Hello, friends. Welcome to Why Mommy Drinks. This is Betsy Stover. Hi. And welcome to the show. I need coffee.

With us today is my guest co-host for this episode. She's a songstress. She's a

comedian. Luke Ashley. Wow. Thank you everyone. That was amazing. By the way, Luke has a

whole morning DJ, uh, soundboard with her. Um, it makes all sorts of sounds for any kind of feeling that you have.

Yes. They poppy. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what else.

Today though is tears and crying. So if you hear random crying, that button is stuck.

Oh, shit. I really like the eye poppy. Okay. Uh, and we also have with us today a lovely person. She

is a writer of books and journalistic, uh, literacy. That's not right. She's a journalist. She's

an author, Emily Barth Eisler. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

Thank you for coming on the show. So everybody, I have three kids. They are all boys. I have a five year

old, a nine year old, and an 11 year old Luke, what's your situation? Well, I'm gotten all

girls. They're about to 10, 12 and 17. She's almost gone. She's almost gone.

That's not a situation. I feel that. Emily, what's happening over there with the

whole kid situation? I feel like I'm keeping it relatively simple with only two children.

Compared to you guys, I have a six year old and a 10 year old one boy one girl. Wow. All right.

Which one is older? Do you have an older boy or an older girl? Just like at the later

girl younger boy. All right. Nice. As I like to tell people though, you know, until

notified otherwise. Yes. Of course. Not the we can't change the birth order. But when

when I was pregnant, my mother and mother-in-law really loved that when people asked me what the

gender of my baby or, you know, whichever one it was, I'd say, well, we'll wait till

they tell us. Nice. And I'm still waiting, you know, I'm kidding. But yeah, for now. Right

on. That's very cool. So how are we all doing? Everyone? How are we doing? Luke said a difficult

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