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. Yes, and you can enjoy this week that may be stressful for some, that's right. And you can always go to our archives. Yes, all that time you have on your hands is the perfect time to listen to our one thousand plus episodes. May me two thousand plus episodes. Even we have
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