February 11, 2025 • 63 mins
In Episode 16 of "Gray Hair & Daycare: Gen X Dad, Gen Beta Baby," Frank and Carlo dive into some serious topics! We're talking George Jetson's real birthday (spoiler: he's older than you think! ), celebrity rants from billionaires who "can't do anything", and the challenges of teaching common sense in a chaotic world. Plus, Frank shares a heartwarming (and slightly gross) baby kick story! Don't miss this one – it's packed with laughs and definitely some controversial opinions!
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Chapter Markers:
0:00 - Celebrity Opinions: Shut Up and Sing!
1:58 - Baby Josie Update: Brains & Amniotic Fluid!
4:35 - British TV & Accents (Lou Hates Them?!)
7:00 - Still a Coconut, But Growing!
7:52 - First Baby Kick: A Dad's Emotional Moment
9:44 - Silver Fox Mailbox: George Jetson's Birthday!
13:27 - Flying Cars: When Will They Land?
15:41 - Listener Shout-Outs & Egg Rolls!
19:59 - Frank Around and Find Out: Our New Segment!
21:31 - Billionaire Tears & Immigration Rants
38:38 - What Just Happened: Wegmans Wins & Childbirth Videos
41:00 - Preeclampsia & Hospital Tour Prep
45:16 - Baby Laundry & Spreadsheet Dad!
50:09 - The Joys of Being a Stay-at-Home Dad
53:13 - Pregnancy Cravings & Food Philosophy
57:17 - Nursery Design "Hacks" & Comedy Gold
1:00:10 - Dogs & Baby: The Introduction
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(00:00):
I am fascinated by, and I think with the last election, I hoped there would be a realization on the part of some of these celebrities that they all came out, they all endorsed one candidate, they threw a billion dollars behind them, and basically the majority of the country gave them a big middle finger and said, no thanks.
(00:21):
Maybe they should just shut up and stop, just make make your funny shows, sing your song, little songs, get rich, more power to you, but keep your opinions on stuff like this.
Just, just keep it to yourself.
(00:49):
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 Sirio and Carlo Russo.
Welcome back.
Here we are yet again.
It feels like it was just four days ago.
It's weird how that happened, but it wasn't, it was a little while ago.
(01:13):
So we are back for episode 16, 16, 5, 5, 5, and 1.
16 is it?
Uh, yeah.
16.
Wow.
Yeah.
We're just flying through these.
Almost to 20.
Almost 20.
But I don't know what that, why that is important.
We're going to have a cake.
We're starting with food again.
Maybe 20 is when we have a different scenery, a table in front of us.
(01:39):
You know, I've been discussing, I've been discussing different possibilities with our executive producers and thinking about other possibilities.
We've got some things in the works, in the works.
I like it.
Okay.
You're just trying to get your coffee machine in part of the, you just want to buy something.
Yeah, no, no.
Trust me.
(02:00):
I have to buy a lot of things.
It's already happening, but anyway, as always, I am Frank Sirio.
I am 55 years old and my wife is 33 weeks pregnant.
So we are six weeks away from induction and hopefully the arrival of her beautiful baby Josie.
(02:25):
So, but where we are right now importantly is at 33 weeks, her brain and nervous systems are fully developed.
Fully.
It all works.
She is drinking up to a pint of amniotic fluid per day.
I had no idea that was what was happening.
(02:46):
I guess you need to drink that.
And that's what's, that's her intestinal tract for, I'm assuming lasagna at some point in the future for ZD and meatballs.
Yes.
A little chicken parm.
That's exactly what they say.
So that goes through half a pound, half a, half a pint of amniotic fluid a day and gaining, gaining about a half a pound per week.
(03:15):
So the longer they cook the last way in, she was already for four and a half pounds.
They're estimated with all the measurements.
So that's where we are.
It's exciting.
Now here's, here's the problem.
What produce?
Here's the problem.
Oh, that was leading.
Okay.
I, uh, this one, it's still says a coconut.
(03:40):
So I'm not sure because they keep saying she's growing bigger.
I do use more than one like reference.
There's tons of websites that do this.
The one I tend to use a lot is the NHS.
The British national health system website is really good when it comes to that stuff.
So Franken is Britain.
I like the UK.
(04:02):
You should be British.
Well, it would be fun.
Oh, well, honestly, Kelly is a very, is loves.
She like, she loves, this is one of the things I tease her about.
She watches these old and I mean old.
She, and she loves them.
Old television series from the BBC.
(04:24):
Like there's one, I don't remember what it is, but it's like Judi Dench when she was 30, right?
Like she's a hundred and she loves it.
It was like some kind of a situation comedy.
You guys are a perfect match because you always watched English.
You fancy a good pub and no, you love that whole English.
(04:44):
We were just talking the other day about toast to London.
We watched, you know, I like a lot of it.
I don't really enjoy a lot of her choices like that because she also will watch like there's some, there's a show called, have you ever heard of the father Brown mysteries?
Nope.
So it's like murder.
She wrote, but Angela Lansbury is a, is a British Vicar in this small town and it's just like, I couldn't, she made, she had me watch one and I couldn't do it.
(05:13):
Have you asked her how she got into it?
Was her family watching or mother, father?
She had a very, so her mom really kept them limited.
Gotcha.
They didn't get to, they no exposure to the U S any of the seriously.
Like most of the TV, because she grew up in Buffalo, most of the TV they watched was like Canadian TV and mostly like public broadcasting.
(05:36):
Like, no, like there's still things that I'll be like, how do you not know about, you know, whatever it is.
Well, it's like in my, in my parents' home, you literally have to have like a passport to go in there.
You go into another country, the TV is in a different language.
No one's speaking English.
There's a goat in the, in the kitchen, you know, there's a garden outside.
(05:57):
It's like, where am I?
Like what's going on?
There's no English at all.
It is a different culture, different culture.
You know, the songs are in Italian.
So that's funny.
Yeah.
No, it's just, yeah.
But somehow or another, we do have in many ways, similar, similar taste when it comes to that stuff, which is good.
Yeah.
But yeah.
And I don't mind, I don't mind a lot of the British.
I like British humor.
(06:17):
It's British humor.
Yes, I do.
I, yes, I like that.
We have a friend that hates British accents on women.
Remember that?
No.
Oh yeah.
Who?
Oh, I'll tell you after.
Someone.
You tell me after.
Let's try and get out of them, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay.
It's our friend Lou.
Lou doesn't like British accents.
No, he doesn't like the girl with British accents.
(06:38):
Why?
Like what?
It's so sexy.
Yeah.
Everybody, like women love it.
Now Australia, I can understand.
I love Australia.
A lot of fans in Australia.
And that's a similar accent.
Very similar, but it's different.
He does not, that's interesting.
I don't remember that about Lou.
Yeah.
Of all the things to remember about him.
I believe that was one of his, I don't look back.
It could be.
(06:58):
It could be.
There you go.
Baby Josie is still a coconut.
Still a coconut, but a fully developed nervous system and brain.
Now is the floating plates, the skull.
Oh no, that's still, that goes, I think almost to a year.
Cause you can't mess around with that one.
Right?
Yeah.
It's don't.
Yeah.
It's very soft.
(07:19):
Well, we talked about it a couple episodes about the helmets.
Yes.
And then just recently talked about, we had a silver Fox mailbox entry about them and how they're expensive.
Yes, yes.
A couple of weeks ago.
And then I got a picture sent to me from my sister in Texas.
Her granddaughter had one of those and it was like custom and it said her name on it.
It was very cute.
Do you think if we paid for, of course we can have our own custom helmets and put our logo on it for our size heads, would they make it sponsored by, yes, I'll tell you, here's what I'll say.
(07:51):
I don't know what the, if little Josie requires one, I hope I will have it put on, but I don't know.
Well, you never know.
Who knows?
I don't want, she's not getting more active, but I have experienced, this was actually really cool.
One morning we're getting up still in bed and I had my hand on Kelly's belly and I always try to like really give us more like palm the basketball.
(08:16):
So hoping that I'm going to feel that I'm going to feel something.
Yeah.
So I feel a put right on my thumb and I thought, oh, and I said, I pushed back and just like clockwork, boom, boom, push back.
I got to like literally four times back and forth, pushing back, pushing back.
(08:40):
But it was, it's, that was so awesome.
I was so excited.
I was so excited.
I even got choked up.
Like I said, a couple of weeks ago, I think it's the same.
Like they're right there.
They're there in the room with you, but they're not.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
It's like, I can feel you kind of, it's, oh.
It was, it was real.
I was so excited.
I'm thinking, and in those moments, especially this being the first time you think that out of the millions of people, this has only happened to me.
(09:05):
And I go get, I went to get a haircut and my, the girl who cuts my hair, she's got my hair for years, Danielle.
I'm telling her about it.
She's like, I used to play games.
Her older children, she would have them play games with, with the one in the inner belly.
And I'm like, okay, yeah, it was like that.
It made me feel a little less special, but it was a cute story.
(09:28):
So that was a, that was very exciting.
Have you seen the foot or a hand?
No, because even with the extra weight and everything, Kelly is still usually under multiple layers.
So I don't get that.
That was very, that was very exciting.
That was fun.
So as we often do, we're going to start off with the silver Fox mailbox.
(09:51):
So this time we have, so from a YouTube viewer, YouTube, welcome YouTube.
Thank you for watching.
And I'm going to try to get this one right because his name is delusional fishermen are thrifty.
That is his name.
So delusional fishermen are thrifty on YouTube saw one of our shorts where we talked about George Jetson's birthday.
(10:16):
And he was nice enough to inform us that in fact, the Jetsons was set in the year 2062.
So he was 40 years old at the time of the cartoon born in 2022.
And the cartoon famously of the sixties was set in 2062.
(10:36):
So he's 62.
Now we were, we were mentioning, oh, we can get to that point.
Now I know we have, well, you think about 2062, we were born in 68 and 69.
So we, you, you'd have to make it to 90 in well into your nineties, but we've had some of our last generation that made it to their nineties that creeped up there.
(10:59):
Yeah, we can do it.
But we could be, he would be 40 at that time.
Maybe he could visit us in the home.
All I want to know is when I replied to his comment, I said, so what you're telling me is if I make it to 95, I can get a flying car and a robot and I'm going to go for that.
So that's incentive enough.
Okay.
Well, the other thing I thought about realistically was George is kind of the right age for a little Josie, right?
(11:25):
Three years older, right?
Oh, you mean now?
Yeah.
She could, she could be Jane Jetson.
Oh my God.
That's right.
Josie Jetson.
It could work.
I love that idea.
It could work.
Absolutely.
We got to get these kids together.
We got to find a date.
So wait a minute.
Now I'm going to really dive into this.
(11:46):
Yes.
Okay.
So the jet, he grew up now.
He has no, he's seen so much.
Think of the grown up.
Yeah.
Three years ago he was born.
Yep.
He was, he was three years old this year.
He was born in 2022, 2022.
So he's, he's going to see a lot of change, right?
A lot from what that cartoon had.
(12:08):
Yeah.
Flying, floating cities, buildings, little spaces.
All, all is going to change really.
And what do you think about for us when we were 18, what it was like back then and now?
Yeah.
But when we were 18, there was still planes and now there's still planes.
There's still no flying cars.
If there are their drones, I guess I'm going to get a drone now.
Different things happened.
(12:29):
Not the flying car thing, which is disappointing.
I always thought that would happen.
You know, right now I'm 56 years old.
You want a flying car?
There's no, um, I don't know.
It just, it's just, I'm disappointed.
So they're saying in 40 years, a lot of things are going to just, some of the things in the Jetsons we have now the FaceTime.
(12:51):
Yeah.
That's they did.
They did.
Well, I knew the FaceTime thing was crazy when I was watching it with Michael J.
Fox on, um, back to the future, back to the future too.
That's right.
When he was talking to, who was he talking to?
I thought it was his boss or father who played his boss.
Oh, I don't remember from the red hot chili peppers.
(13:11):
Oh my God.
It was flea.
That was flea.
Yes.
That's it.
Thank you.
Yes.
He was talking to flea and I thought, Oh my God, are we going to get to this point where we're going to be able to see the person we're calling and now it's not, that's like, shut up.
That's another thing.
Nobody talks to each other.
Well, maybe we'll be flying.
We could.
When do you think flying cars are if they're ever going to come out?
(13:32):
When, when, when put you on the spot?
Not for at least another 15 or 20 years.
Okay.
That makes sense.
Where do they have it now?
They do.
They have the little, little ones.
I don't know if they'll ever be mass produced.
Will it be, will it be based on like what drones are?
Yes.
That's exactly what it is.
It's enclosed.
Yeah.
It's enclosed drone.
Yeah.
Kind of.
(13:52):
That's it.
A couple of months ago we had the Jersey, uh, are they just flying cars?
No one.
Or were they the Jetsons?
No one knows, but you know, the government knows and they're just not saying anything about it.
Could it be, could it be a car company that is going through the testing of their flying cars?
I would think they would have a better test area than the Jersey.
(14:16):
Like something, they would be a little bit more cagey.
Have you ever seen the cars when they're testing a new, like the really high end, like supercars and stuff, they will put like weird patterns all over the car when they test them.
So people can't get pictures and understand what they look like.
If they're doing that, the drone people would probably flying car.
(14:36):
People would probably do better than the Jersey shore.
They would probably use something else.
I'm just saying it's easy to do that.
And people go, well, it can't be that.
Cause it would be better than the Jersey shore.
It's like reverse psychology kind of thing.
We're going to put in everybody could be, could be, they said there were sizes of cars.
(14:57):
Yep.
Yeah.
Those are the things that, and then it just disappears from the news.
It's all gone.
Yep.
I know we're going back in time now.
Cause we're talking months ago.
It wasn't that long.
It was a few weeks ago.
You know, yeah.
Stuff like that.
I'm going to, I'm going to stick to my guns.
I believe it was, it was Ford, Ford aerospace space car testing their new, their new, what we said enclosed, enclosed, something like that.
(15:28):
But then, but I still, I look at that and look at the technology that's in cars now and how it helps people who still can't drive.
What are they going to do in the sky?
Like that's a frightening concept.
Well, Tesla drives itself.
These things are flying.
Yeah.
Put him where you're going.
Let's hope maybe that's what they're, maybe that's the evolution that they're going for.
I know who's going to know who's well, Josie, Josie, Josie will know she made design.
(15:53):
And then we got also a note on YouTube from Tom UW 20 K.
Okay.
He, he enjoyed my analogy of crying like a baby.
That's been hit with a hammer.
I did admit it's funny.
It's that is a Simpsons thing that was on the Simpsons many, many, many years ago.
(16:16):
I think not steal jokes.
I feel bad, but I'm going to come clean and say, I'm pretty sure.
Although I have said it many times since then, but he, and he actually said, he said something that if I, this is a person, as soon as I saw the comment, I realized who it was.
This is somebody who I worked with many years ago.
Tom worked, Tom worked with me at circuit city in new Hartford, New York many, many years ago.
(16:43):
And he said that as soon as he heard that comment, it, it reminded him of the things I used to say when we worked together.
And he said, he still uses some of my stuff to this day.
I thought that was nice.
You do come up with some funny stuff that you say to yeah, I do.
I say things I probably shouldn't say that.
(17:05):
I'm just saying they're funny.
My employees say that they're fun.
They're like, you shouldn't say these things.
I used to love being in the office and you would pick on someone.
I would just sit there and make a coffee.
Yep.
And it was all fun.
Everybody we all, we're all friends, obviously.
So it wasn't that you, I don't think you pick on somebody that can't handle it.
No, I like it.
Like I like to, I like John, one ball, John, the, it's just the other day we're on a conference call.
(17:30):
You guys all remember John.
Remember John Taylor, his three part interview, John was recounting to me a story.
I had called him for a workload related matter.
And he said, look, I just have to let you know this.
Now John's 44, I think 44, 45.
And he says, I just had an egg roll for the first time.
Oh God.
And I'm like, did, did you like it?
(17:52):
And he said, it changed my life.
Like he was, he just, but he's 44 years old.
He's never had an egg roll.
And he has a lot of things.
Like, I don't think he had a salad until he was 40, all that stuff.
So I'm like, well, you know, that orange stuff that they give you.
He's like, yes, I throw it away.
I'm like, try it with that.
The duck sauce.
No, that'll change your life again.
(18:15):
If he had never had an egg roll, I'm like, try the orange stuff.
I understand being picky, but you know what that is, is because your parents and my parents, if they put a salad in front of us, that's right.
The answer was never, or you don't get to eat.
You don't have a box of donuts for John.
It was, well, what would you like?
Right.
(18:35):
This is why I have such a difficult time managing John.
This is the man that told us him and his two other roommates when Krispy Kreme is not a sponsor.
They bought 24 cases and just ate a case a night sitting there each until it went away.
I couldn't even have the numbers wrong.
(18:55):
It could even be more.
John, if you'd correct me, please.
But yeah.
So when he told me I never had a salad, I wasn't surprised.
No.
Yeah.
But it was interesting.
He probably has never had soup.
Maybe not.
So I mentioned that.
And then like on the next conference call, I'm like, did he, and he's like, I tried it.
It was great.
Like, so now, so he's, we've now expanded John's diet, but I like to have, you know, I like to hear about my employees and Tom used to work with them.
(19:26):
Tom.
Yeah.
He's a listener.
He is.
He's down.
And I think, I think he's in North Carolina now.
He has moved on.
He's doing big, bigger and much better things than what we used to do.
So that is our silver Fox mailbox for this time.
And we're going to move on to a segment.
I would just went over before we started recording with Carlo, the possible names for this segment, because we've been talking about doing a segment where, where I talk maybe more about some current events or things that are happening in the news and things like that.
(19:59):
This is a new segment.
We are trying out.
We're trying it out now.
And we have our favorite name.
Yeah, we do.
But, but I'm willing to, as we have in the past, put it out to the viewers.
We have another contest.
Here's another contest.
So these are the potential names for the segment.
So the first, the first one is I'm warning you.
That is good.
(20:21):
It's a little, it's a little, maybe a little intense.
So option one, I'm warning you option to just leave me alone.
Okay.
Or my personal favorite.
And I think Carlos as well, Frank around and find out.
I like Frank around and find out.
(20:42):
So it's that, and I'm warning you.
I'm warning you.
Yeah.
Close second.
Yeah.
Or could you combine the first two?
I'm warning you.
Leave me alone.
I'm warning you.
I'm warning you.
Frank around and find out.
So what I wanted to talk about this time is, and this was just amazing to me.
(21:04):
Our new president has kind of started to deliver on many of his campaign promises.
One of the major ones within minutes.
And one of them has been to act on a lot of the illegal immigration that has happened and begin a very systematic deportation process.
And they kind of approached it, which I think was a smart thing to do with a worst first approach.
(21:32):
Go find the street.
Yes.
Go find the gang members.
Yes.
The people who are committing crimes who disagrees with that.
Think about, but why would you disagree with taking harmful people off the streets?
You would think everyone would applaud, but no.
So, but no, the example that struck me was a video appeared on, on X, I believe, and it has already been pulled down and a reaction.
(21:58):
And that one has been pulled down to from Selena Gomez, Selena Gomez.
Now she's, I know she started off as a Disney kid.
Oh, the, Oh, the witch person.
She's a witch.
She had a witch store show.
Oh, which is of Waverly place her.
And then she's saying, and then she, and didn't, didn't she date Justin Bieber?
(22:20):
He, she broke his heart.
Okay.
She is now.
I know her mostly from her complete inability to act in a, in a show.
That's really good called only murders in the building.
So this show it's fantastic.
It starts Steve Martin and it was, it was written by Steve Martin and Martin short.
(22:42):
And she is like the third leg of the stool.
I don't, I haven't seen it, but I know what you're talking about.
It's a few seasons.
It's a great show.
Okay.
And the whole first season, I would complain to Kelly as we watched it.
She has the acting range of a salad fork, right?
Like there's, there's another break.
Just it is, she's horrible.
(23:04):
So I just thought when they, when she was cast in that, like why her right now, but she's, she's popular.
So they'll take it.
They're bringing the old people like us with, with Steve Martin and they're trying to, they're trying to attract but you think there's so many other great options, young people who can act, but they picked her.
(23:25):
Whatever.
So she posts this video on X crying, sobbing into the camera.
Nope.
No.
My people are being deported and I don't know what to do.
And the children and I'm so sorry.
Now, first of all, I was surprised because I didn't think she was capable of emoting at that level in any way, shape or form best acting.
(23:52):
Absolutely.
The most engaging I've ever seen her.
Right.
And she's just really look genuinely in a moment, I feel bad.
I'm like, this person clearly is experiencing real emotions.
If not complete stupidity, right?
Right.
No, I know that she can't, this is true in her mind because she can't act.
(24:14):
So I know she really is sad, but, and she's seeing, she's seeing things like there's nothing I can do.
And I feel like, and I'm, and just a couple of weeks ago I was reading an article.
What do you think the Selena Gomez's net worth is?
Oh God.
This, this was, I couldn't believe it.
How much you spent this week?
(24:34):
I'm going to play a million.
I'm assuming she was a Disney kid.
She had a TV series.
She has a recording career, $20 million, $20, 50, a hundred million.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She is a billionaire with a B a billionaire Selena Gomez.
Selena Gomez is a billionaire.
Now I could buy all her people.
(24:54):
As soon as I saw, I, as soon as I saw that, I thought, how she hasn't been in gigantic movies.
She hasn't had a huge record deal or no.
So I'm like, okay, how do you guess how restaurant?
No, no, not a restaurant.
She bought a, Oh, she bought a team, a sports team.
(25:17):
She became a billionaire.
She did not need to be a billionaire to buy a team.
Yes.
How?
I don't, I have no idea.
Cosmetics.
What?
Again, I, somehow this came up when I talked about, this is the second time talking about the, the, the girl who cuts my hair, Danielle.
And I mentioned, cause I back when I got my haircut, I had just learned that she was a billionaire and I'm like, how was that positive?
(25:38):
She's like, she and her daughters all use her products.
So she, she has endorsed a line of cosmetics now.
And I, you could see just by looking at her that she's in a lab and probably came up with some more like fantastic mascara.
Like I heard she was a scientist.
Yes, absolutely.
She's certainly the one cooking up the new foundation that she's selling.
(26:02):
Now we know why she's on the show.
Her name is huge.
She's a billionaire.
She's richer than the two legends that are on the show.
She is.
And that, that is amazing when you think about it.
So now rewind to watching this video of her sobbing and how she feels so helpless.
You are a billionaire.
You can literally change the world with that kind of money.
(26:28):
Absolutely.
A billionaire.
And you have the gall to get on X and cry for what purpose?
Cry and say, and I can't do anything about it.
There's nothing I can do about it.
A billionaire that says I can't do anything about it.
So I'm asking you guys that are living week to week.
Can you do something about it?
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When you think about it, Catholic Charities, you think about Catholic Charities.
Now this is a whole other subject that maybe I'll talk about another time.
Catholic Charities is one of the non-governmental organizations that the federal government and state governments funnel money into to take care of social programs, right?
Catholic Charities is heavily involved in taking care of refugees and they are slightly in some ways embroiled in some of this immigration stuff.
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She could literally triple their funding with the stroke of a pen and you can't do anything.
But no, but she's going to cry and do a video.
That's what I am.
I'm so sick of my people, says a billionaire, what they're doing to my people, my people.
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What are you doing to your people?
Not doing a whole lot for them.
I am fascinated by, and I think with the last election, I hoped there would be a realization on the part of some of these celebrities that they all came out, they all endorsed one candidate.
They threw a billion dollars behind them and basically the majority of the country gave them a big middle finger and said, no thanks.
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Maybe they should shut up and stop.
Just make your funny shows, sing your song, little songs, get rich, more power to you, but keep your opinions on stuff like this.
Just keep it to yourself.
Not only did she put it out, but you said she had to take it down.
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And this is the kind of entertaining from my perspective.
She puts the video out and there is an onslaught of people who are just like, are you kidding?
Like they're just, they just start cutting her down.
So she pulls it down that she puts up a comment.
She puts up a post saying, I guess people like me can't have, and they pile on that one.
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Like, and then she pulls that down.
And then today, since it was a couple of days ago, she did it.
I see a post from Don Lemon.
Oh, I know that lemonade.
Oh, uh, Don Lemon saying that basically it was a bunch of mega people that pounced on Selena Gomez.
It wouldn't be their people.
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And it's like, really?
You think my mega people are following Selena Gomez?
Come on.
No, no.
It's because those, that whole, that whole society is eating itself now.
Right.
Right.
And that's what happened.
The only way to climb a farther up the pile of shit is to attack whoever's higher on the pile of shit.
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And they put out shit like that.
Go effect change.
Oh, I'm billionaire.
Literally saying my hands are tied.
But I was, I was really, uh, I was put off by, I was put off by that.
And it did make me think I kind of want to, cause there's a lot of stuff now.
It crapped.
It has cropped up online.
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People just now we're in the mode of, we're going to point out everything that we think he's doing wrong.
Right.
Even though the vast majority of Americans I think are pleased because they elected him on these issues.
Right.
And they, they keep coming back to pointing out all this stuff.
And I just want to, I, I want to like think through a, of a form that I want them to check off.
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Like before you post online to complain about something, number one, who got hurt?
And is it an American citizen?
Right.
There should be a checklist.
Right.
Is this affecting who's it affecting?
Number two, has it already happened yet?
Or are you just worried about what might happen?
Cause that most of what's happening right now is, Oh my God, he eliminated 17 attorneys general.
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How many attorneys general are there?
I don't know.
And I bet you don't know either.
And either to the people who are complaining, who knows how many there were 398, there could be a bunch, but the fact that, but that's it.
But Oh my God, now this is going to be like never even thought about it before that rampant rampant absolute government corruption because of that complain about the things that are happening right now.
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But you don't have to agree with every single thing someone does.
Yep.
Right.
To respect them.
Absolutely.
Right.
If you went down the list of every president we've had, I'm sure there's going to be things that we liked about it and things that we didn't on the democratic side, on the Republican side, it doesn't matter.
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If you put in a good economy, if you, if you feel safe, there's going to be, I don't care what you are.
I don't care.
Right.
A democratic president.
But when you are shoving things down our throats, that doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense at all.
Like why are we all fighting about taking criminals off our streets that are hurting our own citizens?
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That should be a, everybody should go agree next.
And I think everybody does, but the people who talk about it online don't do that.
There is.
And you're right.
We don't do that now.
And I think liberals are very, very good at it.
They pretend that their guy is done nothing wrong and they won't even talk about it where you should be able to look at, like, I can look at Obama and think he did something.
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I like my favorite thing is that he did.
He deported more people than Trump and Biden.
He was the deporter in chief.
People forget all the people.
He deported 3 million people.
Yes.
Like that was the best thing he did.
But the funny thing is there's no like checks and bails.
I was like, wait a minute.
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Yeah.
No, but I mean, there's no, also no arguing with it.
This is fun because I talk about this, but like engaging online is just a dog fight.
No, you can't listen.
We're skimming through things that doesn't make sense to some people.
It might make sense and that's fine, but we're, we're saying our part and how ridiculous when you have an actress, that's a billionaire that says, I, there's nothing I can do.
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I was, I was a permanent, um, resident for 45, almost 50 years.
Right.
And I felt American.
The only difference, I didn't have my citizenship and I got it in 2017 or 19, 2019.
I'm sorry, 2019.
I became an American citizen and it's the most proud that I've ever been to go through this process.
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And to tell me that someone can come over with a criminal record, bringing drugs to our country, the country that my parents took two little kids on a boat, came over here with nothing and tried to live the American dream, which we succeeded.
And you're going to allow chaos on our streets when there's real people that need to come here for the American dream.
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Yeah.
The people that let them come the right way and let them build what America is all about.
I'm an immigrant.
I came here from another country.
This was my third country in five years.
My third language that I was living under.
And I understood.
And yes, I didn't come from, you know, the countries that are coming from now, but back then they were the, we were not liked.
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We were, we were, we were still immigrants coming here, not speaking English.
We felt all that.
Yep.
Absolutely.
So I don't have anything wrong with immigration.
No, I encourage immigration.
America is immigration.
What I think is interesting.
And this is an example of it.
There are complex problems and there are simple problems.
And this is really a simple problem, but we talk about it a lot because it is a polarizing issue, right?
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The news likes to cover it and politicians like to talk about it and they don't like to solve it because it's easy to talk about.
It's polarizing and it continues.
Yeah.
You can't stop something because then the rate, the really complex show, the really complex problems nobody talks about, but this is a simple one and we like to talk about it.
It's not super simple.
There are steps that have to be taken, but I think there are common sense things happening right now that are good.
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And Selena Gomez just take some acting lessons and use that anger when you're acting.
Yeah.
She is.
I'm telling you, that's why I'm telling you like this.
It absolutely was sincere because there's no way she could, Meryl Streep couldn't have pulled off a performance like that.
And she can't believe she honestly feels that way about her people.
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Honestly, you don't think this is a, a work.
Look, there is, it doesn't mean just because it doesn't make sense doesn't mean they don't convince themselves of it.
And, and that's, and that, that generation are very good at that.
But anyhow, so that is going to be our new segment where I say me perhaps unpopular things.
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So we want your, we want your opinions on, I'm warning you.
Just leave me alone.
Just leave me alone.
Frank around and find out Frank around.
That's my favorite.
Frank around and find out.
Cause there are a lot of interesting things that, that, that we could, we'll be able to dive into.
Yeah.
It's a little bit off the baby.
Yeah.
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Baby.
This stuff affects.
Look, I think about that stuff all the time.
You're going to be raising a child.
My, my kid is going to face these challenges.
She's going to be interested in these people who are popular that are idiots.
And I have to find a way to help her navigate that too.
You can appreciate the talent, the musical talent or the performance talent or the dance moves, but these are not smart people.
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That's, that's the thing.
Now that getting back to raising a family, the scary thing about social media, these people that are famous on social media, influencers, thank you.
Influencers, their power holds, their words hold so much with these young people, man.
It's scary.
It's so scary.
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And I'm telling you right now, and I have, I believe I have some wise children and still, you can see them in there, like being influenced by these people, but they're smart enough because the way we raise them, that they don't follow it through.
But it's so tough when you see these, like, Oh, you have to, this guy is this and that.
And I'm like, Whoa, you know, hold on.
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Do not give them any power.
I think that's the only antidote for that because it's true the way it's delivered and how, how much access they have to to kids.
I think the approach that I want to try to take is to teach them to ask questions.
That's one thing that like that we've talked about with Kelly.
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Kelly has a conversational style that immediately she challenges stuff.
She enjoys taking the counterpoint and she's good at it and cultivating that in a kid.
Cause when you hear the stuff, you're like, yeah, that makes sense.
Sometimes I'll hear something.
I'll be like, I'll question myself and be like, really, I wonder if this is true.
And then a little bit of digging and a little bit of questioning and you see, you get context and you understand, then things come into focus.
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It's scary, but it is, it is.
But part of what we have to look forward to, well, the parenting aspect, that's when, that's when you come in to play your contribution to your child.
You're molding them.
What, you know, you're allowing them to understand and believe and is all going to be very important because there's going to be elements of other things trying to teach them as well, pulling them in different directions.
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100%.
That's true.
So we can now move on to, and there's a lot of that.
We had some fun stuff to talk about this week, but we'll move into what just happened.
All right.
So one of the fun things, I don't know if that's fun, but it was a good thing.
We have, typically we go to mass on Sunday and then we go to Wegmans and we get groceries together.
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Beautiful.
And the last few times Kelly will need a break.
Usually by the time we get to around the pharmacy in the middle of the, she just needs a coffee break.
Yeah.
And so she needs a little stop this time.
Now little Josie has changed position and has moved down a little bit.
And that I think is allowing her to move around a little bit better.
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She, Kelly calls it her waddle or her duck walk.
Sometimes we'll talk when she's on her way to work and then she's like, okay, I have to waddle across the street and she gets to work.
So the baby shifting a little and has made it possible.
So we had our first visit to Wegmans with no, with no pit stops.
So that was nice.
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And then we have continued with the childbirth videos.
Yes, we were getting to that.
I have to say they ended much, much stronger.
The beginning, not great, but then the examples that they went through.
Now the woman, the facilitator, boring from start to finish, but the content was better and we kind of cranked through and we, and then at the end we printed up all these little handouts and stuff so that we have stuff to review.
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But we, we got all those papers and burned them.
Well, honestly, I should show you, I thought about making that a segment.
I was going to have Carlo read.
Oh God.
There's like these one page documents with like six little pictograms of things you can say things for the birthing person that I hated that about this too.
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They don't say mothers, of course, no birthing person.
Cause it could be a guy named Chuck.
Right.
Chuck could be having the baby.
Yes.
So it was like six things that it was things that the mother should like self-talk like reinforcing.
Beautiful.
This pain will give me the most beautiful thing in my life.
Oh, stop.
Things like that.
I was going to have you read them.
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Oh God.
Do a dramatic reading.
We could do that in the future, but it was just ridiculous nonsense.
But they did cover, they also covered the things in the last few classes that you really have to be aware of as, as the birth gets closer and more signs, the Braxton Hicks contractions and to the, the warning signs, which I, they talk about preeclampsia.
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And do you remember?
So I don't recall that.
So that's one of those things essentially means it's the onset.
It's a high blood pressure condition that can indicate the onset of stroke or seizure.
Oh, okay.
So it's very, very bad.
If that happens, you got to be very careful.
They talked a lot about that and all of the warning signs, but basically the warning signs are kind of all internal and they're directing it at both of us.
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And the only thing I could watch for is like facial swelling and Kelly's, you know, Kelly's face, you would never know she's pregnant.
So I, I have to keep an eye on if she all of a sudden blows up.
Like you would know I would notice that's not, and I'll be ready.
Right.
But yeah.
So I think overall it was a good experience.
And then we have coming up now the next level, which is our real thing.
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Well, that's coming soon is the hospital, the hospital tour.
Yes.
So now what hospital?
Yeah.
What hospital community?
I believe.
Okay.
Is that the one out now?
Yes.
Far away.
Far away.
So we're doing St. Joe's.
Okay.
So we're going there.
That's got new addition.
I believe the baby or this will be the first time I paid attention at the hospital.
I'll be like, this will be fun.
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So yeah.
So we get to go do that.
I guess pick out our suite.
Yeah.
They'll explain to you all the setup and what room where to crash the car as you park.
It is so crazy though.
It brings me back to that moment of with my first of not knowing what the heck's going on.
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And you go there and the crazy thing is you go there with your wife and I know everybody says this and then you come back and there's another human that wasn't there, but it was always there.
Like I always say to you, the baby's in the room with you, but it's really, you know, it's like, you can't touch it.
Can't feel it.
Can't see the face.
And then eventually there it is.
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Yeah.
They say that that's the way hospitals work at the beginning of life.
And at the end of life, you go in and two people go in and three come out in the beginning and two people go in and one comes out.
But it brings me back to that moment of like, Oh my God, it's happening.
Oh my God, it's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
I'm going to see this baby.
Yeah.
Cause eventually, I mean, I know you probably didn't, but you're going to get to a point where I just want to see you.
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I want to see your face.
I want to hold your hands.
I want to, you know, you're going to get to that right now.
You're probably getting there.
Oh yeah.
I think Kelly Kelly definitely is.
Yeah.
And I think that moment when you're, when you know it's going to happen either that day or tomorrow morning or whatever, it becomes so real and emotional and you're like, Oh my God, I'm actually going to see it.
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And in my case, I didn't know if it was a male or female.
So I was like, I was playing all these things in my mind.
Like it's a good little girl.
I'm going to have a little daughter or if I'm a boy and we can Buffalo bills.
And not that I couldn't do that with my daughter, but you know, you go through all this stuff and that just added more anxiety and excitement.
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And it's so cool though, that you get to bring this child home and it's yours.
And everything you thought of forever.
Cause I know you, I've known you forever now and you've always, you know, I always thought very highly of having a family and children and, and now you, you're there.
It's so close.
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And now it's there.
It's there.
You can squeeze it and kiss it and love it.
Oh my God.
It's the best time.
God bless you.
Enjoy it.
I can't wait to see the baby.
I'm going to try.
I'm, I'm very excited for it.
We did, I did do a one, a first thing that in preparation, as, as you guys know, we had one shower, we're waiting.
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The next shower is coming up.
I'm sorry.
I thought you were talking about a shower, like in your hospital.
How would they know you have one shower and you have more than one shower?
We do.
I'm at the baby shower.
So we had Kelly's first baby shower in Buffalo where I have the Syracuse version coming up that my sister is hosting.
And, but you know, from the first one and from other people, just, we've gotten tons of baby clothes and all the stuff.
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So this was the first time I'm the laundry guy in our household.
So I always, I do the laundry.
So I got to do baby stuff in the laundry for the first time.
And I was like, now I have a good, like, I'm good at laundry.
I have a very good system fold.
I fold very nicely and neatly.
When Kelly tries to help, I make her stand down because she does not do it right.
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It's not right.
So, but this stuff is all like, what do you like?
What do you do with it?
I just let Kelly, I'm like, okay, show me.
Right.
What are you?
She rolled lots of stuff to save space, I guess.
I don't know.
Cause it's not going on hangers.
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But that was fun.
So I got to do my first load of baby laundry.
That was fun.
We did that.
We also, I didn't, I shouldn't say we, Kelly got her thank you notes done from the first shower.
So she wanted, she was very important to her to have them done before the next shower.
She doesn't want to get behind.
The other important thing that we did, which I'm excited about was we, first of all, I was excited because I got to build a spreadsheet to figure out the timing of how long Kelly will be out, which will then inform how long I'll be out.
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So I, we figured out, so I got to keep, I like, I keep getting out of your house.
No, no, no.
How much time away from work.
So she had, so she basically told me how many hours of maternity leave and how many hours of saved up time that she has.
And then we tried different models right out for out for 12 weeks and then go back two days a week and then go up to three.
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So we worked out a whole system that basically it's going to be nice.
She won't have to return to work full time until like the first week of January, January.
Oh yeah.
Cause baby's coming in March.
Right.
So the next year, the next year.
So she'll be able to take, it's going to be nice.
She'll be able to go to all,
you think all the way to like June or July off and then go back two days a week for a couple weeks
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and then three days a week for like a month and then four days, four days a week for, or no,
three days a week for a long time for a couple months, two, three months, and then go back to
four days a week for a couple of weeks before ramping all the way back up to five, five days
a week.
So yeah, so, but it was, and we worked all that out.
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So then now I can figure out, I don't have as much time as she does.
She has, she has a ton of time banked.
But so I won't be able to take as much, but I think I'm going to, at the very least, I'll be able to have, I think I'm going to take one full month of no work and then I might go, might go back one day a week for a few weeks and then, but I'll, I'll be back back at it pretty, uh, pretty soon.
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You know, probably by the end of the summer.
Are you traveling as much now?
Not really right now, but I'm at the point now with some of the projects that we're working on that I will have to start to travel a little bit.
I was able to work in when we went to my brothers in Nashville for Thanksgiving.
I paired it with some business stuff.
So we're looking around for new locations and that might require some travel.
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And that's going to be the new thing too, that you obviously lived all this life that you didn't have to put that thought in.
Now you have to be like, Oh, I have to plan time.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean, before you're like, okay, this is my job.
I got to go away.
You're an adult.
You can stay alone.
Now it's like, wait a minute.
I have to, there's a, yeah, there's a, there's a system.
There's got to be system in place.
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Yeah.
The closest thing I ever had to that was when I was single and had a dog and you would come over, like I would be forgotten for an overnight and you'd go, you'd stop over and take care of my dog.
So yeah.
So no, yeah.
Different kind of a little more important.
Right.
But that's like, you have to like, yeah, I got to think about that stuff.
Your life now has to be that at all times thought process.
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Like, Oh, I just can't pick up and go.
Well, I'll take a week off.
I'll travel though.
You know, cause now, you know, like, and then you'll start feeling bad.
You obviously want to see your own child.
Then you're thinking of your wife or she's thinking of you.
And that's tough too though.
That's tough.
Luckily, I think I'm, I mean, I think it's going to be good.
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Yeah.
I'm very structured and I like planning out that way.
And I like being in a particular, like a predictable rhythm.
So I, I, I think we'll be, we're going to be in good shape.
The best thing that I was allowed to do was, and I think this all the time, my mom would raise our kids.
Right.
I mean, uh, my, my, uh, my brother's kids.
And then when I had kids, um, my mom, like just bring them here, go to work, get your life going.
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Right.
I mean, that's the, and of course it was the best gift to anybody where your kids can be brought up by your parents.
But then my mom was getting a little older and it was tough, you know, it's and lucky enough, my wife got a really nice promotion.
Yeah.
And at that time where she was getting her promotion kind of overrode what I was making a year and my mom was getting older.
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And now the school, my son was getting old enough to figure out the school he would have to go to.
So do we keep them at my mom's and go to a different school or do we keep them across the street from our house where the school district is?
And I was lucky enough and we were lucky enough for my wife said, you know, why don't you just stay home?
I got this promotion and your mom's getting a little older.
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Your dad's getting a little older.
And I was able to raise, I was a stayed home dad.
Yeah.
And let me tell you, my friend, it was the best, absolute best job I've ever had.
Wasn't a job was my life, but it's people, it is a job.
It was the best way to know my family, my, to get to know my kids.
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And, and, and I think that's why me and my kids have such a tight bond because I was there every now and then I was, we would go to the baseball games.
We'd go to the school things.
I would be, and it was the best job.
I have a pretty cool job now.
I have a really cool job.
And I'm telling you right now, when I was a stayed home dad.
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You still work with toddlers.
Just emotional, emotionally.
We're all just like running around screaming like Selena Gomez.
And I'll tell you right now, I wouldn't give it up for the world.
What I did.
Yeah.
That was the best job.
Honestly, I think about, I think about that, especially with the idea of potentially homeschool that for me, I love what I do, but we could, we could do that.
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Even if it's for that years of before school, you know, whatever you decide with that, that five years, six years in my kids till this day go, Hey dad, remember every day you would pick me up and we would have our, we'd have our slice of pizza.
He would have a slice of pizza and a chocolate milk.
And dad, you would have a cup of coffee.
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We'd go to our friend's place and it was a daily thing.
And he still talks about, he still has his memory, him and his dad.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Well, you never know.
You never know.
So if anybody's out there doing it, man, God bless you.
It's the best job you'll ever have.
Any stay at home pair, anybody who has the opportunity to be a stay at home parent, mom or dad, I don't know why you wouldn't do it.
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I don't know why you wouldn't love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
So we worked out the timing stuff.
I think that that was a good thing.
And that adds to the excitement.
I have to admit, this has been interesting with Kelly.
Now she's been doing a great job since the gestational diabetes diagnosis.
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She has got her, her diet is on point, but she's said a couple of things and it made me think, and then we talked about it a little bit.
One day she's like, she started planning her first meal after the baby's born.
She's like, I want to have a Reuben sandwich and this.
And I'm like, cause she can't, that's hilarious.
But I think when I get out of jail, my first thing is a steak, but we're talking about it and I'm thinking about it.
(53:55):
And it's interesting because as we've said, we talk about food a lot on the podcast.
She has not, she does not have that relationship with food.
Yes.
But for the first time in my, my lovely wife's life, she has had to think about what she's eating cause she's thin.
She doesn't like sweets.
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Not that she doesn't like them, but she's not like, like she doesn't die for cookies like I do.
So she's never, so she's always been thin and has never had to worry about that.
And now, yeah, I know.
But now for the first time, she's having to think about that.
She even said the other day, she's like, I kind of understand you better now.
(54:39):
Like I'm laughing, but mine is because my, because when my parents would fight, when I was a kid, my sisters would put a cake in front of me to try to keep me happy.
It was, and I know I'm going to get, there'll be multiple.
I was wrong from just that.
It was a pie from my, from my sisters.
But that, you know, that's what it is.
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But she, she didn't have any of this.
She's like, I started to understand.
It's that, it's that scarcity mentality.
Once you can't have it, you want to, you know, but yeah, she's never had to think about like, I don't, I'm sure she's never been on a diet as you're talking about, as you're talking right now, I'm thinking about food.
That's how bad everything you're saying is like thinking we should have more food on this podcast.
(55:26):
You're bringing up great points.
By 2026, it'll just be a cookie.
You said Ruben screwed my whole cooking show.
Yeah.
So this is yet another way that the pregnancy has brought us closer.
She's like, no, I understand why you love cookies.
Oh, that's so funny.
So I thought that that is great.
She's planning out her first.
You ever hear when people like, obviously when they're pregnant, the woman can't have a drink, you know, you drink it off.
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And they're always like, I'm the minute I'm this, that I'm going to have a martini or I'm going to Oh my God.
So funny.
But she's like, I'm going to have that Ruben.
Yeah, I'm going to have that.
I'll take a Ruben too.
Cause she, that's one of the things I do think that she does miss that because she hasn't had any cold cuts since the beginning.
Like before any of the gestational diabetes stuff, there's no soft cheeses, none of that stuff.
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So, but I'm very proud of her.
She's not a cooking show.
We could just tear into something else.
That's it.
Then we would have the kitchen Island instead of a desk there.
Ah, I think we just figured out our new setting.
Next time on the gray hair daycare podcast, it'll be eating with the boys.
It'll be reclam.
We'll just have baby Josie on the chair and watch propped up, you know, so that there was that the diet stuff I thought was interesting.
(56:42):
Now this is another, obviously with my lovely wife we've talked about in the past, her humor.
Okay.
I have to say, this interaction I had with my wife is a whole other level.
And my estimation, she has graduated to a different tier of comedy.
Okay.
So as we often are, she's over here, I'm editing and in YouTube, it will give you part of the studio there.
(57:11):
You just click on this one page and it gives you ideas.
So it basically somehow with using AI looks at what you talk about, looks at what you do and it looks at what's going on in the world and it gives you suggestions for videos that your viewers might engage with.
Okay.
So one of the ideas was nursery design hacks on a budget.
(57:32):
So like, so designing the nursery, I could do a video about that.
And like that, not with it.
She didn't stop and think she didn't say immediate response was you could do that.
Give your wife carte blanche to design the nursery and then don't do any of it.
I was like, first of all, ouch.
(57:56):
Yeah.
Second of all that I, I, I laughed so hard when she said that.
Yeah.
Design on a budget.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Give your wife carte blanche to design and then don't do it.
Don't do it.
I thought, wow.
But I do think, and I do think I may be in trouble.
Yeah.
Because there's always a nugget in all great comedy.
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There is a nugget of truth.
Truth is in there.
And I have to admit with this, I've had a cold and the sinus infection, the stuff going on and I have, I have been, I'm usually fairly highly productive.
And then with that stuff happening, productivity has come down and then learning all the stuff with the podcast.
(58:38):
We started a podcast in the middle of it's a lot.
It's a lot of work.
I've gotten better with the amount of time that I have to spend on it.
But obviously I think I need to, I need to be on point.
I got to get in that nursery and get it.
I've been saying this for four weeks now.
Have you started the route?
Remember?
Nope.
I haven't even opened the box with the light fixtures in it, but I don't think it will be.
(59:00):
I'll think about that.
I got, I have some good ideas about what we're going to do.
We've ordered some coloring books, which I'm going to use for me.
You can color in the corner.
That's for me.
I think I have a good idea for a process of how I'm going to do the walls.
I'm a theme.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We have the theme and I think I will.
I'll, I'll record some of the work.
(59:21):
I can figure out how to do one of those time-lapse things where I'm running around with my hair, all messy content.
That's what we need is content.
This baby is content.
Yes.
So I'm going to get on the stick.
I promise, honey, I promise all to our producer to my executive producer that that room will be done.
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I had a, I have a picture I may include at some point and it's a, it's a picture of Kelly and Watson because Watson, as big as he is, gets on her lap the other day when I came over, that's right.
In that chair, you don't see her at all.
It's just her legs and I'm like, I should put that on the podcast.
(01:00:01):
I'm still interested to see how these animals react when the baby comes home.
You know, that's the one, something that I forgot.
I try very hard to capture all the stuff that happens that might be fun to talk about, but we talked when I did my multiple book reviews about the dog stuff there, we have the one with the sounds and Kelly started playing the sounds the other day quietly and nobody cared.
(01:00:29):
Baby sounds crying, little noises.
Now we need to increase the volume and try it more and more, but I'm pretty sure unless little Josie sounds like a Liberty mutual commercial or it looks like a deer.
Yeah.
Have you, this might sound so crazy.
Have, has any of you tried to do the sound and holding that fake baby doll and walk around with it and see if the dogs do anything?
(01:00:54):
No, that's one of those things that I think the only good reason for having bought that was to have you try it on.
It was just for that has sat there.
The baby has not been touched the little baby doll.
I would walk in with this and see what the dogs even do because it's going to happen real soon.
We're trying to let them like leave some of the like little toys and books and stuff around so that if they approach and they're interested, they can be interested, but they can't touch it.
(01:01:19):
And I think they're going to do okay.
I'll be fine.
But yeah, so I need to get out of the stick on my, uh, nursery plans.
Uh, we only got a few weeks left, even though in my mind I keep thinking we got the cradle babies can be with you.
We got the cradle wise that and the changing table are going to be in our bedroom and the cradle wise thing, you know, it'll be a lot, but I should have it done.
(01:01:41):
And once you get involved and I know you, you're just going to be all in, it's going to be awesome.
Yeah.
It's going to be just you thought about the podcast two days later, you had $10,000 worth of stuff.
I'm exaggerating, but you know what I mean?
You're going to be the same way in the room.
Okay.
I'm in I think it's fun.
(01:02:03):
Yeah, it is.
I enjoy, I enjoy doing DIY stuff.
It'll be, yeah, you're a handiest dude.
Yeah.
It'll be fun.
Well, anyway, you have made it to the end of yet another episode.
They did it.
They, you did it.
Congratulations.
We went through many different things.
You talked a lot about, about a lot of different things.
So with that, we will leave you and we will see you next time.
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Thanks.
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And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed.
I am fascinated by, and I think with the last election, I hoped there would be a realization on the part of some of these celebrities that they all came out, they all endorsed one candidate, they threw a billion dollars behind them, and basically the majority of the country gave them a big middle finger and said, no thanks.
(00:21):
Maybe they should just shut up and stop, just make make your funny shows, sing your song, little songs, get rich, more power to you, but keep your opinions on stuff like this.
Just, just keep it to yourself.
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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 Sirio and Carlo Russo.
Welcome back.
Here we are yet again.
It feels like it was just four days ago.
It's weird how that happened, but it wasn't, it was a little while ago.
(01:13):
So we are back for episode 16, 16, 5, 5, 5, and 1.
16 is it?
Uh, yeah.
16.
Wow.
Yeah.
We're just flying through these.
Almost to 20.
Almost 20.
But I don't know what that, why that is important.
We're going to have a cake.
We're starting with food again.
Maybe 20 is when we have a different scenery, a table in front of us.
(01:39):
You know, I've been discussing, I've been discussing different possibilities with our executive producers and thinking about other possibilities.
We've got some things in the works, in the works.
I like it.
Okay.
You're just trying to get your coffee machine in part of the, you just want to buy something.
Yeah, no, no.
Trust me.
(02:00):
I have to buy a lot of things.
It's already happening, but anyway, as always, I am Frank Sirio.
I am 55 years old and my wife is 33 weeks pregnant.
So we are six weeks away from induction and hopefully the arrival of her beautiful baby Josie.
(02:25):
So, but where we are right now importantly is at 33 weeks, her brain and nervous systems are fully developed.
Fully.
It all works.
She is drinking up to a pint of amniotic fluid per day.
I had no idea that was what was happening.
(02:46):
I guess you need to drink that.
And that's what's, that's her intestinal tract for, I'm assuming lasagna at some point in the future for ZD and meatballs.
Yes.
A little chicken parm.
That's exactly what they say.
So that goes through half a pound, half a, half a pint of amniotic fluid a day and gaining, gaining about a half a pound per week.
(03:15):
So the longer they cook the last way in, she was already for four and a half pounds.
They're estimated with all the measurements.
So that's where we are.
It's exciting.
Now here's, here's the problem.
What produce?
Here's the problem.
Oh, that was leading.
Okay.
I, uh, this one, it's still says a coconut.
(03:40):
So I'm not sure because they keep saying she's growing bigger.
I do use more than one like reference.
There's tons of websites that do this.
The one I tend to use a lot is the NHS.
The British national health system website is really good when it comes to that stuff.
So Franken is Britain.
I like the UK.
(04:02):
You should be British.
Well, it would be fun.
Oh, well, honestly, Kelly is a very, is loves.
She like, she loves, this is one of the things I tease her about.
She watches these old and I mean old.
She, and she loves them.
Old television series from the BBC.
(04:24):
Like there's one, I don't remember what it is, but it's like Judi Dench when she was 30, right?
Like she's a hundred and she loves it.
It was like some kind of a situation comedy.
You guys are a perfect match because you always watched English.
You fancy a good pub and no, you love that whole English.
(04:44):
We were just talking the other day about toast to London.
We watched, you know, I like a lot of it.
I don't really enjoy a lot of her choices like that because she also will watch like there's some, there's a show called, have you ever heard of the father Brown mysteries?
Nope.
So it's like murder.
She wrote, but Angela Lansbury is a, is a British Vicar in this small town and it's just like, I couldn't, she made, she had me watch one and I couldn't do it.
(05:13):
Have you asked her how she got into it?
Was her family watching or mother, father?
She had a very, so her mom really kept them limited.
Gotcha.
They didn't get to, they no exposure to the U S any of the seriously.
Like most of the TV, because she grew up in Buffalo, most of the TV they watched was like Canadian TV and mostly like public broadcasting.
(05:36):
Like, no, like there's still things that I'll be like, how do you not know about, you know, whatever it is.
Well, it's like in my, in my parents' home, you literally have to have like a passport to go in there.
You go into another country, the TV is in a different language.
No one's speaking English.
There's a goat in the, in the kitchen, you know, there's a garden outside.
(05:57):
It's like, where am I?
Like what's going on?
There's no English at all.
It is a different culture, different culture.
You know, the songs are in Italian.
So that's funny.
Yeah.
No, it's just, yeah.
But somehow or another, we do have in many ways, similar, similar taste when it comes to that stuff, which is good.
Yeah.
But yeah.
And I don't mind, I don't mind a lot of the British.
I like British humor.
(06:17):
It's British humor.
Yes, I do.
I, yes, I like that.
We have a friend that hates British accents on women.
Remember that?
No.
Oh yeah.
Who?
Oh, I'll tell you after.
Someone.
You tell me after.
Let's try and get out of them, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay.
It's our friend Lou.
Lou doesn't like British accents.
No, he doesn't like the girl with British accents.
(06:38):
Why?
Like what?
It's so sexy.
Yeah.
Everybody, like women love it.
Now Australia, I can understand.
I love Australia.
A lot of fans in Australia.
And that's a similar accent.
Very similar, but it's different.
He does not, that's interesting.
I don't remember that about Lou.
Yeah.
Of all the things to remember about him.
I believe that was one of his, I don't look back.
It could be.
(06:58):
It could be.
There you go.
Baby Josie is still a coconut.
Still a coconut, but a fully developed nervous system and brain.
Now is the floating plates, the skull.
Oh no, that's still, that goes, I think almost to a year.
Cause you can't mess around with that one.
Right?
Yeah.
It's don't.
Yeah.
It's very soft.
(07:19):
Well, we talked about it a couple episodes about the helmets.
Yes.
And then just recently talked about, we had a silver Fox mailbox entry about them and how they're expensive.
Yes, yes.
A couple of weeks ago.
And then I got a picture sent to me from my sister in Texas.
Her granddaughter had one of those and it was like custom and it said her name on it.
It was very cute.
Do you think if we paid for, of course we can have our own custom helmets and put our logo on it for our size heads, would they make it sponsored by, yes, I'll tell you, here's what I'll say.
(07:51):
I don't know what the, if little Josie requires one, I hope I will have it put on, but I don't know.
Well, you never know.
Who knows?
I don't want, she's not getting more active, but I have experienced, this was actually really cool.
One morning we're getting up still in bed and I had my hand on Kelly's belly and I always try to like really give us more like palm the basketball.
(08:16):
So hoping that I'm going to feel that I'm going to feel something.
Yeah.
So I feel a put right on my thumb and I thought, oh, and I said, I pushed back and just like clockwork, boom, boom, push back.
I got to like literally four times back and forth, pushing back, pushing back.
(08:40):
But it was, it's, that was so awesome.
I was so excited.
I was so excited.
I even got choked up.
Like I said, a couple of weeks ago, I think it's the same.
Like they're right there.
They're there in the room with you, but they're not.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
It's like, I can feel you kind of, it's, oh.
It was, it was real.
I was so excited.
I'm thinking, and in those moments, especially this being the first time you think that out of the millions of people, this has only happened to me.
(09:05):
And I go get, I went to get a haircut and my, the girl who cuts my hair, she's got my hair for years, Danielle.
I'm telling her about it.
She's like, I used to play games.
Her older children, she would have them play games with, with the one in the inner belly.
And I'm like, okay, yeah, it was like that.
It made me feel a little less special, but it was a cute story.
(09:28):
So that was a, that was very exciting.
Have you seen the foot or a hand?
No, because even with the extra weight and everything, Kelly is still usually under multiple layers.
So I don't get that.
That was very, that was very exciting.
That was fun.
So as we often do, we're going to start off with the silver Fox mailbox.
(09:51):
So this time we have, so from a YouTube viewer, YouTube, welcome YouTube.
Thank you for watching.
And I'm going to try to get this one right because his name is delusional fishermen are thrifty.
That is his name.
So delusional fishermen are thrifty on YouTube saw one of our shorts where we talked about George Jetson's birthday.
(10:16):
And he was nice enough to inform us that in fact, the Jetsons was set in the year 2062.
So he was 40 years old at the time of the cartoon born in 2022.
And the cartoon famously of the sixties was set in 2062.
(10:36):
So he's 62.
Now we were, we were mentioning, oh, we can get to that point.
Now I know we have, well, you think about 2062, we were born in 68 and 69.
So we, you, you'd have to make it to 90 in well into your nineties, but we've had some of our last generation that made it to their nineties that creeped up there.
(10:59):
Yeah, we can do it.
But we could be, he would be 40 at that time.
Maybe he could visit us in the home.
All I want to know is when I replied to his comment, I said, so what you're telling me is if I make it to 95, I can get a flying car and a robot and I'm going to go for that.
So that's incentive enough.
Okay.
Well, the other thing I thought about realistically was George is kind of the right age for a little Josie, right?
(11:25):
Three years older, right?
Oh, you mean now?
Yeah.
She could, she could be Jane Jetson.
Oh my God.
That's right.
Josie Jetson.
It could work.
I love that idea.
It could work.
Absolutely.
We got to get these kids together.
We got to find a date.
So wait a minute.
Now I'm going to really dive into this.
(11:46):
Yes.
Okay.
So the jet, he grew up now.
He has no, he's seen so much.
Think of the grown up.
Yeah.
Three years ago he was born.
Yep.
He was, he was three years old this year.
He was born in 2022, 2022.
So he's, he's going to see a lot of change, right?
A lot from what that cartoon had.
(12:08):
Yeah.
Flying, floating cities, buildings, little spaces.
All, all is going to change really.
And what do you think about for us when we were 18, what it was like back then and now?
Yeah.
But when we were 18, there was still planes and now there's still planes.
There's still no flying cars.
If there are their drones, I guess I'm going to get a drone now.
Different things happened.
(12:29):
Not the flying car thing, which is disappointing.
I always thought that would happen.
You know, right now I'm 56 years old.
You want a flying car?
There's no, um, I don't know.
It just, it's just, I'm disappointed.
So they're saying in 40 years, a lot of things are going to just, some of the things in the Jetsons we have now the FaceTime.
(12:51):
Yeah.
That's they did.
They did.
Well, I knew the FaceTime thing was crazy when I was watching it with Michael J.
Fox on, um, back to the future, back to the future too.
That's right.
When he was talking to, who was he talking to?
I thought it was his boss or father who played his boss.
Oh, I don't remember from the red hot chili peppers.
(13:11):
Oh my God.
It was flea.
That was flea.
Yes.
That's it.
Thank you.
Yes.
He was talking to flea and I thought, Oh my God, are we going to get to this point where we're going to be able to see the person we're calling and now it's not, that's like, shut up.
That's another thing.
Nobody talks to each other.
Well, maybe we'll be flying.
We could.
When do you think flying cars are if they're ever going to come out?
(13:32):
When, when, when put you on the spot?
Not for at least another 15 or 20 years.
Okay.
That makes sense.
Where do they have it now?
They do.
They have the little, little ones.
I don't know if they'll ever be mass produced.
Will it be, will it be based on like what drones are?
Yes.
That's exactly what it is.
It's enclosed.
Yeah.
It's enclosed drone.
Yeah.
Kind of.
(13:52):
That's it.
A couple of months ago we had the Jersey, uh, are they just flying cars?
No one.
Or were they the Jetsons?
No one knows, but you know, the government knows and they're just not saying anything about it.
Could it be, could it be a car company that is going through the testing of their flying cars?
I would think they would have a better test area than the Jersey.
(14:16):
Like something, they would be a little bit more cagey.
Have you ever seen the cars when they're testing a new, like the really high end, like supercars and stuff, they will put like weird patterns all over the car when they test them.
So people can't get pictures and understand what they look like.
If they're doing that, the drone people would probably flying car.
(14:36):
People would probably do better than the Jersey shore.
They would probably use something else.
I'm just saying it's easy to do that.
And people go, well, it can't be that.
Cause it would be better than the Jersey shore.
It's like reverse psychology kind of thing.
We're going to put in everybody could be, could be, they said there were sizes of cars.
(14:57):
Yep.
Yeah.
Those are the things that, and then it just disappears from the news.
It's all gone.
Yep.
I know we're going back in time now.
Cause we're talking months ago.
It wasn't that long.
It was a few weeks ago.
You know, yeah.
Stuff like that.
I'm going to, I'm going to stick to my guns.
I believe it was, it was Ford, Ford aerospace space car testing their new, their new, what we said enclosed, enclosed, something like that.
(15:28):
But then, but I still, I look at that and look at the technology that's in cars now and how it helps people who still can't drive.
What are they going to do in the sky?
Like that's a frightening concept.
Well, Tesla drives itself.
These things are flying.
Yeah.
Put him where you're going.
Let's hope maybe that's what they're, maybe that's the evolution that they're going for.
I know who's going to know who's well, Josie, Josie, Josie will know she made design.
(15:53):
And then we got also a note on YouTube from Tom UW 20 K.
Okay.
He, he enjoyed my analogy of crying like a baby.
That's been hit with a hammer.
I did admit it's funny.
It's that is a Simpsons thing that was on the Simpsons many, many, many years ago.
(16:16):
I think not steal jokes.
I feel bad, but I'm going to come clean and say, I'm pretty sure.
Although I have said it many times since then, but he, and he actually said, he said something that if I, this is a person, as soon as I saw the comment, I realized who it was.
This is somebody who I worked with many years ago.
Tom worked, Tom worked with me at circuit city in new Hartford, New York many, many years ago.
(16:43):
And he said that as soon as he heard that comment, it, it reminded him of the things I used to say when we worked together.
And he said, he still uses some of my stuff to this day.
I thought that was nice.
You do come up with some funny stuff that you say to yeah, I do.
I say things I probably shouldn't say that.
(17:05):
I'm just saying they're funny.
My employees say that they're fun.
They're like, you shouldn't say these things.
I used to love being in the office and you would pick on someone.
I would just sit there and make a coffee.
Yep.
And it was all fun.
Everybody we all, we're all friends, obviously.
So it wasn't that you, I don't think you pick on somebody that can't handle it.
No, I like it.
Like I like to, I like John, one ball, John, the, it's just the other day we're on a conference call.
(17:30):
You guys all remember John.
Remember John Taylor, his three part interview, John was recounting to me a story.
I had called him for a workload related matter.
And he said, look, I just have to let you know this.
Now John's 44, I think 44, 45.
And he says, I just had an egg roll for the first time.
Oh God.
And I'm like, did, did you like it?
(17:52):
And he said, it changed my life.
Like he was, he just, but he's 44 years old.
He's never had an egg roll.
And he has a lot of things.
Like, I don't think he had a salad until he was 40, all that stuff.
So I'm like, well, you know, that orange stuff that they give you.
He's like, yes, I throw it away.
I'm like, try it with that.
The duck sauce.
No, that'll change your life again.
(18:15):
If he had never had an egg roll, I'm like, try the orange stuff.
I understand being picky, but you know what that is, is because your parents and my parents, if they put a salad in front of us, that's right.
The answer was never, or you don't get to eat.
You don't have a box of donuts for John.
It was, well, what would you like?
Right.
(18:35):
This is why I have such a difficult time managing John.
This is the man that told us him and his two other roommates when Krispy Kreme is not a sponsor.
They bought 24 cases and just ate a case a night sitting there each until it went away.
I couldn't even have the numbers wrong.
(18:55):
It could even be more.
John, if you'd correct me, please.
But yeah.
So when he told me I never had a salad, I wasn't surprised.
No.
Yeah.
But it was interesting.
He probably has never had soup.
Maybe not.
So I mentioned that.
And then like on the next conference call, I'm like, did he, and he's like, I tried it.
It was great.
Like, so now, so he's, we've now expanded John's diet, but I like to have, you know, I like to hear about my employees and Tom used to work with them.
(19:26):
Tom.
Yeah.
He's a listener.
He is.
He's down.
And I think, I think he's in North Carolina now.
He has moved on.
He's doing big, bigger and much better things than what we used to do.
So that is our silver Fox mailbox for this time.
And we're going to move on to a segment.
I would just went over before we started recording with Carlo, the possible names for this segment, because we've been talking about doing a segment where, where I talk maybe more about some current events or things that are happening in the news and things like that.
(19:59):
This is a new segment.
We are trying out.
We're trying it out now.
And we have our favorite name.
Yeah, we do.
But, but I'm willing to, as we have in the past, put it out to the viewers.
We have another contest.
Here's another contest.
So these are the potential names for the segment.
So the first, the first one is I'm warning you.
That is good.
(20:21):
It's a little, it's a little, maybe a little intense.
So option one, I'm warning you option to just leave me alone.
Okay.
Or my personal favorite.
And I think Carlos as well, Frank around and find out.
I like Frank around and find out.
(20:42):
So it's that, and I'm warning you.
I'm warning you.
Yeah.
Close second.
Yeah.
Or could you combine the first two?
I'm warning you.
Leave me alone.
I'm warning you.
I'm warning you.
Frank around and find out.
So what I wanted to talk about this time is, and this was just amazing to me.
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Our new president has kind of started to deliver on many of his campaign promises.
One of the major ones within minutes.
And one of them has been to act on a lot of the illegal immigration that has happened and begin a very systematic deportation process.
And they kind of approached it, which I think was a smart thing to do with a worst first approach.
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Go find the street.
Yes.
Go find the gang members.
Yes.
The people who are committing crimes who disagrees with that.
Think about, but why would you disagree with taking harmful people off the streets?
You would think everyone would applaud, but no.
So, but no, the example that struck me was a video appeared on, on X, I believe, and it has already been pulled down and a reaction.
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And that one has been pulled down to from Selena Gomez, Selena Gomez.
Now she's, I know she started off as a Disney kid.
Oh, the, Oh, the witch person.
She's a witch.
She had a witch store show.
Oh, which is of Waverly place her.
And then she's saying, and then she, and didn't, didn't she date Justin Bieber?
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He, she broke his heart.
Okay.
She is now.
I know her mostly from her complete inability to act in a, in a show.
That's really good called only murders in the building.
So this show it's fantastic.
It starts Steve Martin and it was, it was written by Steve Martin and Martin short.
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And she is like the third leg of the stool.
I don't, I haven't seen it, but I know what you're talking about.
It's a few seasons.
It's a great show.
Okay.
And the whole first season, I would complain to Kelly as we watched it.
She has the acting range of a salad fork, right?
Like there's, there's another break.
Just it is, she's horrible.
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So I just thought when they, when she was cast in that, like why her right now, but she's, she's popular.
So they'll take it.
They're bringing the old people like us with, with Steve Martin and they're trying to, they're trying to attract but you think there's so many other great options, young people who can act, but they picked her.
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Whatever.
So she posts this video on X crying, sobbing into the camera.
Nope.
No.
My people are being deported and I don't know what to do.
And the children and I'm so sorry.
Now, first of all, I was surprised because I didn't think she was capable of emoting at that level in any way, shape or form best acting.
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Absolutely.
The most engaging I've ever seen her.
Right.
And she's just really look genuinely in a moment, I feel bad.
I'm like, this person clearly is experiencing real emotions.
If not complete stupidity, right?
Right.
No, I know that she can't, this is true in her mind because she can't act.
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So I know she really is sad, but, and she's seeing, she's seeing things like there's nothing I can do.
And I feel like, and I'm, and just a couple of weeks ago I was reading an article.
What do you think the Selena Gomez's net worth is?
Oh God.
This, this was, I couldn't believe it.
How much you spent this week?
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I'm going to play a million.
I'm assuming she was a Disney kid.
She had a TV series.
She has a recording career, $20 million, $20, 50, a hundred million.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She is a billionaire with a B a billionaire Selena Gomez.
Selena Gomez is a billionaire.
Now I could buy all her people.
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As soon as I saw, I, as soon as I saw that, I thought, how she hasn't been in gigantic movies.
She hasn't had a huge record deal or no.
So I'm like, okay, how do you guess how restaurant?
No, no, not a restaurant.
She bought a, Oh, she bought a team, a sports team.
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She became a billionaire.
She did not need to be a billionaire to buy a team.
Yes.
How?
I don't, I have no idea.
Cosmetics.
What?
Again, I, somehow this came up when I talked about, this is the second time talking about the, the, the girl who cuts my hair, Danielle.
And I mentioned, cause I back when I got my haircut, I had just learned that she was a billionaire and I'm like, how was that positive?
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She's like, she and her daughters all use her products.
So she, she has endorsed a line of cosmetics now.
And I, you could see just by looking at her that she's in a lab and probably came up with some more like fantastic mascara.
Like I heard she was a scientist.
Yes, absolutely.
She's certainly the one cooking up the new foundation that she's selling.
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Now we know why she's on the show.
Her name is huge.
She's a billionaire.
She's richer than the two legends that are on the show.
She is.
And that, that is amazing when you think about it.
So now rewind to watching this video of her sobbing and how she feels so helpless.
You are a billionaire.
You can literally change the world with that kind of money.
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Absolutely.
A billionaire.
And you have the gall to get on X and cry for what purpose?
Cry and say, and I can't do anything about it.
There's nothing I can do about it.
A billionaire that says I can't do anything about it.
So I'm asking you guys that are living week to week.
Can you do something about it?
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When you think about it, Catholic Charities, you think about Catholic Charities.
Now this is a whole other subject that maybe I'll talk about another time.
Catholic Charities is one of the non-governmental organizations that the federal government and state governments funnel money into to take care of social programs, right?
Catholic Charities is heavily involved in taking care of refugees and they are slightly in some ways embroiled in some of this immigration stuff.
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She could literally triple their funding with the stroke of a pen and you can't do anything.
But no, but she's going to cry and do a video.
That's what I am.
I'm so sick of my people, says a billionaire, what they're doing to my people, my people.
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What are you doing to your people?
Not doing a whole lot for them.
I am fascinated by, and I think with the last election, I hoped there would be a realization on the part of some of these celebrities that they all came out, they all endorsed one candidate.
They threw a billion dollars behind them and basically the majority of the country gave them a big middle finger and said, no thanks.
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Maybe they should shut up and stop.
Just make your funny shows, sing your song, little songs, get rich, more power to you, but keep your opinions on stuff like this.
Just keep it to yourself.
Not only did she put it out, but you said she had to take it down.
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And this is the kind of entertaining from my perspective.
She puts the video out and there is an onslaught of people who are just like, are you kidding?
Like they're just, they just start cutting her down.
So she pulls it down that she puts up a comment.
She puts up a post saying, I guess people like me can't have, and they pile on that one.
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Like, and then she pulls that down.
And then today, since it was a couple of days ago, she did it.
I see a post from Don Lemon.
Oh, I know that lemonade.
Oh, uh, Don Lemon saying that basically it was a bunch of mega people that pounced on Selena Gomez.
It wouldn't be their people.
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And it's like, really?
You think my mega people are following Selena Gomez?
Come on.
No, no.
It's because those, that whole, that whole society is eating itself now.
Right.
Right.
And that's what happened.
The only way to climb a farther up the pile of shit is to attack whoever's higher on the pile of shit.
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And they put out shit like that.
Go effect change.
Oh, I'm billionaire.
Literally saying my hands are tied.
But I was, I was really, uh, I was put off by, I was put off by that.
And it did make me think I kind of want to, cause there's a lot of stuff now.
It crapped.
It has cropped up online.
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People just now we're in the mode of, we're going to point out everything that we think he's doing wrong.
Right.
Even though the vast majority of Americans I think are pleased because they elected him on these issues.
Right.
And they, they keep coming back to pointing out all this stuff.
And I just want to, I, I want to like think through a, of a form that I want them to check off.
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Like before you post online to complain about something, number one, who got hurt?
And is it an American citizen?
Right.
There should be a checklist.
Right.
Is this affecting who's it affecting?
Number two, has it already happened yet?
Or are you just worried about what might happen?
Cause that most of what's happening right now is, Oh my God, he eliminated 17 attorneys general.
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How many attorneys general are there?
I don't know.
And I bet you don't know either.
And either to the people who are complaining, who knows how many there were 398, there could be a bunch, but the fact that, but that's it.
But Oh my God, now this is going to be like never even thought about it before that rampant rampant absolute government corruption because of that complain about the things that are happening right now.
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But you don't have to agree with every single thing someone does.
Yep.
Right.
To respect them.
Absolutely.
Right.
If you went down the list of every president we've had, I'm sure there's going to be things that we liked about it and things that we didn't on the democratic side, on the Republican side, it doesn't matter.
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If you put in a good economy, if you, if you feel safe, there's going to be, I don't care what you are.
I don't care.
Right.
A democratic president.
But when you are shoving things down our throats, that doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense at all.
Like why are we all fighting about taking criminals off our streets that are hurting our own citizens?
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That should be a, everybody should go agree next.
And I think everybody does, but the people who talk about it online don't do that.
There is.
And you're right.
We don't do that now.
And I think liberals are very, very good at it.
They pretend that their guy is done nothing wrong and they won't even talk about it where you should be able to look at, like, I can look at Obama and think he did something.
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I like my favorite thing is that he did.
He deported more people than Trump and Biden.
He was the deporter in chief.
People forget all the people.
He deported 3 million people.
Yes.
Like that was the best thing he did.
But the funny thing is there's no like checks and bails.
I was like, wait a minute.
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Yeah.
No, but I mean, there's no, also no arguing with it.
This is fun because I talk about this, but like engaging online is just a dog fight.
No, you can't listen.
We're skimming through things that doesn't make sense to some people.
It might make sense and that's fine, but we're, we're saying our part and how ridiculous when you have an actress, that's a billionaire that says, I, there's nothing I can do.
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I was, I was a permanent, um, resident for 45, almost 50 years.
Right.
And I felt American.
The only difference, I didn't have my citizenship and I got it in 2017 or 19, 2019.
I'm sorry, 2019.
I became an American citizen and it's the most proud that I've ever been to go through this process.
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And to tell me that someone can come over with a criminal record, bringing drugs to our country, the country that my parents took two little kids on a boat, came over here with nothing and tried to live the American dream, which we succeeded.
And you're going to allow chaos on our streets when there's real people that need to come here for the American dream.
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Yeah.
The people that let them come the right way and let them build what America is all about.
I'm an immigrant.
I came here from another country.
This was my third country in five years.
My third language that I was living under.
And I understood.
And yes, I didn't come from, you know, the countries that are coming from now, but back then they were the, we were not liked.
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We were, we were, we were still immigrants coming here, not speaking English.
We felt all that.
Yep.
Absolutely.
So I don't have anything wrong with immigration.
No, I encourage immigration.
America is immigration.
What I think is interesting.
And this is an example of it.
There are complex problems and there are simple problems.
And this is really a simple problem, but we talk about it a lot because it is a polarizing issue, right?
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The news likes to cover it and politicians like to talk about it and they don't like to solve it because it's easy to talk about.
It's polarizing and it continues.
Yeah.
You can't stop something because then the rate, the really complex show, the really complex problems nobody talks about, but this is a simple one and we like to talk about it.
It's not super simple.
There are steps that have to be taken, but I think there are common sense things happening right now that are good.
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And Selena Gomez just take some acting lessons and use that anger when you're acting.
Yeah.
She is.
I'm telling you, that's why I'm telling you like this.
It absolutely was sincere because there's no way she could, Meryl Streep couldn't have pulled off a performance like that.
And she can't believe she honestly feels that way about her people.
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Honestly, you don't think this is a, a work.
Look, there is, it doesn't mean just because it doesn't make sense doesn't mean they don't convince themselves of it.
And, and that's, and that, that generation are very good at that.
But anyhow, so that is going to be our new segment where I say me perhaps unpopular things.
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So we want your, we want your opinions on, I'm warning you.
Just leave me alone.
Just leave me alone.
Frank around and find out Frank around.
That's my favorite.
Frank around and find out.
Cause there are a lot of interesting things that, that, that we could, we'll be able to dive into.
Yeah.
It's a little bit off the baby.
Yeah.
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Baby.
This stuff affects.
Look, I think about that stuff all the time.
You're going to be raising a child.
My, my kid is going to face these challenges.
She's going to be interested in these people who are popular that are idiots.
And I have to find a way to help her navigate that too.
You can appreciate the talent, the musical talent or the performance talent or the dance moves, but these are not smart people.
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That's, that's the thing.
Now that getting back to raising a family, the scary thing about social media, these people that are famous on social media, influencers, thank you.
Influencers, their power holds, their words hold so much with these young people, man.
It's scary.
It's so scary.
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And I'm telling you right now, and I have, I believe I have some wise children and still, you can see them in there, like being influenced by these people, but they're smart enough because the way we raise them, that they don't follow it through.
But it's so tough when you see these, like, Oh, you have to, this guy is this and that.
And I'm like, Whoa, you know, hold on.
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Do not give them any power.
I think that's the only antidote for that because it's true the way it's delivered and how, how much access they have to to kids.
I think the approach that I want to try to take is to teach them to ask questions.
That's one thing that like that we've talked about with Kelly.
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Kelly has a conversational style that immediately she challenges stuff.
She enjoys taking the counterpoint and she's good at it and cultivating that in a kid.
Cause when you hear the stuff, you're like, yeah, that makes sense.
Sometimes I'll hear something.
I'll be like, I'll question myself and be like, really, I wonder if this is true.
And then a little bit of digging and a little bit of questioning and you see, you get context and you understand, then things come into focus.
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It's scary, but it is, it is.
But part of what we have to look forward to, well, the parenting aspect, that's when, that's when you come in to play your contribution to your child.
You're molding them.
What, you know, you're allowing them to understand and believe and is all going to be very important because there's going to be elements of other things trying to teach them as well, pulling them in different directions.
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100%.
That's true.
So we can now move on to, and there's a lot of that.
We had some fun stuff to talk about this week, but we'll move into what just happened.
All right.
So one of the fun things, I don't know if that's fun, but it was a good thing.
We have, typically we go to mass on Sunday and then we go to Wegmans and we get groceries together.
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Beautiful.
And the last few times Kelly will need a break.
Usually by the time we get to around the pharmacy in the middle of the, she just needs a coffee break.
Yeah.
And so she needs a little stop this time.
Now little Josie has changed position and has moved down a little bit.
And that I think is allowing her to move around a little bit better.
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She, Kelly calls it her waddle or her duck walk.
Sometimes we'll talk when she's on her way to work and then she's like, okay, I have to waddle across the street and she gets to work.
So the baby shifting a little and has made it possible.
So we had our first visit to Wegmans with no, with no pit stops.
So that was nice.
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And then we have continued with the childbirth videos.
Yes, we were getting to that.
I have to say they ended much, much stronger.
The beginning, not great, but then the examples that they went through.
Now the woman, the facilitator, boring from start to finish, but the content was better and we kind of cranked through and we, and then at the end we printed up all these little handouts and stuff so that we have stuff to review.
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But we, we got all those papers and burned them.
Well, honestly, I should show you, I thought about making that a segment.
I was going to have Carlo read.
Oh God.
There's like these one page documents with like six little pictograms of things you can say things for the birthing person that I hated that about this too.
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They don't say mothers, of course, no birthing person.
Cause it could be a guy named Chuck.
Right.
Chuck could be having the baby.
Yes.
So it was like six things that it was things that the mother should like self-talk like reinforcing.
Beautiful.
This pain will give me the most beautiful thing in my life.
Oh, stop.
Things like that.
I was going to have you read them.
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Oh God.
Do a dramatic reading.
We could do that in the future, but it was just ridiculous nonsense.
But they did cover, they also covered the things in the last few classes that you really have to be aware of as, as the birth gets closer and more signs, the Braxton Hicks contractions and to the, the warning signs, which I, they talk about preeclampsia.
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And do you remember?
So I don't recall that.
So that's one of those things essentially means it's the onset.
It's a high blood pressure condition that can indicate the onset of stroke or seizure.
Oh, okay.
So it's very, very bad.
If that happens, you got to be very careful.
They talked a lot about that and all of the warning signs, but basically the warning signs are kind of all internal and they're directing it at both of us.
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And the only thing I could watch for is like facial swelling and Kelly's, you know, Kelly's face, you would never know she's pregnant.
So I, I have to keep an eye on if she all of a sudden blows up.
Like you would know I would notice that's not, and I'll be ready.
Right.
But yeah.
So I think overall it was a good experience.
And then we have coming up now the next level, which is our real thing.
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Well, that's coming soon is the hospital, the hospital tour.
Yes.
So now what hospital?
Yeah.
What hospital community?
I believe.
Okay.
Is that the one out now?
Yes.
Far away.
Far away.
So we're doing St. Joe's.
Okay.
So we're going there.
That's got new addition.
I believe the baby or this will be the first time I paid attention at the hospital.
I'll be like, this will be fun.
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So yeah.
So we get to go do that.
I guess pick out our suite.
Yeah.
They'll explain to you all the setup and what room where to crash the car as you park.
It is so crazy though.
It brings me back to that moment of with my first of not knowing what the heck's going on.
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And you go there and the crazy thing is you go there with your wife and I know everybody says this and then you come back and there's another human that wasn't there, but it was always there.
Like I always say to you, the baby's in the room with you, but it's really, you know, it's like, you can't touch it.
Can't feel it.
Can't see the face.
And then eventually there it is.
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Yeah.
They say that that's the way hospitals work at the beginning of life.
And at the end of life, you go in and two people go in and three come out in the beginning and two people go in and one comes out.
But it brings me back to that moment of like, Oh my God, it's happening.
Oh my God, it's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
I'm going to see this baby.
Yeah.
Cause eventually, I mean, I know you probably didn't, but you're going to get to a point where I just want to see you.
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I want to see your face.
I want to hold your hands.
I want to, you know, you're going to get to that right now.
You're probably getting there.
Oh yeah.
I think Kelly Kelly definitely is.
Yeah.
And I think that moment when you're, when you know it's going to happen either that day or tomorrow morning or whatever, it becomes so real and emotional and you're like, Oh my God, I'm actually going to see it.
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And in my case, I didn't know if it was a male or female.
So I was like, I was playing all these things in my mind.
Like it's a good little girl.
I'm going to have a little daughter or if I'm a boy and we can Buffalo bills.
And not that I couldn't do that with my daughter, but you know, you go through all this stuff and that just added more anxiety and excitement.
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And it's so cool though, that you get to bring this child home and it's yours.
And everything you thought of forever.
Cause I know you, I've known you forever now and you've always, you know, I always thought very highly of having a family and children and, and now you, you're there.
It's so close.
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And now it's there.
It's there.
You can squeeze it and kiss it and love it.
Oh my God.
It's the best time.
God bless you.
Enjoy it.
I can't wait to see the baby.
I'm going to try.
I'm, I'm very excited for it.
We did, I did do a one, a first thing that in preparation, as, as you guys know, we had one shower, we're waiting.
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The next shower is coming up.
I'm sorry.
I thought you were talking about a shower, like in your hospital.
How would they know you have one shower and you have more than one shower?
We do.
I'm at the baby shower.
So we had Kelly's first baby shower in Buffalo where I have the Syracuse version coming up that my sister is hosting.
And, but you know, from the first one and from other people, just, we've gotten tons of baby clothes and all the stuff.
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So this was the first time I'm the laundry guy in our household.
So I always, I do the laundry.
So I got to do baby stuff in the laundry for the first time.
And I was like, now I have a good, like, I'm good at laundry.
I have a very good system fold.
I fold very nicely and neatly.
When Kelly tries to help, I make her stand down because she does not do it right.
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It's not right.
So, but this stuff is all like, what do you like?
What do you do with it?
I just let Kelly, I'm like, okay, show me.
Right.
What are you?
She rolled lots of stuff to save space, I guess.
I don't know.
Cause it's not going on hangers.
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But that was fun.
So I got to do my first load of baby laundry.
That was fun.
We did that.
We also, I didn't, I shouldn't say we, Kelly got her thank you notes done from the first shower.
So she wanted, she was very important to her to have them done before the next shower.
She doesn't want to get behind.
The other important thing that we did, which I'm excited about was we, first of all, I was excited because I got to build a spreadsheet to figure out the timing of how long Kelly will be out, which will then inform how long I'll be out.
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So I, we figured out, so I got to keep, I like, I keep getting out of your house.
No, no, no.
How much time away from work.
So she had, so she basically told me how many hours of maternity leave and how many hours of saved up time that she has.
And then we tried different models right out for out for 12 weeks and then go back two days a week and then go up to three.
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So we worked out a whole system that basically it's going to be nice.
She won't have to return to work full time until like the first week of January, January.
Oh yeah.
Cause baby's coming in March.
Right.
So the next year, the next year.
So she'll be able to take, it's going to be nice.
She'll be able to go to all,
you think all the way to like June or July off and then go back two days a week for a couple weeks
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and then three days a week for like a month and then four days, four days a week for, or no,
three days a week for a long time for a couple months, two, three months, and then go back to
four days a week for a couple of weeks before ramping all the way back up to five, five days
a week.
So yeah, so, but it was, and we worked all that out.
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So then now I can figure out, I don't have as much time as she does.
She has, she has a ton of time banked.
But so I won't be able to take as much, but I think I'm going to, at the very least, I'll be able to have, I think I'm going to take one full month of no work and then I might go, might go back one day a week for a few weeks and then, but I'll, I'll be back back at it pretty, uh, pretty soon.
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You know, probably by the end of the summer.
Are you traveling as much now?
Not really right now, but I'm at the point now with some of the projects that we're working on that I will have to start to travel a little bit.
I was able to work in when we went to my brothers in Nashville for Thanksgiving.
I paired it with some business stuff.
So we're looking around for new locations and that might require some travel.
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And that's going to be the new thing too, that you obviously lived all this life that you didn't have to put that thought in.
Now you have to be like, Oh, I have to plan time.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean, before you're like, okay, this is my job.
I got to go away.
You're an adult.
You can stay alone.
Now it's like, wait a minute.
I have to, there's a, yeah, there's a, there's a system.
There's got to be system in place.
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Yeah.
The closest thing I ever had to that was when I was single and had a dog and you would come over, like I would be forgotten for an overnight and you'd go, you'd stop over and take care of my dog.
So yeah.
So no, yeah.
Different kind of a little more important.
Right.
But that's like, you have to like, yeah, I got to think about that stuff.
Your life now has to be that at all times thought process.
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Like, Oh, I just can't pick up and go.
Well, I'll take a week off.
I'll travel though.
You know, cause now, you know, like, and then you'll start feeling bad.
You obviously want to see your own child.
Then you're thinking of your wife or she's thinking of you.
And that's tough too though.
That's tough.
Luckily, I think I'm, I mean, I think it's going to be good.
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Yeah.
I'm very structured and I like planning out that way.
And I like being in a particular, like a predictable rhythm.
So I, I, I think we'll be, we're going to be in good shape.
The best thing that I was allowed to do was, and I think this all the time, my mom would raise our kids.
Right.
I mean, uh, my, my, uh, my brother's kids.
And then when I had kids, um, my mom, like just bring them here, go to work, get your life going.
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Right.
I mean, that's the, and of course it was the best gift to anybody where your kids can be brought up by your parents.
But then my mom was getting a little older and it was tough, you know, it's and lucky enough, my wife got a really nice promotion.
Yeah.
And at that time where she was getting her promotion kind of overrode what I was making a year and my mom was getting older.
(50:46):
And now the school, my son was getting old enough to figure out the school he would have to go to.
So do we keep them at my mom's and go to a different school or do we keep them across the street from our house where the school district is?
And I was lucky enough and we were lucky enough for my wife said, you know, why don't you just stay home?
I got this promotion and your mom's getting a little older.
(51:09):
Your dad's getting a little older.
And I was able to raise, I was a stayed home dad.
Yeah.
And let me tell you, my friend, it was the best, absolute best job I've ever had.
Wasn't a job was my life, but it's people, it is a job.
It was the best way to know my family, my, to get to know my kids.
(51:32):
And, and, and I think that's why me and my kids have such a tight bond because I was there every now and then I was, we would go to the baseball games.
We'd go to the school things.
I would be, and it was the best job.
I have a pretty cool job now.
I have a really cool job.
And I'm telling you right now, when I was a stayed home dad.
(51:52):
You still work with toddlers.
Just emotional, emotionally.
We're all just like running around screaming like Selena Gomez.
And I'll tell you right now, I wouldn't give it up for the world.
What I did.
Yeah.
That was the best job.
Honestly, I think about, I think about that, especially with the idea of potentially homeschool that for me, I love what I do, but we could, we could do that.
(52:23):
Even if it's for that years of before school, you know, whatever you decide with that, that five years, six years in my kids till this day go, Hey dad, remember every day you would pick me up and we would have our, we'd have our slice of pizza.
He would have a slice of pizza and a chocolate milk.
And dad, you would have a cup of coffee.
(52:43):
We'd go to our friend's place and it was a daily thing.
And he still talks about, he still has his memory, him and his dad.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Well, you never know.
You never know.
So if anybody's out there doing it, man, God bless you.
It's the best job you'll ever have.
Any stay at home pair, anybody who has the opportunity to be a stay at home parent, mom or dad, I don't know why you wouldn't do it.
(53:09):
I don't know why you wouldn't love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
So we worked out the timing stuff.
I think that that was a good thing.
And that adds to the excitement.
I have to admit, this has been interesting with Kelly.
Now she's been doing a great job since the gestational diabetes diagnosis.
(53:30):
She has got her, her diet is on point, but she's said a couple of things and it made me think, and then we talked about it a little bit.
One day she's like, she started planning her first meal after the baby's born.
She's like, I want to have a Reuben sandwich and this.
And I'm like, cause she can't, that's hilarious.
But I think when I get out of jail, my first thing is a steak, but we're talking about it and I'm thinking about it.
(53:55):
And it's interesting because as we've said, we talk about food a lot on the podcast.
She has not, she does not have that relationship with food.
Yes.
But for the first time in my, my lovely wife's life, she has had to think about what she's eating cause she's thin.
She doesn't like sweets.
(54:16):
Not that she doesn't like them, but she's not like, like she doesn't die for cookies like I do.
So she's never, so she's always been thin and has never had to worry about that.
And now, yeah, I know.
But now for the first time, she's having to think about that.
She even said the other day, she's like, I kind of understand you better now.
(54:39):
Like I'm laughing, but mine is because my, because when my parents would fight, when I was a kid, my sisters would put a cake in front of me to try to keep me happy.
It was, and I know I'm going to get, there'll be multiple.
I was wrong from just that.
It was a pie from my, from my sisters.
But that, you know, that's what it is.
(55:00):
But she, she didn't have any of this.
She's like, I started to understand.
It's that, it's that scarcity mentality.
Once you can't have it, you want to, you know, but yeah, she's never had to think about like, I don't, I'm sure she's never been on a diet as you're talking about, as you're talking right now, I'm thinking about food.
That's how bad everything you're saying is like thinking we should have more food on this podcast.
(55:26):
You're bringing up great points.
By 2026, it'll just be a cookie.
You said Ruben screwed my whole cooking show.
Yeah.
So this is yet another way that the pregnancy has brought us closer.
She's like, no, I understand why you love cookies.
Oh, that's so funny.
So I thought that that is great.
She's planning out her first.
You ever hear when people like, obviously when they're pregnant, the woman can't have a drink, you know, you drink it off.
(55:51):
And they're always like, I'm the minute I'm this, that I'm going to have a martini or I'm going to Oh my God.
So funny.
But she's like, I'm going to have that Ruben.
Yeah, I'm going to have that.
I'll take a Ruben too.
Cause she, that's one of the things I do think that she does miss that because she hasn't had any cold cuts since the beginning.
Like before any of the gestational diabetes stuff, there's no soft cheeses, none of that stuff.
(56:15):
So, but I'm very proud of her.
She's not a cooking show.
We could just tear into something else.
That's it.
Then we would have the kitchen Island instead of a desk there.
Ah, I think we just figured out our new setting.
Next time on the gray hair daycare podcast, it'll be eating with the boys.
It'll be reclam.
We'll just have baby Josie on the chair and watch propped up, you know, so that there was that the diet stuff I thought was interesting.
(56:42):
Now this is another, obviously with my lovely wife we've talked about in the past, her humor.
Okay.
I have to say, this interaction I had with my wife is a whole other level.
And my estimation, she has graduated to a different tier of comedy.
Okay.
So as we often are, she's over here, I'm editing and in YouTube, it will give you part of the studio there.
(57:11):
You just click on this one page and it gives you ideas.
So it basically somehow with using AI looks at what you talk about, looks at what you do and it looks at what's going on in the world and it gives you suggestions for videos that your viewers might engage with.
Okay.
So one of the ideas was nursery design hacks on a budget.
(57:32):
So like, so designing the nursery, I could do a video about that.
And like that, not with it.
She didn't stop and think she didn't say immediate response was you could do that.
Give your wife carte blanche to design the nursery and then don't do any of it.
I was like, first of all, ouch.
(57:56):
Yeah.
Second of all that I, I, I laughed so hard when she said that.
Yeah.
Design on a budget.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Give your wife carte blanche to design and then don't do it.
Don't do it.
I thought, wow.
But I do think, and I do think I may be in trouble.
Yeah.
Because there's always a nugget in all great comedy.
(58:17):
There is a nugget of truth.
Truth is in there.
And I have to admit with this, I've had a cold and the sinus infection, the stuff going on and I have, I have been, I'm usually fairly highly productive.
And then with that stuff happening, productivity has come down and then learning all the stuff with the podcast.
(58:38):
We started a podcast in the middle of it's a lot.
It's a lot of work.
I've gotten better with the amount of time that I have to spend on it.
But obviously I think I need to, I need to be on point.
I got to get in that nursery and get it.
I've been saying this for four weeks now.
Have you started the route?
Remember?
Nope.
I haven't even opened the box with the light fixtures in it, but I don't think it will be.
(59:00):
I'll think about that.
I got, I have some good ideas about what we're going to do.
We've ordered some coloring books, which I'm going to use for me.
You can color in the corner.
That's for me.
I think I have a good idea for a process of how I'm going to do the walls.
I'm a theme.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We have the theme and I think I will.
I'll, I'll record some of the work.
(59:21):
I can figure out how to do one of those time-lapse things where I'm running around with my hair, all messy content.
That's what we need is content.
This baby is content.
Yes.
So I'm going to get on the stick.
I promise, honey, I promise all to our producer to my executive producer that that room will be done.
(59:41):
I had a, I have a picture I may include at some point and it's a, it's a picture of Kelly and Watson because Watson, as big as he is, gets on her lap the other day when I came over, that's right.
In that chair, you don't see her at all.
It's just her legs and I'm like, I should put that on the podcast.
(01:00:01):
I'm still interested to see how these animals react when the baby comes home.
You know, that's the one, something that I forgot.
I try very hard to capture all the stuff that happens that might be fun to talk about, but we talked when I did my multiple book reviews about the dog stuff there, we have the one with the sounds and Kelly started playing the sounds the other day quietly and nobody cared.
(01:00:29):
Baby sounds crying, little noises.
Now we need to increase the volume and try it more and more, but I'm pretty sure unless little Josie sounds like a Liberty mutual commercial or it looks like a deer.
Yeah.
Have you, this might sound so crazy.
Have, has any of you tried to do the sound and holding that fake baby doll and walk around with it and see if the dogs do anything?
(01:00:54):
No, that's one of those things that I think the only good reason for having bought that was to have you try it on.
It was just for that has sat there.
The baby has not been touched the little baby doll.
I would walk in with this and see what the dogs even do because it's going to happen real soon.
We're trying to let them like leave some of the like little toys and books and stuff around so that if they approach and they're interested, they can be interested, but they can't touch it.
(01:01:19):
And I think they're going to do okay.
I'll be fine.
But yeah, so I need to get out of the stick on my, uh, nursery plans.
Uh, we only got a few weeks left, even though in my mind I keep thinking we got the cradle babies can be with you.
We got the cradle wise that and the changing table are going to be in our bedroom and the cradle wise thing, you know, it'll be a lot, but I should have it done.
(01:01:41):
And once you get involved and I know you, you're just going to be all in, it's going to be awesome.
Yeah.
It's going to be just you thought about the podcast two days later, you had $10,000 worth of stuff.
I'm exaggerating, but you know what I mean?
You're going to be the same way in the room.
Okay.
I'm in I think it's fun.
(01:02:03):
Yeah, it is.
I enjoy, I enjoy doing DIY stuff.
It'll be, yeah, you're a handiest dude.
Yeah.
It'll be fun.
Well, anyway, you have made it to the end of yet another episode.
They did it.
They, you did it.
Congratulations.
We went through many different things.
You talked a lot about, about a lot of different things.
So with that, we will leave you and we will see you next time.
(01:02:27):
Thanks.
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.
We hope it was fun.
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And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed.
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