My husband works kind of with me,
but not in the same building.
Okay.
But when we follow each other to work,
if he's on the show here
or if he comes through to eat meals or something,
after an hour and a half, I get a little twitchy.
Do you guys ever get, You do?
a little bit, like,
fed up, you know? No, I love working with him.
No. I truly do.
Well, also because we do,
we work a lot,
and we don't get to do it together very often.
Yeah. So when we do--
We love it.
And I trust him more than I trust anyone else,
as a safety net, as a writer/director, as a scene partner.
As a co-parenter.
As a co-parenter. (audience laughing)
Is there a good cop/bad cop co-parenter?
Yep.
Yeah, sure is.
Who's the good cop?
(audience awing) Aww.
(laughing)
But mainly because I'm intensively codependent,
and I just,
(laughing)
I cave.
I cave, I'm a doormat.
I'm the cop, I'm the bad cop.
I'm the disciplinarian.
What's the quickest way to melt you down, though?
Like if you see a tear, does that flip you?
Is it a tantrum that flips you?
Is there any button they could push?
There's no flipping me.
No, no. Yes, it is.
When they touch your face,
and they go, Daddy. Oh.
Or the four year old grabs your face and says,
You shut up. (everyone laughing)
And then I'm like, alright, I'll shut up,
if you hold my face like that. (laughing)
That is hard, right?
But I am, I'm jealous of Kristen because--
Why?
Well, because they're never really mad at her.
Oh, yeah. Well...
It's always the disciplinarian, well, you're right.
They're mad at both of us. They get mad at me a lot.
Yeah, sure. Because I have girls,
And I'm the mom,
so I'm always doing something wrong.
It's like, in their DNA to reject me, so...
(audience laughing)
Just gonna deal with it.
You are a little dependent, aren't you?
Yeah, oh for sure.
It freaks you out.
Yeah.
I really do try to be, but then the problem is
I am also a firm believer
that if you make a realistic argument and you convince me,
I will side with you. They go with you.
Yes.
Yep, go with it.
And they make a lot of really good arguments.
(audience laughing)
Well, they make a lot of arguments.
I don't know how many of them are persuasive,
but certainly 10 percent are worth hearing, yeah.
I cave too much.
I'm workin' on it. Are they good storytellers?
'Cause you're both such creative people,
do you find that your kids are a lot like you guys,
like open and hammy? The four year old.
The four year old is.
Like bedtime with the four year old,
we're constantly, 'cause Kristen will be in the upper bunk
with the five year old, I'll be in the lower bunk,
and she'll say something to me, and then I'll go,
Honey, did you hear that?
What did she say the other day about
Mr. Mrs., Mr. Mrs.?
Wait, I can't remember.
She's like, You bring back my happy daddy, Mr. Mrs.
(audience laughing)
Just sentences you've never heard in your life.
(laughing) She's pretty creative.
But she also, she has all her little dolls.
She's a big alone player,
and she'll have all her little dolls,
and she's, it's so clear. Oh, I love that.
She's writing an episode in her head.
Right, the kids still have that--
And if you interfere,
well, one drops off and it wasn't supposed to drop off,
she has a panic attack
'cause she has the episode written in her head,
and she's just executing it. She's Scorsese.
Yeah, exactly. That's right.
Yeah, so it's kind of inspiring.
When we do watch TV, because he's a writer,
we've taught them story structure,
so when they're watching something
and they're watching an episode of Paw Patrol
and they keep talking about how, you know,
Ryder never falls off his bike.
He's the best, he's never gonna fall off his bike.
She'll look at me and go,
I bet he's gonna fall off his bike.
(audience laughing) They're prepping us.
Yeah, yeah, foreshadowing.
(laughing) Foreshadowing. Yes!
Yes, inciting incident.
Yes.
It's the worst watching TV with me.
God, I wish I lived closer.
Now I want to babysit.
I wanna learn, you know what I mean?
(laughing) Well, we went the other day to a movie
that was a great movie, the Spider-Verse movie,
but it was also pretty intense.
And she was joined by her five-year-old friend
and the five-yer-old friend's mom.
And they were both pretty nervous,
and Lincoln leans over and goes, It's okay.
The hero always wins.
(everyone laughing)
and this is just the conflict that all story needs.
And (laughing) the mom was like--
And we're like...
(audience cheering and applauding)
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