Turning This Car Around

Lex's presence prevents Jon and Moltz from geeking out over the Doctor Strange trailer. Moltz talks about his vacation in Long Beach, WA. Tampopo is the best movie about ramen. Probably not for the kids. Lex's son is doing some ads which causes us to bring up Jackie Coogan. Lex and Jon both recommend Catastrophe. Our thanks to Connected Camps for sponsoring this episode. Connected Camps offers online Minecraft camps that teach kids gameplay, construction, coding and how to good Internet citizens. Sign your child up for their Summer of Minecraft before the end of April to get the early bird price of just $95 AND get an additional 25 percent off with the code CAR25. Our thanks as well to Sleep Number, the best sleep of your life. Set your sleep number from 0 to 100 to adjust how firm or soft you want your sleep experience. Right now you can save 50% on limited edition beds and all mattresses are on sale! Find a Sleep Number store near you at SleepNumber.com and tell them Lex from Turning This Car Around sent you (really). Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Lex shares his family's schedule for their recent Disneyland trip. Spoiler alert: They crushed it. Here's the epic breakdown of schedule and some insights about FastPass usage. Day 1: 21 rides!! https://twitter.com/lexfri/status/714644838516264960 See the rest of this week's show notes here: http://turningthiscararound.com/post/142427314619/106-lex-kills-it-at-disneyland Our thanks to Enclosed, gorgeous and enticing panties for women. Visit Enclosed.com/car and get $25 off any of their subscription plans. Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Lex is at Disneyland this week so we are talking with very special guest Merlin Mann! Author Peggy Orenstein has thoughts on how we talk to girls and sex. Moltz has a complaint about iOS provisioning profiles. Merlin recommends Cloak and 1Blocker. What is it with kids' fascination with the closet of mystery? Our thanks to Acronis for sponsoring this episode. Your stuff is invaluable and you should back it up. Really. And Acronis can get you there. Got to TrueImage.com/CAR and you'll get 30% off PLUS a bonus license for an additional computer. Our thanks also to Enclosed, gorgeous and enticing panties for women. Visit Enclosed.com/car and get $25 off any of their subscription plans. Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Lex is on his way to Disneyland. Moltz has questions about California Adventure. Alaska flies Disney-themed planes. Lex is not riding one of those. Lex is a fan of his keypad door locks. Our thanks to Acronis for sponsoring this episode. Your stuff is invaluable and you should back it up. Really. And Acronis can get you there. Got to TrueImage.com/CAR and you'll get 30% off PLUS a bonus license for an additional computer. Our thanks as well to Sleep Number, the best sleep of your life. Set your sleep number from 0 to 100 to adjust how firm or soft you want your sleep experience. Right now you can save 50% on limited edition beds and all mattresses are on sale! Find a Sleep Number store near you at SleepNumber.com and tell them Lex from Turning This Car Around sent you (really). Our thanks also to Wela, the place to get your financial life in order. Visit Wela.com/turning to take advantage of their tools to get financial advice and better manage your finances. Wela is free to use and has no minimums. Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Lin-Manuel Miranda worked on the music in Maz's bar in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If you have a daughter, consider making a first period kit. California has raised the age for buying tobacco to 21. Moltz and Jon like Firewatch. Our thanks to Acronis for sponsoring this episode. Your stuff is invaluable and you should back it up. Really. And Acronis can get you there. Got to TrueImage.com/CAR and you'll get 30% off PLUS a bonus license for an additional computer. Our thanks also to Wela, the place to get your financial life in order. Visit Wela.com/turning to take advantage of their tools to get financial advice and better manage your finances. Wela is free to use and has no minimums. Our thanks also go to Harry's. Harry's sells premium shaving products for much less than those crappy blades that you have to get someone to unlock from a cabinet. Get $5 off your first order with coupon code "TTCA". Don't wait, get the shave you deserve. Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

You all know that Airborne is B.S., right? Firewatch is a great game. Lost Highway is a good movie. Neither of these are probably for the kids. But Inside Out is. There's a new trailer for Captain America: Civil War. Jon's favorite non-Pixar animated film is Boxtrolls. Of course, we all like Airplane! and The Naked Gun, but probably not for the kids. Our thanks to Acronis for sponsoring this episode. Your stuff is invaluable and you should back it up. Really. And Acronis can get you there. Got to TrueImage.com/CAR and you'll get 30% off PLUS a bonus license for an additional computer. Our thanks also to Wela, the place to get your financial life in order. Visit Wela.com/turning to take advantage of their tools to get financial advice and better manage your finances. Wela is free to use and has no minimums. Our thanks as well to Sleep Number, the best sleep of your life. Set your sleep number from 0 to 100 to adjust how firm or soft you want your sleep experience. Right now you can save 50% on limited edition beds and all mattresses are on sale! Find a Sleep Number store near you at SleepNumber.com and tell them Lex from Turning This Car Around sent you (really). Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Lex is away this week so Jon and Moltz start by talking about movie trailers. Surprise. The trailer for the new Ghostbusters looks pretty good but has one problem that bugs us. Jon is looking forward to Batman vs. Superman, Moltz is skeptical. Jon has seen and recommends Deadpool, but it's clearly not for kids. That taken care of, we move on to civics, like how to talk to your kids about Donald Trump. Maybe someone should have had that conversation with Chris Christie. Jon recommends The Whistlestop, a podcast on politics by John Dickerson. Our thanks to Audible for sponsoring this episode. Go to Audible.com/ttca to get a 30-day trail absolutely free. Our thanks also to Wela, the place to get your financial life in order. Visit Wela.com/turning to take advantage of their tools to get financial advice and better manage your finances. Wela is free to use and has no minimums. Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

It's the 100th episode and we have a cast of 1,000s lined up for, nah, it's just us. Always remember to get off in Crackton. What else would we talk about on our 100th episode than Anita Hill. That Liam sure likes Uptown Funk. Mouth.com may sound like a porn site but it's not. Well, liquor and bacon porn, maybe. And now, some jazz. Our thanks to Sleep Number, the best sleep of your life. Set your sleep number from 0 to 100 to adjust how firm or soft you want your sleep experience. Right now you can save 50% on limited edition beds and all mattresses are on sale! Find a Sleep Number store near you at SleepNumber.com and tell them Lex from Turning This Car Around sent you (really). Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Please enjoy the Jurassic Park theme song done on the melodica. Lex's son is getting a karaoke machine for his birthday, perhaps one like this. We talk about school lunches and food allergy rules (links are not necessarily endorsements, we support keeping kids with allergies safe unlike those OTHER dadcasts). Our thanks to Sleep Number, the best sleep of your life. Set your sleep number from 0 to 100 to adjust how firm or soft you want your sleep experience. Right now you can save 50% on limited edition beds and all mattresses are on sale! Find a Sleep Number store near you at SleepNumber.com and tell them Lex from Turning This Car Around sent you (really). Our thanks also to Little Passports. Subscribe to Little Passports and your child will get an age-appropriate package with fun and engaging items that teach them about a new country every month. Turning This Car Around listeners can save 40 percent (!!!) if you use promo code "TTCA". Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

This week we talk about timeouts and breakfasts. As mentioned on previous episodes, Moltz's son is fond of omurice. Lex may be reigniting an open relationship with Brian. Our thanks this week to Sleep Number, the best sleep of your life. Set your sleep number from 0 to 100 to adjust how firm or soft you want your sleep experience. Check out Sleep Number's temperature-balancing pillow. Find a Sleep Number store near you at SleepNumber.com and tell them Lex from Turning This Car Around sent you (really). Our thanks also to Little Passports. Subscribe to Little Passports and your child will get an age-appropriate package with fun and engaging items that teach them about a new country every month. Turning This Car Around listeners can save 40 percent (!!!) if you use promo code "TTCA". Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Here's your overblown parenting article of the week, this one about child prodigies. Here's a funny video that involves quantum mechanics, chess, Ant-Man, Stephen Hawking and Bill and Ted. Seriously. Little Bits looks pretty cool. Snap Circuits are also cool. When we were coming up, though, it was all Elencos. When we weren't huffing fumes from our Creepy Crawler Thing Maker, that is. Behold! The dark secret of Brian REVEALED! Not creepy at all. Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Here's a story sort of about a dad getting arrested for taking away his daughter's iPhone but there's more going on. Some smart kids have a plan on how the oceans can clean themselves. Finally, Brian, beloved by all some, returns to the show in a surprise turn of events that terrifies Moltz and Armstrong. Our thanks this week to Mack Weldon. Mack Weldon makes fucking glorious underwear to hold your bits in the way they deserve and we know this because we're wearing it right fucking now. It is awesome stuff. So go to their site and use the promo code "CAR" to get 20 percent off your order. Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Here's an article on parenting. We don't really talk about it very much in this episode. Here's how to build an upside down fire. The Chimney Safety Institute of America says Duraflame logs are safe but Moltz doesn't buy it. Make sure your chimney doesn't get critters like raccoons. Our thanks this week to Mack Weldon. Mack Weldon makes fucking glorious underwear to hold your bits in the way they deserve and we know this because we're wearing it right fucking now. It is awesome stuff. So go to their site and use the promo code "TTCA" to get 20 percent off your order. And our thanks to Sleep Number, the best sleep of your life. Set your sleep number from 0 to 100 to adjust how firm or soft you want your sleep experience. Check out Sleep Number's temperature-balancing pillow. Find a Sleep Number store near you at SleepNumber.com and tell them Lex from Turning This Car Around sent you (really). Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Lex is enjoying him some Slimfast and they're not even a sponsor. Jon and Moltz are more into Bulleit. We wonder about the safety of kids drinking caffeine but the big problems seem to be soda and energy drinks, not necessarily coffee or tea. Adele's carpool karaoke is pretty good. Ladies and gentlemen, the poop stuck in my butt song. And, to follow that up, here's Emily Mandelbaum singing Let Me Poop to the tune of Let It Go. Camelback Resort has some serious water slides. The Moltzes, however, are going to Great Wolf Lodge. And our thanks to Sleep Number, the best sleep of your life. Set your sleep number from 0 to 100 to adjust how firm or soft you want your sleep experience. Check out Sleep Number's temperature-balancing pillow. Find a Sleep Number store near you at SleepNumber.com and tell them Lex from Turning This Car Around sent you (really). Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

Moltz quotes the movie Top Secret. Some of our kids are going through changes. Jon's daughters plays Tapple and Telestrations. Moltz's family is currently playing Ticket To Ride. Second Step is a bullying prevention program which is probably better than giving your kid a flame thrower. Moltz's family enjoys their Shakespearean insult bandages. And our thanks to Sleep Number, the best sleep of your life. Set your sleep number from 0 to 100 to adjust how firm or soft you want your sleep experience. Check out Sleep Number's temperature-balancing pillow. Find a Sleep Number store near you at SleepNumber.com and tell them Lex from Turning This Car Around sent you (really). Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.