Hello, and welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast for the week of November twentieth.
I'm Katherine A. Lecho and I'm here with Terry Morrow. Hello for
a weekly episode to talk about parenting in a roundabout way, along with a
little pop culture. So Terry, tell us how it's going with your auchi
wrist. Yeah, my poor wrist, which you may recall, I broke
on October fifth and had surgery on on October tenth. I am still going
to occupational therapy for it, and we'll be probably right up till the end
of the year. And I go three days, three days a week for
about an hour and fifteen minutes each time. And just went to see my
surgeon again. He was happy with the progress. You know, I can
bend it a little bit forward and back. Whoa. I think action very
exciting. It's funny. One of the exercises I have to do for my
therapy is to turn my palm up and then down and then up and then
down. And when I do it as an exercise, I can't get the
palm all the way up. However, the other day I was bringing myself
a snack to my desk and I had my cup in one hand, and
I put some cashews in the other hand, the hand that I can't put
all the way up right and darned to avoid spilling nuts. I can turn
that thing all the way. Okay, this is the motivation. This is
what we need. See what they need to do in ot here's some delicious
snacks. We're gonna put it in your palm. Too bad if they spilled,
wouldn't it look at me? I could turn it. I could give
it flat. That's funny. And I also really have to get to the
point where I can drive again, because I have been asking my poor daughter
to drive me all over the place because you know, mom broke her wrists,
she can't drive, and sometimes she had to like take a break from
work at a certain time so she could go pick her brother up and bring
him home. And we were really leaning on her for this, and she
kept saying, Oh, it's okay, it's okay. My bosses don't mind.
It's okay, it's okay. Well, as of yesterday it is an
all ger okay, her boss's mind. I have said cut this out.
Yeah, so specifically said I'm sorry if you have family issues, but you
cannot keep doing this, so I guess it's time for mom to work on
that wheel wrist action there. So I asked my therapist if it was okay,
and he said, yeah, you could probably start doing it, and
I can wean off my brace, which is currently a bright blue piece of
plastic attached to my arm by velcrow makes me look kind of like an avenger,
kind of like somebody playing with kindergarteners to be pretending to be a knight
or something. But I get to take it off and just have my hand
be my hand, but admire my scar, very excited, you know,
start to be a little less bionic feelings. So right, you know,
folks, I again I still recommend don't fall. Avoid falling by all means.
This is better than when I sprained my ankle, but it's still a
lot. And you go to therapy and they do things that hurt so nice
people, and you pay them this privilege, like my therapist, Hey,
Ryan, doing a great job. But ow, but you know what,
it makes my wrist more mobile, So yeah, for that, right,
this is the end goal. I can type now, I can click on
my computer improvement improvement we're seeing, Yeah, and about time for me to
fall again and break something else. Well, good thing, you're not good
thing, you're not having to learn this or something, or Allison was doing
like handstand in her contemporary. Yes, I would be unable and I you
know, I would not be able to do the tango with a sprained ankle.
I've had a sprained ankle. I was not able to do anything other
than lay in bed and order people to bring me things right. But the
young can bounce back from these, Yes they can. So all the way
to Tends did so shi mm hmmm, Whitney Houston night, Yes it was,
and I have to admit I was watching it the next day, so
Barry going, oh, I guess this is my fault. I could have
voted for him, and I fast forward through the judges because it seems more
and more this season that what the judges say and the scores they give not
so much of a connection. So I'll just look at the leaderboard. That's
all I need to do well, and that's important and even that, like
as they said, and I don't know if you heard this, but at
one point Alfonso was saying, you know, well, last week, Leile
was one point off of the lead, and she went home so it's like,
okay, well, why are we doing scores anyways, because yeah,
it makes no sense. And like Jason and Alison, who both I thought
did really good dances, were like, at least for most judges, one
point above Harry. Yeah, stands very nicely, right, And I have
no personal animosity towards him. He has people who are keeping him in the
game, and that's the way it works. But the judges are supposed to
be the ones right the ship, right, Uh huh. That's the idea.
Give high scores to the people who are good and the and low scores
to the people who are not, in the hope that in some way you
can affect the outcome. I don't think they're even trying anymore. Yeah,
it's odd. I mean Jason was one rung up from Harry on the leaderboard,
and like because he didn't win his dance off, and also because he
did, they didn't score him very high for his dance. Well, yeah
exactly. And I was just like, wait, look at this. How
what I mean? I know we're getting towards the end, and you know,
we've weeded out a lot of people, but he is a better and
also you know this for some reason they're floating, Harry, I don't know
why they are not doing their best to get him out of there, right,
so I wonder what the deal is. But let me just say,
in case it was not heard by the producers the last time, stop chomancing
the teenager. Right, No, you know what, you guys better knock
that off by Taylor Swift week because Taylor wouldn't have that sort of thing.
You do, not chomance the teenager. She would write a song about that.
She would write a ten minute song about why you should not chowmance the
teenager. Cut it out. It's right. I mean, she's like,
she just graduated from high school, she's living. I'm pretty sure her mom
is there in LA with her, because I would guess she's I hope a
child needs to go smack somebody. Yes, it's like, all right,
let's take a young person in a new job trying to succeed, give her
a difficult partner, and then say, oh, by the way, if
you want to act like you're in love with him, that'd be okay.
Stop. Although it was cute that he went to ballet class, it was
cute, yes, towering over all the other well, they could put him
in the back because there were people behind him that could not see the teacher.
Yeah, I mean he seems to be I don't know if he's hiding.
Apparently he wasn't such a nice guy in the reality show he was in.
But he seems to be a good chap But why are you not getting
foorced? This is what you do when you want to get rid of somebody,
right, Really, I don't want to get rid of him, So
they apparently want to get rid of people who I like a lot better.
So they will successfully get me to watch live next week so I can vote
for Allison and Jason. I watched it just a little a bit delayed,
and I made sure to vote for those two. I'm concentrating my voting now
on Alison and Jason. Yes, I think so. I think I will
do the same, even though, like I mean, I like Sochi,
I like Pasha. Yeah, I like them, and I would prefer either
of them to charity. But yeah, I don't know. I just at
least for the next week, I'll vote for those two and see what happens.
One thing I was noticing they were saying, Riley was saying, and
this got roundly mocked in an online forum. I was looking at like,
no kidding, honey, but Riley was saying that Harry has trouble doing the
steps and also performing them, which is a difficulty for somebody who's not a
performer. I mean, a real reality TV person is not a performer,
right, even though how much reality is in reality TV we don't know,
maybe reading scripts, but still, and I noticed that Ariana, who has
the same background she's performing, she knows how to perform. She did was
very dramatic in that passadouble A. She did a great job. I thought
she wasn't just doing the steps, so she's got an edge there. I
don't know if she's got enough of a following to take it all the way.
But things are not looking so good for Daniella getting up there, so
I'll vote for the other Poshkov if necessary. Jason's looking ticked. Yeah,
I don't blame him. I mean it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Early on they were all over him, and now they're like, no,
right, no, not good. They're gonna diss him for like singing along
to the songs when half the pros are going to do that. Do that
and you can see their mouths moving. That is distracting. I don't think
a singer singing while he dances is distracting. But whatever, we did not
expect to come here, and judging from this show, that's all. What
else the dance off? Yeah, those dance up teamings were weird. But
I will say that if Barry had to go, and he had to go,
he was not going to win. Yes, this was a good week
for him to go because he did himself proud. Both his dances were pretty
good and they gave him the dance off and you know, fine, so
he's he was leaving proud instead of like, oh, thank goodness, we
finally got that old loser off. So and he wanted to show us his
wax chest too. We got that, got that going for us. And
his professional hula dancer wife, so he got a chance to get her in
there to I know, who knew I learned that was something new I learned.
Yeah, but when that when he wound up in that bottom three,
I mean, Jason and Charity both looked ticked and nervous, and Barry had
just such a look of sweet acceptance, like yeah, all right, I'm
ready to go. This is fine, right, like, yeah, this
is coming. I loved that for him. It's like that's great, Yeah,
you did everything you wanted to do and you're going out love. Right.
So I wonder where his who the dancing wife was, Like, how
come she they never showed her? Actually there, I know she must have
some She's ao somewhere apparently. Yeah, maybe she lives in Hawaii. I
don't know who knows what these celebrities. Another thing I learned in this episode
that I would never have guessed to be true is that Clive Davis is still
alive. What. Yeah, he's pretty old. I did fast forward through
that part. Yeah I did too. But first when they say we're gonna
talk to Clive Davis, I'm like, from the really good for him?
Man, he's been a pretty old dude for a pretty long time. So
it's ninety one. Actually that's no bring chicken. Good for him? Though,
still still giving interviews about people he's outlived. Yes, also shout out
to Ezra in the opening dance and almost crying behind Alison when she was getting
her scores. Always glad to see him. Yes, well, why don't
we move on? Why don't we sachet on over to the gilded Age,
and just as a little alert to listeners, if the sound on this segment
is different, it's because Catherine is in her vacation location which is not quite
Newport, not quite, but also not home with the mic and all the
good stuff. Not new Part like at all, not at all. Next
week, I'll tell you no sexy young architects throwing themselves at you. No
disappoint Yes, it's very sad you haven't been invited to all the important dinners
I have not nobody cares where you're getting your opera. Oh yes, yeah,
so boy, we moved from the opera Wars to the don't act like
you weren't my lady's maid in the early Wars Bertha. Bertha came back with
a vengeance this time, boy did she? Yes, shifting around place cards
at the table and uh, I just all sorts of skullduggery. I just
enjoyed. The footman or whoever, came in when she was switching the lady
the cards, and he said, can I help you? She said no,
like, no, I'm fine, I got it all taken care of.
You don't need to do anything. I don't know if you would be
able to get away with that sort of thing at that time, but still
it was delightful that she did. Yes, And do we think that she
informed Missus Astor of Missus Oldcoote's former occupation or do we think that servants talk
and word gets around. Yeah, it's a good question because they then obviously
show Bertha saying anything to Missus Astor. And I don't think she could tell
her directly. I feel like she would have to pass the words somehow.
Yeah. I just at the point where the uh, the young maid from
the Russell household was telling the young clock mechanic in the household across the street
about this maid having risen in her social status. At that moment, I
thought, well, this is going to get all over town. Yeah.
She may think that she can keep Bertha silent, but she's not gonna be
able to keep the help silent. And eventually that stuff floats upstairs, right,
So or it could have even been Ward McAllister Nathan Lane, that's true.
Like yeah, And I again, I don't think he would directly tell
Missus Astor, but he's right figure out who has loose lips, which is
probably everyone. It may turn out that Bertha did it and if she did,
that was a masterful stroke because it never occurred to me that missus Astor
would not have this right. No, no, that that would be an
issue. But holy cow, is missus oldcoote mad Now I should remember what
her name is, but Winterton, Missus Winterton. But she's really she married.
She married this guy to get certain benefits, and now she's not getting
certain benefits. So right, yeah, I don't know. I still think
Bertha can squash her like a bug, but she can make a lot of
trouble. First, I also think like she should have moved to Boston or
something like. I mean, how did you not how did you think you
were going to get away with this in New York? Yeah? That is
as the aforementioned. You know, servants talk, and you should know that,
and therefore you should not think that you can keep your identity a secret,
right if you're with the same people. I hear San Francisco's nice.
I hear people have gone out to the West coast, maybe get mister oldcoot
to relocate. But hmm, yeah, that may have been calculation on her
part. She just thought she could load it over Bertha and that that would
be fun. But she thought that the secret keeping needed to go two ways.
You know that, yes, because it would reflect badly on Bertha,
but not nearly as badly as it does on her, right, And also
she miscalculated that Bertha was the only one who would be able to tell right,
And Honey, I guess the servants who are usually just the personal attendance
of individuals are not usually publicly seen. Is this because because Michael Servius was
just fine until he was serving wine at dinner and then his secret was out
right? Yeah, I don't think that the ladies maids in valet is usually
come, you know, out from behind the scenes. But I mean you
would see, like the ladies' maids accompany their young ladies' places and things like
that, and you know, if they when they travel to Newport, you
know, everybody's packing up. I would think that I would think they would
be seen. But yeah, we seem to be given to understand with the
way the plots develop here, that they're not right that nobody has ever seen
what was her name when she's Turner, nobody has ever seen Turner, and
so therefore she can come back in a fancy dress and nobody will be the
wiser and the same with you know, it was fine for you to be
a Valey until people knew who you were, and now you must go into
exile, which he is resisting doing as you predicted. Yeah, bad move,
friend. It's not like you had any relationship with your daughter besides lurking
in bushes and looking at her. So yeah, I think you should go.
I don't know, though, I mean, if he has any pride
at all, sort of like being dismissed to the other side of the country
is not gonna go down. Well, that's not really cool of him to
ask no, and who knows. I mean, he moves out to the
other side of the country and then this guy decides after five months, oh
while I'm done with this, and then he's stranded there with no income.
He has to trust somebody who does not like him at all. This is
true, yes, So I don't know. It's more dramatically interesting if he
puts up of us. And also I like him on the show. Well
yeah, and you don't hire Michael Servers just to say, like, all
right, now you're going to San Francisco and we never saw him again.
That's right. I want to keep him around. Yeah, but well,
all sorts of romantic entanglements in this episode. First, Larryan and Laura Bananti
getting it on there very cozy. Who could ever imagine that anybody could be
against such a quarter speaking of squashing things like a bug. Yeah, she
had to go. Laura Bananti's character, missus Blaine, had to go all
the way to New York to just be told cut that out. And she
was like, oh okay, and she she is her is her social standing
so tenuous that she has to take that. I guess. I mean,
I think I think making a mistake canoodling in the doorway quite frequently, and
you know, I think they could have kept it behind closed doors a little
better, but still right now, Well, and part of it may have
been, you know, she didn't want to damage Larry. You know,
she may have been trying to protect him. Does this seem like the kind
of society where can noodling with an older rich lady was going to get you
blackballed? Right? Isn't that? Isn't that what one does? Well?
And he wanted to marry her. Yeah, maybe at that point she got
scared off, like whoa, there busters a okay, but let's not let's
not work our social standing into this. It just seemed like she's she was
easily cowed. Yeah yeah, but uh and also you know Bertha with the
you're so old and soon you will be older, and pretty soon it will
be like your old elderly husband, right or Banante is forty four, let's
calm down. Yeah, but I guess at that time that was He's still
not this ancient crown. She ain't, mister Winterton. Let's calm down here
a little bit, right, But uh ah, poor Larry and his heart
broke, that's right, and his parents still can't stay out of his life.
The more things change, the more things. But on the positive romance
side, we had not only Ada and mister Forte getting engaged just awfully quickly,
but there was a little romance between what the housekeeper and the formerly front
chef at the Russell house. Oh yeah, that's that's funding. Yes's.
And then there is cousin Dashel's daughter declaring that Marion is part of her family.
You know, Mary, she's terrified it with this waiting. Come on,
come on you too. I want her to be my mom by next
year. Let's go move in. She is not wasting time, that one.
No, but uh that that uh, that union is approved of by
Missus van Rot Agnes, the union of Ada and mister Forte, shall I
assume, not be not be celebrated, not be celebrated, not be approved
of, and honestly pretty quick. Yeah, but I feel like that's not
that unusual, right, I guess. And they're both older. But I
believe what what Agnes will say is he's just looking for money, because isn't
that how she squashed her last suitor? Yes, but in that case it
was true, It was true. This it was very fast. He seems
so earnest. He seems so earnest, and yet it was very fast.
I mean, it's not like they got a lot of time left. But
still what they're practically in the grave. They gotta move it, move it.
But that's pretty fast. Yeah. I don't think they even went on
one proper well, maybe they they saw each other a number of times,
but he was hitting a knee in front of the choir pretty quickly. Yes,
And I believe Agnes will have a quarrel with that, right, she
will have some suspicions, and sadly so do I. But I wish your
happiness. She's so happy, that so cute, not not making me happy
as the whole. Meanwhile, in Alabama, yeah, there's fighting, there's
arguing. I fear impropriety between Peggy and her boss. And yeah, you
know, he has always seemed a relatively low key guy, and now all
of a sudden he's full of rage. So he's full of rage, and
he's answering the door with no shirt on. I know, what are you
guys doing? Stop it? I don't like this. Yeah, oh,
dear, can't we just be back in frivolous New York where the most important
thing is whose opera are you going to endorse? Right? Whose box are
you going to get? Yes? Yeah, I yes, And I was
happy that that. George and Bertha are, at least for the moment,
back to being a power couple, back together. Back George has warmed his
way back into her good graces, as long as he never lies again,
which what could possibly go wrong? Well, he delivered her the Duke,
so yes he did that was although I think that she did a fair amount
of delivering it to herself. But yes, he got her on the track
for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he did his part, She
says, I think he asked if he was how the duke was, if
he was charming or whatever, and she said it doesn't really matter if he's
a duke or something. Right, Yeah, like that? That was That
was adorable and I hope I really, I really like it when they are
a happy couple. And I really feel for George, who genuinely I think
loves her, although she is a handful. And yeah, and he was
very likely to at some point get himself in trouble again like the opera thing.
You just fixed the counting. Did you fix the accounting by adding enough
money to make it balanced? Again? Yeah? They did not? Right?
Oh well, even though he is a ruthless robber baron who squashes the
poor, I like him. That's right. Also, I want to just
mention just because this is a recurring motif and surely it will mean something.
Jack's working on the clock again. I don't think he did last week.
Last week there was no clock. This week clock lots and lots of clock.
Yep. It's got to mean something, right, I believe. So,
Okay, we're just it's a recurring motif of this season, so it
must mean something. So next week on Dancing with the Stars is Taylor Swift
week, they got a video from Taylor saying I'm not going to be there
in Brazil, but I'll be watching and uh, I'm sure she will.
And also stop showmancing Riley. Please thank you for to add that on the
end. If Taylor says it, they have to Taylor, Taylor, come
on, just a tweet, just a Tweet'll do it, babe. And
on the Gilded Age. The title of this episode, according to Wikipedia,
is close enough to touch. That is season two, episode five. We
shall see if that is indeed the title when it comes out. But yeah,
because for some reason, IMDb does not have titles. IMDb doesn't and
HBO only has it like like after the previous episode comes out, Like what,
I don't know where Wikipedia has some sort of top secret source Wikipedia either
somebody leaked to Wikipedia or they're just making them. That will work. That
sounds like the kind of title they'd have. More next week when we know
for sure that's right. And now we come to the time for Catherine's Library
Find of the Week. What you got, Well, in order for you
to get this, I have to give you a little bit of Wisconsin like
historical trivia. So Lake Geneva, which is sort of south western Wisconsin,
not very far west, at one time was like a vacation community, kind
of the Newport of the Midwest. Let's say, so there's this there's this
lake, and there's all these big giant homes around the lake, you know,
cottages as they as they are called a newport. And there is this
boat that gives scenic tours around the lake but also delivers the mail. And
the way they deliver the mail is they have these sprightly teens that jump from
the moving boat onto the dock, drop off the mail, and then jump
back on the boat. It doesn't really stop. Oh my gosh, is
there a body count for this job or do they always make it? We
only lost ten sprightly teens last year. We're doing good. That brings us
to the library find because I discovered a series of books called the mail Boat
Suspense Series. It is five books and a prequel, which just kind of
made me laugh, like I could see one or two, but there's five
that starts with the end of the pier, then the silver helm, then
the Captain's tail, the shift in the wind, and the end of summer.
Plus I don't know what the prequel. The prequel is called The Girl
on the Boat. So they saw crimes or what? It's uh, super
not that clear. Let's let's read. Let's read the description from the author's
website. A teen without a family, a town with a dark history,
A body in the lake. Okay, there you go, abandoned by your
own parents, forgotten by the foster care system. Bailey's learned to weather every
storm except the one that rages inside. It sounds like a lifetime movie,
it does. So how they stretch this out into five books? I'm skeptical,
But this is the plot for all five books. Well, I'm just
reading you the plot of the first one. It's the first, As the
author says, it's the first book in the thrilling mailboat suspense. I have
to say, a kid jumping off a boat, onto a dock and back.
I'd be pretty thrilled just for that. They could just be, you
know, describing the risks every time. You don't need the body. The
wind. The wind is kicking right. Oh, that looks like a sprained
ankle. Will he be able to get back onto the boat? He dropped
some mail in the leg? No, what will happen? Yeah? There's
so much suspense built in even without even without the body and the foster care
system and the gruff captain who's been there for fifty years. Oh, the
old salt. This is a completely new concept to me, and yet I
feel like I've read that book before. Yeah, exactly. You can buy
it as a box set. It's cool you can buy Are they like full
on chapter books? Are they easy reading chapter books or no? It's for
adults chapter books adults, Oh yeah, it's I don't believe it's meant for
teens. Then I could be you could take one and read it while you
were riding on the boat. You might miss some some stuff I don't know.
So there you have it, mail boats, suspense about any of this?
And now? And does Lifetime trik about it? Because if so,
they may wish to on. Now you have a little bit more information.
Be a series, you know, that would be a plot for a good
first season of a series. You know. Instead of Dawson's Creek, it
could be you know, Larry's Lake. He has to jump across it,
over and over Larry's Lake. Well, that is very interesting. So that
is still going on. They still have kids doing that. That wasn't something
from the past before somebody decided it was unsafe. Yeah, they still do
it because now it's well because now it's like a big tourist thing, and
they have these boat tours that include watching suspensefully as a teen jumped boy.
If you live in that area, I wonder do you want your teenager to
be one of those, because it's kind of like a little tradition that kind
of a get some attention or do you say not for you, right,
stay home, No jumping off of boats for you. Yep, mothers sitting
home waiting fraut it's fat would be you for sure, Yes, yes,
also fraud are archives which are full of anxiety about things much less perilous than
jumping off a boat, right, or being forgotten by the foster care system
or any of that stuff. I don't need anything real to worry about.
I can just worry. So so we're gonna take another spin through the archives
and see what we were talking about three years ago, four years ago,
and five years ago. This week. Yes, I did select items from
the more positive section of our arch. It's on holiday weekend, let's take
exactly. Yes, things were thankful for happy places. We visit online that
sort of thing. Yes, and happy Thanksgiving two days from now, unless
you're not listening to this on Tuesday. Whenever you listen to this, have
a happy Thanksgiving or I hope your Thanksgiving was happy exactly. We had our
Thanksgiving last weekend. So we're just I don't know what we're doing. We're
going to going to church in the morning and I don't know, maybe we'll
go to a restaurant or maybe we'll just sit at home eat chili or something.
It's a tradition, that's it's going to becoming a tradition to do Thanksgiving
on the Saturday before Saturday or Sunday before along with the race. That's right.
So do you have big Thanksgiving plans? We are also having our Thanksgiving,
that's right. That's right, and doing it in advance so involves,
you know, moving the whole operation. Like the amount of stuff that's going
to be schleppt from Wisconsin to Michigan is significant, I believe. Yeah,
I would bet, because you know, if we don't want to have to
count on an airbnb to have everything we need. Right, Plus we brought
the dogs so that, you know, make sure we bring all the dogs,
you know, food and their medicine and their great and they're toys.
Boy, Yes, it's like bringing a toddler. There's no stores there,
so you got to make sure you have everything no stores. Well, is
this going to be the beginning of a tradition or just this is her last?
Is that this No, she's going to be going part of the year
next year, but maybe won't be there at Thanksgiving? Or will she She
probably probably will, but she will have a little bit of a different schedule
because she won't be skating. So her skating schedule affected our Thanksgiving so ah,
as it's so often does. Yes, it really does. It has
She's not jumping out of a boat on She's just jumping on top of a
surface of ice with fifteen other people climb up on top of people. They
do that. She's not the top of the jump though, or of the
lift, though she's a supporter of the lift. Said yes, so,
ye, I think we're probably thankful for a lot of the same things now
that we were right five years ago. Yeah, in terms of thank you
for co parenting, and we were thanking all those people who helped us as
we were bringing our kids up, right, I don't know. Do we
still have the same levels of help now? Helpful people all are. My
family members have moved to different places, so we're sort of on our own,
right. I would like to thank my daughter's bosses for waiting till now
to say she has to stop she has leaping work to go take me someplace,
get to the point where I'm close to driving. When you do that,
thank you, Thank you that was a big help. Yeah. Well,
and thanks to your daughter for in general, for all of her driving,
which we've talked about in the past. Not injured, right, Yes,
definitely taking her brother to work a lot of a lot of the time
is super super helpful, so she's co parenting him. I guess she's definitely
the dog mom. She's definitely co parenting the dog. That's important. She's
the mom. I'm the grandma and my son is the funkal And I guess
her dad is the grandpa or does he not? She's but he doesn't like
that, so we just don't include him. He's roommate anyway. He's the
grumpy super right, we'll call him Schneider. Yes, yes, but the
dog doesn't doesn't go downstairs to go outside or get fed unless it's her taking.
You know, we'll try to take her out to go to the bathroom.
She's like, no, oh, she only wants her mother to do
it. From my mom, Okay, yeah, it's kind of ridiculous sometimes
because you know, you better not pee on the carpet girl, Right,
she's not gonna be home for a little while. No, that's okay,
I'm staying here. But that is nice for you that you're not responsible.
Yeah. Yeah, she's doing everything and and when she ever gets lazy and
doesn't want to do stuff, I'm like, she's your dog, right,
You're the mom. You know, you have kids. You got to feed
him whether you feel like it or not. That is a frustrating thing about
kids. She's learning that it's mixed, a mixed blessing to have the dog
like you best. Right. Absolutely, yeah, but she is definitely co
if not entirely parenting the dog. And you're right, absolutely, that's the
rest of us all the book, for sure. Did you have any co
parenting people you wanted to mention? Not really. I mean I think we're,
like you said, we're kind of moving past that to an extent.
You know, we have our we have our college parent Facebook groups which there
you go, mostly not not needed anymore and never were that don't get good
information. So thanks for you to worry about, right, yeah, we
have to, so thank you for not giving me any information that I can
worry about well. And also I can feel superior, you know, like
oh yeah, like I'm I'm not asking this dumb quish that is such a
good feeling as yeah, or like when people are like what you know,
I don't know, just things that either their child should be figuring out or
they could find out by you know, speaking to the appropriate person at the
school instead of trying to get the parents to tell them, you know,
like like how do I do this or that to the dining plan? Like,
well call the dining plan, like we don't know. Yeah, there's
some sort of loud work being done outside of my window here over on the
school side. So if you all hear something that sounds like a power saw
that is not in my house, it is someplace else, but it is
very loud, so I can hear it a little bit. I apologize for
any disruption and it's making me feel negative. So let's talk about finding positive
places online. I have to say that I have some of the places that
I named in that episode I no longer so I'm thin I will enjoy the
positivity for a while and then go, this is no longer meeting my needs.
I'm out of here right right. But and the giant pandacam. We
listed the giant panda that may have been Nicole. I don't remember who said
that originally, But now the pandas have gone by by, so you can't
know. You can't visit them at the at the pandacam anymore. Yeah,
to go back to China. There may be a few pandas left in American
zoos, but in general, I think they're all having to be returned.
So get your fill now if you if you need. We rate dogs is
still fun. That is still an excellent follow on Instagram. And I still
follow the Kangaroo Sanctuary, which I had listed three years ago. And I
still still follow Lindsay and Whitney and enjoy watching their children grow up. It's
not creepy at all, really, it's fine. And also now Pasha and
Danielle's little girl ah so cute, and watching Sasha be the be the funkal
speaking of that funk, all of them apparently lots of cute pictures. Sasha
and Sage seem to have bonded Lindsay's daughter. Yes, and uh that's fun.
I like I like watching it adds to my enjoyment of dancing with the
stars. But also there's a cute kids. Yes, a little video of
Jenna and VAL's son kissing Danielle and Pasha's little girl. They're they're adorable,
So more more dancing with the star baby content. Forget the dancing as long
as you don't start show mancing them, right, and you have like a
little dance with everybody who has a baby to come and dance with their kid.
That would be fun because they are quite a lot. Yes, must
be quite the little nursery there. Yeah, because they do seem to bring
them with. I see pictures of them with their kids at work. So
how fun would that be to be dancing with the stars daycare worker. That's
a good gig, some weird hours, but yes, yeah, right,
and you go home with well, you know, you go home with glitter
in your hair no matter where you're doing a daycare, so it doesn't it
would be a higher class of glitter. Yes, I've mentioned Heidi wrangles cats
here lately. I enjoy that and that's a fairly positive place because she's Yes,
occasionally something sad happens, but mostly it's kittens, kits being rescued.
Yeah for good Londons. Yes, and uh, there's also one. I
don't think it's we rate dogs. It's another one where a guy just takes
pictures of dogs on the streets of New York. I think, oh,
yeah, is it the doggest Yes, might be he just walks up to
people and says, can I take a picture of your dog, which she
must ask beforehand because nobody ever says no. I would think you're a city
quite often that could get you in trouble. But most people wanted to show
off their dog, little descriptions of their personality and stuff like that. So
that's fun, that's upbeat. But mostly I'm just staying off of social media,
trying. I'm trying. It's so hard, so hard. I am
stocking my daughter's team on TikTok, like I refused to actually download TikTok and
make myself an account, but her team has a TikTok and it's public,
so I can go look at that from time to time and I don't remember
if I mentioned this on here, but they made and it's been a couple
months now, but they made a TikTok where they took a hockey player from
their school's team and tried to teach him a bunch of their skating moves,
and you know it pretty much like Riley and Harry. Yeah, it was
difficult for him, although in the comments a lot of people are like,
well, he's wearing hockey skates putting in a given figure skate, like no,
and he was wearing pads like he was wearing his full lot So yes,
that did make it harder. But anyway, they did this whole thing
and it now has like one let me, let me check how many it
has, well over a million views. It has one point eight views.
Wow to it. That's great fun. And there's this very popular book right
now called ice Breaker, which is about a hockey player and a figure skater
and apparently there's a whole long time ago. Well yes, what was that?
Yes, the actress that's like the wind. Yeah, it's it's the
cutting edge or the cutting edge, I think. Yeah. Well, so
this this book is super popular on TikTok also, and so the comments on
this the team TikTok that I'm mentioning. The comments are just NonStop like icebreaker,
icebreaker eyess, So it's pretty funny. Yeah, it is amusing,
so nice. Well we should all go look at that and feel happy.
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