Let's go, let's go, let's go.

When my daughter, Presley was five years old, she wanted a pet.

And so we're in hostage negotiations over this.

And so I make a deal, and it's a questionable deal.

Judge me if you'd like.

First kid, you know, figuring this out.

I say, hey, if you can go the whole year of kindergarten without changing your card, which was the way you get in trouble, without getting in trouble, then you can get a pet. And because I'm thinking, like, who can do that? Like I'm thinking about me. I'm like, no chance. Day two, you know. And so I'm thinking, not a chance. Well, lo and behold, she doesn't,

goes the whole year, doesn't get in trouble. So now I've got to make good on this, you know,

pet. And so we go to the pet store. She's thinking dog or cat, cat or dog. I'm thinking,

how do I move her to a fish, maybe? You know, something else?

And so we go to the parakeets. I'm like, hey, you know your dad had a parakeet growing up.

Amazing pet, you know. They sit on my shoulder and all the things. And somehow convince her parakeet is the way to go.

So we leave the pet store with a parakeet, cage, food, beak sharpener, all the things.

We get home, they send the bird home with you in a box.

You take the bird out of the box, put bird in the cage. And like,

nothing happens. I mean, bird doesn't move. It's like comens, I don't know what happened from

the pet store to the house, but some sort of trauma. Now, our parakeet is in total shock,

like just stare straight ahead, won't move, doesn't chirp, won't eat. Like, you can put your finger in the cage. It doesn't even, like, you're just, like, going to knock it over. It's not, it's just frozen like a statue. For two days, for two days this bird didn't eat, didn't drink, did move nothing. And so two days in, I'm like, okay, I'm Googling, like,

what do I need to do? And so as a last resort, we take the cage outside and put it on the porch.

And so I'm sitting in a chair, Presley's in the other chair, the birds in between us,

and she's just slumped down in the chair, you know, with a scow. And she goes, oh, dad, I should have gotten a kitten.

And I'm like, why would you say such a, like, he can hear you, you know? Like, why would you say

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