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It's your pal Clem here. It's the big man large across the river. We got Daddy Boyd down in Texas, and we got Joilin going behind his virtual screen of darkness.

And speaking of darkness, it's here. It's fucking here again.

I bet I was at the point where I started getting annoyed with all the complaints about the clocks going back, and I it almost is like how it's the opposite of bacon being the best thing ever, or the zombie apocalypse tweets where everyone just piles on it.

Boyd's Asia's been waking about 530 for about a month to month straight now. Now it's 430 in the morning. I am fucking over it right now. I am a to quote the grade Jewels, Winfield. I am a mushroom cloud lay and mother fucker mother fucker right now.

My sleep is the little bit I get is very important to me, and I know there's a lot of parents out there going through the same shit I am, and I'm telling I'm about to lose my fucking mind. So boys, two guys who are more advanced on the parenting scale than I am so far based on having the older kids.

Just tell me at some point it gets better and you just really don't care about it as much because I'm telling you I am at my fucking which end and I know a lot of our listeners have been tweet enough the last few days.

I know there's other people in the fuck. Let's talk about capabilities here. We're we're out with young AJ.

How is he able to start up an iPad or fire tablet by himself. No, no, you're fucked. There's nothing you can do. There's nothing. I mean, once you get to the age where that you need a start Tion that every day, it needs to be like spring training for

you to run a bunch of drills for pictures where even though it's mundane, you're just going over and over and over again. This is how you sign on you got to take off all the codes like all the unlock codes, you got to get where you just got to swipe your little dick skinner up AJ and get rid of that screen.

As soon as it hits Netflix, it automatically goes up the cocoa melon or whatever he's into and then you're good to go. And you need to have a stack on the kitchen table of pop tarts, many muffins, something like that that he can grab his own little breakfast.

Once you teach them to be a little self sufficient, then you're good. And we tell McCartney now. Well, I guess when McCartney was like five we're like, don't you think about coming to the mom and dad's room.

And unless you're dying bleeding or one of the animals are dying bleeding do not come in here until we come out.

Chapsi, I think you might have just saved like this family's infrastructure from just tearing apart at the seams because A, he comes in and he looks for entertainment immediately. Right. So that will be taking care of with the iPad.

And then B, I usually my dumb ass gets out of bed at like five in the morning, because once he hits me with the ISO hungry, ISO hungry, and he that's the it's like the W instead of the R, he feels so like sad for him.

I get up and I start making him breakfast and all that shit. Nope, we're just going to put the pop tarts on the on the kitchen table, get the iPads ready. He's at the point too. I don't know a lot of it.

He's in that form like he's Santa. I can't even open it up where he's got a sort of a pop tart and shit on the table when he gets up. He'll love it. It'll be like, oh, look at that.

Taking care of me and you're not. You're just trying to get a couple of extra season.

I like that too, because and he just wakes up. He'll just go, maa, maa, dad and yell across the hall. See in his sleep and we're trying to keep her asleep obviously because then you have to deal with two of them at the same time even though she's over his shit as well.

Okay, because on Sunday, I actually got like it was, I don't know, it was, it felt like it was like three o'clock. It was 11 o'clock. You know NFL Sunday, we were still in like the pregame shows had an even started and we were like, we're getting stuff done around the house. We got the leaves done. We did some stuff around the yard of how the we should go in a way.

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