Chaldeche, oh shit. Last time I checked I was still a kid. Chaldeche, chaldeche. This all freaks me out with. Chaldeche, oh shit. How can I pet when I'm still a kid? Chaldeche, oh shit. Who the hell decided I was ready for this?

Hi, I'm Greg Fitzsimmons. Hello, I'm Allison Rosen. Together we bring you content that is in theory aimed at parents who have children. I want to hear me an older parent with grown kids now explaining to Allison who has babies how to parent. Yeah, that's the concept. That was our idea at the beginning. Mm-hmm.

And it turns out you're not buying it. No, no, I look. I feel like your kids have good heads on their shoulders was that because of you was that where they was it because of Aaron where they born that way. And so, you know, I'm not sure that it's I'm not sure that you are the one who should be giving me advice.

It is a big question is how much of it is our fault in a good way and in a bad way like because there's been times when I was raising kids and I felt like things weren't going well and I would just I would I would

convince myself that it was nature not nurture. Mm-hmm. And now that they're both out of the house this week officially we're empty nesters. Wow.

I'm telling you you go through a wave of oh my god it's all nurture and they should be doing better than they're doing.

And they're doing great they're doing great but you want that why aren't they in an Ivy League school.

Why aren't they flying the Zimbabwe during spring break to read books to kids with the standard bellies flies on their heads why can't they be those kids.

And you realize like that's crazy those kids suck.

Say more about how those those high achieving charitable kids suck.

No, I meant the kids with the flies in their head. Oh yes. Yeah, I mean I feel like they don't have the best attitudes. They're all poor me. I haven't had a meal right so long.

No, you ever had you ever tried to have a conversation with one of them. It's like all about food. It's all they talk about.

Yeah, I like it. I like to talk about food too. Don't get me wrong. Yeah, I can have a good conversation about a snack or like the best restaurants or things like that but it's like my god are you obsessed.

Are you obsessed and it's first of all why not talk about how about you talk about enjoying a meal. Why is it always where is there a meal?

Yeah, you know about be in the moment. I understand like you know always on to the next meal. Always wanting to have more more food to have like a secure source of food.

But it's like what about you and I are right. Yes, there's flies, but we're right. It's between you and me right now right here. Be here with me.

I remember telling them about the time that I ate at a Michelin four-star restaurant in San Francisco and it was like seven courses and I wanted to walk through each course.

Yeah, and they had like no patience. It was just like can I have food and it was like you just fucking asked me that it's five minutes ago.

It's you know what it is. It's tone deaf of them. It is. It is. Anyway, yeah, this is our podcast. It's about parenting, but it's also about other stuff and we are delighted that you've decided to spend the next roughly an hour with us.

And when we say roughly, it's going to be rough. Oh, yeah, it's going to be a rough hour. Yeah. Look, I'm not in the best mood. I'm not going to front.

Let me tell you something else in Rosen. I find that some of the best podcasts we've ever had have been when they started with you before the show saying you were in a bad mode.

Well, you're welcome. My gift. My gift. I know it's January. It's a January thing like scientifically the most depressing day of the years in January, but I don't feel like I've ever had a just significant case of the January's and yet.

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