Lincoln, Nebraska, I'm there this Friday. That show is actually very close to selling out.

So if you plan to go to that show, get your ticket soon. Austin also close to selling out.

Then I am in Charlotte, Greenville, Birmingham,

Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, Birmingham, Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama,

Nashville, Tennessee and I haven't gotten sales numbers on those shows, so I have no idea.

Maybe they're close to selling out.

I don't know, I have no idea how those shows are going, but I do think at least a couple of those are going to sell out. Get your tickets at the link in the show notes.

All right, let's talk about the idea of being a quote-unquote cool parent.

In my circle, Caitlin's already laughing. She has four kids.

Remember when we like thought we could do well as parents? That was that was the deeply like cynical yeah there is there's

a lot of rebellion against the idea of being a cool parent.

Certainly in my circles, we would say I don't, I'm not my kids friend.

I don't want to be the cool mom I want to raise good responsible

human beings who have good productive lives and I understand that but I think we should also remember that this isn't the 14th century anymore.

You know we're not all trying to survive the black plague and have, you know, a 16-year-old leave their two kids at home to go to war.

I mean, society is different. Let's face it, we live in a culture where there is an actual job called content creator.

I mean, listen, right now, there are 15-year-olds on Tik-Tock who are making this month

more than you made the past five years combined.

Life is a little different.

There isn't the same type of risk that there used to be.

If Pa Pa told you not to go down to the riverside back in

1911 and you did anyway and you got bitten by a water moccasin it's you know I mean I think parents had to be a

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