Welcome to the Andy Staples show.

It's a don't wake up live edition.

Ari Wasserman joins.

It is his first night home alone with the baby.

She's asleep. We hope she doesn't wake up. I'm going to try to keep Ari quiet so he doesn't wake her up. Yeah. This is this is kind of a landmark in every parent's life. My fiance is out on the road for business because she has a much more important job than I do. And I am here being Mr. Mom. So I did the bath by myself. I did tender time by myself, all these things,

fed the baby. She's now out of a swaddle. Do you read her, do you read her a book? I've read her a book.

We have a whole routine. Um, these books are really, like I was thinking to myself, actually, now that you bring it up, they're so easy to write.

I feel like I could write them.

And a lot of them like have like 150 total words.

150 total words.

Yes, but you have to choose the correct 150.

This is the problem.

You and I, we write these things that are several thousand words long.

And I don't know that either of us could boil it down to the correct 150.

Like red hat, green hat, blue hat, oops, that's just genius. I don't even know if I got the colors right. I'm assuming that some of the people and some of the books like the Dr. Seuss books, I mean, I don't know, like the books that we grew up reading. Well, Dr. Seuss was a, yeah, he was on another level. But yeah, just like everything in journalism, there's some good sports writers and some, some okay ones and there's some bad ones. I feel like it could be at least a bad

baby book writer. I'm sure there is, but I mean, I think we've covered that ground in

elf when they're in the pitch meeting with Peter Dinklage. Where the, that's right. Who's it, Andy Richter who, one of the, one of the guys is like, he's a, he's an asparagus, but he hates himself because his pee smell is funny. Like, that's, there are bad baby book ideas. There are probably some, a lot of terrible ones. We just never, they never see the light

a day. Yeah. I, I think I'm going to try to give it a shot. If I'm ever in a position where I have

some time to actually consider a subject and stuff, but it's like, look, it's a fish. There's one

book that we read. It says, good night lamp, good night fish,

good night. And it's just a good night, a bunch of random things. And then good night moon.

I think that's a very famous book. Is it? Yes. So, so whoever wrote good night moon is just a genius.

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