What is the opinion on motherhood among Gen Z at the moment?

It's interesting.

Did you see that study that said that it's over half of women do believe that motherhood is just as or more important than a career? It's just from a couple of weeks ago.

But they will not, these are not conservatives.

These are just normal women.

They don't wanna brand themselves as conservatives.

They wanna get married.

Got to mish brunch, brunch with the girls.

Mm

...

I was still petrified.

Didn't know what my future held.

I had no idea if I would just go into writing and become some kind of journalist, if I would end up wanting to go to law school later on.

Literally had no idea.

Was working at this wine bar steakhouse in Boise, Idaho.

What do you think it was? Why do you think anyone cared?

[laughs]

"Because otherwise we're gonna go dig." I was like, I agree with that.

Like, just say it.

But, um, [laughs] I agree, but then I'm also, like, the person that's on the other side of the camera.

I'm like, I don't wanna do that.

So that's why you do have to be very careful about, like, what, what door am I going to open up? So I, like, slightly opened it up when we got engaged based on his comfort level, and he kind of wanted to, like, tiptoe.

He's very, very private.

[laughs]

Here's the principal, Brett Cooper.

You're probably learning more about currency, needs versus wants, opening bank accounts, real-life context, which I think is really important for our students at this age to know.

But he believes teaching financial literacy can help to level the playing field by motivating students

I wanna work hard at school, and I wanna have a job that, you know, I get paid well, which gives me more choices.

So it can be something that's quite inspirational.

Here's the principal, Brett Cooper.

You're probably learning more about currency, needs versus wants, opening bank accounts, real life context, which I think is really important for our students at this age to know.

Because here's the thing.

Everyone has to manage money and some people have more than others.

But he believes teaching financial literacy can help to level the playing field by motivating students.

I want to work hard at school and I want to have a job that, you know, I get paid well, which gives me more choices.

So it can be something that's quite inspirational.

What is the opinion on motherhood among Gen Z at the moment?

It's interesting.

Do you see that study that said that it's over half of women do believe that motherhood is just as or more important than a career? It's just from a couple of weeks ago.

But they will not...

These are not conservatives.

These are just normal women.

They don't wanna brand themselves as conservatives.

Got to mish brunch, brunch with the girls.

Mm

...

I was still petrified.

Didn't know what my future held.

Had no idea if I would just go into writing and become some kind of journalist, if I would end up wanting to go to law school later on.

Literally had no idea.

Was working at this wine bar/steakhouse in Boise, Idaho.

What do you think it was? Why do you think anyone cared?

[laughs]

"... because otherwise we're gonna go dig." And I was like, I agree with that.

Like, just say it.

But, um, [laughs] I agree, but then I'm also, like, the person that's on the other side of the camera.

I'm like, "I don't wanna do that." So that's why you do have to be very careful about, like, what, what door am I going to open up? So I, like, slightly opened it up when we got engaged based on his comfort level, and he kind of wanted to, like, tiptoe.

He's very, very private, does not wanna be on camera, does not care.

Um, that's one of the things I love most about him is he does not care that I'm some public figure.

[laughs]

No.

We're unsure.

So interesting.

Is this like a peer space? Yeah.

Okay.

Sometimes I never know.

Like we show up to these and I'm like, I think somebody So funny.

What are your thoughts on the conservative civil war?

Whoa.

And she says, "Rolling Stone says that I'm on the right path, but I wonder if I've, you know, sacrificed my future." And then at the end she's kind of like, "Oh well, this is the life that I've created for myself." And she goes, "My friend is due in March.

My album's due in April.

So I'll go refill my Lexapro, and I'll get back to work." And it is so incredibly raw.

But it's the timeline of that, that she was divorced only three years ago because she wasn't ready to have kids.

She had this mountain of success, everything that she wanted, and now she's sitting here and going, "Shit," like, "Did, did I, did I wait too long?" And I'm guessing that she wrote this when she and the boyfriend were on a break, whatever it was.

But the women who are relating to that, if you look on social media, the success of the song, I mean, the comments are heartbreaking.

in that, um-

How do they contribute to the school's success?

Yeah, I think it's really important to acknowledge that every person is a vital part of the team.

It doesn't matter if you're the principal, it doesn't matter if you're a learning assistant, caretaker, each role is really important and valuable.

So, Our senior leadership team, Peter, he's fantastic.

He does an amazing job and very supportive, comes up with a lot of new initiatives.

And Faya Tamara, she also is a learning support coordinator.

She does an amazing job supporting our students.

What recent achievements at this school are you particularly proud of?

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Does somebody live here? No.

We're unsure.

So in- is this, like, a peer space? Yeah.

Okay.

Sometimes I never know.

Like, we show up to these and I'm like, "I think somebody..." So funny.

What are your thoughts on the conservative civil war?

Really pleased that he's continuing to do us guest mixes for the podcast, so I will leave you in his capable hands.

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How does it change your perspective?

number one I think and I've said this a lot I give less of a crap about a lot of the things that I say like things that I might have been more trepidatious about before and like oh I don't really know if I want to say that and I'm like I don't care um and so I think having a child has made me bolder because I would rather use my platform for good and try to make the world as great of a place as possible for him and I also want to lead by example and not show him that I'm scared of things or censoring myself, whatever it is.

So I think that's part of it.

I also think a big thing is that if I am going to, I guess it's the priorities around my time have changed because now if I'm going to take an hour to write my show, then, you know, my studio's at home, but, you know, go upstairs and do a show for an hour.

If I'm going to spend two hours away from him, I don't want it to be on some meaningless piece of crap.

And I often found myself when I was, you know, doing two shows a day and like chasing the news cycle, I would often feel like, and I've talked about this a lot, like, you're like scraping the bottom of the barrel, like, ah, I gotta get up with something to say.

And even when I was doing that, I cared so deeply about making sure that it was valuable.

what you learned in the past.

What, what happened with that?

...

it was scandalous.

So I was invited to a fashion show for New York Fashion Week from a designer called, um, her name is Elena Velez.

She is super cool.

She's on the right.

She's very much a disruptor in the fashion industry, and I learned that she had been a fan of the show and invited me to come see her New York Fashion Week show.

Uh, so have you thought about how you're gonna, how you're gonna handle that?

So what happened?

Yes, um, so I actually just put out an episode two hours ago talking about this tweet and talking about this story.

Um, and it's interesting that this blew up yesterday, and I tweeted about that after the fact, because you never really know what things are gonna take off on X.

And I'm very much like, I post, and then I turn off my phone.

Like, I have my name muted on X. I do not, like, listen to what is happening.

And then suddenly I started getting all of these texts and seeing all of these replies and comments and going, "Oh, my gosh, this is really, you know, striking a chord with people." Um, and it's funny because this is something that I have shared before.

I did a, you know, four-hour, something like that, long interview with Sean Ryan early last year and talked at length about my brother's situation, touched on drug use.

That part, I didn't know about it.

[laughs] How has motherhood changed you, Bret, in your outlook on life?

Oh, gosh.

Um, in, I mean, in every way.

It completely changes your life.

I think the first thing that comes to mind, that I've been saying a lot, is that I give less of a crap about things now.

Um, a lot of things, you know, sort of in line with what we're talking about with politics, things seem, um, [lips smack] um, less relevant to me in a lot of ways, and less worthy of getting angry about.

Um, and I'm more interested in, you know, just being honest and speaking my mind, and not really caring if I offend people, and finding humor in things.

Mm

Right, yeah.

And then you become so vulnerable postpartum when you have, you know, this child and your hormones are just completely out of whack.

The first two weeks are so hard, at least they were for me.

Um, and you just feel broken open.

You literally have been broken open, and you have this life that you're trying your hardest to protect, like, "I just wanna keep you alive," and you have to rely on other people.

You can't do it all yourself.

I think that's why it's so damaging.

Uh-huh, uh-huh.

So, it does prompt the question, what is causing, do you think, all the issues that Bieber's having?

I mean, it goes so much deeper than just Diddy, and I think obviously that is a weight on him because he has now been involved in this, people have been speculating for months, if not years about that, so I know that that has been heavy for him to handle.

But, I have spent the last month or so getting to know people that are close to Justin, and interestingly we've had, similar to you, you know, our lives have kind of been interwoven.

Like I was a theater kid when I was younger and so my voice teacher was at the same studio where he took lessons back in Atlanta when he was a teenager.

And so I've just been around him and people that have been close to him for years and years and years up until this point.

And in the conversations that I've been having recently, there's just so much that has been going on behind the scenes that people are just now learning about.

Most notably, due to his break with his longtime manager, Scooter Braun who he unfollowed at the beginning of this year, who he know, thanks to the press that he has been in a legal battle with for multiple years to try to get out of the contract that he signed when he was 13 years old.

Mm-hmm.

But yeah.

Probably good with...

I don't think I'm somebody that's super anxious, but there is a perfectionism that is ingrained in me.

I think when you, um...

I mean, I really...

I mean, even yesterday on Alex's and my drive to dinner, I was just like, I don't even know what set it off, but I'm such a...

My entire childhood between David's death and my parents' divorce and my dad is somebody that, um, desperately wanted to please and could never really please.

... and a full-time acting career, and you're caring for your schizophrenic brother.