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And now here's your host, Malcolm and Rochelle Reed.

Hey, welcome back to the How to Barbecue Right podcast. It's time for another episode. I'm your host Malcolm Reed and I'm joined by my

lovely wife, Miss Southern Shell. Shell, how's it going? It's going great. This week was our

first week at school. Michael's back in school. Yay, yay, yay for school starting. I'll tell you I'm so

excited. I'm more excited than Michael was because we get to get back on our routine. It's so easy to get used to sleeping late, you know, doing stuff with him through the week instead of doing our job what we're supposed to be doing. Because when we work from home, man, it's tough. You know, you've got a kid at home, it's it's easy to get distracted but now we're back

focused school's going on he's getting his learn on we're getting our work on and man it's great

when you say sleep late you mean to 630 instead of 6 yeah well hey man i hate that 6 o'clock alarm clock

i was used to 7 730 getting up having a cup of coffee you feeding him some breakfast, thinking about what we're going to do the day. Now it's back to the grind. Yeah. We hit the floor at 60 o'clock. By 7 o'clock, we're working hard. Yeah, it keeps us on track more. It's nice to have the break in the summer, but school keeps us on track. It seems like I don't know about you, but I get more done early in the morning.

Yes. more. It's nice to have the break in the summer, but school keeps us on track. It seems like I don't know about you, but I get more done early in the morning. If I can, you know, before 9 o'clock, if I can get to rolling good and get those emails answer and jump on the questions and stuff like that, gives us more time to create and do stuff during the day. Yeah. When I was younger, I used to think that I worked better at night.

Maybe I did. And I'd stay up really late. You remember, I used to stay up late at night doing work. But now I want to get up early and get it done. If it doesn't get done by 1 o'clock. It has something to do. I heard them talking about it on the radio this morning. It has something to do with your younger that levels of, I don't remember if it was melatonin or whatever that is they talk about,

that gives you your sleep clock, your sleep rhythm. When you're younger, it's released at different

times. So, you know, you normally stay up later. Like ours right now, it's kicking in 7.30 p.m.

It's telling me to go to bed.

But, you know, when you're younger, you can stay up. You know, you don't get getting tired until after 11. I mean, we used to, you know, you could burn the midnight oil. Oh, yeah. Now, if I'm not in bed by 10, man, I'm worthless. I still get up, but it's like I'm programmed to get up early now.

I used to not have that, and I don't know if it's having a kid.

I used to... Man, I'm worthless. I still get up, but it's like I'm programmed to get up early now.

I used to not have that, and I don't know if it's having a kid. I used to, like if I stayed up really late at night, I would sleep till 9, 10 o'clock in the morning. I couldn't do that now. Oh, back, I remember being a teenager. Man, I could sleep until noon or later. You can sleep all day back then, but now it's like when the sun comes up, I got to get up.

We get a lot of sunlight in our bedroom too. Yeah, well, that helps. That helps. But I hate the alarm clock. And Michael's got this new thing. He had to spend 50 bucks on it. It's like one of those Google home things. He just had to have it. It's $50 souped-up alarm clock yeah and I think

it tells him jokes or something he can get the weather on it I don't know he don't have

he don't have a ton of access on it but he'll just be in there just talking to it so hey

there's Google and this past weekend we had a ball party and had I I don't know, two dozen kids over to the house.

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