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- No.
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- Ow. - [Ned] Ow.
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- Ah!
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- Young lady, if you don't go to sleep in 30 seconds,
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it's gonna be bad news.
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Today, I'm going to learn how to become a dad.
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My wife and I are gonna have kids soon,
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but I'm completely terrified and overwhelmed by that idea.
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It seems like it's a huge change in your life.
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Can you still have a date night?
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Do you have to find a babysitter every single time?
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- Being a dad is way harder than you think
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it's gonna be.
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Accepting that you're not gonna be super dad or perfect
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is part of being a super dad--
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- Daddy, daddy.
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- I think often times you want things
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to go one way and they don't always go that way.
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- Shoes back on.
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I'm gonna care for my friend Mike's kids
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for a whole day and I'll see just how hard it is.
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- [Mike] Throw yourself into it--
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- [Ned] Ok.
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- And don't be afraid to do stuff.
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- You guys wanna take the stairs or the elevator?
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- [Voiceover] Stairs.
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- Stairs, taking the stairs was a difficult choice.
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Whew, I'm exhausted.
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- The other thing that's really hard is patience.
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You've gotta have amazing patience
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when it comes to kids.
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- Do you guys like healthy snacks?
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- What about this?
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What about this?
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Can I have this?
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- Anne did you pick up something?
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- They're gonna annoy you.
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They're gonna take a long time to do things,
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like brushing their teeth.
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They'll brush their teeth for 20 minutes.
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- No, no, no we don't eat ice cream.
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- [Girl] Ah! - [Ned] Can't get
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a zebra print heart pillow, you're not getting balls today.
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- Gotta just wait.
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- Is he ok, or should we?
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- He's ok, I got the eyes in the back
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of the head watching.
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- What is that?
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Why are you hitting my head?
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- Kids love to play pretend,
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but one of the things that you're gonna--
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- We'll take that back.
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- One of the tough--
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James, shh.
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- One more time.
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- One of the tough things about playing pretend
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with your kids is that it takes a lot of mental,
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like concentration.
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- This whole castle's made of cookies.
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- That's right, this whole castle's made of cookies
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and a cookie moster.
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Well this is fun you guys, we're just hanging out.
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Oh boy, James, James, James, ok.
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- It's time to go to the ball.
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- We're all going to the ball.
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You doing ok there James?
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Pose the dolls next to each other.
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- We love Daddy, we love Daddy.
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- Daddy's not here anymore.
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- One of the tough things about being a parent,
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especially with this age, is making sure
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that they eat healthy food.
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- If you eat the broccoli, then I will give you the candy.
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Do we have a deal?
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Oh no!
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- It's good to not make a big show of it being weird.
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- Woo woo!
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Broccoli delivery for Captain James.
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- And you've gotta eat it yourself
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'cause if they see that you eat,
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then they'll wanna eat it.
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- Got it.
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Once you tip your hand that there's C-A-N-D-Y somewhere--
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- [Mike] You should probably,
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you and I should probably stop
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even spelling out the word candy.
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- [Ned] Oh really?
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- You should have like a safe word, you know,
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call it like asparagus.
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- Would you rather have the lollipop or the broccoli.
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Classic.
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- Putting your kids to bed is definitely difficult,
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because kids don't wanna go to bed.
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- Bouncy, bouncy, bounce.
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- Can't bounce too much.
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How many stories do you normally have before bed?
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- 600 million.
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- 600 million?
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Why?
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I love sleep.
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I really am getting sleepy.
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- So they're gonna fight you on it
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and they've tried to stretch out that time routine
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as long as it can possibly be.
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- Ready for bed.
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- Another one.
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- Ok, bass drums are big, but whistles are little.
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Wait now I said we're only doing two books.
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- Last book.
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- We're only doing two books.
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- Last book.
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- We're reading, apparently, as many books as it takes.
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I stirred it all together, it was yummy,
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but it wasn't pink.
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And that is the end of Pinklicious.
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- And that's how you stay awake.
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- I was only with the kids for a small period of time.
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I want to go into a hot bubble bath
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and drink white wine.
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How did I do?
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- You know, I think you did actually really well.
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You were really engaged, you were really dedicated,
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and you were trying really hard.
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- Even though it was really difficult
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and exhausting on my body,
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seeing the way Mike interacted with his kids
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and how much they loved him and he loved them,
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that was, it was such a nice feeling.
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Thumbs up or thumbs down, how do you think I did?
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- Sideways.
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- So I've got some work to do.
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I think of all the things that my dad did for me
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and I'm so thankful.
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- So what do you think, do you think your ready
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to possibly in the near future take the leap?
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- I'm gonna call my wife.
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How's it going?
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I've been shooting the video on taking care of a toddler.
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I hope so, yea.
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It seems really hard.
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Wee, let's make babies.
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- [Voiceover] Bye, I love you.
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- [Ned] Bye, I love you too.
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She said, "let's make babies."
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Which is pretty awesome as well as terrifying.