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Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. We have a good old-fashioned Monday madness for you. I'm Nathan

Baird from Cleveland.com along with Doug Lamarie. This is probably like the last Monday madness.

Maybe the next the last Monday madness before I have my own madness to deal with with the

baby coming any day now. Doug, what is like your biggest piece of new parent advice? You've

done it twice, like fresh out of the oven, newborn, what's the thing I need to know the most?

So I'll say too, because what a sports writer friend of mine told me this when I had a kid,

and he said, because he had kids older than me, and he said, write stuff down, write stuff down,

so you remember it, whether you keep a diary or some kind of just notebook for childhood

memories, write stuff down. And I said, that was an excellent idea. And I have never written anything

down that my kids have done. But 18 years later, it's like, man, that would have been good. So learn

from my mistakes. The other thing is, dumber people than you have figured this out. That is what gets

me through life on a daily basis, like, oh my, am I, it's like, I'm dumb. You're dumb. I'm dumb.

We're not the dumbest people to ever have kids. And it's not like kids are falling out of trees

all the time. I mean, you walk around. Most of the kids seem functional. So it's like, all right,

well, I'm, you know, you've run across people, right? You know people idiots. So that's my driving

force in life and as parent. Yeah, I'm not that stressed by this yet. I feel like the day it happens,

and then once it's like, once he's here, it's going to be like, oh, man, what I get myself into.

I'm not feeling overly stressed right now. But I've also, I've not spent that much time around babies.

So my biggest thing right now is just kind of what you're talking about. Like, I'm just worried

about how like fragile they seem. Okay. Now I have actual, I baby, actual baby advice.

Football hold is very important. Like you put sort of like, yeah, up between, like you put your

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