Why Is This Man Eating Placenta Soup?!

Voicemail: [00:00:00] A sudden her water broke, like she didn't know she was pregnant. Hell. I didn't know she was pregnant.

Andrea: Have you ever wondered what I would say if my mother and my administrators weren't watching every single thing I do on social media? Well, that's exactly what my standup show is, and I'm gonna be coming to a town near you super soon. You can get tickets@educatorandrea.com slash tickets. Hey, teacher besties.

Welcome to How to Survive the Classroom, and I had a bit of a rough go of it this weekend. So as part of my tenure, when you get, when you become a professor, you are not automatically tenured. You have to earn the tenure by being good at your job. Can you believe it? The audacity of these people. So part of the tenure process is that you have [00:01:00] to like prove that you were doing service to the community in some way that you're serving the college.

Um, and that you are like doing some sort of publication. And if you are at like a big fancy school, they wanna see publications from peer reviewed journals and stuff like that as much as possible. And some, it's like you have to do like two or three a year, which is a ton of research. Indiana State is a teaching university, so their focus is mostly on teaching and service and they wanna see some publication, but not as much.

Okay. I needed you to have this context so that when I tell you this next thing, um, you can understand why I was so sad. Also, as teachers, I feel like no matter what, we would be sad with this. So for the tenure process, I have to read over all of my course evals, and then I have to kind of like. Synthesize the information and put it in this report.

And so last year I've been teaching this social media class for two Springs. So I basically started teaching at ISU. They said, Hey, do you wanna teach an honors course on social media? And I was like, oh my gosh. Amazing. Yes, I'd love to. Um, and then I taught the first time and [00:02:00] I didn't love it. I felt like I could have done better.

Um, but my course evaluations for that were really good. This last spring, I got absolutely skewed. The comments in there were pretty brutal. Um, there was one person that said that I should go back to teaching middle and high schoolers because at least they aren't paying for it. Um, ow. First of all, ow. Um, but here was the other piece that really made me very sad is I don't think that my course evaluations in that class were that low, um, without.

Some pretty valid reasoning. Like I felt it in that class that I did not love teaching that class. I was very distracted because what I want to be teaching is future teachers. And as much as social media is part of what I do with my life, um, it doesn't get me excited in the same kind of way that preparing future teacher does.

Teachers does. Um. [00:03:00] So I got this course evaluation and they just, they, it was brutal, like every other course evaluation across the, um. The university, the average course eval is like a 4.5 for professors where like out of five, where like you've got, you know, you're returning stuff on time, students feel respected, blah, blah, blah.

Right. Um, for most of my course evals, I'm like a 4.7, 4.8 for some of my classes, all of that. The consistent thing is that I'm not good at grading, which agreed. Again, another valid criticism, like I am always trying to get better at returning things on time. Um, and my course eval for that one was, I think a 3.8.

I feel like I, I fear that I deserved it. You guys, I fear that I deserved it, um, which made me even more sad because I did not do right by those students. And that is the hardest part of working at a university is like you will have classes where, where it's a miss. You know, like when you teach high school, you'll have classes like that where you're like, wow, that was a miss.

I didn't do [00:04:00] great. Um, but you don't actually ever have to hear the words. That you suck from your students usually. Um, you like, you might get the vibe or whatever and you're like, yeah, I wasn't great that time. I have to read it with a rating system and a rubric. Um, and it's tough, but I will say it did in fact force me this week to sit down and do the grading I needed to do that I was falling behind on.

So maybe that's what I just need all the time, is I just need people to be telling me, like keeping me accountable and being like, Hey, hey, you. Suck do better. And I'm like, you're right, you're right. I'll get on that. So if you feel like, um, you've been sucking lately, you're not alone because I have a whole document that demonstrates that I suck a little.

Um, thankfully that's only one class out of the many classes that I teach. Um, and most of them were very positive, but man, there were like three or four students in particular that. Hated me, um, which is always a tough pill to swallow. And I was telling my husband about this, I was like, man, it really hurt my feelings.

[00:05:00] I got like some really mean comments. And my husband started laughing and I was like, what? And he is like, it just, I was just thinking about a review I left of one of my college professors, um, at the college I went to in California. And I was like, what, what do you mean? What did you say? And he is like, um.

You know, it was my chemistry professor and I really didn't like him, and I was like, what did you put in this professor's review? And he said that he left a comment that he didn't think that that professor could teach a bucket to carry water, which is so mean. But so funny. And I was like, I promise you that professor thinks about you all the time.

Like all the time. And that's the thing is like there is this weird balance within college professors and stuff like that where like some are absolutely narcissistic, would never listen to a criticism or anything like that. Or then there's the other half, like me who it's gonna haunt them until the day that I like.

I would probably be sad every time I saw a bucket if somebody said that to [00:06:00] me. So. There you go. Um, also this week, something that is my gift to you is a video I'm about to share with you. Um, this is something that I came across that immediately captured my attention, and you'll see why when you hear the audio.

Um, it is an Instagram page where this guy is basically. I don't know if I would say cooking more, curating something called a perpetual stew. And that means you have a soup that you are adding things to every day and you are never like done with the the soup. So, um, it's, his page is called Zach Makes ZAQ, period, M-A-K-E-S.

So we're just gonna listen to like the first 10 seconds of his current or the, when I came across his page, it was in early August that he had this batch of, of Stew. So let's just listen to what he shares here. 

TikTok: I fear that the placenta has only grown stronger while the egg bits maintain a choke hold on the stews texture.

Studious [00:07:00] will definitely require a bath, but first I put ingredients in last time and I need to see how they taste. There is an undefinable flavor to it. 

Andrea: I was just minding my business on the internet and I came across that video and I went down such a deep dive of this guy's page. So that happened in August where he had placenta.

An egg that he had added to his soup, which the comments on that page alone had me absolutely rolling there. There was somebody who commented and said, I fear the placenta has led us off the golden path. Like, like what a stunning opening line for a video where he is like, I fear the placenta has a choke hold on the flavor.

Is that what he said it was? So guys. This guy added placenta to a soup that he knew he was gonna be consuming day after day and egg. And I don't know, because I haven't been following a lot, if it was like he just added raw [00:08:00] egg, and so now there's like a, a scrambly piece, but now I'm hooked. Um, so if you need a deep dive.

To jump into, um, just out of fascination and horror. I would highly recommend he eats it every day. I assume. Um, I mean, the fact that he said that the placenta flavor has a choke hold on the stew make, I mean, does make me think that he, he's eating it every time. Um. Sometimes it looks a little bit better, but it is like a real dark, dark color.

Um, it looks real upsetting, so you're welcome for that. And it's just nice to know that at some, at some point in life, that weird kid that was like pressured into eating all of the lunch foods. You know, like when people would like mix everything at the end of lunch and you dare someone to like drink the, the mixture.

I feel like this is where that kid ends up. It's like it's a core memory and then. That's just his life now is he just eats perpetual stew and posts about it on the internet. Um, and I have respect for it. You know, you [00:09:00] gotta, you gotta know where your gifting is. Um, I will say that would be a hard sell if you went to someone's house and you were like, Hey, would you like some of my perpetual stew?

The egg bits really has have taken over the texture of it, but other than that, it's got a strong placenta flavor, so. There you go. A gift from the internet gods for us today. Um, and also something else that has been making me laugh because I feel like as teachers we always need something to go back to and make us laugh.

Um, I came across a comedian named Caitlyn pfo, um, I think I'm saying her name right. Um, she's a New York City comedian, and she had me absolutely cackling. Um, like most comedians, most of her clips that she posts online are crowd work, but I was. Like rolling, watching her videos. So Caitlyn Pluto is another one that you guys can check out.

Her stuff is so funny. Um, most of her clips. I did look to see if there was any clips we could show on here. Most of her clips are not, um, pg so I didn't wanna, uh, [00:10:00] share them here necessarily, but they're very good. So, um, if you wanna laugh, go and check out Caitlyn at pfo. Alright guys. Without further ado, let's go ahead and jump in to the first voicemail that was sent in this week.

Speaker 5: Okay. Hi. I miss t. I teach online sixth grade English. It's fantastic. It's wonderful. I love it. So today I got woken up to find out that my car was stolen by a tow truck. Fantastic. Great. Way to start the morning. Four o'clock. Great, great, great. Um, I couldn't go back to sleep. I stayed up planning, getting ready for the morning.

And I tell my kids, Hey, you know, this happens my first hour and they're so loving and kind and sweet and just hyping me up. And then my second hour rolls around and I don't know why. It's always the second hour. That's a wild bunch. I don't know. Anyways, so I tell these kid, my kids about my [00:11:00] morning, one of them was like, oh, ask my dad for money.

So sweet. I can't. I'm like, no, honey, I'm fine. I've got the money. That's not the problem. Problem is, is it sucks. He is like, yeah, that really does suck. I'm like, thank you though. That was very sweet. And I'm like, okay guys, we're online. So I'm like, okay guys. Scavenger hunt. Find things that'll make Ms.

Torris Tucker giggle. Find things that'll make me smile. Do the things, whatever. So I have one little boy modeling his white water bottle on the screen like Vanna White. I had another boy. Do the same exact thing, modeling a Morton salt container. Fantastic. I have a ragdoll bunny presented to me wearing a one year old's shorts.

Why? I don't know, but it was magical. Then I get those fogler, which are amazing if you haven't seen them. Um, [00:12:00] and they're like, go and get yourself one so you feel better after work. And I'm like, okay. So I did.

Andrea: Oh my gosh, here's what I love about that voice memo. It's just so clear that she really loves what she's doing. You know, like you can hear in her voice that like, the silly goose behavior of these kids is just bringing her nothing but absolute joy. Oh, I. Hate that so much. Okay, so my producer just showed me what a fler is, guys.

It's like a stuffed animal with teeth with, with what looked like human teeth. And I hate it. I hate it. I hate labu boos, but I think I hate these words, which I did not think was possible actually, um, to. To hate something more than a lu boo boo. I just don't understand la boo boos. But I mean, we had to, we had, um, not tamagotchis, uh, we had like the trolls for a while, and [00:13:00] then we also had, I feel like there was another really ugly toy that we were super into for a while in like the nineties, early two thousands, but at least they didn't have human teeth.

Um, they, oh, so the brand name, if you guys haven't seen these, it says, um. I Buglers are friends for life. Befriending one of these Rowdy Rascals. Um, and they have all different types. Oh, I hate it. They have Lord of the Rings ones. There's, there's a Lord of the Rings. There's one that's supposed to look like Frodo.

And I feel like it's, it's a little bit mean 'cause his eyes are so far apart. I mean all their eyes are far apart, but this one in particular is pretty upsetting to look at. Um. I think that I would probably have a different reaction than you did to seeing all of these things. Um, it also, I think, shows that it's like it's sixth grade English, so you just know that those kids are gonna be, um.[00:14:00] 

A little bit like silly goose and probably a little bit less, um, documentation worthy. 'cause I feel like if I did that with a high schooler, like someone would show their vape 'cause they'd be like, oh, she doesn't know what a vape looks like. And that's fair. I probably don't know what a vape looks like because.

I'm sure that students have shown me a vape before and I didn't catch them, but I feel like someone would snitch and then I would be responsible for reporting it. Um, I did have somebody once that was charging their vape on their Chromebook when they asked me to come over for help. Like they were like, Hey, can you help me with this?

And that I legitimately would not have known that they were charging their vape except for how they reacted, because I didn't know what vapes look, I'm still, let's be honest, I'm still not that. Confident that if somebody showed me like a vape and a thumb drive. I don't know that I necessarily would be able to really suss 'em out unless I really could like play with them a little bit, because to me at all, kind of, I, I don't, I don't use thumb drives that [00:15:00] often, and I've, I've never used a vape.

So there you go. Um, despite my real spicy, salty, uh, opinions on vapes that I've shared on here before, um. But I, again, I love the energy of a middle school teacher where she's just like, yeah, like, I don't know. We're online. Go show me something that's gonna make me happy. My car got towed. Also, I think it's so funny that you said My car got stolen by a tow truck, ma'am, that's not how tow trucks work.

Like tow trucks generally tow you if you are parked illegally or owe money. Or something like that. So I feel like there's like a little bit of lore that we're missing out on here. Um, because generally, um, tow trucks don't just like, you know, randomly come around and, and pick up vehicles, but I mean, maybe they do, I don't know, maybe in your neighborhood there's a rogue tow truck doing grand theft auto, but usually not.

So I, I kind of wanna know what the lore is behind that as well. Um, I don't think I've ever [00:16:00] actually had my car towed. Um, my, my husband did get his car hit this week though, so. It's kind of the same thing. I am still, I am gonna be riding around in a rental because, um, somebody actually hit my husband's car while it was parked.

Um, and I cannot believe this, but they actually called and reported it 'cause he was like it, he wasn't in the car, he was at work. And then he got that phone call from the police saying like, Hey. I have your vehicle here, somebody hit it. And they called us to officially file a report and I was so shook because who does that?

We love it. I see faith. Faith in humanity guys. Sometimes people do the right thing. Um, alright, let's go ahead and jump in to the second voice memo that was sent in this week. 

Voicemail: So I was teaching down in Texas where I'm from and I was teaching coaching. Obviously I was coaching history. So last period, one of the young ladies goes, coaching to use, use the facilities.

I said, yeah, go ahead. It's not a big deal. [00:17:00] All of a sudden her water broke. Like she didn't know she was pregnant. Hell, I didn't know she was pregnant all of a sudden. Yeah. So that was a good, uh, last period. 

Andrea: The w Wait, that was a turn. Hold on. First of all, I love like the very obvious Texan accent. Like I'm from Texas, obviously.

Um, I hope you come to our shows in Texas that we're gonna be in Houston and Dallas, by the way, in October or came because by the time this comes out it might have already happened. You know what's crazy about that too? Other than the fact that she's like, I have to go to the bathroom. So she felt something was a little bit off.

But then on top of that, the fact that her water broke before she had any major contractions, although maybe she didn't realize she was having contractions, that only happens like I think 3% of the time I remember, or no, what is it? I, I remember being very surprised when I was pregnant with my first, because we went to one of those birthing classes and they talked about the fact that like it's a [00:18:00] teeny, tiny percentage of people who actually have their baby on the due date.

Um, like they actually don't know. They have no idea when that baby's coming out. It's insane. It can vary so much. Like I had both my kids at 38 weeks, I have friends who had babies at 42 weeks. That means they were pregnant a whole month longer. That is an insane margin for error. And that's if everything's going like well, right?

Like, I, I can't. So the fact your water broke before she realized she was in labor, I feel like is pretty wild. 'cause a lot of times you'll be like on the delivery table before your water breaks. Um, but then. I, I, I wanna know what the next steps were because she pro, I'm sure she thought she peed herself.

Um, I'm sure that she was mortified. I cannot imagine for a teenager to be put in that situation is just crazy to me. Um, I feel like I've seen, and, and I don't know if it's because TikTok just like spreads these, but I feel like these surprise pregnancies are getting more and more. [00:19:00] I don't know if they're getting more common or if we're just hearing about them more.

Um, I do live in constant fear that that would happen to me. Um, because certain kinds of birth control mean that you, you don't necessarily have a regular cycle. And that a lot of times is what happens with these women is like, they don't normally have a cycle and then all of a sudden they have a stomach ache and then all of a sudden there's a baby.

Like I. I do lose sleep over that, I'm not gonna lie. Um, because my husband is, um, of, of the fertile bunch, like his dad has nine kids. Um, and when we wanted to have kids, we said, okay, cool, I'll stop taking birth control. And I was pregnant that month, both times. Um, so I, I have reason to fear, you know, that if, if my IUD.

It goes sideways. Like it's, it's, it's going down, unfortunately. Um, I, I live in absolute tear also. I'm a thousand percent somebody who even if I was like very pregnant, I probably wouldn't, I would like, I would have that baby in my bathroom at home because I wouldn't [00:20:00] realize I was in labor. Um, that almost happened with my first child and I did know I was pregnant.

Um, because nobody tells you this, guys, nobody tells you this. So I'm gonna tell you this sometimes. When you are in labor, early labor, it feels like you had Taco Bell. It does not feel the way you like a menstrual cramp necessarily because everyone experiences like pregnancy and delivery pain a little differently.

I had been told by so many people. Andrea, when you're really in labor, you will know. You will know. It'll be so obvious. But here's the thing is you have diarrhea for like three weeks before you have a baby. A lot of times, because your body's like preparing, it's like emptying everything out. It's like, you know, fire all cannons, right?

So it's a mess down there. You don't know what's happening. And I, the night before I had my daughter and. Again, first child. My mom had c-sections with both her babies and so, or all four of her babies. And so, uh, we had no [00:21:00] idea how long she would have gone. Um, so she never actually went into labor on her own.

Um, and so, and I was the first of my family, so we had like no family history to really look at. Um, and I was 38 weeks and two days, and I felt like I had a really. Bad stomach ache. That was like, man, I should not have eaten whatever I had for dinner that night. And I kept telling my husband that and I was like, bouncing on a yoga ball.

Um, and I was doing that anyways 'cause I was over being pregnant. And, um, then I went to bed and I slept, and then I woke up at like 4:00 AM and I was like, I have to poop again. This is absurd. There can't be anything left. And I, I kept trying and nothing was happening. And then a little, a little voice in the back of my head, um, said, Hey, dummy.

Maybe it's, it's not poop, you know, maybe it's something else. And so I went down and was bouncing on my yoga ball and was calling, uh, the night nurse. And I was like, Hey, um, I, I don't know if this is diarrhea and I [00:22:00] don't know if it's gas. I don't know what's going on. I, I might be in labor, but I don't think so.

Like it doesn't hurt her. And she's like, okay, well, like, can you time it for me? And I was like, sure. So I'm timing it. Uh, generally speaking, two minutes, three minutes apart are when you're supposed to like head to the hospital. Um, and she's like, how long has it been going on? And I'm like, I mean, off and on since last night.

And she's like, okay. And again, first baby, usually first baby deliveries take forever. Um, and so I time it and your time from when the pain starts one time and then the next time the pain starts again. And it was about 90 seconds. Um, which. Is not ideal. And so my husband woke up to me on the yoga ball going, I dunno, I think they're like 90 seconds apart.

And my husband shot up out of bed and was like, what? Um, and he's like, we need to go. We need to go. And I was like, it's fine. Let me take a shower real quick. We'll go Right, because again, I'm still fine. I'm not like even having to stop. Um, and then I halfway through my shower, like it starts to hurt a [00:23:00] lot, right?

And so I'm like. Um, I might actually be in labor actually. We should probably go. Um, and so by the time I got to the hospital, like, and 'cause we lived 45 minutes away from the hospital, um, I was nine centimeters dilated. Um, but it was fine. I threw up thrice on the way there, um, because the pain. Increased substantially, but I still got my epidural baby came out, everything was great.

Um, so what I'm saying is that girl in class probably did feel like she just had to go to the bathroom. So, um, mazel off. To the young family. Um, lessons were learned and best of luck in the future and with, uh, rearing, rearing your child. So love that for, for all of us. Um, alright. I have, uh, oh man, guys, I'm actually really excited about the resource I have for you today.

Um, it's a bit of a callback and if you've been in teaching for longer than I would say five years, this is something that, you know, like the back of your hand. [00:24:00] Um, but I'm still gonna bring it to you guys because it is. Just that, um, formative for teachers. So I will share that, uh, right after this quick break.

All right. Welcome back, teacher Besties. So this is part of a TED Talk and the second I say TED talk, I feel like immediately a lot of teachers knew what I was about to share. And the reason I feel like I have to share that with you guys, um, or this uh, piece of this Ted talk with you guys is because I.

Recently was teaching my, um, my transition to teaching new era teachers, and I realized that they had never seen this because they are like in a transition to teaching program, so they've never gone through the undergrad program. I also realized that some of my undergrads haven't seen it yet, and I feel like it got overused a bit for a little while.

And so I'm, I'm kind of wary about using it and then I watched it. Um, it's a seven and a half minute. TED talk and it just, you know, it [00:25:00] is one of those TED talks that is so formative for so many teachers and is so incredibly encouraging. It is the TED Talk from Rita Pearson. Every kid needs a champion.

Every single time I watch it, I just get chills. Um, Rita Pearson, she um, actually ended up passing away a couple years after she did that TED Talk. Um, which especially bums me out because I feel like she didn't get to see the long. The long reaching impact of that Ted Talk on everybody and how it is so frequently referenced because, um, you know, a, a lot of times at many, many places people say to remember your why, um, as a teacher.

And that always fills teachers with fury because it has been used as an exploitive technique to get people to do things and not. Get compensated properly and all of that. Um, and I feel like Rita Pearson does such a good job of identifying. That it's a hard job, right? That that like teaching is a difficult job, [00:26:00] but it also identifies like why we bother.

Like what are we doing if not to be a champion for these kids? And if not, to try and spark curiosity and also a celebration of how. Fun of a job. It is like, it does all of those pieces and that entire Ted talk, the entire thing is seven and a half minutes. It's so concise. Um, so if you haven't listened to it in a bit, uh, I highly recommend.

It's so good. And she was just an incredible speaker, so, um, I highly recommend you guys check that out. I absolutely freaking love it, and it to me doesn't. Get old. So, but if you do have some, some teachers that are bitter, maybe don't like, maybe, you know, listen to it, not around them. 'cause they'll be like, not that again.

Um, alright, now let's jump in to the hill. I will die on the hill that I'm gonna die on today is that I think that providing unfettered access to the internet before kids could be legally left alone in a public place is morally repugnant and [00:27:00] irresponsible. I think that we. For a very long time, didn't know the dangers of the internet.

We didn't know what could happen, and we do now, we do not have that excuse of ignorance. So as adults, as parents, we need to be aware of the fact that there are these dangers out there and like when we have a child in our care. We treat that danger like it's real because it is. And I have, um, you know, I've read John Jonathan hate's book, um, the Anxious Generation, and that is an incredible, incredible book about the impact of.

The internet and phones on our kids. Um, but I also came across this video and actually it's shared on Jonathan ha's Instagram page, but it is a perspective from a teacher on the impact of phones from her own point of view. So I just wanted to share that with you guys as well. 

TikTok: Who, you guys don't know what's going on in education right now.

That's fine. Like how could you know unless you were working in it. [00:28:00] But I think that. I think you need to know. So here is exactly what it's like right now. Working in public education, first of all, the kids have no ability to be bored whatsoever. They live on their phones and they're just fed a constant stream of dopamine from the minute their eyes wake up in the morning until they go to sleep at night.

Because they're in a constant state of dopamine withdrawal at school. Um, they behave like addicts. They're super emotional, like the smallest thing sets them off. And when you are standing in front of them trying to teach. They're vacant. They have no ability to tune in if your communication isn't packaged in short little clips or if it doesn't have like bright flashing lights.

It's actually the way harder part for me than just the outright behaviors is just being up at the front talking to a group of kids who have their eyes open. They're looking at me, but they're not there. They're not there, and they have a level of apathy that I've never seen before in my whole career.

Punishments don't work because they don't care about them. They [00:29:00] don't care about grades, they don't care about college. It's like you are interacting with them briefly. In between hits of the internet, which is their real life. I've seen some tiktoks recently where teachers are getting a lot of hate, like for not adapting to the kids or punishing them or whatever.

And I just gotta say, like I can tell you with absolute certainty, it is not the teacher's fault. It might be the parent's fault, it might be our capitalistic society's fault, but it is not the teacher's fault. 

Andrea: Um, I know that was a, a bit heavy, um, and I know that for those of you in the classroom, it's also not a surprise.

But I, I wanna have a little bit of an encouragement here on the end in that there are a lot of schools and a lot of places where they have now made it the policy that phones are to be in lockers completely during the school day. And I'm hearing from people who are teaching at those schools and the improvement has been exponential.

It has completely transformed. Their classrooms. [00:30:00] Um, so there are things that are being done. I would also encourage you to reach out and support kind of making it so that phones are not something that kids are having on them at all areas of the day. And I know for me as a parent, that's a goal that I have as well, that when I'm around my kids, my phone is not in my hand.

Um, like it's, you know, and it's especially difficult because it is. Part of my profession, you know, like I have to be present online, um, at least part of the day because it is my job, but I don't need to be scrolling all the time. I don't need to be locking in to all of these various things. I need to be locking in on my kids.

Um, and I am responsible for their hearts and minds as they're growing up. And so that means that I'm not going to be giving them a cell phone when they're in middle school. I'm not going to be giving them a cell phone, um, or access to a tablet with wifi and all of that kind of stuff at a very young age because.

I have a responsibility to them, and as parents and as teachers, I think we all do. So. I would encourage you guys, um, to know that if you are trying to keep your kids off of, [00:31:00] you know, the doom scrolling and stuff, you're not alone. There's a lot of parents that are also fighting that same battle and your kid is probably feeling like maybe they're the only one, but they're not.

Um, it just kind of feels that way. Um, and I think that it's an important battle that we fight as teachers and as parents, um, to do everything we can to keep our kids, um, from. Damaging their brains and their development by over relying on the technology that's out there. So, um, alright. That was a real heavy ending guys.

I feel like, I feel like we need to like, shake it out or something. You know, maybe go, maybe go watch and check and see how the perpetual stew is doing. Um, after this, if you needed something, a little light. Last time I saw he put some, uh, Chipotle peppers with adobe sauce in, and that looked lovely. I don't know that he's gonna add any more placenta, but fingers crossed.

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