Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil - Introducing: I Love My Kid, But...featuring guest Michelle Buteau

Episode Date: June 30, 2023

This is a safe place for parents to get away from it all. It’s a cliche that having kids is both the most rewarding and the hardest thing you’ll ever do. And it never ends: just when you���ve figured out how a newborn works, the kid becomes a toddler, then a tween, a teenager and beyond. And kids don’t come with an instruction manual or an off switch. Sure, you love your kids, best thing that ever happened to you blah blah blah, BUT…Welcome to I Love My Kid, But… a weekly escape where comedians Megan Gailey, Kurt Braunohler, Chris Garcia and guests unload about the joys and challenges of being a parent, all the hell their kids put them through, and how they might reclaim some of the glory of their pre-parenting life. You might learn a few things about how to be a better parent along the way, but it’s more important that you get to laugh and enjoy three very funny people vent about parenthood with other moms and dads who “get it.” No child psychologists here, no educators, or noted experts… just three comedians embracing all the L’s they take on a daily basis and celebrating all the small victories that make it all worth it. And if one of them lets slip that they might’ve sent their kid to school without lunch because they stayed out the night before with their college friends WAY too late, that’s ok too. No judgment here.Listen to I Love My Kid, But: Wondery.fm/ILMKB...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello everyone, it's Jameela and I want to share a new podcast with you that I think you'll really enjoy that takes a refreshing look at what sometimes happens after all the bad dates, when people settle down, and have kids who sometimes drive them a little bit crazy. I love my kid butt as a new parenting podcast from Wondry that shares a refreshingly honest and insightful take on parenting, is hosted by comedians Megan Galey, Chris Gossier and Kurt Brunnerler as your resident not-so-expert expert. And each week they share a parenting story

that'll have you laughing, crying, nodding, and thinking, yes, I have absolutely been there. I love my kid butt creates a safe space for parents to vent and laugh about the hardest job in the world. So the next time you step on yet another stray Lego in the middle of the night, you will feel less alone. I'm about to play a clip from I love my kid, but while you're listening, follow I love my kid, but wherever you get your book costs. So will you, before we leave, Michelle,

we give our guests one opportunity to share any last thing they want, and I just want you to remember that this is a safe space. No judgment. It's just the three of us and you and millions of listeners. Okay. If you see parents in a restaurant, a nice restaurant or a bar, like be kind in airplane, do you know what I mean? Be kind.

Like even if you don't like kids, even if you don't understand why somebody would have kids because there's enough people in the world or whatever the fuck you want to tell yourself. Just be kind. Because we really are trying to make the world a better place by raising decent human beings. And what that said, buy us a drink.

If we don't drink, that's okay, buy us something. We deserve it. We have bought so much for everybody all the time. Buy us something. Some for sure, like all my friends that are parents now used to get rounds. You know what I mean? Like you just have that chip, right? And two, I am trying to make the world a better place. Like I just said, by raising very adorable human beings, and I cannot do that unless you pick up after yourself in the

public bathroom. Can you just, it's breaking my soul. Okay, no amount of reticence will fucking fix it. Huh, please. Just, you know, wipe up whatever the fuck you just put down. Yes. So it could be just a better, more calm place, mainly for me. They'll have fun, but me. I don't want to fold like a beach chair.

Anyways, thank you so much. I didn't need to say that. Before we say goodbye to you, parenting is obviously filled with ups and downs and here at I love my kid, but we celebrate both. So I'm going to give everyone a chance to give one recent parenting win or loss. Chris, I took an L recently where it took an hour and a half to put Sunny down. It was a real struggle. She's getting savvier about prolonging bedtime, which is torture. She's asking for food.

Milk, she's not going to drink the same song on board over again, hour and a half finally finally put her down, and I left my phone in her room. Oh, no, that's the worst thing. And you can't like do find my phone because it's gonna make the noise in the room. So you're like, oh, it's in the room, it's in the room.

It's gonna illuminate me. So it's such a bad moment because you're like, oh my God, you're addicted to your phone and parenthood is ruined your brain and you forgetful now. And so you have to like, I my God, you're addicted to your phone and parenthood is ruined your brain and you forgetful now. And so you have to like, I had to quietly open the door and then sadly crawl across the room

like there was a laser over my head and then dine and dice and then to finally get it and then get back out. But that split second of realizing you leave your phone in the room, that'll age 10 years. And then you're like, no one even texted me. Yeah, no one even texted me. No one cares about me. No one did it me.

No one did it me. No. I just picture you looking like Catherine Zeta Jones in that movie with Sean Connery. Is it a rock? Intratment? No, not the rock. It's a trap. It's a trap.

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