People Don’t Get Freaky Anymore + Kids Driving Us MAD!!!
August 17, 2026
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5 min readWhen Kids Test Every Limit You Have
Tim Chantarangsu and David So spend a long stretch of this episode unpacking what it actually feels like to parent small children—not the Instagram version, but the daily grind of negotiating with a three-year-old who refuses to get in the bath because of a scrape on his knee, or a five-year-old who won't let her little brother sing along to "her" song in the car. The conversation is loose and digressive, but a clear throughline emerges: parenting forces you to confront parts of yourself you didn't know existed, and the internet's endless supply of parenting advice is mostly useless because every kid is different.
The Sibling Dynamic and the Tattletale Problem
Tim describes how his daughter Veda, age five, has developed a habit of bossing her younger brother Q around. In the car, when it's Q's turn to pick a song, everyone sings along—but when it's Veda's turn, she tells Q "Don't sing it. Only I sing this is my song." Tim tries to explain that music is for everybody, but she's not buying it. Q, meanwhile, is in a sensitive stage: "He bumped into the vacuum and started crying."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:51) **Will Ferrell’s Son Makes Good Music** - Tim discovers Magnus Ferrell has a great R&B voice, and they compare him to Robin Thicke, another son of a comedian.
- 2 (06:31) **Kids Driving Parents Mad** - David describes his daughter Veda being possessive over songs in the car, refusing to let her brother Q sing along during her turn.
- 3 (08:39) **The Struggle of Bath Time and Independence** - David recounts Q’s fear of getting a small knee scrape wet in the bath, leading to a standoff where David tells him he’s “being a little bitch.”
- 4 (11:01) **Kids Refusing Help and Saying “No”** - Tim acts out his son’s frustrating independence at the sink, where every step of washing hands is a negotiation.
- 5 (13:33) **Telling Kids to Shut Up for the First Time** - Tim reveals he told both his kids to “shut up” in the car for the first time, and they were shocked into silence.
- 6 (15:49) **Feeling Guilty About Shutting Down a Kid’s Creativity** - Tim feels bad about rejecting Veda’s outfit choice for an episode, realizing he could have just gone along with it.
- 7 (20:06) **First Kisses and Awkward Friend Encounters** - Tim and David discuss their first French kisses and the weirdness of kissing or grinding on close friends.
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