“Like Wrangling Puppies in a Prison Bathroom” with Michelle Buteau | 4

I Love My Kid, But...

Wondery

Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week comedian and actress, Michelle Buteau joins Megan, Chris & Kurt. They love their kids…BUT they also LOVE using them as an excuse to get out of plans. Megan used her son this past week to get out of a friend’s party and then had an epiphany. Her own mother did the same thing when she was a kid! It’s the Gailey family tradition of blaming it on your kids! Also, Michelle Buteau, swings by with double the parenting struggle to vent about including the unsanitary roller coaster that is taking them to pee in a public bathroom, finding a babysitter (or babysitters) to watch two kids the same age at the same time, and the emotional toll splitting your twins up in school can take.

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0:00.0	Hey, parents, just a heads up, that this show may have kid in the title, but it is not for kids, okay?
0:05.3	Because we, you know, we say the dirty words a lot.
0:08.4	We're a bunch of dirty birds.
0:09.9	So if you're with kids, you may want to save this for later.
0:18.2	Hey, my name's Michelle Bito.
0:19.8	I love my kids, but God damn it, Janet. I didn't know
0:23.9	they'd be this much work. They need me all the time. They can do it. You can do it. They're up all
0:30.6	the time. You're not missing anything. We're just watching Manifest on Netflix. Go the fuck to bed.
0:38.2	Anyways, I'm cool.
0:41.0	From Wondery, I'm Chris Garcia.
0:43.6	I'm Megan Galey.
0:44.6	And I'm Kurt Brown-Oller.
0:46.0	And this is I Love My Kid.
0:47.8	But...
0:48.8	Some names.
0:52.2	That's what we look like.
0:58.0	Some names. Welcome to I love my kid like Some things That's what we look like
1:02.0	Welcome to I love my kid, but this is a, I think, as we've figured out, kind of your weekly escape from parenting.
1:09.8	And I think a place where we can celebrate that the kids are great, but that parenting is very, very hard.
1:19.1	And also it just gives us an excuse to not be in the house for one hour, which is very nice.
1:24.8	This week we're going to be talking about resorting to using your kids as an excuse to get out of social obligations that you don't want to do, which is honestly the very least that they could do for it.
1:36.5	Absolutely.
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