Best of James (Compilation)

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That's the whole point of having a baby to pay your taxes for you and stuff. I don't know what you've heard about babies, but no. No, don't even an entertainer about this one. No, straight up, no. I thought they changed your diapers when they get like hold up to get out of their own and they pay your taxes for you and I don't know, it works so you can retire. You had the critical ideas of old enough on their own, but what is that age that you think it is? After they emerge? Do you think that's old enough on their own? After the emergence. What's it called the great emergence? Yeah, the emergency room. That's why it's the emergency room. Yeah, they got all these pregnant ladies in there doing their emergency things. Yeah, I get it now. Medical jargon is so lost at me. I saw a turkey that was so big that nobody believed that it was a turkey until they inspected it for themselves. Took James to a fall festival, like a farm, right? You know, it's a big Midwest thing. It's like, "Oh, it's fall. Let's do a corn maze." And then go in the pumpkin patch and we'll have like activities and stuff. And we went to this place. It was really fun. They had a bunch of cool play sets. The first moment we were there, I did have made a parenting mistake. They had this big thing that was just like a big hill and you could run. It was sort of like a hill where you were supposed to clearly run from one side to the other. And there was like a path. But then the sides were very steep. You were not supposed to go up or down the sides. You were supposed to go over the path. And James started going up that and I was like, "Ah, that'd be a good picture." Because I was like, "I'm trying to take pictures. We're doing this fun thing with James. I want pictures of James." And so I was like, "He won't be fucking crazy for 30 seconds. I can let him run up or down this hill really quick." So I let him go and I'm like, "I'm just going to go around and take a picture." And I like have my phone out about to take a picture. He's on the very top of the hill. And he looks down at me and he just goes, and tries to like run down the steepest fucking. He took like two steps and then just, and piled at the bottom. And it's busy. This is right by the entrance. So there's a bunch of other people doing the hill. And just out in the middle of all that James is just, "Fuckin' eatin' so much." I put my photo away, going to go and pick him up. And he's like, "I'm okay. Let's do this stuff." Like, he doesn't want to go home. He's like, "He was fine." But it was so, I was like, "He can do this, right?" Did you get any of it? Like a photo collage of, "Ah, I pooped." No! God, I fucking, I wish. I didn't even get all the way to like, I was like trying to get the camera open. And I was like, "Oh, no." And didn't just, "Bluff." Anyway, it's warm out now. And that's really fun for James, because it means we get to go back to the playgrounds and stuff. And we did that yesterday. And he had hell of a time. Before it got cold when we were going to the playgrounds, like the end of last summer, he was walking, but he was small enough that it was kind of like we had to chase him around, basically, because at any moment, he might just like fall off an edge or do something crazy. And so we would, and he's like really independent now, which is awesome. But I forgot one important fact about the playground that we take him to a lot. It's like one of those old school, like wooden castle style playgrounds. Super fun. There's an area with a really fun slide. And he was, I was letting him climb up on his own and go up there to go on the slide. But right next to the slide, they made this feature where it's like, tractor tires stacked up. And the middle of the tractor tires is a hole down all the way to the ground. And you're, it's meant for kids to like climb down the tires, like they're ladders. And then there's like some chains and like, it's for climbing. But James is not tall enough or coordinated enough to climb on something like that. So I let him go up there. And then he got to the slide. And he was like, slide big tires. And I was like, what do you mean big tires? Because it's like up on the second level. And I'm like, what big tire? And he went and he is like leaned over the hole. And I was just like, I forgot that was there. And I ran and dove under the bottom of it. And was like, face up under the hole. And I was like, got out of the slide. And he just looked at me for a second. It was like, oh, yes, slide. All right, I won't jump down the suicide hole yet. Well, fucking like it was the one because when we got to the playground, I was like, all right, let's see how this goes. And he started climbing on his own. And I was like, this is cool. He's so, he's having so much fun. And then he was like, I'm going to go on the slide and start climbing up. And I was like, oh, man, big tire. Like, whoa, fucking shit. Why did they put a, why did they put a jump hole in this place? And God. Anyway, he's fine. And he went down the slide about 20 times. He would just, but like half of the times, I continued to let him go up on his own. And like half the time, he'd get up there and be like, big tires. And I had to be like, we're going on the slide, buddy. Remember the slide? Yeah. But anyway, it was super fun. And only twice did I almost think he was about to break his entire self jumping down a big hole for no reason on to hard ground below. Also, he threw a lady herself home. Oh, really funny. This poor mom was chasing her kid around who was more in the needs adult supervision, very directly staged still. The younger than James. And she like went down the slide and friend James like frantically like, ah, where'd you go, baby? And her phone fell out of her pocket on the top of the slide. And James is just sitting there with this stranger's phone in his hands, just like, hmm, mine now. And she's at the bottom of the slide like, give me my phone, baby. Give me my hand. He like contemplated and everybody eventually he was like, okay, and tossed it down the slide. And it was very nice. But I thought I was about to have to go wrangle my son from stealing a stranger's cell phone at the playground. I think you'll have to be like, oh, you found us a new phone. Thanks, baby. And then like leave with it. Now James, ask for money for this. Oh, yeah. I'm going to earn way more points. I have a very funny update. All right. I can't wait. Sad updates aren't worth nothing. Okay. James is refining his comedy and it's really fucking funny. So James, James likes to tell jokes. And a lot of his jokes are set up punchlines something really quick. Usually he'll do like a fart or something or, you know, like whatever. But he has realized he likes getting the laugh. And he's, he has learned like, this is what got me the laugh, right? So he'll do a joke and he'll be like, ah, and then I farted and everyone's like, ha, ha, very funny. Like, ah, and he'll be like, and then I farted because he's like laughs some more, right? He's like working on it. But obviously you can't say the same punchline twice in a row. That doesn't work. We're comedians. We know that. So last night at dinner, we've seen there. And James just is like eating his food. And he looks over at Mani and he goes, mom, your cheese and mom and Mani is like, why am I cheese? And he's like, cheese can't talk. And I'm like, okay. I look at him and I'm like, okay, what's dad? And he goes, dad, your crackers. And I'm like, oh, 'cause crackers goes with cheese. And he's like, crackers can't talk. We're sitting there and look at him and I'm like, all right, if mom is cheese and dad is crackers, what is James? And he goes, hmm, I'm scared. 'Cause mom and dad are cheese and crackers. And we lost our shit. Like it was very funny when Mani and I had a good laugh. And he was just like soaking it up. Like, that's the funniest thing I've ever said. I mean, he's right. And we've been trying to teach him about this, right? So we had the laugh, it was good. And I looked back at him and I was like, okay, James, mom is cheese and dad is crackers. What does that make James? And he was like, oh, can't say the same thing. Oh, what do I say? Oh, I'm afraid. And then he went through every word that he could think of that was like scared to get back to the same punchline. It was so funny. It's probably much funnier because I'm his parent. Like, I get that that's maybe not the most genius comedy thing that's ever been crafted. But he is working out. He's like, really actually working on his timing and he's like, experimenting with how he's doing. And it's very funny to watch him like figure it out in real time. It's actually super impressive too. He's thinking of like synonyms and wordplay. like that's crazy he did it a bunch I think he did I'm scared I'm worried I'm upset I'm what did he say I'm nervous I'm something he did like one or two other ones he knows a lot of words that's funny and impressive and he's just turned three yeah just turn three yeah when do we start rashing in names was in the 90s please sir can I have some middle initial I just want to name my daughter Dorothy we don't want to have a last name I can give you door that just because there's a story doesn't mean I like my name why did you call me door good give you door in a hyphen it's talk to your brother jam you guys are a pair I know Mandy and I are not gonna name our daughter Dorothy don't worry Chad also we don't have a daughter that's a hypothetical daughter do you have a secret daughter that we've never known about no that would really prove some favoritism going on if you keep going off your son it's like oh yeah so it's a daughter somewhere okay James is so great James James guys really a count of the number of times we've heard James what about door oh no well maybe we'll go back he'll be like oh my god he's been saying door all along and we thought he's really the harbor oh my god door wouldn't shut up last night like hey this dude's doors talk a lot what the hell at 26 minutes we play James backwards is actually doors the favorite well that's gonna start some funny rumors oh James is well it's not fair to say this James is almost potty trained James is wearing big boy underpants so that's pretty big that's huge and he went a whole day yesterday with no accidents or anything so he's in the potty like a real dude he pisses everywhere about door door sucks I don't want to talk about that I think it's kind of an in-accident but it up happening on Monday of this week we've been trying to potty train James for a while and it started with just like we'll just let him sit it like we'll let him sit on the potty we'll try and catch him and there are a bunch of strategies that are really intense like one of the strategies is he just doesn't wear pants or a diaper and whenever he starts peeing or pooping you just grab him and go look out front and run to the bathroom which sounds like the most insane shit I've ever heard but the strategy that we have gone with is set a timer for like start at 15 it's at 20 minutes now you set a timer and you slowly lengthen the timer and every time the timer goes off James goes to the bathroom so that it's like he hopefully doesn't have an opportunity to go in his diaper you get in there and if he sits and if he goes he goes if he doesn't go it's fine it's like we can make it fun and you have like books and you hang out and he gets rewarded for going and being good like Pavlov's dog in this when he goes to school one day like the bell goes off in Xperia's like oh no the timer it might okay we're unsure about the Pavlovian things that we're building into our son this is one of the methods that like it's online people like it works but I turned my kid in one week but he's been doing really good he likes it generally and he does generally what he's supposed to do but he does not care if his pee is aimed into the toilet and so if you're not paying close attention because like I said him on there and I get him situated so it's good but he sits there and he wiggles and he does stuff and he you might stand up and sit back down and by the time he actually does go to the bathroom a lot of times you're just saying there all of a sudden it's just like oh get that aim it down but he's doing really good and he's making progress got to get potty trained so he could be ready to go to preschool because he's a smart kid and he's gonna need more mental stimulation he needs he needs to learn he's pretty much only happy if he's learning shit which is awesome but exhausting when it's like okay it's 45 minutes till bedtime I'm exhausted and James is like tell me about every animal in the Sahara and I'm like god I only know like five so you did so good on the animal part yeah no I literally the quetzal goddess I know quetzal cuts whatever that dinosaur I know so many more animals than I ever did in the rest of my entire life because James will just be like tell me about animals and and I'll be like oh what about penguins and he's like I know about penguins keep good new ones god I don't know I gotta go study I didn't know wasn't ready for the pop quiz just make up animals that's dangerous you remember I mean authors do it all the time if you got an endimithical animals yeah not so much that actually is an interesting thing he sort of do elementally he's starting to get to the place where he like he understands that stories exist in like other worlds kind of but he really doesn't get that all stories aren't just like things happen in real life all the time so the crate like we many and I both really like nightmare before Christmas classic movie yeah enjoyable movie terrifying for him he loves the music if you just play the music he's all this is how the it is a terrifying movie like the the visuals of the movie and the characters of the movie yeah he is immediately just like we had a thing where we just we showed him like they showed him like the first minute and after stuff started happening on screen at the very opening the movie he was like scary it's good and for like a week afterwards every time he went to bed we like do the whole thing he's all happy we read books we put him down we're like all right good night dude and he's all I'm scared of Halloween it's not real it's okay it's a movie those guys can't hurt you the timing's bad because Halloween's right around the corner so that's probably probably more like stuff he sees in real life that might be scary to other kids he's actually pretty chill about like he thinks if we go to like menards and home stores and stuff and they have those huge witches and fit and we're when we're at the store he's like ha giant witch and he thinks it's awesome but in movies and stuff like if it's too creepy or like nightmare before Christmas is very like stylized and but if that existed in real life I don't know how this would be scary because I would agree but I was scared of Billy they got the sealed now oh yeah he was scared yeah we helped James turns three in December oh so he hasn't achieved consciousness true consciousness all right Bob what's going on your life who are you in debt to mafia oh lots people so we recently visited family in Iowa that we were discussing generally and this is like a theme it comes up in James likes Bluey and there's a several episodes in Bluey that deal with like pregnancy and stuff and we were trying to explain to him like what a pregnant lady is right we were talking and it just sort of came up and so it's like oh who's pregnant is mom pregnant whatever but anyway we're trying to be like no nobody when a person is pregnant when a woman is pregnant means that they have a baby growing in the belly and so you might not be able to tell but like if you like if we if you see someone who's pregnant you need to be careful right like they have a baby in the belly you'll be careful with the it was just a discussion that we had and it was going on and the way things do with like kids just trying to like teach him stuff so we got to the belly gets big because the baby gets big and James looks at me and is like baby a dad's belly and I was like oh no no that that's just fat that's a confusing distinction for you sorry buddy but what but it was like a funny moment but it wasn't everyone was not in on it so then after we get back from that trip we're at dinner at with Mandy's parents and James is talking in there like everyone's paying attention to James at dinner at a restaurant and out of nowhere he just starts talking about babies and he's just like that it out of the pregnant ladies that it out of the babies no no no no baby in the belly no that's just fat and man's parents did like a spitting because like out of nowhere unprompted he just like remembers the conversation that we had and now he just does that he'll just he'll just walk up and hit me with the like no that's just fat and then walk away and everyone's got like you taught him that I'm like I know I taught him that this is exactly what I was hoping would happen that's so funny anyway he's gonna be a funny kid that also brings with the point of like whenever you move out of someplace what makes it difficult is the memories you have there so one of the hard things about leaving our previous house we obviously have a lot of good memories there because we were there for like five or six years but the last time we got to hang out with zombie who passed away and person was at the house and like I we remember like seeing him sitting like on our couch like on his laptop and stuff like that it's like we're leaving that memory behind so like there's also the people like that have entered and left your lives if you have memories with them in a place that can make a place feel like home and it's harder to leave it behind or just memories you make over time the longer you're in a place the more memories you have like the harder it is to leave that because that feels more like home than a new home can for a while no it's funny both of you brought up stuff that definitely connects with me what us so we we lived in California only for like four years basically but and we lived in two different places there so we weren't in the place we just moved out of that long but that was a house we lived in when James was born right like that's where we brought him home from the hospital to that house full of the grad parents were all in town that's the first place he ever ate you know food and like there's a very strong even though So he's only yesterday, he turned eight months old. old. He's not even a year old yet. Like most of his life is connected to that place. So like, yeah. I'm done. Okay. I'm pretty good. Uh, we finally don't have people in our house and I don't know what to do about it. It's like, can I sit in some piece and fucking quiet for a second? I don't know. I come over if you want for James. I mean, yeah, sure. I like James. And James really likes Molly, so that's fine. Yeah, he loves Molly. And whoever Molly's husband is. That's pretty much the other. He dude, I listen, he's going to be a, he's going to be a problem. He is a lady's man. And he can, I wouldn't take it barely walk because he's like running now. Yeah, that's true. He did full out loops around me. Yeah. No, he's got blue eyes, blood and hair. He's a big flirt. He's always flirting with girls that are older than him at the playground. His instinct, if he sees any, it's any kids, but he gravitates towards the girls, but especially if they're like five to 10 years older than him, he immediately just walks up and it's like, I am James. Good. Well, you want to hold hands? He's going to be like eight years old trying to get a problem. Well, I think he had the day of his life one time. We're at a park. It was mostly a little kids park, but there was a group of like high school girls that were like just hanging out off to the side, just sitting talking in a circle and he was doing swings and whatever and he saw them and ran right over and sat down in the circle and didn't even introduce himself. Just sat down and they were all kind of like and just kept going and like included him because he was just a cute little kid and he just sat there. I was like, he's working. My dreams are coming true. And that's pretty much it for me. Well, I have James Smalltalk. Do you guys want to hear about more joys of having a child? Always. Fascinating times in the world of James. He's, he's, he really loves Mark. I think in one of the previous episodes you talked about the movie, K-pop demon hunters in the weekend immediately following when we recorded that. I happened to watch it and I, I agree with your take. It's pretty good movie. It's just enjoyable because we watch the movie. We were playing the music and we just like played it for James. He fucking loves the music from that movie. He, uh, he really likes Golden and he really likes the soda pop. He's like dancing more than he's ever danced before anytime it comes on. He starts dancing and the there's like the drop in, uh, I forget which one, but the one when it's like we're going up that's in golden. He like when the drop is coming, he's stuck and he goes ready. Ready. We're going. It's really funny. And that's very cute and very fun. And, uh, so to balance it out, uh, this is the other thing that he's doing a lot lately. We were in the car and he was just screaming and not like angry or sad or anything. He was happy. And he was just going, blah, blah, blah. And like it was a lot. And eventually I reached a point where I was like, man, how do I stop that from happening for a minute? And I just sort of was like, Hey, buddy, what are you doing? What? Hey, James and I get his attention and I finally got his attention and he looked at me and I was like, yeah, okay. What are you doing? And why? And he just goes, I'm buying because, blah, blah. And I was like, you know what? He fucking, he answered me directly. I cannot fault him. He knows exactly what he's doing. And he's really committed to it. And so I've had a headache for about a week and a half. Um, but it's still pretty funny. But that one is way more unpleasant because he really does just scream a lot right now. It's fucking loud. But it's having a great time. So it's hard to complain. It's the Quetzal Kotlis Northropi. It's a dinosaur bird. You know what? Quetzal Kotlis is? Oh, wait. How did you know what that was? Because I know what the fuck a Quetzal Kotlis is. Because it's a kind of dinosaur thing. And James likes dinosaurs. I didn't know we had dinosaurs on this list. I'm not going to lie. I didn't either. As per you, we're going to start today with a small talk. I want to go first this morning. James, son, one year old, had gymnastics. And I just want to say, baby gymnastics. Pretty wild. Very cute though. Turns out one year olds are crazy. Like climbing on the walls, doing somersaults. Balance beam backflips. There were balance beams. There's, I like to have the whole rage. There's a balance beam that just sits on the floor. Then there's one that's like six inches tall. And then there's one that's like four feet tall that like looks super dangerous. It's fine. And there's like rings and they do somersaults. And James ran face first into another child today. They clashed foreheads. They're fine. He was upset for a second. But then there were bubbles. Oh, he's fine. But anyway, I was one of four men in the entire building. And it was an interesting experience. One of the men worked at the place. One of the men was a dad who left because they were in the class before us. And then I think there was one other guy there. Wait, how big is this facility? Because four men in a place seems like a reasonable number of people. In the class before James's class, because they're separated into like age groups, there were probably 20-ish kids. And each kid has, each kid has an adult with them, right? So it's a kid and a parent. So there were like 40 people, 20 kids, 20 adults, all women, except for one dude in that class. And yeah. So in James's class, there was maybe more like 15. What is the purpose of gymnastics that one year's old? I mean, it's not competitive, right? The point is you're teaching them how to walk around. It's a place where they can work on balance and motor skills. They learn things like how to do how to do somersaults, but you help them do somersaults. And so he's learning how to like control. He has to tuck his head. He has to stick his arms out. It's like helping develop motor skills in a more fun way. They just run around and run around and climb on stuff. How is your day or recent week or recent life as a new guys? Really funny today. James met Santa today. He did this last year, but he did not remember. And he was kind of scared of Santa last year, which is pretty common for little kids. He was two years old this year, and we took him to meet Santa, and we were like standing outside of Santa's area. And it's like a hole. There's Christmas trees all around and it's decorated. We're standing outside, and he's all, uh, Santa. Oh, oh, oh, Christmas tree. Christmas tree. He would not shut up. He's in a stage right now where he's super chatty. It's adorable. And then it was like our turn, and we go through the line, we walk in, and like he stands at the entry, and we're like, it's Santa, James. Go meet Santa, and he does that kid thing where he's like, like two inches at a time, wouldn't say it damn word. Walked up to the guy, this, it was, he was a great Santa. The guy who was doing it, uh, I mean, Santa was great, and he's like chatting and asking him questions. He had his zebra with them, because he wouldn't put the zebra down today. He's like, Oh, you have a zebra. I love zebras. Maybe you can help me take care of my reindeer. Oh, James was just like, and then it was time for the picture, and we were like, go hug Santa. And he like did that thing where he didn't move his body, but he leaned in slightly closer to imply that he was like, hug. It was really cute. The pictures turned out pretty cute, but he was, he's just, he's, he's, you've met, you both have met him. He's not particularly shy in general. But what he made, like people in costumes or strangers, he doesn't know who are, you know, but he knows from TV or whatever. It's a weird reaction. I can't tell if it's abject horror or he's just like, it's the celebrity I love from television. He's here. Oh, but it was very cute. And we have pictures, so we're sending everybody pictures. Like a Christmas story whenever Santa like kicks the kid down the slide. Shoot your eye out, kid. As he's seen that movie yet. No, there's no reason to fear Santa from the media. We've showed him. We did actually show him, uh, some of the Santa Claus. So maybe he thinks Santa is Tim Allen and he doesn't like him. It's an entirely reasonable response. You walk into the North Pole. You're like, I mean, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait. How did they brought you cookies, Wade? He did. Yeah. I was going to say James delivered cookies to me today. He was really sweet. He was like greeting me and her and came by. And I forget, uh, what all words he said, but he said hello. And he said, bye, bye. He handed me the cookies. And I was like, thank you. And she's like, say you're welcome. He's like, welcome. And I was like, oh, thanks. And then he put his hands out like, all right. I give him back. And I was like, oh, uh, his offer because I'm not gonna. They're also very good cookies, but no, it was sweet seeing him. I've been building stuff. I built a, I built a wardrobe, a hardwood wardrobe. I didn't cut the piece to see. It was, it came pretty, but I screwed it together. God damn it. But also I built a thing. It's like a little tool organizer shelf thing. I think you're supposed to hang on the wall in the garage and like you put your drills in it and charging. I included James in it. James are almost two-year-old, uh, baby. And he loved it because mainly it was just screwing things together, which he could help with pretty easily. And he liked, he would put his hand on the drill. And then I would knee and he'd be all, ha, because he thought that was the coolest thing ever. He put his hand on the drill. Like on the back, like on the safe part. Okay. Just like I held the drill and he like put his hand on it and then I pulled the trigger and it vibrated and he thought it was cool. But we got like 90% of the way done. And it turns out a shelf is just a baby-sized couch. And he like literally the whole time he had been sitting on parts of it and standing on it. But then we got like 90% done. And it's just a little hymn-sized like wooden bench thing. And he just sat in it and was like, like, oh, you've built me a chair. Thanks, dad. So now we have a work pro branded tool chair holder, baby set up in our living room that I don't know if I'm ever going to get back. But it's very fun. James is coming into a big dad era, which is fun because I feel like he was kind of all about mom for a long time. But now we're doing stuff. We're building things. Well, the toys they have for kids that are, you know, workshop based, they have that cardboard router table where you push the cardboard through. Those are cool. We're getting one of those so bad once he's old enough. Those look awesome. Yeah. Dude, me too, with the sleep deprived. Yeah. Why you? James is going through a growth spurt and is having growing pains. And so instead of sleeping, he just cried all night. I also feel sleep deprived. What important thing are you doing? We have dogs that have decided that their schedules are no longer to sleep at night. Their job is to go to sleep and nighttime, they're like, all right, Paul, we'll take a nap for like an hour. You know what it sounds like is you actually have a couple of outside dogs. Oh, you know, I really not that much. I'm still sick. I made James's life. I had to clean the hot tub and it got really hot. And so I was like, I emptied it, but then I didn't clean it. Then I filled it back up. And James loves it. So now we don't have a hot tub. We have the world's smallest pool. His kids aren't supposed to go in hot tub. It's not good for them because they're tiny. So we just keep it at like 90 degrees or whatever. Some like warm pool temperature. It's the fucking it's the best thing he's ever experienced. Kid loves just going under the water, falling down, scaring his parents, thinking he's going to drown, coming back up, laughing about it. You know, kids stuff. You made James alive. That is true. That's true. And at least two ways. You'd think that would be worth two points, but it's not James is counting now. He could count the numbers one, two, and five, but he does them correctly. If you count one, two, three, four, five, he'll be all one, two, five. So he knows. Wow, he really does. He's just working on he's working on getting the other ones in there in the mouth situation. Can't quite do with a three and a four. Those are tough. It's getting close to them. Three, I could see being tough. Four seems like it'd be the same as five to me. Listen, you wouldn't understand how toddlers work. And it's well, actually, of the three of us, he might understand the most tub toddlers actually function. You think it's true. That's true. Four, five, four, let me say oh, ours are hard to one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five. It's a really hard number. Are we on teaching weight? How to say numbers now? Is this what they call unschooling? Free. Free. One, two, three, five. I enjoy that. Give yourself some points. Look, I got a new ring. Wow. James gave it to me for Father's Day. This is my father. How the hell is he shopping? That's crazy. He's very sophisticated. He's like four years old mentally, even though he's only eight months old physically. That's pretty impressive. He's made from a whiskey barrel. It's very cool. Whoa, that's a small barrel. And it did so. I turn invisible when I do this. Where did I go? Whoa, that I can see. He's back. You can only get this great content on Spotify. Yeah. Sometimes when I'm playing with James, I'll pretend to throw something. And then actually, I didn't throw it. And he hasn't figured out yet that I do that. And so I'll just mess with him and be like, let's throw the ball to you. And then he freaks out for a second because he's like, what the fuck? And I'm pretty sure I convinced him I'm some kind of wizard. I do that with the dog sometimes. So I'm going to see how long I can keep that going. Lexi's worked that out. Lexi is no longer fooled by that one. I've done it too many times, but James is still figuring it out. So that's pretty conniving, right? That's very conniving. You know, I just don't need anyone knowing that I poop. I just don't need people knowing that. I got a book. I think you should read Mark. It's going to really change your life. Crazy caterpillar. It's called Everybody Poops. Oh, and James is reading it a lot right now. Just check it out. I've seen that book. That book is fucking disgusting. Gross. I've ever seen a potty training potty training in general. Like, I don't know what I thought it was going to be, but it's it's more concerning that I expected. Like one method of potty training is your baby doesn't wear pants now. Your baby is just full. Winnie the poo. And if and when they start peeing or pooping while you're just doing like every day life, like you're in the living room and they just start going, you just pick him up and run to the bathroom and be like, the toilet in the toilet in the toilet. It's so terrifying. It's a technique that I'm not going to do. And then like James is interested in the toilet now. And the other day, I was like, oh, dad needs to go to the bathroom. Hang on. And Mandy was like, oh, maybe James wants to see how the bathroom works. And I was like, oh, I don't want to see that. That doesn't sound good. And I thought about it. And I was like, no, that's actually what I'm supposed to do. Isn't it? I'm supposed to bring my son into the toilet so we can talk about how the toilets work. And I can, it's, I don't like it's concerning. It's good that he'll be able to use a toilet at the end of it. But all the rest of the end between parts, I never thought all the way through how that works. And I don't care for it. Make it less concerning. Get one of those things that use the bypass drug test, the wizardator. And you can use that to demonstrate. Interesting. That sounds worth it probably. So I've been, I got a thing off of Facebook marketplace as per how it usually goes. It's either a drug deal in a parking lot or someone leaves on their porch and you talk to $20 under the, the mat, right? It was one of those. This was one of those. They were like, it was a, it was a thing for James. It was a little toy thing. He was getting in really into how it was, it was not a valuable thing. And this lady was like, I'll just leave it on the front porch. I'm really busy today. And I was like, that's totally fine. I'll just swing by and get it sometime this morning. I'm also busy. That was the agreement. And I was just going to stick 20 bucks under the mat. And I got to the house. They address that she sent me and I saw the thing sitting on the front porch, but it was at the house, which was down a very long driveway, which was filled with several children riding their bikes up and down the driveway. So I pulled up and I was like, hmm, I don't really want to carry this. I don't want to walk up the whole drive. I'll see if I can pull. So I sort of like pulled up toward the driveway and was like, soft waiting to see if the kids would get out of the way. And they looked at me and we're kind of like, hmm, and they went up towards the garage of the house like they were going to run away. And I pulled very menacingly and slowly up the driveway the whole time the kids were increasingly concerned like, wait, he's actually coming. Oh, God. What did mom say about strangers? Wait a second. Hey, God, there's something we're supposed to do here. And I literally, like I got up there. I parked and I got out of the car with like my hands up like an officer was was detaining me and I was like, no, it's okay. I'm buying the thing from your mom. Kids, the thing on the porch. Did she tell you? Did she tell? And they were like, oh, yeah. She totally said a guy in a car was going to be here this morning to pick up the, that's cool. You're cool, dude. You're cool. But that wasn't it was not cool. They were clearly freaked out. And they like ran away inside. And I just went up to the porch and was like, it took the thing ran away. I'll sketch you like, it was really awkward. I don't know if I've ever done a face of marketplace deal that didn't end in some level of awkwardness. But that one felt bad because it was kids. Didn't see the adult, didn't get close to the kids barely said a couple senses to them, but they were definitely freaked all the way out. And I still feel kind of bad about it. I was hoping they all would come up just and make you or something. But James loves that toy. That's his new favorite toy. So worth it. Do what you got to do. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. All right. Yeah. Scares children, but hey, if it's for your own child, scare all the children in the world. Yeah. I scare all the other children. Moving. God, I fucking hate moving. You're moving. Yeah. I don't know if you could see. Remember how all these shelves used to have shit all over them. This I can only hope will be the last time I ever move for the rest of my life. Damn. We'll see if that holds up because I'm pretty sure I said something like that when we move to this place. But we are moving. The movers will be here in less than 48 hours. I will say this area like my desk is covered in all the same. I haven't packed it at all. This is the least packed part of the entire house. All the rest of our houses in like boxes and shit. But we have been hardcore pretty much most of the day, every day, since Saturday and today is Tuesday, moving, packing, carrying heavy shit up and downstairs. I fell on the stairs one time. Totally fine, survived. But the movers actually show up and then we'll be moved over. Honestly, as much as I despise moving, this is lame because I always do this and circle it back to being a dad now that I'm a dad. But the most concerning part of all this for me is I'm curious how James is going to handle it, right? We've already moved once, but he was like a baby when we moved. We moved from California back to Ohio to be closer to our parents when he was like 10 months old, which was tricky because 10 months old are tricky. But this is different now, right? He's old enough now where like his room is his room. He knows that that's his bed. That's his bookshelf. This is his, but we're like packing up his belongings and they're disappearing. And he's kind of like, hey, didn't that bookshelf? Wouldn't that full of books? We're not all my books go. And it's like he's being really cool so far, but I'm curious, the first night, like we're going to sleep in this house tomorrow night. And then the next night, we're going to sleep in the other house and his bed is going to be in a new room and it's going to be a smell different. And I just don't know how it's going to go. He might be totally fine. He's really chilly. He likes traveling. He loves staying at hotels and stuff. We've done that a couple times. But I'm worried that it's going to be hard on him because he is so young. It's hard to express how he's feeling or understand exactly how he's feeling and moving is weird and moving is difficult. So it's sucks and I hate packing. But the main thing on my mind is James because I'm really curious and just want to make sure he does okay because it's a big change for a little kid who doesn't necessarily understand why all his shit is all moved around and not where it's supposed to be anymore. But it'll be over soon said for getting about the three months of unpacking that always follows and move from house to house. Are you like in a safe house or are you hiding from the government or is it actually vacation? It's vacation. This is a big family vacation. It's like we're near the beach and James saw the ocean for the first time a couple days ago and he loves it. He has no fear whatsoever. We were literally like, he might not like it. It's big and scary and we walked him out onto the beach and we're like, look, it was the ocean. And for half a second, he was kind of like, what the fuck's wrong with that pool? And then he was like, I'm going in and ran into the ocean at full speed. And he does not know what fear means. That's terrifying. He wants to go swim with the sharks, meet aqua man and all that stuff. Fun family memories, terrifying but fun. I want Mark to babysit him at the beach now with Mark's love of the ocean and James fear of the ocean. I think that was too combined. This is a winning combination. Don't worry about a thing, Bob. Go to sleep. You're going slumber. James, James gets into the three inch deep edge of the ocean and Mark is like, he's gone. I'll call Bob. No, everything's good. James is real funny these days. He started music classes this week. I want a good time with that. What, what is he doing in music class? Like it, they give him drumsticks or something? Yeah, it's a toddler music class. So it's like triangle, hit the triangle, shakers. They had to get a banana that he was shaking, hitting and scraping and shaking is the gist of it. And like play like they did the big parachute when you once it's in a circle or a thing. That's our stuff. But fun stuff. I'm sure listeners can tell I sound a little sick because I am. I'm going to talk about the baby. So anyone who paints that, sorry. In the last week, we have had possibly the worst tonight with James and also three of the best nights of sleep with him. Like since he was born. So it's been a really weird mix of stuff. He's teething right now. And he has like three molars coming in all at the same time, which is incredibly painful. And so there was one night he could not exist without just screaming because it was like agony, like constant agony, didn't sleep the whole night. It was his him. It was during the do anything to keep him from just screaming and pain. But then three other nights around that he has slept for like eight straight hours without waking up or anything, which is not. He usually wakes up at least a couple times in it. He slept like he was a rock. And it's been weird because those have been fantastic nights. But also I've been sick. So that didn't help me sleep very much. But then the one night where he literally just didn't sleep, it was just absolute chaos and ruin the next week of everything because my schedule was all off. He was crazy. We didn't sleep. So anyway, we're in a wild time with the baby right now. But it's cute. He's starting to talk. He knows what sound a horse makes. Oh, if you look at him, you go, James, what sound does a horse make? He goes, no, it's amazing. It's very cute. Oh, that's cute. When did he, when did he say his first words? Well, while he's been saying like mama and dad F nine or ten months, he started really saying stuff. But in before the new year, he was talking and saying some stuff. But like he's his speech is about to explode. He's going to start saying all kinds of stuff. A win goes in Mark's column of wins, but he doesn't win the episode. We spin again. There's a lot of different things on this wheel. Yeah, that's quite a few. James wins. James gets a win in his column. All right, that's pretty good. But it takes a village to raise a baby, so each of the three of us loses a win that we sacrifice to give James a win. I feel like he's basically a part of me. So like I get his win probably. I know you should lose more than one, but I was trying to be fair. It's like a, it's like a celebrity, he's like my celebrity child, right? I hold his win until he's old enough to use it responsibly. Yeah, but it's like in the bank gaining interest. So you can't really do anything with it. Yeah, in my bank gaining my interest. You can feel about how you will, but it's James win and we all three lose a win for him to get one. There's a super moon yesterday and apparently tonight as well. I'm like a very, very slightly eclipse of it as well. Oh man. James is saying a three word sentence is now. Whoa. It's kind of one three word sentence, but like I'm not trying to undercut his achievements, but he, we were going to bed two nights ago. We were going to bed and I was laying next to him trying to settle in and he just looks at me and he goes, I see daddy. I was like, what? And apparently no one has, no one has been teaching him this. I think he watched, he does watch Miss Rachel on YouTube, which is like a very popular kids YouTube thing. I think she does that, but like none of us people and his real people in his real life were teaching him that. He just started doing it. And then now he's like, I see doggy. I see moon. He really like the moon last night. So like I don't know where. That's pretty fun. I'm glad he's listening to real people, not like Miss Rachel. Points are at stake. James takes man poops. James is my baby. He takes man poops. Like steals them or has big poops. Some of his poops smell like baby poops, which is not not one singular smell, but there's like a, it's like a vibe that baby poops give off. Like puppy breath. Some of his poops smell like a full grown man took a dump into a baby's diaper. It's horrific. Have you ever pranked him and taken a poop in his diaper and then tried to frame him for it? Once, but I got caught. I want to go on the record and say I've never stolen any poop in my life. There's no poop stealing. There's poop giving. The sneaky, sneaky giving away of poop mark. No, never done that either. It's like whenever you're stealthing in Skyrim or something and you try to place a poop on someone's person to frame them as the pooper. Like when they're sitting on the toilet, when when is this occurring? You stealth up behind them and then you equip poop in your left hand and then you clap your left hand on their back so you smear the poop and kill it. Like the yarls giving his big speech about the dragons and you're like poopy. The trick is you put a bucket on their head first and then you can cover him in all the poop. I don't want to talk about that. James is talking a lot. He's good. Honestly, he's been sleeping pretty good this week and stuff, so like I think the biggest thing is he's getting stronger. Uh oh. He's getting stronger, but he's not getting better about understanding what violence is. So it's not really his fault. It was, this is not even that recently. It just, it weighed suffering reminded me of this, I guess. We took him to an event and he got like, uh, he got like a toy at this event, basically. It was a dump truck toy and he loves dump trucks. We made the mistake of he got that right at the start. Like we got there, went to the first area. He got that immediately. He did not have any interest in doing any of the rest of this whole event we were at where you could like sit in a helicopter and look at it. It was like trucks and things. It was very cool. It's like emergency vehicles and fire truck. He had his little dump truck toy and we were like, look buddy, let's get in line. You could sit in a tractor and you can, and you can sit in this Medevac helicopter and don't look at all this stuff. I was take, I was holding him and I was like, I'm going to take this toy and we're going to go get a picture of you sitting on a tractor and I took that, I grabbed the toy and I pulled it and he was kind of like, yeah, what? And I was like, no, I'll give it back. I took the thing. I got it away from him and he full body, full length of his arm wheeled back and like right on my cheekbone, perfectly solid contact. He smacked the shit out of me. And even I was there with Mandy and Rin, friend, Rin, like even they, he did that and they were like, whoa, are you okay? Yeah, that was a real man's smack. He's very strong and he kicks and smacks way above his weight class. Damn. That's not exactly surgery, but did he laugh afterwards? Did he like, he was very unhappy. He did that and was like, kill you. I know where you sleep. He takes like a bottle off the table, breaks it, like holds it at you. I can climb stairs now. Yeah, no, he's a wild talking more though now. He learned in the last couple days. He's learned how to fake sneeze. So now I don't know where he'll just be all. It's really cute. He's like, what a year and a half now, is that right? Uh, 17, 17 months. That's basically like a year and a half. This is not even the bad, isn't, like, when they turn two, doesn't something terrible happen? He's getting into the terrible twos type stuff. It's, it's more like terrible toddlers because they're learning how to regulate their emotions and they're able to do more stuff physically, but they're not aware of what they're doing over it. So yeah, he's, this is like, he's getting into the terrible, quote, terrible twos behaviors. Can't wait till he's a terrific teen. He's going to be just the best. No more problems going to be smooth sailing once he gets past, too. Tell you what next, excellent. Anyway, I'm going to finish James's table someday. It's a six month project, really, and I'm only two months in. So yeah, I kind of a lot of time. It'll be like in college, his third year of college, like James, I'm working on this, your whole life. It's finally ready. It's like a Fisher Price sized like table. I'm going to have to cut some parts out if I want to get it done. done by then, but I think I can make it happen. - Cool, pain souls and bears. - No, I don't have a chainsaw, I'm gonna keep bringing that up. - Sorry. - I try to think if there's something that happened to me, but mainly the thing is, James sleeps by himself this week? - I don't know if it's gonna last, but. - Oh my God, we're making progress on the sleep training, and it's a miracle. - He's so big now, he's like so human and runs around and stuff. Whenever you guys came over to watch the football game, it was wild. - No, he's a menace. He's smart enough now to really cause problems and really do some dangerous shit, and he loves it. He's good though, his speech is developed. He's suing three word sentences now. He's working on more. - He was sweet. It was really awesome having him and Milo over. It's wild, seeing like the progressions of baby. - Yeah, Milo, Milo compared to James was a crazy, crazy reminder of how far he's come. 'Cause Milo, for anyone who doesn't know Milo, is Patrick Static's child and is six months younger than James, I think, not that far apart, but also basically two entirely different creatures because the development in that time is crazy. - In the first few years, six months is a long time. - That's true, it's still like an over quarter of his life, and it's a third of Milo's life, I guess, so that's a lot. - I was like, man, oh man, I don't know how y'all can keep up, 'cause he's fast too. - Yeah, he's very fast. You know when he's real fast? - When he sees the ocean. - I think I talked about this, but man, is he fast when he decides he's going into the ocean? - James is kind of walking now, not on his own, but he has a little thing that he pushes, that he holds onto, he can walk around with that. - Is he already that age where he's supposed to be walking around? - He's a little bit ahead of the game on that one, but yeah, that's kind of, he's in that area. He sees nine months around a year is when I think, by understanding as a lot of babies will start to stand up on the, like lean on the couch and scoot around or you have a little walky thing and walk around. So yeah, he's sitting there. - That feels like in my brain, one of the most dangerous times for children is when I first start to walk and they're like stumbling around everywhere. - It's very dangerous. He's already taking a couple of pretty good spills, but he'll learn from the pain. - Mm, we all do. - But he will, he'll eventually learn from that. We'll get there. James walks now. I think I've mentioned before. - I was like, who is that? It's your baby, I know I've met. - We have a baby. His name is James, he definitely met him a few times. He walks now. He doesn't walk more than four, five steps at a time, but GANS is walking and it's terrifying. He also climbed up the stairs. He did not walk up the stairs, but he climbed up the stairs with a person behind him, making sure he didn't fall and die. But he did it by himself for the first time. Everything's in peril and all the child proofing we've done is pointless. - This is, I don't know if I talked about this on the show previously, but James splash tables, I think is what they're, I don't know. It's like a little table you fill it up with water and he plays in it, right? It's just like you play with toys in it, whatever. It's really good summer toy 'cause it's like, it's not just running a sprinkler. It's like a set amount of water so you don't just, you know, blast water every witch away. And last summer, he got one of those and I looked at it and I was like, you know what would be really sick? There's like a top and a bottom. And if you put, if you pour water in the top, it like rains and it's really fun. But you have to physically like take a bucket and pour it and I was like, what if I buy? What if I get like a aquarium pump and I'll feed a hose up to the top and I'll set the pump in the bottom and then it'll like cycle the water. So it's always right and I did all this research and I bought one thing off the internet and it didn't work and I bought another thing off the internet and it didn't work for other reasons. And it was all that like literally my setup would be like, I have an external battery pack with like a USB cord running to the pump into water. It's all just the sketchiest shit. And I was like, I spent a lot of time trying to home through this thing. Never quite worked right. Eventually I just gave up and whatever. On the internet yesterday, I was presented with an ad for exactly that product made in the simplest most concise way possible. It's just a thing, you drill one hole, you set, and I looked and I was like, this costs less than one of my multiple attempts at doing it myself, dude. Son of a bitch. But anyway, I bought one. So James is gonna have the dopest water table to play on this summer and I'm pretty excited about it. - That's cool. - Well, also I'm an idiot and I can't ever, I always am like, I'll just do it, I'll make it myself. I'll home brew it. Now I should probably just buy it. Whatever I'm gonna make, it's either not gonna work or it's gonna be so fucking terrible that I just wish I would about it. I wouldn't wanna put your child in the way of that. - Like it works, but the whole water table's electrified somehow, even though, I don't know, maybe I should just let a company hold onto that liability for me. You know what power makes me think of and the thing that I'm obsessed about right now? Power wheels. This is the little racing curse? - It's yeah, it's like the cars that little kids can sit in. - Oh, the drivable ones. I was thinking of hot wheels, right? - Yeah, not hot wheels, power wheels. It's like a little jeep or something that little kids can sit in and drive around the yard. I was never allowed to have power wheels as a kid but I don't wanna spoil James. But, man, do I want him to be old enough to have a power wheels? I mean, this part, I did TikTok update. There were people on the summer that say they missed TikTok updates. TikTok update, kind of. I'm in this part of TikTok where, look at all these dads who are customizing their power wheels for their kids because most power wheels are six-fold. Based on six-fold battery systems, but if you put a 12-fold battery in there, you double the power. You might fry the engine or the electric motor, but it goes twice as fast,ish. It goes faster. And you can do, and there are guys who like add a trailer so their kids can like tow, you know, a little fake motorcycle or tow like yard waste or all this stuff. And it was one where I saw a guy put like a backhoe type thing on the front so you could like rake leaves but use your power wheels. All kinds of stuff. I'm giving you a point for child labor. Yeah. Have I told you guys about James, the fart story with James? We farted in a movie theater in Oppenheimer and everyone laughed. I wish he did. He probably would think of that. He's very funny. No, so we have this place we drive frequently where there's rumble strips on the road, which is that thing where you're driving and you drive over it and it goes. We drive over there all the time and we were driving there with James in the backseat and we went over the rumble strips and out of nowhere and he's never said it before, at least to me really. Out of nowhere he just goes, huh? Farts. 'Cause the rumble strip fucking sounds like Farts. Anyway, he's hilarious. He's gonna be the funniest kid I know. Oh no, it's funny to me, but like he'll be second. Well, you're not a kid. So you're kind of in a different class. All right. You're not the funniest adult I know either, but don't be offended. I know a lot of adults. You could say that it's just not true. James is hilarious. Also, he calls the movie Sing Dance Animals and that's his current favorite move. Pretty accurate. 'Cause he's like getting old enough now where he's branching out of a lot of like the baby-esque shows like the Blueies and stuff or. He still enjoys Bluey. He still enjoys, the thing right now is animals. Everyone is constantly surprised. It's, 'cause we're like, oh, he loves animals. He loves animals. And people were like, oh, you like horses? You're like, no. He knows what a yak is. He knows what a flamingo is. He can't quite say it, but he knows what a hyena is. He knows probably a few dozen animals in total. And the all day every day is, why animals? Why animals? And it means a lot of different things. 'Cause it could mean he wants to watch a video of animals. Could mean he wants to stuff to animals. But he's an interesting place. Very smart. He likes to enact animals eating each other. He'll get like a bear and a giraffe. And then the bear will be chasing the giraffe, trying to bite it. And it will succeed at some point. And he's literally just running around like, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. Or he'll stage like accidents. He has like trains and stuff. He'll put an animal in front of the train on the track and then just slowly like, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh shit. He, it's, that's probably good, right? I mean, I guess it's better than taking like Barbie dolls or like army dudes and being like, oh no. These are animals. Yeah. They don't have souls. James has learned that he could scream real loud. So that's fun. I've never been made dizzy by a scream before. But that can happen now. Last night we were getting ready for bed. And he was like, it was, he gets two books and then we go to bed and it's like, oh, we have a whole routine. And we got to the, I think to the end of the second book and like close the book. And man, he was like, okay, put the book on the shelf and we're going to do this. And he just was like, no, no, more stories. And we're like, no, man, it's bedtime. This is, we do this every night. This is the routine. And he did that sort of like shake of rage and then proceeded to scream louder than anything has ever been in human existence. And I actually like, it made my head vibrate and when he stopped screaming, I was kind of like, so I never had that before. But I'm sure that he'll only do that the one time and that's not going to be all day every day for the next three weeks of my life. How do you stop that? Wait, bad advice. Oh, what you do is you give him a megaphone so he can be even louder to the point where he makes himself paralyzed from the noise. You're right, you're right, there we go. You give him headphones and a microphone and make him scream into his own ears. You know how home lander went up to that one superhero and went doing on the sides of the head and then made him deaf now that he'd scream louder. And this is horrible advice. Put him in a bit of a stupid, stupid hero. I see what you did there. Yeah, I should definitely do whatever home lander does. He's a good guy, right? - He's a father. - I haven't watched the show. I haven't watched the show. He's like the Superman character in that universe, right? He's a good guy. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - He is America. - Yeah, he is America. - Yeah, and he's a father. He's raising a child. - I think his first act as a father was to throw his son off of like a roof or something, wasn't it? Spoilers? - I don't even speak. - Yeah, kids didn't know. - Spoilers. - James has entered a new era, which I have not named yet, but I'm gonna just say that it's very destructive and it's mainly of his own self. He's entering a mark era, really. Let's call it that. - Okay, all right. - I sort of hoped eventually he'd gain like a fear of getting hurt because he's not afraid of anything. He'll just like climb up on the back of the couch and you know, like he could fall and break his neck and all he just does stuff like that. And he has started falling off of things now. He started falling down. He fell off the back steps on the patio because he just wasn't looking and ran off the steps. He keeps doing that. But he doesn't act like he gets hurt. Like he falls, he fell onto his face. He missed this last step, fell onto his face off the back deck, onto a concrete patio. And we were like, "Oh, oh, ah!" And he just stood up and was like, "Hmm." - I thought kids cried a lot. - He does cry when he gets, when he like hurts himself sometimes, but when he really eats it, nothing. He doesn't get scared. He doesn't, he's just like, "Oh, that's cool." And then just good and continues. And it's like, he's just gonna keep doing crazier and crazier shit. He's not learning to be afraid for his safety at all. - He's like the next evil con evil. - I don't know. - It seems bad, but also he's like, he's fine. Like he's getting scraped up. But otherwise, he's fine. I'm gonna trust him. He's doing a half now. Pretty trustworthy guy. - It feels like a cop out, I guess, but I'm, I'm excited for more James. I feel like, I mean, we have fun. He's been fun. It's not like he's been unfund up to this point, but it's been tough. We moved from California back to Ohio, and then we just moved again, and like he's handled it like a trooper, but it just throws off all your routines, and it makes it really hard to like, really get in and do all the fun stuff, 'cause there's no time for shit. It's like, it gets to be evening time, and we're like, okay, buddy, let's do something fun. You wanna bring boxes back and forth between houses? You can hold the door open at, you know, be a little helper. - Be a little door stop. - Hey, he likes it. But like, I'm excited for another year, like a new year where he's gonna be older. He's talking a ton, and we're like, we're gonna start doing stuff, I think, together this year that's a little more complicated and fun, and I'm also, I think personally, I'm excited to put more tools on things. I gotta do a good stretch there when I had the Subaru, where I was like working on the car, and I was doing stuff with my hands, and that was really fun. And then I got rid of the Subaru, and I lost that completely. I wanna get back to like, I'm excited to work on stuff. And one of the things on this new house that was such a big selling point for me, is I have a huge garage, and I have like a work, a dedicated like workshop area. It's just a little side part of the garage, but I have like a work bench and a toolbox, and I can like have projects where I don't have to pull the cars out of the garage to work on them, and then clean it back up and pull the cars back into the garage. Every time I'm, it's like, I have an area. I can just have a little project. If I have a glue up, I can just sit somewhere and dry in clamps, and then I don't have to, like I'm excited, and James is getting the age where he's gonna be able to help me do that. Maybe we'll build a bird house, or, you know, who knows what, but like, that's awesome. That sort of stuff. - Hey, baby. - Hey, guys, I have a baby. - Oh, wow. Is this his first appearance on the podcast? I think it is. - It might be. - What are we doing this there? Who's supposed to be taking a nap? Who's not right now? - Well, this is interesting. - I'm assuming this means he's being a problem. - That's not busy. He's sitting in there, clock the door. - How could it possibly be a problem? - No, no. - Whoa, hey, now we're, we're here, and we're still in the same episode. - Watch new episodes on Spotify. [BLANK_AUDIO]