeah, it's moving along.
So I'm excited.
You're in the year that it's going to happen.
That's right.

(01:17):
When she was 24 hours, it's going to be 20, 25.
I got time.
You know what I saw today?
I thought it was funny.
2025 is the year that George Jetson turns three years old.
Is that what he was?
George Jetson was born according to the, I don't know how they know this was born in 2022.
So he is three years old this year.

(01:38):
So what year was it?
Was it when the cartoon was on?
I don't know.
So he was probably, let's say he was a 30, a teenage daughter.
So he's probably in his 35 maybe.
So that would have been, uh, you know, 20, 57, something like that.
Not going to make it.
We're probably not going to see that we can find them when he's young.

(01:59):
We're in 25.
Another 25 years is 50.
Yeah.
We can.
Yeah.
Maybe.
I mean, yeah, it could happen.
Sure.
Sure.
The miracles of modern technology.
I can't even shovel the driveway without busting my hump.
I was, that's it.
I've always, I've always believed that I just need to live long enough for technology to find a way to keep us alive forever.
I've been hearing that since, I mean, back in the 60s, people were like, I just want to live long, which technology did, you know, creep up, but we're going to need some big technology to get rid of these diseases that people are dying of.

(02:35):
Or at least like spare parts, something.
Maybe like 3D print me a new knee.
Spare parts is probably more going to, in the future, like, because they can do, they're doing that.
You know, they're doing that.
I mean, they're putting ears on, on, on mice, you know, you ever see that?
You ever see the mouse with the ear in it?
Yeah.
I think about that.
That's funny.

(02:55):
We really get off track easy.
We do.
I love it.
But I think about that stuff.
It's like, there's two different directions with that.
It's the, the, the stuff that's happening with augmenting, like what Elon Musk is doing, where he's like, obviously it's going to be amazing for people who like can't hear like all those things.
Yeah.
But it's also like you're not in 10 years, people are going to have stuff crammed into their skull and who knows what they're going to be able to do.

(03:19):
And that does work.
That worries me.
But it is nice to think about like being able to live for, you know, as long as you want.
You ever, you ever think, you ever see a movies like sci-fi movies and you have these robots and stuff.
You ever think maybe we become the robots because we're putting chips in us and this and that.
We'll have, we'll have fake arms cause we lost them.
Eventually could happen.
A human's going to have half robot limbs and brain.

(03:43):
So maybe the sci-fi movies were right.
Like there are these, they call them androids, but it's actually what we're going to turn into.
When you talk about sci-fi movies, sci-fi movies getting things right, this is how I think.
What I think about is weird that almost all the sci-fi movies got right is the sound of electric cars.
Oh, no sound at all.

(04:04):
When you, well, no, they always meet.
Like if you watch like back to the future where they go, yeah, there's that, that whoosh sound with Dillo.
And there it is.
I, every time I hear, I hear an electric car drive by me, I think, how did they get of all the things to get right?
They got that sound right.
You know what really sucks when you watch sci-fi movies and it's like a thousand years from now and there's still bald people.

(04:27):
They haven't figured out baldness yet.
Yeah.
No.
Never going to figure that out.
It's like, Oh, it's 3,005 and there's the captain's still bald.
Oh well, I guess I got no hope.
But this is stuff that your daughter will be falling into.
She will experience.
I mean, could you imagine what these kids, what your daughter is going to be facing when she's our age?

(04:52):
What what's going to look like?
What the earth looks like?
No.
Yeah.
It's going to, it's, it really is.
That's weird.
Just in what we've seen change.
Right.
And I, you know, I used to think about like with my, well, like my parents, they were born in the twenties.
Sure.
And you know, they went from radio, like radio was the entertainment to movies and TV and then VCR.

(05:13):
Yeah.
Like, so they, those are the technologies that they saw happen.
And then everything since then.
And then what, yeah.
Who knows?
What's the biggest technology that made you go, Oh my God, we're, we're in the future.
Is it, is it the cars driving themselves?
I think that's probably pretty big.
I think AI without a doubt is the, is the thing.

(05:34):
It's already changing the world, but the, the way things have changed with, we used to think that computers were going to take away the factory job, right?
It was going to be the, all that stuff.
No, that thing can write copy at least 30% of the stuff that we do for this podcast is done by AI.

(05:56):
Have you, have you heard all these students just getting either expelled or suspended because they're right.
AI is writing all their stuff and they're stupid enough to just hand it in.
Not like you would like take it right.
And then make your own version of what that is.
So it doesn't look exactly, no, these idiots, these kids are handing in their, their AI, you know, AI printed work and it's like, now schools have to, that's another thing now they're looking for.

(06:25):
Yep.
No, there is AI now that teachers use specifically to identify if a kid used AI.
That's true because one of my children's friends just got zapped with that software from the teacher.
Yep.
Yeah.
No, it's cool.
It's that's funny, but yeah, it's amazing what it, what is capable of doing from just a design writing.

(06:49):
Like I don't ever, we have to put a, like we do a transcript of every podcast, right?
I literally just upload the recording and five minutes later I get an email and it's transcribed.
All I have to do is say Frank in it, Carlo, it does, and it's all crazy.
It knows when you're talking, knows when I'm talking and transcribes the whole, the whole podcast.

(07:10):
They're also, I heard something about, I think they said it funny, but it kind of made sense.
Like with, with AI, could you imagine like, let's say like we said 15, 20 years from now who's going to college just, just ask, Hey, can I have the summary of a world war three?
Because at that time we're probably going to have enough, you know, tell me about the history of, you know, Mussolini, whatever.

(07:34):
And there you go and learn it.
That's the scary part too, is that once that becomes, because no matter what it is made by humans, it's programmed and it's biased.
Right.
And so you never know what you're going to get out of the quality of that message is going to be.
But yeah, I think I can think conventional education is going to take a turn.

(07:59):
People are not going to go, I think from when we, it really started like, I think when my brother like, or the, like the beginning of the Vietnam era, like a lot of people started going to college, more and more baby boomers, they all went to college and then it became just mandatory.
Like everybody, it was the next thing you do, you just had to, and now shame on the ones that did.

(08:23):
And right.
You weren't going to get a job, you're going to work at the gas station or, and it's, it's kind of reverse.
It's, it's changing.
I think it's turning around.
Well, because people see it's it's now it's just a boondoggle.
It's all kinds of money for her.
Remember we're talking about follow the money and the other thing we were talking about.
It's the same college.
Oh yeah.
You know, it's, it's a crazy.
So Josie, welcome to this world.

(08:45):
Back to a parenting podcast.
Yeah.
Welcome to this world, Josie, that you're going to be, you know, thrown into.
Yes.
I've always joked around with Kelly about the fact that because I think she's a little bit of a throwback as far as how she thinks, and we're kind of, she's kind of an old soul and I'm, I am absolutely that way.

(09:05):
The way we're going to raise a child and the trajectory that you see of young people now, I don't care who they are.
My kid is going to be like a superhero compared to these people because it's the way you're raised.
Yeah.
Because of the way you raise them, which is, which is true on any, any generation, raise your children.

(09:25):
Right.
Yeah.
And they're going to stand above the others.
Eventually they're going to stay out.
They're going to stand out.
Yeah.
They're going to stand out eventually in what they're doing and how they present themselves and what they create.
You know, we were just talking about, you know, while we were off air, making a phone call and remembering the person's name, just that just alone, having that knowledge of going, Hey, people want to be felt like they mean something and you know, and that's how you bring somebody up.

(09:51):
That's, that's the whole thing.
And then you see these kids that are running around the malls and it's like, you know exactly their family structure, you know, I'm not trying to, but you know, was there a mom and dad in that house?
I don't know.
Yeah.
And if there were, if they were a mom and dad in the house, how did they interact with the children?
Yeah.

(10:11):
You know, you do.
You can see that, right?
You can look at them all and go, okay, these group of four kids here that are running around creating chaos is probably the same way they live.
Yeah.
Yeah.
At best.
Yeah.
They're, they're, they're not, they're not a little angels at home.
No, no.
I mean, if you're doing that in public.
No.
Yeah.
Nope.
It's, it's very different.

(10:32):
Yeah.
But for right now, little Josie only has to worry about being as big as a coconut.
Ooh.
Now I was thinking about Josie, I think about coconut, you buy it in the store.
It was pretty small.
And just the other day it was a butternut squash and a cabbage.
I think they're talking about a coconut when it comes off the tree.

(10:52):
The big old that, cause it's a lot bigger when you see in Thailand, they're drinking the coconut juice when they go with a machine.
Yeah.
So it's a coconut.
Okay.
So she is, she is the size of a size of a coconut.
So she is the size of a coconut.
The big update is now she's getting fat.
That's a good thing.

(11:12):
Love fat babies.
And her head can move from side to side.
So there's a little, she's looking around like, what are you doing?
Look around, what am I doing here?
And what I think that has created is there's been lots of movement, but now Kelly talks to Josie.
How cute.

(11:32):
Sometimes, sometimes when I don't realize that's what's happening.
And I think she's talking to me, like literally on the couch next to me the other night.
Who wants a little pudding?
It was not.
No, it was very, it was almost, it was almost combative.
It was like, why are you, why are you doing, I know you don't like this position.

(11:54):
And I'm like, what are you talking?
I'm like, I'm fine.
And she's like, no, no, she's, she's kicking me.
That's funny.
Yeah.
She's like, has these conversations.
Why do you hate me?
I don't hate you.
Just give me a minute.
I will, I will roll over.
Like, yeah, that's funny.
But yeah, she's, she's definitely feeling, feeling the movement and stuff like that, which is cool.
But yeah, so that's where we are.
We're a coconut, 30 weeks, coconut getting fat, head can move side to side and, and moving right along there.

(12:20):
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's good.
We started with a, I don't know what the first thing we episode one, I don't know, it feels like such a long time ago.
It had to be tiny.
Yeah.
I don't know what it was.
Yeah.
I don't know what it was.
But now it's a coconut.
It wasn't.
Yeah.
We'll have to go back and look.
Yeah.
That's it.
So eventually it's going to be a size of a baby.

(12:41):
Yes.
Yeah.
She said, Oh, she's a size of your baby.
Small shrub.
Yes.
What does it go to from there?
I know.
I thought there's a cute idea.
I think when you did your parents like Mark the wall or Mark, I like a doorway when you were growing.
No, because how dare you write on anything in our house?

(13:01):
Are you kidding me?
Writing on the wall.
I would be homeless.
Hey, ma, let's get this pencil and write right on the woodwork.
Yeah.
You don't live here.
No, but of course we did.
Yeah, you did.
And the funny is it's still there.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's awesome.
The funny thing is we painted the house inside my cousin Ed and we said, he goes, do you want this?

(13:26):
Absolutely not.
Leave it.
Leave that.
You know, it's a different shade.
Yeah.
Leave that.
Because that was Natali.
Right.
My first.
We didn't do it with Nick because he's six foot two.
I can't reach that high.
That's awesome.
Now, I think there's a cute idea.
I saw some video somewhere.
Maybe it was on TikTok.

(13:46):
They take, you take a big old tape measure.
Okay.
Spray paint it pink for the girl, blue for the boy.
You put their name all over it and then you mark the back of the tape measure as they grow the different ages.
So you don't destroy your home, you're not putting, but you have that keepsake, which I think.

(14:07):
I don't know.
But honestly, destroying your home.
That little pencil.
That's kind of cute.
Yeah, I think it is.
Back in the days, maybe when our parents were like, the house is like their castle, like, what are you doing?
Don't touch anything.
Now we're like, no, this is cute.
This is something that we're going to have in our house and we're going to figure out where we're going to do.
I don't have a problem with that.
I really don't.
I like that idea.
And it's really crazy when you don't think about it for years and then all of a sudden, the time that I did think about it was when my cousin goes, hey, do you guys want this covered?

(14:36):
I'm like, oh.
Then I thought about it.
Then I'm looking like, oh my God.
That's funny.
But I don't know where we stopped.
Yeah.
Because I don't think we did it at, it had to be like.
Eventually the kids like on the line.
Exactly.
I don't think I had a 10th grader going, come here.
He's like, leave me alone.
I'm already short.
Don't remind me.
Come here.
Just reminding him I'm short.

(14:59):
Hey look, you're five foot three.
We're just cutting a groove in the wood.
You're not growing.
Well, Nick was like, yeah, Nick will do it.
Yeah.
Nick.
That's right.
Five, seven, five, eight, five, nine, five, 10.
So yeah.
That's funny.
But yeah, we did that.
You never had that, right?
At your house?
No, no, no, no.
But like, I don't know if my, I don't know if my brother did that or my sister did that with her kids.

(15:21):
But.
But I liked it.
I liked it.
The tape measure idea is kind of neat.
We could do that.
But yeah.
So you never know.
We might do that anyway.
So we are ready to get into the meat and potatoes of, of what we usually do here on the gray hair day podcast.
And we didn't do it last week and we knew, I think we both predicted.

(15:43):
Yeah.
There was going to be a lot of content this week.
So we were going to move into the favorite segment.
Everybody's favorite.
Everybody's favorite segment.
So we're going to do that.
I was wrong.
So here we are.
And a lot of it is surrounding that I have to try to be serious about this because we want to make sure it's certain, certain information we want to make sure it comes across correct.

(16:05):
Right.
Cause we don't want to, we're not, we're not doing this to be comedians and there's part of that where we laugh and joke, but there's also, we're talking about serious stuff where people are dealing with.
Yeah.
So I was, I was fairly dismissive of the whole gestational diabetes thing and saying like, come on.
Now I maintain for Kelly.

(16:26):
I think things have kind of gone in my direction as far as things are looking pretty good, but we'll talk more about that later.
Sure.
So Kelly did want me to make it clear though for the, she did that first test and then she went back for the three hour glucose test.
So then she wanted me to make it clear.
She went in, she was completely fasted, then they have her take the drink and then they did readings at one hour, two hours and three hours to measure what you did mention that.

(16:54):
Yeah.
So she did that now.
And I was saying, you know, the risks are, it's a big baby.
Yeah.
When you said it, I thought already he's going to be in trouble.
That was going to be a second.
Yeah.
Because I was like, Oh, there has to be a little bit more than that.
So now it, and there is now obviously it is.
One of the considerations is the baby gets bigger.

(17:15):
That leads to complications during childbirth.
It increases the odds of having to have a cesarean, which is always more risky than a natural birth, but unchecked.
It can also lead to impaired lung development and the baby can end up being hypoglycemic after the baby is born.
And as they get older, they also are at a higher risk for diabetes.

(17:38):
So it's serious stuff.
And then the most, the really serious one is if it is completely uncontrolled, it can lead to stillbirth.
So it is very, it is very serious thing.
And that's why they address it so, so aggressively.
Yeah.
Obviously for this to be such an important thing that doctors look for, obviously it's because there's all those things that can happen.

(18:02):
Unchecked can be really serious.
So, so I wanted to make sure we hit on all of those.
Yeah, we were wrong.
I'm very wrong.
I say we because we're a team.
But you.
It was me.
It was me.
I'll just tell you, I had no idea what that was.
You're much more, you're much smarter about being noncommittal.
You're like.

(18:23):
Very noncommittal.
And sometimes you'll ask questions like, are you really going to say it that way?
When you said, oh, they just get a, just get a fat baby.
Well, I think there's a little bit more than that, but I'm not going to say anything.
Because our producers will.
The beauty of the whole situation is that, you know, whatever I'm saying, I really believe it at the time.
But.

(18:43):
The thing with you is because I've worked with you so many years of my life and most of those years you were the supervisor or manager.
So when you speak, I'm like, okay, he's got some, he's got some knowledge behind this speech that he's given.
Speak with authority and people believe you.

(19:04):
You put it into a reality.
So when you say it now, again, you've never had a child.
And so.
I have zero basis for this kind of authority.
You know, when you tell me something about retail or sales, I listen.
You know.
Yeah.
I got a much better chance of being right.
Sure.
Sure.
Many years.
Kelly would not be doing.
I was wrong on that.

(19:24):
Many years of sales.
So, you know, but when it comes to the baby thing, I kind of listen.
I still listen.
I, but you're so believable in your statement.
It's commitment.
The commitment is there.
So yeah, that's a very important.
So she is, she is.
We'll talk about it later, I guess.
Yeah.
But everything's good.
Okay.
We headed in the right direction.
And there is another, I was wrong.

(19:47):
Sure.
One, a little bit more lighthearted and enjoyable in our previous two episodes ago, we talked about my, my playtime activity as a child of using a tricycle to make ice cream.
Ah, so good.
I believe that was episode 11.
It was episode 11.

(20:08):
And so I, you know, as, as they do, my sisters, not sure about my brother, but my sisters listen every week.
And I got a call from my sister Lucille in Texas.
And she said, I can solve the mystery of where that came from.
Really?
Yeah.
Hmm.
And I thought, okay.
And I'm like, like, I don't have any association of this with my siblings.

(20:30):
I just been driveway tricycle.
Can't wait to hear this.
She said, I taught you that.
What?
So apparently, apparently my sister Lucille taught me how to play the, you're making ice cream game.
And I'm like, and I'm like, okay.
And then as she said it, I'm like, vague, distant memories in my, that maybe she, she, she must've taught me that that's something to do with the tricycle.

(21:00):
And, and that's where I got it from.
And so I thought, okay, she's like, well, where did that come from?
Like, who taught you to do it?
She's like, I don't know.
She's like, she just came up with it.
So I don't, I'm not sure.
She's the inventor of this.
So the mystery really isn't solved.
We just know that whatever it was, it wasn't me.

(21:20):
I was taught the ice cream with the tricycle game.
She fabricated it somehow herself.
Now that you, now that she told you, do you remember when she was teaching you this?
Is it, is the memory coming back?
Cause at one time, I mean, when you said it, you thought you were just doing it yourself.
You don't have that memory of her going.
Now what we do here with a tricycle is we turn it upside down and we make ice cream.

(21:45):
Vaguely.
Did you guys play house?
I don't know.
Nah.
I say this like everybody knows what that means.
Is that what it's called?
Playing house?
Like, I don't know.
Like you're, I'm the daddy, you're the mommy.
No.
I don't think we did that.
Cause they were like.
Playing house could be like, we own an ice cream shop.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I think that's what she said.
She always wanted to either.
She said something like, she always wanted to own a business.

(22:08):
Or I don't know what it was.
It wasn't a bike shop.
No.
Like repair.
Let's make the bike into an ice cream machine.
Cause the easy thing would be like, I'm going to open up a business that fixes bikes.
Right.
Yeah.
Sure.
That would make more sense.
So we basically just kind of passed the mystery to one of my siblings.
So we don't know why she came up with that.

(22:29):
Have you asked the others?
Maybe they have the information.
I have not.
I'm going to be with the other two.
Could you imagine if it was Mike who started this whole thing?
I don't think he's that creative.
That he came up with that.
Of the four of us, I think my sister Lucille is probably the more.
Yeah.
She was the more imaginative one.
Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this.

(22:50):
Yeah.
We might.
And I asked, I told you there were other examples.
So immediately I wanted to kind of get rid of all of that baggage.
So I was like, well, did you teach me how to do this other thing?
Right.
And she's like, oh no, that's all you.
So I'm going to save that one.
Didn't you tell me, tell us on the podcast, I could be wrong, that you got a tricycle already for Josie?

(23:14):
Yep.
Very nice gift.
So how old do you think you were when this first started?
Five or lower?
No, definitely under five.
Under five.
Oh yeah, tricycle.
Yeah.
So I would love to see if Josie makes ice cream.
With the tricycle.

(23:34):
On her own.
Yeah.
Okay.
Then we know it's a genetic disorder.
You guys need freaking ice cream.
It could be.
Yeah, but we could do that.
That'll be a little experiment.
See if she comes up with it on her own.
Listen, if that happens, we're going to buy an ice cream shop.
Every once in a while I'm just going to kick the tricycle over and see what she does.

(23:57):
We're going to have to open up an ice cream shop with an upside down tricycle.
No one will know what that means.
Little Josie's.
Yeah.
Trikes and cones.
And you just have a tricycle with ice cream flying out of it.
Upside down.
Oh.
We could try it.
But yeah, so that's it.
So the tricycle mystery is passed on to my sister Lucille.

(24:17):
That's funny.
And yeah, that's it.
It's so weird thinking about all this stuff.
Yeah.
So that wraps up the I was wrong.
And we can now move on to the Silver Fox mailbox.
So we had a couple interesting ones.
The first of which we had talked about different things on social media.

(24:40):
The things you do with your kids and baking.
One of our listeners, Christine, shared a picture of she's the one who we talked about that made the pina lata.
Yes.
And she shared a picture of the batch of pina lata she had made for the holiday.
It was like a table full of like plate after plate after plate.
She made a ton.
So she must have a huge family.
But thank you for sharing the picture of your pina lata.

(25:03):
I would love some right now.
I'm having a cup of coffee.
I would love to have a little pina lata.
We should have.
A meal.
We should have coffee.
We should do that.
Yeah.
Maybe we'll do that.
A little.
We'll start to have a little.
A little.
Yeah.
I've actually been shopping for a new one of those cool ones.
Something you learned about Frank, when he gets an idea, it'll be here next week.

(25:26):
Next week.
We're going to have this huge Italian espresso coffee maker.
It'll be great.
We're going to be.
It'll be fun.
We'll have a little.
A little special.
Yeah.
Great care.
Great care.
Daycare.
Special espresso cups.
It'll be beautiful.
So Christine shared her pina lata picture with us, which was nice.
Did she have the ones with the sprinkles on it?

(25:47):
It had a little.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was very, just exactly what you would expect.
We had lots of Happy New Year wishes from various listeners and viewers, which was very nice.
Now this one, I think, is going to be something that we're going to have to discuss.
I was, I was unaware, well, I was kind of aware of these devices.

(26:11):
I was not aware that Kelly had already done research.
Should I know about this?
But.
Okay.
Well, the winner of our Name the Baby Josie contest, my niece Marie, she sent a very nice email suggesting something that we should try, she thinks would be fun, to try on the podcast as part of our Crash Test Daddy segment.

(26:39):
Okay.
And she referred to it as the Frida Baby OG snot sucker.
And it is a device, it is a device.
Okay.
So apparently there's a couple different schools of thought.
There is the original one, which is manual.
Now, well, no, there's the syringe.

(27:00):
Yeah, the ball one with a little line of.
We're not talking about that one.
No.
So the two schools of thought on that are, the most effective ones are, there's an electric one, battery powered, put it in there and it does like a little vacuum.
Okay.
And then there's the one.
I think I'd like that.
That the siphon, where you put it in the baby's nose and you suck.

(27:23):
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Into a filter that's supposed to prevent it from making it to you.
She thinks we should try those out.
Now, I suggest I personally am uncomfortable asking you to do that.
If.
To your nose.
Yes.
To my nose.
If I don't have to do it to yours.

(27:46):
But what I was thinking, I do have a cold.
This has changed.
So we just went down a horrible street.
The road has changed here.
What I thought we could do, if you're willing to do this, is we already have.
Now, when I mentioned this, as I was laughing hysterically, when I mentioned it to Kelly, Kelly's like, oh, I've already been doing research.

(28:09):
I was going to get the electric one.
But Marie feels very strongly and experienced.
She has a young daughter.
She isn't.
She's a relatively new mother.
And she, all of her friends that had babies all swore by the siphon one.
The electric ones jam and they get stuck and they don't work very well.
Sure.
But.
Sure.
Kelly immediately, within seconds, had ordered both from Amazon.

(28:33):
Of course.
So we have an electric one and we have the OG Frida baby snot sucker thing.
And I thought what we could do is blindly, we will pick.
And if I pick the one where I've got to do it from your nose.
I'll do it.
Bro.
And you do the electric.
Bro.
And this, this is going to mess with your commitment.

(28:55):
Doing here.
What are we doing here?
Your commitment to the show.
If I have to change your diaper.
So you could see how it's done correctly.
Okay.
Let me just wrap my nose around this.
Yes.
We're going to suck up our nose.

(29:16):
That's the way it would work.
One of us will have to.
It could be me.
Okay.
Explain the device again.
There's something supposed to stop it from going to my mouth.
Yes.
There is a filter that is supposed to catch anything that's coming my way or your way.
If you're the parent in the model.
So it should prevent that.

(29:37):
Now, that being said, there is, we've talked about Sebastian Maniscalco in the past.
He does a whole bit about how he, there wasn't a filter and bad things happen.
Now, we would be very careful, obviously, especially if I'm the one doing it.
But that, yeah, we could.
I'm not saying we have to.
We could just try the electric one.

(29:58):
But the recommendation from an experienced and very, very, a very sincere mother.
One of our listeners is that we should try that.
Let's do it.
Okay.
So it'll be coming up.
We're going to talk more when we get into Crash Test Daddy this time.
That episode, I will be drinking heavy alcohol when I'm sucking something out of your nose.

(30:24):
And it won't be coffee.
It won't be coffee.
We have to figure out just how to shoot it.
Like, what are we going to do?
I don't think the thing's long enough.
How are we not going to laugh our faces off just to thought of us going, are you ready?
Yeah, I'm not sure.
Yeah.
Just like siphoning gas.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, if we don't get a million views on that.

(30:46):
So that's true.
So thank you to my niece, Marie, for the idea.
Actually, Marie, do me a favor.
Does she still have a young?
She's still doing this?
Well, no.
I mean, her daughter is now old enough that.
Because I was going to say, she should send a video of her doing this before we do this.

(31:08):
She has firsthand experience with it.
And she said it really worked very well.
And she used it on her daughter.
So the electric one, it just, there's no really.
The electric one, it's just.
A manual, right?
Like, you just stick it in there?
It just, and you hit the button like a dust buster for.
You do it yourself?
Yeah.
Or am I going to do it to you?

(31:29):
Either way.
Yeah.
Wow.
We can do it either way.
This is really.
This could end our friendship.
Or it could make us really close.
Really close.
Closer, yeah, yeah.
Yep.
All right, well.
This is probably going to be.
This is going to be next week.
I was wrong.
It'll be Kelly saying, don't do that.
Don't ever blow or suck into Carmel's nose.
You're not allowed.

(31:49):
You're not allowed to do that.
Kelly, I know you're listening right now.
After you're done laughing.
And Trina laughing.
Please tell us.
I can't do this.
Actually, I don't know.
I was surprised.
Because she was really.
Kelly was.
Admittedly, she was fairly enthusiastic.
She's like, oh yeah, I'll order right now.
Like two days later, there they are.
I'm like, wow.
These two clowns are going to.

(32:13):
That's it.
That makes my nose itch right now.
It is hard to think about.
Hopefully neither.
Maybe neither of us will have a cold by then.
Yeah, let's.
I'm going to.
Before I come over.
I'm doing a nice cleaning.
I need emergency.
Yeah, I'm going to do a nice cleaning.
Whatever it takes.
All right, well.
So that, but that.
I'm going to put in my two weeks in right now.
You can't leave me.

(32:33):
That's it.
So that is that.
But that is the last of the Silver Fox mailbox.
So now we will roll into coincidentally crash test daddy.
Yeah.
So now crash it.
We don't actually have the products with us.
But I thought because they've been starting to mount up.

(32:55):
We haven't done a crash test daddy since the gifts from the Amazon.
Yeah, they give you a gift bonus pack thing.
So we've had a lot of stuff come along that we will want to test.
Some most.
These are the things that we have selected.
Some have come to us via gifts.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.

(33:16):
I'm scared of this whole process right now.
So well, I will say.
So the first the first absolute.
What I wanted to do is kind of go through a list of some of the things we can try out.
Okay.
And then maybe as you guys are listening to this episode.
If you if there's something other than the the the snot sucker thing that you want to see us try first.
We could do that.

(33:37):
But give us an idea of what you're most interested in.
Yeah, us reviewing.
So you have the the snot sucker thing, which we already discussed.
Mm-hmm.
Then we have the diaper genie.
I can that's the best.
I don't know how we would test that but we can go over it.
Mm-hmm.
We could.
We could make fake diapers, you know, yeah, we could just not a real test.

(34:01):
The whole idea of the diaper genie is that it contains the smell the smell.
Well, I can tell you because that's what I used.
Right?
You had the diaper gene.
Sure.
Okay.
No, but the 23 years ago, it couldn't be the same.
It's gotta be better.
Yeah, a lot.
It's gotta be better.
And back then was and it was pretty good.
Yeah.
Okay, you make that you make that the poopy sausage.

(34:23):
I don't know what that means.
All I know is it's in the spare bedroom.
So I'm gonna tell you.
Okay, poopy sausage is when you put it in there.
Yeah, they pile up, right?
Yeah, you don't just do one, right?
So when it gets full, you have to release them.
Well, each each individual diaper is kind of wrapped like so when you pull it out, it's a poopy diaper.

(34:47):
They're all like a link.
Wow.
Okay.
I don't know if it still works that way.
We're gonna find out.
So there's we got all those people when I said that exactly.
Exactly what you meant.
Absolutely.
Because that the link.
So there's the sausage link.
There's the diaper genie.
The other thing that I think would be might be fun to test is the ducky bath thermometer.

(35:11):
So it's a little rubber ducky that you put in and it tells you the temperature of the water.
Put the baby in before you put the baby in.
Before you put the baby in.
How are we gonna try that one out?
I don't know.
It could be many different ways.
So there's the ducky bath thermometer.
There's the bottle warmer.
Easy enough.

(35:31):
Of course.
We could do that.
But there's the bottle warmer we have.
There's a play gym.
I'm picturing you.
Oh, I'll do that all day.
With the play gym.
I have one currently in my house right now.
We have no kids.
So there's the play gym.
We're gonna test the play gym.
Sure.
And we also have something called the happy bowl.
I don't know what that is.

(35:52):
The way I would describe it is it's like a latex integrated bowl and placemat that you just like slap down on the table and it won't move.
Oh.
But it's called the happy bowl.
I like that.
It's pretty neat.
You're gonna need that.
It seems pretty neat.
So you can maybe have some cereal or something.
We'll do that.
Sausage.
And then coming soon, the order hasn't gone in yet, but it's gonna.

(36:15):
We've talked about it many times.
What did we talk about?
And I don't think we'll be actually able to test this with you in it, although I'd really love to, is the SNU.
The SNU is the super expensive bassinet thing.
I love it.
Oh, you don't want me in there.
No, I can't afford.
You can put the dog in there.
The littler dog.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
You can't put the bear in there.

(36:36):
Put Watson in it, it'll break it.
Put me in there, but without Watson.
Put in the warranty claim.
Why is there black fur, sir?
I do have a callback answer to your question.
How are we really gonna do the genie?
Well, you do have two dogs that go.
I don't want to bring dog poop in the house.
Well, you got to put it in a diaper.
This will be another thing.
Kelly will be like, no, you cannot.

(36:56):
That's the only way to find out if it smells.
We'll have to.
Maybe we can find some kind of food product that would be a good.
Something strong, right?
Or like Limburger cheese or something.
We'll figure it out.
We'll have fun with this.
Wow.
Okay.
We got a lot of work to do.
So now is your opportunity.
If there's some other horrible thing that you would like to see us do, you could suggest that or if you want to weigh in and tell us you really want to see the diaper genie or the bottle warmer, whatever that is, that's going to be our thing.

(37:26):
And let us know if you've used it and if you don't like it, because I had good experience with it.
I've heard people not having a good experience with it.
So that would help you out as well.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because if you just listen to me, oh yeah, it was great.
And then I could have been the one on, you know, a hundred that was, you know, worked out.
Yeah, that's it.

(37:46):
So that is it for this Insider.
I know you're probably disappointed that we didn't get to see an actual test, but that is our setup for the future crash test daddy.
You know what I do like in the crash test daddy thing?
When you said the happy bowl, you ever see that bowl that's called like the gravity bowl that you can put snacks in it and it just, it never, things never fall out of it.

(38:08):
Oh no.
Oh yeah.
Look into that.
I think it's called the gravity bowl.
The gravity bowl.
So when the kids are in the car and it's moving or they're moving it, nothing's falling out.
The Cheerios or whatever.
Interesting.
Yes.
Gravity.
Gravity bowl.
Maybe we'll get that.
Cause I've seen them at like Walmart.
I'm going to try it out.
Okay.
All right.
Always up for something we can snack with.

(38:30):
I'm just trying to get food here.
I'm just trying to get coffee and food.
Coffee, snacks, whatever.
Okay.
So now we're going to move on to what just happened.
And this week we got lots of fun things that have happened.
It was very nice.
And one of the nicest things that happened was Kelly had her first of two baby showers.

(38:54):
Oh yeah.
So Kelly is from the Buffalo area.
Go Bills.
Go Bills.
I have to say it.
Sorry.
You got to say it.
It's in there.
And her sister and sister-in-law found this place in the Williamsville area.
I think it should be pronounced Stow Lot, but it's called Stow S-T-O L-A-T Bar in Williamsville.

(39:20):
This was a really cool place.
Stow Lot Bar.
So it's basically a Polish bakery and bakery and bar and restaurant.
So they do all kinds of like special fun.
Why did you lead with bakery first instead of a restaurant, bar, bakery?

(39:40):
I don't know because it's, I'm thinking of, when I looked at the front of the place, you walk in, there's a bakery.
Is it bigger than the other parts?
That's what I was thinking.
Is the bakery like more?
Because like when we were there, they opened special for us in the restaurant.
Okay.
But the bakery is what was open.
Okay.
So imagine, it's weird because from the outside it looks like a Polish bakery.

(40:02):
Okay.
A Polish bar and a Polish restaurant.
When you walk, all separate, like three separate businesses next to each other.
That's cool.
When you walk in, it's all one big open area.
That's cool.
It is.
It's neat.
And so like the restaurant area is in the middle, the bar is on one side, the bakery is on the other.
So they do all these special like fun, special pierogies and things like that.

(40:23):
So you walk in and obviously everything smelled great.
Yeah.
But really cool place.
They had everything all set up.
They did a really, really, really nice job.
It was, you know, Kelly's family, cousins and aunts and uncles and mom and dad and siblings were there.
So it was a lot of fun and obviously a bunch of very thoughtful presents from everybody.

(40:47):
They played these, they did the typical, I don't know.
The shower games.
The shower games.
So do you, well, did you ever go to any of the showers?
I was going to ask you, did you have a male, female shower?
I think we never, we didn't have that.
I showed up.
At the end.
At the end with flowers.
Okay.
That makes sense.
Okay.
I did that.

(41:07):
So this was a Jack and Jill.
So it was, so, so we, so I was there with, with Kelly and you know, we did the whole thing and open presents and all that stuff.
So I don't know what's, what the typical games are.
These games were mostly.
Drinking game.
It was cute because what was interesting was I was, they were a more competitive group of people than I would have expected.

(41:29):
Like they were right down into it.
So there was like one game I thought was interesting was mom or dad.
You had to circle which one you thought was the answer to this question.
It was like, who's.
Oh, I wish I could play that game.
Who guessed the name?
Oh, you would probably do very well.
I'll see if I can get a copy of, of the game.

(41:50):
If I think it would be you or Kelly.
Exactly.
Oh, that would be fun.
You played that.
Yeah.
So that everybody.
So we gave the answers and then everybody, everybody did their guesses.
So I was like, who, who came up with the name?
Who was the troublemaker when they were a kid?
Who cried first when you found out you were pregnant?
All that stuff, which was one that I thought was funny because what Kelly.

(42:12):
I would say dad, but.
Right.
Right.
What Kelly, what Kelly remarked at was how surprised her mother was when the answer was me.
Yeah.
Because.
I was not surprised at all, but I'd be frank.
Sadly, they think like, they think I'm a lunatic, right?
Like they don't understand.
So, so yeah.
So they were like, really?
Frank cried.

(42:32):
Yep.
That's awesome.
Frank, Frank cries.
So it was, it was fun, but it was like a game.
Yeah.
Fun.
Played some games and did that stuff, but a lot of very thoughtful gifts.
And the food was, the food was fantastic.
They did like a.
Polish bread.
Well, they did a brunch, you know, typical brunchy stuff.
They had apple pierogies, which I had never had before.

(42:54):
I yes.
I've the sweet stuff.
Yep.
Really good.
So yeah.
So that was, it was really nice.
We drove out.
It was this, we had, we've been getting lots of bad weather here.
So we had to drive through a little lake effects.
No, to get there, but it was nice.
We had a really good time and Kelly really enjoyed it.
That's awesome.
Made me happy.
I know she's got a second one coming.
Yes.
So it's interesting to me.

(43:14):
My wife is going to that.
That's right.
Yeah.
So the local one, um, now the pressure is on my sister here.
My sister, Paula is as a very generously offered to host the local shower with that.
Trina will be coming to, and I just found out it will be, uh, it's going to be.

(43:35):
Kind of a two-parter, but the menu.
Sleepover.
It's going to be at a restaurant.
Uh-huh.
And, and then gift opening will be at my sister's house with cake and coffee.
So that's different.
It is different.
I don't know.
It'll be fun.
So everybody has to, everybody's going over there or just certain people?

(43:56):
I think everybody who wants to comes to back to back to my sister's house for that.
So, so yeah, so that'll be it.
And it's going to be at Vito's, uh, which is a good restaurant and the sounds like the menu is going to be very good.
So I'm looking forward to that and I'm going to go, I will, I will show up for that one, but this is going to be a more traditional, just, just the ladies.

(44:18):
Hey ladies.
But I'm going to go anyway.
You can bring flowers.
I think that I probably should.
Now that you said it.
Now that you said it.
Is this going to be on before the shower?
It's going to be close.
Cause that one is like February 2nd and this is coming out.
Kelly, pretend you're surprised when you see the flowers.
When you see the flowers.
That's it.
I was actually, I was thinking about have arranging to have flowers at the restaurant already.

(44:43):
Already.
I was, I really did, but that we don't know now.
Now we don't know.
You have no idea.
No, that's true.
Producer Kelly sitting there with Watson.
She'll tell me exactly what, no, don't do that.
Um, but yeah, so, uh, it was, it was a fun thing.
It was a lot of fun.
Had a good time.
It was good to get to see some of the aunts and uncles and get to visit and some friends too.

(45:06):
She has some friends that she grew up with that were there, which was really nice.
Did they do the traditional opening the presents and somebody sitting there writing what that was?
I felt bad because my, my sister-in-law is there like scrambling to write down.
Cause there were like, it was, there was no, there was no like one gift.

(45:26):
It was like a bag.
I was like seven and she has it all.
She got it all written down.
And I think that's going to be one of the projects when we are, when we take our vacation, Kelly's like, I'm just going to bring the list and we're going to do, you know, do thank you notes.
You know what could be easier?
Hmm.
Just videotaped the gifts.
Yeah.

(45:47):
And just go through the video.
You could do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause she's, yeah, she's right.
Yeah.
That would've made sense.
Just videotaped each one being opened and you stop.
Nope.
My sister-in-law was there to like just writing down.
I remember that brings back memories of seeing these videos of, of the, the other, I don't know, the sister or aunt and they're just writing like crazy.

(46:09):
Yeah.
And I'm thinking, Hmm, does everybody do that?
I guess so.
Yup.
That's like some kind of a screen.
Get your iPhone out and videotape.
Yup.
Just take pictures or take pictures or take a picture.
Yeah.
Her brother was there like snapping pictures for everyone.
Then you just go back to him and go, there's this.
That's all right.
Well, we figured that out.
Yeah.
And you send it to your brother's and listeners.
That's right.

(46:30):
There's another hot tip for, for the next shower is to remember on weddings.
Oh yeah.
Right.
That how much the booster was, how much the envelope, you give them the same, how much did they give us?
It is so traditional.
Like what did the Smiths give us?
That's what there is always the calculation too.
What do you think it costs?
Right.
Right.

(46:50):
Right.
Right.
This cost.
Yeah.
You got to cover your plate.
Italians love to go to weddings and just just report on it.
Oh, if they were the first YouTube reactions, the Italians imagine reactions that they used to come home and react to the wedding.
Oh my God, it was in the car in the car.
Is the door there or there or there to the person sitting next to us?

(47:12):
This is horrible.
Yeah, they got a DJ.
Are they poor?
Yeah, not even a lot or God forbid there wasn't an open bar.
Oh God, a cash bar.
Yeah, that's so that's funny.
So, but yeah, no, so they did a great job.
Pressure's now on my sister to to do well.
I'm sure she will look at her.
She's stepping it up.

(47:33):
Not only are we going to a restaurant, we're going to do an after party.
Yeah, you want to mess with me?
Yeah, that's it.
That's funny.
So yeah, it's going to be, I'm sure it's going to be fun.
So we had the shower, which is very nice.
We've continued to struggle with cough and cold.
So Thanksgiving time, my, my lovely wife picked up a cold.

(47:57):
She was sick for a few weeks, hung on to that until she got me sick.
I was sick for a week or so, two weeks.
I started feeling better now.
She's kind of back to a cough.
It's, it's no fun.
Yeah, it's, it's just gone back and forth.
And that really is not of much note except for the fact that it brought back it was the return of the mumbles.

(48:20):
So nowhere near as bad.
I haven't had to earplug up, but there will still be the occasional mumble in the middle of the night.
Still making no sense of it.
Right.
Just, just, just kind of, yeah.
Weird noises, but not, you know, not nearly as bad.

(48:41):
It was, it was really, so nothing, it's just more on a very occasion.
Do they wake her up before the, when they were louder?
Did they ever wake her up?
I don't know.
I don't think she does.
She, I think not when, when I, if I say something like, please God, stop, then, then she immediately wakes up.
But no, she's like, are you kidding me?

(49:02):
You're sleeping with a helmet and a fricking tube coming out of your mouth.
That's it.
Turn off.
And you're yelling at me.
I'll strangle you with your seatbelt.
I will turn your power off.
No, it's really.
It's not fair.
You're like, could you please be quiet?
Hon, I'm trying to not die here.
Just a little quiet.
I'm very tired.
I worked hard today.

(49:24):
It's horrible, but yeah.
So the, we had the return of the mumbles.
The good news was, so we talked a little bit about the whole gestational diabetes thing, or we talked a little bit about it earlier.
So ever since she had that visit with the nurse practitioner that was not very nice and made her feel bad, she's, she now knows what the ranges should be for her glucose measurements, she's taking her tests and she has been on point.

(49:54):
All the numbers have been very good over the course of the week.
After that, she had now she's doing four readings a day, basically like when she gets up and then two hours after each meal, which is like, you know, not, you know, four times a day, she's doing the thing, writing it all down.

(50:17):
One reading out of that seven days, four times a day was a little high.
And it literally was just because we had ordered something for dinner and they sent the wrong thing.
So she had to scramble to have something and it, and so her numbers were a little high that it's all diet.
It, it is essentially at this point.
And so she had her numbers and we had the form that she was supposed to have had, had everything filled out.

(50:44):
And this time I really, I was, I was very, I kicked myself that I didn't go with her that time.
This is the only doctor's appointment I haven't gone to her with, and she gets the mean nurse practitioner.
Right.
So we went this time and I was with her and I was ready.
Like, okay, come on.
And we got the same girl.

(51:06):
Now this time she was based on, and even before we got there, Kelly had already kind of come to the conclusion that this woman was just kind of being a bitch, right?
Like in the initially, but Kelly has this, you know, I think Kelly has the kind of an evolution of feelings in, in all things initially when something comes up, she is one of those people who takes it completely on themselves.

(51:34):
Okay.
So when she got that news, it wasn't this lady's just being nasty and she was just mad.
It was, what did I do wrong?
She just like piles on herself.
I screwed up.
I should have done better.
I should have like, then later she starts to mention, well, I think she was upset because I didn't use the form they wanted.
And she was a little, you know, and then it's like, yeah, she's probably a bitch.

(51:58):
Right.
Yeah.
She went full circle.
It's me.
No, it's all her.
Yeah.
So now we're going back when we go back.
So I'm like, and the whole time I'm thinking, yeah, this is what you pissed her off because you didn't use the form.
It's not your fault.
So we get there.
Uh, I'm sitting in my chair and Kelly's on her little, on the, the examination table and immediately as soon as she walks in, I'm looking at her like, I want it, like, just, just say the wrong thing lady.

(52:26):
And if you could tell it's like, there's an immediate recognition of, Oh, like he looks angry.
Husband's here.
Yeah.
Husband's here.
This is different.
How are you my dear?
She's like talking to me and all that.
Here's a gift.
She's like, I'm so good to see you.
And I'm like, Oh boy.
That's funny.
And yeah.

(52:46):
So we go through the whole day.
She's like here.
And you know, she gives her the, I used your form.
Like she gives her the form.
Oh, and she's looking, she's like, well, you know, these, these look, these look much better.
There's this one.
And she's like, and Kelly's like, I know why that happened.
You know, that one reading, this is what happens.
Okay.
Well, do you, do you want to get, you know, we could do a referral for you.

(53:10):
Like, I don't think you need to do insulin, but you should do the, you should probably continue to do the readings for another week.
And do you want us to do a referral for you for a nutritionist?
I'm like, like, like, do you know, in my mind I'm thinking, do you know who you're talking to?
Right.
Like, come on.
She's like, and I was so happy because her response was like a scoff.

(53:35):
Yeah.
It was like, no, like, I don't need to go to like, I'm fine.
But, oh yeah.
She's like, do you have any other questions?
She's like, no, she turns to me.
Do you have any questions?
And I'm like, no, I'm, I'm, I'm good.
But yeah, just like a completely, even when we're leaving, she's like, she was much nicer.

(53:55):
That's funny.
I mean, there'll be a couple of things.
Obviously she just had a bad day and then on top of that, she walks in and goes, oh my God, another person who doesn't do our information correctly.
Or she saw you looking like, come on, let's get it.
And she was very smart.
Yeah.
She's very smart in going, Hey honey, that's the right thing to do.

(54:20):
Yeah.
You know, and honestly, it'd be one thing if she didn't follow instructions, but, and I was very proud of Kelly because she made a point of saying, oh, I just wanted to let you know, I did get the form in the mail, but it had no guidance on what the numbers should be.
So here they are, they're giving her a hard time.
Like she's not doing the right things by hitting targets that they never told her what they are.

(54:45):
And, and yeah, and I don't know, we were talking about it this morning.
We were talking about that.
Like, didn't they give you the number?
No, we weren't sure.
And I said, I doubt it because she would have Kelly would have, she would have hit it.
No, they didn't.
They never provided, they never provided those numbers.
And it's like, yeah, look, that makes absolutely no sense to me.
Now, maybe it's by design.

(55:05):
Maybe they want you to just eat like you normally eat and see what the numbers are.
Right.
But if that's the case, then tell them.
Yeah.
You got to say, hey, listen, the first time we do this, we're just trying to get like you've been eating, do the measurements and bring them in.
No, there was none of that.
So she, I was very, she's like, you know, they have no guidance, no information.

(55:26):
And she said, oh, well, I'll, I'll let them know about that.
And I'm not trying to, you know, but I'll, I'll, I'll play the other side.
She, this nurse doctor is a doctor or nurse.
I'm sorry.
This is so with this practice, it varies.
So there is a doctor who is, there's a doc, there's doctors, but we've seen a doctor.
We've seen a physician assistants and we've seen this woman is a nurse practitioner.

(55:49):
Okay.
So she, she doesn't know what she does for a living, what Kelly is about.
I don't think so.
So I'm thinking they see a lot of people, some people are just like, come on, man.
Right.
Like I tell you, like these people are not listening.
They're not.
So maybe she's like, here's another one.

(56:10):
We tell them, fill this up, but they don't.
Yeah.
You know, and I get that and that's probably true, but that means the instructions are even more important, right?
They should be giving good guidance.
And also I sit in the waiting room with her and my wife does not present like the average, the average person who's walking in there, right?

(56:32):
She's not wearing her juicy pants, but sometimes she's not, she's not showing up in a hoodie and sweat, but I know like in retail, like I know in retail, you can, you know, you can kind of base somebody and then, but not everybody's right.
This guy has no money and then they're like, Oh, I just came in on my Ferrari.
Right.

(56:52):
There might be some profiling going on, but if she's doing that with Kelly, she's not good at Kelly.
Yeah.
I'm not even thinking about Kelly.
I'm just thinking mentally, the person next before her, after her, you know, like, Oh, another thing, like this is really easy.
Fill this out, but you can't do that.
Yeah, no, it could be bad, but I'm glad that she did turn.
Yeah.
I think that made a difference.

(57:13):
Yeah.
She's saying a different tune.
So, yeah.
So very, very different.
So much better visit.
So it was good, basically good visit.
The, the blood sugar numbers have been good since then.
So that, that was good.
And in a strange way, after my initial experience with the doctor and the whole is her weight on track thing, I feel vindicated, I feel vindicated now.

(57:37):
So like, I feel like the, the, the playing field has been leveled and even yes, we're back to even and that's it.
So the other thing that is a kind of a new thing is that I was not super excited about is what we were going to have to do for childbirth classes.
So now I haven't known that I've left that entirely up to Kelly to figure out what we're going to do.

(58:02):
I assumed we were going to be going like going to a class.
Yeah.
Nope.
It's on now, I guess since COVID now it's all just videos.
It's not even a live, it's just videos.
So we're watching this series of videos we started and it's this woman who is about as exciting as watching glue dry.

(58:26):
It's horrible.
It's like, even like we're watching it.
I'm like, even her blouse is boring.
Like it's, it's just awful.
She's like, I'm a dual, this and there's all kinds of anyway, but, but we're watching the classes and it's been interesting.
I'm learning, I'm learning stuff.
And we got to the part where then they show you their example couple.

(58:48):
And it's this, it's this young couple.
The first thing I'm looking at this couple and I'm first of all, I think about like, look at that guy.
What chance does this kid have?
Right?
Like it's like, but he's probably a normal 25 year old, young guy, young girl, and they take you through the whole there you're with this couple through labor into going into the hospital, you follow your stocking, then you're, you're with them.

(59:13):
So they talked to her beforehand.
All that stuff.
And, and they're kind of cutting back and forth between real time of her.
Okay.
She arrives at the hospital and then talking to her about the experience later.
Okay.
But the whole time I'm thinking, Oh God, am I going to, is this going to be the moment I see?
Yeah.
And thanks.

(59:33):
Thank goodness.
There wasn't any of that.
There was a first shot of the baby first come, you know, like, yeah.
And that was, that wasn't so bad.
So I'm starting, my confidence is growing a little bit, but it was a lot of, you know, it was the other taking you through the whole experience.
Now this is a fairly young girl.
She's there with the, with the poor guy and her mother with her coaching her through this, but they go through all of, you know, so far they went through all the things that I'm supposed to do to help push and, and be supportive and, and all, all those things.

(01:00:08):
So we're, we're going through those classes so far.
So good.
Yeah.
Could be more exciting.
Yeah.
Not change your blouse.
Change something, put on a nice scarf, anything, something just pop it, just shut up a little, but so we're going through those.
I'm sure we're going to be watching more of those while we're away on vacation.
I don't know if I can do that.

(01:00:28):
Oh, the video thing, the videos.
You know what?
I, I always like, they're like 10 minute videos.
So, and I'll like, I will, I won't let her make me watch more than like four.
Yeah.
Cause it's just, after all, it's just like, oh, come on.
I'm going to, you would think the video would be better because you're not going out, but I know me, I can turn it off and not watch it.

(01:00:51):
Yeah.
I'd be like, do we have to really do this right now?
When you have to go somewhere, you have to go get your car and you have to go.
There's no, and if you're there, you're like, okay.
You're in, I'm going to pay attention.
And I had fun with it.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
I had fun.
Did you?
Oh yeah.
So was it a group?
Yeah.
It was a whole group.
Was everybody sitting around on the floor?
Really?
Like just like it always looks like we all, we had this around half, half moon, whatever you want to, and she was in the front and they would tell us all the things and yeah, we, exactly what you saw on TV or movies, that's what it was.

(01:01:23):
I felt like I was in there.
Yep.
Absolutely.
I like that was just us on the couch with a laptop.
Yeah.
That's play COVID.
Yeah.
It just changed everything.
That's part of the, I think that's part of the whole process to go in these classes and feel like that community.
I don't know.
And also to meet, like to meet other people who are going, that's what we did.

(01:01:45):
We would talk, Oh my God, this, that, you know, we're all social people.
So you take that element out and we would go, I don't know how many weeks it is.
Did they tell you how many weeks this would be normally?
I had no, it was.
It was a lot, a lot.
Yeah.
It was a lot.
So you got them, you got to know these people and then you'd go there before.
And then, you know, you have like, whatever.
I think we'd have a drink or coffee or something.

(01:02:07):
Yeah.
So it was a nice part of the.
Pregnancy, especially first time.
Yeah.
Now they're just, it does allow me to avoid the whole, it's so nice you're there for your daughter.
Like, I don't have to worry about that.
Like, are you her uncle?
Right.
It's the father working.
You can skip that part.

(01:02:28):
Yeah.
So the childbirth classes are, are in progress.
Sure.
And now, can I say one more thing about the classes?
Sure.
I did nothing of it when she was pregnant, when she was, it was all out the window.
I have no, I look at my eyes, look at my face, the doctor tells you what to do.
So I'm not saying it's not good.

(01:02:48):
I think it's a great way to actually bond.
And yeah, I think it's more to the bonding and understanding what you're wife is going through body-wise and all that.
You're learning that, but the actual, like what we did, I don't remember when you're at that moment, she's screaming, go and get it out of me.
You know what I mean?
I'm like, yeah, now just breathe.

(01:03:09):
Yeah.
Hold my hand.
And like, I know how, I know how Kelly reacts to coaching and there's not going to be a lot of that.
That's what I mean.
It's like, okay, thanks for the class.
She knows what she's doing.
She knows what she needs to do other than some head petting.
Right.
And, and you're doing great.

(01:03:30):
I mean, the doctor's there.
No.
Oh, this guy's a comedian.
I'm not going to ask him to do my job.
So you just stand there, look at your wife, tell her everything's going to be great, you love her, we'll do the rest.
Yeah.
That's when they go, you want to cut the, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm not the doctor here.
No.
Yeah.
That's what we got you for.
Yeah.

(01:03:50):
Yeah.
I can't imagine that that would, uh, that would be good.
So we'll, uh, we'll see the rest of the videos are upcoming.
Are they giving you links like every week or do you, do you have the whole process in front of you?
Is it a link that you're, it's set up like a video course.
So it's like module after module.
Uh, and honestly it's on Kelly's, it's on Kelly's laptop.

(01:04:12):
So I don't stop.
So you got the whole thing.
You can go, you can, you can just bang it out the whole thing.
Yeah.
You could just one day binge it all the way through episode 35, let's do it now.
The popcorn.
Yeah.
That's all there.
So we'll see.
I don't know how many more there are, but yeah.
Okay.
So far.
Um, and I do have to say the kid, the baby cute, the father, not so cute, uh, but kids cute.

(01:04:39):
Uh, so this family has been seen thousands and thousands of times.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean, everybody's getting these videos based on the father.
It's probably their only source of income.
You really have it in for this guy.
I'm just like, look at that.
You can tell you're a 55 year old going to be a parent.
Like you're, you're like, get a job.

(01:05:00):
Why do you dress like that?
Cut your hair.
Could you just, just shave?
Yeah.
You're on video.
You're on a video.
I got to look at your puss.
Come on.
Right.
How many people like, what do you, you know, when they signed up for this, like, yeah, yeah, you knew you were going to be on video shower.
Come on.
But well, that's okay.
Shout out to family.

(01:05:21):
I do have to, at least this is a good, because I can vent about that because when we're watching it together, I don't want to say those things.
Right.
Cause then I'll get that.
Right.
I'll get the, that's not nice from, because my, my love, I would do that too.
Yeah.
And I know Trina's listening.
I do that to her all the time.
I'm trying to be better.
I'm going, I'll go into a room when she's been watching a movie or a show that I know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to know all of three weeks of her watching this, what's going on.

(01:05:52):
So I'll be like, well, that's stupid.
Why that guy just shoot him?
That's she'd be like, um, really?
Like, so I, I know I would be that same, that same person with a video.
Like, oh, that guy looks like an idiot.
Oh, he shouldn't have a baby at all.
So yeah, you're probably smart.
Not saying anything.
Nope.
I try not to, I try not to, but I've been trying not to.

(01:06:14):
Yeah.
It's not easy.
Trina, you're listening.
It's not easy.
I've been trying not to, we're always on.
We're always, turn us off.
That's it.
So other than that, the other big thing is we're, are getting ready for vacation.
Yes.
So this is, oh yeah, I can't wait to get away.

(01:06:34):
It, it, it's going to be, uh, it's going to be nice.
Uh, you're jumping on the plane tomorrow.
Tomorrow we will, uh, we will fly down.
They don't need to know what tomorrow is.
Yeah, it's a secret.
We live in a secret land.
It's a secret.
When you do podcasting, this is a secret and a mystery planet we live on.

(01:06:55):
You have no idea what time it is, where we are, what day, none of that stuff.
But you're going to enjoy yourself.
So how long?
Uh, just a week.
So we fly down, we fly down Friday, we fly back Thursday, but yeah, it's going to be nice to, nice to get away.
We're going to get to see some friends of Kelly's that are in that area.
Go out to dinner and, uh, visit with them a little bit.

(01:07:17):
One, one of the days, three, right?
No, it's going to be my, you know, Kelly and me and little Josie in tow.
And then my, my brother and his wife are going to join us.
And my sister and her husband, in fact, they're already, they did a stopover in Washington, DC.

(01:07:39):
There was a museum exhibit that they wanted to see.
So they're in DC right now and, uh, and then they're going to join us down there.
But yeah, so it'll be initially it was, uh, initially my sister from Texas was going to come to, but she opted for Thanksgiving in Nashville and then to come when, when the baby's born, she's going to come make sense.

(01:08:00):
Yeah.
Which I was like, there you go.
You know what?
You know, you should do though, when you're in this, I don't know, Airbnb when you're together for Mike's sake, just put our podcast on, on, on a loop and, and see if anything's kind of seeps into his brain.
Yeah.
Well, I, what made me think about it is when they did the games at the shower, maybe some evening while we're there, I'll just do a gray hair daycare trivia and have my, my sister just destroy everybody.

(01:08:33):
She will absolutely.
She'll be all over it.
So that could be fun.
It'll be, that could be interesting.
That's, that's funny.
But yeah, so no, I hope you guys have a real good time.
So, uh, but that is it though.
You have made it to the end of yet another episode, episode 13, episode 13.
We're doing it.
We're doing it.
We're just plugging away.

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Oh, that makes me from work.
You were wrong.
It's easier that you were wrong.

(01:09:36):
It's fun.
Yep.
Yeah, that's fun.
Yeah.
I was wrong.
It's kind of, that was wrong.
That was, that's a, Oh, well, that's it.
Can't be always right.
No, you know, no, we can't.
You can't.
I'm not even 10% right.
Well, we can start to track, but we did learn as long as you say it would conviction, that's right.

(01:09:58):
Anything that Frank says sounds truth.
Just say it like you mean it and you believe it and you let everybody walk away with that information.
Yeah.
I don't think that works on everyone.
All right.
I guess we can get ice cream from a tricycle.
That's it.
There's kids everywhere now.
How does this work?

(01:10:18):
He's a genius, but I don't know, but we know that wasn't me.
That was not my unique mind.
That came out.
No, no, no.
Your sister is my sister.
We have to look into that.
Well, that's fun.
Okay.
Thanks again.
And we will see you next time.
Well, folks, that's another episode of the gray hair and daycare podcast in the books.
Thanks very much for tuning in and spending this time with us.

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