Hello, Anderson.
How are you?
I'm great I'm great.
How are you?
I'm good, thank you.
You are a very busy man.
We have like 15 minutes with you because you're
covering the impeachment today.
You really haven't had a break in a while, have you?
You know, I had a break--
I took a couple of weeks off between college and work
like 30 years ago, so.
But the work is exciting.
I think you've probably maybe feel the same way.
I feel like if--
actually I talked to Sanjay Gupta about this
and he said if you're doing things which are different,
even if it's work, it feels like a rest
because it's something different.
Anyway, that's the excuse I use to keep--
Well, yeah.
Because we have the same kind of similar thing,
where we do the same thing every day
but there's something different happening every day with what
we do.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And you're always learning new things and meeting new people
and so it's interesting.
Did you read Sanjay's book, Keeping Sharp?
I did.
It's really good.
Yeah.
I'm obsessed with brain health.
So I've been, yeah.
It's a really good book.
What's great about the book is that there really
are things we can do in our lives,
right now, to help our brains as we age.
And I think that's so important.
I know.
I've learned so many different things about it.
And sleep is probably the most important thing
which, you do not get.
But you don't get--
I've actually really improved my sleep.
I've started wearing one of these things.
It's a loop.
And so now I like obsessively analyze my sleep every night.
I'm like, wow, I only had nine disturbances.
But sleep is critical.
Yes, it is.
And to add to your job though, you've added a baby.
So, I don't know how you're getting sleep with that.
And how is that going and how old is he now?
It's going great.
He is 9 months and like a week.
It's always hard--
I don't know with baby ages.
It seems very complicated to me.
You have to do it in weeks.
But I can't do that.
So it's nine months plus a week, or I
don't know how many weeks total that would be.
That's good for me.
I like nine months plus a week.
Now he was in the pool, I just saw a picture.
First of all, he's adorable.
He was named People's Cutest Baby of 2020.
But--
He's had a little work, you know.
Yeah.
Just a little tightness.
Well it looks like he's had filler because he's really
got a nice full--
That's what it is.
He's got a lot of filler.
So are you teaching him?
Is he going underwater?
You're teaching him to swim that early?
He hasn't been underwater, yet.
But he gets a weekly swimming lesson.
That picture was from the summer.
That was the first time I put him in the pool
and he loved it.
And it's so great.
I mean, everyday there's something new
and it's so exciting.
But to see him in the pool, he literally just had his lesson.
I just got pictures because I wasn't able to go today.
And it's just so exciting to see him doing stuff.
That's so great.
He's adorable.
And yeah, that's supposed to be really important for them
to learn how to swim early on.
Now you went like gray, silver when you were in your 20s,
really, really early.
So pretty soon I'm thinking Wyatt's going
to look like this.
We've just done a little photo to see what he might look like.
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That's a shame.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, you know what?
He rocks it.
I mean, what can I say?
Yeah.
He is adorable.
What is he into?
What at nine months old can he be into?
Well, he's really into--
well, first of all, I didn't realize
when you're a parent you have to learn all these songs.
I'd forgotten about all these-- the kids' songs, which
there's a whole world of kids songs that I'm learning about.
So right now he's really interested in the wheels
on the bus because they go round and round
and they go round and round all day long.
And the wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish,
which he seems really intrigued by.
So that's what we're really focusing on right now.
And twinkle, twinkle little star,
there's more than one verse which I didn't realize.
There's a whole journey you go on with this twinkling star.
There's an explorer on the seas who's
looking for the light and navigational things.
It's very complex.
Wow.
I don't know what version--
that's the dance mix.
I have never heard something that long.
So now you're co-parenting.
And I would assume-- first of all, that's very cool.
You're co-parenting with your ex.
So you're not together anymore.
So you can spend time kind of sharing.
Like, when you're busy and you're working,
he has him, right?
Yeah, I mean, we actually still live in the same house
because we get along really well.
And you know, it's weird, but it works out.
It was interesting because he wasn't
really sure he wanted to have a kid, which
was one of the reasons we probably broke up.
But then he came around to the idea
and now he is just such a great parent.
We went to take Wyatt to get some vaccinations,
you know, the regular course the kids get--
he hasn't skipped the line for COVID or anything,
these are just the regular vaccinations.
And Wyatt doesn't cry when he gets a shot.
But I turned around when Wyatt got his first shot and Benjamin
was like weeping.
He's become this big softy.
So it's really sweet to see.
See.
Now well, maybe y'all will get back together because now
maybe--
No.
OK.
No.
It's amazing y'all live together though.
That's a show right there.
I think we should produce a show about that.
Now do you think that you want Wyatt to have a sibling?
Are you going to have another baby?
I don't know.
There's nothing in the works.
But you know, I don't know.
I would-- yes.
I mean, I would love to--
I think it'd be great for him to have a sibling.
I'm not sure I can handle another.
But he's really such an easy kid.
I mean, he's still sleeping like 12 and half hours every night.
He eats his sweet peas and his mushed cauliflower.
And yeah, he's just a happy little chappy.
It's such a joy.
It's people like you that make it look easy and fine
and like--
Yes, I know.
I can hear parents around the country groaning when I
say he sleeps 12 and 1/2 hours.
I know.
We got him on a schedule early on.
And yeah, there's nothing better when
it's time for him to take a nap or go to bed
and we put him in the crib.
And we have a--
what do you call it?
What's the thing?
Sandwich?
It's the sleep sack.
OK.
Now his arms are out of it.
But when you put the sleep sack on,
he just gets so happy because he knows sleep is coming.
So I would like to sleep sack, frankly.
I think we would all like a sleep sack.
All right, Andy, I do see you.
We're going to take a break.
Andy is going crazy over there with his 12 string hoodie.
That's what Wyatt does too.
He does these hand gestures.
Maybe he could get a job--
Then he should be an executive producer that tells me
when it's time to break.
Because he's just constantly doing that.
That's what Wyatt-- seriously, that's
what Wyatt is doing lately.
Maybe he wants you to stop talking.
Maybe that's why Wyatt is doing that.
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