I made a decision face sunny sound, I had a vision, right,
what's up? Everybody crying out like I'm wearing my hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, gosh, what's happening? What's happening? Klin doesn't
remember? I know night Wait, that's not that's not that show. That's
Good Times, Good Times, Yep, that's j J JJ but this is
RAJ and member dedidd Yeah yeah, and rerun and rerun I could do reruns
dance yea, Oh my god, I love that show. They know I
love that show. What's happening? Um, you know what's happening is uh
Ashley's chic she is deally happened, yes, And Leslie got accosted and sex
tropiced. Oh no, wow, she needs I know, I know Leslie.
And Jacob's still Grally and Rita rocks that bassinet and Hero everybody loves It's
Father's Days coming yep. And Elizabeth Williamson she has a lot of kids.
And Athena Ginschurt is a great dancer and does her makeup like really pretty yeah
on fleek. And Polly Butterfield that's still a pretty name, yes Butterfield and
Valerie hits out of the park. And Katarina should check her moller. She's
probably tired of that. But yeah, what else is it hurting? Maybe?
What's her last name? Mohler? Oh yeah, that's it yet?
Yeah? Yeah, what else? You what are you gonna do? Are
you gonna do? What are you gonna do with that? Gabby and Missy?
These girls they lost their teeth a long time ago. There's three of
them between the two. I found one of them in my garbage disposal.
I'm sorry, guys, e Sean Vajpe talk about teeth. We're background.
Kelly Aunt, she is got a mentos for you in her purse. It's
a fuzz on other gum stuck to it, stuff to a nickel. Amy's
a cunt, Aaron Alicia from the city of El Monte Leslie com I mean
COVID. That's not real. That's a hope a long time ago. Yeah,
And Jennifer get up, and Sarah's too, and Sandra's not easy being
green Christa, you make me wan and Stephanie's a stinker wrinker? Yeah,
what's up? What? Um? This is a Oh? I was gonna
tell you yes on Tuesday, I promised you I was going to tell you
that Xander had like a funny um oh my god, I had another thing
I want to tell you too. Okay, So Xander went to a friend's
house yesterday on Memorial Day and he sent me a text and he like,
mom, or did he send it to me? Or did he send it
to John? Let me look? Uh? And he said he was making
Oh no, I have to I think he sent it to John. Anyway,
he said he made a Steve Harvey cake. What yeah, so uh.
Basically, he and his friend got bored. They told me, oh
yeah, here it is, and they bang a cake on our Instagram.
Oh my god, it came out night. They baked a cake and they
made the face is Steve Harvey. It's not bad, Dade, It's not
bad at all. And they were so proud of it. But then they
ate it. But clockilly, they took a picture of it. And then
apparently they were trying to Instagram Steve Harvey and tagging him and sending him the
cake. And now they want to like do another cake of somebody else,
totally random. I can't remember who that. Yeah. What a night.
And they were so sided. When I came to pick him up, it
was like a girlfriend's house like a scroll that's a friend, you know?
And yeah, they were like and then the mom was like really sweet,
like a sweet parent. I came over. I met the mom and dad
and she was like, oh my gosh, they had the best time.
Like, she goes, I haven't heard this much laughter in this house.
And I don't know how long she goes. They laughed NonStop for hours.
Oh my gosh. He went over there at like one and I didn't pick
him up until eight. Now is this a friend from school? Or it's
a friend from his old school? Okay, okay, from his last school
before this one? Oh so they that's so cute. Who doesn't go to
the school where he is at right now? Okay, goes to the school
where Elbie goes? Okay, okay, yeah, he kind of wants to
go. He wants to go back, he wants to go there, kind
of wants to go there. Really not happy at this one. It's so
small. Yeah, it's really really small. Sadie likes it though, right
well, Sadie, Sadie. Sadie does not like school. If I told
Sadie tomorrow, like, you know what, I'm just going to homeschool,
you should be like cool. Cool, Great, I'd be like I never
really need I don't need to see people or do anything or okay, cool,
I'll just work from home in my bed. But I couldn't do that
because of all people she needs, she needs to be forced to go to
school and interact with people. Xander, all he wants to do is like
interact in the rea, be involved in things, and like him, I
love that, But like he, I don't know if he's getting enough opportunities.
Yeah for that where he is, right, I see, Well it
makes sense. That makes sense. Would they be willing to go to separate
schools? I think so? So you think he might go to the big
school. Well so I tried to apply, but it's really late in the
application process and it's not our district school, right, So something to know
about LA. You don't have to deal with this where you are in your
school district, in the LA school district LUSD you it's very specific what your
district, what your districted school is, and your districted school could be super
shitty, which ours is. So our districted schools like only a few blocks
from us, but nobody would want to go there. It's not a good
school, absolutely not didn't you look at my school then I went to school.
No, No, that's very small. That's even smaller than where they
are. That's a school that people apply to. So there's this thing called
choices out here, right. So if you apply to a school and you
don't get in, you get points. It's a magnet school. Your school
is a magnet school. If you accrue enough points, you can use them
to get into another magnet school. But that ship is sailed for us.
We weren't trying to get into any magnets, okay. But what they do
is if you want to go to like a school one neighborhood over that's like
the big school that everyone goes to, you have to do something called open
enrollment, but you have to kind of know you want to go to that
school ahead of time. Yeah. So like when I applied for Sadie and
Xander last year, they got in, but then they chose not to go
there. I see, So this year I didn't apply at the time that
I should have applied because I thought they were happy. But then Xander was
like, I will I want to change school, So I don't think he's
going to but I just tried to apply and there's like a wait, there's
a waiting list of like five hundred and sixty five kids. Oh yeah,
yeah, what's your school district kid? Or you know, but is it
small? No, I don't think so. I think it's pretty big big.
Yeah. Ah for elementary school, Like you're cool when your kids start
elementary school. Yeah, you like the schools. I mean I haven't looked
at I haven't looked at him yet. But you know, Amy, Amy
knows all the school. She's a teacher, all her friends or teachers.
She knows where to send them and where to put someone else's address. Right,
that's one of those things, remember you have. I used my condo
address for when the kids started kindergarten for the school in school district, and
then they went there for a while, and then at some point they were
getting you know, the school. It was getting there was a lot of
people doing that, and the school started getting just cracking down. And then
Olga was living at my condo, so then we had to like leave toothbrushes
there make it look like in case people did come to the door and check.
Yeah, I remember that. It was at the time we were already
in the process of moving out of the neighborhood into the room, but we
were cionara to that. Like by the time they got to second grade,
we were out, so they were just kindergarten first grade and then we left.
But yeah, I mean we tried, but it just got to it
was a it was a No, it wasn't a magnet school. It was
a charter school. Yeah, it's a mess up system. And I remember
reading about like, it's not very equitable either, and there was a black
woman who I don't know if she lied, but try to try to put
her kids and it was in La into a better school and she got caught
and they put her in jail. What the fuck? Yeah, are you
kidding? Not kidding? The Crazy Store. I'm gonna have to look it
up and tell you about it. But I remember reading about it during the
time of like the George Foreman stuff and the oh my god, you're right,
Kaylin's bowled over by stories. Yeah, the school's so hard and it's
not like it was when I don't know, I know, well, I
would say it's not like it was when we were kids, but it's not
like it was when I was in like middle school and high school because you
just went to. There's one school in Springfield, Massachusetts. There's one school.
It was called Classical High School. It was the only college prep school
in like the most of the city. Right, So there was like a
private school that my mom would threaten to send me to. Looking back,
it's like, well, yeah, bitch, what you should have just sent
me there if you're so rich, right, that sounds weird, But like
she was always like, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna pull you from your
school because I was doing so terrible and put you in Saint George, which
was like a Catholic school. She was never going to pay money to send
me to private school, right. For one, it was an empty threat,
But I didn't realize at the time that that would be kind of a
probably would have been a good like a good school, right right, Yeah,
that's you know, you just reminded me my parents. When we first
moved to California, my parents put me in a Christian school for like a
year, and I was like, what I remember, it was like right
before junior high and it was like one year and it was like Bible studies
and stuff, and my dad's an atheist, and he was like, I
thought it would be better than the normal, the regular school, and he
was uh. And then I went to the local junior high, Columbus Junior
High in Canoga Park. Huh, that's the school my dad yelled, got
sent the nasty letter to my violin teacher, called her an asshole, tolder
to quit her job and learn how kids learned, because I took a violin
home and broke the string. And he's like, how does he's what's that
famous violinist? He suck? Yeah, how do you think he must have
broken a million strings? In? What kind of asshole take? It?
Takes away the privilege of letting the kid take the violin home, how she's
supposed to practice. Why don't you just quit your job and go back and
learn us? You know, I mean that whole letter and then traumatizing and
then and then they start letting you take the violin now now now now that
it didn't work, my dad typed it on a typewriter Dick Paradise signed it
Dick Paradise and then uh. And then he took me out and he sent
me to the Magnet school because then it was bussing. There was busses,
and we were getting and he wanted me to go to that Magnet school and
so yeah, so then I went there from eighth grade all the way through
high school. Right. Yeah. Julie Cason sent her daughter to a Christian
school for I want to say, for kindergarten. And then her daughter came
home and she, you know, talking about like, oh in Hell,
like they burned, you burned in Heller, and I usually was like,
okay, Yeah, the girls go to a Christian preschool or whatever, and
every once in a while they come home they go, oh, yeah,
look it's baby Jesus. Yeah, oh my god. Natalia was in New
York and she was she was by herself because Adam was doing shows. So
she called me and she was like walking by herself, going to the Starbucks.
And then she's going back to the hotel before I got dark. And
she gets back to the room. We're just chit chatting on FaceTime, and
uh, I go, are you bored? She's like, I'm okay.
And then she picks up because she's killing time because to go to dinner.
She picks up a book of Mormon. First, she says, a book
of Mormon. I think she's talking about the play. And I'm like oh
my god, it's done by the guys from from South Park. You should
you should go if you can go, and she goes, no, mom,
and then she holds it up. She goes, no, the real
Book of Mormon. Then she gets to the Bible and she's like she opens
it, she starts reading it, and she goes, you know who wrote
the Bible? Whom? And then I go, you should try and read.
So she tries to read it, and she's like, I would kind
of like to learn about this stuff. She's like, we never went to
church. And she's got a lot of friends that go to church, you
know, but we just never Probably don't like it, right, they don't.
And she's gone a couple times with them on a Sunday with their family,
and she's like, I don't know, I might kind of like it.
And I'm like, you know, you know, some of it may
apply to your life, you know, and make you look at things different.
I don't know, you know. Maybe she's like yeah, I mean
she entertained the idea for about three minutes and was done. That'd be funny
if you were like, you know what, let's start going to church every
Sunday. Do you I love you go to Barry's boot camp. Yeah,
huh, we're going to church. Yeah, you can get on your Sunday
dress. My dad always tell me the Bible is a beautiful story. Here's
a beautiful story, and you should read it. Just not true, but
it's a beautiful story. I think there are lots of things in religion and
in you know, I'm sure in the Bible that are positive things. But
it always kills me when fundamentalist Christians that are like no, no, no,
that's that every word happened. It's like you can't see that that that
that's like an analogy for like how to live your life? You really think
that Noah got in an arc and like got two of every kind of animal,
like yeah. And then I was watching Jersey Shore and those the three
of them, four of them are sitting around after a night of drinking talking
about wait a minute, Noah's who wait who who parted the sea? It
was Noah, right made I don't know any And then they were like,
how did Jesus get around? When Snooky's like, well, Jesus flew right
here. You can talk about so funny. Oh my god, oh my
god. I have to start watching Jersey Shore again, the Jersey Shore Family
Vacation. Highly recommend it. Oh my god. And oh let's take a
quick break. Okay, we're back. Um, Okay, I have to
talk to you about a show that I've seen one episode of. But okay,
maybe The Strange Case of of Natalia Grace Never Okay, google this shit
real quick, Kalin. Okay, it's this. It's new and it's on
Oh my god. Oh it's on Discovery. So it's basically each HBO,
Discovery Max. It's on Max. Yes, it's the story of the couple
that adopted a little girl who was a little person. She had Dwarfism.
Then she it She allegedly turns out to be like twenty two and she was
posing as a six year old. You remember this story now? Oh my
god. So it's crazy. I don't know who all of these people are
fucked up. It's a documentary, but it's it's it's insane. It just
came out yesterday. Oh god, I just released yesterday. Okay. But
I think it's a it's six parter, I think, okay, I think
they made a horror movie out of this, Yes, Natalia what but not,
it's not the orphan though, because the orphan is that they think no,
yes, so they think it's like the story of the orphan yes,
because they're in the trailer to this thing. I watched the first episode,
then I got really tired, so I couldn't finish it. I got hit
by a trickilizer dark and John was like, you seem like you're falling asleep,
and I was like, I'm just taking glasses off for one minute listening.
I'm I'm treating it like a podcast. He's like, you gotta see
this. Let's just stop it. We'll watch for us tomorrow. Let me
side note before you go on, we all, all of us on the
for Crying Out Loud community need to come together and give suggestions of shit to
watch because I think this writer strike is going to go on for a while.
Oh yeah, and we're gonna be fucked after all. We're gonna be
like, when's the new season of whatever name your show? Right? Yeah?
Coming out? Yeah? And I'm scared. So you got this,
okay? Can you read us the abstract? Kaylin uh yeah, just the
hold on. I was trying to see many episodes there were so only one
episode come out. I thought it was three, but it says it's over.
I think they're airing, like they didn't release it all together. Right,
Yeah, it says it's a It was the three night event starting May
twenty ninth, so I don't know. Maybe, but the IMDb description as
ooops. The Stockyseries offers extraordinary access and exclusive insight into a world renowned mystery.
Initially assumed to be a six year old Ukrainian orphan with a rare bone
growth disorder, she was actually a fully grown adult. But then it's weird
because it's like the dad is also kind of crazy, seems crazy, and
then they're accusing this girl of trying to kill the family and the brothers,
and they're saying that she was like a psychotic and that. But there they
were possibly then abusing her. I think somebody else got arrested in this.
Like it's it's pure craziness, and I think there's gonna be a lot of
twists and turns. I can't wait. All right, it looks good,
right, yeah, it looks good. Yeah I started, you know.
Okay, first of all, HBO Max is now max. You have to
redownload the app, which I don't know if anybody has had glitches with it,
but it's been glitching for me. Oh really Sometimes I try to hit
rewind in ten seconds and then it freezes. I don't know. But anyway,
because I had to do watch Succession. Yeah do you guys all watch?
Yeah? Yeah? Um. But then underneath it there was a doc
about I can't remember what it's called, but it's, uh, how to
sex scandal, how to something a sex scandal or something. I started watching
it. It's a documentary how to create a sex scandal? Yeah, is
there like a bicycle or something. It's there's I think it's is if if
it's on Max, like, that's it because it's underneath you know when you
see your child. Yeah yeah, So I started watching it and it was
we'll get back to you for it. But it was about like these three
kids that got adopted. We're talking about how with their other family they were
put into a um swingers club to perform. Oh yeah, it's a lot
of pedophilia. Oh that's so sad. But it turns seems to me,
I don't know that it might not have had I don't know that it might
not have happened. Oh like that somebody was lying. I don't know so
I only watched because I too was darted with it when Tarankol eyes are dart.
By the way, did you start listening to the podcast, Scamanda?
No, I was gonna ask you the name of it today because I couldn't
think what I was like Skimamanda, Amanda, But say, all right,
Scamanda, gonna start. Oh god, a new episode came out today,
So there's four episodes. Good. Oh, it's so good. Crazy,
It's so good. This girl's just fucking ridiculously. Oh my god. Yeah,
it's a cancer faking right story. But oh my god, I cannot
wait to listen. She is just so freaking brazen, Like, it's so
good. Have you listened to it? Oh my god, you guys got
to get on it. Everybody's loving it. Okay, okay, so go
back to uh oh so okay. So I wanted to bring this up.
Yeah, somebody in our Facebook group and hold on now I can't now I
gotta find it, okay, okay, So somebody in our Facebook group wrote
in Oh let somebody somebody wrote, do yourself a favor and watch this asap
on the ID network. It's so good. The Curious Case of Natalia grace.
Yeah. So um. But somebody wrote in anonymously a question for everybody
think. I saw this and I just thought it was I read it and
I was like, Wow, this is like super interesting and what a crazy
situation. And I want to hear what you guys think. I didn't get
to read the comments, but I read I think I think she wrote and
she starts it off. It's anonymous, so she starts it off. I'm
sure that I need to reel it in. And by the way, you
don't need to real No, she doesn't need to realize it. Now.
I'm forty six and working on managing my emotions in a healthier way, but
some things just get under my skin and I can't figure out how to deal
with it in my head and not my irritation. Okay, you ready.
My fiance and I moved in together one and a half years ago. I
have a son, eleven, and he has two teen daughters fifteen and nineteen.
He and I dated for five years before we moved in, so I
should know what they're like by now and be over it. But the fifteen
year old, OMG, she's moody and mean, which I think is from
anxiety. He lets them do whatever they want. The two issues I'm struggling
with are the fifteen year old throwing tantrums over dinner, and then he makes
her chicken nuggets or hot dogs while my son eats the dinner I make without
complaining. The two girls are both extremely picky, so I tip to around
and try to make things they like. But if I do that every night,
then we'll eat garbage every night, and I'm just not going to do
that for myself and my son. Also, we went on vacation last summer
and her attitude was so abhorrent all week that I told him that I don't
want to waste money on a vacation this year. It sucks for everyone else.
Then there's the nineteen year old who lives with us and is taking two
online community college classes and won't get a job. She has a quote reason
not to want to do all the jobs that we suggest she apply for.
She binges shows all day while he and I are working. She does zero
chores, just puts her stupid dirty dishes in the sink for the dish fairy,
usually me. She calls her floor her floor's robe because she won't clean
her room or put things away. At around five each day, she comes
in the kitchen and asks, what's for Dindon? I want to kill this
girl. I didn't read. This is not what I read. My son
has his issues too, but he's receptive to me when I ask him to
do things. They don't like for me to ask them, so I have
to go through their dad. He sometimes agrees with me, but he usually
just makes excuses for them. I love all three of the kids. Maybe
this is just how kids are. I know I need to be patient and
just walk away and let them do whatever. Honestly, I'm at the point
where if he doesn't care, then I shouldn't either. But they act so
entitled that it really lights me up sometimes. What do you all think?
Wow, I didn't see that well. I mean, first of all,
that's a tough situation. I bet it's pretty common though. I mean,
when you have to bribe families and you're used to, you know, handling
your child one way and disciplining and feeding, and then the other person is
doing it their way, blah blah blah, that's got to be tough.
And I'm sure the girls don't like somebody coming in and telling them what to
do or what to eat or whatever. But on the other hand, if
you don't like it, make yourself some fucking dinner. Yeah, why is
it her problem? And also I'm sorry, but and I know that I
am a super soft touch with my kids, and I know I just finished
saying on our Tuesday episode that I'm like that. But oh hell though to
Elbie living at home and taking two classes and continuing to do like what she
does, Like, yes, I understand that she doesn't do many chores,
but she works. She's also taking like six aps this year. Literally she's
a job. Yeah, and she has a job and works a lot of
hours. I can't imagine her like, come, you know, November and
she turns nineteen, and if she was taking like two classes and refusing to
work, ud be insane. I'd be like, you either move out with
some friends and you pay your own rent and you can find some roommates get
your rent lower, which she'd be honest, I might say anyway, Like
I would, I might be like, look, you're probably too old to
be like just living. I mean, she's welcome, my daughter's welcome to
live at home, but that's because she's working. Yeah, right, right,
Like, what is the dad saying, though, I mean he's not
doing any he's not doing anything, and where's her? Does she go to
her biological moms? Ever? I don't know those details, but if if
they're at the dads and the older one is living there, right, you're
both living there. So she has to live with two teenagers, one who's
nineteen, and then they both would wouldn't you go crazy if your kid,
if your stepkid came in, who's not even your stepkid yet because you're just
engaged, came in? It was like, what's for dindon now? Fuck
off? Yeah, fuck off? That's crazy. And I don't blame her
for anonymously posting and she's got a vent that that's got to be so fucking
hard. How do you handle that day in and day out. I feel
like the dad of those girls needs to stand up and say, like,
you don't have to be mean to your kids. But I think you have
to say look, yeah, like I know you're probably unhappy, but we're
this is a blended family situation. You live here, you have to have
respect, and you don't have to eat everything on your plate. But like,
if you don't like it, you can make you can make dinner a
couple of times a week. Make the dinner. Yes, so you like
yes for everybody. Yeah, and she's doing a good job with her son.
It's like, you don't want that shit to like rub off on your
son. Well that's what she was kind of saying later, and that's what
like, um Tara, our friend who's in our group was kind of giving
that advice too, like what, that's a bad example for your son.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely see people being really disrespectful. And if your fifteen
year old is ruining your family vacation, that's by having it is huge and
go nuts if ice. And by the way, I have a friends that
are like this with their kids that just let them eat whatever they want,
give them whatever, no, no, have a bad attitude and don't try
and correct it when they're getting everything. You know, they're getting a nice
day out, whatever it is, and they're like gotta puss on all the
time. It's not you know, it's not what you want to be around.
And yeah, I would, I don't know, I would. Maybe
she needs to take her and her husband to therapy and they can talk it
through on how to help get these kids on track. Yeah, because that's
really sad, and there's certain things like I like Elbe is on her own.
If she Elbe rarely eats like what we're eating, but I don't.
But I don't care because we don't do like we don't sit down as a
family and have a meal and she doesn't go. I don't want that.
I want this. She's uber. Uber eats herself some food. Yeah,
when she's hungry, right, she's like a you know, emancipated. Yeah,
well she should be, but she has her she hasn't done with my
money works. And if she wants to order herself whatever she wants to eat,
like taking care at it. You're being into I say, she's being
independent. It annoys John. But I'm like, as long as like when
we're all together, if or if we go out to dinner, she's not
going like no, I don't want to go there. I'm going to Uber
eats. No. She of course, if we're going out to dinner,
she's so polite and you know what I mean, Like, yeah, Xander's
got this like show tomorrow night, and Elbie's like, oh, I'm gonna
come. I want to come and bring her boyfriend, and like, I
don't know, I expect certain things. But and I don't expect other things.
But if my kids were being blatantly disrespectful to it, my fiance doesn't.
He's got to feel bad and embarrassed. He must be like embarrassed,
like you know, so what is wrong with him? Is he just whipped
by? Yeah? I think he doesn't know. I think he just doesn't
know how to handle him. Yeah, maybe that's why you got a divorce
to begin with. Maybe he was too, who knows, I don't know.
Maybe that's there's something there that's blended over into this new relationship. I
think it's a deal breaker though. Yeah. If they're living together and the
kids are being so disrespectful to her, that's and and my fiance wasn't standing
up for me at all, Yeah, and just constantly making me. I
don't know. Yeah, I wouldn't like it. I think they need therapy.
I think they should go to a therapist and try. Yeah, what
is everybody's And if the nineteen year old everybody thinks she needs to stand up
for herself and be like absolutely not. Yeah, like this is disrespect this
is disrespectful, right, and like say, when she didn't want to go
on vacation, what did it say I forgot any No, no, wow,
that's a shame. Let me see if I can see any It keeps
going back to like you know when you're on Facebook, and then you go
into Oh, okay, I'll read you a couple of the comments so we
can see. Um. Somebody said just my opinion. Okay, this person
says, I don't think you have a step kid problem. I think you
have a husband problem. It sounds like every person or a fiance problem.
It sounds like every person in the family would benefit from dad's stepping up and
setting boundaries. Couples counseling may help him and see the need and motivate him.
And then this person said, this is a dad problem for sure,
Maybe you two should seek couples therapy. That may lead to him reeling in
the girls good luck. And then this says, just my opinion, couldn't
do it. I say that as someone who's never been divorced but has had
two step moms and two step dads. And then somebody else wrote, hell,
nah, that's about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you
and your husband are not on the same page, nothing will change. Also,
a nineteen year old is not a kid, she's an adult and needs
to contribute like one, right right, yeah right, yeah yeah. He
needs to get those kids into ship, needs to whip them into shape.
I don't know, though, does anybody really going to change? Is he
going to change? That's a thing. And Tara wrote dad problem, which
is going to be a finance Oh I think she meant finance problem. I
think she meant a fiance problem and then a husband problem until he becomes your
ex husband. A nineteen year old is not a kid and the fifteen year
old is on her way to becoming the nineteen year old. Yes, I
think you guys need a lot of heart to heart and change before becoming legally
part of their lives, all of them. The fact that you think it's
you that needs to reel it in is the first red flag. Reread what
you wrote. Do you really believe it's you that needs to reel it in?
Not all kids are like this, And unless you like to cause play
as Cinderella, you need to ask yourself if this is what you want in
life too? Freeloading step daughters with no responsibilities and poor attitudes. Don't you
think if you marry this man and life goes on this way? You'll resent
the shit out of him. And is this behavior you want your son learning
as? Right? Right? You said it, Tara, thank you.
Wow. What do you think Klin as a dad? I mean, yeah,
I don't know. Maybe he just, like you know, doesn't really
understand how to talk to the daughters. You know, maybe he just has
really poor communication and he'd rather just avoid it rather than doing it. But
obviously he has to do that. But yeah, I was trying to think
of I don't know, maybe his my communication is so bad he just just
chooses not to do it. Yeah, yeah, doesn't want to deal with
it. Yeah, yeah, I mean there's a lot I see this,
and I'm not disrespecting dads, but I've seen, you know, dads that
just don't know how to especially with daughters, don't know how to communicate,
don't know, you know, how to Like, I'm guessing that there's a
bunch of issues that's going to bleed into this new relationship from his other relationship.
And again, I know, sometimes people just are hard to change,
and maybe something fundamentally has to change and maybe her threatening I'm out or something,
or we go to therapy as a family something because otherwise it's just gonna
keep it's gonna get worse, it's not gonna get better. He's not gonna
go all of a sudden go oh yep, all right, let's get to
it. Let's start cry on the whip. You know, he's I think
he needs some help. And I do understand, Like if he's been through
a divorce and he you know, his kids are nineteen and fifteen, it's
a little late to sort of change the way your parent and suddenly become like
a cracking the whip. Yeah, but you can have boundaries where you can
be like, look, if you don't want to go on the vacation,
go stay with your mom, right, But if you're gonna go, you
need to have a good attitude about it, right absolutely. You know,
if we're going to go to this restaurant or whatever, like either you want
to go or stay home, right, but like you can't go and then
ruin it for everybody else, or like if you don't want to eat the
food, that's fine, go make yourself right something. Yeah, it's pretty
simple. You just gotta you know, he's got to do it. He's
got to step up. I think it's too much for her to you know,
it's not fair for her right to have to handle all that shit right
now. On the other hand, if if if the kids don't want to
eat what she's made, like I don't know that you can for you can
be like, well you're you can't. I don't know that you can suddenly
be like I'm not a short order cook. If you don't want it,
then go to bed hungry. Like they're fifteen and nineteen, they're gonna be
like, go fuck yourself. Yeah, Like I'm gonna go in the frigerator
and make myself something. Well, there you go. They're gonna have to
learn how to make themselves something, right, Yeah, microwave your own Dino
nuggets? Yeah, right, right, that's what I would do. I
mean he's got the energy to do that for her, then he's got,
you know, the energy to turn it around a little like come on,
yeah, I mean like when I make I make certain things that my kids
I can't there. I don't think there's anything We've talked the shit out of
this, but I don't think there's anything that every person in my family is
right yay, we're having that. There's always one or two of them that
are like, oh okay, yeah, I'll just make myself something. Don't
worry about me, and I have to like, I can't be like,
well, I can't believe you don't like that, you know, I have
to just be like, okay, yeah, I like it. I made
it, so find something. Italian has been getting better. She's been because
she likes to eat healthy. I just asked her, I said, I
want to have cake for you, you know, before Sonny goes off to
Japan. And she's like, okay, but I don't really like cake.
Can we get something else? Like okay, but whatever, you know,
let's but she like if doesn't like what we're making. She she's been going
to the grocery store and like I've been telling asking her, what does she
want to make? She finds these recipes on Instagram. She's starting to make
it for herself. That's just great, Yeah, because she sometimes doesn't want
to eat what we're eating or whatever. Right, right, do I need
some more recipes? Let's take a let's take a break. Okay, we're
back. But what are you making these days? Well? I want I
made some chicken parmesan. Yes, I did old school Italian because I've been
following this TikTok Grandma non nona piaka no na pae nona pia something like that,
and she reminds me of my grandmother. And it's the cutest thing.
Where does Kaylin go? I think he, I don't know, to smoke.
No, he doesn't smoke. He always a bathroom. Kaylin just walked
out, probably probably went to go pee. Yeah, okay, no na
pia none yea and yeah, and it's her like son does. She does.
She makes meat balls and she inspires me and I show it to the
kids. I'm like, you guys want some old school Italian like yeah,
okay. So they're starting to finally eat what I'm making now now that they've
are older, and they got some say I mean, I asked them like,
I'm not gonna make this unless you're gonna eat it, right, you
know. And it's nice because there's times, you know, on the weekends
it's just the three of us and blah blah blah. I'm trying to have
like Sunday dinners every Sunday with them, and you know, it's been working
out. So the last time I cooked, she was out of town.
But before she left, chicken parmesan, which is it was easy. It
was pretty good. Yeah, Like you got chicken breast and you beat the
sheet them up, make them like really thick, and okay, then as
you don't just get thin chicken breasts. Yeah, but yes, but I
want them really thin, so I make them as thin as possible. Sometimes
there's a little like there's there thin, then there's one that's a little chunky
whatever, and then I take that. Yeah, I take the beat up
the eggsp it in the eggs, dip it in the bread, the breading,
and then you just fry them, fry them up, and then you
just take the sauce, you pour it over, you put the mat on
the top, and then you bake it. You know, you bake it.
You bake it for a little bit, and then I make a little
bit of linguini on the side, a little bit of a little and then
like I don't know, they want like a vegetable or something, but that
goes by the wayside. I try. Oh my god, I totally relate
to that. Yeah, but my kids too are like, oh, should
we do like broccoli or I'm like, yeah, steam and then shrinks and
then that that great. Yeah, you eat it because it's heelsy. But
like, you know, what I do is I get, um, I
buy the bags of baby broccoli. Yeah, I get like two bags of
that. I put it on a cookie sheet. I spray the cookie sheet.
I put on the cookie sheet, and I get some of that.
Um. I put a little olive oil on it, and I take some
of that, you know, like missus h. I can't remember what it's
like a salt substitute, but it's but I don't I'll put a little salt
and pepper on there too, but some of this stuff that's like little flakes
of seasoning that's sort of like citrusy. Yeah, and I put that on
it. I pop it in the oven for a while, like longer than
you would think you need to cook it right until it's like crispy's kind of
yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. That's good. Yeah. I love
that. There's always something though that like if I'm making say salmon, it's
like when the salmon's like okay, right, but then it's like baked potatoes
and broccoli, and it takes so long to cook everything, and then sometimes
I'll be like, oh, the salmon's like just okay, right, I
don't know, I like I went through all the I'm not even that good,
right. I do that too with salmon sometimes, like oh, salmon
sounds good, and then I make it. It's like, all right,
salmon, right, it's all just boring salmon, right. But yeah,
I you know. The nice thing is those sauces that we use, like
those are great because they yeah, because then I just put the chicken and
then just pour that in and you just bake it and then it's done and
it's like and then sometimes I'll get like a side something from the deli,
like mashed potatoes, because I don't want to make mashed potatoes. But then
they're like, ooh, mashed potatoes. We're fancy, you know. So
so I think I told you one of the one of my gotos, which
I haven't done in a little while, is I get the I get chicken
tenders. Yeah, I'll take a recipe that I find and then I'll just
try to make it easier for myself. Yeah, I'll do chicken tenders and
then I put I put them in, um, a little sour cream.
I take eggs and I'll put a little sour cream in there, and then
I put them in shaking bake oh you nice. And then I bake them
for thirty minutes and then yeah, I'll do that with baked potato or the
instant mashed potatoes yea, the garlic mashed potatoes and the broccoli, and then
I'll have a couple of little different things to dip them, dip the chicken
into nice. So I'll do like barbecue sauce ranch and like I like it
in like spicy, like hot sauce, like wing sauce. Yeah, like
a buffalo sauce. Yeah. But like, oh, that's a great recipe
and it's really low it's like low fat. Yeah, what do you put
in? Sour cream? I just add a little sour cream to the eggs,
so it's like eggs and sour cream mix and maybe a little bit of
milk. Nice because you know, the original recipe of that calls for buttermilk.
But one time I didn't have any buttermilk, so I tried I had
sour cream in the house. I was like, let me just try a
little sour cream in like a little bit of milk, and it was it
sounds good. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah. So then it's like
not fried, but it's still really juicy. Because it's just chicken tenders and
it doesn't have to cook that long. Yeah. Wow Yeah. My other
that everybody loves, do we take a break? Oh? Okay. The
other one that that they love, they both love is Lamb chops. Not
everybody else Lamb chops, but you like just all you do is the lemon
pepper. You just put it all on. It's like so then you bake
it really crispy and you're sucking on the bone with the lemon pepper and they
love it. Yeah. I don't really. I don't eat lamb work,
but I want to, like try to make more fish that's not salmon.
I always want to try brand Zeno. What's up? It's that like fish
that you like people like? I just saw it on one of those TikTok
videos that I also follow, these other Italian guys, and they had Chaz
Palm and Terry On and he has a restaurant in New York and he was
talking about their brand Zeno, and I always hear it like an Italian movies,
they order Brent. I don't know, it's like a white fish or
something. I don't even know what that sounds good. I like all kinds
of fish. Yeah, any fish, yeah, hmm. Maybe to make
halibit sometime halibit, or I could make some trout. I love trout there
you go, But I'm so spoiled by eating trout at like nice restaurants where
they flank where they grill it, yeah, or on a plank right right.
I don't know what they do, but when they come with it then
and they chop it off the bone, yes, yeah, I love that.
Oh my god. Do you remember this restaurant in La called Jones It
was like jones On, Yes, yes, oh my god. Years ago.
I used to go there all the time, you know who. I
used to go there with Tig Tigg and I used to go to Jones on
Third and we I ordered the trout every time, and I would swill Apple
Martini's back when I was an alcoholic. Yeah, I love they have around
jones On. I think, yeah, yeah, it's like kind of dark
and it was, um It's just a great place to like kind of drink
and people watch and to go there sometimes after work sometimes. Yeah. Remember
the Mustache Cafe. It was across the street from the Improv. Really do
you ever go there without him? No Mustache Cafe Mustache Cafe. It's probably
not there anymore. That was a good place, I bunch, do you
remember, yes, yes, yes, yeah, that was good right.
There was also uh what's his name on Melrose Frankie's on Melrose Italian restaurant,
and he Frankie was like Jimmy's friend or something. He ended up catering our
wedding. Oh, because I wanted traditional Italian like sausage and peppers and you
know all that. And yeah, he catered our wedding. It was so
good. I don't even know if he's still there, but that would be
fun to go to sometime. Yeah. I like the old school Italian stuff.
Yeah, I do too. I love like really good pizza, yes
too pasta. Like my one of my favorite foods is Linguidian clam sauce at
home. That's your favorite too, Yes. When I first met Adam,
that's what he would make, Linguinian clams. Yeah. I know you can
do it, just to have John go get the clam sauce. I will
I make Linguini and clam sauce. But I like like Linguinian clams lams.
It seems hard to be afraid, right, yeah, Like if they don't
open right now, you know, how do you do them? Like?
Right? Put them in a steamer? They did, But then how do
you make them taste good? Like with the like why wouldn't oi? Yeah
exactly how? I don't know. It seems like magic. Maybe there's a
recipe online. TikTok. Yeah, on TikTok. All right, well listen
before we go, we should promote our show. Next week. We have
a special guest. Oh, Teresa Strasser coming in. Yes, yes,
we love Teresa. Oh my god. Give a promoter book, a promoter
book. The name of the book. It's called Making It Home. Okay,
so it's called Teresa is coming on and where she's promoting Making It Home,
her new book, Yeah, which is coming out very very soon.
I can't wait to read it. She's such a great writer. I told
you I read it was beautiful. I cried several times. I can't say,
such a well written book. Yeah, she's gonna be so. She's
a great guest. And she has a Patreon. Oh she does, she
does. She already told us she has a good Patreon for us. Oh,
oh, Patreon for us. Yeah. Oh I cannot wait. Yeah,
it's gonna be fine. I know we're recording that on Saturday. So
if you guys have any questions for her or whatever, yeah, write him
in yep um. And then just last, but not least, Adam Lerner.
He's my friend who's a car broker. Trust him with my wife.
He's gonna help me hook up Elbie with a car. He got us artigue
one and he can get anybody a car. And he was like, hey,
I started shouting him out kind of for free because I wanted to spread
the news, and he was like, hey, why don't we just My
guy that he works with was like, wants to pay for advertise, That's
great. I might use him too for Sonny Man. You really should.
He's he's this is the thing, Like he's so great. And one of
the things I told him, I go, the reason you're so good at
this is because he's always been a car guy, Like he's always loved to
just talk about cars for free, and he liked to help his friends,
so U when he his business that he was working in just wasn't really handing
out. So his wife, my really good friend, was like, why
don't you just do the cars for real? Like it's what you already love
to do. So that's why he's so good at it, because he'll sit
on the phone with you and just like talk to you about cars. Kaylin,
you've called him, yeah, trying to help you. Yeah, I
was. I was looking for a new car. I just had to kind
of sort my taxes out before I could go and get it. But yeah,
I talked to him and he was helping me out. Yeah, he
can help you out, Like you don't have to commit to getting having him
get your car, but it doesn't cost you anything. So that's the beauty
and he can do it anywhere. I love that. Yeah. So if
you're just if you're just like, hey, I'm thinking about a car,
are but like, can you talk to me about it and like help me
figure out what to do? He can do He'll just talk to you to
Oh sorry, Yeah, here's his phone number three one zero nine nine eight
seven zero four eight. Awesome. Yeah, check him out. Yeah all
right, thanks Kalen, Thanks everybody. We love you. Guys. You're
a parent now, don't if it up. Letting go