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- 0:01Speaker 1: From the front lines of The Mom Wars. Here's Bethany
- 0:04Speaker 1: Mandel and Kara Kennedy.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to another episode of your favorite new podcast.
- 0:12Speaker 2: This is the mom Wars. I am Bethany Mandel, one
- 0:16Speaker 2: of your co hosts. There's only two of us, and
- 0:18Speaker 2: it's very easy to tell us apart. I am a
- 0:21Speaker 2: mom of six. We homeschool, and I'm a freelance writer
- 0:25Speaker 2: places like The New York Post, the Washington Examiner, and
- 0:29Speaker 2: that's basically it. I am joined by.
- 0:32Speaker 3: Car Kennedy, mom of one.
- 0:36Speaker 2: And wait, what you're just gonna say it? I was
- 0:43Speaker 2: gonna I did the end as like a like a
- 0:45Speaker 2: professional thing.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Well I am, let's just saying because you know I
- 0:51Speaker 3: love it. Well, so, my mother in law, my late
- 0:54Speaker 3: mother in law, had like a very good take on
- 0:57Speaker 3: the fact that like people keep a secret for twelve
- 1:00Speaker 3: weeks and she's just like, this is what makes miscarriage
- 1:03Speaker 3: so not discuss like under discussed. Yeah, and babies and
- 1:09Speaker 3: babies and we should celebrate them like from the beginning.
- 1:11Speaker 3: What And also, I'm just I can't hide it. I
- 1:14Speaker 3: am already told. When my grandmother put her on Facebook,
- 1:22Speaker 3: I know, I know, I was three weeks pregnant when
- 1:25Speaker 3: my grandmother put her on Facebook.
- 1:27Speaker 2: So so in my group chat of ladies. So I
- 1:31Speaker 2: used to have a podcast on Ricochet called lady Brains.
- 1:34Speaker 2: It's all of those ladies. We use someone's name as
- 1:38Speaker 2: a verb for when they tell someone else's news prematurely.
- 1:43Speaker 2: And I won't use that person's name here, but that's
- 1:46Speaker 2: what happened to you.
- 1:47Speaker 3: Oh wait, who is it now I'm talking.
- 1:50Speaker 2: I don't want to this person I have because it's
- 1:55Speaker 2: like a unique name and a lot of people will know.
- 1:57Speaker 3: Who I'll say. I kind of am that person, though,
- 1:59Speaker 3: I mean to me with pregnancy, because so many of
- 2:02Speaker 3: my friends, like, really, I think it's like an Instagram
- 2:05Speaker 3: brain thing where you don't tell anybody until twelve weeks, honestly,
- 2:09Speaker 3: mainly so you can like get the perfect shot. You
- 2:12Speaker 3: can like hire photographers and the order, like the embroidered stuff,
- 2:19Speaker 3: you know. I feel like it's more to do with
- 2:20Speaker 3: that than honestly anything else. And I'm kind of the
- 2:24Speaker 3: one that's just like, yeah, kay, it's pregnant, or like
- 2:26Speaker 3: so and so is pregnant.
- 2:29Speaker 2: So I waited later and later to tell people because
- 2:34Speaker 2: people got more and more judgmentals kids, and so I
- 2:40Speaker 2: didn't say it for a long time with a lot
- 2:43Speaker 2: of them, like five six months with most of them,
- 2:46Speaker 2: because I was just like I don't want to hear it. Yeah,
- 2:48Speaker 2: I didn't even tell my family. Towards the last ones.
- 2:50Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, that's crazy. I mean I can
- 2:53Speaker 3: see why though, And it also just like it kind
- 2:56Speaker 3: of becomes less of big deal with each kid. I like,
- 2:59Speaker 3: I don't know, it's like it's just it's not the
- 3:02Speaker 3: first time again, you.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Know, So do you feel embarrassed? This is a kind
- 3:08Speaker 2: of a weird question. I felt like a teen mom.
- 3:12Speaker 2: And I also was like, now everyone knows what we
- 3:15Speaker 2: do when we told when we told Seth's uncle when
- 3:21Speaker 2: we were pregnant with one of them, because our kids
- 3:24Speaker 2: are all very close together and age, She's like, how
- 3:26Speaker 2: do you have time? And I was like, that's not
- 3:27Speaker 2: a question I want to answer.
- 3:30Speaker 3: I will say so when my mother came on holiday
- 3:34Speaker 3: with us, I knew I was gonna opulate, so I
- 3:38Speaker 3: kind of sasted it down before and we're like, h
- 3:42Speaker 3: might try and make a baby or this trip is
- 3:44Speaker 3: that okay? And she was like, hmm, I don't really
- 3:47Speaker 3: want to know until like it's done. I don't want
- 3:50Speaker 3: to be pre warned because that I'm just gonna wonder.
- 3:53Speaker 3: But it's done now, I guess. I was also on
- 3:57Speaker 3: FaceTime with her when I found out, because it was
- 3:59Speaker 3: like it was like ridiculously at least to do a test,
- 4:02Speaker 3: like I hadn't even missed a period yet, and I
- 4:04Speaker 3: was on FaceTime her. She was like with my grandfather
- 4:07Speaker 3: as well, like and she was like, oh, just do it,
- 4:08Speaker 3: just do It'll be so fun So like the freak
- 4:10Speaker 3: paid on a stick on face expected it to come
- 4:15Speaker 3: up like inconclusive or negative. And then I looked at
- 4:18Speaker 3: it time, I say, and I was like, oh.
- 4:22Speaker 2: So this is not a conversation we perhaps should have
- 4:25Speaker 2: on the podcast, but I find that so fascinating. So
- 4:28Speaker 2: on the last episode, we talked about how I've never
- 4:30Speaker 2: been an adult with parents alive.
- 4:33Speaker 3: Yeah, and like they know what you do. Yeah, Yeah,
- 4:39Speaker 3: that's so weird. It's funny because my mother is a
- 4:42Speaker 3: huge crude as well. Like I know some people who
- 4:46Speaker 3: talk about sex or other kind of stuff like that
- 4:50Speaker 3: with their parents a lot, and I find it so weird.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Yeah I would have wed. Yeah, I think it's really odd.
- 4:58Speaker 3: But I'll mentioned like a couple of stuff there I give,
- 5:00Speaker 3: I'm trying to get pregnant or whatever, you know. So
- 5:02Speaker 3: I feel like there's a fine line, and I'm pretty
- 5:05Speaker 3: good with the boundaries.
- 5:07Speaker 2: I find that so interesting. Yeah, it was so deeply uncomfortable.
- 5:12Speaker 2: When Seth's uncle asked me how we have the time,
- 5:16Speaker 2: I just at that point that was I think our
- 5:21Speaker 2: third kid, and they were really close together in age,
- 5:25Speaker 2: and at that point I told Seth. I was like,
- 5:27Speaker 2: you will be the one that tells our family from
- 5:30Speaker 2: now on, and well, your family my family, I just
- 5:33Speaker 2: stopped telling. But like it's different because like I don't
- 5:35Speaker 2: have siblings, they don't have parents. Like my cousin texted
- 5:38Speaker 2: me with one of my kids, one of my later kids,
- 5:40Speaker 2: She's like, I had a dream you're pregnant. And I
- 5:42Speaker 2: was like, oh, funny, l I am. And that was
- 5:44Speaker 2: how I told her. But I just stopped telling my
- 5:47Speaker 2: family after a while because they were like, what are
- 5:50Speaker 2: you doing exactly? Is this gonna be like the duggers.
- 5:53Speaker 4: I will say, like, it's only when you've had a
- 5:58Speaker 4: kid that you do become more interested in like how
- 6:01Speaker 4: people have time, or like the specific time in between kids.
- 6:05Speaker 3: I know a few people who got pregnant exactly three
- 6:09Speaker 3: months after the kid was born.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Whoa.
- 6:12Speaker 3: And one of them was even born three months after
- 6:15Speaker 3: the mother had a C section and so, and like,
- 6:19Speaker 3: when you hear that and you don't have kids, you
- 6:20Speaker 3: don't really think about it a lot. But I remember
- 6:23Speaker 3: being three months postpass him when she told me that,
- 6:26Speaker 3: and I was like, that is crazy. You are crazy.
- 6:31Speaker 2: I the first this is so much information. This is
- 6:34Speaker 2: why it's good that our husbands don't listen to this
- 6:35Speaker 2: bad At the first kids, I was scared the first
- 6:42Speaker 2: couple of times, Like it's scary things are to tell
- 6:46Speaker 2: people no, no, no to like jump back in the arena.
- 6:50Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, I mean it depends if you tear
- 6:55Speaker 3: or not. I can imagine if.
- 6:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't tay. Just it's just scary at first.
- 7:01Speaker 3: Well, things are definitely different. I mean I have stretch
- 7:04Speaker 3: boks in places that I did not have stretch balks.
- 7:08Speaker 3: Nobody told me about that. Also hemorrhoids. Trying to say,
- 7:12Speaker 3: I mean, this is boy too, cm I, but that
- 7:15Speaker 3: has to.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Be the thing our poor, our poor podcast editors. Maybe
- 7:19Speaker 2: the only man who has to listen to the show.
- 7:21Speaker 3: He said last week that they was a lot of
- 7:23Speaker 3: breast so involved. Did you see the title? It's just
- 7:25Speaker 3: comed The title hemorrhoids is the one thing that I
- 7:30Speaker 3: swear not a single soul mentioned it to me before
- 7:34Speaker 3: I get it, and I was googled at what the
- 7:38Speaker 3: hell is wrong with me?
- 7:40Speaker 2: And then so it dovetails nicely into my fear and
- 7:44Speaker 2: paranoid about colon cancer, because colon cancer is killing like
- 7:48Speaker 2: a lot of people of our generation that I do
- 7:51Speaker 2: not think is normal.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Isn't that the one that progresses like really really quick people.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't know until you're basically did. And
- 7:59Speaker 2: so having hemorrhoids and being terrified of colon cancer is
- 8:03Speaker 2: not a good combo. Yeah, zero stars do not recommend.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I can talk about hamoids old day.
- 8:11Speaker 3: I have so many hamroids stories.
- 8:13Speaker 2: So let's let's shift gears for a moment from hemorrhoids
- 8:18Speaker 2: to our second lady, shall we. Right, there's no there's
- 8:25Speaker 2: no easy way to do this.
- 8:26Speaker 3: So it's not just going to cut off.
- 8:29Speaker 2: So I got mad at Seth on Sunday because so
- 8:34Speaker 2: we went to it was like ninety three, ninety four,
- 8:37Speaker 2: ninety five degrees, So we needed something indoors and I
- 8:40Speaker 2: don't feel like we do enough as a whole family
- 8:42Speaker 2: out of the house. And so a couple of months
- 8:45Speaker 2: ago I flew into Dulls and I was like, oh wow,
- 8:50Speaker 2: that that Aaron Space thing. I've seen so many people
- 8:52Speaker 2: post pictures of it. It's so close to Dullas we
- 8:54Speaker 2: should go, And so I've had it in the back. No,
- 8:58Speaker 2: not to the one year Dallas Radibal.
- 9:00Speaker 3: Wait. I have lived in the US for two years
- 9:02Speaker 3: and I've been maybe twenty five times. I'm not even kidding.
- 9:04Speaker 2: One near Well you live closer, yeah the dah Yeah,
- 9:09Speaker 2: but you live closer right, yeah, Yeah, it's like fifty
- 9:13Speaker 2: it's like fifty minutes from us.
- 9:15Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fun.
- 9:16Speaker 2: Yeah, So we went. Finally, my younger two boys, who
- 9:19Speaker 2: are almost four and two years old two and a half,
- 9:23Speaker 2: are obsessed with rockets and airplanes, so like duh, we
- 9:26Speaker 2: had to go.
- 9:27Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 9:28Speaker 2: So we walked through for like an hour and a half,
- 9:31Speaker 2: had a super duper duper fun time, and we sat
- 9:34Speaker 2: down all eight of us in the booth because they're
- 9:37Speaker 2: six children and two parents and we're stuffed in and
- 9:41Speaker 2: giving the kid snacks and seth Lee's over and he's like,
- 9:43Speaker 2: doesn't that woman look like Usha Vans at the checkout?
- 9:47Speaker 2: And I turned around and he didn't believe it was her,
- 9:51Speaker 2: and because she's like alone with three kids who are
- 9:54Speaker 2: at a table on the other side of the room,
- 9:56Speaker 2: and she's like she ran up to the self checkout
- 9:59Speaker 2: to like get some waters for them. And I looked
- 10:02Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah, that's Usha. That is Usha,
- 10:07Speaker 2: and so I immediately was like I'm going to shoot
- 10:09Speaker 2: my shot. And I jumped up and I was like, hey, hey, hey, there, Usha, Hey,
- 10:14Speaker 2: and she looked at me and she's like very nervous.
- 10:17Speaker 2: She didn't really want to make eye contact with me.
- 10:19Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, it's cool, it's cool. Were good? Were good?
- 10:22Speaker 2: And she just went on Megan McCain's podcast and it
- 10:25Speaker 2: was in a great episode and I really recommend people
- 10:27Speaker 2: go listen to it. And I listened to it, and
- 10:30Speaker 2: so I was like, I'm friends with Megan. It was
- 10:32Speaker 2: a great and I didn't want to be like, your
- 10:34Speaker 2: husband follows me on Twitter, but like, your husband does
- 10:36Speaker 2: follow me on Twitter? Yeah, like years. Actually, yeah, I'm
- 10:43Speaker 2: a big fan since like hillbili Elogy days before he
- 10:48Speaker 2: was even like political in any way, So I just
- 10:53Speaker 2: I name dropped Meghan. I was like, I'm friends with Megan.
- 10:56Speaker 2: It was a great show. Love love you, and she's
- 10:59Speaker 2: and she was clearly like flustered, and she's like I
- 11:02Speaker 2: have to get back to my kid. I'm like, totally understand.
- 11:04Speaker 2: I have six over there. You're good. I love you.
- 11:06Speaker 2: And as we were walking away, I was like, bt, dubs,
- 11:09Speaker 2: my kids are all doing your reading challenge, which most
- 11:11Speaker 2: of them are. Actually, my oldest daughter is reading Jake
- 11:15Speaker 2: Tapper's book right now. Actually, oh my god, that's hilarious,
- 11:21Speaker 2: enjoying it very much. But it was funny because she
- 11:23Speaker 2: asked me. She's like, mommy, what's an eight? What's AIDS?
- 11:27Speaker 2: And I was like, well, it's a very sad virus.
- 11:30Speaker 2: And I started getting into this whole thing. She's like, no,
- 11:32Speaker 2: it's not. Like yeah, it's a really sad virus. And
- 11:37Speaker 2: was like, honey, your mom's brain goes to a dark
- 11:40Speaker 2: place sometimes. Can you show me the word? And she
- 11:43Speaker 2: pointed the word and it's like Biden's AIDS and I
- 11:45Speaker 2: was like, oh, that's just the people that have him. Sorry,
- 11:49Speaker 2: my mind goes to death instead of someone.
- 11:53Speaker 3: The wait, hang on, what is Usha Vance's Breeden.
- 11:57Speaker 2: Oh so it's cute. So if you google like Second
- 12:00Speaker 2: Lady Reading challenge for kids that are in like K
- 12:03Speaker 2: through twelve, if they read ten books in the summer,
- 12:06Speaker 2: which like my kids like filled out all ten already
- 12:09Speaker 2: and I just have to honestly put it in the mail,
- 12:11Speaker 2: they get a prize, which I'm really kicking myself for
- 12:14Speaker 2: not asking her what's the freaking prize? My kids are
- 12:16Speaker 2: dying to know. I thought that's crude, I know, And
- 12:19Speaker 2: you get like entered to win a tour of the
- 12:22Speaker 2: White House.
- 12:23Speaker 3: Oh nice, Yeah, we're done. Who I have?
- 12:27Speaker 2: So I tweeted him and I was, I like did
- 12:30Speaker 2: like a whole little, you know, tweet thing saying I
- 12:32Speaker 2: saw her, she was alone, and like obviously she was alone,
- 12:35Speaker 2: obviously there were secret Service there, but they weren't helping her,
- 12:38Speaker 2: Like she's she's solo helping those three kids, who, by
- 12:42Speaker 2: the way, were dressed as astronauts and an Air Force pilot.
- 12:46Speaker 2: I'm so cute, Yeah I have. I'm basically it's so cute.
- 12:51Speaker 2: I'm basically a stalker. Like I write about them all
- 12:54Speaker 2: the time. People send me pictures of them all the time,
- 12:57Speaker 2: and like to see it in the flesh in like
- 13:01Speaker 2: in the wild.
- 13:02Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 13:03Speaker 2: Oh they are totals normal, totally delightful, normal family. Like
- 13:08Speaker 2: she's just getting her kids lunch and like throwing out
- 13:13Speaker 2: waters and she like, I mean she could have people
- 13:15Speaker 2: helping her.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Yeah she didn't.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just her mom there with three kids alone.
- 13:20Speaker 2: And I was like, you go girl, Yeah, I love you.
- 13:23Speaker 3: What a fun place to take the kids to as well.
- 13:25Speaker 3: I love that. What was your favorite plane that me
- 13:29Speaker 3: and Nick often talked about our favorite planes?
- 13:31Speaker 2: Really, that's so cute. I had no favorite plane. It
- 13:35Speaker 2: was neat for us to see the discovery. We so
- 13:38Speaker 2: we went to the regular Air and Space pretty recently,
- 13:41Speaker 2: we go there, like we've done that like five or
- 13:43Speaker 2: six times. Yeah, and we had Every time we go,
- 13:46Speaker 2: we have a very long conversation about Apollo thirteen. Have
- 13:49Speaker 2: you ever seen the movie Apollo thirteen with Tom Hanks.
- 13:52Speaker 3: I have a hilarious story about this. So I watched
- 13:56Speaker 3: Apollo thirteen and I was the only person ever watch
- 14:00Speaker 3: it to not know how it ends. I'm not joking. Wait,
- 14:07Speaker 3: he is the one that blew up right? Yeah?
- 14:09Speaker 2: Yeah they lived?
- 14:12Speaker 3: Did they Yeah?
- 14:13Speaker 2: Lived?
- 14:13Speaker 3: Yeah? They lived? Okay, But I didn't know anything about
- 14:17Speaker 3: Apollo thirteen, nothing at all, and I was so anxious
- 14:22Speaker 3: the whole time because it's like a high stress film. Yeah,
- 14:25Speaker 3: it is very hard, And I googled it twenty minutes
- 14:29Speaker 3: before it ended. And Nick was so furious with me,
- 14:32Speaker 3: first because I didn't know the story of Apollow thirteen,
- 14:36Speaker 3: and then second me because my gen z brain got
- 14:39Speaker 3: the better of me and I didn't finish it through
- 14:42Speaker 3: to find out.
- 14:43Speaker 2: So my third kid, Ultima is his like name. He
- 14:49Speaker 2: is a very nervous media watcher, and he is he
- 14:55Speaker 2: During Apollo thirteen, he was just pacing. Yeah, he couldn't.
- 14:58Speaker 2: He couldn't happen. That contract anxiety inducing for him. When
- 15:02Speaker 2: he was little, we went to Hershey Park, I guess
- 15:05Speaker 2: he was like four or five and they showed a
- 15:09Speaker 2: movie that was like Welcome to Hershey Park and he
- 15:12Speaker 2: got so scared. We had to seth had to walk
- 15:14Speaker 2: out with him. Oh that's that's who he is.
- 15:18Speaker 3: That's so cute.
- 15:20Speaker 2: He's such a like he's such a crazy, like tough kid.
- 15:26Speaker 2: I'm like habitually surprised when I'm like, oh right, you're
- 15:30Speaker 2: actually very sensitive to like movies and books and stuff.
- 15:33Speaker 2: The kids all really want to see Jurassic Park, and
- 15:36Speaker 2: I'm like, I can never show them. I can never
- 15:38Speaker 2: show him that movie. I can show the other ones
- 15:39Speaker 2: that movie.
- 15:40Speaker 3: I can never wait. Isn't that like twenty Jurassic Talks.
- 15:42Speaker 3: I've seen a couple of.
- 15:43Speaker 2: Them, Yeah, the first one We're Have you ever seen it?
- 15:49Speaker 3: I mean, Nick makes me watch so much stuff, I've
- 15:51Speaker 3: probably seen it.
- 15:52Speaker 2: So I remember that movie vividly. I was ten years
- 15:55Speaker 2: old and my mom My mom did not care for
- 15:59Speaker 2: like age mornings, Like she didn't care if someone was
- 16:02Speaker 2: something was marked like NC seventeen or whatever, like I
- 16:05Speaker 2: was not a sheltered child, and she brought me to
- 16:09Speaker 2: Jurassic Park and I got so I was ten years old.
- 16:12Speaker 2: I was so scared that I sat on the floor
- 16:16Speaker 2: of the of the movie theater with my hands over
- 16:19Speaker 2: my head and the floor is super sticky. I remember
- 16:23Speaker 2: it so vividly, and my mom was like, hey, you
- 16:26Speaker 2: okay down there.
- 16:26Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I'm just more comfortable down here. Thanks,
- 16:28Speaker 3: I'm good.
- 16:30Speaker 2: So that's always what I think of when I think
- 16:31Speaker 2: of Jurassic Park. No, but that is a really scary movie,
- 16:34Speaker 2: and I don't think I can never show him. I
- 16:36Speaker 2: think he'll have to go to college never having seen
- 16:38Speaker 2: Jurassic Park.
- 16:39Speaker 3: What about like scary scary films? Does he like like stuff? Mom,
- 16:43Speaker 3: you said it's like scary films?
- 16:45Speaker 2: Oh? Never, I mean everything scares him?
- 16:47Speaker 3: Yeah, next doesn't like very films.
- 16:50Speaker 2: I don't like them either. I don't see the point.
- 16:52Speaker 2: I also don't see the point in shows or movies
- 16:54Speaker 2: that make me cry. Why do I want to cry?
- 16:58Speaker 2: Like just gratuitously cry. I felt like that Mandy Moore
- 17:02Speaker 2: show This is Us. It just was trying to make
- 17:05Speaker 2: me cry.
- 17:06Speaker 3: Actually week that wait, I cry over anything. So it's
- 17:11Speaker 3: kind of hard to separate what is created in order
- 17:17Speaker 3: to make me cry and what I've just cried at
- 17:20Speaker 3: because I just cry all the time.
- 17:22Speaker 2: So seth, I'm not that person, which is why I
- 17:25Speaker 2: don't like when I feel like I'm being forced to
- 17:28Speaker 2: do it, which is why I stopped watching This is Us.
- 17:31Speaker 2: But it was funny when I was pregnant with our
- 17:33Speaker 2: oldest so we used to be really big fans of
- 17:35Speaker 2: bar Rescue. Have you ever heard of this show? That's
- 17:39Speaker 2: exactly what it sounds like this John Taffer goes in
- 17:41Speaker 2: and rescues bars that are like about.
- 17:43Speaker 3: To fail bars okay, bar Rescue, Yeah, and like Gordon
- 17:49Speaker 3: Ramousy's Yeah.
- 17:53Speaker 2: So Seth banned me from ever watching Bar Rescue again
- 17:57Speaker 2: because I cried every single episode.
- 18:00Speaker 3: This is their life savings, this is all.
- 18:05Speaker 2: We have to stop it. I don't watch this with
- 18:06Speaker 2: you anymore. And that was basically the end of us
- 18:09Speaker 2: watching things together.
- 18:10Speaker 3: So wait, do you have So I have a friend
- 18:14Speaker 3: who they have like separate TV watching rooms because they
- 18:19Speaker 3: specifically set out to watch like their separate shows. Whereas
- 18:23Speaker 3: I feel like I'm gonna get a divorce when Nate
- 18:26Speaker 3: watches Someday without me.
- 18:28Speaker 2: We used to be like that, and now I don't
- 18:31Speaker 2: remember the last time because he hates watching things with
- 18:33Speaker 2: me because I play on my phone and then I
- 18:35Speaker 2: ask him what just happened? And so we have not
- 18:37Speaker 2: we've not watched anything together in probably eight years because
- 18:41Speaker 2: you just can't handle it anymore.
- 18:42Speaker 3: Yeah, you have like a whole time to not be
- 18:45Speaker 3: on your Oh I guess you can't watch TV, can you?
- 18:49Speaker 2: No? No? No TV? Oh my god, I don't even
- 18:51Speaker 2: know how to turn our TV. What to do on Shabbat? Yeah,
- 18:56Speaker 2: we read, we sleep, we play with the kids, we
- 18:58Speaker 2: go to the park, we have meals with friends like
- 19:00Speaker 2: we did.
- 19:01Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, right, But if there any like background
- 19:03Speaker 3: noise running, then.
- 19:05Speaker 2: No, I mean screeches of six children.
- 19:08Speaker 3: Want to know background noise? I have to have something
- 19:10Speaker 3: on something.
- 19:11Speaker 2: Really Yeah, yeah, no, I find it very enjoyable. It's
- 19:16Speaker 2: been harder, Yeah, it's not.
- 19:17Speaker 3: It's objectively great.
- 19:19Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, it's been harder because everything in the
- 19:23Speaker 2: last year and a half two years has basically happened
- 19:26Speaker 2: on Shabbat. So I have a policy that I keep
- 19:30Speaker 2: my phone on but silent, and then I have like
- 19:34Speaker 2: a handful of people who can break through the do
- 19:36Speaker 2: not disturb and they do. Sometimes when you know, a
- 19:41Speaker 2: war starts or.
- 19:43Speaker 3: If that happens, what do you go on your phone?
- 19:45Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, yeah, especially for I mean for work purposes.
- 19:49Speaker 2: I have a communications firm. I don't like, don't really
- 19:51Speaker 2: talk about it that much, but I have a communications
- 19:53Speaker 2: firm that I have some clients that like, I need
- 19:55Speaker 2: to be available if there's breaking news because they need
- 19:58Speaker 2: to communicate things. But you know, ninety nine percent of
- 20:03Speaker 2: the time it's not necessary. But if a war starts
- 20:07Speaker 2: on Shabbah.
- 20:09Speaker 3: It's been a few of those that may.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Yeah, just a few, right, So yeah, so it's really nice.
- 20:15Speaker 2: And the other day, actually, Lindsay Fifield, who I used
- 20:19Speaker 2: to do Lady Brains with, she's one of the people
- 20:21Speaker 2: who can break through my do not disturb, and she
- 20:23Speaker 2: forgot it was Saturday, and she called me and I
- 20:26Speaker 2: was like, because the last time she did that was
- 20:30Speaker 2: on October seventh, twenty twenty three, And so I picked
- 20:34Speaker 2: up the phone. I was like, hey, Lindsay, what's up.
- 20:38Speaker 2: And she starts like chattering about something. I'm like, oh
- 20:40Speaker 2: my gosh, Lindsay is Shabbat And she's like, all right, yeah, okay,
- 20:45Speaker 2: sorry bye.
- 20:45Speaker 3: Oh is she Dorish?
- 20:48Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 20:48Speaker 3: Oh okay.
- 20:50Speaker 2: She she trained to be Jewish. She lived with me
- 20:54Speaker 2: when she first moved to d C. She didn't have
- 20:56Speaker 2: a place to live, and she was working nights. It
- 21:00Speaker 2: was actually a really interesting job. She was helping coalate
- 21:05Speaker 2: like briefing documents for government officials and so all of
- 21:10Speaker 2: that had to be done at night so that they
- 21:12Speaker 2: had a briefing book in the morning, and so that
- 21:13Speaker 2: was her job. Yeah, so she worked nights doing that.
- 21:18Speaker 2: She moved in and slept in my bed during the
- 21:21Speaker 2: day work, and I like rarely saw her and she
- 21:27Speaker 2: lived there for free. But then we realized when she
- 21:29Speaker 2: moved out and finally got her own place like two
- 21:31Speaker 2: months later, that she had been cleaning our apartment the
- 21:33Speaker 2: whole time. Oh, I had no idea.
- 21:36Speaker 3: And he didn't even realize.
- 21:37Speaker 2: No. Suddenly suddenly the apartment just fell apart, and I
- 21:42Speaker 2: was like, wait, you weren't That wasn't me. You thought that.
- 21:46Speaker 2: I thought that was you, And she was like in.
- 21:47Speaker 2: My roommate was like, no, I thought that was you.
- 21:49Speaker 2: And we're like, oh crap, we shouldn't have let to
- 21:50Speaker 2: go about.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Hello, I'm James Lanwix, and I'm at the diner, you know,
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- 22:20Speaker 1: won't you? Every Saturday From the Ricochet Audio Network Ricochet, Yeah,
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- 22:36Speaker 3: Wait can we media gossip beside? Yeah?
- 22:39Speaker 2: That's dor it.
- 22:40Speaker 3: So did you see the tablet Dinner?
- 22:43Speaker 2: Yeah? And I'm still bummed I wasn't invited.
- 22:45Speaker 3: Wait, I know, say, I guess I had a whole
- 22:47Speaker 3: time with somebody over this. Did you see Aesavia Banks
- 22:51Speaker 3: was there? Yes, boobs out naked.
- 22:56Speaker 2: I didn't see boobs out.
- 22:57Speaker 3: She was naked. She she wore like a Nate, like
- 23:00Speaker 3: a she ad dress. Yeah. And also like the real
- 23:05Speaker 3: house fives were there as well. I saw some real
- 23:07Speaker 3: house fives there. I was like, wow, what is this dinner?
- 23:11Speaker 2: I want to go? Yeah, it was funny. I actually
- 23:13Speaker 2: was looking at their website today because I want to
- 23:15Speaker 2: subscribe to their magazine because I love having Shabbat reading.
- 23:18Speaker 3: We just got it. It's very good.
- 23:20Speaker 2: Really, okay, good, I'm gonna do it. You got yeah,
- 23:23Speaker 2: because we do. Something happened to my my Washington Examiner subscription. Actually,
- 23:29Speaker 2: what happened, I don't know. I don't get it anymore. Yeah,
- 23:33Speaker 2: I don't know what happened.
- 23:34Speaker 3: Maybe they took you all this.
- 23:37Speaker 2: I was paying for it for years because I was like, yeah,
- 23:40Speaker 2: it was like a low running fight. Oh, I didn't
- 23:42Speaker 2: tell you why I was mad at Seth about your shot.
- 23:43Speaker 2: Hold on, I'll rewind and I'll tell you why I
- 23:45Speaker 2: was mad. About Seth. So he I used to tell
- 23:49Speaker 2: him every week like bring home the mag and he
- 23:51Speaker 2: did it and every Friday, but like, so where's the bag? Oh?
- 23:54Speaker 2: Sorry or forgot it? And I was like you want
- 23:56Speaker 2: screw it? And I just subscribed, yeah, like paid for it.
- 24:00Speaker 2: I'm like, now I don't need you. Now, just withdraw
- 24:04Speaker 2: the reasons that we're fighting.
- 24:06Speaker 3: I don't do anything to not pay for magazine. So
- 24:08Speaker 3: then I expect you know.
- 24:09Speaker 2: Me too, I'm really mad about it. Yeah, And so
- 24:11Speaker 2: I just it just was worth it because I was
- 24:13Speaker 2: getting really angry at him every single week, and so
- 24:16Speaker 2: I was just like, I'm I will pay eighty five
- 24:19Speaker 2: dollars a year to not be angry at you.
- 24:21Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
- 24:23Speaker 2: So I am angry at him about Usha actually, because
- 24:27Speaker 2: he had seen her several times before the cafeteria and
- 24:31Speaker 2: people flag it for me.
- 24:32Speaker 3: Oh my god.
- 24:33Speaker 2: He says he wasn't sure, but he was pretty sure
- 24:38Speaker 2: find for me. Dude, I'm like the biggest Usha Vance
- 24:41Speaker 2: fan on the freaking Planeteah.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not mad at him. Not good husband.
- 24:49Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny because we never ever fight. And someone
- 24:52Speaker 2: asked me the other day, like a parenting question, like
- 24:54Speaker 2: what do you do. Do you fight in front of
- 24:55Speaker 2: your children? I was like, oh, we never fight. And
- 24:58Speaker 2: then this weekend we fought the whole week The whole
- 25:01Speaker 2: weekend I was I was really mad at him about
- 25:05Speaker 2: a couple of things that I've now forgotten. So this
- 25:07Speaker 2: is like, yeah, this is what you need in a marriage.
- 25:10Speaker 2: You just have to forget all the fights. But I
- 25:13Speaker 2: did have grievances against him all weekend long, and we
- 25:16Speaker 2: fought all weekend. And then I made like a really
- 25:19Speaker 2: snide comment at dinner on Sunday night with friends, and
- 25:23Speaker 2: he was like, what what was that? I was like,
- 25:26Speaker 2: I'm so mad at you? And he was like for what?
- 25:29Speaker 2: I like, I don't remember anymore exciting all weekend and
- 25:33Speaker 2: I don't remember the context, but I remember I'm mad.
- 25:37Speaker 3: Did he do this in front of friends?
- 25:41Speaker 2: I made the snide comment about him, and he waited
- 25:46Speaker 2: until we were alone to be like wtf.
- 25:49Speaker 3: I say, he's a very good husband.
- 25:53Speaker 2: Yeah, And my answer was I don't know why I'm
- 25:57Speaker 2: mad at you, but I am. That's yeah, that's not good.
- 26:01Speaker 2: I'm not even pmssing. He asked me like, is there
- 26:04Speaker 2: like some sort of calendar I should be using it?
- 26:06Speaker 2: And I was like, Dad, don't.
- 26:07Speaker 3: You dare I would this. This is the less annoying
- 26:12Speaker 3: thing that's happened to me in the past few months.
- 26:14Speaker 3: Is I taught Nick about a loucial face because it
- 26:20Speaker 3: was like three or four months ago now, and he
- 26:22Speaker 3: said something. I snapped at him and he was like,
- 26:24Speaker 3: how's wrong with do? And I was like, I just
- 26:26Speaker 3: can't stand you. I'm in my lucy phase. I don't
- 26:30Speaker 3: know what it is. Everything it aut you annoys me,
- 26:33Speaker 3: every single thing. And then of course he's like, well,
- 26:35Speaker 3: it's a lucial face. And I'm like, I'll just look
- 26:37Speaker 3: it up and don't even want to talk to you
- 26:39Speaker 3: to explain it. And now I have dug my own grace.
- 26:44Speaker 3: Is that boy talks about lucial faces anything else?
- 26:49Speaker 2: I I remember trying to teach Seth about the whole cycle.
- 26:56Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
- 26:59Speaker 2: With our first kid, I ran and I remember how
- 27:03Speaker 2: it was so anti climactic. How I told him I
- 27:05Speaker 2: was pregnant. Was I ran into the bedroom holding a stick.
- 27:09Speaker 2: I was like, look, look, and he was like, oh,
- 27:12Speaker 2: does that mean you're ovulating? And I was like what,
- 27:16Speaker 2: But why do you think? I was not taking no
- 27:20Speaker 2: for an answer. Two weeks ago. My friend, No, this
- 27:25Speaker 2: is the big khuna. This means we accomplished what we
- 27:28Speaker 2: needed to accomplish. And yeah, no, he I don't know
- 27:34Speaker 2: how much he knows now. I feel like he knows
- 27:36Speaker 2: a lot now.
- 27:38Speaker 3: So when I paid on a pregnancy stick and it
- 27:41Speaker 3: was positive, I then tried to work out like, well
- 27:46Speaker 3: my d day would be and I was doing all
- 27:48Speaker 3: of this googin and it not. That makes sense to me,
- 27:51Speaker 3: and it didn't with my first baby as well. Because
- 27:55Speaker 3: so apparently by the time you off the late tag,
- 28:00Speaker 3: you're already two weeks pregnant. That's how they count it.
- 28:03Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how they count it, but like you're not.
- 28:05Speaker 2: Actually yeah, so the day you miss your period is
- 28:09Speaker 2: for you start four weeks. I don't understand.
- 28:11Speaker 3: Why does anybody understand or we just say do this
- 28:16Speaker 3: and nobody really gets why.
- 28:18Speaker 2: No one understands why because the whole pregnancy years I
- 28:21Speaker 2: want to understand. Then you're starting at that four week
- 28:23Speaker 2: and so when you're twenty weeks pregnant, you're actually only
- 28:26Speaker 2: sixteen weeks pregnant.
- 28:30Speaker 3: Oh that's why you're pregnant. They say you're part of
- 28:34Speaker 3: the ten months.
- 28:35Speaker 2: But it's actually it's actually not we see. Yeah, okay,
- 28:40Speaker 2: it's very silly. Yeah No, I'm I am so excited
- 28:46Speaker 2: for you, and I'm excited to see how I feel
- 28:50Speaker 2: as this progresses because I get pregnancy jealousy.
- 28:57Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 28:58Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't go.
- 29:00Speaker 2: I think that I will, but I'm curious to see
- 29:01Speaker 2: how it goes, because I still could pop one more out.
- 29:04Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, you could pop twenty more out if you
- 29:06Speaker 3: wanted to.
- 29:08Speaker 2: I'm thirty eight and a half.
- 29:09Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine. Dude, who are not having babies into
- 29:13Speaker 3: their fifties now? Yeah, but like I say, you're on
- 29:17Speaker 3: some of them, some of them not. I mean I
- 29:20Speaker 3: have a lot of friends in their forties now having
- 29:22Speaker 3: their first It's crazy. I mean, I'm happy about it.
- 29:26Speaker 3: They wish they did it ten years ago, but yeah,
- 29:29Speaker 3: they're still doing it.
- 29:31Speaker 2: You could easily pop out five six more.
- 29:35Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm twenty seven. I could pop out. It's crazy.
- 29:38Speaker 2: You can pop out loads. I started at twenty seven.
- 29:40Speaker 2: You've already got a baby.
- 29:41Speaker 3: I know. I'm so trad. I'm even more tad than you.
- 29:47Speaker 3: I will say, though, you did kind of freak me
- 29:49Speaker 3: out because I did mention to you a couple months
- 29:52Speaker 3: ago that I wanted to get pregnant, and you said, oh, like,
- 29:56Speaker 3: how how many months first part? And would you be?
- 30:00Speaker 3: And I said nine months? And you like that's the
- 30:02Speaker 3: that's was your worst, You said the nine months.
- 30:06Speaker 2: Yeah, so how far apart? Will these two kids be?
- 30:10Speaker 3: Eighteen months?
- 30:11Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've done that twice.
- 30:12Speaker 3: It's hard.
- 30:13Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard, I will say my older two. So
- 30:18Speaker 2: I did it with my older two kids and my
- 30:19Speaker 2: younger two kids. They were seventeen months apart, both of
- 30:22Speaker 2: them were. It was very hard. My older two were
- 30:28Speaker 2: very very close for a long time. Then they stopped
- 30:32Speaker 2: being close because they have very different personalities, which is
- 30:34Speaker 2: funny because she has my personality and he has Seth's
- 30:37Speaker 2: personality and they are like oil and water apparently. But
- 30:40Speaker 2: my younger two boys are so sweet. They're so besties
- 30:44Speaker 2: and like super codependent and really sweet. And it's like
- 30:49Speaker 2: really manifesting right now because my four almost four year
- 30:52Speaker 2: old is at day camp for the for the last
- 30:54Speaker 2: week and a half, and my two year old is
- 30:57Speaker 2: still home with me and he just asks me all
- 30:59Speaker 2: day where his siblings are. But he's loving his only
- 31:03Speaker 2: child life. I brought him to a music class last
- 31:05Speaker 2: week and he was like, this is amazing. Everyone's singing
- 31:09Speaker 2: and dancing, and I had my mom all to myself.
- 31:11Speaker 3: This is all he is so cute. I'm struggling not
- 31:15Speaker 3: to say the names because I'm not used to that,
- 31:17Speaker 3: because now I'm mad. Then I know zip it.
- 31:20Speaker 2: Well, it's fine because I forget their names usually, so
- 31:24Speaker 2: it's easier.
- 31:25Speaker 3: Yeah, the nine month gus, So my pie in my
- 31:27Speaker 3: head will see what transpires is to just do it once,
- 31:31Speaker 3: so it can't be that bad.
- 31:32Speaker 2: You know, it's addicting, it's quins.
- 31:37Speaker 3: Well, this is kind of the thing that's freaking me
- 31:39Speaker 3: out because obviously I found out so aily and the
- 31:42Speaker 3: the task result like came up straight away and it
- 31:44Speaker 3: was like really dark bred and you know they say,
- 31:46Speaker 3: like gg that will like the big in the possibility
- 31:50Speaker 3: of twins.
- 31:54Speaker 2: No, I mean, I will warn you that children are addicting. Yeah,
- 31:57Speaker 2: I thought I was done after number four, and after number.
- 32:01Speaker 3: Five they're pretty cute. This is well, definitely. Now she
- 32:06Speaker 3: walks around with like her one twos, just like poking out.
- 32:09Speaker 3: She's got Harvey any hair, she has a dressed on.
- 32:13Speaker 3: Oh my god. Nick made such a horrible joke today
- 32:16Speaker 3: that I should not sell but he said that she
- 32:19Speaker 3: looked like the TSA agent from the Biden administration. No,
- 32:23Speaker 3: non TSA agent was I don't know he stole bags
- 32:28Speaker 3: from TSA.
- 32:29Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah yeah, yeah, it was like Homeland Security.
- 32:32Speaker 2: It wasn't TSA.
- 32:33Speaker 3: But can you picture the guy that I'm Nick thanks
- 32:36Speaker 3: of my nine monthol books like that in a dress.
- 32:40Speaker 2: Not terrifying that that guy had as much power as
- 32:43Speaker 2: he did.
- 32:43Speaker 3: Actually, it's really terrifying. When do you think of stuff
- 32:46Speaker 3: that happened two or three years like four.
- 32:49Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the norms, the norms were, the
- 32:54Speaker 2: norms are now being you know whatever. So this was exciting.
- 32:59Speaker 2: I feel like this, we're gonna have to We're gonna
- 33:03Speaker 2: have to like really promo this episode because this is
- 33:05Speaker 2: like crazy exciting news or do you want to just
- 33:07Speaker 2: be cash about it.
- 33:09Speaker 3: Well, we'll see, we'll see. This will uncover who listens
- 33:14Speaker 3: to our podcast and who doesn't you go nicey friends
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- 33:21Speaker 3: they're dead to me?
- 33:23Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, yeah, so let's not put it
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- 33:29Speaker 3: Do you think, oh my god, it's so sneaky.
- 33:31Speaker 2: Yeah, because then people really have to listen to it.
- 33:33Speaker 3: That's hilarious.
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