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It's a Tuesday. We're doing our show today. We have a very
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inside scoop. Yeah, a little more about a little bit yeah trip.
Yeah, but I've had an interesting week, yeah have you? Well?
I mean I had to trap a cockerroach in the kitchen this morning. What
you know, what the fuck? Cockerroach in my kitchen? And you know
what they say, what if you find one? There's more? Yeah,
I know, I call the uh the exterminator as soon as that we used
to have because we just moved into this house. So I haven't seen any
bugs at all, and there was. But see people hot though too,
It's really hot. And then people are leaving the doors open. The kids
leave the doors open, you know, constantly. Their friends come over and
they just walk in and leave the door open, and it's one hundred and
eighty thousand degrees and the bugs are like working up a storm out of the
wood where there's spiders outside there there's freaking moths that are like dinosaurs. They're
the those daddy long legs that come in. They're huge and they're attracted to
the light. And so they're leaving the doors open, and I walk in
and out from the living room and there's the front door like wide open where
they're like the moths are coming around the world. It's like, kids closed
the freaking door. So now it's like I took a picture of it to
show the kids, like see what you're letting into the house. So anyway,
it's still there. I haven't dealt with it yet. You can get
oh it's still in there. I covered it, oh no, because I
didn't see it until I was leaving. It was huge, and I didn't
see it until I was leaving, and I didn't have time to come back
in and deal with it. So I just threw a thing over it,
tupperware, and then I pushed it to the side, oh no, into
the laundry room and closed the door so Phil can't get to it. Oh,
I feel like that's where Phil would really come in handy, because oh
god, no, that thing was like a burrito, like a burrito in
Antenna's. It was like, Yeah, it freaked me out. Brought me
up back to my memories of my childhood. Though. Oh my gosh,
oh my gosh. I remember in our apartment in Hollywood when I lived in
Hollywood, I mean I was nineteen. We'd moved into this apartment. It
already had a horrible smell. I think I told you about it. The
person who had lived there before, I believe was a hoarder and had a
million cats. And it was a little apartment. It just was a two
bedroom, little apartment in the back of a main house. There were like
it's like a it was Cecil B. De Mill's old house. It's been
since torn down and built an apartment, but I think it was the maid's
quarters. But anyway, it was really really old, old building and pretty
gross and you know, old wood, rickety stairs to get up to the
second floor where it was. But I remember so many times we'd walk in
and they you turn on the light and the cockroaches would cockroaches are like,
well ready for us. No, they'd be like and then they turn on
the lights and they're like, oh shit, moms home. And then they'd
scatter and we'd be like, oh my god, there are cockroaches Everywhere's terrible.
Yeah, and they wouldn't come, like the owners of the building just
didn't care. God, but we so we put out traps, right,
Yeah, but then the traps don't work now when you're in fence. They
don't know. I mean, like if they if like you said, if
you find one these ones, I don't even know. But like there's there's
certain different types of cockroaches because I grew up in the San Ferano Valley and
everybody that had a pool had cockroaches, right, And there's these ones that
are just like all all the time. You know, there's there's a whole
bunch of them. But then there's these other ones that kind of like I
don't know, you find once in a while, I don't know, I
don't know, I don't know. But but my mom would put out traps
and it never like they get they get wise, Like I don't know,
they there's never like you know, you know, you can't kill them,
they just keep coming back. I get wise. Yeah, they're like,
uh, I've been in that house before. I know what that they just
never worked. Uncle Fredo went into that one and like we never saw him
again. Yeah. Yeah, I say that because John just finished an epic
listening session of he he got, uh The Godfather on audible, so he
listened to the entire book The Godfather. Wow, the past couple of weeks.
Yeah. Nice. So he was talking in like that, yes,
and my son, you know, yeah, right right right this house,
Like but don't you ever disrespect the thing? Yeah. I was just like,
I don't know, I haven't seen a Godfather in a really long time.
I don't know what you're talking about, honey. Yeah. So Xander
just got back from his speech at date trip from sorry des Moines, from
Des Moines. Yes, and uh, he had a great time. It
was really cute that they're coming home. Flight he had to leave at like
their flight was at five am, so I think they had to be out
of the well I don't know, but I'm sure they had to be at
the airport at four am. Yeah. The flight itself left at four five
five. Yeah, so you know, he slept on and off, but
he came home. He was super tired, but he'd had like the best
time had I told you? I don't think I had last week that,
So he was sending me texts. He was in these supplemental the supplemental competitions
basically, so the kid that he went with had qualified for nationals, and
then the teacher was able to bring a couple of other kids. So one
of the kids was Xander, so he got to do some competing. But
a lot of these kids had qualified been working on their piece for like a
really long time. But she was like, but Xander had been doing duos,
so he didn't have his partner. So he had to come up with
a new event, learn the piece, figure it all out, which he
did. But then he was like, mom, he said, I after
his first event, he was like, I did not do well. He's
like, I threw it basically. So he was kind of bummed, but
he was like, it's okay. It was a learning experience, you know.
And I was like, and so he had two more so the second
one and such a good head on his shoulders and he really does so he's
like, well, I have two more. So he did the second one.
He was like, oh my gosh, I did terrible again, and
he's like, these kids, though I've been working on their pieces, they've
had months to prepare, and I just learned this like a week ago,
you know. Then he had one more and he goes, I think I
did better on the third one, oh, he said, but I don't
even think I could qualify because there basically he said that it was allowed to
be seven minutes and his was only five minutes, and there was something with
the blocking that he thought he wasn't allowed to move around, but you can
move around, so he changed some things in between. Anyway, so he's
like, well, I did better on the third one, but it's not
going to matter, you know. But anyway, like later that day,
I get this text from him. He's like, mom, I broke That
means he made it from like a huge group of kids. He moved on
to the next part of the competition. So there were four hundred and something
kids in his event. Wow, and he broke to the top like one
hundred, one hundred and twenty kids or something. Yeah, So he was
super excited. So that was very grad fine. He was like, I
guess I did better than I thought, you know. And then he saw
later his scores, and in those first three rounds he was voted. He
got first place, second place, in third place. Holy shit. So
but then then he went to this the next round and he was sixth place,
six out of like six. All fine, Yes, all three judges
scored him the lowest. But he was like, you know what, but
the notes were like he hadn't had his piece memorized, and he said all
the kids were very memorized, and he was like, it's fine. He
didn't care. He was like, it's fine. He had a great time,
just so much fun. He bonded with the kid that he went that
qualified for the event the nationals, was graduated, but was like a really
cool kid. They totally bonded. He bonded with his teacher, his speech
and debate teacher. The coach was like loved him really yes, was just
like, oh my gosh, and she's really cool. You like her,
right, really cool teacher, super super fun when it's like kind of young,
has a nose piercing, is like, but like very passionate, was
great at speech and debate when she was in school and on her teams,
and yeah, I just love her. I mean, think about how far
he's come like he's you know, I imagine how he's gonna do next year,
you know. Oh yeah, She's like, I see so much potential
for him. Yeah for next year. Everybody starts somewhere, and yeah,
he's doing damn well for he's where he's at. Yeah. It was really
cute, and you know, but it's always with these kids, little little
minor complaint. But I feel like Xander reminds me a little bit of how
Natalia was when she was really young, where it's like, well, now
what, like he can't the kid cannot be bored, and a lot of
his friends are out of town. All of his friends, every single one
of his friends is on some trip. So he's immediately like, oh no,
no, oh, my friends are out of town. I have nothing
to do. And I'm like, well I have a job. Sorry,
like you know, but you try to go like okay, well we'll try
to come up with some stuff to do, but like, I don't know,
yeah, yeah I know. And then it's like, now I feel
bad because all of his friends are on trips and I didn't plan a trip,
right. I guess I kind of thought he'd have a job. I
thought he was going to get a job. You know, I thought,
like, this is a summer before your junior year, like get a summer
job. I don't know, figure out some shit to do. But like,
no, I know, I remember those days like we just got back
from somebody. I know. I'm like, does plan our next thing?
Now? What? No, who's around? Nobody's around? Not one person.
No, Yeah, that sucks. I hate those summers. We had
a lot of those summers. And well, Natalia just left for Spain day
oh wow, okay, yeah, and I was like getting her ready for
that trip, and you know, I here's like the thing like I'm like,
you know, you have this shitty suitcase, it's time to get let's
let's go get another one. No, no, no, I got mine
in the garage. I'll use mine. I'll use mine. I'm like,
that thing is really really old. It could barely stand when you're when you're
it used to be my suitcase. So it used to kept falling over every
time, you know, no matter what it was like top heavy still does.
And so and she's got to have a weight requirement where she can't have
anything more than forty Her check bag can't be more than forty four pounds.
So I was like, okay, you're supposed to know. Well, that's
what I said. So I had to go buy a luggage scale. Yeah,
because I didn't want her to get screwed up at the airport, of
course. Yeah, okay, So I went and got that. So then
I wanted to get her suitcase. She's like, no, I'm gonna use
my suit Pa, forty four pounds is not that heavy, Like I feel
like that's too light, like you because it is. Yeah, because usually
she's got like fifty pounds suitcases whenever we're traveling. I put it, you
put it on the scale, you know, it's like fifty pounds. So
I'm like, you're gonna have to like you and your girlfriend are gonna have
to share, you know, hot tools or shampo. Yeah, that's what
I'm saying. I'm saying it seems like forty four pounds is not that much.
Like you can't put pack Oh, you can't put that. You can't
put that much in. Yeah, I mean it by the time you're putting
your mate, she had to take a lot of Yes, she'd takes stuff
out. So so she so, so I tell her get the new suitcase.
She doesn't want to do it, and then she packs and everything.
We weigh her suitcase and it's like forty one pounds, like okay, and
then she takes like her robeout, like you know, just to be safe.
I'm like, just take something else, like one more thing. So
she takes so because you might want to pack something to come home, right,
I know. So she moves things around and then we weigh it.
I set it down, the thing just to send a greats. It just
falls apart at this you know, when your suitcases has been like zipped up
too many times and it's like, you know, it's and then it starts
the other zipper starts coming apart on the other side. Yes, that's what
happened. And her whole suitcase just like fell apart. And we're like about
to go to the airport in like an hour and a half and so okay.
So her parents, her friend's parents that are taking her on this trip,
they are traveling. They went to like because her older brother's competing like
a dirt bike rider like competition or whatever. So they're going to like Switzerland
first and then they're flying to Barcelona and that's where so then Natalia got invited
to go with them. And the two girls are flying by themselves straight NonStop
to Barcelona from la and then the family will be there. When they get
to the airport, they'll already be there from Switzerland. They're all gonna meet
there. So I'm taking them to the airport. So okay, So her
thing falls apart, I run to TJ Max, I get her another suitcase,
get it all together. Okay. So by then, now that she's
packed. Now I've never I've traveled international, like I think twenty years twenty
something years ago, and I remember it was NonStop, and I don't remember
like how we got to the airport or anything. But I'm taking them to
the airport to drop them off. And they're flying some airline I never heard
of, like a b No, Liberia Airlines. Okay, okay, And
I guess you know at terminal two or two. Yeah, Terminal two is
where all the international flights are out of. And so they tell, you
know, they say, go to terminal two. Okay. So so her
suitcase is put together. Now we're going to pick up her friend. And
we're on the road and her flight leaves at seven fifty five pm in the
evening, and I want to get there by five. I want to drop
them off by five thirty so that they have plenty of time to get you
know, through security, and have something to eat, get on the plane.
Right. So get there to the airport, and I'm starting to panic
because as soon as we get off the freeway, the four or five,
it's bumper to bumper to bumper traffic. And I'm like, okay, but
we still have time. Like okay, we're good, We're good. Then
we get into the airport. I mean, it was I've never seen the
traffic this bad. It was a Sunday night at five something. Yeah,
that's such an addust sign. Yes, but I guess it's summer. I
don't know what the hell so stopped in traffic. Then I'm like where now
I'm thinking, okay, I'll see signs for Terminal two and Liberia Airlines.
I'm not seeing any signs for anything, because is it in the international terminal.
It's in the international terminal. But I didn't I didn't. I didn't
know there was one international terminal for all the airlines. I just said,
they just said Terminal two. But I still don't see any any signs for
anything, right, So now I'm like okay. So now I'm trying to
google where's Liberia Airlines at the LA ex crapa, Nothing's coming up, nothing's
coming up. And then there's one thing that said the address like three sixty
Airport Way or whatever. So I put on three sixty Airport Way and like
it spits me back out on to Century Boulevard. Oh no, this is
your worst nightmare. I was just gonna say, like, you're giving me
such adjective right now. Oh my god. I was like what because now
we're getting close to five thirty drop off and the traffic I gotta go back
in line and sit in took thirty minutes. So then I pull over.
I'm like, okay, where's Terminal B. And then like I find out,
okay, it's at the end of the horseshoe or whatever. You know,
at the top of the horseshoe is International Terminal right, So then I
would have been so confused because I was terminal too. You're like, but
Terminal two is like Southwest or whatever, right, yeah, right, No,
but it was Terminal B. That's what okay, okay, So okay,
so then I'm like, all right, now I know where I'm going,
and now the ways on my navigation is saying thirty minutes, which is
gonna put them at six o'clock now, oh no, And I'm like,
oh my god. And I'm like, could you imagine if they missed their
flight? Like this poor mom like has everything booked and everything, you know,
like planned, and like we're gonna do this this day. They got
the whole itinerary. And now I'm like, oh my god, what the
fuck if they miss their flight? Okay, but let's take a break and
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What happened? So? So now I'm worried about getting them there on
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I don't know. I know that when I travel sometimes if you don't get
there in an hour before the flight leaves and get your bags checked. There
you can't check your bags anymore. Like yeah, so I international too,
it's international. It's two hours, right, So I'm trying to get there
now. I'm like, I wanted to get there by five thirty. The
flight left at seven fifty five, so now I'm hoping to get there by
five fifty five at least. So anyway, I dropped them off at like
five forty six, and there's still pretty early, still pretty early, two
hours ahead of time. Well the flight left at seven fifty five, yeah,
but you're at it's only five forty five. Five forty five, yeah,
so I'm still but then they have to go. There's a huge so
I drop them off and I go, please tell me when. And by
the way, still no sign for Liberia Airlines or anything. So anyway,
I'm like, I guess this is where you guys go. So I dropped
them off. Then they go inside, go tell me you know how it's
looking. So she's like, there's we found it and it's fine, but
there's a huge line to check your bags. And I'm like, oh my
god. So I'm like, do I drive home? Should I stay around
the airport? Like what should I do? And then I called, You're
like, are there drugs in their bags? Is this going to be?
Are they going to be locked up abroad? I gave them that speech.
I was like, don't leave your suitcase is unattended? Yeah blah yeah,
but fully one will come up approach you and go, hey, do you
guys want to make five thousand dollars trip? Yeah, just come into the
bathroom with me right now, and I'm gonna just tape a few things to
your underwear. Yeah. They're like, oh, okay, that's fun.
Problem. Yeah. So and so I'm driving away and I'm just like sweating,
like are they gonna make it? And they mean, you know,
it's like been there, been there. And then then eventually she's like,
yes, we got in. And then she was like, we met a
family that's on the on the on the flight, they were helping us.
They were really nice, and so then they got through. Everything was fine.
They got on the flight, she slept the whole time. It's like
eleven twelve hour flight. Oh wow, yeah, it was really long.
And now they're there, yeah, and she's having fun. She comes home
July first, a couple of days. Okay, so wait, so when
did they get there? Like yesterday, they got there yesterday morning, okay,
yeah, but it was fun. Yeah, the next day their time.
But yeah, oh she's living a dream. Oh my gosh, well,
Sadie, so Xander's home and already, well he went to a movie
yesterday. But now and that friend left town is leaving town today. So
as of today, officially every single one of his friends. To the point
that I was just sitting there going, okay, let's just think, is
there anybody else that you hang out with? And you know, when you're
a kid, you have certain friends that you're comfortable with that you hang out
with, and then you have other friends that maybe you hung out with like
a long time ago, but they're really kind of bottom of the barrel.
They're not they're not the first here, Like they're really like, you have
to be pretty bored. So I mentioned a couple of people that you know,
he hasn't seen in a really long time, and I got the look
of just like, yeah, we'll see how bored I get. You know,
I was like, all right, just have him in your back pocket,
like that's something you can text in case. Yeah, all else fails
in case you get real bored. But then I felt instant pressure to be
like Julie, you know from the Love Boat, like, oh, okay,
well, I guess we could try to plan. But also, as
I'm having eye surgery on Thursday, which I'm not saying it's not like any
kind of major surgery, but I'm going to be caught a little bit.
Also, I teach Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday, so today's Tuesday, right,
so like I'm kind of out today, I'm working here, then I teach
tonight, then tomorrow. I guess I could do something with him during the
day, but you know when all of a sudden, you're like, he
used to go to school every day? Yeah, I know, Like now
you're like, now what now you're bored. I don't know what happened to
that. They didn't want to They didn't want to go to the camp like
LB used to go to. No, They've never neither one of them has
ever been interested. Sadie went to Camp Hollywoodland one year, which is a
four day they go. They go there on Monday, they come home on
Friday, so they stay over Monday night, Tuesday, Wednesday night, Thursday
night. One of those days they take a big trip like they I think
There's was Disneyland. She was absolutely miserable the whole time. Yeah, she
went with her friend, but she like, you know, I sent her
with spending money, but she lost. They gave her her envelope with her
spending money and she left it on her lunch tray or breakfast tray, so
she had no money. At Disneyland, it was really hot, you know,
she didn't want to go on any fast rides. So the day that
was supposed to be kind of a restspit from the camp life was like a
terrible day for her. She couldn't wait to get home. Yeah. Meanwhile,
that year we had record heat, so literally the day they were coming
home, it was one hundred and twenty one degrees. Also, they had
no AC, so it was in Hollywood, which is slightly cooler than the
valley, right, but I mean just oppressive, oppressive heat. And our
AC went out, oh for that story, and I was crying because to
our AC guy because he was like I can't, like I can't just fix
the motor. You need a new something, brand new. And then I
was crying because I was like, well, we're going to have to go
sleep in a hotel because our dog is not going to be able to withstand
the heat. That's right, Yeah, even with fans, you know.
So then he was like, okay, I'm just going to fix the motor.
Basically it was like a band aid action, which he's like, I'm
just going to fix that for free and then I'll be able to fix it
on. He was fixing the ac on the day that it was going to
be one hundred and twenty one degrees Jesus Christ. So basically the fix was
done. But when we went to go pick up the kids, like the
house was finally just starting to cool down again. So when when we got
them home, it was like ninety degrees in the house. Yeah, you
know. Yeah, so it was like welcome home, Welcome home. God.
I mean, it brings back my childhood because like we I grew up
in the San Fernando Valley with no air conditioning and we had the freaking we
had a window in our living room that was stained glass yellow, which it
has to be the most depressing color and the worst color for a house with
no air conditioning in the valley, in the West Valley where it's the hottest
and I just remember, like no air conditioning. We had a swamp cooler
in the like living room area, and and that those are those are such
shit because it was like the swamp cooler had pads that you had to keep
like obviously there was supposed to be a wet like a water thing to the
pads to to keep them cool. The pads cool, so it would blow
cold air. Do you know what I'm talking about? Kind of, but
I'm but I'm wondering, Like our house had a swamp cooler on the roof,
so this was in your living room. This was a in the wall
in our living room. Okay, but it was because I guess, I
don't know, because we bought the house I was seven years old, but
I guess it was supposed to be able to have a cooling system to keep
the pads cool, you know. So but then that burnt out and my
parents never fixed it. So instead my mom would get the hose out and
just hose the pads down, and so it would be cold air for about
five seconds and then it would go hot again, like it would just blow
hot air. It was the most miserable feeling. The summertime was the worst
in my house and then you combined with the cockerroaches. You must have just
dreaded. Oh I hated summer months. Yeah, I just would. Luckily
we had to leave. Well, we had a pool, I know,
it was off. Well, there was the front of my house. In
my bedroom, I had a window and we put a fan at the window
to blow in the cold air, so at night it would kind of cool
off, but not really, but it would blow that air and I would
just got used to it. I would take towels and wet them and put
them in the freezer and then just lay them on me while I went would
fall asleep and have the air and the fan blow on me. And poor
Suzanne had on when she was she would have to spend the night in my
room and sleep on the on the matter like right, the sofa cushions from
the you know. And it was so hot. But all my friends had
air conditioning. My stupid family never, and they wouldn't lay sleep over.
They wouldn't let me sleep over anybody's house. No, no, oh my
god, that was awful. It was brutal. Yeah, yeah, I
mean it's been I don't know. Yeah, So answer to your question,
my kids they don't like to go to camp, right, and now it's
kind of too late. Yeah, they're too old to like start going to
camp, I think. So Sadie is so bored. We did schedule her
driver's license up. She has the driver's licens appointment. It's July eighth.
But I I've gotten worse. I was relating to our guest who you guys
will hear Thursday, talking about her anxiety, because I'm like, listen,
it's it's definitely getting worse as I get older. But like the driving I
drove with her, So I came up with this idea. Did I tell
you this last week? That I would have elbow drive with her and I
would be in the backseat reading. Yeah, which kind of worked the first
time we did it, but we went again and it was a nightmare.
It was even Elbe was like, oh my god, Sadie like because and
this is the most compliant. Sadie is like very very sweet and very very
agreeable, a non complainer somehow, like behind the wheel, though she gets
a little defensive about it, like if you go like, but also I
kind of lose my mind unfairly, Like she pulls out onto our street and
she speeds up to like forty five miles per hour, which I'm just like,
what are you doing? We were, but you're going to a red
light, like it's it's one long block, right, and it's a residential
neighborhood. Like the speed limit is of course, like thirty five, but
like what I'm like, why are you driving forty five months? What are
you doing? But obviously that's not helpful to like freak out, you know,
and I should have just been like slow down, you know, but
I don't. I like freak out, and then I'm like, okay,
this is why Elbe's in the front seat, so I need to you know.
And then Elbi will be like, mom, don't worry, I got
it, you know. But then LB two was like you're gonna be turning
here. So like anyway, every every second of driving with Sadie for me,
is like a jump scare. Like it's just a constant like okay,
okay, well where'd that car come from? I thought you were reading your
book. I was trying to. But it's like but it's like a constant.
But when Elby's seeming a little bit alarmed and going with Sadie, Sadie,
you know, then I look up and I'm like, oh no,
there's a car. Oh my god, break lights. You know, it's
just it's really terrible. So I made a executive decision, which is that
John will be the only one to drive with her. Every time John drives
with her, she's like, yeah, it was totally fine. Like,
well, I don't know. Maybe it's maybe it's me. Maybe I'm just
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I'm getting really anxious about that cockroachim my kids. Okay, I have
any funny little story for you, Yeah, okay. I was debating whether
to tell it on today's episode or Fridays, but I'll just tell you right
now, okay, Okay. So the other day I went to a It
was like a little event at a bookstore with some authors. Okay, so
it doesn't really really matter, but it was just a little daytime fun thing
and I didn't know a single person. It was just like a butt and
so I had to put on a name tag and then we went around the
room and everybody like introduced themselves. So one of the women wrote a book
about being an assistant, and she was like, oh, by the way,
I brought with me. This is the actress Lolita Davidovitch, who's yeah,
And she was like, she was this very famous for a while,
redheaded actress. She was in a big movie. She was she was in
a big movie with Richard Gear. She was the start intersection. But she
had another movie that was even bigger role for her. But she had a
she had a moment. Okay, well, I so anyway, yeah,
so you can picture her. She was a total starlet, you know.
So I'm trying to decide what order to tell this, and so anyway,
we all go outside to get our picture taken. And I drove Lolita Davidovitch
in a limo years before, and like wrote a story about her, how
nice she was and what a good tipper she was. So I so I'm
standing out or getting the pictures taken, and she happens to be right next
to me. So I was like, by the way, I said,
Hi, I'm Stephanie, and you know, I was one of the authors,
so it wasn't like totally yeah out of pocket, because you know,
I had just introduced myself in my books. So she was like looking at
me, and I was like, I drove a limo when I was in
my twenties, I said, And now I'm in my fifties, I said,
and you were one of my I only did it for six weeks,
and you were one of my celebrity people that I drove around. And I
was like really excited and like like I was saying, how nice you are.
And I wrote a story about it in one of my books. And
she was like, oh, my gosh, like she was super nice.
While I'm talking to her, I realize that she was not nice, and
I had forgotten. I was confusing her with Nastasha Kinski was really nice and
I almost said, yeah, like you were married to Quincy Jones. Oh
that person, different person. I did drive Lolia Davidovich in my limo.
That part was true. But she was a total cous and the story that
I told about her for years was it. She was one of the worst.
Like I remember picking her up. She was a total diva. She
was you. We had car phones in those days, but they were like
a big deal and only certain people were allowed to use the car phone.
And she picked up the car phone and started using it. And I was
brand new at the job. It was like one of my very first times
not shadowing another limo driver. I was in charge, and I knew I
was going to be fined for it. If people are not given permission,
only really big stars, so they're just people that the studio hired a car
for and they're not a big star. They'll tell you ahead of time.
This person does not have access to the phone, so she just picks it
up and she's like kind of talking in like like you know, the like
a Madonna accent, like a little British, you know, and she's like
hello, mommy, you know, and and I was like, you're not
supposed to use the phone, and she just was like it's fine and continued
using the phone. Well, like I said, I had already said I
wrote about you in my book and said all nice things, and I'm like,
you know that feel like I had the almost chills where I was like,
oh fuck, like please don't let her actually read the book right away.
Like now I got to hope. I almost did this on Patreon,
but then I was like, I'm ever going to run into Minovitch again.
Also, I'm sure she's a totally lovely person now, like she was a
like the hot she was a hot young star at the time, so I'm
sure we can all forgive her behavior back then. She couldn't have been lovely
or talking to her. But I was like, oh no, no,
no, no, no, like don't And then she was, of course
like I'm going to look up your book, you know, but I'm hoping,
like listen, she'd have to really dig to find because that was in
one of my books where I wrote essays that was in either I think that
was in I'm kind of a big deal had the limo driving story. So
hopefully she's not going to go, oh my gosh, Stephanie Wilder Taylor.
Let me look up all her books and dig for the one that she told
this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did also then tell her.
I was like, yeah, a couple of people were real assholes that I
drove. I said, like, I told a bad story about Justine Babe.
Yeah, so I kind of told her a little like, I mean,
super short. I was like, yeah, Justine Bateman was like I
was really excited to meet her, and then she was very disappointing. She
was mean and she was and Lolita was like, oh yeah, I can
imagine. Yeah, Oh, I'm so glad you had good memories of me.
And she was like, I feel like I even recognize your voice.
I'm like, I'm sure you don't. I'm sure you don't. And I
did not tell her I have a podcast, so good, good god.
Yeah, I'm sure she's not that interested in my life. But you know,
it was like so awkward when I realized, oh no, I shit
talked her. She was the worst. So she was that, so she
was one of the worst. So it was Justine Bateman was like kind of
the focus of that essay because I told a whole It was basically that a
few because I drove Chevy Chase, who a lot of people had terrible things
to say, and he couldn't have been nicer. He was my first I
was shadowing another driver who was chevy Chase's regular driver, and chevy Chase was
it was during the time that people were saying that he was like an alcoholic
and a drug addict and really mean, and he just couldn't have been lovelier,
super funny. He was like a great tipper and he was just telling
us stories and just like really nice. So I was like, well,
people are wrong. And then Nastasha Kinski I drove and she was very famous
for having taken the picture of her with the huge snake. She's that model.
Yeah, so she was. I was like, oh my god,
Nastasha Kinsky, I know, I know who she is married to Quincy Jones.
Very quiet, lovely, great tipper. Then Justine Bateman was terrible.
But then Lolita and Justin Bateman were my bad examples in there. Those were
probably the only celebrities. I even drove because then I quit the job.
But was it like for the studios that you think. So it was for
this company called BLS, which primarily drove for studios. But it was just
a terrible, terrible job. And it was all these like old, kind
of crusty drivers, and I just thought, this is going to be super
fun, like I'm going to be young and cute, and I'm going to
wear like a little like chauffeur's cap and everybody's gonna love me and I'm gonna
get big tips. And I was like a lot of pulling over having anxiety
because you had to look everything up in a TOS night and now I was
gonna say, there's no about trying to drive up into the Hollywood Hills and
align people's houses. And then you're like you've got your Thomas Guy to open
and then and then sometimes I would be like, okay, I would have
figured out the route ahead of time. But then you get up to a
certain part where you pull over to try to find like I'm lost, and
the frickin' page is not in the Thomas Guide. It's missing, like and
You're like, I gotta go buy a new Thomas Guide. By the time
I was like late, I'm like, this is not the job for me.
It's terrible. And you would get paid thirteen dollars an hour, okay,
plus tips. So it with a two hour minimum, So you're basically
making for two hours with the person in your car twenty six dollars. Well
that doesn't include the time to drive to the airport wait for their flight,
only the time that they're in your car. Are you getting paid thirteen dollars
an hour now when you're like waiting, No, none of it, none
of it. So I would sometimes I made like for a week for a
paycheck, I made like like fifty bucks. But yet it was a full
time job. You're all day long. Oh I remember parked at an airport.
I read the entire book waiting to exhale that book. Read the entire
book, like waiting to get another client and not making any money. So
it was a terrible job. Yeah, but I could see where you were
coming from, like, ah, this is gonna be fun. You'll meet
people, Oh, celebrities. Somebody is going to want me to be their
personal assistantry, Like you know, they're going to get one load of my
personality. Skills and they're gonna be like, you need to come work for
me, Like I get rid of that happened? Oh god, Yeah,
I just hated driving back then with the Thomas Guide. Yeah, I just
thought I wanted a job that was a break from waiting tables. I was
waiting tables was just getting so old. Yeah. So I was just looking
in like the classifieds or whatever, the craigslist, you know, and it
said, do you have a clean driving record, you know, come drive
for this limo company. And I'm like, I have a clean driving record.
I don't mind driving listen to the radio. Yeah. So I went
in and it was maybe one of my worst jobs, but it made for
some good stories and hopefully Lolita Davidovich doesn't listen to podcast episode. Yeah,
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