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"My Spidey Senses Told Me"
Avery talks about his first day of first grade and his Spidey senses. Getting ready to start first grade and how it's different from kindergarten makes him nervous. Also, Avery talks about his Spider-senses and how they help him.
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You okay? You look nervous. Yeah. What are you nervous for? I'm nervous because it's my trip. Your trip? It's because my teacher said I have a trip on Monday, but not on Tuesday or Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. Your trip for next week, not today. Next week? Yeah, because today's Monday, so must be next week. No, it's actually today. You're going on a trip today?
Yeah. How? You're not in school today. I know. Because my teacher told me. Are you ready to get this podcast started? Yeah, boy. Since you're talking about your teacher, you started first grade this week. Yeah. So you said you want to talk about first grade. I do. I do want to talk about first grade. Can you tell me how was your first day? Good. It's not my first day anymore. Yay. Were you scared for your first day? Yes.
Tell me about that. Why were you scared? Because it's my first day of first grade. OK, but you have a few people you know in your class, right? Yeah. And how do you like your teacher? Pretty good! Was there anything you expected to be different than kindergarten when you started first grade? First grade is different than kindergarten. Because, because, because you know why first grade is different than kindergarten? Why? Because they're different.
They're in different, they're in different places because, but what I thought, because I saw a second grade, a second grade and after now I'm scared again. I was scared again. I was scared again for, for, for second. I'm scared. I'm, I'm scared for all the weeks I go to different grades. Yeah. But you're going to be in first grade all school year. So it's a long time before you go to second grade. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't do that.
So yeah, first grade is different. You got a different teacher. Everything's different. Everything. Yeah, but you're bigger now than when you went to kindergarten. You're six now. Yeah. But you said, but every time I a little girl. So, but but I don't know if I'm still five years old. I'm six years old now. It's not it's not just my birthday to get older. I get a little older all the days.
I'm telling you. Tell me, tell me more about that. I don't understand. What do mean? Because he told me I it's not just my birthday. It's every single time. Not just my birthday. Maybe one day you could do a dress with Blair, right? Yeah, I can do the podcast one day. Just yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And why are you getting are you getting tired of doing a podcast already? No, no, no. I just because you never did it. Well, you never did it. Well, where
But I never, but I never did it. I never did it with with just Blair. So what is it going to be when you do it with just Blair? What is that? What's that going to be like? I'm a lot of listen. I'm a lot. I'm going to quit. Sit over there. So you're going to be the host. Yeah, I'm going to be the whole. And if a boy is going to be the host and I'm going to be the guest. so you guys are going to alternate. Yeah, we're just we're just guessing. That's why that's why I'm doing a podcast with Blair.
What's it gonna be called? Time with Brother, Parkas with Sister. it's not gonna be called Time with Kids no more? It can be Time with Kids too. Which one you like better? Time with Kids. Time with Kids? Or we can just call it, or you can just call it Time with Kids. Fine, but you, or you could just call it Time with Avery. We could. Or we could call it Time with Blair. You said Time with Avery, the other day you said...
People can call you Ave. Yeah. Or times with Ave. I'm fine with whatever calls me anything. Where did you get this? Where did you get this word, Ave, from this new nickname you have for yourself? Where'd you get this? Tell me about it. I got it by my spider senses. Your spider senses told you? I would love to talk about your spider senses. Well, if your spider sense and my spider sense didn't call you Cass and annoy, that would be so crazy.
Your Spidey senses. How many Spidey senses do you have now? Last time you told me you had seven. How many you have now? 100 million, 100 ,000. You have that many Spidey senses? That must be a lot of noise. One of my Spidey senses told me on my back, they told me like the one in the middle of my back. They told me maybe some people can call you Abe. If I enough for enough for.
I feel all those spice sense on the top of my head said, that's a great name. So I, so I'm just going to click add that for my nickname. you're like, you like a yeah, but and I'm from a boy and I feel you can call it, can put it as your time, but my, my nickname is Polo. Right. Is it? Well, that's your middle name, but I call you Pa. Yeah, that's yeah.
Pa is my last name. No, Pa's your nickname. yeah, Pa's my nickname and also Abe my nickname. I have two nicknames now. Yeah, but Abe you gave yourself. So that's pretty big, man. Yeah. And then so you're Spidey senses. So you have that many Spidey senses now. Let me ask you. When did you find out you had Spidey senses? Right in the night. Right in the night. keep, the, the, the one, one of Spidey senses.
Appeared and ever as he was on the one on top of my head Peter was that many and after now I have and now I have 90 not nine now Because I have the one top of my head. He he peered a rule a lie. This is some of my arm Yeah, but like do they have names just by the senses or just numbers some have numbers some have names so but the one in the
middle of my back his name is Abe his first name and there's no middle name no last name and no nickname does anyone else have a name the one on top of my head does have a name it's the same name there's two A's and there's a lot of layers really yeah yeah so these spider senses where are they like all over your body yeah they're all over my body right on my neck
And it's so and it's so making me confused. I see time I'm itchy They move out of the way from itchie. So what do you do with just whitey senses? Like can you tell me more like how do you use them? I use them I use I use them if if I get confused sometimes or or if I want to tell this something by a new name of Or Blair when she gets played some years or the eight or eight years
I tell them anything and I want to tell them. So so I I just I just tell what we're seven years old. I was going to say on what's name I was going to name her. Did you forget what you were going to name her? No, no. My brother says they're showing me something right now. What's it saying? He's saying he's saying right now. He's saying he said the name.
or when Blair gets older, way too seven years old, he said the name is the same name as you. Jonathan. Really? Yeah. And also Jonathan, he's in the same class. Yeah, yeah, you have a classmate named Jonathan. Let me ask you this. Does your Spidey senses talk to my Spidey senses? If they want to. Do they talk sometimes? Because sometimes I have my Spidey senses. Do your Spidey senses talk to mine? Yeah, yeah.
Because sometimes when my Spidey Sense want to, they always tell me and they just tell me, they just tell your Spidey Sense I have a great name or something else. My Spidey Sense is telling me everything right now. Yeah, my Spidey Sense is telling me everything. What he's saying, so I'm copying it so I can say it to you.
got it. Got it. So you're like the intermediary between the real world and the Spidey world. Yeah. Yeah. Because after the time my, my Spidey sense tells me and tells some of my, some of my Spidey sense, like the one in the middle of my back, right? And he's telling him something. Yeah. He's telling him something right now, but I have to say when I want it. Let me ask you a question. Yeah.
Do your Spidey senses ever have a fight with each other? No, no, they be crying to each other. Only the ones on my arm. This arm, right here. Only this one. This one. Do they tell you to do bad stuff or good stuff? Sometimes they tell me to do bad stuff. But sometimes, sometimes they tell me to do good stuff. So, you know I can't be a bad to you because you're being so mean. Remember?
Yeah, I remember. I say all the time I do that, fight with you. But also your cousins, Maddie's house, there's some more senses. These spidey senses. Yeah. Do you like that you have them? Some of them had to go to bed sometimes. And also the ones on my leg fight, they try to chew because my spidey senses are crazy.
Right right on my leg and my my arm They're very crazy. They play with a turn today as crazy stuff thing. They always saw I'm trying to delete them now, but I can't there's thing to try and stay on Well, I mean the bad ones every time I talk to you you have more spidey senses than last time. Yeah, well I know there when I was subbing them or just us the feeding
getting, getting, on my leg. The disappearing? Yeah. I'm to delete the bad ones. So I'm, I'm telling, I'm telling good stuff with, with the one on my head telling me what to do. So it's appearing. You're telling me good stuff. Until the time they reappear, I just, I just say, go away. But it's not my first time saying it because. Do you think, do you think?
Do you think Blair has Spidey senses? I don't know, but I'm trying to give her some. Not the bad ones, the good ones. I'm going to give So you can pass them along. can you can transfer them to someone else. Yeah. Maybe that's how maybe that's how I got my Spidey senses, because I didn't have Spidey senses as a kid. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why that's why that's why you have a Spidey sense. Because you gave it to me. Yeah. I gave one I gave one on my back.
I appreciate it. after actual time, I give you one to you. Another one appears. They're a good one. Mm But if a bad one appears, I say, so pay right now. If there are bad ones up here, do you think do you think your spidey senses are going to help you for first grade? Yeah, they're trying. They're trying their best because right now, right now is going to be is going to be my first time doing going somewhere.
But I'm scared right now, they're to help me. So they're helping you calm down and be a little more brave? Yeah, or lot brave. The good ones. But the bad ones tell me to stay scared. what about when you go like swimming? Do you get scared in the water? Do your spider senses help you? Yeah, the good ones help me. But every time I go in the pool, some of them want to swim on my legs. But the ones on my face, sometimes they just
But right now they just use, they are aspirating for the water. use, they use their X -ray you said? Yeah. The X -ray in the water because they is, unless them stay on my face, but the ones on my belly just, just do the same things. But some of them go off and swim. Wait. So let me get this straight. They're all over your body. Yeah. Let me ask you, let me ask you this, right?
Yeah, yeah, but they're right the race up here all the bad ones are on the my leg and my arm was up here right now So when yeah, it's all good was up here right now. That's good. That's good So when you're being good, know how sometimes we give you like a reward we give you maybe candy or something right like we go we go play When your spidey senses are being good, do you do anything for them? yeah, I I just how I tell them I tell them
I just gave them because just like a secret little bag, but it's camouflage. looks, it's just like the spice senses all over my body. So. So you're spidey senses has camouflage like spin, like spin spidey. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I see, notice there's spice as our skin floss too. But if any, but anything else comes, there's spice and so here, you know that like.
You know how phones look like this? Yeah? Yeah, that's where they're sp - they're spitting limes over their heads. And if they dodge everything, Wow. When any bad guys come, they just they just dodge it. They - they dodge the punches. Or would they do anything with powers? Do they have - they have special powers? I don't know, but - but - but I I only - only
All I know, just want to tell you, all I just know is my Spidey senses trying to help me finish the game. Now, did your Spidey senses tell you how your subscribers are doing? Because you only got subscribers now. Yeah, he, he, they told me I have, I have eight million. You have eight million? Yeah, they told me actually, he, because the one, the one on the middle of my back, he has a phone. It has a phone. He has a phone. Yeah.
And he told you have 8 million. Yeah. I've never seen these 8 million. can tell you how much. Because he subscribed and now I have 8 million. How many do you want? How many subscribers do you want? I want more than 100 million or 108 thousand. I want more than that. So you want more than what you originally said. You said you wanted 100 thousand. Now you want 100 million, 100 thousand? I don't know, but...
150 ,000 which one's more 100 million or 150 ,000 which one's more 100 million is more higher. Yeah, you're right We got to go back into the mic, okay. All right. Well, okay Avery This was super cool talking about your spidey senses Okay, but do you want to go play some games now? I have one more thing to say Tell me your last thing you're gonna say and then we can end this podcast.
want some more Spidey senses. You're give me more? Yeah. How many? Any number they just pick. Some of them just go off and just go. Okay, make sure you tell your Spidey senses to help you in first grade, right? To help you be good. Yeah, some of them are right. And then to maybe your Spidey senses to help you get more subscribers. Yep. Sound like a good idea? Yeah. is that a great idea? That's a great idea. But some of them are already coming off of me.
But more than we appear. Okay. All right. But now the bad ones appear on my leg. All right. So I think in my arm, they only appears the bad ones are right on my arm in my leg. That's, that's when they appear. Okay. So maybe we should change the name of the show. Maybe we should change the name of the show to times with dad and Avery's spidey senses. Yeah. All right. So they was listening to this episode of times with dad and Avery's spidey senses. I'm glad they came on.
I'm glad I came into the podcast with them. Yeah, they wanted to do it. their first time. All Well, do you think they're to come on to the podcast again next week? Yeah, they're going to come on the podcast all day now. All right. All right. Good. They're all over the place. All right. So let's let's let's have them come on to next week's episode of the podcast. OK, make sure to like it. Subscribe. Yeah. Yeah, let's put the like let's play. We'll put the like animation and everything. How about that? Yeah. On all our podcast videos with
Times with Dad's Spidey Senses and also we're doing it again. Times with Sisters and Ava or Avery Spidey Senses. Okay. Alright Alright Ava. until next week, okay? I love you Avery. Love you John. Don't call me John. My name is Daddy. Sorry. Alright. Are you okay with that? No, I'm not okay with that. But it's okay. Alright Avery. Can I just call you Daddy? Are you fine?
No, I want daddy. I don't want John. Okay. Hello, dad. All right. All right. Bye, Avery. Love you. Bye, dad. Avery, you're funny. I know. I don't know why did I call you John. I don't know. Okay, so guess what? What? Some people call me and call Jonathan John. That's true. That's true. Yeah, it is true.