Robbie saw a video online — a dad filming his son being pulled away by the mom, kid absolutely bawling, chaos everywhere, and the page presenting it like the dad was doing something heroic. Robbie thought both parents were idiots. And that the kid was the only one paying the real price for it.

That video opened up a bigger conversation about the gotcha moment culture we're all living in — where parents film their kids doing dangerous things instead of stopping them, where custody disputes get played out on social media, where we're so busy capturing the moment we forget to actually be in it. Robbie's not above it either. He admits it. That's what makes this one worth listening to.

Topics covered: why filming your kid's meltdown instead of addressing it is a parenting failure, the specific ways viral culture is making parents worse at parenting, Robbie's own struggle with living through his phone and what he's doing about it, the catch-22 of wanting memories versus being present for them, and what his two-year-old has already figured out that most adults haven't.

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